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Protoje has been uplifting spirits as he leads the reggae revival movement from Jamaica and beyond. The singer returned with his fifth studio album this week titled, In Search Of Time that he's been gearing up for over the past few weeks. The project includes 10 tracks in total with appearances from Wiz Khalifa, who features on the single, "A Vibe," and Popcaan, who joins forces with Protoje on "Like Royalty." Along with those two, Protoje enlists Koffee and Lila Ike for the tracklist as well.
"It feels really encouraging putting out my fifth album," Protoje said about his new album in a statement. "Time has flown by so quickly to get to this point. To have my daughter on the cover is very symbolic. It is actually a game she always plays with me when she wants me to chase her. In reality, I feel I am two to three steps behind in my personal life a lot of the time, so that is a representation of In Search Of Lost Time. I hope sharing that moment with her on the cover is something she will appreciate as years go by."


Bill banning Memphis police residency requirement advances in Tennessee House
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - A bill to change where Memphis police officers can live is one step closer to becoming a law.
House Bill 105 easily advanced through a state House subcommittee Tuesday morning.
A last-minute amendment means the bill will only apply to Memphis and not to other cities across the state.
Police residency has sharply divided the Memphis City Council for years, and the debate has now moved from city hall to the state capitol.
The Memphis city charter says newly hired police officers and firefighters must live in Shelby County.
But a bill making its way through the Tennessee legislature would prohibit residency requirements for first responders.
The bill says “a local government shall not have a residency requirement for first responders as a condition of employment.”
State Representative Jeremy Faison, R-Cosby, is sponsoring the bill in House.
“This is a piece of policy that is requested by the ones who have their boots on the ground, the ones who are actually doing the work, the ones who see the need day in and day out,” said Faison.
Tuesday morning, Memphis Police Chief CJ Davis, Memphis Police Association president Essica Cage, and other Memphis leaders attended a subcommittee hearing to support the bill.
Supporters say the bill will help with recruiting by expanding the pool of applicants.
The Memphis Police Department stepped up recruitment efforts in recent months.
The department offers a $15,000 sign-on bonus, $10,000 in relocation assistance, and a starting salary of $45,623.
State Representative John Gillespie told Action News 5 last month that it’s not enough, and that’s why he and other Memphis Republican state lawmakers are pushing for the state to intervene.
“They are several hundred officers short in the Memphis Police Department,” said Gillespie. “I believe that certain times the state has the prerogative [to intervene], especially when it comes to public safety.”
But State Representative Larry Miller, a Democrat who also represents part of Memphis, criticized the legislation after an amendment was added Tuesday morning, which clarified the bill would only apply to Memphis and not to other cities across Tennessee.
“Now we’re here, again, once again, preempting local government and focusing in on Memphis,” said Miller. “I’m a little offended by that, a little insulted by that.”
State Representative Jess Chism, another Democrat of Memphis, said he shares Miller’s reservations.
“It makes it seem like Memphis doesn’t have what it takes to keep Memphis safe,” said Chism. “I believe that we can find people in our backyard who are qualified to do this work.”
The bill advanced out of the House Cities and Counties Subcommittee and now goes to the Local Government Committee for consideration.
State Senator Brian Kelsey is sponsoring the Senate’s version of this bill.
None of the Memphis leaders in attendance spoke at Tuesday’s hearing. But they may speak at a future hearing.
The Memphis City Council was considering putting this issue back on the ballot for voters to decide later this year, but that’s now on hold and may not be necessary should this bill become state law.
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It can be overwhelming time when you find yourself staring at possible auto repairs.
Get a good battery charger and be sure it is always in your car. Learn how to connect your car to the points where the battery charger connects.
If you aren’t sure about anything, don’t hesitate to clear this up with the mechanic before allowing him or her to make repairs to your vehicle. You don’t want to avoid being surprised with additional charges once the repairs are done.
You don’t have to get a mechanic when your car is giving your problems. There are a few things you can fix easily. If it is not a very difficult job, you can save yourself some cash by doing it yourself.
Ask a potential mechanic is he is familiar with working on your car. If they say that they have, then they are likely going to be able to also fix your car easily enough.
Go over your automobile’s manual and dog ear the most useful pages.You can find some easy solutions for the issues you need to know in your owner’s manual.
Look for online reviews of local auto shops. This can inform you a good indication of how satisfied customers are with their experience. You can use the information to find a place you feel comfortable spending your car.
Make sure the mechanic you hire knows about your particular car.If you aren’t sure, spend the extra money and go to an authorized dealer.
Most shops are honest, but some will charge you for things that aren’t necessary. Search for a reliable shops that is knowledgeable with your kind of vehicle you have. These shops can better understand the needed repairs your vehicle.
Think about finding a mechanic who does repairs in his own garage. If they have auto repair experience they can provide quality work, you can get the same work done at a much cheaper price. You can support small business and save hundreds on the cost of money by going down this route.
Do not let a mechanic work on your car before knowing about their prices and the rates for labor.Some repair shops display their rates, so read carefully and ask questions if you don’t understand something. You have a right to know how much a repair will cost and why you are being billed for your car repairs. Some stores are able to give you an estimate for estimated labor times established by the manufacturers they work with. Some “minor” repairs might be considered as an all day according the the estimates of the manufacturer.
Be sure that you know how often the oil change schedule. You have to change it regularly get the oil changed to make sure your vehicle runs smoothly. If your oil is not changed on a regular basis, your car could stop working much earlier than expected.
Check your tire pressure each time you fill up on gas. Look at the tires to be sure that they there is nothing has become embedded in them. You do not want to take any chances by driving with weak tires.
There are several different kinds of parts. New parts are made solely to a manufacturer’s factory. Refurbished or reconditioned parts are ones that these parts have been restored to working condition. Salvage means used parts without any type of alterations.
Be sure the mechanic is properly certified. Look for a seal of approval. You will get better service if you go to a mechanic who has this certification.
If you cannot afford to get your vehicle fixed, call a vocational school to see if they offer this service. You pay a very low rate to have students to work on your car while under the supervision of a licensed mechanic.
It is not uncommon to find out about other problems when they pick up their vehicle from an auto shop. They do this to make it look like you think you’re getting a good deal from them. Tell them that you’re going to have to talk to them later so that you have to think about it before accepting the deal.
Consistency is important when it comes to auto repairs. Stick to a trusted mechanic whom you have used before instead of going to multiple places for work. Different shops may give you a different diagnosis of your problem is wrong. They could charge you more for the work done.
The first person you’ll have to get over when it comes to auto repair is the mechanic. You never want to work with a shady mechanic. Watch out for mechanics that fail to make eye contact, not answering your questions, and ignore your questions.
When you’re getting a car washed, take the mats out and spray them with a hose. Dirt particles can easily lodged inside the rubber surfaces and over time they will tear holes. Holes aren’t attractive and allow the dirt have a clear path to your carpet beneath.
Seek a second opinion prior to committing to major repairs done on your car. The mechanic might find this somewhat offensive or try to snag you with a great on-the-spot deal, but these things should be warning signs.
People dread situations where their vehicles break down. Without having a good grasp of auto repair, you’ll most likely not know where to turn to get your car fixed properly. You should have a better idea of what to do to get your vehicle fixed after reading this article.


