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Lead Lead, n. 1. The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction; as, to take the lead; to be under the lead of another. [1913 Webster]
At the time I speak of, and having a momentary lead, . . . I am sure I did my country important service. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
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3. (Cards & Dominoes) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played; as, your partner has the lead. [1913 Webster]
4. An open way in an ice field. --Kane. [1913 Webster]
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6. (Naut.) The course of a rope from end to end. [1913 Webster]
7. (Steam Engine) The width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke. [1913 Webster]
Note: When used alone it means outside lead, or lead for the admission of steam. Inside lead refers to the release or exhaust. [1913 Webster]
8. (Civil Engineering) the distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment. [1913 Webster]
9. (Horology) The action of a tooth, as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet. --Saunier. [1913 Webster]
10. (Music.) (a) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts. (b) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
11. In an internal-combustion engine, the distance, measured in actual length of piston stroke or the corresponding angular displacement of the crank, of the piston from the end of the compression stroke when ignition takes place; -- called in full
{lead of the ignition}. When ignition takes place during the working stroke the corresponding distance from the commencement of the stroke is called
{negative lead}. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
12. (Mach.) The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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14. (Elec.) (a) The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles. (b) The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
15. (Theat.) A role for a leading man or leading woman; also, one who plays such a role. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
16. The first story in a newspaper or broadcast news program. [PJC]
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18. (Baseball) the distance a runner on base advances from one base toward the next before the pitch; as, the long lead he usually takes tends to distract the pitchers. [PJC]
{Lead angle} (Steam Engine), the angle which the crank maker with the line of centers, in approaching it, at the instant when the valve opens to admit steam.
{Lead screw} (Mach.), the main longitudinal screw of a lathe, which gives the feed motion to the carriage. [1913 Webster]
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Four touchdowns were good enough for Claypool to be named the AFC Offensive Player of the Week. October 14, 2020 at 8:40 am
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By: KDKA-TV News Staff
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – It's been a big week for Steelers rookie wide receiver Chase Claypool.
After putting up four touchdowns against the Philadelphia Eagles in the Steelers' 38-29 victory, Claypool was named the AFC Offensive Player Of The Week.
His performance on Sunday was one that set a rookie record with four touchdowns and he also added seven catches for 110 yards.
One of those four touchdowns was a two-yard score.
Claypool's breakout performance is just the third player in Steelers history to score 24 points in a game.
The Steelers will be back in action on Sunday against the Cleveland Browns at Heinz Field in an AFC North showdown.

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As I mentioned earlier before you watched that blockbuster of a YouTube video above, I've been pleasantly swamped with deadlines. I have two shows that I'll have at least two original pieces in coming up in February. They'll be in Chicago & Boston, but I'll share with you images, links & more information very shortly.
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Argentine World Cup team commemorates Maradona
BUENOS AIRES, Nov. 25 — Members of the Argentine national soccer team commemorated Diego Armando Maradona at the 2022 FIFA World Cup on Friday, two years after his death.
Maradona died on Nov. 25, 2020 of a heart attack at home at the age of 60, after brain surgery for a subdural hematoma.
Lionel Messi uploaded a story to Instagram with a photo of the legendary soccer star wearing his number 10 blue and white jersey.
Manager Lionel Scaloni noted, "it is a very sad day," referring to Maradona's anniversary, during a press conference ahead of Saturday's match against Mexico in Qatar.
"We hope to bring him joy tomorrow if he is watching from heaven," he said, adding that "it seems unbelievable" that Maradona "is not here."
Striker Lautaro Martinez commented that the squad is "thinking very much" about the greatest Argentine World Cup figure, who led Argentina to the championship in Mexico 1986 and to the runners-up in Italy 1990.
"He was a very important person to Argentina, but also to world soccer. It is a sad day for all of us and hopefully tomorrow we can bring him some joy," Martinez said. (Xinhua)
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Welcome to the LOUDEST DOT COM ON THE PLANET!
Exclusive! Interview With Vocalist Dee Snider
By Krishta Abruzzini, Pacific Northwest Writer
Tuesday, November 11, 2003 @ 1:30 PM
Vocalist Dee Snider of Twisted
Ah, Halloween. The time for Ghosts, goblins, pumpkins, witches and… Dee Snider. Or at least that's the general goal for Dee's latest release, Van Helsing's Curse Oculus Infernum. Similar to that of what the Tran Siberian Orchestra is during Christmastime, it is Dee's intention to make this album a touring extravaganza, which will become a part of October's sinister piece of Americana tradition.
The release offers some of music's darkest tunes in history, that have been transformed into even darker and heavier pieces, ala Snider and his 18-piece cast. From Snider's rendition titled "Tubular Hell," which features pieces of Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells" and "In The Hall of the Mountain King" by Edvard Grieg, to the exquisitely haunting and moving track titled "The Tortured Soul," which are pieces from the "Funeral March" by Fredric Chopin and "Moonlight Sonata" by Beethoven, this release is surprisingly incredible. Snider and group even pull off the task of recreating Black Sabbath's "Black Sabbath" making the original seem like a lullaby.
I spoke to Dee about his new project… and all things that go bump in the night—okay, maybe not all things… 'cause that would just be wrong. But we do uncover the mystery of what this project is about…
SNIDER: I'm Dee Snider, how are you?
KNAC.COM: Hi Dee Snider. I'm well, and you?
SNIDER: I'm doing good.
KNAC.COM: Well, I have to say, unless you've been up all night, 8:30a.m.is hardly an hour for a rock star to be doing an interview.
SNIDER: I am not your traditional rock star by any means. If you know me, you'll know I've been clean and sober my whole life, I've been with the same woman for 27 years and when I wasn't out playing, the first thing I did was get up early. I just got sick of the nightlife and never partied or hung-out. I'm bizarre. I'm an alien amongst my peers. I always get up around six-thirty. And when I was doing morning radio for three years, I was going to bed at nine, and getting up at 4am everyday. That was a real bitch.
KNAC.COM: In an industry that's known to be influenced by drugs and debauchery, it must have been interesting along the way for you to be around it. I mean, there's very few of you who haven't at least at one time fallen into that lifestyle.
SNIDER: I've never pointed fingers at people who are out there enjoying the lifestyle, but for me it just makes a lot more sense. When you're spending twenty-two-and-a-half hours of travel and preparation for an hour-and-a-half show, then partying and enjoying the local talent, so to speak, it's really the only joy you're getting when you're not on the stage. So for me having been married, and had already had a kid, and being faithful and not a partier, it was a very miserable experience touring the world endlessly. When I wasn't on stage, I was just sitting in my room and doing nothing.
KNAC.COM: Did you ever bring your family out with you?
SNIDER: No, I didn't, because my wife hated going out with me. She said I was a miserable bastard. And I was. It sucked. I was a very angry, chip on my shoulder guy. And I became this very recognizable public figure, and I still am, but it was kind of insane back in those days. I would go places, and literally be mobbed. It was intense.
KNAC.COM: But you've lightened up now, yes?
SNIDER: [Laughs] No. Yes I have.
KNAC.COM: So tell me about this new Halloween project of yours.
SNIDER: Van Helsing's Curse.
KNAC.COM: I was just listening to it, and I've got to tell you, it's really heavy. I mean, you've taken some of the most frightening music, at least to me, and made it even scarier.
SNIDER: My sixteen-year-old son was just like, "Dad, this is really creepy."
KNAC.COM: It is.
SNIDER: We tried to create something for people from seven to seventy. Mixing dark themes, from Beethoven to Black Sabbath. And then I narrate a haunting little story line to go with it, and it's really the start of a much bigger deal. We knew everything started with the music. Everything else we planned to do, from this point out with Van Helsing's Curse depended on making a really great record. And when we said, "This is the soundtrack for Halloween," we were really like laying claim. A lot of the horror web-sites, because those are your real fans, they're going to be the quickest to praise, but the most critical. And most of them were like, "That's a hell of a statement to make, but you've done it. Five Skulls!" So Widowmaker productions is really proud of it. And we really think this is the start of a long-term project. You're going to see Van Helsing's Curse for many years to come.
