Luca Pacioli and Leonardo da Vinci were close friends and spent time together crollaborating on manuscripts.
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 at 9:41 am in Berkeley.
Berkeley’s Police Review Commission will hold a hearing at 6 p.m. tomorrow, Thursday, March 13, in the North Berkeley Senior Center at 1901 Hearst Ave. on Berkeley Police officers’ treatment of antiwar
protestors outside the U.S. Marine Corps recruiting office on Shattuck Avenue.
Organizers from World Can’t Wait, CodePink and Copwatch collected petition signatures to force the hearing, claiming their members have
been “violently attacked by Berkeley Police Department riot squads.”
Mahdi Army Arrests Alcohol Peddlers
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Iraqi fighters told to cease fire after clashes
Sadr, whose militia fought two battles against U.S. forces in southern Iraq in 2004, extended a seven-month-old ceasefire last month, but at the weekend issued a statement telling followers they could defend themselves if attacked.
The violence in Kut, 170 km (105 miles) southeast of Baghdad, raised fears that the ceasefire was unravelling.
“We call on them to calm down and to cease fire and to stop shedding the blood of Iraqis, this is the opinion of Sadr, whether it is in Kut or any other Iraqi provinces,” aide Luwaa Sumaisem told Reuters in the holy city of Najaf.
Since January, violence in Iraq has increased.
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KUT, Iraq (AFP) — At least 17 people have been killed, including five children, in fierce clashes between militants and Iraqi and US forces in the Shiite city of Kut, a local medic told AFP Wednesday.
“Seventeen people have been killed, including five children and a female college student. Others are young men,” Mamoon Ajil, registrar at Kut’s Al-Zahra hospital said.
On Tuesday, Iraqi police said at least 10 people were killed in the clashes which broke out during a raid in three neighbourhoods of the city to arrest wanted Shiite militiamen.
The districts — Al-Ezza, Al-Jihad and Anwar Sadr — are known strongholds of Mahdi Army militia members loyal to radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, the officer said.
The Issue Experts, Eyewitnesses and the Impassioned.
Today’s Issue:
Reefer Sanity With Dan Bernath
We’re pleased to have Dan Bernath, assistant director of communications for the Marijuana Policy Project, weighing in on our issue of the day: the debate over legalizing marijuana and America’s war on drugs. In an illuminating interview, Bernath discusses the victims of current marijuana laws, the other side of medical marijuana research, and Richard Nixon’s secret marijuana study. Our posts for the day explore the marijuana and drug policy debates from various angles.
Marijuana: A Burning Issue
LIBERTY FOR ALL - Randy Wilbourn, Jr. provides an excellent introduction to many aspects of the marijuana debate. Beginning with a thorough history of marijuana and its uses through the ages, Wilbourn then branches into a discussion of the trajectory of marijuana laws. He describes the chemical properties of marijuana and its physiological effects before going on to explain both pro- and anti-legalization arguments….
The Failure of the War on Drugs
BECKER-POSNER - Economist Gary Becker concludes that the US government’s war on drugs has failed, not because of a poor policy, but because the economics of the illicit drug market are not conducive to effective law enforcement. After an in-depth analysis of the economic theory and research behind his conclusion, Becker ponders whether legalizing drugs will be more economically logical and achieve the government’s goal of driving down drug consumption….
The Prince of Pot Makes a Pitch to Conservatives
REASON HIT AND RUN - Jacob Sullum reports on Canadian civil disobedient and marijuana seller Marc Emery’s arrest.and possible extradition to the United States to face charges there. Sullum describes Emery’s political philosophies and summarizes his career. He then notes that, in an unusual twist, this marijuana activist and entrepreneur is using a conservative argument to fight extradition, maintaining that a US trial would be an infringement on “Canadian sovereignty.” …
Interview With the Marijuana Policy Project’s Dan Bernath
The Issue: Looking at the MPP website, I was really struck by the “Victims” section, which tells the stories of people who’ve been adversely affected by marijuana legislation. Are there any of these stories that particularly affect you or that you think really highlight the injustices of current marijuana policy?
Dan Bernath: I think any reasonable person would look at these stories and agree that justice has not been done here. Folks who favor keeping marijuana illegal would rather talk about whether the drug is good or bad; what they don’t want to talk about is that marijuana prohibition is much worse [than criminalization] and that real people, innocent people, get hurt as a result of prohibition There are awful stories.
15 Minutes
It’s easy to be squeamish about going under the knife, especially if you fear that the anesthesia might forsake you. Well over 20,000 people a year, by some estimates, experience “anesthesia awareness,” in which they awaken during the operation, paralyzed but later able to bear witness to operating room chatter, the clanking of instruments, and the sucking, sawing, or slicing sounds of the surgical team at work. Most of the time (but not always), there is no physical pain and the patient later recalls only fleeting awareness. But sometimes the event leads to post-traumatic stress disorder and lingering terror about hospitals and operations. How disappointing, then, that a study just out in the New England Journal of Medicine finds little value in a technology that might prevent this unhappy complication.
I was out and about yesterday and noticed a new internet cafe, “Emerald Coast Computing” on Fifth Street Eureka, just behind the Dutch Brothers coffee drive thru and next to the laundromat.
Unknown are pricing etc, the hours are 9 am to 6 pm Mon.- Fri, and shorter hours on Saturday.
I will try to get back there today and get more details.
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