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The drug and firearm charges are tied to Jones arrest back in June while in Georgia.
The rapper’s been hit with 3 counts of possession of a controlled substance and 2 counts of possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony — so 5 felony charges total … according to new legal docs.
Jones has also been charged with a 6th count of possession of marijuana, less than an ounce … which is a misdemeanor.
We broke the story … Jones was busted on June 20 in Coweta County when a car he was a passenger in led cops on a chase. When it finally stopped, cops searched the vehicle and found marijuana, oxycodone, Percocet, vape cartridges and 2 loaded pistols.
No one who was in the car claimed ownership of the contraband. There were a total of four people in the vehicle including Jones) and everyone got arrested.
Jones arraignment is scheduled for later this month. Recently, Jones announced that the Diplomats are dropping a reunion album on Thanksgiving.
The French eBook blog eBouquin has uncovered the first solid proof that Amazon is about to launch a local Kindle Store in France.
Amazon has been rumored to be planning to launch a local Kindle store in France for quite some time now, and a few weeks ago those rumors gained new life. The CEO of Hachette Livre mentioned during an interview that the new Kindle was coming to France on October 8th. His words were confirmed by a couple different translators, and they inspired a great deal of hope. Sadly, it now looks like his remarks were at least partially wrong.
But based on what eBouquin found, his rumors seems to have been partially confirmed.
eBouquin found product listings for a couple eBooks, and unfortunately Amazon already removed the pages. I can give you a link to The Concrete Blonde and Black Ice, but there’s nothing to see.
Luckily for us, Google already cached a copy of each page: The Concrete Blonde and Black Ice. The pages don’t actually have any useful info, but their presence is proof that a French Kindle Store is coming soon.
It was quite a while ago, but I recall seeing much this same activity in the month before Amazon launched the first Kindle Store. Product pages would be online long enough that Google was able to cache a copy, and this led to a feverish speculation about when the Kindle would be ready.
I would suggest that the same situation applies here. These product pages appearing and disappearing suggests that the Amazon.fr Kindle Store will likely launch early next month.
Police said Shephard pulled a gun on a woman in the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area and demanded she hand over narcotics.
INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — A 34-year-old construction worker was sentenced to five years in prison Friday after pleading guilty to an armed robbery at a Vero Beach nature preserve earlier this year.
Deputies said that on March 18, Kerry Wayne Shephard, of the 4300 block of 12th Street, Vero Beach, pulled a gun on a woman in the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area and demanded she hand over narcotics.
The conservation area is located on the east end of Oslo Road.
He was arrested in May and charged with robbery with a deadly weapon.
Shephard was convicted of robbery and burglary of a conveyance in 2008 and has been arrested on a litany of minor charges since 2006, according to court records.
Investigators with the Indian River County Sheriff's Office suspect Shephard has been involved in other crimes, but said witnesses may have been afraid to come forward.
They encouraged anyone with information to contact Detective Michael Dilks at 772-217-7825.
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You can certainly imagine situations where, for example, a relatively small church wants to hire a youth pastor but can only afford one half time, so wants to be able to make that a full-time position and so supplements it by making him head of the publicly funded after-school program. That's not allowed (unless, of course, you open the youth pastor position to people of any religious persuasion). What Bush tried to do was change longstanding rules. What Obama's proposing is to adhere to them. Zeleny and Luo have this just right in today's New York Times. The evangelical supporters of the Bush program are unhappy, as they should be.
Would Catholic charities be allowed to refuse to hire gay people for federally-funded programs? Obama thinks they shouldn't be able to, but it's not clear how or whether Obama would intervene to prevent them from doing so. It's also clear that Obama wants to expand the Bush initiative and rebrand it a bit.
The New York Times jumped on the political horse race angle, pointing out in the article's very first words that Obama's actions are intended to woo the hearts and souls of those all-powerful "evangelical voters."
