Jersey Shore Spawns Equally Horrendous Filth

Today, I, The Esteemed Dr. Guevara, learned of a horrendous thing today. All of the western world is familiar with the abomination known as Jersey Shore. The meme above describes how many people feel about the show, which  follows the lives of a bunch of twenty something young adults, who have become synonymous with the concept of 'douchebag'. Famous among them are Mike 'The Situation' Sorrentino and Nicole"Snooki' Palozzi. As if The original product was a steaming pile of refuse from the minds of money grubbing Tv executives, and now it turns out Snooki and Jennifer 'Jwoww' Farley have thier own spin off show! This Humble doctor pleads to MTV: Guys Please, haven't we suffered enough? Any opinions from our readers would be greatly loved.


Dr. Guevara

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Uruguay Legalizes Marijuana, Other South American Countries May Join

Following our previous story, "Uruguay Lives Up To It's Promise Of Freedom, Marijuana Is Legal," Turns out Uruguay may not be the only nation in South America fighting a drug prohibition that has been in place in the West for Decades.  Due to a rising wave of violent crime that has been mostly cause by drug gangs, Uruguay has legalised marijuana and will produce a state run service  that will sell marijuana to registered users. The Presidents of Mexico and Colombia have stated interest they too would be interested in taking alternative measures to prevent drug use as well.For more on the story follow the link below.


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/nationalisation-uruguays-solution-to-its-drug-problem-7873537.html

Dr. Guevara


1: Tegel, Simon. "Nationalism, Uruguay's solution to its drug problem." www.independent.co.uk/. June 22, 2012 

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How Do 'Bath Salts' Drive People Crazy?

On Saturday May 26th, 2012; in Miami, a naked, "zombielike" man viciously attacked a homeless man, biting off and eating much of his face. Police shot and killed the 31-year-old attacker, Rudy Eugene, who, according to some news outlets, may have been high on "bath salts" at the time of his cannibalistic attack.

These soothing-sounding substances are not what they seem. Manufactured in China and sold legally online and in drug paraphernalia stores under misleading brand names like "Ivory Wave," bath salts contain a bevy of newly concocted chemicals, such as methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV), which aren't yet banned by the federal government. When snorted, injected or smoked, the synthetic powders can induce a state of paranoid delirium paired with abnormal strength, a combination that often leads to horrific acts of violence.

In short, "bath salts" actually do live up to the warnings of old-school anti-drug ads, which cautioned potential users of insanity, death and murder. The salts work by putting the brain's survival instincts into overdrive, essentially causing an extreme adrenaline rush that lasts for hours rather than moments.

MDPV, the active ingredient in "bath salts," increases the body's concentration of adrenalinelike hormones that prepare the heart, muscle tissue and the brain for the "fight or flight" response, explained Thomas Penders, an associate professor in the department of psychiatric medicine at East Carolina University. It does this by stopping neurons in the brain from reabsorbing the chemicals dopamine and norepinephrine immediately after secreting them, as would normally happen. This leads to a steady buildup of these neurochemicals, which trigger a person's primal survival behaviors, Penders told Life's Little Mysteries.

"One system of circuits in our brains are wired to detect and respond to threats. Overstimulation of this circuit leads to overestimation of actions by others as threatening. When the system becomes overwhelmed, as it does [from an overdose of] 'bath salts,' a condition develops known as 'excited delirium,'" he said. [Slideshow: Scientists Analyze Drawings by an Acid-Tripping Artist]

Crack cocaine, methamphetamine, ecstasy and PCP can also induce "excited delirium." It's a state of paranoid fearfulness and rage mixed with seemingly superhuman strength, as more oxygen is delivered to muscles, increasing their power. "This, to some extent, explains the bizarre aggressive behaviors we have seen during the recent rash of 'bath salt' cases," Penders said. "[However,] I cannot imagine what the individual in Miami was perceiving to fully explain the vicious attackdescribed there."

Even if no one else gets hurt, sufferers of "excited delirium" can wind up dead or in the emergency room, with medical complications such as cardiac arrhythmias, a spike in body and brain temperature, muscle breakdown and kidney failure.

While overdoses of crack cocaine, methamphetamine, ecstasy and PCP can also induce "excited delirium," one particular danger of "bath salts" is that there's no way to gauge how large a dose will trigger the effects, despite the product's appearance of manufactured consistency. Because the substances are not made in the U.S. or regulated for consumption, studies have found varying concentrations of the active compounds from package to package, said Patrick Kyle, director of clinical chemistry and toxicology at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. This leads to unintended overdoses.

