WATCH: Scientists Unlock Secrets Of Usain Bolt's Speed .....Usain Bolt's Speed Comes Despite Serious Aerodynamic Drag, Physicists Say (VIDEO)

Jamaica's Usain Bolt wins the men's 100m final race of the 2009 IAAF Athletics World Championships on August 16, 2009 in Berlin, setting a new world record of 9.58 seconds.

What explains Usain Bolt's speed? Track fans have been debating that question for years, and now a team of physicists from the National University of Mexico in Mexico City have created a mathematical model that helps explain how the world's fastest man is able to bolt 100 meters in well under 9.6 seconds.

"As far as our study can reveal, he seems to be able to develop more power than other runners," study co-author Dr. Jorge Hernandez, a professor of biophysics at the university, told The Huffington Post in an email. "A way of doing it is that he finds a way to reduce the area (cross section, as we call it) he presents to the air. Maybe adopting a running position that reduces this area, but that wouldn't reduce his performance/ability to deploy the power he actually does." Read More...

JAMAICA'S 51st INDEPENDENCE: Olive Lewin, OM, heads list of 138 honourees

Olive Lewin

THE late Jamaica folk music pioneer, researcher , performer and educator , Olive Wilhelmina Mahoney Lewin leads the field of 138 Jamaicans being honoured for service to the nation on the National Honours and Awards list, released last night.

Lewin, who will receive the Order of Merit (OM), posthumously, the country’s third highest honour, was born in Vere, Clarendon. She is a fellow of Trinity College, London, and an associate of the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal School of Music. She also held the positions of director of arts and culture in the Office of the Prime Minister, director of the Jamaica Institute of Folk Culture, and directed the Jamaica Orchestra for Youth. Lewin wrote several books and made numerous recordings of folk music, performed by the Jamaican Folk Singers. She has also been honoured by the United Nations, the Organisation of American States, the Government of France and by academia for her outstanding lifelong contribution to the arts. She died on April 10 this year, aged 85. Read more: 

IN MOSCOW: I'm ready, says Usain Bolt

MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Jamaican sprint star Usain Bolt has declared himself 'ready' in his bid to defend his 200m crown and reclaim the title in the blue-riband 100m at next week's World Athletics Championships.

Bolt, who was talking at a sponsors' event at Gorky Park on Sunday, now goes straight into training for the August 10-18 champs at the Luzhniki Stadium.

BOLT… I want to keep winning every race that I compete in  1/1

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Tawana Brawley Rape Hoax Leads To Defamation Damage Payout 26 Years Later

Tawana Brawley, who fabricated
 a sensational rape story in 1987,
may be forced to finally pay damages
 to one of the men falsely accused.

The nation was stunned in 1987 by an African-American teenager's accusation that she had been brutally gang raped by a group of white men, including a local prosecutor and a local police officer. Those accusations turned out to be an elaborate hoax -- and decades later, one of the men wrongfully accused in the fabricated horrific crime is finally receiving reparations payments.

Eleven years after Tawana Brawley's sensational story was disproved, former prosecutor Steven Pagones successfully sued Brawley, her attorneys and Rev. Al Sharpton -- who had gotten involved with the case -- for slander, according to the Poughkeepsie Journal. Although the others paid up, for years Brawley refused to pay the $185,000 in damages, worth closer to $400,000 with interest.

Brawley now works in Richmond, Va. as a nurse at the The Laurels of Bon Air nursing home, under a different name, Tawana V. Gutierrez, according to the Journal. A court has ordered Brawley's employer to garnish her wages in order to begin paying Pagones.

So far, Pagones has received around $3,700, the Journal reports. Read More...

Peace and Love Academic Scholarship, Inc. (PALAS) awarding sixty (60) new scholarships to students in Jamaica for the 2013-2014 school year. Hon. Damion Crawford, Minister of Tourism and Entertainment and Washington D.C Attorney Patrick Campbell will deliver speaking addresses......PALAS awards a total of 115 scholarships over the past 3 years.

An award ceremony for 60 new PALAS recipients will be held at the University of the West Indies-Mona Campus, Inter-Faculty Lecture Theatre (IFLT) on Saturday, August 24, 2013 commencing at 5pm JA time. 
Guest speakers are Hon. Damion Crawford, Junior Minister of Tourism and Entertainment, and Washington D.C Attorney Patrick Campbell will deliver the other speaking honors. Entertainment will be provided by reggae singer, Winsome Benjamin. 
Grace Kennedy Group and 25th Century Media will partly sponsor the event.PALAS is still accepting donation, please share and spread the word to donate: Please donate online at www.PALAS1.org or send a check payable to PALAS, P.O. Box 5461, Alpharetta GA 30023 USA.