The NYT is quite thorough in its coverage and went above and beyond anything other traditional news outlets published Tuesday. One gets the sense that the NYT was given an early look at the speech since The Washington Post had nothing on its home page on the subject Tuesday evening (they published this story on A3 and had this blog post regarding the announcement up at about 11 a.m.) and The Chicago Tribune only had a blog item on the subject Tuesday evening. One has to wonder what the Obama campaign's strategy is if indeed they are attempting to court rather friendly and significant coverage from The Grey Lady. Are there certain "elite" evangelicals that the Obama campaign is attempting to reach?
The NYT article pushes the idea that Obama is hitting all of the right buttons in his efforts to win over evangelicals -- other than his positions on abortion and civil unions. But that's only something the NYT mentions in the second to last paragraph of a 1,300-word article (religious-based employment was mentioned in the fifth paragraph).
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) plans to slam President Bush's faith-based program as "a photo op" and a failure on Tuesday, and says he would scrap the office and create a new Council for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships that would be a "critical" part of his administration.
Obama, unveiling a plan to overhaul and expand Bush's faith-based program during remarks at a community ministry in Zanesville, Ohio, said the White House Office of Community and Faith-Based Initiatives -- which Bush founded during his second week in office -- "never fulfilled its promise."
"Support for social services to the poor and the needy have been consistently underfunded," Obama says in prepared remarks. "Rather than promoting the cause of all faith-based organizations, former officials in the Office have described how it was used to promote partisan interests. As a result, the smaller congregations and community groups that were supposed to be empowered ended up getting short-changed."
The major comparison being made right now in terms of efforts to court evangelical voters is between Obama and McCain. That's an important comparison since the two will be opposing each other in November. On so many levels Obama is trouncing McCain, but most observers are loathe to suggest that Obama will receive a level of support close to what Bush received.
An even more significant comparison to make, though, would be the 2008 Obama with the 2000 and 2004 George W. Bush. Reporters cannot be quick enough in mentioning that Obama's support for legalized abortion and civil unions may be something of a stumbling block for a significant number of evangelicals, who as a group started to politically mobilize over the issue of abortion. In addition, if Obama is going to try to reverse Bush's practice of including organizations that discriminate in their hiring practices, how many organizations and their charities will be impacted?
Will proposals like his faith-based plans and spots on Christian radio be effective in turning evangelicals toward Obama? And if so, why?
Photo of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives building on Jackson Place in Washington, D.C., used under a Wikimedia Commons license.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This post has been edited to reflect the fact that The Washington Post published this blog post regarding Obama's announcement around 11 a.m.
Kids from less affluent homes, even when they have health insurance, are not as likely as others to get vision screenings that can identify conditions like lazy eye before the damage becomes irreversible, a new study found.
Researchers at the University of Michigan examined commercial health insurance claims data between 2001 and 2014 for nearly 900,000 children from birth to age 14. They tracked how often kids at different family income levels visited ophthalmologists and optometrists and the diagnosis rates for strabismus (cross-eyed or wall-eyed) and amblyopia (lazy eye).
The two conditions are relatively common, serious eye diseases in children. Because the eyes are seeing different things, the brain suppresses the vision in one eye. If not corrected by age 10, either condition can result in permanent vision loss. Treatment generally involves glasses, surgery, eye drops or patches, or some combination.
Children in families with the lowest net worth of less than $25,000 a year had 16 percent fewer eye care visits than those in the middle-income category of $150,000 to $250,000, according to the study, which was published in the August issue of Health Affairs. Meanwhile, kids from families with the highest net worth of $500,000 or more had 19 percent more visits to eye care professionals than those in the middle-income group.
Lower income kids were also less likely to be diagnosed with strabismus or amblyopia than children from higher income families. By age 10, an estimated 3.6 percent of children in the lowest income category were diagnosed with strabismus, and 2 percent were diagnosed with amblyopia, the study found. For kids in the highest income bracket, the estimated diagnoses were 5.9 percent for strabismus and 3.1 percent for amblyopia.
“We think that affluence is driving the eye care visit and the visit is driving the diagnosis of eye disease,” said Dr. Joshua D. Stein, the study’s lead author and an associate professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences at the University of Michigan’s medical school.
The researchers estimate that the lack of eye-care visits by lower income children resulted in 12,800 missed cases of strabismus and 5,400 missed cases of amblyopia.
