New sound for a sweltering summer
The News Review:
- New sound for a sweltering summer
- Mauresmo makes the most of low profile
- City comment
- County Urged to Open Group Home for Mentally Ill
New sound for a sweltering summer
Telegraph.co.uk – Jun 23, 2005
This cross-fertilisation was soon followed by the emergence of hip-hop in New York, centre of the Latin diaspora. Youth in the barrios of Puerto Rico and New York took to this new, accessible music as a means to express their own desires and frustrations. When Jamaican music crossed into the global mainstream once again in the early 1990s, conditions were ripe for the production of a home-grown form of the new dance-hall sound in Panama and Puerto Rico. Reggaetón artists such as El General and Daddy Yankee rose to an international prominence they still enjoy today. Elías de León, founder and CEO of Puerto Rico’s premier reggaetón label, White Lion, recalls selling Daddy Yankee’s first album from the boot of his car in 1992. The rapper is now feted across the Caribbean and the US by the likes of MTV and hip-hop magazine Vibe and his latest album has sold upwards of half a million copies. This global appeal seems to have confounded de León’s expectations: “I thought the music was going to be something that was just ours in Puerto Rico, I didn’t think it would get this far.
Mauresmo makes the most of low profile
Telegraph.co.uk – Jun 23, 2005
At Roland Garros all expectations are heaped on her strong shoulders as the French yearn for a home-grown champion while Henman is allowed to go about his business largely unnoticed; in London SW19 there is no hiding place for Britain’s leading men’s player while France’s top woman causes hardly a ripple of interest. And Mauresmo likes it that way. So much so that she opted against taking a cautious stance when asked whether she can take a low-profile route to the game’s greatest honour on Saturday week. Anybody who wanted to check out her form yesterday had to move swiftly to Court No 2 where she dished out a 46-minute hammering to Maria Sanchez Lorenzo, a Spanish opponent who had accumulated five career victories on these lawns. After conceding only four points on serve in securing her 6-1, 6-3 victory, Mauresmo said: “It would be difficult to recall myself playing better on grass because everything was working really well today.
City comment
Telegraph.co.uk – Jun 23, 2005
They lapped it up, and he conveniently forgot to mention how every move he makes takes us nearer to the economic model he criticises so trenchantly. Recent work from the British Chambers of Commerce puts the all-up cost of compliance with Labour’s social crusade at around £40 billion. However much Mr Brown might like to blame the EU (in fact he’s careful not to) the BCC reckons that 70pc of the new regulations are home-grown. It cites the minimum wage, the impenetrable thicket that is his “tax credit” scheme, and paid maternity leave. Every company, down to the tiniest, must hold the job open, regardless of the damage to the business or fellow employees. Even the barmy stuff that really does come from the EU is Labour’s fault, a direct result of its decision to give up Britain’s opt-out of the Social Chapter, as a communautaire gesture when it came to power. Our performance may look good compared to France or Italy, but it looks pretty poor against the world outside the eurozone.
County Urged to Open Group Home for Mentally Ill
Washington Post – Jun 23, 2005
The proposed group home would have four or five beds. Although it would not solve the county’s crisis, “we’d like to start there,” she said. The Community Services Board wants supervisors to include the group home when it meets in the fall to create the county’s strategic goals for next year. Federal and state money, as well as Medicaid and client fees, could help fund the group home, Madron said. Supervisor Maureen S. Caddigan (R-Dumfries) said the county must “bite the bullet” and simply fund the home. Supervisor Hilda M…
About 54 percent were female, the median age was 50. 5, 60 percent were diagnosed with schizophrenia and 28 percent suffered from bipolar disorders, according to the Community Services Board. As the county’s population has grown, so have the number of mentally ill and the demand for care, Madron said. According to Community Services Board data, 50 adult beds were lost when three private psychiatric hospitals closed in the region in 2004. The Northern Virginia Mental Health Institute in nearby Falls Church often operates at 98 percent occupancy and cannot take Prince William clients. Employees have spent as long as eight hours on the phone trying to find a bed for a client, Madron said. The county sheriff’s office has had to drive clients as far away as Chesapeake, Va.