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Gang violence takes rising toll in lives, threatens Caribbean economies, says UNDPFeb 8, 2012
First Caribbean Human Development Report outlines recommendations to tackle increase in crime rate
Port of Spain - Crime has become one of the main challenges threatening economies and livelihoods in Caribbean countries, but the right mix of policies and programmes can halt the problem, according to the Caribbean Human Development Report 2012 launched here today by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
The report, Human Development and the Shift to Better Citizen Security, says that with the exception of Barbados and Suriname, homicide rates including gang-related killings have increased substantially in the last 12 years across the Caribbean, while they have been falling or stabilizing in other parts of the world.
Although murder rates are exceedingly high by world standards, the report says that Caribbean governments can reverse the trend, calling for regional governments to beef up public institutions to tackle crime and violence —including the criminal justice system—while boosting preventive measures.
"Violence limits people's choices, threatens their physical integrity, and disrupts their daily lives," said UNDP Administrator Helen Clark at the report's launch ceremony with Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and UNDP Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean Heraldo Muñoz.
"This report stresses the need to rethink our approaches to tackling crime and violence and providing security on the ground. We need to follow approaches that are centered on citizen security and address the causes of this recent increase in violent crime, including social, economic, and political exclusion," Helen Clark said.
The new study recommends that Caribbean governments implement youth crime prevention through education, as well as provide employment opportunities that target the marginalized urban poor. A shift in focus is needed it says, from a state protection approach to one that focuses on citizen security and participation, promoting law enforcement that is fair, accountable, and more respectful of human rights.
The Caribbean Human Development Report reviews the current state of crime as well as national and regional policies and programmes to address the problem in seven English- and Dutch-speaking Caribbean countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago.
Tackling the problem
Latin America and the Caribbean are home to 8.5 percent of the world population, yet the region accounts for some 27 percent of the world's homicides. Even though the total number of murders in Jamaica dropped after the report's completion to 1,124 in 2011, a seven-year low, the country has the highest homicide rate in the Caribbean and the third-highest murder rate worldwide in recent years, with about 60 murders per 100,000 inhabitants. This is surpassed by only two Central American countries, El Salvador and Honduras with 66 and 82.1 murders respectively per 100,000 people says the report, citing UN Office on Drugs and Crime figures. In Trinidad and Tobago, the report notes that murder rates increased five-fold over a decade, to more than 40 per 100,000 in 2008, and then declined to 36 in 2010.
The report states that gang-related homicides in Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago are "substantial and increasing": The number almost doubled in both countries from 2006-2009. In 2006, Jamaica experienced 1,303 homicides, of which 32.5 percent were gang-related. By 2009, the number of homicides had increased by 377; 48.1 percent were gang-related. In 2006, Trinidad and Tobago experienced 371 homicides, 26.4 percent gang-related; by 2009 the country reported 506 homicides, 34.8 percent gang-related.
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) estimates reveal the cost of gang-related crime is between 2.8 percent and four percent of gross domestic product in the region through both the cost of policing and as a result of lost income from youth incarceration and reduced tourism. According to the study, crime costs Jamaica alone over US$529 million a year in lost income. In Trinidad and Tobago, a one percent reduction in youth crime would boost tourism revenue by US$35 million per year. For every additional "gang" in a community, homicide rates increased by about 10 percent, according to a recent research featured in the Caribbean Human Development Report.
Crime erodes confidence in future development, reduces the competitiveness of existing industries and services, for example, by imposing burdensome security—and may deter investment, the report says. Education and health care also suffer when resources are diverted to law enforcement.
The following are key recommendations from the Report, which result from extensive consultations with 450 experts, practitioners, and leaders and reflect a large-scale survey with 11,555 citizens in the seven assessed countries:
- High rates of violent crime can be turned aroundby achieving a better balance between legitimate law enforcement and preventive measures, with a stronger focus on prevention;
- Governments should create or invest more in units to address gender-based violence and adopt more preventive measures to ensure that violence against girls and women is no longer tolerated;
- Because crime harms social cohesion, Caribbean nations must better address youth violence and street gangs, whose crimes are rarely prosecuted;
- Public security requires community collaboration. Youth organizations and groups advocating for women's rights, victims' rights, and human rights should become more active, and Governments should commit to more actively engaging citizens.