Many children receive vision screening in schools, which wouldn’t appear in the claims data that were analyzed. Children who fail a school vision screening, however, should be referred to an optometrist or ophthalmologist for further testing, and that visit would show up in the claims data.
Less affluent parents may have more difficulty taking time off from work or face transportation challenges getting a child to an eye care provider, said Stein, and there may be fewer eye care providers available in less affluent areas.
Under the health law, services recommended by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, an independent panel of medical experts, are covered by insurance without requiring most people to pay anything out of pocket. The task force recommends that children between the ages of 3 and 5 receive at least one vision screening to check for amblyopia. That recommendation is being updated.
Kaiser Health News is an editorially independent program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to filling the need for trusted information on national health issues.
It doesn't take a lot to cause a stir in the lives of the Kardashian/Jenner clan, but the latest bombshell involving Tristan Thompson and Jordyn Woods certainly took everyone for a loop. As it was reported last week, Khloe Kardashian recently discovered that Thompson -- the father of her 10-month-old daughter, True Thompson -- was, once again, cheating on her. And this time, he was having an affair with Woods, a close friend of the family. It presumably was a heartbreaking reveal for the members of the televised household, and there was no doubt that repercussions would follow. Sure enough, as it is being revealed this week, Jordyn Woods is getting taken out of the Kardashians' lives completely -- including their businesses.
The family-wide shut-out was reported by TMZ, who claims Jordyn Woods has been cut out of both the famous family's professional and personal lives. When the news first hit the circuit, it was a surprise to everyone. But it no doubt was a shock to everyone in the inner circle, who felt taken aback by this betrayal from one of Kylie Jenner's closest friends. It wasn't clear what was going to happen to their dynamic once the revelation was aired publicly, but it was safe to assume that they would be cutting the connection for good. And it looks like that's what's happening.
Jordyn Woods was involved with Khloe Kardashian's Good American fashion line, and she even had her own page on the site. Now that page is no longer available, and it doesn't look like Khloe is eager to renew her contract with Woods anytime soon. Additionally, Jordyn Woods had a joint make-up line with Kylie Jenner, and while the status of that business venture is publicly undetermined at the time of this reporting, one can assume that Jenner is pressed to cut ties with her pal right now, and that means this make-up division is going to get a pretty major shake-up.
Before this news came to light, Jordyn Woods had a close-knit bond with the family. In fact, Kylie Jenner was hanging out with Jordyn Woods just mere hours before the cheating news was spread out into the world. There were videos of them together on Jenner's Snapchat to prove it. Then everything went to hell in a $27,000 handbag. Now, the family's relationship with Woods is considered "unrecoverable."
There's no doubt that this latest bout of drama will play a huge role in the forthcoming season(s) of Keeping Up with the Kardashians. And we'll certainly hear about all the messy details regarding this disastrous scandal then. But for now, we're only left with rumors and speculation, as the famous family is understandably not eager to talk about this devastating division in their lives right now. But when we hear the news ourselves, we'll be sure to keep you posted here at CinemaBlend.
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Free-Agent outfielder Jay Bruce has reportedly agreed to a three-year, $39 million deal with the New York Mets.
West Brook graduate and New York Mets outfielder Jay Bruce will be the next athlete inducted into the Museum of the Gulf Coast's Sports Hall of Fame, according to museum director Tom Neal.
Neal said he hopes to induct Bruce into the hall of fame before he heads to spring training in February.
"I talked to Jay earlier today and he's very pleased," Neal said. "We should have had him in earlier but we're playing catch up now."
Bruce, 30, is entering his 11th year in the MLB.
The outfielder produced career highs in home runs (36) and RBIs (101) in split time with the Mets and Cleveland Indians last season.
Oxo products are known for stylishness and practicality, and this excellent new colander is no exception. It’s a handy multitasker thanks to a silicone basket that can withstand boiling-hot temperatures. That means you can use it to steam vegetables over a hot pot of water as well as rinse them after they’ve cooked. And the basket is collapsible, so it’s easy to store. When you’re ready to use it again, give a quick snap of the wrist and the basket pops out, ready to go.
