At least 80 people have been killed in a suicide bombing outside the Afghan city of Kandahar - in what appears to be the deadliest attack since 2001.

The massive blast hit a crowd of people watching a dog-fighting contest.

"This suicide attack was the work of the Taleban," said Governor Assadullah Khalid, adding the death toll may rise.

Southern Afghanistan is a Taleban stronghold and last week the Kandahar governor himself was the target of an attempt on his life.

The Taleban have not claimed responsibility for the blast, but it bears all their hallmarks, says the BBC's Jon Brain in the Afghan capital.

Among those killed was Abdul Hakim, a local police chief fiercely opposed to the Taleban who is thought to have been the target of the attack.

Body parts

Excitement was mounting among the 500-strong, male-only crowd when the huge blast struck.

  I counted over 40 people on the ground dead Abdul Karim,Dog-fight spectator

Dog-fighting competitions, which were banned under the Taleban regime, are a popular pastime in Afghanistan.

"Fighting had just started between two dogs," said one spectator, Abdul Karim.

"Suddenly I heard a huge explosion next to a police vehicle. Then I saw lots of people dead and wounded.

"I counted over 40 people on the ground dead," Mr Karim, 53, told the AFP news agency.

Twisted car and bicycle parts littered the ground as shawls and shoes lay scattered among the bodies of the dead and wounded.

Injured spectators staggered through the carnage searching for relatives.

Scores of wounded were packed into civilian cars and rushed to hospitals in the city centre, some 15km (nine miles) away.

US internet company AOL has become the latest firm to hold talks with Yahoo about a possible deal to fend off an approach from Microsoft, a report says.

Advisers from Time Warner-owned AOL have held talks with representatives of Yahoo to see if a deal is workable, the Sunday Telegraph reported.

Microsoft has offered to buy Yahoo for more than $40bn (£20.5bn).

But AOL is thought to be keen on being the firm that helps Yahoo avoid falling into Microsoft's cl**tches.

Last week Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation was said to have taken an interest in merging its online interests - which include MySpace - with Yahoo.

'Walk away'

Yahoo has dismissed Microsoft's $31-a-share offer as undervaluing its brand, audience, investments in advertising platforms and future growth prospects, free cash flow and earnings potential.

And according to a separate report, an influential Microsoft investor has called on the software giant to walk away from the Yahoo offer.

Robert Olstein, a fund manager with about one million Microsoft shares has written to the firm saying that it should "in no circumstances" raise its offer.

He, like many other investors, believes that buying Yahoo would prove a distraction to Microsoft, the Observer said.

Microsoft shares have fallen by about 10% since it made the Yahoo offer - wiping almost $35bn from its share value.

Microsoft wants to merge with Yahoo to increase its online presence and enable it to better compete with industry leader Google.

An American national was pronounced dead at the Savanna-la-Mar Hospital from injuries he sustained when he fell over a cliff at West End, Negril, Westmoreland on Thursday night.

Doctors group backs medical marijuana

American College of Physicians urges government to rethink prohibition

WASHINGTON - A leading U.S. doctors group has endorsed using marijuana for medical purposes, urging the government to roll back a prohibition on using it to treat patients and supporting studies into its medical applications.

The American College of Physicians, the second-largest doctors group in the United States, issued a policy statement on medical marijuana this week after it was approved by its governing body, the group said on Friday.

The group cited evidence that marijuana is valuable in treating severe weight loss associated with AIDS, and nausea and vomiting associated with chemotherapy in cancer patients.

"Additional research is needed to clarify marijuana's therapeutic properties and determine standard and optimal doses and routes of delivery. Unfortunately, research expansion has been hindered by a complicated federal approval process, limited availability of research-grade marijuana and the debate over legalization," the group said.

The Philadelphia-based group, founded in 1915, is made up of 124,000 doctors who treat adults.

"The richness of modern medicine is to carefully evaluate new treatments. Marijuana has been in a special category because of, I suppose, its abuses and other concerns," Dr. David Dale, the group's president and a University of Washington professor of medicine, said in a phone interview.

David Murray, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy's chief scientist, said, "The science should be kept open. There should be more research. We should continue to investigate."

The policy statement said, "ACP encourages the use of nonsmoked forms of THC (the main psychoactive element in marijuana) that have proven therapeutic value." It also backed research into additional therapeutic uses of marijuana.

The government should review marijuana's status as a so-called schedule I controlled substance, alongside such drugs as LSD and heroin, given scientific evidence of its safety and efficacy for some medical conditions, the doctors group said.

It called for exempting doctors who prescribe or dispense medical marijuana in accordance with state law from federal criminal prosecution and other actions. It also urged protection from criminal penalties for patients who use medical marijuana as permitted under state laws.

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Two men were arrested and three guns seized in separate incidents between Wednesday and Thursday, police are reporting.

So I found this question on another forum & am interested in peoples opinions here?