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Developers have unveiled controversial plans for more than 1600 homes to be built in a ‘new community’ east of Maghull
The vision is said, by developers, to be for a place which ‘people can call home and grow with, from first-time buyers, to those raising a family, and those looking for somewhere to retire.’
The new plans include provision for new employment opportunities, shops and a landscaped park, which will include a children’s play area, as well as a new bus route.
A ‘concept masterplan’ for the full allocation site has been submitted to Sefton Council , with initial proposals for new housing and a local centre being brought forward.
A spokesperson for Sefton Council told Visiter.co.uk: "[The Council] wants to clarify the situation regarding planning applications submitted in Maghull.
"Applications have been submitted by (a) Countryside Properties and Persimmon Homes, and (b) the East Maghull Consortium, for a total of 1,685 homes on the Local Plan site known as ‘Land east of Maghull’.
"At the moment, the application has yet to be validated, but when it is we will consult in accordance with its normal procedures and the application will be available to view here ."
And many Visiter readers have voiced their opinions on the idea.
Katie McMullin said: "What are they doing to help avoid additional flooding risks if this goes ahead?"
Luke Daly-Groves asked: "Do we need to build more houses in Maghull?
"I see plenty of houses for rent and sale in my walks around the local area. Who are these houses for?"
Wendy Greener said: "Words fail me.
"So much has been said and done to try to prevent this desecration of our valuable arable land but to no avail.
"I fear the development won't even live up to all it's hype and Maghull will end up with a vast housing estate but very little infrastructure and all the services stretched to breaking point."
What do you think? Tell us in the comments below or email firstname.lastname@example.org

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3 levels of difficulty : easy, medium, hard
This game has been developed by an independent not professional developer who really happy to get feedbacks through ratings & reviews.
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This is a standard feature on controllers these days, it means that the controller has a small motor inside it and can vibrate to represent events in the game. This gives games something of a physical presence and generally adds to the playing experience.
GameCube is Nintendo's previous games console released in 2001.
Electronic wizardry inside the Wiimote that allows it to detect movements in 3d space. This means that waving the controller in the air is a way of controlling the action on screen.
Before being named "Wii", the Wii had the codename of "Revolution".
A download service that allows users to get older games from previous generations for a small fee. Supported consoles are currently the N64, Super NES, NES, Sega Genesis and TurboGrafix 16. Independent games will also be available.
The Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection is a free online service provided by Nintendo which launched in 2005. It lets people connect and play against each other online. Currently it's used by Nintendo's handheld machine the DS, the Wii will also be part of the action on its release.
Wii is Nintendo's latest and greatest gaming console.
A feature of the Wii's Wi-Fi connection. It means that even when the Wii is in stand-by mode it can still receive updates and demos from Nintendo over the Internet. Nintendo have described Wii as the console that never sleeps.
The Wii's controller, named so because it looks more like a TV remote than a typical gamepad. Read more about the Wii Controller.
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Before I knew who Claire Denis was, she taught me how to dance. When I was eighteen, it was easier to stay in with a movie than to go to a party and be surrounded by strangers. One night, I watched Denis’s film “Beau Travail,” from 1999. Afterward, I couldn’t sleep. I kept replaying the ending, transfixed by a man with a battered face, Galoup. For ninety minutes, Galoup (Denis Lavant) is small and hunched, a military officer who, after being ejected from the French Foreign Legion, can’t find meaning in civilian life. In a closing scene, he makes his bed, carefully tucking in the corners, and lies down, clasping a gun. Then we hear the pulse of Corona’s disco hit “The Rhythm of the Night.” We cut to Galoup smoking in a night club, leaning against a panelled mirror. He bobs his head to the music, tracing loose arcs in the air with his cigarette. He snarls. He spins in a tight circle, smoke trailing him like a cape. Then, at the chorus, unsmiling and intent, he lets himself go, flying into the air, fingers splayed like a gecko’s. I can’t describe what it felt like watching him for the first time, more blur than human. But I remember what it did to me. I got up and I began to wave my hands above my head, alone in the dark.
I watched “Beau Travail” again recently, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, which is running the largest U.S. retrospective of Denis’s work to date. The sold-out crowd erupted after Galoup’s dance, as though their cheers could summon Denis out from the screen. The French director, now seventy-two, is one of the greatest filmmakers alive. Barry Jenkins, the director of “Moonlight,” dubbed her “DA GAWD” in a tweet, and her movies are often deemed among the best of all time. Critics praise her lingering, ravishing study of the body; her elliptical storytelling; her masterly way of shooting the gesture. But none of these themes explain the cathartic power of “Beau Travail” ’s conclusion. The one thing that appears time and again, in crucial moments, as the binding magic of her films, is dancing.
Dance movies—or movies with dance in them—have a long and storied history, populated mainly by professional dancers. Growing up, I watched as many as I could, from “The Red Shoes” and “Stormy Weather” to “Center Stage.” I thrilled to the twirling of Fred Astaire, the liquid snap of John Travolta’s hips, the way Channing Tatum’s ass looked after a backflip. But the appeal of watching someone like Tatum is the precision of his movement: the flow of his shoulder rolls, the nod of careless ease. The scene can easily be clipped into a five-minute YouTube video and lose none of its power. By contrast, Denis’s subject is the dance of the non-dancer—the kinetic poetry of the ordinary. Her dancers are characters caught dancing. She’s interested in the dance that trips, flails, mindlessly repeats, that happens not on a stage but in a shower stall, or in a car stuck in traffic. These scenes have none of the glitz of a Hollywood (or Bollywood) musical number, with the army of background dancers spinning on cars. Instead, they ask simple questions: Why do people dance alone, and dance with others? What can dance bring to a person’s life? Can someone lonely dance with joy?
I went to the BAM screening with a friend who had never seen a Denis film, and who noted in shock, as we left, that Sentain, a main character, had perhaps four lines in the entire movie. This aspect of Denis’s work—the lean, spare dialogue—tunes our attention to the ways in which our bodies betray our desires. Tension mounts and breaks wordlessly: in Denis’s first feature film, “Chocolat,” the climax is a white colonial administrator’s lonely wife reaching out, in longing, to touch her black manservant’s calf; in “Beau Travail,” a subordinate punches his superior; in “Let the Sunshine In,” a woman invites a man’s embrace by closing her eyes and stretching her neck. Denis’s subjects are often outcasts, with quiet, tense bodies that they hold tightly to themselves. She rewards our attention by presenting dance as a form of solace, whether it’s lonely siblings dancing together in “U.S. Go Home,” a father dancing with his daughter in “35 Shots of Rum,” or a half-crazed doctor dancing in front of an air vent in her most recent film, “High Life.” All of these scenes crackle with the possibility of release, of exploring alternative or truer selves. When Denis’s characters dance, they at once reveal themselves and maintain their inner worlds. We can’t know what they’re thinking, but we see them find the rhythm of their lives.
I talked to Denis last week, over the phone. “There is no good life without dance, you know?” she said. “Once I was in New York, and I was at this night club. I was early, and I saw this old couple, with gray hair—they were dancing together, a paso doble. It was a dream of beauty.” The scene felt familiar; Denis’s films often ask how we change while watching a dance. She frequently cuts to spectators, returning to them again and again to show that our faces—with their twitches of longing, agony, and even boredom—can dance as much as our limbs. In “35 Shots of Rum,” a loving father and widower, Lionel, dances with his daughter at a bar in Paris, her cheek on his chest. The music changes to the Commodores’ “Nightshift,” and a friend—a man whom Lionel considers a son—approaches. Lionel backs away. The daughter and the man hold each other, and the scene’s emotional tenor changes, from a dance evoking the tenderness of the past to one that hints at the future. We get a closeup of Lionel’s face as he watches; he isn’t smiling. They kiss. He looks away. As viewers, we feel ambivalent: the two look so right together, but we see, too, the tragedy of a father who has resolved to let his daughter go. As the bar owner places a plate in front of Lionel, his hands catch her wrists. She smiles, and he draws her close. The father goes from dancer to watcher and back again.
In scenes like this, Denis allows plot and meaning to emerge organically from bodies in motion. “I’m not a choreographer,” Denis told me. “But, once, Jean-Luc Nancy, the philosopher in “Towards Mathilde”—Denis’s dance documentary—said something to me. He said, ‘What is great about watching ballet is that, even if you’ve never learned how to dance, even if you don’t know how to dance, you can feel the dance in your body as an audience. . . ’ And I said to him, ‘Yes, that’s true, completely true.’ ” Denis believes that, if we look at it long enough, movement itself contains stories, which we in turn recognize in ourselves. In “U.S. Go Home,” we follow Martine, a Parisian teen-ager living in a housing project, as she crashes a rich older boy’s houseparty with a friend. The camera doesn’t waver from their faces as they slow-dance; they oscillate from having fun to trying to look like they’re having fun. We feel the sweaty, panicked questions of adolescence: Where do I put my hands? Where do I rest my chin? Whom should I imitate? And beneath those questions, another, deeper one: Where does imitation fade and the self begin?
For Denis, the dancer is alone at heart. Both of her most recent films, “Let the Sunshine In” and “High Life,” include moments in which Juliette Binoche dances by herself: arms stretched behind her, neck swanned, mouth slightly open and eyes gently closed. In “Let the Sunshine In,” she dances to Etta James’s “At Last,” and within a few chords a man gathers her into his arms from behind. Binoche starts to smile, wrapping her arms around him, moving in a different kind of ecstasy. (How women’s bodies change when they dance for someone else!) In “High Life,” we witness another type of encounter. Binoche, dancing in front of an air vent, unties a long, thick braid and shakes her black hair loose. But, when a man approaches her, grasping her hips, she pushes him away, to move with the wind. It’s Denis exploring the thorny pleasures of being a woman. It can be wonderful to yield to those watching, but at what cost?

