Ghostbusters," "Independence Day," and "I am Legend."
As Robert Viaira, left, moves to grab another shovel full of cement, Alberto Pacheco adds cement to another area of stones as they and other workers build a stone retaining wall by 2229 Main St., West Concord July 14.
Caution: Roadwork is under way
Concord Journal
By Patrick Ball/Staff Writer
Fri Jul 17, 2009
Concord - Summer is shaping up to be a busy season for Concord Public Works, which has its hands in a project or two in just about every neighborhood in town.
In West Concord, there is a Route 62 resurfacing project under way and a bridge on Pine Street that’s still closed. To the south, CPW forces are rebuilding a culvert on Wheeler Road as part of a water main extension to Verrill Farm. North of Route 2, work is about to begin at the intersection of Thoreau Street and Sudbury Road.
Meanwhile, Monument Street remains closed after the North Bridge as state contractors continue their work on Flint’s Bridge. Despite a few hiccups last fall, the work is progressing on schedule and the state’s targeted completion date for Flint’s Bridge remains spring 2010.
The 2009 roads program is also under way. As of last Friday, contractors PJ Albert were finishing up drainage and road grinding work on College Road, which was shut down and accessible only to residents who live there. Drainage work on Laurel Street began Monday, with Academy Road and Middle Street to follow. Alternating lanes and detours will be required to divert traffic away from some of the work.
“We have a lot of stuff on our plate,” CPW Director Rich Reine said in a recent interview. “When we look at the contracts we’re managing, as well as our internal forces, we have a lot of stuff going on. The weather certainly isn’t helping, but we’re right on target.”
Overcrowding blamed for Merrillville bridge collapse
ASSOCIATED PRESS
July 24, 2009
MERRILLVILLE, Ind. -- An engineer has determined that a northwestern Indiana pedestrian bridge did not have structural defects when it collapsed after a Fourth of July fireworks show, spilling about 50 people into a lake.
Ross Township Fire Lt. Phil Topor says the report shows that too many people were on the bridge in Merrillville's Hidden Lake Park, causing an I-beam anchoring it to break.
Investigators believe more than 100 people were on the 90-foot suspension bridge when it collapsed. About 25 people were hurt, with the worst injuries being broken bones.
Ross Township Trustee John Rooda has said the bridge in the township park should have had no more than 40 people on it.
Several of those hurt have started legal action against the township over the collapse.
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Swine Flu Cases Overestimated?
CBS News Exclusive: Study Of State Results Finds H1N1
Not As Prevalent As Feared
(CBS)
If you’ve been diagnosed “probable” or “presumed” 2009 H1N1 or
“swine flu” in recent months, you may be surprised to know this:
odds are you didn’t have H1N1 flu.
In fact, you probably didn’t have flu at all. That’s
according to
state-by-state test results obtained in a three-month-long CBS News
investigation.
The ramifications of this finding are important.
According to the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Britain’s National
Health Service, once you have H1N1 flu, you’re immune from future
outbreaks of the same virus. Those who think they’ve had H1N1 flu — but
haven’t — might mistakenly presume they’re immune. As a result, they
might skip taking a vaccine that could help them, and expose themselves
to others with H1N1 flu under the mistaken belief they won’t catch it.
Parents might not keep sick children home from school, mistakenly
believing they’ve already had H1N1 flu.
Why the uncertainty about who has and who hasn’t had
H1N1 flu?
In late July, the CDC abruptly advised states to stop
testing for
H1N1 flu, and stopped counting individual cases. The rationale given
for the CDC guidance to forego testing and tracking individual cases
was: why waste resources testing for H1N1 flu when the government has
already confirmed there’s an epidemic?
Some public health officials privately disagreed with
the decision
to stop testing and counting, telling CBS News that continued tracking
of this new and possibly changing virus was important because H1N1 has
a different epidemiology, affects younger people more than seasonal flu
and has been shown to have a higher case fatality rate than other flu
virus strains.