DOES PATOIS JUSTIFY REGGAE MUSIC??
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WHY IS IT THAT ANY COUNTRY OTHER THAN THE CARRIBEAN COUNTRIES HAVE TO LEARN OR SPEAK PATOIS IN ORDER TO DO REGGAE MUSIC? I THOUGHT REGGAE MUSIC WAS ABOUT A MESSAGE HALF THE DAMN WORLD CANT SPEAK OR UNDERSTAND PATOIS SO HOW CAN THEY UNDERSTAND YOUR MESSAGE? RASTAFARIANS ARE ABOUT NATURALITY SO IF I SPEAK PATOIS THATS NATURAL CUZ I WAS BORN SPEAKING IT BUT IF SOME ONE FROM AMERICA, RUSSIA, ASIA ETC SPEAK IT AND IS RASTAFARIAN OR JUST A GENERAL REGGAE ARTIST AND SPEAKS PATOIS IN THERE MUSIC IS THAT NATURAL? SO IF AUSTRALIA HAD THERE OWN CULTURE OF MUSIC DO I HAVE TO SPEAK LIKE THEM IN ORDER TO BE AN AUSTRALIAN ARTIST? PLZ PEOPLE I WANT ALLYUHZ OPINION

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Acura has begun to drip-feed us information about its updated TSX sedan, which will be formally unveiled at this year's New York auto show. Based on the single beauty show we got today, the styling of the 2009 TSX departs from that of the current model in several significant ways. The front end has the same beak-shaped arrangement that many of Acura's newer models, including the 2009 RL, which was unveiled last week. At the stern, the new TSX appears to have more of a raked rear windshield than the current model. It also appears to forgo the horizontal decklid of the current generation car, in favor of a smoother, more bulbous rear profile.

The new TSX is expected to get Honda's new 2.2-liter i-DTEC diesel engine when it goes on sale later this year, making it the first diesel-powered car from Honda Motor to reach the United States. There is currently no information available on Interior upgrades of the new model, but don't be surprised to see it equipped with Acura's version of XM NavWeather, which has already been announced for the 2009 RL.

POPULAR dancehall deejay Vybz Kartel, who tied the knot just two years ago with New York bank supervisor, Stacy Elliott, wants out of their marriage.

In papers filed with the Jamaican Supreme Court, Kartel, whose real name is Adidjah Palmer, alleged that his 31-year-old bride had given birth to a son who was fathered by another man.

He said he had never lived with his wife since the January 9, 2006 private wedding, pictures of which are posted on the Internet. Kartel also provided for the court a copy of the child's birth certificate.

Kartel said also that his wife never visited him in Jamaica after the US revoked his visa to that country some time after the wedding.

The two met at a stage show in Brooklyn, New York and had been dating four years prior to tying the knot in a private ceremony before a marriage officer at the Registrar General Department branch on Trevennion Park Road in Cross Roads, Kingston.

The website yardflex.com on which the wedding photos were posted, quoted the artiste on his big day as saying, "... Mi just get up mad and decide fi do it, is like mi get a wedding fever from wha day because my babymother's mother got married recently, and I was the best man for the groom, so I just decided to do it. I flew her in from New York for the wedding, and it's all good, I am in love, I am happy, this is just glorious.

"From the first time I met her, I knew she was special. So we talked a couple of times on the phone, it wasn't a groupie thing, and we just fell in love little by little."

Elliott, who was born in Jamaica, is also quoted in the same story as saying that she too was deeply in love.

"I love his personality, he is fun-loving, and very smart, and I believe he is misunderstood, he has good qualities. From the moment I met him, I fell in love with him...," she added.

Eminem has battled pneumonia and obesity rumors during the two year hiatus since he's released any new material, and now it appears copyright infringement can be added to the list. Belgian violinist Raymond Vincent claims that Eminem's 2001 single "Cleanin' Out My Closet" either copied or interpolated 160 measures of a song from 1968 entitled "Daydream." Billboard reports that in 2003 Vincent appealed to the Belgian Society of Authors Composers and Publishers (SABAM) to have royalties blocked from the song's composers, Eminem and producer Jeff Bass.

A SABAM judgment in favor of Vincent was overturned by the Brussels Court of Appeals in December of 2007, but due to the initial ruling, some international publishing societies still continue to withhold royalties from both Eminem and Bass. The international royalties from "Cleanin' Out My Closet" could add up to a substantial amount, since the single was released from The Eminem Show, which has certified sales of over 8 million domestically.

Two key issues lie at the heart of the matter. Experts who have analyzed Vincent's work agree that his composition borrows heavily from Russian Classical composer Tchaikovsky. This would make it virtually impossible for Vincient to claim someone sampled from his work, when it is not entirely original either. SABAM is also controlled by the Belgian Ministry of Economics. This legal loophole would allow SABAM to continue to suggest that other international publishing societies withhold Eminem's royalties, despite the case being reversed last year. Both issues could tie up millions of dollars in international royalties, in what is essentially an international case of one artist's word against another's.

"I was in the studio with Jeff and Marshall," says Joel Martin, who handles Eminem's domestic publishing. "It was absurd that they used any portion of an obscure Belgian song [written] before Marshall was born. And if rappers were to use old records, they would use the records. They don't steal a melody."