The survey shows that the population wants governments to focus on crime prevention as well as control. Nearly 90 percent of citizens surveyed support preventive measures, such as increased investment in job creation, poverty reduction, education, and other initiatives to build youth skills and competencies. Meanwhile, some 80 percent said that "criminals should be punished more harshly." The poll also showed that four out of 10 citizens considered their countries capable of solving or better managing insecurity.
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I think you all understand my disdain for the Twilight Saga as "literature", and that I hold the movies to be only slightly better at best. I have zero respect for Stephenie Meyer as a writer. One of the few times I've ever been in synch with Oprah was when she had Meyer on her show and proceeded to treat Meyer like a housewife who won the lottery (which, basically, she did). I maintain that the problem with genre writing, like young adult, is that the demand outstrips the supply and so subpar material is published to fill the gap. Thus, Twilight.
Did you know that Meyer has written a non-Twilight book? If you're lucky, you might not know that, and if you don't—good for you. Stay strong, withstand the influence! But there is a non-Twilight title on her resume and it's called The Host. It's basically Invasion of the Body Snatchers + The Puppet Masters except with lots of yearning and longing looks. Or so I assume. I admit to not reading it—I picked it up in the store once and just the dust jacket made me laugh out loud in the middle of Borders, so pass. Still, the slant of The Host is solidly sci-fi, with a plot involving invaders called "Souls" who take over a person and then wipe out their personality like a parasite. When a Soul called "Wanderer" attempts to overtake one of the last free humans, Melanie, she (it?) is foiled by Melanie's mind bullets and ends up sharing Melanie's body (personality?). Okay, sure.
Of course this is being made into a movie. Given Twilight's success, it was inevitable that The Host would follow in its footsteps. The script is being developed independently and will be presented at the Cannes Marche for sale. Stephenie Meyer will be going to Cannes in support of the sale. Let that sink in. Stephenie Meyer, who has NO TASTE, will be at Cannes. The Depp will be at Cannes. Ryan Gosling will be at Cannes. Brangelina will be at Cannes. And Stephenie Meyer will be at Cannes. One of these things is not like the others. You know what though? I bet she still dresses less like a sister-wife than Angelina does.
The Host folks are going to Cannes with a big ace up their sleeve—Hanna star Saoirse Ronan has just signed on to play the dual role of Wanderer/Melanie. It's not really that surprising that Ronan would take such a role at this point in her career. She's already an Oscar nominee, she's already considered one of the top young talents working, she's already in demand with filmmakers. What she isn't yet is worldwide famous, but a movie like The Host will change that. After all, the Meyer loyal will turn out in droves for this movie, and it will be a high-profile project going forward given the names involved in the post-Twilight expectations. Diversity is the key to longevity and being able to sell blockbusters is a nice way to diversify an arty portfolio like Ronan's. It's the same move Kristen Stewart made when she signed up for Twilight in 2007, then the same age Ronan is now, and though Twilight is crap, Stewart is now hugely famous. So it's a proven career path.
Ronan may have a better shot at a decent movie, though, as the script was adapted by Andrew Niccol, who can be a bit erratic with his projects but he's responsible for Gattaca and he wrote The Truman Show so he gets a pass for S1m0ne. Niccol was originally attached to direct but dropped out to make Now, which stars Justin Timberlake (HA), but that project has since wrapped and Niccol may be back on board. Hopefully, he does end up directing because The Host is going to need all the help it can get.
Why? Because Meyer, she of ZERO TASTE, has been closely involved in the development of this project and will remain so through production. The greatest mistake the Twilight producers made was allowing Meyer to have a say in anything to do with filming, as if dealing with her sh*t source material wasn't bad enough. So despite Niccol and Ronan, yeah, I think The Host has an uphill battle. After all, Summit Entertainment was very proud of landing Catherine Hardwicke and Kristen Stewart for Twilight and that wasn't exactly cinematic gold.