KNAC.COM: So, you're planning on touring this?
SNIDER: Well, this year we can't. It's an awareness issue. It's not the kind of thing you can hook-up to another tour, and you can't send it out on its own. This year, we're just trying to make people aware of what Van Helsing's Curse is about. And then next year, you're going to start to see touring entities out there. We're the production company, so we won't perform, but we plan on having multiple entities out there, during the month of October.
KNAC.COM: Kind of like the Tran Siberian Orchestra.
SNIDER: Exactly. We'll have three or more companies out performing around the country, so we can cover a lot of ground. Visually, it will be very exciting. We have an 18-piece rock orchestra now, ready to perform one song, if we get a television performance. The string section is dressed like Anne Rice, classic Goth. The electric section looks like Hellraiser meets 'Manson.' And then the choir are dressed as druids; hooded robes, faceless beings. But already, Six Flags out here on the East Coast have licensed Van Helsing's Curse for their Fright Nights. They have a fireworks display set to the music of Van Helsing's Curse. So it's very cool. There's an animated special being explored where the story of Van Helsing's Curse is told, with the music being the score. So this is something that is going to expand in years to come, with subsequent Van Helsing's Curse records being released in a couple of years. But it all starts with the music. As Joe Perry says, "Let the music do the talking."
KNAC.COM: Will you personally be going out on any of the tours?
SNIDER: I wouldn't. One of the reasons I was hesitant to do the narration was because I wanted to be faceless. I don't want people taken away from the experience of the show, by saying, "That's so and so." Looking at who's in Van Helsing's Curse, as much as just experiencing the lights and the looks and the sounds. It was The Who doing Tommy, versus Pink Floyd doing The Wall. I mean, as far as Pink Floyd, the core know it's David Gilmore, but the masses, as long as the lights are flashing and the music is playing, they don't even know that Roger Waters, the guy who wrote the songs and sang them, isn't even there anymore. Do you know how frustrated he must be? To realize that who he was did not matter to what Pink Floyd is? I mean Pink Floyd is still out playing stadiums without him. How insane is that? But that's what I mean for Van Helsing's Curse. I don't know if it will be taped narrations, or 3-D video screen stuff, or choosing different celebrity narrations. That'll be decided as it expands. But we'll explore that as it need be. Personally, I'd love to see a hologram of me. My head, in a box. [Laughs].
KNAC.COM: And you're expecting audience participation as well. Kind of a live Rocky Horror experience? I mean, I'm assuming you're not going to have a lot people showing up dressed as clowns or ballerinas though.
SNIDER: Actually, the audience can do whatever they want. But we're going to really encourage the audience to come in costume. I think the music speaks to a different kind of vibe, but we're not going to stop anyone from coming in because they're dressed like a clown. It's not going to be like Studio 54: "Hey, headless horseman, you're in, clown-boy, you're out." We want it to become an event that is part of people's Halloween experience. You know, they've got their trick or treating, they've got their Halloween party, and haunted house visit, and we're hoping that by going to Van Helsing's Curse, it will be a part of it. It will be an event not only to see, but to be seen. Can you hold on just a sec?
KNAC.COM: Sure.
SNIDER: Sorry about that. My son just walked in. He's my oldest son, Jesse, who's a VJ on MTV2. He does the Rock show everyday from six to seven, and then he does the rock countdown on the weekends.
KNAC.COM: Proud daddy.
SNIDER: Actually, he just corrected me. He's says it's on five times a day, the Rock show. So, check your local listings. Or you can check-out his website at www.jesseblaze.com.
KNAC.COM: He's plugged [laughing]. Any chances for this becoming a movie, such as you did with Strangeland?
SNIDER: That's one thing that we have not explored yet. Certainly the story and the music plays to that. We'll explore it as it goes though. One thing we don't want it to be is a year-round thing. Although the record company would prefer it to be. They say, "You know, this doesn't have to be just for Halloween. It's great. There are people that can be fans of this all year round." But to me, that would take away its specialness. We want it to show up October 1st, and then it disappears on Midnight, October 31st, and you won't see it again until next year. Could a movie play into that? Yeah, well, it could. But it's definitely designed as a much bigger thing.
KNAC.COM: Would you design this as a musical if you were to put it in film?
SNIDER: I couldn't see it being a musical. I think the music itself is very score-like. Especially since it doesn't have any lead vocals. Which really shocked everybody, even the guys I work with. Joe Franco, my producer, even asked why I didn't want to have vocals. He couldn't understand it because I'm a singer. I personally think it would take away from it. Just because I'm a singer doesn't mean that I have to sing on everything. The only vocals I wanted on this were Gregorian chants, Latin, and the whole choral type thing. I think the minute you have a front person singing, and this is where I think the Tran Siberian Orchestra fails on, is it just all of a sudden becomes a band. And I don't want to have that. Again, it's very score-like.
KNAC.COM: It is, but it has a heavier ring to it. Like "Tubular Hell," which is taken from "Tubular Bells," and some of the other songs you've used, are basically the fabric of most of our upbringings in films, that at least at one time were so frightening. Like with The Exorcist, and the theme to The Omen, "Ave Satani."
SNIDER: People do have a dark connection to the music. Oddly, much the way Van Helsing's was created, and I know this for a fact because part of Widowmaker Productions is a manager, Phil Carson, who did the first signing for Mike Oldfield. And he said that The Exorcist was scored and finished, and the album from Mike Oldfield and "Tubular Bells" was already out. But somebody played it for the director, and the director was like, "Oh my God," and he went in and laid it into his movie. He said, "Throw away the score, I don't care how much we spent, this music speaks to my story." And that's the way we did Van Helsing's. I would write a segment of the story, and we would sit and say, "Okay, what speaks to our story?" And "Tubular Hell," we call it that because it's also "In the Hall of the Mountain King," and some original pieces, but still centered around "Tubular Bells." Mike Oldfield gets his royalties [laughs].
KNAC.COM: So how did you choose all of the music?
SNIDER: It was really an ass backwards experience for us. When I came in with the idea, and I said to the guys, "Tran Siberian, for Halloween," the Widowmaker guys immediately said, "I get it!" So they wanted the story, and I really hadn't written it yet. They asked if I could give them a little feel on how I would approach it. And I said, alright, without a story in mind, I wrote "Patience," with a vision of this entity lying in wait. And I gave it to the guys and they all got it. And we went from there and found music that we felt expressed the sentiment. So then they wanted to know what happened next with the story, and at the time, I said, "I don't know. I'm going to go back home and write it." So, I would write a section, and we would find or create music that expressed musically what I had just stated. The full story is about ten pages of writing, actually. And you can find it at www.vanhelsingscurse.com. Ultimately, the original concept was music for your Halloween party, music for your Halloween experience. And yeah, you should put your headphones on, put a couple of candles on, dim the lights, because the production is amazing, the performances are amazing. There are some battles, that's how I saw them, between the old school and the new school, with electric violin and electric guitar that are just chilling. And "Moonlight Sonata"…
KNAC.COM: Oh my God. Track six, "The Tortured Soul."
SNIDER: Ooooh. It gives me chills.
KNAC.COM: I was just going to say that. It is gorgeous.
SNIDER: It's so creepy in that way, and then the violins play and the guitar kicks in, and oh my God, they both come in together, and I'm just like practically in tears.
KNAC.COM: That's absolutely my favorite track on the CD.
SNIDER: I have to say, it's one of mine, too. You don't expect it.