2013-2014 PALAS Recipients (60)

UPDATE: Woman Loses Leg, Four Others Sustain Injuries After Car Crashes Into Bus Stop, Shop (VIDEO)

A 56-year-old woman is without a leg this evening while four others, including two children, are nursing injuries after they were hit by a motor car this morning along the Montpellier main road near Montego Bay, St James. 

The incident took place about 7:30 this morning when the driver of a Toyota Corolla motor car hit a woman as she stood on the side of the road with her three-month-old child. The driver then reportedly lost control of the vehicle and crashed into a bus stop, injuring the other pedestrians in the process. 

The vehicle subsequently crashed into a shop, pinning a woman beneath it. She was taken to the Cornwall Regional Hospital where she underwent emergency surgery to remove a severely injured leg. The woman and her three-month-old baby were also taken to hospital, while a 14-year-old boy and seven-year-old girl are nursing injuries. Read More...

IN JAMAICA: Ananda Dean's loss still hurts five years later Mother, father of 11-year-old under the emotional gun

ANANDA DEAN ... raped and killed
in incident that shocked the nation.

 

In October 2008 the nation was rocked by news of the discovery of the decomposing remains of an 11-year-old girl who was found dumped in bushes in Cypress Hill in the community of Belvedere, St Andrew.

DNA tests and identification by relatives revealed that the body was that of Ananda Dean. The child had gone missing after she left the Swallowfield All Age School on Whitehall Avenue after the closing school bell rang.

But that was almost five years ago. And for the little girl's parents they are finding it hard to move on from that point. "Five years have passed but the pain has not eased. I have not gotten any closure. Each passing day you wonder what she would look like. However I am comforted by the fact that it was not her fault and she must be in heaven," Richard Dean, Ananda's father, told the Jamaica Observer. Read more: 

IN JAMAICA: HELLO...! They Are Bugging Phones ... But Won't Tell!

Ellington

State agencies in Jamaica are listening to private phone calls but nobody will say who are the targets or how often calls are intercepted.

The deafening silence comes at a time when the Barack Obama administration in the United States (US) has admitted that it can read and store the phone records of millions of Americans.

Last Wednesday, the Obama administration made public a previously top-secret order that directed the telecommunications company Verizon to hand over an immense number of Americans' phone records.

In the United Kingdom, it also emerged last week that some of the world's leading telecoms firms, including BT and Vodafone, are secretly collaborating with Britain's spy agency and passing on details of their customers' phone calls, email messages and Facebook entries. Read More...

IN JAMAICA: 11-year-old Outspoken Tashanique James, shot and killed by gunmen in Denham Town on Emancipation Day

THE TEARS meandered slowly down her face as Yahola 'Teesha' Anderson asked the question that so many Jamaican mothers have asked in recent times when their child has been killed: "Why?"

Yahola Anderson hugs a photo of
 her 11-year-old daughter, Tashanique James,
who was shot and killed by
gunmen in Denham Town
 on Emancipation Day.

"How dem could just fire shot so and tek mi baby life? She don't even live no life," Anderson lamented to The Gleaner yesterday as she reacted to the fatal shooting of her 11-year-old daughter, Tashanique James, in the west Kingston community of Denham Town on Thursday.

The youngster, who everyone knew as 'Dana', was one of five persons shot in two gang-related incidents in the community while Jamaicans marked Emancipation Day.

Another victim, a 12-year-old girl, was treated at hospital and released.

Less than 24 hours after that shooting, Anderson was headed to the morgue for another look at the lifeless body of her daughter, the Clan Carthy Primary student who was headed to grade six with big plans for her future.

"No care how you are sad, Dana always made you laugh," said Anderson, with the only hint of a smile for the entire time she spoke with our news team.

"She try her best because she always wanted to be on top. She was a shining star in everybody's life, no matter who you be. Everybody loved her, even the police dem who come in the area. Read More...