"The user assumes that since one dose of ‘XYZ’ brand gave him/her a ‘rush’ with the last use, one dose will give the same effect," Kyle wrote in an email. "The user may unknowingly overdose on the same amount of product from the same 'brand.'"

F**k Yeah! Supreme Court Axes FCC's TV Obscenity Rules

TV broadcasters are now free to curse and include nudity

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission and its enforcement of anti-obscenity laws have long been a thorny irritation to colorful media figures like Detroit rapper Eminem who famously sang, "So the F-C-C won't let me be. Or let me be me so let me see. They tried to shut me down on M-T-V. But it feels so empty without me."

Today the U.S. Supreme Court released a ruling that significantly scales back the FCC's censorship authority.  In the case Federal Communications Commission, et al. v. Fox Television Stations, Inc., et al. the highest court in the land refused to assess the constitutionality of U.S. federal law that prohibits broadcasted obscenities. However, it did deal FCC efforts a blow by finding it illegal for the FCC to fine TV broadcaster who air obscenity or nudity during daytime hours.

I. FCC's Obscenity Censorship is as Old as Broadcast Television Itself

The ban on TV profanity is virtually as old as broadcast television itself.  The first line-based broadcast television tests were carried out in 1933.  Just a year later Congress passed the Communications Act of 1934 that formed the FCC, the agency tasked with governing radio and the emerging TV format.

The Communications Act contained provisions banning obscene content from being broadcast.  

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In the post-World War II era, television became a ubiquitous element of society and the ban on obscenity was inserted into the U.S. Criminal code.  Specifically, Title 18 of the United States Code, Section 1464, prohibits the utterance of "any obscene, indecent or profane language by means of radio communication."

Violations carried stiff penalties -- from the code: "Whoever utters any obscene, indecent, or profane language by means of radio communication shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both."

The FCC, tasked with enforcement of the law, ruled that between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. all obscene content was out-of-bounds.  Between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., there was a so-called "safe harbor" rule that allowed the broadcast of profanity and sexualized content, but certain words like the F-word in certain contexts or explicit depictions of sex remained prohibited even during this special time.

II. Public Support for Rules Wanes

But as society traded their suits and ties for jeans and a t-shirt, public sentiments about the obscenity ban shifted.  Many became critical of the prohibition.  After all, didn't the First Amendment guarantee:

Congress shall make no law ...  abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press

Couldn't obscenity be considered "free speech"?

And then there was the issue of inconsistent enforcement.  As cable television became popular in the 1980s and 1990s, the FCC relaxed rules on sex and swearing on cable, under the notion that sensitive individuals like minors whom the law was designed to protect wouldn't have access to the paid content.  Likewise, internet TV and/or radio content in the 1990s and 2000s has been minimally policed by the FCC.

Amid this uncertainty network television began to probe the limits of what qualified as "obscene" with the so-called "fleeting obscenity" -- occasional spontaneous outburst of a curse word or two from TV hosts or commentators.

Fox pressed the issue with a pair of Billboard Music Awards broadcasts.  In 2002 Cher addressed her critics by exclaiming during the broadcast "fuck 'em", and the next year Nicole Richie during her presentation about her TV show The Simple Life remarked, "Why do they even call it The Simple Life? Have you ever tried to get cow shit out of a Prada purse? It's not so fucking simple."

The FCC did not react sympathetically to broadcasters testing the limits with spontaneity.  In 2004 it released strict guidelines forbidding fleeting obscenity and sued Fox for the curse words it broadcast.

The case languished in the courts for a half decade before finally coming before the Supreme Court in 2009.  At the time the Supreme Court ruled narrowly in the FCC's favor (5-4), but it refused to rule on the Constitutionality of the case.

III. Round 2 at the Supreme Court

That led the case to continue to crawl through the federal court system with the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City unanimously finding that the FCC rules violated First Amendment protections to free speech.  In the unanimous ruling Judge Rosemary S. Poolerwrote [PDF]:

By prohibiting all 'patently offensive' references to sex, sexual organs, and excretion without giving adequate guidance as to what 'patently offensive' means, the FCC effectively chills speech, because broadcasters have no way of knowing what the FCC will find offensive. To place any discussion of these vast topics at the broadcaster’s peril has the effect of promoting wide self-censorship of valuable material which should be completely protected under the First Amendment.