KNAC.COM: It could be a classic. The emotion that comes out in it is unbelievable.
SNIDER: Yeah, one of my favorite moments. Although the end of "Let me Prey," "Carmina Burana"… it's just… aaaaahhhh. You can see the fireworks. It's just awesome. Like the big finale going off. The music just really speaks for itself.
KNAC.COM: Have you had any feedback from the Black Sabbath boys regarding their song, "Black Sabbath"?
SNIDER: No. I'd be interested to hear what Ozzy, and Tony and Geezer think though. To me, when you do a cover, there's two ways to do it. One, you do it true to the original, because the original is the original, and you don't want to fuck with perfection. Or the other is, you make it your own. If you can make something your own, and do it well, which I think we did [with "Black Sabbath"], I think that is really exciting. To me, when I've heard people cover my stuff, I'm most excited when people have done their own thing with it. Yeah, it's flattering when you hear an exact reproduction of what you did, but when somebody like Chuck D. did "Wake-up the Sleeping Giant" on the Twisted Forever Tribute CD, and some people were really offended, like, "What do you mean, rap?" But it was so cool, he made it his own, yet the spirit of the song was still there. And I think that was great. As far as the Black Sabbath song we did, and those who are paying close attention will notice that the guitar solo at the end, note for note, quiver for quiver, is Tony Iommi's exact guitar solo. To the point where you would think we actually recorded Tony's, and just laid it in there. Our guitar player, Jake Richards is Berklee trained, who does all of the guitar work, and well, he's a God. Tony Iommi is not a guitar God in the traditional sense. But, Jake said that this solo is like an icon of heavy metal guitar soloing. He said, "I can't touch this thing. All I will do is play his exact notes, and I will do it the way he did it, because it is perfection." Not because it's technically such a great solo, but it's inspired. It was Sabbath, they were working in a factory, recording the album, and Tony's cut-off fingers, plastic tips… I mean it deserves to be exact. We flipped this song completely around, and in the end we should pay homage to Iommi.
KNAC.COM: How did you find the cast?
SNIDER: Well, we're in New York. And this was truly a labor of love. We recorded this entire record ourselves, out of our own pockets. And we found a label to put it out. Because we wanted it to be our baby, and we didn't want anybody's opinion, quite honestly. It was like, this is what we're doing, do you want to do it? And Koch records, well, they got it. Koch is also great with special products; their biggest records have been with 'WWF' and 'Pokemon' records. They get that this is not a traditional record. And we just went to our pals. The first call I made was to Joe Franco, and Phil Carson and we formed a partnership. Then we went around New York and found people like Greg Smith and Mark Wood who do the violin work and a lot of the players are from Billy Joel's, 'Movin' Out' show. So it's just people that we knew. Joe Franco's wife sings on it, Joe's daughter did the little girls voices. It was a family thing. Most people worked for nothing, for spec, for minimal fees. Most people thought it was cool, different, and they wanted to see it succeed. And we had a great time doing it.
KNAC.COM: Almost like beatniks making art.
SNIDER: Yeah. It was communal. Joe Franco has his own studio, and we were all smiling the whole time. It wasn't the same old thing. People were having fun doing it. And a lot of these guys are session musicians, so they're used to playing like, Pepsi commercials, but here it was like they were being hired, but they were doing things from Paganini to Black Sabbath. I mean, what kind of bizarro combination is that? And it excited people.
KNAC.COM: So, we gotta talk about Arnold. Are you going to do the Inaugural Ball with Twisted Sister?
SNIDER: If asked, we will. At least that's what the guys say. For the rally, I went out myself. We're not doing Twisted full-time because some people have jobs, people quit doing it. But I was like, "Arnold, I can get out there." So for the rally, on two hours sleep, I flew out there and sang "We're Not Going to Take It" for like eight minutes. They told me to keep it going until he left the stage, and he wouldn't leave the stage! I kept looking over, and they kept telling me to 'keep going, keep going,' and Arnold was like hugging babies and shaking hands. But eventually, he did leave the stage [laughing]. But we told him, if called, we would go. We talked a little, me and him about maybe doing some USO stuff. Twisted playing for the USO, he had done some stuff for them, and he asked me what I thought about going over together. And I told him, "You lead, and I will follow."
KNAC.COM: So, you've come a long way, baby. Here's a man who at one point filed his teeth down to points and was truly at the forefront of rebellion, who is now the voice of MSNBC and following Republican politicians around… would you have ever thought twenty years ago that you would be where you are now?
SNIDER: You know what? I didn't plan much past thirty. I knew I would be married and have kids, and I was going to make it. I was going to be a rock star. But you know, and I tell this to a lot of young musicians, it's not a finish line. You don't cross the goal lines, spike the ball put your hands in the air and say, "Yeah, I'm done." You wake up and you've got fifty more years to live. And maybe you've got a couple of million made, which is always a lot of money, but with the way you're spending it, it ain't lasting another five. And you're ill-prepared to do anything else. So my life has been interesting, it's been surprising and exciting. And for that, I've loved everything that's been happening to me. A lot of it's been by my own design, but who'd have thought I'd be singing, "We're Not Going to Take It" on the same stage with Arnold Schwarzenegger? At a Republican rally, no less. I mean, in the eighties, I was being investigated. My phones were tapped, for God's sake. I was being investigated by the Federal Government, and now I'm a guest of the Federal Government at army bases.
KNAC.COM: Funny how it turns around. I mean, Tipper must be spitting chunks of blood with the lyrics that are accepted by society today.
SNIDER: Yeah, I was talking to Marilyn Manson, and I told him, "Enjoy your badass celebrity status now, because whether you like it or not, twenty years from now, you're going to be easy listening!" I mean, there's no avoiding it. "Oooh. Play that fun 'Beautiful People' song [musing]."
KNAC.COM: Yeah, well you look back at the time, and what innovative music Twisted had, and you were stirring up the parents. And now you are a parent, and you wonder, how much worse can it get?
SNIDER: I am the parent with kids playing music [laughing].
KNAC.COM: Did you ever censor the music they listened to?
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KNAC.COM: So listen, my friend Clyde Lewis here in Portland, from the program Ground Zero, wants me to ask you if you have any conspiracy theories that you follow?
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Fatal Intent
by Tammy Euliano
End-of-life care—or assisted death
When her elderly patients start dying at home days after minor surgery, anesthesiologist Dr. Kate Downey wants to know why. The surgeon, not so much. "Old people die, that's what they do," is his response. When Kate presses, surgeon Charles Ricken places the blame squarely on her shoulders. Kate is currently on probation and the chief of staff sides with the surgeon, leaving Kate to prove her innocence and save her own career. With her husband in a prolonged coma, it's all she has left.
Primal Calling
by Barry Eisenberg
While rummaging through the attic, high school senior, Jack Davies, is surprised to find his never-before-seen birth certificate, revealing a startling bit of information that changes his life. The story his mother told about his birth, he discovers, is revealed to be a lie, shattering long-held beliefs and the trust he had for her. Jack becomes obsessed with discovering the truth, leading him down a dangerous path. Faced with unanswered questions and confounding obstacles at every turn, Jack finds himself deeply enmeshed in an intricate world of national security and international intrigue. Relationships are tested as his every move is tracked by a group of mysterious people. Who are they? Whose side are they on? Who can he trust? And, most importantly, who will he ultimately become?
Death of a Messenger
by Bob McCaw
On Hawai'i Island, an anonymous 911 caller reports a body at Pohakuloa, the Army's live-fire training area. Hilo Chief Detective Koa Kane, a cop with his own secret criminal past, finds a mutilated corpse—bearing all the hallmarks of ancient ritual sacrifice. Koa encounters a host of obstacles as he pursues the murderer—an incompetent local medical examiner, hostility from both haoles (Westerners) and sovereignty advocates, and a myriad of lies.