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Deep Fire Samson Evolution Carbine Rainier Arms Deluxe Edition
+ Extremely Durable
+ Extremely Durable
+ Extremely Durable
+ Solid as a Rock
+ Lightweight
+ Did I Mention: Extremely Durable?
- Finish on receiver could be better
- Plastic furniture feels cheap
While cheap plastics used on some of the external parts let this airsoft gun down somewhat, the top marks on durability and build quality make this one of the most durable AEGs available today.
When I first put hands upon the Deep Fire Samson Evolution Carbine Deluxe edition, I was far from impressed. Maybe it was my jaded attitude towards M4/M16 platforms, maybe it was the dull powder-coat finish and the rough looking receiver joint pins, but perhaps I'm just a shallow airsofter, judging the books I see right from the glance at the cover. When I saw the Samson Evolution Carbine, apart from the rail set (which I will get to later), nothing much stood out to me. "Just another iteration of the same thing again", I thought. Oh boy was I wrong.
You see, the beauty of the Deep Fire Samson Evolution Carbine Deluxe Edition (what a mouthful. Let's just call it the Deep Fire Carbine DX from now) is not apparent the first time you lay eyes on it. It only becomes apparent once you've handled it for more than a brief period, and had the opportunity to use it, and use it, and use it. Deep Fire's emphasis in the design of their Deluxe Edition rifles is durability. You get a hint of this when first handling a Deep Fire M4, there are only five things I can count (sans accessories) that move on the Deep Fire Carbine DX; the trigger, the fire selector, the mag release, the sliding stock and the trigger guard. The first four on that list are supposed to move anyway, and the trigger guard is inconsequential to the durability of the rifle. On closer inspection the charging handle and functioning bolt catch move too, but are stiff enough that I didn't notice the first time around the gun.
Pulling back the charging handle to open the dust cover and retract the dummy bolt reveals an unfamiliar sight. Instead of the standard hop-up housing and adjustment dial there is a solid block of metal. This is due to the PTW-style hop-Up unit that the Deep Fire's Deluxe Versions come with. The design of the hop-up is extremely resistant to slipping from gearbox vibrations, and will hold its position of adjustment even after thousands of gearbox cycles and the passing of fired BBs. The downside to this is that the method of adjustment is difficult to reach, located in the magazine well and requiring a hex key to adjust. A small price to pay for the consistency and accuracy it provides, as it sits firmly in the upper receiver, exhibiting no play or wobble whatsoever.
The receiver halves on the Deep Fire Carbine DX may as well be one piece. To say that there is no play between the upper and lower is to understate the solidity of the assembly. "Hewn from a single block of obsidian" more aptly describes the Deep Fire's body. This description remains to apply for the rest of the non-moveable pieces of the rifle. The Tango Down battle-grip housing the motor is just as rigid as the metal receivers, and the stock-tube feels (I'm running out of words to describe the solidity here) fused to the body's rear-end. To top it all off, the rail system is designed in such a way that it applies a deathly grip upon the threads of the receiver while alignment blocks on its point of contact ensure it never slips. The grip upon the receiver is strong to such an extent, that even with leverage of a free floated barrel, the most flex I can get from it is 1, maybe 2 millimeters an any direction.
All this structural integrity usually comes at the expense of maneuverability and the ability to be lightweight. Here, on this rifle, the case is not so. Thanks to the official Rainier Arms 12.37" fore-grip, the frontal weight is kept to a minimum. The truss-like design of the lightening holes cut into the rail system, plus the inner fluted design of the construction means rock solid structural integrity while keeping the weight of the aluminum fore-end down to a minimum. As another weight-saving feature, instead of running rails along the entire length of the fore-grip, threaded holes are present to facilitate the placement of rails only where they are needed, trimming down excess metal to sustain the rifle's maneuverability.
The point is made, the Deep Fire Carbine DX is solid enough to beat something to a pulp, so what are its shortcomings? There are a few to mention. The stock is made from ABS and, in stark contrast to the rest of the gun, can feel rather flimsy. The finish on the metal receiver pieces doesn't give the impression you paid too much for the rifle and there is some flash along the mold lines of the pistol-grip and (only 4 position) sliding stock. To the more practically inclined, these are minor issues to solve. A simple file or edge of a blade can rid the plastic furniture of their imperfections. The stock, being a standard crane stock, is usually one of the first things to be replaced, and if you must, a camouflage paint-job can cover any hint of unappealing surface finish.