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RAVENOL is the official lubricant partner of the Noventi Open (formerly known as Gerry Weber Open) and the Gerry Weber World. For nearly 30 years, now, the internationally renowned lawn-tennis tournament has been held in the weeks between the Grand Slam tournaments French Open and Wimbledon. Record winner of the tournament is Switzerland’s Roger Federer who won the title for the 10th time, this year. To make for ideal playing conditions, a perfect lawn represents the organisers’ top priority. Therefore, RAVENOL provides high-quality products for the entire vehicle pool and all the vehicles of the green-keeping area. The lawn mowers of the company, for instance, rely on the RAVENOL four-stroke , a special lawn-mower oil. Thanks to its special additive mix, this lubricant makes for a flawless operation, provides corrosion protection and prevents the accumulation of black sludge – even if the engine is taken to its limits.


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Beck’s, CountryMark, Co-Alliance, and Central Indiana Ethanol announced last week a collaboration with ClearFlame Engine Technologies to drive efforts that are expected to benefit row crop farmers through an innovative technology that decarbonizes heavy duty diesel combustion engines by enabling the use of any biofuel, including 100% ethanol (E98), as truck fuel.
“This is the first step in bringing ethanol to the forefront of engine technology,” said Scott Beck, president at Beck’s. “Our partnership with CountryMark, Co-Alliance, and Central Indiana Ethanol enabled the fueling of the truck during our pilot, highlighting the strides that Indiana agriculture companies can bring to the entire industry.”
With the integration of ethanol in engine technology, it has the opportunity to drive demand and production for ethanol for row crop farmers across the nation.
“The speed and agility with which the Indiana ethanol fuel coalition was able to come together to provide E98 fuel to our truck with Beck’s goes even further to underscore how easy it will be for ClearFlame’s technology to rapidly scale for fleets across the country,” said BJ Johnson, ClearFlame co-founder and CEO. “Ethanol is already distributed through fuel terminals nationwide. In addition to being widely available, it’s proven to be a much greener fuel, with substantially lower carbon emissions than diesel, and critically, significant cost savings.”
As Beck’s represents ClearFlame’s first official pilot, the truck is accumulating miles and driving long distances in a range of operating conditions, with short haul routes between Beck’s Indiana locations that include a variety of different load types.
“This pilot affords us the opportunity to better learn how the ClearFlame technology works and what can be improved to better meet consumer demand,” said Belinda Puetz, director of marketing at CountryMark. “A great deal of attention is being placed today on battery electric vehicles and that is not a wise energy choice for hard to electrify sectors, like long-haul trucks and production agriculture. Technologies, like ClearFlame, can be part of the solution to meet the future needs of our customers.”
ClearFlame expects to achieve commercialization of its engine modification technology by the end of 2023.

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Capitation is to promote NHIS objectives – Director
Mr. Anthony Gingong, Director in charge of Provider Payment at the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), has said that the essence of introducing the capitation system into the operations of the National Health Insurance Scheme is to ensure total attainment of its objectives.
To this end, he said, the Authority has put in place all the necessary mechanisms needed to pave the way for smooth, orderly, and effective implementation of the capitation throughout the country.
Mr. Gingong was rolling out the Capitation at the Central Regional Administration in Cape Coast to kick-start its use in the region.
He expressed appreciation to people in the Ashanti Region for embracing the capitation, after grappling with the tense challenges the system attracted initially when it was introduced in the region three years ago.
Mr. Gingong was hopeful that with the introduction of the Capitation, the principal aims and objectives of the NHIS, centered on quality and affordable healthcare for present and future generations of the country, would be achieved and sustained.
He said the Authority anticipated the initial criticisms and other challenges which erupted when it was first introduced in the Ashanti Region, because developed countries which adopted the Capitation System to support their Health Insurance Policies also suffered similar problems at the initial stages.
Mr. Gingong announced the setting up of a Regional Steering Committee, as well as Municipal and District Capitation Committees, to speed up the implementation of the system.
He said one of the most pressing issues the Capitation system was meant to eradicate from the operations of the various Municipal and District Schemes was the abuse of the Health Insurance Policy by some unpatriotic NHIS clients who intentionally hopped from facility to facility with their Health Insurance Identification Cards to collect drugs and store them in their homes.
Mr. Gingong described this practice as wicked and very dangerous, because it weakens the financial base of the Health Insurance Policy and drew back its progress.
Mr. Gingong and Mr. Francis Oti Frempong, Central Regional Director of the NHIA, assured Mr. Aquinas Tawiah Quansah, the Central Regional Minister, of the NHIA’s readiness to team up strongly with all the major stakeholders in the Region to make the Capitation System succeed.
Mr. Quansah thanked the NHIA Management for finally rolling out the Capitation System in the Central Region, and assured them of his administration’s determination to ensure a maximum success of its operation in the region.
He also admitted that the new system may encounter some challenges in the region, but expressed the hope that with intensive public education, much could be achieved.
The Regional Minister charged all NHIA communication officers in the region to intensify their sensitization activities on the Capitation System in all corners to accelerate its implementation.
The Regional Minister announced plans to secure a more suitable place to construct a new and befitting regional hospital in Cape Coast to replace the current one, which is now serving as a teaching hospital.


November 05, 2010
"GOP's Miller Says Spelling Should Count in Alaska Vote"
Do read this Wall Street Journal report, which shows how in a very close race (which is probably unlikely) the result could turn upon application of the Democracy Canon to construe the relevant statute. For further background, here's the relevant statutory language for counting write-ins in Alaska (AK 15.15.360):
(11) A vote for a write-in candidate, other than a write-in vote for governor and lieutenant governor, shall be counted if the oval is filled in for that candidate and if the name, as it appears on the write-in declaration of candidacy, of the candidate or the last name of the candidate is written in the space provided....
(b) The rules set out in this section are mandatory and there are no exceptions to them. A ballot may not be counted unless marked in compliance with these rules.
One can easily see from these rules the basis for Miller's argument that election officials should not count ballots with spelling errors, because such ballots would not contain the name "as it appears on the write-in declaration of candidacy." Moreover, the rules are said to be "mandatory."
However, the WSJ article writes that "On Friday, [Division of Elections Director] Ms. Fenumiai pointed to two previous Alaska cases in which ballots were counted for a candidate when voter intent was clear, even if the ballot wasn't filled out correctly." So the question is whether voter intent should trump clear statutory language if that's the general rule of interpretation provided by the Alaska courts.
As I describe in my 2009 Stanford Law Review article, The Democracy Canon, Alaska has adopted a very strong version of the Democracy Canon, which should require the statute to be interpreted to take voter intent into account in interpreting the write-in statute:
(footnotes omitted). To change that voter intent standard now could itself raise federal due process issues, as I explain in the last part of my article.
Posted by Rick Hasen at November 5, 2010 05:28 PM