Act of Revenge
by John Bishop
Plastic surgeon Lou Edwards's life is complicated by two major issues. One, his wife has lupus, possibly due to leaking silicone from breast implants Edwards himself inserted. And two, his malpractice insurance has been canceled, as it has been for many other plastic surgeons, due to the burgeoning breast implant problem. But it gets worse. Shortly after Edwards threatens an insurance company president on national TV, the president is found murdered in his penthouse.
The Last Sword Maker
by Brian Nelson
In the high mountains of Tibet, rumors are spreading. People whisper of an outbreak, of thousands of dead, of bodies pushed into mass graves. It is some strange new disease a disease, they say, that can kill in minutes. The Chinese government says the rumors aren't true, but no one is allowed in or out of Tibet. At the Pentagon, Admiral James Curtiss is called to an emergency meeting. Satellite images prove that a massive genocide is underway, and an American spy has made a startling discovery. This is no disease. It's a weapons test.
No One Will Hear Your Screams
by Thomas O'Callaghan
Is there a sociopath on the loose in New York City? The NYPD believes there is. Who is Tilden, this man who claims to have been sexually abused as a child by his mother's john? Was that same type of abuse, perpetrated this time by a heartless prostitute he'd hired for an afternoon of debauchery the trigger that ignited Tilden's rage, sending him on a mission to eradicate all women of the night? More importantly, will NYPD's top cop, Homicide Commander Lieutenant John. Driscoll put an end to the madness?
Act of Deception
Is it medical malpractice, or is the attorney just another ambulance chaser? It's 1995, and Houston orthopedic surgeon Dr. Jim Bob Brady has been sued for medical malpractice; a mysterious infection caused a knee replacement to end up as an amputation. Donovan Shaw, a ruthless plaintiff's attorney, has taken the case and doesn't seem bothered by the fact that he and Brady share a number of friends. "It's not personal!" Shaw says. But it feels personal—especially when Shaw threatens, "I will do anything, and I mean anything, to win the case, even if I have to destroy you and that pretty wife of yours. I will stop at nothing. You remember that!"
Winter of the Wolf
by Martha Hunt Handler
A tragic mystery blending sleuthing and spirituality
An exploration in grief, suicide, spiritualism, and Inuit culture, Winter of the Wolf, follows Bean, an empathic and spiritually evolved fifteen-year-old, who is determined to unravel the mystery of her brother Sam's death. Though all evidence points to a suicide, her heart and intuition compel her to dig deeper. With help from her friend Julie, they retrace Sam's steps, delve into his Inuit beliefs, and reconnect with their spiritual beliefs to uncover clues beyond material understanding.
Fire and Vengeance
Having killed his father's nemesis and gotten away with it, Hilo, Hawai`i Chief Detective Koa Kane, is not your ordinary cop. Estranged from his younger brother, who has been convicted of multiple crimes, he is not from a typical law enforcement family. Yet, Koa's secret demons fuel his unwavering drive to pursue justice.
Act of Murder
On a beautiful spring day in Houston, Texas, in 1994, Dr. Jim Bob Brady, orthopedic surgeon at University Hospital, witnesses a hit-and-run accident. The victim is his neighbor's child, Stevie Huntley, who suffers from Osteogenesis Imperfecta, a brittle bone disease. Stevie is dead at the scene, and detectives declare the event an Act of Murder. Detective Susan Beeson, the lead detective and daughter of the Police Chief, enlists Brady, his wife Mary Louise, and their son J. J. in discovering the identity of the killer.
No Truth Left to Tell
by Michael McAuliffe
February 1994—Lynwood, Louisiana: Flaming crosses light up the night and terrorize the southern town. The resurgent Klan wants a new race war, and the Klansmen will start it here. As federal civil rights prosecutor Adrien Rush is about to discover, the ugly roots of the past run deep in Lynwood.
by Eugenia Lovett West
Former opera singer Emma Streat has survived the murder of her husband and the destruction of her beautiful old house. Now a full-time single mother, she struggles to move forward and make a home for her two sons. Because of her detection skills, she has become a go-to person for help―so, when her rich, feisty, socialite godmother is blackmailed, she turns immediately to Emma.


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October 1, 2015 // By Chris Sands
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Cabo San Lucas Local Expert October 1, 2015
Baja California Sur – which comprises the southern portion of the approximately 800-mile-long Baja California peninsula – is lightly populated outside popular vacation destinations like Los Cabos and La Paz, and thus offers miles of open roads that feature striking desert scenery, mountainous backdrops and breathtaking glimpses of both the Sea of Cortés and the Pacific Ocean.
Cabo San Lucas is the state's premier tourist draw, and visitors commonly seek accommodations in the Land's End city, renting cars or four-wheel drive vehicles for occasional day trip forays to sister city San José del Cabo, the artists' colony of Todos Santos, the capital city of La Paz, the rustic and beautiful East Cape and other notable regional attractions.
Although four-wheel drive is a necessity for many of the dirt roads found on the East Cape and in some inland communities, drivers sticking to well-traveled highways and byways needn't lack for excitement. Those with a "born to be wild" spirit – or at least a mild thirst for adventure – can visit Harley-Davidson Los Cabos, which rents motorcycles by the day from their store at Puerto Paraíso shopping mall on the Cabo San Lucas Marina.
Harley-Davidson motorcycle rentals and apparel are available at the Puerto Paraíso shopping mall in Cabo San Lucas — Photo courtesy of Harley-Davidson Los Cabos
In addition to being the go-to spot for official Harley-Davidson gear – from shirts and pants to hats, handbags, wallets and leather jackets – Harley-Davidson Los Cabos also handles single-day (USD $200) and multi-day (USD $175 per day) rentals for Heritage Softail Classics, Road King Classics, Road Touring Guides and other throaty V-twin hogs from the legendary Milwaukee-based motorcycle manufacturer.
To rent a Harley-Davidson in Cabo San Lucas, one must be 21 years of age or older, possess a valid U.S. or Mexican driver's license and have some motorcycle riding experience.
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A passing knowledge of Spanish language street signs is recommended, if not explicitly required. Helmets and saddle bags are included, and there are no limits on mileage.
Harley-Davidson Los Cabos is located on the first floor of Puerto Paraíso, and it's accessible from the street-side entrance on Lázaro Cárdenas or from the marina boardwalk via Kobe beef burger specialist WTF.
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Better Than the Powerball is the headline on the cover story for today's New York Times Real Estate section, subtitled "For New Yorkers looking for an affordable home, the odds of winning a housing lottery are 1 in 592."
Despite those daunting statistics, chances of winning are better than it may seem. That is because many of those who apply are disqualified, either because their earnings exceed or are below the requirements for a specific development, or because they fail to provide the necessary paperwork, including work history and tax records.
And depending on the housing project, preference may be given to those who meet certain criteria, like municipal workers, the homeless or residents of the neighborhood where the development is being built.
As I commented, that deserves more context, because the odds for better-off applicants are exponentially higher than the odds for low-income ones. Given the need, far more people seek the lowest-cost apartments.
As I wrote in April 2017 for City Limits, analyzing the raw data regarding lottery applicants for 535 Carlton, 92,743 households entered that lottery. But only 2,203 were initially eligible (before vetting) for 148 middle-income apartments, such as one-bedrooms renting for $2,680 monthly and two-bedrooms at $3,223. Also, 4,609 entrants vied for 44 units in the building's other middle-income "band." For the 15 moderate-income units, some 18,680 households applied.
The article highlighted a range of people and projects, from low-income to middle-income. And yes, there was a resident of 535 Carlton, Erika Lindsey, paying $2,170 for a one-bedroom, which is the lower of the two middle-income "bands."