Stephen Marley, the son of Reggae great Bob Marley surprised audiences with his debut album 'Mind Control' by winning the 2008 Grammy for Best Reggae Album over reggae veterans such as Toots & The Maytals 'Light Your Light'. Stephen's win comes on the heels of his father's 63rd Birthday.

Mind Control was released by Tuff Gong/Ghetto Youths/Universal Republic. It is not Stephen's first foray into the international world of reggae as he has written and produced numerous tracks for his Grammy award winning brother Damian.

Some of the other nominees in the Reggae category included, Lee Scratch Perry with 'The End of an American Dream', Burning Spear with 'The Burning Spear Experience', and 'Anniversary' by Sly and Robbie.

The 2008 Grammy awards aired last night (Sunday), February 10th. Reggae Grammys have been awarded since 1985: and Black Uhuru won the first award with 'Anthem'. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Grammy awards.

During the intervening years, the reggae album has gone to artists from around the world, including South Africa's late Lucky Dube. The Best Reggae Album category is not currently aired in the show on CBS. Put there is a petition out lobbying or it to be carried on the mainstream broadcast.

MAJOR traffic changes along Marcus Garvey Drive in Kingston are set to come into effect by the end of next week to facilitate the US$9-million road rehabilitation work by French construction company, Bouygues.

But chief executive officer of the National Road Operating and Constructing Company (NROCC), Ivan Anderson, could not give details on the changes to be made saying that they had not yet been finalised.

He, however, assured that the public would be given adequate notice of the changes once the agreement with the National Works Agency (NWA) is finalised.

In the meantime, Jean-Noel Foulard, project director of Bouygues, said it was important that the traffic changes be made to facilitate the smooth running of the project, which he said was on target for completion in July.

He said work was being done to shift the traffic, which he said would be completely different "although we will still maintain the two lanes on both sides".

Further work, he added, was being done on the median path, after which the traffic would be shifted to that section for work to be completed on either side of the roadway.

Marcus Garvey Drive, one of the city's major thoroughfares, is being upgraded from four to six lanes, which the Government expects will ease the congestion of traffic exiting the Portmore toll road.

Major drainage work is also to be done along the corridor.

February 12, 2008. There were fireworks at the Grammy's afterparty at Los Angeles steakhouse STK. According to one of MediaTakeOut.com's spies Jay Z confronted Rihanna about the infamous hug - and then all hell broke loose. Here is our insider's eyewitness account:

I saw Jay Z and Rihanna arguing. I couldn't hear what it was about, but it must have had something to do with her hugging him when she won [the Grammy}.

Jay Z was trying to be really cool about it, but Rihanna got all loud and dramatic. She was like, "I didn't mean to embarra** you ... Why are you saying that to me." And she said it so loud that people around could hear.

Everyone went over to see what was going on and the paparazzi started taking pics of the two of them. All I saw was Jay Z putting his head down and looking like "What is this [EXPLETIVE] doing to me.'

I didn't see Jay Z say another word to her all night. And believe me, I was watching them. I bet you Jay Z wished he never made Rihanna his jump off.

Oh and BTW you were right about Rihanna and Chris Brown they are definitely dating. They even left together.

The above photo was reportedly taken during the argument. And check out the below video of Rihanna winning the Grammy - and hugging incident that caused all the problems.

A BABY-SITTER who killed a four-week-old boy by slamming him against a bed and shaking him because he was crying was jailed for just three years yesterday.

Uproar broke out as John Jeacock, 24, who admitted the manslaughter of tot Harvey Jackson, was told he would be free in less than 15 months.

Judge Gerald Gordon QC said: It is inevitable that any sentence will be seen by the family as grossly inadequate to reflect the young life that has been lost.

However difficult it may be for the family to accept it, I am just not here to reflect that loss in years. It is not possible. I have to pass sentence according to law.

The judge ordered the public gallery at the Old Bailey in London to be cleared after shouts and screams of protest.

One man yelled: You call that justice justice for who? Harveys dad Darren Jackson, 23, shouted: You scum, Jeacock.



Judge Gordon ... cleared court

The babys mother Maxine McInerney, 23, said later that Jeacock father of her sister Amandas child Jessica had betrayed her.


Jeacock was left to care for Harvey and Jessica while Maxine and Amanda enjoyed a Mothers Day treat at a health spa. But Harvey began to cry and Jeacock had a sudden loss of temper.

Zoe Johnson, prosecuting, said he picked up the tot by gripping him violently under the armpits leaving bruised imprints of his fingers. Then he slammed Harvey down on to a bed causing the head to lurch backwards.

Jeacock grabbed the baby again and roughly shook him like a rag doll. Bruises were found on Harveys buttocks and several areas around the trunk area.

The fatal injury was due to the brain coming into contact with the skull, causing swelling and brain damage.



Jeacock dialled 999 and told paramedics he had bathed Harvey and fed him half an hour earlier and gone to look after Jessica but then found Harvey with breathing problems.

When Harvey arrived at hospital he was unable to breathe on his own. He died four days later.

In a statement read out in court Mr Jackson said the birth of Harvey, his first child, had been the happiest day of his life.

He added: I envisaged all the things I would do with my son. Little did I know that in a month I would be asked my permission to turn off his life-support machine.