Codere Shareholders Look To Sell Company s Bingo And Arcade Ops In Argentina
It was clear when Codere shareholders took over the gaming company that changes were eminent. The first wave of changes has arrived, with operations in Argentina being the target. As soon as shareholders cut a deal with Spain-based Codere’s former leaders last November, it was known that certain assets would be unloaded. Spanish media outlet […]
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The funding, which will be distributed over five years, comes from the Department of Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) program. This particular grant, managed by Hugh DeLong, department head of complex materials & devices, comes from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, one of the military research offices which awards MURI grants.
With the funding the researchers will study more than 20 organisms, including mammals, reptiles, birds, fish, mollusks, crustaceans, insects and plants. Examples include: light-weight, tough and durable materials with cellular structures such as the stem of bamboo; the beak of a toucan; layered structures from shells of marine snails and antlers from mammals; twisted plywood structures found in crustacean structures such as the club of mantis shrimp; and insect cuticles.
These structures are particularly interesting because they are composed of relatively simple biological materials such as keratin found in fingernails, yet display incredible mechanical performance. The team will also reach back in history, looking at dynamic evolutionary processes such as the structure of the extinct trilobite, which existed for more than 200 million years by adapting to its environment.
The research program utilizes four interwoven thrusts, including the ultrastructural and mechanical investigation of these organisms, development of mathematical models of their structures and new design, fabrication of biomimetic structures that emulate features found in both natural systems and theory-based designs in order to underpin their tough, strong structures. Finally, the team will conduct comparative evolutionary analyses to pinpoint design principle
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(Top) Ofelia Rivas, Tohono O'odham, on the US/Mexico border looks in the direction of her own community, whose ceremonial route has been dissected by this border wall, including a new barbed wire fence detrimental to migrating jaguar and Sonoran pronghorn.
Rose Main with her mother Vernie White Cow Main on Big Warm Creek, Gros Ventre land in northern Montana, search for ways to help Rose's brother Jim Main, Jr., jailed for over a year for a murder he said he did not commit. The trial has been delayed as new evidence surfaces on other people at the scene. Indian rights activists question if a fair trial is possible in a Montana border town. In the photo, Rose and her mom are enjoying fresh salmon brought by the Sohappy family.
Tohono O'odham Angie Ramon at the site where her son, Bennett Patricio, Jr., was ran over and killed by the US Border Patrol near the border in 2002. The Ninth Circuit upheld the lower court's decision and did not find fault with the Border Patrol. Angie, still seeking answers and justice, now has the option of filing murder charges and searches for an attorney.
A Raging Granny protests the war in Iraq in Tucson and asks George Bush how many kids has he killed today.
Photos by Brenda Norrell


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Amazon appears to be planning to let US customers order groceries online and pick them up at designated drive-in spots, according to planning documents reviewed by several local news outlets. The e-commerce giant is reportedly testing a ”click and collect” model in Sunnyvale, California, a little further up the San Francisco peninsula in San Carlos, and in Seattle, Washington.
Online grocery is a notoriously tough business and even Amazon has struggled to crack it. With the drive-in model, Amazon is taking a page from an unlikely player in the space: Walmart.
Walmart began testing curbside pickup of online grocery orders for the US in Denver in 2013. This time last year, online grocery pickup was available in five US markets; it has since expanded to nearly 400 stores across more than 60 markets. Pickup is same-day, free for customers, and available from 7am to 11pm local time.
Curbside pickup has worked well for Walmart, which has a ready-made storage and distribution network in its more than 4,000 US stores. The service is convenient for customers—Walmart says it takes less than five minutes to drive up and have groceries placed in your car. At no additional cost, it also likely appeals to Walmart’s core shoppers, who tend to be in the mid- or lower-income brackets.
“That value proposition is something that has resonated really strongly with our customers,” says Ravi Jariwala, a Walmart spokesman.
By having shoppers pick up their groceries at the store, Walmart also eliminates most of the expensive and complicated logistics that have burdened other delivery companies, and which often end up getting passed along to the customer. Instacart, an online grocery startup valued at $2 billion, charges as much as $11.99 for each of its deliveries.
Amazon has focused its online grocery efforts thus far on Amazon Fresh, a same- and next-day grocery delivery service it introduced in 2007. Fresh is a competitor to FreshDirect and Peapod, two established US grocery delivery services, as well as startups like Instacart. But nearly a decade after its launch, Fresh is only available in a handful of US cities. And at $299 a year it remains an expensive add-on to Amazon’s flagship Prime membership.
Walmart doesn’t break out numbers on its grocery business but Neil Ashe, the company’s outgoing head of global e-commerce, said in June that he expected the grocery segment to contribute “hundreds of basis points” to the US over time. For the quarter ending on July 29, Walmart CEO Doug McMillon pointed to ”the continued roll out of online grocery and growth of pick-up in stores” as a key driver of Walmart’s 11.8% increase in e-commerce sales.
“We wouldn’t be expanding this as quickly as we have—going from five to now well over 60 [markets], with a view to even further expansion this year—if we weren’t encouraged by the response we were seeing from customers,” Jariwala says.
Amazon did not respond to requests for comment.

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- Release date: February 28, 2006
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Using her own beautiful house as an example, popular designer Carolyn Westbrook — a home designer who specializes in slipcovers, lamps and fabrics — reveals how to create a home that reflects the spirit of those who live there. Page after page of breathtaking photographs carry you into her world, and offer a glimpse inside the residence Carolyn renovated in gracious Southern style. Her decorating tricks will work anywhere, and can change the entire look of a room quickly, easily, and affordably. Just see how mere paint made her once-unappealing front hall warm and inviting. Find out how to create unexpected eye-catching vignettes with vintage collections. Make an elegant statement through the simple but gorgeous use of color and fabric, such as white linen. Westbrook’s creativity will draw readers in and help them transform the ordinary into the extraordinary.
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CORRECTION: Sept. 25, 2013
Dean McFalls, former pastor of St. Mary’s Church, did not take a vow of poverty when he was ordained a Catholic priest. Incorrect information appeared in the print and initial online version of this article. The error has been corrected.
STOCKTON - Father Dean McFalls, one of Stockton's higher-profile and more outspoken Catholic priests, is no longer pastor of St. Mary's Church.
"I am the father of a child coming into this world," said McFalls, whose final day was Saturday.
Father Jose Luis Gutierrez, vocations director for the Diocese of Stockton, is the new interim pastor.
McFalls, ordained for 18 years and the popular pastor of St. Mary's for five years, is taking a "personal leave of absence from active ministry," according to a written statement from Bishop Stephen Blaire.
He has not been defrocked - a forced removal from ordained ministry - but can no longer function as a priest. "He is now basically a layperson in how he operates," said Sister Terry Davis, director of communications for the diocese.
McFalls cannot administer the sacraments or wear clerical garb.
McFalls, 58, active in Stockton's Latino community, has been a chaplain with the Police Department. On Tuesday, he turned in his keys and badge. In 2011 and '12, when Stockton was enduring record-breaking homicide rates, the man known as Father Dean was presiding over dozens of victims' funerals.
McFalls is uncertain of his next step. He said the diocese no longer pays him a salary, but that accrued vacation pay and benefits will be sufficient for six months.
"I ... hope to return to priestly ministry," he said. "Other life decisions will have to wait. We'll see what the baby says. Babies have a way of rearranging the furniture of your life."
Blaire's letter to parishioners said, in part, "The well-being of the parish and you ... weighs heavily on me. I trust in God in the days ahead."
When they are ordained, Catholic priests take two vows - of chastity and obedience.
"I am not justified in being unfaithful in my vow," McFalls said. "I ask for forgiveness."
The unborn child is a son, and McFalls said the pregnancy was almost full term. He would not comment on the adult mother or their relationship.
"I look forward to the day when a married man can be a priest without having to come through the back door," McFalls said. "I am not justifying my behavior. It's been a long haul. I love the Catholic Church. I would hate to leave it."
Davis said no crime had been committed, but she was unwilling to speculate on the priest's future role within the church.
McFalls, born and raised in Seattle, was affiliated with the Mother Teresa-inspired Missionaries of Charity before arriving in Stockton in 2008.
In his own letter to parishioners, McFalls said, "I leave the parish not only saddened by my own human errors and the consequences which you must suffer ... but also deeply exhausted."
His letter also said that he would "do all that I can so that my child receives the care and love that he deserves." McFalls apologized for any "grief, hurt or sense of abandonment" the St. Mary's congregation might experience.
The diocese in recent weeks has been dealing with the specter of Chapter 11 bankruptcy stemming from 22 sexual-abuse lawsuit settlements totalling $18.7 million.
McFalls said he didn't want to hide the coming birth and wanted to avoid a scandal.
"What I did not want was to make the child or mother suffer for my sins," McFalls said. "I don't want this child growing up in the shadows. The last thing you want is for an innocent child to suffer or go in exile or be terminated because of my mistakes. I am a pro-life priest in a pro-life church."
On his final day, McFalls performed a baptism, presided over a quinceañera, taught children in a classroom and wiped down chairs wet from the rain for the outdoor wedding of City Councilwoman Dyane Burgos.
"It was such an honor to wipe down those chairs," he said. "Such an honor. It is what I am here for."
Contact reporter Kevin Parrish at (209) 546-8264 or email@example.com.