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Incoming Woodside Petroleum Ltd chief executive Peter Coleman says the oil and gas giant won’t revisit an onshore processing option for its stalled Sunrise liquefied natural gas (LNG) project.
The company has opted for a floating vessel processing concept, while the East Timor government insists processing should be done on that nation’s shores.
Mr Coleman says the floating concept still stands.
‘‘I think Woodside really has explored all of the options already,’’ he told reporters in Perth on Friday.
‘‘We’ve made our position very clear on that.
Mr Coleman takes the helm of Woodside on May 30, while current chief executive Don Voelte will remain with the company until June 30 to assist with the transition.
Let soaker hoses irrigate garden beds, but leave the lawn to sprinklers.
Soaker hoses save water by delivering it straight to the root zone, rather than spraying it in the air like a sprinkler. A soaker hose system is suitable for watering trees, shrubs, vines, perennials, ground covers and annual beds.They screw onto an ordinary garden faucet and resemble any other garden hose, except for the tiny pores that allow water to drip out. Before heading to the garden center, design your soaker hose layout so then you know the quantity needed for each component of the system.
Measure the length and width of the area where the soaker hose is needed. Determine an appropriate scale to get the entire area to fit on one piece of graph paper. For example, if the area is 60 by 80 feet, it will fit inside a space 6 by 8 inches using a scale of 1 to 10.
Draw the layout of plants, paths, patios and other defining features of the landscape, such as the street, driveway and outline of the house. Indicate the location of hose faucets, as well. Use the lines of the graph paper and a ruler to draw the features to scale.
Draw a line from the faucet nearest the area that needs to be irrigated toward the plantings to indicate the hose layout. Continue the line through the plantings in an undulating pattern with about 18 inches between each parallel line.
Lay a piece of string on top of the line on paper, so that it follows the undulating pattern exactly. Measure the length of string, and calculate the length of soaker hose needed. For example, if the scale used in the drawing is 1 to 10 feet, and the length of string comes out to be 12 inches, 120 feet of soaker hose is needed. If the plantings don't start immediately next to the hose faucet, subtract the distance from the hose faucet to where the plantings begin. Regular garden hose can be used in this section to supply water to the soaker hose.
Divide the number of feet of soaker hose required by 50 to find the number of 50-foot soaker hoses to purchase. Only 50 feet of soaker hose should be used in one run to ensure that the water is distributed evenly along the entire length of hose. A garden hose can be extended to supply water to each additional segment, if needed.
Make a mark for one backflow device, pressure regulator and hose-end filter for each faucet that will be used to supply a soaker hose. These items are connected to the faucet in the order listed before connecting the hose to outlet of the filter.
Divide the number of feet of soaker hose by two to determine the quantity of stakes to purchase. Use U-shaped irrigation stakes to hold the hose to the ground every two feet.
Repeat the process for other planting areas. Avoid crossing areas that shouldn't be irrigated with a soaker hose, such as a lawn, driveway or area of bare soil. Instead, weave the soaker hose through each distinct planting area in lengths of up to 50 feet, and use a regular garden hose to supply the water to each area.
Soaker hoses are most effective on fairly flat terrain. To maintain even water distribution on a slope, undulate the line of the hose back and forth laterally across the slope, rather than up and down.
Use a calcium filter in areas with hard water to prevent clogging the hose with mineral deposits.
A timer can be installed between the back flow device and filter, if desired.
Always cover the soaker hose with mulch to keep the water cool and protect the house from being degraded by the sun.
Barth, Brian. "How to Design a Soaker Hose Layout." Home Guides \| SF Gate, http://homeguides.sfgate.com/design-soaker-hose-layout-89680.html. Accessed 24 April 2019.
The singer eyes Carly Rae Jepsen's cheesy-pop crown with her new single.
Little under a year after Carly Rae Jepsen's 'Call Me Maybe' became inescapable, the web is already getting itchy feet in the search for the next cheesy-pop chart dominator. Cue the arrival of Bridgit Mendler, the star of tweenage sitcom Good Luck Charlie who, at 20 years old, is a relatively late graduate from the Disney farm of child stars.