Jeacock admitted the killing at an earlier hearing.

He cl**tched a bible and wore an NSPCC Stop Child Cruelty badge on his lapel as he was given bail so he could attend Christmas parties.

Yesterday Jeacock, of Rainham, Essex, was told he will serve half of his sentence, minus 101 days already spent in prison.
He is banned from working with children.

MODELLING A GWAAN Wha dis mi a hear? Shaggy ah shoot MTV Cribs episode up a Big Yard, and somebody go invite the Allliance and ah so the modeling start. Bounty drive in the big white Range Rover and step out inna full black, and little after that, Mavado drive up inna fi him black Range Rover and step out inna full suit of white. Heh heh! Ah wah tek dem artistes ya? If me laugh, mi pap up, how dem so hype and Shaggy money taller than the Empire building before Bin Laden bomb it! DOZA MEDICINE SO SICK How Doza Medicine ah go so hard? The man song pon the Resident Evil; seriously sick. Different from the average. The streets dem love the flavour weh him a talk 'bout the yute dem who send him threat, the man rhyming scheme no normal, memba. Garveymeade and Westchester love the way him ah lock the ting. CABLE BLACKOUT OVER PORTMORE What a way Flow just cut off the cable flow to all the delinquent people dem over Greater Portmore? Ah nuff weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth since people caan get fi watch dem soap opera and dem USA, since Flow decide fi get tough and cut off all who naah pay. Mi hear some people not even can watch TVJ or CVM because dem no have no outside antennae. But me? Right now, ah Cable Vision mi a work wid, fi now till mi DSS install, mi caan tek the eediat ting. TOYA'S POSTER AH GO HARD

How Toya poster ah go so hard? She inna one little g-string with no top pon the poster and it ah go up all over the Corporate Area. Crazy people ah talk 'bout it, plus she have

Liquid, Matterhorn, Stone Love and Rebel T and an ex-rated fashion show fi the man dem, the ting sell off. Right now, yu PT Cruiser still ah mad dem.

MUMMA LATTY AH TEK IT TO DEM Who is this girl name Mumma Latty who ah explode pon the scene so like a stick a dynamite? Everybody ah talk how she come a Passion Sundays ah HWT come turn the deejay dem head like wow and den forward go Bounty Sundays ova Seaview and tek the place. She ah spar wid har girlfriend dem, Selena and Sydian and dem just look good, dem can dress. When the dance done the other day, the way she tek the place, ah Bounty Killer white Range Rover me see her ah drive home inna. A wah really a gwaan inna the business? REGGAE ACADEMY SET TO SHINE The music industry ah look forward to the Reggae Academy awards this month. Akon ah forward, crazy artistes ah perform, the Marley dem, Shaggy, maybe even Sean Paul. We love how we ah step up and show the world say reggae and dancehall ah our ting and we can judge what is excellent and what is not, we don't need no foreign people fi tell we say we good, and is time we show that we can do our own ting. So we ah support the Reggae Academy all the way. BABY CHRIS TO DO SONG WITH LIL WAYNE Yo people, Baby Chris Ring Ding Part Twice song ah go hard till even Lil Wayne ah tink 'bout do a remix wid it, so it look like Baby Chris set fi blow up big time. Him mash up Dancing Dynamites wah day ya, and come pon the RJR country show dem, and him new song Madagascar ah create a vibe, so it look like say 2008 ah fi him year. I like it, I like it. DJ FLAMES AH GO HARD

What a way Flames ah tek it to dem. She do a road show at azan's Santa Cruz as part of the RJR Cross Country Invasion, and the response to

her was phenomenal. The show dem a run in hard, she will be emceeing Red Rose Affair inna Mobay tonight wid Gregory Isaacs, Ken

Boothe and dem man de, and then she back inna Burger King Sav on Monday fi do her show live from 1p.m. - 5 p.m. Gwaan Flames, mi love the new look too, it sell off. Mi love how she a buss di new X-ALE song pon di Premiere riddim.

QUESTION TIME

How Keisha Cramp Dem come back and ah go so hard? Mi see her pon the beach last Sunday and ah just crazy flossing. How she so hype?

How suh much dutty badmind people live a Westchester suh? Why unno nuh watch fi unno life and lef people own. Unno know unno self.

How dem fi stop yuh Shaddu? A di big man 'Titus' a govern yuh career and dem man deh ave di golden touch. Wey mi sey, NEERG fi life. And di Killer done endorse da youth yah already sey a buss year fi him.

How Beenie Man so disgusting? Yu nuh hear wah him say, ah long time Beenie Tuesdays supposed to keep but because him so busy, that's why Bounty Sundays start first. So wah him a try say? Bounty nah travel as often as him.

What a way Demarco gwaan disgraceful over Black My Story?

How Bounty Sundays so hype? Tour of the Corporate Area. Hype.

Pinky Star from Portmore Lane, why the man dem over Newlands just ah mad over yu so?

What a way Earthworm control Montego Bay? Norwood, Flankers, Canterbury, Granville, North Gully, everybody ah sing She's My Baby.