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The bureau also recommended CS Setty, another MD at the government owned lender, as the reserve candidate.
“Keeping in view their performance in the interface and their overall experience, the Bureau recommends Dinesh Kumar Khara for the vacancy of Chairman in State Bank of India and Challa Sreenivasulu Setty as the candidate on the Reserve List for the said vacancy,” the bureau said in a release on its website.
The Banks Board Bureau members interfaced with the four managing directors of the bank today for the forthcoming vacancy. The other two candidates that were interviewed were Arijit Basu and Ashwani Bhatia, both MDs at the bank.
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Trending News Today: Marijuana-Based Drug Gets Positive Review from FDA
Top news of the day from across the health care landscape.
A medicine made from a marijuana plant reduced seizures in children with severe forms of epilepsy and demonstrated positive results in an FDA review, the Associated Press reported. According to the article, the FDA posted its review of the experimental medication (Epidiolex, GW Pharmaceuticals) ahead of a public meeting Thursday, when a panel will vote on its safety and efficacy. Scientists concluded that GW Pharmaceutical’s submission “appears to support approval” despite some potential adverse effects including risk of liver injury, according to the Associated Press.
US health officials on Tuesday proposed steps to improve the government’s system for overseeing medical devices, the Associated Press reported. The plan from the FDA includes few immediate changes, but lists a number of ideas and proposals to improve safeguards on pacemakers, artificial joints, medical scanners, and other devices, according to the article. Additionally, the FDA will consider requiring more training for physicians who implant certain high-risk devices, the article stated.
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Tuesday unveiled legislation targeting companies for their role in the opioid crisis, The Hill reported. According to the article, the bill bans companies from marketing opioids to consumers as nonaddictive and fines them 25% of the profits from opioid products if they are found in violation. The bill also prevents companies from distributing an amount of opioids that is not “medically reasonable,” according to The Hill.

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CHICAGO (WBBM) — The City of Chicago paid tribute to the survivors of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on this 69th anniversary of the Day that will live in Infamy.
LISTEN: Newsradio 780 Political Editor Craig Dellimore Reports
WBBM Newsradio 780 Political Editor Craig Dellimore reports the ceremony was held Tuesday morning at Navy Pier. Pearl Harbor survivor Jack Barry, of the Edison Park neighborhood, read the names as a bell was rung for each of the seven Chicagoans who died aboard the U.S.S. Arizona on Dec. 7, 1941.READ MORE: Teen Stabbed With Scissors After Argument On CTA Red Line Platform At Jackson Station
Fellow survivor Dean Garrett recalled there was oil burning in the water when the ship went down.
“Our men were there; many of them in the water,” Garrett said. “Severe burns were everywhere. My friend John is still missing in action.”MORE NEWS: Record 53,000 Rat Complaints Help Chicago Retain Crown As Rattiest City In America For 7th Year In A Row
The survivors thanked Mayor Richard M. Daley for creating the annual remembrance 14 years ago, and presented him with the bell.


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Shawnette Sulker has been described by the San Francisco Chronicle as a singer “…displaying a bright, superbly controlled soprano with perfectly placed coloratura.” On the operatic stage, Ms. Sulker has been a featured artist in three San Francisco Opera productions: Porgy and Bess, The Mother of Us All, and Louise. She was also a part of the joint production of Dido and Aeneas between San Francisco Opera and the Crucible, singing the roles of Second Woman and First Witch. She has sung leading roles with many other companies including Hawaii Opera Theatre, Internationale Opera Producties (The Netherlands), Opera Naples, Union Avenue Opera, Natchez Opera Festival, Festival Opera, Mendocino Music Festival, West Bay Opera, Berkeley Opera, Livermore Valley Opera and Pacific Opera Theatre to name a few.
Roles in Ms. Sulker’s repertoire include Die Königin der Nacht (Die Zauberflöte), Olympia/Giulietta/Antonia (Les Contes d’Hoffmann), Adele (Die Fledermaus), Oscar (Un ballo in maschera), Adina (L’elisir d’amore), Musetta (La Bohème), Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Zerlina and Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Frasquita and Micaëla (Carmen), Despina (Così fan tutte), Clara and Serena (Porgy and Bess), Belinda, Second Woman and First Witch (Dido and Aeneas), Amore (Orfeo ed Euridice), Servilia (La clemenza di Tito), Treemonisha (Treemonisha), Rosabella (The Most Happy Fella) and Little Red Riding Hood (Little Red Riding Hood).
Ms. Sulker created the role of Corina in the world-premiere of David Conte’s opera Firebird Motel. This original cast recording can be found on the Arsis label. Her film credits include a soundtrack performance for the movie Mimic and an on-camera operatic appearance in the feature film Jackson directed by J.F. Lawton.
In concert, Ms. Sulker has performed the soprano solos in Handel’s Messiah and Bach’s Non sa che sia dolore with American Bach Soloists. She has sung St. Teresa I (Four Saints in Three Acts) and Monteverdi’s Lamento della ninfa for Mark Morris Dance Group in Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall. The soprano made her European concert debut with the Jugendsinfonieorchester Leipzig singing all the female roles in a concert version of Porgy and Bess and the soprano solos in Mendelssohn’s Psalm 42 in Leipzig’s Gewandhaus and Prague’s Smetana Hall. She also performed a solo recital in Amsterdam’s Red Door Studio.
Ms. Sulker has also performed as soloist in Mozart’s Exsultate, Jubilate, Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass and Orff’s Carmina Burana with Santa Clara Chorale & Symphony Silicon Valley. For the San Francisco Choral Society, she has sung Mozart’s Grand Mass in C minor, Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Virgine and Bach’s Weihnachts-Oratorium and Magnificat. With Masterworks Chorale, Ms. Sulker has performed Fauré’s Requiem, Bernstein’s The Lark and Carmina Burana. She has also sung Orff’s masterpiece with the UC Davis Symphony Chorus & Orchestra (as well as Rutter’s Requiem), the Mendocino Music Festival and Livermore Valley Chorale. Other performances with Livermore Valley Chorale/San Francisco Concert Chorale include Schubert’s Mass in G and Mozart’s Requiem. She debuted with Peninsula Cantare singing the soprano solos in Haydn’s Mass in B♭ and Pergolesi’s Magnificat. Other distinctions include the soprano solos in Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with Redwood Symphony, a Pops Tribute to Leonard Bernstein with Mendocino Music Festival and Mozart’s Missa Brevis in G, which was performed at the National Shrine in Washington, DC. Ms. Sulker has been a special guest of the Ritz-Carlton in Osaka, Japan where she has performed a series of Christmas concerts.
Ms. Sulker graduated from Bennington College as a vocal performance major and was awarded scholarships to attend both the Contemporary Opera and Song Program at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada and the OperaWorks Summer Intensive Program in Los Angeles. Ms. Sulker was also a resident artist for the Natchez Music Festival in Mississippi. A winner of career scholarships from the East Bay Opera League Vocal Competition, Ms. Sulker has also been a regional finalist with the NATS Competition and a finalist and award winner with the Irene Dalis Vocal Competition.