CBS News learned that the decision to stop counting H1N1
flu cases
was made so hastily that states weren’t given the opportunity to
provide input. Instead, on July 24, the Council for State and
Territorial Epidemiologists, CSTE, issued the following notice to state
public health officials on behalf of the CDC:
“Attached are the Q&As that will be posted on the
CDC website
tomorrow explaining why CDC is no longer reporting case counts for
novel H1N1. CDC would have liked to have run these by you for input but
unfortunately there was not enough time before these needed to be
posted (emphasis added).”
When CDC did not provide us with the material, we filed
a Freedom of
Information request with the Department of Health and Human Services
(HHS). More than two months later, the request has not been fulfilled.
We also asked CDC for state-by-state test results prior to halting of
testing and tracking, but CDC was again, initially, unresponsive….
Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/21/cbsnews_investigates/main5404829.shtml
Analysis of "Swine Flu
Overestimated" featuring Dr.
Joseph Mercola and Barbara Loe Fisher
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3 videos, about 25 minutes
How to be a Swine Flu Vaccine Zealot
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 by: Mike Adams, the Health Ranger,
NaturalNews Editor
(NaturalNews) Swine flu vaccine zealots are like zombies... they just
keep coming at you, mindless... heartless... empty-headed and a tad
funky on the smell, too. But I've noticed from observing the behavior
of a few such zealots that not all of them fully comprehend precisely
how to act like a mindless vaccine zealot. There's more to it than just
parroting whatever the FDA says. You actually have to get with the
zealot program if you want to be taken seriously as a swine flu
vaccine zealot.
So I've put together this handy guide to help them along:
Step 1) Loudly proclaim your vaccines
are backed by "science," but when critics ask you to produce that
science, just tell them you don't have to because "everybody knows they
work." (Then grunt and paw at the air from time to time for effect...)
Step 2) Practice scoffing. Scoffing is an important
skill for swine flu
vaccine zealots. When someone asks an intelligent question like,
"Where are the placebo-controlled studies that show flu vaccines
work at all?" simply scoff at them. This avoids having to
answer the question because, as you know, there are no such studies.
Step 3) Practice making people feel guilty for not
getting the flu
shot. Blame them for pandemic. Just ignore the fact that the shot
itself has zero ability to actually prevent the spread of influenza and
focus on what works: Guilt!
Step 4) Spread more fear!
Guilt and fear go together like peanut butter and jelly on processed
white bread -- a favorite zombie food! In combination, they work like
gangbusters if you're trying to scare up some vaccine sales to generate
billions of dollars in profits for the drug companies.
In the absence of any actual science, just invoke fear! (Hey, it worked
for the Patriot Act, too...)
Step 5) Remind people that they are not doctors
and therefore don't know anything. Then quote some doctor who's
pro-vaccine (and probably taking kickbacks from some pharmaceutical
company that's been caught committing a felony crime) and declare that
no one can question them because they're a doctor. Doctors are God,
didn't you know? Just ask all the victims of thalidomide... or Vioxx.
Step 6)
Strip off the plastic coating on both ends of an extension cord,
exposing the wires. Attach the two wires on one end to the temples of
your skull, then attach the two exposed wires on the other end to the
exposed slots of a live electrical outlet in your home. You are now
"WIRED." (Want a free subscription?) This process will destroy any
critical thinking regions of your cerebrum, disabling the annoying
ability to think for yourself (which can interfere with what the
vaccine industry wants you to think instead). Once achieved, you're
half-way qualified to being a vaccine zealot, unhindered by critical
thinking skills!
(Don't forget to grunt, moan and leave your mouth draping open from
time to time, or the whole effect will be ruined...)
Step 7) Defend mercury as safe.
It's not that bad, really. What's a little mercury in your shot anyway?
Ignore these inconvenient facts: A typical flu vaccine
shot solution is 50,000 parts per billion of mercury. The EPA
classifies any substance with more than 200 parts per billion as hazardous
waste. (The EPA limit in drinking water is 2 parts per billion.)
Thus, the mercury density in a vaccine is 25,000% higher
than the level required to be considered hazardous waste. This is
injected directly into the bloodstream of infants, children, expectant
mothers and senior citizens. What could possibly be dangerous about
that?
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Is the swine flu
shot worth it? Now for a view that isn't at least a PSYOP
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