Beneath the rough surface appearance of the Deep Fire Carbine DX, there slumbers a monster of a gearbox. Deep Fire has long been a manufacturer of internals built to last, with full tune-up kits and gears to replace inferior, weaker counterparts, and while they may not offer the highest performance, they are built to last. Much like a supercar would require more maintenance than a jeep, this is the reliable off-roader. You can run this gearbox continuously for more than 1000 rounds, and providing you don't blow a battery or fuse in the process, it would still run.
Admittedly, Deep Fire airsoft guns are not for everybody. To beginners, it's simply out of the budget, and even experience players may prefer something with a lighter touch. To those who are looking to avoid spending on parts every few months repairing a stripped piston or torn hop-rubber, the Deep Fire is the higher end choice, and will endure through the fire and the flames of the worst abuse that even rougher airsofters dish out.


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No longer part of Bellator MMA's upcoming Season 8 welterweight tournament, Paul Daley has apparently moved on to another challenge.
Daley (30-12-1 MMA, 1-0 BFC) today revealed he's slated to fight Feb. 23 at Cage Contender XVI in Dublin.
Although an opponent hasn't been determined, Daley wrote via Facebook that he'd like to face fellow UFC vet Marcus Davis (21-9).
As MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) recently reported, Bellator officials confirmed visa issues will keep the British-born Daley out of its eight-man tournament. However, Daley denied reports the issues are related to a "bar brawl."
Daley, who's also competed for organizations such as Strikeforce and MFC, has won three of his past four fights, and the lone defeat came via split decision to Kazuo Misaki. Most recently, he made his Bellator debut and scored a TKO victory over big-show vet Rudy Bears at Bellator 72.
Davis, meanwhile, recently returned from a one-year layoff and defeated former UFC fighter David Bielkheden at an October event in Sweden. The former boxer won four of his past five fights, all via decision.
Neither Daley nof Bellator MMA has ruled out the possibility of the fighter returning to the organization later this year. Daley hopes to have his visa issues resolved by April.
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Eric Breteau, the Chairman of the notorious The Ark of Zoe, that non-governmental organization that dominated the news some six months ago in connection with the kidnapping of alleged orphans from the Darfur region, spilt the beans the other day by claiming that French officials backed their endeavour to surreptitiously extricate 103 orphans from that region last fall and to convey them to France.
A couple of days after receiving the presidential pardon of President Idriss Debi from Chad, Eric Breteau at last has voiced his side of the story. Breteau has opined that advisers to President Nicolas Sarkozy of France as well as officials of the French minister of foreign affairs Bernard Kouchner were not only privy to and aware of their agenda but also gave them the go-ahead and the backing to take orphans from the Darfur region to foster-families in France.
It should be noted that president Debi granted members of The Ark of Zoe, a presidential pardon because France staved off the overthrow of his regime a few weeks ago by deploying an armed force. Breteau alleged that it had been agreed that the former first lady, Cecilia Sarkozy, and the French minister of Justice–Attorney General Rachida Dati, would officially welcome the said children at an airport in Paris.
The whole caboodle was designed to kick up a fuss that would call the attention of the international public opinion to the dreadful plight and emergency that Darfur was going through. "The Ark" contends that its members only wanted to provide those orphans with assistance on the basis of the Geneva Convention on Humanitarian rights.
It later turned out that most of the children were from Chad, and not from Sudan, as it was previously claimed. Moreover, many weren't even orphans at all. Meanwhile, the Sudanese government recently initiated legal proceedings against The Ark of Zoe. The French minister of Justice had already directed the public prosecutor in Paris to look into the shady dealings of the organization.
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Rachida Dati, the French minister of Justice has denied over a Parisian radio station that she was aware of the "rescue" mission in advance. She also maintains France will not pay the 6 millions Euros The Ark of Zoe was fined.