Because Ms. Lindsey's income is at the upper end of the range for one person, she faced less competition than others in the housing lottery. In fact, the building struggled to find people who qualified for the rent-stabilized apartments with higher income requirements. The developer eventually listed some of the units on the website StreetEasy, where most homes are market rate, in a bid to attract tenants.
The rents on apartments like Ms. Lindsey's can be nearly as expensive as those found on the open market, if not more so. But as the city sees it, having a mix of incomes helps create a more diverse building, and higher-income units also help landlords offset the cost of providing apartments to lower-income tenants.
Yes, there are social and economic arguments for such mixed buildings, but... the arrangement of affordable units at 535 Carlton, as well as at the similar 38 Sixth, differs vastly from the plan as announced.
The upper middle-income "band," the one that's so hard to find takers for, was supposed to represent 20% of total affordable units. In these buildings, that band is fully half the units.
Ms. Lindsey concedes that her apartment isn't exactly "affordable," and that she pays more now than she did in Bedford-Stuyvesant, where her rent was $1,450 a month. But her new building has more amenities — and it isn't a walk-up.
It's hard to disagree--and it's a new apartment. But, for the umpteenth time, helping the middle-class was not what ACORN and others supporting this project were marching for.
Which is maybe why we should call the units "government sponsored" or "subsidized" or "income tested," rather than "affordable."
That raises the question as to who deserves that community preference.


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The performing brain
Whether for an audience of one or thousands, performance does interesting things to our brains.
Words: Megan Welford / Photography: Andrew Swannell / Stylist: Vicky Lees
Months spent poring over the score; hours spent in the rehearsal room; days going through the parts with your fellow musicians. And then the moment comes when you walk to the podium and the performance begins – for real. And something happens: to the quality, the energy, the tone.
According to jazz trombonist and physics tutor Samuel Sankey (Physics and Music Performance 2012), performance is "where the magic happens" – or, as Professor Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen, a professor at Imperial's Centre for Complexity Science, puts it: "Music is communicating the brain's excitations to the audience."
"Performance is incredibly exciting. It's why I play, it's why I practice. It's the buzz," says flautist Lois Ashenden (first year MBBS Medicine and recipient of an Ash Scholarship). "It's noticing the little things that I love, like the first sound of a violinist's bow hitting the string. Then the big, lavish moments. The silence of the pause at the end – you keep your instrument up, you can't put it down, you have to let the resonance hang in the air. There's a hesitation that no-one wants to break. You think, 'We did it!', and then the applause comes."
During performance those musicians are communicating not only with the audience, but with each other. "I find it hard to stand still," says Ashenden. "I've been told I move too much, that I should channel my energy into the instrument, but playing fills you with so much emotion you have to let it out somehow."
Dr Tania Lisboa, Imperial Research Fellow in Performance Science, says you can often feel the moment a performance becomes extraordinary. "At times we see chamber groups who have been performing together for decades and the musicians seem to 'feel' each other," she says. "They don't need to look at anyone, they have the 'feeling of presence' and a small gesture is enough for them to know how to react musically. For new groups there is much more verbal communication."
Jensen has for several years worked together with pianist Professor David Dolan and music psychologist Professor John Sloboda, from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, to try to get under the skin of performance and understand what happens to musicians and their audience during improvised classical music. Through a number of experiments involving top level musicians from Guildhall, they used electrodes (EEG) attached to the heads of the performers and audience to measure what was going on during performance, with and without improvisation, to better understand the different reactions in our brains.
The musicians were asked to play first in a 'structured' or 'strict' way, and then to improvise the interpretation, which they call 'let go'. "We found that the brain activations in musicians and audience were much more similar during 'let go' performances, particularly during special moments in the music, which we sometimes refer to as having the 'tingle factor'," Jensen says. "During these moments the brain activity of musicians and audience, measured by EEG, was very similar.
"Our analysis suggests that during 'let go' there is a decrease in inhibition and self-awareness of the audience, and a decrease in the flow of information between the musicians." This is interesting, because it suggests the musicians are communicating less, or perhaps less consciously, during improvisation.
Kneebone is interested in embodied knowledge: how the body learns and how this impacts performance
For complexity scientists, there are implications to studying how, for example, electrode number eight on the flautist relates to electrode number five on the harp, says Jensen. "We call this causal time series analysis. How different time series relate to each other helps us make sense of big data. For instance, how computer algorithms in finance influence each other."
Sankey describes improvisation as "requiring computational power of the brain". Jazz improvisation is something you do through hearing, he says, "but you have to work things out in your head. It's instantaneous composition. There are rules – it's easier if you know what the chord patterns are – but you have to keep them flowing through your brain."
It's all about connections, then, but not just the scientific ones. "The skill of performance is communication with the audience," says Imperial's Director of Music, conductor Richard Dickins (who will be retiring this year after 40 years of working with the UK's finest musicians). "It would be possible to play the piano sitting motionless with no facial expression and your hands just whizzing around the keys, but that would be very dispiriting for the audience.
"It's the same skill as a presenter, or an entrepreneur explaining their idea to stakeholders. If you've seen a good communicator, you will know. Actors are master communicators, so are chief executives. It is something we teach; we say performance is about what you see as well as what you hear: 'Why is a live performance so much more vivid than a recording?' But it's also something you learn by seeing, recognising and watching people who do it better than you. We say, with music, as with acting, the audience can see into your very soul through your eyes. You can't hide, so you might as well enjoy the feeling of letting go."
"We found that the brain activations in musicians and audience were much more similar during improvisation"
As we all know, performance is a nerve-racking business. "You have to love it," continues Dickins. "The lovely thing about being a conductor is you have your back to the audience, although someone once said to me, 'You have the most expressive back I've ever seen!' But as conductor I'm fully engaged with the musicians in front of me."
Professor of Surgical Education and Engagement Science, Roger Kneebone, believes science and performance are intricately linked, but in reverse: it's not the science of performance he's interested in, but the "performance of science". He believes that by noticing the ways that surgery, for example, is like performance, we can improve the way we do it. "Cutting out someone's stomach cancer, for example," he says, "what is the difference between a good and bad operation? It's to do with performance. People don't always do it well."
Kneebone is interested in 'embodied knowledge': the way your body learns to do things and how this can contribute to expert performance, in its broadest sense. He has set up 'serendipitous encounters' between craftspeople, musicians, artists and surgical teams.
"You could look at an operation as a group of people working together, doing dextrous things with their fingers," he says. As a result, lacemaker Fleur Oakes came to watch operations in the vascular surgery unit at Imperial's St Mary's Hospital, and is now developing a training programme for surgeons.
"The arteries of elderly patients with chronic diseases don't hold stitches well," explains Kneebone. "They break up. Lacemakers are used to handling fragile, delicate textiles, and develop deep sensitivity in their fingers. You can train surgeons to feel with their fingers when they can't see something. Repetitive knots, stopping threads snagging – these are also useful things for surgeons to learn. At first the medics found it a bit odd, but now they think it's useful."
He has brought together stone carvers and orthopaedic surgeons. "Stone carvers use chisels on hard materials, they listen to the sound the stone makes as the chisel strikes it," he says. "Orthopaedic surgeons making chisel-cuts in wrist bones do something similar. Stone carvers have a long apprenticeship where they start by learning to manipulate their tools; surgeons learn by taking part in operations. Other performers, like puppeteers, warm up their fingers for 20 minutes before they perform, but surgeons don't. Why not? Musical quartets communicate without looking at each other, as a surgical team must do because they're looking at the patient. And each must think beyond their own part, to the bigger picture. Learning how physical dexterity relates to neurodiversity, and particular ways of learning, can allow us to perform better."
Science and performance are closely related, then, and in ways we might not expect. But, as a conductor, what does Dickins think about the idea that music performance is 'communicating the brain's excitations to the audience'? "Music is not science," says Dickins. "It's about passion, it's about love. Of course these are driven by neural impulses, but in music it's the heart that is communicating."