How Trilla Kid sister so lucky? She run offa one precipice ah come from country, ribs bruk and ting, but she alright. The whole ah Independence City community come out to support her up ah UWI. Big up singer.

How One Third a guh suh hard? Dem plan fi touch di Premiere riddim fi annsa back X-ALE and a know dem goin to kill dem lyrically.

How Ghetto Face new tune, World Cup, ah go so hard? Him plan fi buss it over Kirkvine on the RJR Cross Country invasion? Ah mad ting.

Which big artiste ah sprinkle oil ah other artiste foot fi stop dem progress and slow dem down?

Why the girls dem go Congress Fridays late every week? Ah true dem no waan buy no liquor? A wah?

What a way Rihanna hug up Jay Z when she win the Grammy? Wonder how Beyoncé did feel bout that?

How Benzly Hype come from farin and decide fi tek up the producing so hard? Him new video, Jasmine Jones, ready fi drop and the women's groups who ah campaign against domestic violence, love it. Plus, him have a portion ah hot riddim rounda him studio, 2 Hype Records the ting de.

What a way Blue haffi go hide inna one lightbulb after the Backto people dem start look fi him because him go bring in this Beenie Tuesdays idea? The people dem anxious fi see him bad, mi no know.

mi a tell u  mi need fi kn wah unno tink cuz a him second accusiations and it looks to me its tru so tell mi wah unno tink

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Me nuh live ah U.S.A but mi think there's a good chance Obama can be di next President. Wah unu think?

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Island/Dej Jam Rec. the biggest record label in the world was found in JA with artist such as Toots, Jimmy Cliff, Nancy an Bob Marley by Chris Blackwel

THESE pictures show how party guests were blissfully unaware of the grim contents hidden in the green barrel next to them.

As they ate and drank, they could never have guessed that the body of their host's missing wife was just metres away.

The guests were marking the 21st birthday of Michael Hegarty, whose former father-in-law, Frederick Boyle, was found guilty last week of shooting wife Edwina Boyle and hiding her remains in the drum for 23 years.

Mrs Boyle went missing in October 1983 and her husband told family and friends she had left him to start a new life with a truck driver named Ray.

Nearly 10 years later, on February 19, 1993, Mrs Boyle's relatives were among guests at the Boyle family home in Carrum Downs, Victoria, Australia to celebrate Mr Hegarty's 21st birthday.

Recalling his 21st birthday to the jury, Mr Hegarty became emotional.

Snapshots showed guests partying underneath the carport, which was decorated with balloons and streamers.

And Mr Hegarty identified his cousin and her boyfriend posing in one image and a friend and his uncle in another.

The green drum can be seen in each picture.

During a clean-up of the family property Mr Hegarty cut open the drum and made the grim discovery.

Last week a jury found Boyle guilty of shooting his wife.

Boyle, 58, awaits sentencing.

Man on most wanted list turns self in

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

A mere 24 hours after the police released a refreshed list of the island's 11 most wanted men, one of the fugitives, Christopher 'Chicken Back' Barrett, yesterday heeded the police's call to take the peaceful option of surrender.

Barrett, who hails from Gregory Park in St Catherine, was wanted for last month's murder of Kevin Bryan at Cottage Lane in the community.

Yesterday, he was taken to the police by members of his family and handed himself over to Senior Superintendent Devon Watkiss of Area Four and officers from the Major Investigation Team (MIT) who took him into custody.

He is the sixth fugitive whose name has so far been deleted from the 'most wanted' list, which was first issued in September last year.

At a press conference on Monday, MIT head Assistant Commissioner Les Green appealed to the fugitives to take the peaceful option and surrender with their lawyers.

Yesterday, head of Operation Kingfish, ssistant Commissioner Glenmore Hinds, repeated the call.

"We are appealing to them to turn themselves in so they can at least be interviewed with their lawyers," Hinds said.

Barrett's surrender came only three days after the capture of another fugitive, Robert 'Dinero' Brown, and 17 days after the capture of alleged boss of the Stone Crusher gang, Eldon Calvert. Three others - Dryden brothers Deon and Wayne and Gerald Taylor - were killed.

Brown, who is wanted for five murders and five shootings, was held with 26 rounds of ammunition in the rural St Andrew district of Lawrence Tavern last Saturday evening while Calvert was taken from a posh residence at Wood Grove in Trelawny on January 27.

The police also report that they have seized 73 guns since the start of this year. They say without the public's help, their work would be in vain and encouraged others to exercise vigilance in their communities.

"The informer label is one of those myths and stories passed on by criminals. We need to drop those myths. We can and we do protect these individuals," Green said. "The gunmen live in these communities and extort these communities. They do not protect these communities."

 

Is there a dancehall intelligence unit in the Jamaica Constabulary Force?

Industry insiders have been postulating that there is a special Dancehall Intelligence Unit, a specialized task force that's been targeting bad-behaving dancehall deejays since the summer of 2007.

The DIU has been hunting the deejays at night. They know who runs with what crew; they're always waiting at certain clubs, and if they see you get in a car with an entourage, they pull you over. Theyre trying to set up lower ranking members of certain crews because theyre looking to get someone to switch, and bring down the big fish; they know who they are targeting, the source said.