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But the case was not over.  The Appeals court ruling meant that the case was yet again lofted to the Supreme Court.  That second hearing finally reached a ruling [PDF] this week, and the result was a reversal of the 2009 decision.  Ironically, the Supreme Court opted to yet again to refuse to rule on Constitutionality of the obscenity ban, meaning that the case may yet again be headed to more appeals.  Alternatively, similar cases may crawl up the court ladder and be heard by the Supreme Court in the future, who will likely eventually have to make up its mind regarding Constitutionality.

But for now TV broadcasters are free to beginning offering up profanities and nudity in their broadcast, which may make for saucier programming from fictional cop (melo)dramas to reality TV.

The reversal brings broadcast TV in line with the privileges enjoyed by its internet and cable television peers.  One final important note: sorry Eminem, radio broadcasters are still forbidden from airing profane commentary or songs -- the last surviving bastion of FCC censorship.

Sources: The Supreme Court [PDF], 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals [PDF]

Brit Faces Jail Time for Piracy

Jason Andrew Duesbury is facing at least six months in prison after police found game piracy materials in his home in Staffordshire, England. Last September, police seized 300 bootleg Xbox and PS2 games, three chipped Xboxes, four duplicators, and a memory stick that had artwork and inlays for Xbox covers. Worse? He actually admitted to the cops that he knew he was breaking the law. Clearly he has not been watching enough Law & Order.

Magistrates apparently warned Duesbury that six months in jail–the maximum allowed for this crime–may not be enough. What? I mean, look, I’m not down with game piracy, either, but isn’t jail time a bit excessive, punishment-wise? What do you folks think: victimless crime, or throw the book at him?

Keep reading if you want the whole shebang.

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Staffordshire Market Trader Could Face Jail After Trading Standards Swoop

A Staffordshire market trader who was caught by Trading Standards officers with thousands of illegally copied games and counterfeit DVDs at his Branston home could face jail.

Jason Andrew Duesbury, 37, of Branston – a suburb of Burton, Staffordshire, admitted 17 offences under the Trademarks Act, following a private prosecution brought by
Staffordshire County Council at Burton Magistrates Court on 7th March.
Trading Standards officers, police and ELSPA investigators swooped on
Duesbury’s home on 22nd September last year, where more than 300
illegally copied Xbox and PlayStation 2 games together with over 1,500
counterfeit DVDs were discovered in an upstairs office of the premises.
A stash of adult films were also seized in the raid.

A PC and memory stick, as well as four duplicators and three chipped Xbox consoles, were also seized. Trading Standards staff worked with ELSPA
investigators and other industry experts to establish that all
2,000-plus titles were counterfeit and bore unauthorised trademarks, the court heard.

Michael Rawlinson, managing director of ELSPA
commented: “ELSPA would like to thank everyone involved for their work instigating this investigation and helping to protect local traders and the general community from the effects of pirated goods.”

Roger
Constantine, prosecuting, said: "Duplicators have one use and one use only — that is to make copies of discs. "All the items seized were taken back to Stafford, where Trading Standards officers worked with representatives from the industry to establish that all the discs were counterfeit copies with unauthorised trademarks.

"The computer contained programmes to decrypt security devices which usually prevent authentic discs from being copied, and the memory stick included artwork for inlays and covers for Xbox games and films."

Mr
Constantine added: "This is often described as victimless crime, but nothing could be further from the truth. There are the companies that produce the original items which lose money, but it also hits the trader in the high street, who loses out through people selling counterfeits on the markets."

Duesbury, who usually sold jewellery on his market stall, admitted trading in and producing pirated and counterfeit material when questioned. He said he had been trading in the illegal items for around a year and knew that he was breaking the law.

The case was adjourned until 2nd April for pre-sentence reports. Magistrates warned Duesbury that his case may be transferred to Staffordshire Crown Court for sentencing, as the maximum six months in jail that they are allowed to impose may not be sufficient.

Japan Passes Jail-for-Downloaders Anti-Piracy Law

Japan’s legislature has approved a bill revising the nation’s copyright law to add criminal penalties for downloading copyrighted material or backing up content from a DVD. The penalties will come into effect in October.