Richard Dickins will retire this year as Imperial's Director of Music. Much admired for his sympathetic rapport with concerto soloists, Richard has been fortunate to work with some of the UK's finest musicians, and is also well known for his work with young musicians.
He became conductor of the Symphony Orchestra at Imperial while still a student and was later appointed the College's first Director of Music. A graduate of the Royal College of Music (RCM), he was, until recently, principal conductor at the RCM Junior Department. He has also been artistic director of the Minehead and Exmoor Festival for more than two decades.
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Mike Kiraly returns to Loot Recordings and he is back with a vengeance that comes loaded with remixes from Martin Landsky and Robin Fett.
The downright filthy opener 'Si Mani Revisited' is laced up with modular synth effects as twisted sounds swirl on the edge of madness. A big, punchy bass line commands your attention as an androgynous vocal sample plays over and over, further taking the dance floor down the rabbit hole.
Esteemed Poker Flat veteran Martin Landsky is on remix duty and heads straight for the club with his signature style of tough rhythms. He teases and tweaks the vocal sample to create tension throughout the track, cleverly adding builds and breaks to increase the energy in all the right places.
Kiraly's next original is the superbly freaky 'We Get Messed Up'. With undulating drums, unhinged vocals repeating over and over and dark synths, it is a mesmerizing tune that dials up the energy like a slow boil. A monstrous rolling bass line underpins the whole thing and it's peppered with crazy effects that will send the crowd wild.
Last but not least, label associate Robin Fett again operates in the woozy region between house and techno with a deep, tasteful interpretation. His atmospheric track is stripped back, but filled with future soul as the newly treated main vocal becomes a hypnotic hook above silky drums.


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Iraq's Real WMD Crime
Lawrence Smallman – 2004-08-28 10:49:41
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BAGHDAD (March 17, 2004) — There are weapons of mass destruction all over Iraq and they were used this past year. Iraqi children continue to find them every day. They have ruined the lives of just under 300,000 people during the last decade — and numbers will increase.
The reason is simple. Two hundred tonnes of radioactive material were fired by invading US forces into buildings, homes, streets and gardens all over Baghdad.
The material in question is depleted uranium (DU). Left over after natural uranium has been enriched, DU is 1.7 times denser than lead – effective in penetrating armoured objects such as tanks. After a DU-coated shell strikes, it goes straight through before exploding into a burning vapour which turns to dust.
"Depleted uranium has a half life of 4.7 billion years — that means thousands upon thousands of Iraqi children will suffer for tens of thousands of years to come. This is what I call terrorism," says Dr Ahmad Hardan.
As a special scientific adviser to the World Health Organisation, the United Nations and the Iraqi Ministry of Health, Dr Hardan is the man who documented the effects of depleted uranium in Iraq between 1991 and 2002. But the war and occupation has doubled his workload.
Terrible History Repeated
"American forces admit to using over 300 tonnes of depleted uranium weapons in 1991. The actual figure is closer to 800. This has caused a health crisis that has affected almost a third of a million people. As if that was not enough, America went on and used 200 tonnes more in Baghdad alone (last) April. I don't know about other parts of Iraq, it will take me years to document that."
Hardan is particularly angry because he says there is no need for this type of weapon — US conventional weapons are quite capable of destroying tanks and buildings. "In Basra, it took us two years to obtain conclusive proof of what DU does, but we now know what to look for and the results are terrifying."
Leukaemia has already become the most common type of cancer in Iraq among all age groups, but is most prevalent in the under-15 category. It has increased way above the percentage of population growth in every single province of Iraq without exception.
Women as young as 35 are developing breast cancer. Sterility among men has increased tenfold.
Barely Human
But by far the most devastating effect is on unborn children. Nothing can prepare anyone for the sight of hundreds of preserved foetuses – barely human in appearance. There is no doubt that DU is to blame.
"All children with congenital anomalies are subjected to karyotyping and chromosomal studies with complete genetic back-grounding and clinical assessment. Family and obstetrical histories are taken too. These international studies have produced ample evidence to show that DU has disastrous consequences."
Not only are there 200 tonnes of uranium lying around in Baghdad, the containers which carried the ammunition were discarded. For months afterwards, many used them to carry water – others used them to sell milk publicly. It is already too late to reverse the effects.
After his experience in Basra, Hardan says within the next two years he expects to see significant rises in congenital cataracts, anopthalmia, microphthalmia, corneal opacities and coloboma of the iris – and that is just in people's eyes.
Add to this foetal deformities, sterility in both sexes, an increase in miscarriages and premature births, congenital malformations, additional abnormal organs, hydrocephaly, anencephaly and delayed growth.
Soaring Cancer Rates
"I had hoped the lessons of using DU would have been learnt – especially as it is affecting American and British troops stationed in Iraq as we speak, they are not immune to its effects either."
If the experience of Basra is played out in the rest of the country, Iraq is looking at an increase of more than 300% in all types of cancer over the next decade.
The signs are already here in Baghdad — the effects are starting to be seen. Every form of cancer has jumped up at least 10% with the exception of bone tumours and skin cancer, which have only risen 2.6% and 9.3% respectively.
Another tragic outcome is the delayed growth of children. Skeletal age comparisons between boys from southern Iraq and boys from Michigan show Iraqi males are 26 months behind in their development by the time they are 12-years-old and girls are almost half a year behind.
"The effects of ionising radiation on growth and development are especially significant in the prenatal child", adds Dr Hardan. "Embryonic development is especially affected."
Action Needed
Those who have seen the effects of DU hope the US and its allies will never use these weapons again – but it seems no such decision is likely in the foreseeable future.
"I arranged for a delegation from Japan's Hiroshima hospital to come and share their expertise in the radiological related diseases we are likely to face over time," says Hardan. "The delegation told me the Americans had objected and they had decided not to come. Similarly, a world famous German cancer specialist agreed to come, only to be told later that he would not be given permission to enter Iraq."
Moreover, Hardan believes the authorities need to produce precise information about what was used and where, and there needs to be a clean-up operation and centres for specialist cancer treatment and radiation-related illnesses.
Iraq only has two hospitals that specialise in DU-related illnesses, one in Basra and one in Mosul – this needs to change and soon.
"I'm fed up of delegations coming and weeping as I show them children dying before their eyes. I want action and not emotion. The crime has been committed and documented – but we must act now to save our children's future."
Cancer Spreads Like Wildfire in Iraq
http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2004-07/28/article02.shtml
BAGHDAD (July 28. 2004) — Depleted uranium (DU) used by the United States and its allies against Iraq has taken its toll on around 120,000 to 140,000 Iraqis, according to the latest estimates released by the Iraqi health ministry. With Iraq becoming an almost radioactive toxic wasteland, the number of birth defects and cancer-infected Iraqis is on the rise, the London-based Al-Quds Press news agency reported on July 27. The director of Baghdad's only nuclear medicine hospital, said 7,500 Iraqis are infected with cancer ever year.
Iraqi Doctor Learns from Hiroshima's Past
http://www.occupationwatch.org/article.php?id=6189
HIROSHIMA (August 4, 2004) — The number of child cancer cases jumped eightfold in the southern Iraqi city between 1988 and 2002. Iraqi doctors allege DU weapons cause leukemia and cancer while US authorities deny direct links between DU and the cancer on the rise in Iraq. The medical community in Japan, a US staunch ally, is also reluctant to admit a connection. Hussam Mahmood Salih, 34, a pediatrician from Basra, is now studying at Hiroshima University Hospital at the invitation of a Japanese civic group. Japanese doctors understand about these diseases," said Salih. "I think we cold learn very much from Japan's experiences," said Salih.