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A phone call by a campaign worker for Arizona governor candidate Kari Lake to the Maricopa County attorney turned into an obscenity-filled explosion on the part of the government official, a new video reveals.
The campaign volunteer called Tom Liddy, the county attorney, on Friday seeking simple election-related data, including the number of voters who had their ballots canceled on Election Day. Liddy, a Republican former congressional candidate, is the son of Watergate figure G. Gordon Liddy.
The volunteer said he wanted to say that “Maricopa County was being cooperative,” as the final vote count in the governor’s race is still not complete, with Lake trailing Democrat Katie Hobbs by less than 18,000 votes with more than 95% tallied.
“One thing that would be really helpful is for us to be able to say that Tom Liddy is giving guys good information,” the campaigner said. “And that is one thing that is in your control and we would really appreciate it.”
Liddy responded: “Guess what. Let me educate you. I cannot control what you say, OK. You can say whatever you want to say. I can’t control it. Now, if you’re not happy working with me and you don’t want to continue working with me and you don’t want the answer to your questions, then we’ll just stop. I don’t give a sh**.
“No, Tom, that’s the opposite of what I am saying,” the volunteer answered. “I want to work with you. I want to get the right information. I don’t want disinformation out there. That is what I’m looking for.”
“I’m not looking for disinformation,” said Liddy. “You got me two questions. I’m gonna go ask them.”
“I’m not saying that you’re giving me bad information,” the campaigner noted. “I’m just saying we’re getting a lot of information and we want to make sure what we’re getting is accurate.”
Liddy then demands to know the campaigner’s name, and once he identifies himself, Liddy says to him: “You sound like you’re threatening me.”
“I’m definitely not threatening you and I promise that,” Lake’s volunteer calmly stated.
“Listen. If I don’t get these answers to you quickly, you’re not gonna be able to tell the crazy people that I’ve been helpful. I don’t give a f***! Is that clear enough?” Liddy exclaimed.
“Yes, Tom, and I want to promise you that I’m not threatening you,” the volunteer responded. “I’m just saying what I’m worried about.”
“I don’t care!” said Liddy.
“OK, and you don’t care. All right,” the worker responded.
The Kari Lake War Room tweeted: “We’ve asked Maricopa County for answers. This is what we get in return.”
Jenna Ellis, the former senior legal adviser to President Donald Trump, tweeted: “They are scared to answer basic questions on inconsistencies in the AZ elections.”
Lake herself spoke with Britain’s Daily Mail over the weekend, saying: “The way they run elections in Maricopa County is worse than in banana republics around this world,” referring to the state’s most populous county.
“And I’ll tell you what, I believe at the end of the day that this will be turned around and I don’t know what the solution will be but I still believe I will become governor, and we are going to restore honesty to our elections.”
The Mail reported: “On Saturday, Assistant Attorney General Jennifer Wright wrote to one of the county’s top election officials detailing reports of a string of irregularities from printer problems that stopped ballots being tabulated, to confusion about procedures for transferring voters to alternate sites if they were unable to vote at the first location.”
In her letter, Wright says: “These complaints go beyond pure speculation, but include first-hand witness accounts that raise concerns regarding Maricopa’s lawful compliance with Arizona election law.”


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Head Quarters Newburgh Sunday January 19th 1783
For the day tomorrow Major Gibbs.
For duty tomorrow the first York regiment.
The Commander in chief gives his sanction to the agreement which has been entered into between Brigadr General Greaton, Colonel H. Jackson and Major Fish in behalf of the regiments therein named, on the one part—& the Contractors for supplying the Army in the states of New York and Jersey with rations of Provisions on the other, respecting the commutation of certain componant parts of the rations; as specified in the original agreement which will be lodged at the Orderly office.
At a general court martial assembled at New windsor cantonment Decr 16th 1782 by order of his Excellency the Commander in Chief—Colonel Greaton President.
Captain Phenias Bowman of the 5th Massa. regiment was tried for conducting himself in a manner unbecoming an officer and Gentleman towards the Commanding officer of his regiment.
The Court are of opinion the charge against Captn Bowman is not supported in every particular but find him guilty of conduct, amounting to a breach of Art. 5th sec. 12th of the rules and Art. of war and sentence him to ask pardon of Lieutenant Colonel Newhall publickly at the head of the 2d Massachusetts Brigade and to be suspended from the service for the space of three months.
The Commander in Chief confirms the sentence.
The General court martial of which Colo. Greaton was president is desolved.
A General court martial of which Colo. Michael Jackson is appointed President will assemble tomorrow morning ten o’clock at the presidents quarters for the Tryal of such persons as shall be brought before them—Lieutenant Colonel Maxwell—Major Pope—three Captains from the Newyork—One from the 1st Massachusetts—three from the 2d—two from the third, and one from the New Hampshire brigade to attend as members. All evidences and persons concerned are ordered to attend the court.
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It’s a while since I’ve said anything about drug policy, but a story in the BMJ a couple of weeks ago caught my eye. It would appear that the International Narcotics Control Board, a UN agency, has issued a report in which it advocates the prohibition of whole classes of substance:
National governments need to adopt generic bans to control entire groups of substances that can be used to make designer drugs, a United Nations report has said. According to the 2010 annual report of the International Narcotics Control Board, designer drugs are being produced faster and in growing numbers than ever before and are easily available over the internet. Designer drugs imitate the effects of ecstasy, amphetamines, and cocaine.
In the UK the government banned the drug mephedrone last March after several deaths were attributed to it. But the board says that manufacturers get round laws by slightly modifying the structure of drugs, making it difficult for governments to keep pace with changes.
Hamid Ghodse, President of the Vienna based Board, said, “Given the health risks posed by the abuse of designer drugs, we urge governments to adopt national control measures to prevent the manufacture of, trafficking in and abuse of these substances.”
This approach is wrong-headed: banning things does not make the demand go away – it just means that the production evolves. Banning whole classes of substance doesn’t seem to be paradigmatically different on this score; a ban on substances of sort A, even if enforced and effective (stop laughing), simply shifts focus to sort B.
And none of this takes any account of whether such bans really are wise: another recent story in the BMJ spelled out the sad history of the mephedrone ban in the UK in response to media pressure (remember this piece in The Sun, gleefully taken down here? More seriously, remember the sheepish way in which this was reported?). Nevertheless, the report falls for stories about the drug’s having led to deaths, although it provides no footnotes or checkable references (which’d incur a HUGE penalty from me in a student essay – why are UN agencies exempt from referencing rules?), and recommends that
Governments that have not yet done so should take immediate action to place mephedrone and other “designer drugs” under national control, in order to be able to prosecute the persons responsible for their distribution. (p 44)
But why? I’ll come to what I take to be the reasoning in a moment: it’s remarkably poor.
What’s even more dispiriting about this is that the report points out that mephedrone “appears to have no legitimate use” as though that supports the argument in favour of a ban. One wonders what the sense of the word “legitimate” here is; if there are places where the drug has not been banned, then its use is legitimate: there’s nothing else for it to be. If “legitimate” is taken in a more everyday sense – “approved of”, say – then the point is dogmatically puritanical. After all, getting out of your box is likely to strike some people as completely legitimate, and whether they use mephedrone or merlot to do it is a mere detail. But even if getting high isn’t legitimate in this broad sense – well, that’s still not a reason to ban something.
It’s worth saying again in this light that current bans are not, in my opinion, not only not wise; they’re positively unwise, and counterproductive. It’s interesting that the introduction to the INCB’s report talks about the problems raised by the drug trade in respect of corruption, public health and government stability – and, I take it, it’s worries about law enforcement that motivate calls for mephedrone to be banned. All of these problems could be eased by abandoning prohibition, though: and adding mephedrone – or anything hitherto legal – to the list of banned substances simply creates more opportunity for corruption, public health problems, and government instability. Public health is much easier to protect when the people who’re in most need aren’t at risk of being criminalised by virtue of the very condition that makes them needy. Corruption vanishes when a trade can be brought above ground. Governments become more stable when there’s no need for a secret criminal economy – and the people who provide the raw material of the drug trade become better off, too. (Afghanistan would be a much happier place if the opium farmers could sell their stuff legitimately, instead of having to sell it for a pittance to smugglers while paying protection money to Taliban lunatics. On p 121, the INCB “urges […] Governments […] to strengthen their efforts to prevent a resurgence of illicit opium poppy cultivation”. But what about the possibility that illicit cultivation could be eliminated completely, with better consequences overall, by making it licit?)
It is instructive, I think, that the Board “welcomes the statement of the Government of the United States that it firmly opposes the legalization of cannabis” (p 63); the main objection to the licensing of cannabis for medical use offered seems to be that it is not compatible with the 1961 Convention. The board seems not to entertain the possibility that the problem lies with the convention, rather than the relaxation of restrictions on cannabis. But this attitude seems to me to prevail through the whole of the document. We can’t rethink drugs policy radically because that’d mean rethinking it radically. And that’d shred a lot of the justification for a lot of government policies.
And yet it’s utterly ridiculous that the pat response to a failure of prohibition is more of the same (viz mephedrone: places that haven’t banned it really should, because… er… if they don’t, they won’t have. Yeah!). It’s like they’re addicted.