"I'm about to break out," she warns in the opening lines of her new single 'Ready Or Not' over toe-tapping beats and sun-drenched synths. "You'll be my William, I'll be your Kate," she continues in her hunt for her perfect man, before adding: "I like your face, do you like my song?" on the Delfonics-sampling chorus. Her so-naff-it's-cool approach is harmless enough, but unlike Jepsen's effort, the result is just plain annoying.
When Jill Gerber, who runs Glasgow's Compass Gallery, talks about swaying as she stands in front of a Helen Flockhart painting, I know exactly what she means.
Flockhart's new works pulse with an intense mixture of pattern and colour, coupled with imagined scenes which intrigue and occasionally disturb. Technically, as she matures as an artist (she recently turned 50), Flockhart just gets better and better. Imaginatively, she has always soared, but there is something deeper and more personal in this latest collection.
Flockhart's last solo show in Glasgow was with Compass in 1999. She first exhibited in their annual New Generations survey of fresh graduates after being spotted by Gerber and her late father, Cyril, in 1984 at her Glasgow School of Art degree show.
The title painting of this new body of work, Swan Like, is a belter. It depicts three swans, one on top of the other, curving into each other and framed against a background of dense foliage. At the bottom is a red-haired woman (a recurring motif in red-haired Flockhart's paintings) in a diaphanous white dress, echoing the lines and curves of the swans, with their intricately linked feathers. The swan hovering above the woman is turning its beak slightly towards her open mouth.
There are so many layers to this painting - metaphorically and physically - that it is difficult to begin to dissect it. Which is where the swaying comes in.
"People ask me if I paint from dreams," Flockhart says. "But I don't. Sometimes I paint difficult things and sometimes I paint joy. I put things into my work which I have difficulty talking about, even to Peter [her husband, artist Peter Thompson]. I can't believe it's not obvious to people what they mean, but I know from what people tell me that it's not obvious."
As Flockhart admits, she has always struggled with shyness, and one of the paintings in this exhibition, Wallflower, is an intensely personal work which reflects this crippling sense of otherness. Set against a luminous cityscape, another red-haired female figure in a plain black, almost Puritanical dress looms larger than life in the right-hand side of the painting. Hands by her side, she is awkward and uncomfortable; a nervous, eager-to-please smile playing around her lips.
The figure looks on as several groups of men greet each other enthusiastically. Droplets of saliva drip from some of their mouths, but Flockhart states that this is not a sexual thing. It denotes, she says, their pleasure in greeting each other; in being part of a crowd. It is as though, by painting her own demons - in the most exquisite fashion - Flockhart is facing them head on.
Organic pattern in nature is important to the way in which her work coalesces. The pattern acts like a kind of meditation; a repetitive act which underpins the painting. It's as though she finds the intricate detail calming, mentally and physically, although according to the artist, she has to get faces right before it all comes together.
Fertility and womanhood are recurring motifs and, as a woman and a mother, I find this connects me to them. Flockhart also draws on a knowledge of history and mythology as a wellspring for her imagination, with influences including Dutch, Flemish and Italian masters, particularly Van Eyck and Rembrandt.
There are collectors all over the UK and beyond who own pieces by Flockhart, yet a search on the BBC's Your Paintings website throws up just nine of her paintings in public ownership. Comparisons are odious, but if I were a curator at Kelvingrove, where the Jack Vettriano exhibition opens this weekend, I would be rooting out all the Helen Flockharts I could find and planning a retrospective now.
The automotive graveyard is filled with attempts to capture women buyers. Some are tacky, others are just called the Volkswagen Eos and capture that market on their own. That's not stopping Mitsubishi Fuso from trying to bring more women into the commercial truck market with the new Canter Eco Hybrid Canna concept.
Of course, it's pink. Even though there were apparently 9 women on the planning team, the theme of the Canna concept is "cute" and "comfort," because that's what Fuso thinks is going to get more women into the commercial truck industry. We get that they've tried to make it cute, but how is it more comfortable? Color-coordinated plastic mirror caps don't scream comfort and a white interior makes me think it's harder to clean. So, no, not comfortable at all.
The yellow on the tires is at least interesting, though.

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