In recent times, a number of deejays have been parading through the courts: Sizzla on a weed charge, Kartel on a indecent language charge, Aidonia on a wounding with intent charge, Bascom X on a possession of gun charge, Lutan Fyah on a charge of arson, and Deva Brat on a carnal abuse charge.

What is really going on in dancehall? Have the artistes lost their way? Are they making it easier for the authorities to target them and get rid of them?

HAPPENINGS
Tomorrow, the University of the West Indies Mona will commemorate their 60th Anniversary with the passing of a symbolic torch during the Herb McKenley UWI Run relay, the Jamaican leg of the regional Run UWI Run relay, with events also taking place in Trinidad and Tobago , Barbados , Grenada , Antigua , Bahamas , Jamaica and other related territories of the University.

Lenn Hammond is in the news again! This time its his recent nomination from the Canadian Reggae Music Awards (C.R.M.A.) that has radio jocks in the Netherlands going gaga for the sultry crooner. Lenn spoke candidly about the nomination with The Good Morning Show on Razo Radio in lower Amsterdam during the week and the interview repeated over the weekend.

Nominated for Top Male Reggae Singer, Hammond has already won this award twice. Although Lenn Hammond is currently working in Jamaica, the C.R.M.A. recognizes that the artist still keeps close ties to Canada. As explained by the awards founder and C.E.O. Winston Hewitt, the Canadian Reggae Music Awards recognizes Canadian artists who are also making strides outside of Canada. Fans at home and abroad can now vote online at www.canadianreggaemusicawards.com.

Hammonds single Not Far From Sunshine remained in the SuperJams Top 10 on CHOICE FM in the UK for months and the video was supported in Europe, Asia, North America and the Caribbean, including Jamaicas Hit List Top 20 Countdown. Meanwhile his most recent single, How Am I Suppose To Live Without You on Jah Births Three Wise Mice Riddim received a 5 star review on Reggae-Vibes.com in the Netherlands and is in the process of being released world-wide.

Clothing retailer Gap completed their "Sound of Color" campaign today. The ad was conceived by assigning five artists a color and having them create an original song based upon the prearranged color. Rapper, producer and Full Surface Records founder Swizz Beatz teamed up with up-and-coming director Tom Gatsoulis on the song "Candy Green." Swizz has previously appeared in Gap advertisements, and will have the benefit of retaining the rights to his music after the month-long viral campaign is finished for Gap.

"I didn't want to do a song I wasn't comfortable giving to the DJs," Swizz tells Billboard. "I took the approach of, 'How would I use green in a painting without making green the main ingredient, and use it in the slickest way?'"

Gap director of advertising Jamie Gersch says the goal of the campaign is to connect with people via digital media and convey the emotion of the company's new spring line. Swizz is the sole Hip Hop artist featured in the campaign, which also includes the Ravonettes, Dntel, the Blakes and Marie Digby. The "Sound of Color" campaign isn't the first foray into the fashion world for Swizz Beatz, he also serves as a partner for Kid Robot.

Pauline Williams does not think about chocolates and roses on Valentine's Day. Instead, the memory of her 34-year-old son, who was shot dead three years ago, comes alive and she is taken back to the day when her youngest child was taken away.Williams' son, Oneil Robinson, was killed in Connecticut, after he attempted to intervene in a fight his friend was involved in. Williams told THE STAR, "He was parting a fight in Connecticut and him get one shot inna him head. Him neva get fi seh another word. That was my baby. 'Im brother used to trouble him an' call him mama's boy. An 'im dead lef' 13 kids. Mi really hate fi know seh it happen, but mi haffi live wid it." Birth and death The day is especially difficult for Williams because it is also the birthday of her very first grandchild. She, therefore, cannot escape the memories. "My first grandchild born that day and my last child died that day. Is a day dat di family can't forget. It is so devastating. Sometimes when a mi granddaughter birthday, mi can't even call her. But a jus' God work. Him have a reason and Him know why," she said. She told THE STAR, "Mi see man weh kill people an' do all kinda tings still a live. My child whe neva give mi no trouble, an whe police neva even know him, God tek him. I wonder if it's for a reason. I can't understand, but mi haffi jus' accept it." Williams places a memorial in the newspaper every year "to keep his name alive", and said "We go as far as to mek a little house for him ova May Pen [cemetery]. Mostly wi tek it quiet, an' sometimes wi go ova there on di anniversary. Mi usually put on a memorial too, like a fish fry." Broken heart Today will be Joyce Marks'first Valentine's Day without her husband of 47 years. Like Williams, the day brings back memories of her husband's death, an event which the family was not really prepared for. Mark's husband died on Valentine's Day last year after an operation in the hospital. She told THE STAR, "He did the operation and he was doing fine, and then all of a sudden, he jus' died. Even now we're not sure what happened." She said as the day draws closer, she starts reliving everything. Though she admits that they were not a 'fussy' couple, Valentine's Day was often spent having dinner together. "As the days move on, we remember what happened. I guess that's what usually happens at anniversaries. It's the decision of the 'man upstairs', so I can't really question it," she said. She told THE STAR that her husband was not a lover of hospitals and that the last thing he told her before he died, after noticing that more doctors and nurses were surrounding him, was "I don't like this at all. This thing is making me uncomfortable." While most of us spend today being concerned about love and gifts, there are a number of other persons who will spend today mourning. One family in Glengoffe, St Catherine, knows all too well what it feels like to endure grief on Valentine's Day. Seven children were left orphaned last year after their mother was murdered by their father on Valentine's Day. Their father committed suicide a day later. Clinical psychologist, Dr Asquith Reid, told THE STAR that while grief is a normal emotion, "overmourning" can be dangerous. He said, "The flip side of love is really sorrow, so people will grieve. But over an extended period, this can start to do harm to the mourner and distract them from regular life." He suggested that persons in grief undertake various activities to help them celebrate the lives of their loved ones. Participating in activities that the deceased person enjoyed, hosting celebrations in honour of the deceased and making contributions to organisations that meant something to the deceased, are ways