The Upper House of the Japanese Diet approved the bill by a vote of 221-12, less than a week after the measure cleared the lower house with almost no opposition. Violators risk up to two years in prison or fines up to two million yen (about $25,000).

Opponents of the bill worry it will lead to unnecessary prosecutions because of the way it is written. To face charges, a person must be aware that the material is illegal to download.

“We shouldn’t risk making the general public — including youths — the subject of criminal investigations,” said Upper House member Yuko Mori, as quoted in the Japan Times.

Japanese attorney Toshimitsu Dan told IT Media that even watching a YouTube video could be grounds for arrest “if the viewer is aware that downloading [such material] is illegal.”

Unauthorized uploading and downloading of copyrighted material such as music, movies and video games have been illegal in Japan for years, but until now only uploaders were subject to criminal penalties: up to 10 years in prison or fines as much as 10 million yen ($125,000), according to theTimes.

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Sweden on nuclear facility alert as explosives found at plant

Ringhals nuclear power plant in Varberg (Reuters / Scanpix Sweden)

Sweden has raised the alert at all its nuclear facilities after bomb sniffer dogs discovered an explosive device in the back of a truck near Stockholm’s Ringhals atomic power station. Police are investigating the incident.

Although the device lacked a detonator, officers have evacuated the area around the truck and are questioning the driver. Initial reports point to sabotage, with no immediate suspects. 

Police spokesman Tommy Nyman said the driver was unaware of the explosives.

“An outsider has obviously placed them on the truck…we're talking to the truck driver and are trying to map out her movements within the premises throughout the day,” Nyman said.

Swedish bomb technicians noted that due to the lack of a detonator, there was no immediate risk of explosion. Furthermore, officials from the Ringhals power plant say that even had the explosives gone off, they would not have posed any threat to the reactor.

“Under the first step onto the truck there is a fire extinguisher and that is where the explosive had been placed,” Gosta Larsen, Head of Communication at the Ringhals plant, told the Swedish news source TT, adding that the discovery was “worrying”.

Officials say the device was like "the size of a small fist, shaped like a plastic explosive". It was discovered during a routine check.

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2012 Cathedral Village Arts Festival Photos

aszura

belly dancers

steam punk exhibit

rene

aaron "captain anarchy" clarke and jade duckett

Steam Punk lady with Jade Duckett

Amy Nelson and Ken Burton

norm walker

alison long

belly dancers

Aaron "Captain Anarchy" Clarke and Unkown

Bernadette Wagner (http://thereginamom.com)

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Allan Dotson and comic jammers

Niko Snider, her boyfriend and random volunteer

Shayna Stalk

buskers

street fair

matt polsfut (right) and unknown

steam punk exhibit

tahnis (can't for the life of me remember her last name) and the legendary ray bell

sun zoom sparx (formerly CoelacanthDance aka CDance)

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Regina jail guard known as 'The Eagle' in court on drug charges

Brent Miles Taylor walks to court on Wednesday, May 9, 2012 in Regina, Sask.

Photograph by: TROY FLEECE , REGINA LEADER-POST

REGINA — To a group of drug smugglers at the Regina Correctional Centre, longtime guard Brent Miles Taylor was known as "The Eagle," a jury was told Wednesday.