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Copeland wasn't the only Texas blues guitar great undergoing a Rounder recording renaissance. Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown had maintained a fairly low profile during the 1960s and '70s after cutting some of the most innovative blues platters of the late '40s and early '50s for Don Robey's Peacock Records in Houston. Now he was back, equally conversant on guitar and fiddle and fiercely opposed to being classified as a bluesman. Country, jazz, calypso, swing—Gate played 'em all proudly.
"I'm a musician. I play it all," said the late Brown. "I hate to be stuck in one bag. I don't ever want to be labeled, and I'm making sure of that!" Another highly versatile guitarist, country picker Roy Clark, got the ball rolling for Gate's big comeback by enlisting him to do a '79 duet album, 'Makin' Music,' on MCA. "Roy walked in and asked me, 'Let's do an album!" said Brown. "It was just a jam session, but it was pulled off very well."
Gate was on his own at Rounder. Produced by Jim Bateman and Scott Billington at Studio in the Country in Bogalusa, Louisiana, 'Alright Again!' was Brown's first album for the firm in 1981, cut with his touring rhythm section including pianist Larry Sieberth, bassist Myron Dove, and drummer Lloyd Herrman along with a five-piece horn section. Brown got a trifle funky on his own droll Dollar Got The Blues, Stanton Davis, Jr. stepping up for a two-chorus trumpet solo. Gate's guitar sound had changed dramatically from his blasting early '50s attack. He was as fast as ever, but his advanced chops were now being utilized on a Gibson Firebird in an understated, jazzy way that sounded like nobody else.
"What I do is play horn lines on whatever instrument I'm playing," he said. "Whatever I'm playing, I try to bend it to the sound of myself. Then I don't use no pick, see. I can control my instrument, rather than the instrument controlling me." Brown always used a capo. "That's my trademark," he said. "That's the way I learned, that's the way I play."
Gate made many more discs for Rounder, Alligator, and Verve/Gitanes before he was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2004. Hurricane Katrina interrupted his final days in Slidell, Louisiana, and Brown died in his original hometown of Orange, Texas on September 10, 2005. His artistic scope was truly unmatched.
Bill Dahl
Chicago, Illinois
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More information about Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown on Wikipedia.org


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The Neural Coding Group is part of the Eaton-Peabody Laboratories at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. Members of the lab are also affiliated with the Harvard-MIT Program in Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology and the Department of Otology and Laryngology at the Harvard Medical School.
Spatio-temporal response pattern of the auditory nerve to a harmonic complex sound.
The long-term goal of the group's research is to determine how speech and other biologically-significant sounds are processed by the auditory system, with a focus on understanding the neural mechanisms underlying auditory perception. To achieve this goal, we combine three major techniques of integrative neuroscience: neurophysiological (single-unit recordings), computational (mathematical models) and behavioral (perceptual experiments). Currently, efforts are focused in two major directions: (1) studies of the neural mechanisms of binaural and spatial hearing in the auditory brainstem, with particular emphasis on everyday, challenging acoustic environments that include multiple sources and reverberation, (2) studies aimed at improving processing strategies in cochlear implants, particularly bilateral implants. In the latter studies, we are especially interested in the consequences of early-onset deafness on binaural processing by central auditory neurons and whether the resulting abnormalities can be reversed by appropriate stimulation though cochlear implants.
These lines of research are related in that, while normal-hearing listeners excel at understanding speech in noisy and reverberant environments, hearing-impaired and cochlear-implant patients often have difficulties in these adverse environments, even if they do well when facing a single speaker in a quiet room. Similar difficulties processing speech in adverse environments are also encountered by artificial systems for speech transmission and recognition. To understand these differences between normal listeners on the one hand, and hearing impaired listeners and artificial systems on the other hand will require an integrated knowledge of the auditory processing of speech, binaural processing in the auditory brainstem, and how these mechanisms are altered by pathology, especially when it occurs early in life. Such knowledge will be invaluable for a rational design of improved hearing aids and auditory implants.
Selected Publications
|Neural coding of pitch and music
|Neural correlates of binaural and spatial hearing
|Physiology of cochlear implants
|Perception and neural coding of temporal envelope
|Neural representation of speech
|Computational models of auditory neurons
|Physiological basis of masking and frequency selectivity
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