Uranium Weapons Poisoned Iraqi Civilians and Coalition Troops
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Tedd Weyman / Uranium Medical Research Centre
In September/October 2003, five months after the cessation of the Shock and Awe bombing campaign in Iraq, the Uranium Medical Research Centre (UMRC) sent in a team to collect biological and environmental samples, conduct a public health survey, and a field radiation survey. The goal: to determine the extent and nature of radiological contamination from the use of weapons containing uranium. Dr. M. Al Shaickly and Tedd Weyman traveled with Dr. Siegwart-Horst Guenther to survey battlefields in Baghdad and Al Basra. Dr. Guenther conducted an independent survey of Iraqi hospitals and patients, interviewing physicians and surveying the medical effects of Gulf War I and the 2003 Iraq War on civilians exposed to battlefield contaminants and the fallout of US and UK bombs and missiles. CLIP
FILM: 'Doctors, Depleted Uranium and Dying Children' (August 11, 2004)
http://www.traprockpeace.org/depleted_uranium_iraq.html
A powerful new German documentary exposes radioactive warfare in Iraq. "The Doctors, the Depleted Uranium, and the Dying Children" surveys the impact of radioactive weapons in the war against Iraq. The film features two British veterans describing their exposure to radioactive, depleted' uranium (DU), weapons and the congenital abnormalities of their children. Dr. Siegwart-Horst Günther and Tedd Weyman of the Uranium Medical Research Center traveled to Iraq, from Germany and Canada respectively, to assess uranium contamination in Iraq. The film is now available for purchase from the Traprock Peace Center for $25.00 for non-commercial, non-institutional use.
MDs Fear Cancer Epidemic Linked to US WMDs
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/cancer_epidemic_.html
A growing number of US personnel who have served in Iraq or Afghanistan have become sick and disabled from a variety of symptoms commonly known as Gulf War Syndrome (GWS). "Gulf war vets are coming down with these symptoms at twice the rate of vets from previous conflicts," said Barbara A. Goodno from the Department of Defense's Deployment Health Support Directorate. Nearly half the soldiers in one returned unit have malignant growths, possibly the result of exposure to depleted uranium weapons (DU). According to GWS researcher Dr. András Korényi-Both, 27 percent to 28 percent of Gulf War vets have suffered chronic health problems — more than five times the rate of Vietnam vets and four times the rate of Korean War vets.


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Tackling Malnutrition through Micro-nutrient Fortification
The emphasis on safe and nutritious food as well as the ultimate goal to ensure an active and healthy life, calls for a broader, though more complex, analyses of people's diets. It is against this backdrop that Nestle's vision to reach millions of families with fortified foods and beverages needs to be applauded. Jonathan Eze reports
Micronutrients are nutrients dominantly vitamins and minerals required by humans in order to carry out a vast range of physiological functions. The primary causes of most micronutrient malnutrition are inadequate intakes of micronutrient-rich foods and impaired absorption or utilisation of nutrients in these foods due partly to infection and parasitic infestation, which also increases metabolic, needs for many micronutrients. Poverty is often at the root of micronutrient malnutrition and it is also linked to inadequate access to food, sanitation and safe water and to lack of knowledge about safe food handling and feeding practices.
Micronutrient deficiencies are a major obstacle to socio-economic development in many countries. They have an immense impact on the health of the population (with high social and public costs), learning ability (with a vast loss of human potential) and productivity (with greatly reduced work capacity). These deficiencies contribute to a vicious cycle of malnutrition, underdevelopment and poverty affecting already underprivileged groups. Children are often the victims of malnutrition, which further jeopardises the future of their country. Solving micronutrient malnutrition may therefore be seen as a precondition for rapid and sustainable development. Preventing such malnutrition can make possible redirection of funds previously devoted to curative health care and social welfare needs to other development activities.
The importance of micronutrient fortification is becoming glaring amid report indicating that an estimated two billion people suffer from deficiencies in essential vitamins and minerals like iron, iodine, Vitamin A and Zinc. It will therefore amount to stating the obvious that micronutrient deficiencies disproportionately affect infants, young children and women, preventing them from achieving their full potential in life.
The consequences of this, according to a Nestle in-house journal published to celebrate its 150 years of existence are that it leads to mental impairment, poor health, low productivity, and, in severe cases, death. It added that as a company, it is a responsibility and an opportunity to improve the nutrition status of people at risk by adding relevant micronutrients to food and beverages consumed regularly by vulnerable populations.
In order to achieve this, Nestle Nigeria management under the leadership of Mr. Mauricio Alarcon reiterated the global food company's determination to add to its products, at least 750 million portions of vegetables, 300 million portions of nutrient- rich grains, pulses and bran, and more nuts and seeds. It added that by 2020, in addition to whole grain already being the number one ingredient in their ready-to-eat breakfast cereals for children, it boasted that all their cereals will be a source of fibre, with as much fibre as possible coming from whole grain.
However, the Corporate Communications and Public Affairs Manager of Nestle Nigeria, Victoria N'dee Uwadoka told THISDAY that in Nigeria alone, it recorded seven million daily servings of Nestlé fortified products in 2015 while over 157 million portions of fortified foods were served to consumers in 2016. According to Uwadoka, "We are aware that the most urgent impact of micronutrient deficiency in our region is anemia so we focused mostly on fortifying our products with iron. Fortified products include: Golden Morn Cereal – iron, Cerelac infant cereals – Iron, Maggi – Iron and iodine
while Pure life has Zinc
According to the Nestle in society journal, the leading food company said that it will continue to adapt their level of fortification to address the nutritional status and deficiencies prevalent in specific markets. "The global popularity and market reach of our Maggi product range give us a solid platform for helping address micronutrient deficiencies at scale.
"Almost 103 billion individual servings of Nestle soups, condiments, seasonings and noodles were fortified in 2016, of which 59 billion were fortified with iron. We also fortify cereals and milk to provide additional nourishment for school age children and expectant mothers".
The food and beverage company also opined that bio fortification can make crops more nutritious by selecting and breeding plant varieties that are naturally rich in micronutrients and that which can contribute to the nutrient density of diets that are based mostly on staple foods and for those people who may not have access to fortified processed foods. This, no doubt supports its yet another goal towards 2020 to continue to develop the supply chain for biofortified crops and expand its fortified portfolio. Uwadoka submitted that it is working with agricultural research institutes such as the 'HarvestPlus' programme.
"For example, in Nigeria, Nestle has worked with IITA to develop vitamin A fortified cassava stems distributed to farmers in its supply chain. It is also working with HarvestPLus to develop fortified grains, cereals and legumes." Our R and D centre in Abidjan, Cote d' Ivoire, is also exploring opportunities in biofortified cassava, wheat, rice and maize with partners in Madagascar, Turkey, Brazil and India".
However, in spite of Nestle 's excellent way and methods of contributing its quota to the nation's well-being, Mr. Brian Thompson of the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation, noted that addressing malnutrition in a sustainable way requires a coordinated approach including food and agriculture systems as well as other sectors such as water, health, education, employment and social protection.
According to Thompson, there is need to adopt a nutrition enhancing approach to food systems to address both the immediate as well as the underlying or structural causes of malnutrition. These policies however include having improved diets and raising levels of nutrition as explicit objectives, targeting the most vulnerable and at-risk communities, involving multi-sectors including food and agriculture, health, water, sanitation and hygiene, education, employment and social protection, a multi-disciplinary and multi-stakeholder collaboration with investment from both public and private sectors among others.
Recognising the dire consequences of micronutrients deficiencies on foods and beverages, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) recently said that it remains a huge problem in the country despite its enormous implications for economic growth and human development. To this end, the agency resumed its routine post market surveillance for Vitamin A fortified foods nationwide.