According to the opening statement by prosecutor Doug Curliss, the Crown plans to show that when packages were sent via Taylor to two inmates from their contacts on the outside, a call followed asking, "Has the Eagle landed?" Calls between the inmates and two women were captured in wiretaps.
The Crown alleges Taylor delivered some 30 to 40 tobacco pouches, containing marijuana, hash oil, Dilaudid, cocaine, and morphine, to inmates Sanford Brass and Kevin Lee Stonechild, two men with lengthy criminal histories.
However, Curliss told the jury, Taylor maintained in an interview with police that he delivered only three packages and thought they held tobacco. According to Curliss, Taylor told police, "I didn't know there was anything else in those packages."
However, the two women he allegedly got the packages from are expected to testify that Taylor was paid between $100 and $500 cash for the deliveries.
"To quote a TV show, somebody has some 'splain'n to do," Curliss told the seven-woman, five-man jury as he provided a "roadmap" of the case he expects to present during the two-week trial.
"Did the accused know what he was doing or did he turn a blind eye to it?" asked Curliss.
Taylor, 50, has pleaded not guilty to 15 charges — breach of trust by bringing contraband into the Regina jail, conspiracy to traffic in drugs, possession of proceeds of crime, five counts each of drug trafficking and possession of drugs for the purpose of trafficking, attempting to obstruct justice and breaching a release condition that he not contact a Crown witness. The bulk of the offences are alleged to have occurred between Jan. 1, 2007 and Feb. 27, 2010. The latter two charges are alleged to have occurred on Jan. 5, 2011.
Court heard Taylor was hired as a jail guard in 1987, and had, on occasion, held supervisory positions.
The Crown alleges two women who were friends of the inmates repacked red Number 7 brand tobacco pouches with contraband, including syringes, drugs, lighters and tobacco papers. The pouches were then allegedly given to Taylor to take to Brass and Stonechild at the jail.
A November 2008 search of a cell that housed Brass and Stonechild turned up tobacco, drugs, and cigarette papers — but no tobacco pouch. Court heard that smoking products were also considered contraband at the tobacco-free jail.
After police launched an investigation in April 2009, a tracking device was put on Taylor's pickup truck. Between Aug. 19, 2009 and March 8, 2010, it recorded the vehicle twice stopping at a Regina house where the women resided.
Under questioning by defence lawyer James Korpan, RCMP Cpl. Rob Nicholas agreed that despite 90 surveillance reports, no one ever saw a meeting between Taylor and the two women. "I can't tell you want happened when we weren't watching," he added.
Correctional Centre director Brad Magnusson testified that the jail has an "underground economy" in contraband goods, which enter the facility in a variety of ways — from being tossed over the fence to hidden inside body cavities. He said that as part of the guards' training, they are warned about contraband and to keep a "respectful, arms-length relationship with inmates."
In cross-examination, Magnusson agreed that even some staff have trouble with the no-tobacco policy, and a manager smoking on the roof once dropped a cigarette down a drainpipe, igniting a fire.
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Drug trade rising in Regina, crime numbers show

Crimes related to the illicit drug trade have risen in Regina, according to the latest figures.

Crime statistics, provided by the city's police department Wednesday, also show that traffic violations in the city have increased.

Two notable areas that have seen a decline are break and enter crimes and auto theft.

"We're seeing a continuing trend of reported crime being reduced in Regina," Troy Hagen, the police chief, said Wednesday noting that there were also more officers working today compared to ten years ago.

Regina's mayor, Pat Fiacco, also made note of the additional police officers and credited the provincial government for helping pay for more officers.

"There are a number of positions that are funded by our provincial government and it's important that they recognize it's money well spent," Fiacco said.

The latest figures show that, overall, there were 27 per cent fewer crimes reported to police compared to ten years ago.

Break and enter crimes, also compared to ten years ago, were down by 54 per cent.

Auto thefts were down 63 per cent.

The area of rising crime was in illicit drugs, which saw a rise, in ten years, of 137 per cent.

Traffic violations rose by 65 per cent.

The increases in those areas were attributed to increased enforcement.

Uruguay Lives Up To Its Promise Of Freedom, Marijuana Is Legal

Pictured above is the City of Montevideo, Capital of the country of Uruguay, which is one of the countries hit the least hard by the 2008-2009 recession. Besides a good economy, Uruguay also gets to boast about being one of the most liberal countries in the world. "Freedom or death", is their motto, and now another freedom citizens of this tropical paradise enjoy is consumption of marijuana without fear of persecution. The Uruguayan government, where others charge fines and dish out jail time, instead distribute, regulate and work with  their people, Uruguay already has a vibrant hemp industry and with its new legal status, marijuana may join as a moneymaker for the South American Country. To all stoners out there, this may be where you want to move, legal weed and tropical climate, which  means tropical chicks.


Dr Guevara

1: "Uruguay To Legalize Marijuana Cultivation and Possesion" www.activistpost.com. April 29, 2011.

2:  "The Uruguayan government Will Sell Marijuana To Those Who Register" www.infobae.com June 12, 2012.

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Find your favourite local band or DJ and vote for them to play at SaskTel Summer Invasion

Today is the final day to vote for your favorite local band/DJ.  This poll will help the judges decide who gets to play the Jump.ca Mainstage so be sure to get all your friends to vote too.

If you still don't know how this works head on over to the SaskTel Summer Invasion Facebook page, find your favorite artist and click their name.  Simple as that.

Good luck to all the local artists.

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