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The first thing to notice is that Saint Martin is a two-in-one destination. What's the deal? It is due to the island of Saint Martin being divided in two. One half is French and is known as Saint Martin, while the other is Dutch and is known as Sint Maarten. This is crucial to understand since, depending on which side you wish to visit, you will need to investigate the visa requirements. After all, we're talking about two distinct countries with distinct visa regulations.
In terms of the French portion of Saint Martin, we need to look at the visa policy of the French overseas territories. Fortunately, the visa process is lax, so practically everyone may visit the French side of the island. This visa policy, like any other, contains a list of visa-exempt nations. You should be aware of certain unusual scenarios. If you are a German citizen, for example, you may enter and remain in Saint Martin permanently since your country of origin is a member of the EU. In addition to EU nationals, citizens of Andorra, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Norway, San Marino, and Switzerland are permitted to reside in Saint Martin indefinitely. The visa policy also includes a list of countries whose inhabitants are permitted to remain in Saint Martin for durations ranging from 3 to 6 months, depending on nationality. Before you begin arranging your trip to Saint Martin, you should familiarize yourself with the visa policies of French overseas territories. If your nation is not on any of the lists, you must travel to the closest French embassy and request for a visa to Saint Martin.
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Shia LaBeouf needs to press the reset button. The once-bright new face from 2007’s franchise-kickstarting “Transformers” reached a career lowlight over the weekend when “Man Down,” the drama in which he plays a former U.S. Marine suffering from PTSD, sold exactly one ticket in the U.K. The film has since picked up two more patrons, bringing the total number of tickets sold to three.
It’s worth noting that “Man Down” is booked for just one showing per day in one theater in Burnley, England, and brought in a little more than $450,000 after opening in the U.S. last December, but the film’s dismal U.K. opening is illustrative of the precipitous decline LaBeouf’s acting career has taken in recent years.
READ MORE: Shia LaBeouf’s ‘Man Down’ Sold Only One Ticket During Its UK Opening Weekend
Since starring in Lars Von Trier’s two-part “Nymphomaniac” movie in 2013, LaBeouf has acted in just one feature film per year. He turned in a strong performance as a rat-tailed magazine salesman in Andrea Arnold’s 2016 Cannes competition entry “American Honey,” about impoverished youth in the U.S., but his only feature project of 2017 appears to be Danish documentary director Janus Metz Pedersen’s first narrative film, the sports drama “Borg/McEnroe,” in which LaBeouf plays the foul-mouthed tennis champion John McEnroe. The film has made theatrical distribution deals in countries throughout Europe, but has yet to land a U.S. distributor.
What did audiences like about LaBeouf’s acting in the first place? After launching his career with a three-year stint on the Disney series “Even Stevens” and three “Transformers” movies, LaBeouf earned a reputation as a dedicated, if eccentric, actor who immersed himself in his roles, sometimes through an unconventional approach to method acting. (For the 2014 war film “Fury,” he cut his own face and had one of his teeth pulled.) Other inspired performances include playing an illegal moonshiner in the crime drama “Lawless” (2012) and a troubled teen confined to house arrest in mystery-thriller “Disturbia” (2007).
Then there are LaBeouf’s performance art side projects. The actor famously wore a paper bag over his head with the words “I Am Not Famous Anymore” written on it at the 2014 Berlin Film Festival, and then in 2015, LaBeouf launched a more than three-day livestream event with the hashtag #ALLMYMOVIES, which consisted of nothing more than a camera positioned directly in front of LaBeouf while he watched his entire filmography at New York City’s Angelika Film Center.
Recently, however, even LaBeouf’s performance art seems to have hit rock bottom. After New York City’s Museum of the Moving Image shut down his anti-Trump performance art exhibit, “He Will Not Divide Us” due to a number of violent threats and other safety incidents — including LaBeouf getting arrested on assault charges that were later dismissed — the actor and his collaborators Nastja Säde Rönkkö and Luke Turner moved the project to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where vandals spray painted over the installation’s camera and ended the livestream within days.
The exhibit has since moved two more times: first to an undisclosed location that hackers figured out was Greenville, Tennessee, and quickly shut down, and then to Liverpool, England, where it took British trolls just a day to force the livestream to go dark.
READ MORE: Shia LaBeouf Says America is no Longer Safe for His Anti-Trump Art Installation
To his credit, LaBeouf has also ventured behind the camera, directing five short films in the past five years and serving as an executive producer on filmmaker Alma Ha’rel’s 2016 experimental doc “LoveTrue.” Still, he needs to take on more consistent acting work if he’s going to reboot his career. LaBeouf is a talented artist who should be starring in more than one movie per year.
It’s one thing to be choosy about roles, but when you’re making more headlines for your offscreen antics and record-low box office results than you are for your acting work, it’s probably time to rethink your career strategy.
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The super-moon will be in the Vedic (Hindu) sign of Dhanista tonight, and will sidereally transit over two signs, Capricorn and Aquarius. While in Capricorn, the full-moon aspects Jupiter - exalted in its sign of Cancer. This greatly enhances the benefic energies of Jupiter. Dhanista is wealth building sign, but also has a talent for music. This full moon is good for money matters, gardening, traveling, and religious practice and ceremonies. - Lori
(CNN) - The second installment of this summer's season of supermoons is happening tonight.
who missed the July 12 supermoon will have another chance to see the
bright lunar phenomenon from all around the world.
The full moons of this summer, which fall on July 12, Aug. 10 and Sept. 9, are all supermoons, according to NASA.
supermoon of August is one of the largest and brightest full moons of
the year. The U.S. Naval Observatory says the moon will be 12 percent
bigger and 30 percent brighter than it was in January 2014.
the United States, the moon will turn full on Sunday at 2:09 p.m. ET.
The moon will continue to look bright and full Sunday evening, leading
into Monday early morning.
Days after the supermoon, people can
also watch the annual Perseids meteor shower, which peaks on Wednesday.
But stargazers might have a hard time spotting the meteor shower. The
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Mexico’s ruling party has filed a criminal complaint against its former national president for embezzlement and money laundering.
Members of the Morena party’s National Executive Committee filed the complaint against Yeidckol Polevnsky directly with Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero, federal officials said.
Morena’s executive committee, now led on an interim basis by former lawmaker Alfonso Ramírez Cuéllar, began an audit of Polevnsky’s 2017-2020 tenure on June 10.
The audit, reported the Milenio newspaper, specifically probed Morena’s purchase of real estate while Polevnsky was at the helm of the party. It examined payments she made totaling 809 million pesos (US $35.5 million at today’s exchange rate).
The audit found that payments of 394 million pesos were made to two real estate companies owned by Enrique Borbolla García, a businessman who allegedly collaborated on an embezzlement and money laundering scheme with Polevnsky.
The funds were supposed to be used to complete renovations at properties owned by Morena. But some of the properties didn’t even exist and none of the services paid for was completed, the Morena executive committee says.
“Not a single brick was laid, the party can’t lose that money,” said one member of the party leadership, according to the newspaper Reforma.
Borbolla was arrested in 2014 on charges that he sold an aircraft for 2.5 million pesos but never delivered it to the purchaser. However, he was never convicted.
Polevnsky has denied any wrongdoing while at the helm of Morena, a party founded by President López Obrador.


WHITLEY Bay reached the final of the Northumberland Senior Cup after a deserved win over Newcastle United Reserves at Hillheads.
The Magpies, holders of the trophy, were far from their best throughout the game and a vociferous home crowd of 774 helped roar the FA Vase semi-finalists to a memorable success.
A ferocious start saw a goal after just five minutes; former Tranmere trainee Paul Robinson swapping passes with Lee Kerr before smashing home left footed from 20 yards.
United, though, found a reply within six minutes as Wesley Ngo Baheng made a scoring return from a four-month hamstring layoff after Patrick McLaughlin’s slick through ball
The Northern League outfit dominated the rest of the half and Phil Bell had a brave header kept out by Swedish keeper Ole Soderberg.
The home fans thought their side had regained the lead when Kerr, a former United trialist, saw a 20-yard drive cannon off the advertising hoardings before nestling in the rear of Soderberg's net just moments later.
Ngo Baheng could have nosed the visitors in front following an incisive breakaway on the half-hour mark but his deft dink went just wide.
Chris Moore was making a farewell appearance for Bay before a move to Darlington and the former Magpie youngster went close, his thunderous strike kept out by Soderberg.
The Seahorse pressure eventually told and four minutes before the break Paul Chow headed home a corner.
Bell's long throw-ins had caused problems all night and Bay's answer to Rory Delap had a major hand in his side's third on 61 minutes; his missile landing on the head of skipper David Coulson who flashed beyond Soderberg from close range.
United chased a response and Shane Ferguson's low shot was deflected onto the base of the post by keeper Kindley in the 71st minute.
Whitley, though, had chances to extend their advantage.
WHITLEY BAY: Thomas Kindley, Craig McFarlane, David Coulson (c), Phil Bell (Mark Waite 83), Leon Ryan, Callum Anderson (Richard Hodgson 52), Chris Moore, Paul Robinson, Damon Robson, Paul Chow (Chris Reid 80), Lee Kerr Subs (not use): Johnston, Burke
NEWCASTLE UNITED: Ole Soderberg, Dan Leadbitter, Ben Tozer, Jeff Henderson, Paul Dummett, Jonny Godsmark (c) (Greg McDermott 80), Brad Inman, Patrick McLaughlin, Shane Ferguson, Wesley Ngo Baheng (Phil Airey 46), Frank Danquah (Conor Newton 61) Subs (not used): Alwnick, Folan