Addressing journalists in Lagos, the Chief Regulating Officer, Food Safety Nutrition Directorate, Mrs. Benedicta Obaseki said NAFDAC's programme on food fortification was to reduce the prevalence of micro-nutrient deficiency among the most vulnerable and at risk population by 20 per cent. Obaseki, who stated that micronutrient problems are usually hidden and silent, said the 20 per cent can only be achieved through compliance by manufacturers.
She added that one out of four children under age five suffers from Vitamin A deficiency. : "Correlation between suffering, death and malnutrition is real. A child dying as a result of a common childhood illness is a casualty of vitamin A deficiency. "A child that is away from school as a result of poor learning ability is suffering because he lacks iodine. With these facts, it is unimaginable to question or doubt the importance of vitamin A to achieving socio-economic stability of any country." She further explained that post market surveillance was to ensure that the products they inspected in the factories are of the same quantity of Vitamin A recommended levels of 20,000 International Units, IU. "We want to ascertain the quantity of Vitamin A in the market, so that we will be able to advise them on how to store these products rightly.
"We have gone to their factories to audit their processes to see where the problem is coming from, even the fortification line to see whether they are dosing properly and whether they are buying the right vitamin premix, which they are using to fortify their products.
"We have analysed some products today, some are meeting up but some are not meeting up to standard." On why some of the products failed the on- the- spot assessment, she explained that handling of the product could also be a major contributor. She announced that the Agency will be 'mop up' products that failed the tests "Vitamin A in fortified products depletes when stored under the sun. There is need for traders to store fortified products away from direct sun because sun affects the quality of vitamin A in fortified food products. We are also here to let the public be aware on how to identity fortified food products.
On his part, NAFDAC's Chief Technologist, Mr. Gregory Omiyi blamed some of the products that failed on exposure to sunlight, stressing the need for traders to learn about good storage practice. "When you expose products to the sunlight, it is a non- conformance to Good Storage Practice, GSP. As a consumer, when you see products that are not well stored, do not buy, because storage condition is our guideline regulation for labelling. "It is very important," he said, adding some of the Vitamin A fortified products tested include, vegetable oil, salt, sugar and flour, among others.
For the wellbeing of all Nigerians, it is pertinent for industries and brands to emulate the determination and initiatives of Nestle in ensuring adequate fortifications of its micronutrients products.
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The idea of make WordPress into the hub of your online activity is not new — Chris Messina and the rest of the DiSo project have been working toward exactly that for some time. But now it seems that Matt Mullenweg, creator of WordPress, has something similar in mind.
It's clear that the future is social. Connections are key. WordPress MU is a platform which has shown itself to be able to operate at Internet-scale and with BuddyPress we can make it friendlier. Someday, perhaps, the world will have a truly Free and Open Source alternative to the walled gardens and open-only-in-API platforms that currently dominate our social landscape.
What remains unclear is exactly what sort of social connections Mullenweg has in mind.
On one hand this could be an effort to bake a social network into WordPress. Or, on the other hand, it could be something more like DiSo, which is about managing your online existence through the WordPress interface.
Given the nature of the BuddyPress plugin, it would seem that the former is more likely, which is unfortunate since the later would likely be more useful.
Luckily the DiSo folks are still hard at work in the bat cave, and we expect great things to emerge eventually.


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REP. JEFFRIES STATEMENT ON ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE MURDER OF GEORGE FLOYD
BROOKLYN, NY – Today, U.S. Representative Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08) issued the following statement on the one year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd.
"A year ago today, the murder of George Floyd made clear the challenge that our nation has with police violence, police brutality and the police abuse of force. Over the past 12 months, people of goodwill throughout America spoke up, stood up and showed up to demand justice. House Democrats passed the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act to bring accountability and transparency to police forces, and now the Senate must step up and also pass this crucial legislation. Today, as we remember George Floyd, we must also continue to recognize those seeking change and work together to continue our march toward a more perfect union."
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However, the brief sweetness of senryu suggested itself for today as I prepare to deliver a workshop on creative non-fiction.
Today would have been my sister-in-law's 65th birthday. She died just after last Christmas and her funeral was the day after New Year's. My husband will be memorialising her today planting sunflower seeds, a flower they both favour and have adopted as a family symbol. Gardening, as his late mother knew, heals all.


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So, from what I'm told, I can gather that today is the unofficial kickoff to the Christmas season.
And, from what I'm told, I can gather that people actually trample each other to get to sales?
Anyways, before you jump off into the abyss of a mall, let me give you an easy [and really awesome] alternative.
You're about to love me forever.
Here's how it works: You buy your dad a library ($100). But, he doesn't actually get the library. A community in the third world does, and Compassion will send you a card that you can give to your dad, with a picture of a library and some background stuff on where his Christmas gift went.
Or, buy your teacher some chickens ($16) and they'll be given to a family in the third world, and Compassion will send you a card for your teacher.
And, you don't have to give your dad/teacher/teenager just a card. Get creative!
Partner the library with a book for dad. Or the chickens with those egg holders or a mug with a funny chicken cartoon on it for your teacher. Partner the Driver's Ed classes with a contribution to 16-year-old's car/insurance/gas/lessons fund [or just get them a key chain. ;)].
Thank you! We do go out for Black Friday... but we do not trample! Lots do.... our favorite place is the Christian book store. We buy extra Jesus Story book bibles to give away! We shop the CI catalog too! I didn't see where we could give chickens though... and we did that and bibles last yr. Thanks for sharing. Love it.
yes, the christian bookstore is always a good stop. :) we have one here too and we love it.
i don't know if the american catalogue has the chickens this year. i know for sure the canadian one does, but i think the american one only has a generic livestock option.
Yep, yesterday was the kick-off for Christmas. We don't go out that day cause it is soo busy! It is sad though how obsessed people are with it. Love the CI catalog, too!! The Help a child develop physical and life skills through sports helps kids in Andrah Pradesh, India. That is where my youth group sponsors a girl. I love how they have things for specific places this year. Happy shopping!!


Manchester United play host to Barcelona in the Champions League on Wednesday as the Quarter Finals get underway. We had two great matchups unfold on Tuesday and we can expect the pair of contests on Wednesday to be no different. The betting volume is expected to be as heavy as ever this time around and the in-play wagering totals should be high as well.
Manchester United were able to pull off a famous victory in Paris when they were able to get the better of Paris Saint Germain during their two-legged tie in the round of sixteen. Overcoming a 2-0 deficit heading into an away match is a feat that many considered to be beyond Solksjaer's men but they were able to pull off a win that will live on for many years.
It may not propel them past Lionel Messi & co, however, and the Catalan club come into Old Trafford as the outright favourites to win the tie and progress through to the semi finals of the Champions League.
Barca can be backed at a best price of even money and those odds will probably drop as we get closer to the kick off. Messi put together a really good performance in their last contest and Barcelona remain one of the main favourites to win the Champions League.
Manchester United can be backed at a price hovering around 3/1 pre-match and they will be a very interesting in-play wager if they are able to get behind the Barcelona defence and give them some problems in the opening 20 minutes or so. If United can nick the first goal and stay organized at the back they could wind up coming out of this contest with a lot more happening in their favour then you might think.


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Background: All patent rights for the BAYTRON® products are with H.C. Starck. After the separation of our company from the Bayer group, they have retained the naming rights for BAYTRON® - thus, making this name change necessary. "Beyond that, everything remains the same for our users," emphasizes Dr. John van Put, General Manager of the Electronics and Optics Business Unit at H.C. Starck. The name CLEVIOS™ stands for the "Clever invention of solutions".
With this versatile functional material, H.C. Starck has breathed life into conductive polymer technology. So far, successful applications of CLEVIOStrade include transparent antistatic-coated films and conductive polymer capacitors on the basis of tantalum and aluminum, which will soon effectively displace conventional designs. New kinds of OLED displays, organic solar cells, electronic paper, and printed electronics are just a few of the many possible applications.


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