Arnold finally lost his virginity!

, when I watched the '40-year-old Virgin' I never thought I would be reading about a real life case. You remember that cute little guy from 'Diff'rent Strokes' Gary Coleman well he says he has finally found true love with his red head Shannon Price and finally lost his virginity. The 40-year-old, 4-foot-8 Coleman secretly wed the Utah woman, who's 22 and 5-foot-7.

According to bossip.com Gary said all that mattered to him was "I never got the opportunity to be romantic or feel romantic with anyone. I don't have issues with age, I have issues with intelligence. She's more intelligent than I am, and that's what matters to me."

And as for Gary's wife Shannon here's her view, "He was 10 feet tall to me because he was sweet. He lets his anger conquer him sometimes. He throws things around, and sometimes he throws it in my direction."

Mmm, wonder what the wedding night was like!

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50 Cent's baby mama got a pay cut

Curtis Jackson aka 50 Cent took Shaniqua Tomkins to court after refusing to agree to her requests for more money for the upkeep of the 10-year-old.

Tomkins previously asked for $50,000 a month but was granted just half of that sum - $25,000 a month - when the court viewed her and her son's expenses. But that figure was reduced further earlier this week, and Tomkins will now only receive $6,700 a month, this according to bossip.com.

Well...at least the court smiled on a celebrity for a change.

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OJ in the news again

OJ's trailer chick Christine Prody was rushed to Baptist Memorial Hospital in Miami Feb 11 after she collapsed at a local gas station. Police were alerted by hospital authorities after doctors found she was bleeding from her brain and also had numerous large bruises and abrasions on her face, arms, legs and buttocks. O.J. says Christine's injuries are self-inflicted and explained that the 32-year-old woman went on a drunken binge and fell down. Investigators said from the damage to Christines's body, they believe she was beaten. One detective said he has never seen such severe bruises on a woman before. Police detectives questioned OJ at his home, and are conducting an ongoing investigation into what happened to Christine.

Oh boy, I really hope she fell and that OJ would not be crazy enough to land himself in trouble again!

ou already know about taking your car out for a drive. But how about taking it out for a dive? No, that's not a typo. A Swiss inventor has realized a long cherished dream, and created the world's first truly submersible sports car.

There have been attempts to put out a vehicle that can run on land and sea before, but there's never been anything quite like this one. Because the 'sQuba', as it's called, is a convertible.

Why would anyone make a car that goes underwater open to all that liquid? It turns out there's method to the madness. The creator loved the James Bond movies and decided to spare no expense in bringing a true submarine car to fruition. As to why he left the top down: "For safety reasons, we have built the vehicle as an open car so that the occupants can get out quickly in an emergency," explains 52-year-old Frank Rinderknecht of Rinspeed Inc., which designed the unusual auto.

It means passengers have to wear a form of modified scuba gear as they maneuver along the lake bottom. The air tanks are built into the car.

The sports car boasts sleek lines and designs, and goes up to 123 kilometres an hour on land. Hit the deck - and then drive off it - and you'll be slowing down considerably. The sQuba will only go about 4 kilometres an hour on top of the water and just 2.8 k/ph once it's completely below the surface. It can reach as low as 30 feet deep.

The car runs on state of the art lithium ion batteries and boasts three electrical motors, each one designed for a different surface. One provides propulsion on land, while the other two drive the screw that makes it possible to move on or under water. It's also salt resistant, so you can take your time while sight-'sea'-ing.

But if you want one, you'll be spending money like water. The experimental craft costs more than a $400,000 Rolls Royce. And only a few will ever be made.

Most remain skeptical that they'll ever be anything more than just a one-off curiosity - although they admit it's an interesting curiosity.

"Other than some kind of a movie situation, for Bond-like stuff with lots of gimmicks, I can't imagine it will have any practical value," assess John Cabaniss of the Association of International Automobile Manufacturers. "Maybe people will need to go from land to water, and traverse a body of water, but underwater? Especially as it gets your suit wet."

Even its creator, who's spent 30 years tinkering with the idea, knows it's of limited practical use. "They might sell as toys for rich people, perhaps," Rinderknecht agrees. "I don't see mass transportation switching to cars that dive."