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Japan’s consumer sentiment inches higher in July
Japan’s consumer confidence index rose slightly in July, a Cabinet Office survey showed on Friday, improving for a third straight month, but a recent surge in coronavirus cases suggest a murky outlook for the economy.
The survey’s sentiment index for general households, which includes views on incomes and jobs, grew to 29.5 in July from 28.4 in June. In April, the index stood at 21.6, which was a record low. A reading below 50 suggests pessimism.
Source: Reuters (Reporting by Kaori Kaneko; Editing by Chris Gallagher)


The Tomcats – Running At Shadows – (RPM/Cherry Red)
Released 19th February 2016
Louder Than War’s Ian Canty reviews the first CD release of The Tomcats, the band that became Psychedelic legends July.
It’s a fact that we live in very odd times musically – witness the recent and very well received live performances of July, the 60s Psych band that put out one LP in 1967 which sank without trace at the time, but over the years has come to be regarded as a classic of the genre. A remarkable feat given the near half a century time lapse, but not one without precedent in this “everything at once” era. The roots of that band came out of an earlier outfit called the Tomcats who, starved of success in their homeland, hopped across to mainland Europe to try their luck amongst the senoritas….
The Tomcats evolved into July taking the same “Skiffle to Beat to Psychedelia” route of many musicians in the UK of that vintage. Initially inspired by Lonnie Donegan (now there is a crucial figure in the development of UK Rock ’n’ Roll who never ever gets his due credit) they formed in the early 60s as the Dreamers but changed their name when Freddie Garrity appeared on the scene. Led right the way through from that time by Tom Newman (who would later collaborate with Mike Oldfield and even legendary Punk band the Adverts on their second LP “Cast Of Thousands”) and also featuring Peter Cook (no not that one) and Chris Jackson who would all contribute to the July LP many years down the line.
Their history is closely entwined with another Ealing band, neighbourhood rivals the Second Thoughts whose history included drummer Speedy Keen (later on to be in Thunderclap Newman and like Newman had links to the 70s New Wave through producing the Heartbreakers “L.A.M.F.” album). Four Second Thoughts tracks appear here as a bonus, their selections being pretty standard beat recordings, but not bad.
The version of the Tomcats compiled here existed in that time between the first flush of Beat and the eventual tripped out flowering of the hippy era. The term “Freakbeat” has been retrospectively applied to this timeframe, as bands added more sonic experimentation to their previous pared down version of the Blues. The Tomcats wholeheartedly grasped the sound of the time whilst keeping the odd slowie in hand for the dancers.
Like many UK bands in the 60s, after setbacks like their residency at the Beat City club in Oxford Street going down the tubes and a temporary split, they looked further afield for excitement and fame. In the Tomcats case this meant an offer from French singer Teddy Ray, an old fashioned Chanson merchant based in Spain who was looking for an appropriate “bunch of hairies” to update his act.
Thrilled by the reception their Pretty Things-style look and sound received in this part of the continent (here it’s worth pondering that Spain at the time was a Fascist state under Franco, but the Tomcats seem to have got in under the radar) they set the Tomcats back in motion in their own right and issued a series of EPs which make up the bulk of the material collected here.
From their new base they manage to blag their way into being the “de facto” Rolling Stones of Spain and this necessitated the Mick and Keef covers which are dotted liberally throughout this collection. You would never mistake these versions for the originals and they aren’t that dissimilar from the versions hundreds of bands were knocking out all the place at this time (another Ealing band the Eyes did a whole cheapo LP of Stones covers), albeit here with some nice fuzz guitar courtesy of a box made out of an old “Colman’s Mustard” tin!
Much more interesting though are the Tomcats manic take on local hits – “A Tu Vera” tips the Colman’s fuzzer into over-time to yield a Freakbeat marvel and “Pena Penita Pena” gets a similar roughing up to its immense benefit. “Macarenas” borders on some nice Mod Jazz apart from some stinging guitar and midway through “Que Familia Mas Original” (that’s “Shame And Scandal In The Family” to those unfamiliar to the Spanish tongue) the calypso song is sky-rocketed through the stratosphere with some great fuzz.
The band originals though tend towards moody ballads – “Running At Shadows” is probably the pick of the bunch, but they’re all with equipped with charm if a bit naïve at times. They were a band clearly still finding their feet, which would pay off with their next incarnation.
Macca’s perhaps too frequently heard “Yesterday” is given a bit of a flamenco spin which despite some dodgy singing notes makes the soppy old standard listenable and their effort at the Yardbirds great “For You Love” is a decent attempt to put their own stamp on the song. The best is saved for last, their contribution to the film “Operacion Secretaria” (which looks on the small amount of evidence I can find to be somewhat like a Spanish version of one of those later Norman Wisdom films) – as the excellent sleeve-notes state “Two Minds In Tune” does take a bit from “Dirty Water” but it is a barnstorming, blues-wailing, arse-booting effort itself and we’re treated to a version with dialogue from the film as a bonus.
July fans are going to want this but for anyone this is an enjoyable, stand-alone listen without taking into consideration the band’s future triumphs. The Tomcats, despite the odd wobbly vocal and dodgy sound, had some interesting musical ideas and managed to fashion the material they had access to into a potent fuzz-fest.
All words Ian Canty whose author profile is here


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Medicare for All reins in national health care spending and guarantees health care as a right to all Americans. It eliminates health insurance premiums, deductibles and coinsurance, ensuring everyone access to care. But, did you know that Medicare for All also benefits business and the economy?
Joe Sanberg, an entrepreneur and investor, explains in The Nation that Medicare for All will create more jobs and deliver higher wages for workers. It will also help businesses compete globally. Today most US companies are in the health care business in addition to their primary business, even if they don’t want to be. All in, they spend $880 billion a year on worker health benefits.
Each worker today poses large and unpredictable costs for a company. These costs keep businesses from hiring new workers. If businesses did not have to devote time and resources to health care benefits, they could hire more people.
Moreover, businesses struggle to compete globally because of the extraordinary cost of the health care coverage they provide their workers. Businesses in other wealthy countries do not have to spend time and money on their workers’ health care. The cost of healthcare is paid for through their countries’ tax system.
Employer coverage in the US also hurts workers. Because health care costs have risen so quickly in the last 30 years, workers have not seen significant wage increases. Health care costs are up 75 percent in the last 10 years. But, the median annual salary for a worker in the US is up only 25 percent. With Medicare for All, employers would save money on health care costs and employees should see gains in their wages.
Yes, businesses and workers would pay higher federal taxes, but these taxes would go towards fully-covered health care for their workers. Ninety-five percent of the time, the taxes would be less than what they pay today to commercial insurers for partial health care coverage.
Workers also would have significantly more freedom. They would not be trapped in their jobs in order to have health care coverage. They would no longer have to worry about losing their jobs and losing their health care coverage. Americans would have health security throughout their lives.
Medicare for All also would spawn entrepreneurship. Individuals would not have to worry about going without health care coverage if they took the risk of starting a business that did not ultimately succeed. Today, many Americans feel obligated to work for businesses that deliver them health care benefits.
Medicare for All makes sense. That’s why the vast majority of Americans support it. Members of Congress should take note and do right by Americans.
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