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[THIMPU] Agricultural experts in the Himalayan country of Bhutan - a least developed country - are concerned at increasing crop losses in recent years, attributable to global warming. Visit link: Bhutan faces crop losses from erratic climate

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Note: You must log in with your CLARAWEB.US  User Name and password to view this program. You can click on the little box on the lower right above to expand the screen and press your ESC key to reduce the size back to normal. Speak The Speech I Pray You: Acting 101 For Lawyers Debra Gilbert, Communications Consultant, Speak...

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SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments. Askia Abdulmajeed, 69, of Los Angeles, has been appointed to the Board of Parole Hearings, Juvenile Division. Abdulmajeed has served on the Board since 2007. Abdulmajeed was a correctional chaplain in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation from 2004 to 2006 and a program consultant...

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ABC News – Sep 8, 2011 9:16am Texas Gov. Rick Perry apparently loses no sleep over authorizing 234 executions in more than a decade as Texas governor. Perry has authorized more executions than any governor in the history of the United States. He said at a Republican presidential debate Wednesday that he has never worried that the state...

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An increasing number of people have set up home businesses that allow them to sell homemade goods, but with sales occurring on a hyperlocal basis and over the Internet, few consider the legality of their actions. As shown by recent stories of officials shuttering lemonade stands , there are a number of prerequisites one must meet before selling...

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Kalamazoo, MI: Kalamazoo voters will decide this November on a municipal initiative that seeks to make marijuana law enforcement the city's "lowest priority." The proposed amendment to Kalamazoo's city charter seeks to make the possession of an ounce or less of marijuana by adults age 21 the city's lowest law enforcement priority. The initiative is modeled after a...

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Berkeley, CA: Former United States Labor Secretary Robert Reich voiced his strong support for ending the criminal prohibition of cannabis during an online forum. Reich was asked by an audience member, "If you could eliminate a single federal regulation and replace it with some other regulation (or nothing at all), what would it be and why?" He responded...

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"[T]hese observations show ... that the stimulation of the endocannabinoid system could be protective against the hyper-excitability developed during alcohol withdrawal" Caen, France: The administration of the synthetic cannabinoid agonist HU-211 decreases nerve cell death in an in vitro model of ethanol withdrawal, according to data published online in the journal of the Public Library of Science (...

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By DAVID OVALLE, The Miami Herald Another lawyer has been booted from a state-funded criminal defense office, bringing the total to three in the past few days. The abrupt terminations plunged the Miami-Dade Office of Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional Counsel into turmoil. Rene Palomino, 52, was fired Wednesday, joining attorneys Eugene Zenobi and Kellie Peterson, two death...

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Editorial – The Sacramento Bee - September 7, 2011 If prisoner realignment is to become more than the latest California exercise in passing the buck (while keeping the bucks), state officials must step up with a constitutional commitment to funding. There are two ways to break a promise: all at once, short and to the point, perhaps with a...