But just think about how much money you'd save at the car wash.

For more on this incredible car, click here.

And to see an amazing video of the vehicle in action, click here.

 

Jamaican artistes Beenie Man and Junior Reid won the most awards at the recently staged IRIE FM Awards. Beenie Man was nominated for five awards and he copped three, Best Dressed Male, Listeners Choice Award and Male Deejay of the Year while Junior Reid won Comeback Artiste of The Year, Reggae Ambassador of the Year, and Best Collaboration of the Year (with Mims and Baby Cham).

Singjay Mavado walked away with two awards for Singjay of the Year and Album of the Year. Here are the winners:

IRIE FM AWARDS WINNERS
COMEBACK ARTISTE OF THE YEAR:
JUNIOR REID

NEW ARTISTE OF THE YEAR:
MUNGA HONOURABLE

SINGER OF THE YEAR - FEMALE:
ETANA

DUO/GROUP/BAND OF THE YEAR:
VOICE MAIL

REGGAE AMBASSADOR AWARD:
JUNIOR REID

STAGE SHOW/CONCERT OF THE YEAR:
GT TAYLOR'S MAGNUM CHRISTMAS EXTRAVAGANZA

SLANG OF THE YEAR:
TO DI WORLD - ROUND HEAD &
BUNG BANG - BOUNTY KILLER

PRODUCER OF THE YEAR:
DON CORLEON

RHYTHM OF THE YEAR:
GUARDIAN ANGEL - ARIF COOPER

BEST DRESSED FEMALE:
D'ANGEL

BEST DRESSED MALE:
BEENIE MAN

FEMALE DJ OF THE YEAR:
QUEEN IFRIKA

DANCE OF THE YEAR:
TEK WHEY YUHSELF - VEGAS

GOSPEL ARTISTE OF THE YEAR:
PRODIGAL SON

HUMANITARIAN AWARD:
CAPLETON

SINGER OF THE YEAR - MALE:
TARRUS RILEY

SINGJAY OF THE YEAR - MALE:
MAVADO

LISTENERS' CHOICE AWARD:
BEENIE MAN

ALBUM OF THE YEAR:
GANGSTER FOR LIFE; THE SYMPHONY OF DAVID BROOKS - MAVADO

SONG OF THE YEAR:
SHE'S ROYAL - TARRUS RILEY

MALE DJ OF THE YEAR:
BEENIE MAN

BEST COLLABORATION OF THE YEAR:
THIS IS WHY I'M HOT - REMIX .... JUNIOR REID, MIMS & BABY CHAM

mi jus hear it pon irie!!!

.ENJOY

David Beckham

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David Beckham made a female fan faint when he kissed her on the cheek.

The soccer star was at Jermaine Dupri's pre-Grammys party in Hollywood's Club Central when he was approached by the admirer who asked for a kiss. A source said: "When the girl came up to him and he kissed her on the cheek she just passed clean out! But David looked like it was an ordinary everyday thing. He just said, 'Get her some water. She'll be OK.'" David chatted to producer Jermaine and his girlfriend Janet Jackson at the event, but was not accompanied by his wife, Victoria. One partygoer said: "Beckham rolled in at about 1 a.m. He looked like he was having a great time hanging out, talking and dancing with Jermaine and Janet." Meanwhile, Victoria isn't looking forward to Valentine's Day, because she and David will be on opposite sides of the world. The star, who is currently on tour with the Spice Girls, said: "This is the first time since we got married in 1999 that we haven't been together on Valentine's Day. It will be very sad."

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Tutorial goal:
In this tutorial u see how to apply shadow on a image with displacment map













Hey i didn't do this one this was done by one of my friend in the states it mad still........

Tutorial goal:
This tutorial shows you how to make a userbar for forums in Photoshop. You can make this Userbar in Photshop CS3, CS2, CS, 7 and Photshop Elements 6, 5, 4, 3 and 2.

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Now you have to write a text. Use the font "Visitor TT1 (BRK)". Set the font size to 10 pt and the color to white. I wrote "Sheep protector".

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Here I'll explain how to work as a Pro with shadow. It`s impossible to show all different skills here, but I suggest you to try and experiment.

Valentine's Day started in the time of the Roman Empire. In ancient Rome, February 14th was a holiday to honor Juno. Juno was the Queen of the Roman Gods and Goddesses. The Romans also knew her as the Goddess of women and marriage. The following day, February 15th, began the Feast of Lupercalia.

The lives of young boys and girls were strictly separate. However, one of the customs of the young people was name drawing. On the eve of the festival of Lupercalia, the names of Roman girls were written on slips of paper and placed into jars. Each young man would draw a girl's name from the jar and would then be partners for the duration of the festival with the girl whom he chose. Sometimes the pairing of the children lasted an entire year, and often, they would fall in love and would later marry.

Under the rule of Emperor Claudius II, Rome was involved in many *la*hdy and unpopular campaigns. Claudius the Cruel was having a difficult time getting soldiers to join his military leagues. He believed that the reason was that Roman men did not want to leave their loves or families. As a result, Claudius canceled all marriages and engagements in Rome.