INTERNATIONAL ALL AFRICAN INVENTORS MUSEUM (IAAIM) Est.1991 PARTNERS WITH ENTREPRENEUR PHILANTROPIST AND AUTHOR MRS. OLIVE STEELE (AND WHEN WE PRAY & GREAT IS THY FAITHFULNESS) TO FUNDRAISE FOR THE PEACE AND LOVE ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIP (PALAS)

TORONTO (July 2013) The International All African Inventors Museum (IAAIM) welcomes our newest partner Jamaican Canadian entrepreneur, former politician, philanthropist, and author of And When We Pray and Great is Thy Faithfulness Mrs. Olive Rose Steele who has joined our fundraising efforts to help the Peace and Love Academic Scholarship Program (PALAS) provides 100 scholarships to needy Jamaican students for 2013 - 2014.  Mrs. Steele will generously donate $2.00 from every e-book sold on Amazon.com of And When We Pray and Great is Thy Faithfulness beginning August 1^st 2013 for one year ending August 31, 2014 to PALAS.  Start reading And When We Pray and Great is Thy Faithfulness (Insights for Seekers of Self) on your Kindle right now and save on the digital price $4.73 (74% or $13.27 off the print price). Available at http://www.amazon.com/Great-Faithfulness-Insights-Seekers-ebook/dp/B00ADSERCQ and / or  http://www.amazon.com/Olive-Rose-Steele/e/B00AECQY2C View shared postand help a Great cause or donate direct online at www.PALAS1.org with PAYPAL, VISA, MASTERCARD. Read More....

EDITORIAL : The world will be watching Jamaica’s ambassadors in Moscow

FORMER Trinidadian sprinter and Olympic medallist Mr Ato Boldon is correct. There won’t be the usual “anticipation and hype” entering next week’s IAAF World Championships in Moscow, Russia.

A large part of the reason is the recent rash of adverse drug test results for leading athletes, including three Jamaican sprint stars, Mrs Veronica Campbell Brown, Miss Sherone Simpson and Mr Asafa Powell, as well as the leading American sprinter Mr Tyson Gay.

It doesn’t matter that in the case of the Jamaicans the banned substances apparently entered the body via supplements and that they themselves have denied “knowingly” doing anything wrong. Seemingly, it also doesn’t matter that some of these offences are likely to be deemed “minor” when final investigations are done. Read more:

IN ENGLAND: African American teenager has become the youngest person to qualify as a barrister (Lawyer) in 600 years

Gabrielle Turnquest is now
 planning to return to her native
America to qualify as a lawyer there

A teenager has become the youngest person to qualify as a barrister in the 600 year history of the profession – so she can work in the Bahamas. American student Gabrielle Turnquest was called to the Bar of England and Wales after passing her exams at just 18. The average lawyer undertakes the Bar Professional Training Course when they are 27.

However, the young high-flyer will not go on to work in the UK as she wants to return to her native America to qualify as a lawyer there. But her success means she is also called to the Bahamas Bar, the country of her parents, and she hopes to work there.

Gabrielle took the course, at the University of Law, along with her sister Kandi, who also passed her exams but at the ripe old age of 22. The teenager, who is originally from Windermere, Florida, hopes eventually to be a fashion law specialist. Read More...

Cissy Houston Pens Open Letter To Bobbi Kristina......Cissy told Oprah she did not like an earlier interview she did with Krissi (VIDEO)

The very public rift between the mother, Cissy Houston, and daughter, Bobbi Kristina, of the lateWhitney Houston, has been the subject of much speculation on social media, fueled, in large part, by statements from Cissy Houston and Bobbi Kristina themselves. Now, the heartbroken grandmother has penned an open letter to her wayward granddaughter — who caused eyebrows to raise when she became engaged her “brother,” Nick Gordon – begging for a reconciliation.

Read it below:

Cissy and Krissi

Dear Krissi

I love you. My heart is full. I don’t know where to begin.

You may think I don’t understand you and what you’re feeling but remember, Baby, I lost my mom when I was just a child. So, I do know some of the sadness and loneliness of your life since your mom passed away. Read More...

Peace and Love Academic Scholarship, Inc. (PALAS) awarding sixty (60) new scholarships to students in Jamaica for the 2013-2014 school year. Hon. Damion Crawford, Minister of Tourism and Entertainment and Washington D.C Attorney Patrick Campbell will deliver speaking addresses...... A total of 115 scholarships over the past 2 years.

An award ceremony for 60 new PALAS recipients will be held at the University of the West Indies-Mona Campus, Inter-Faculty Lecture Theatre (IFLT) on Saturday, August 24, 2013 commencing at 5pm JA time. 
Guest speakers are Hon. Damion Crawford, Junior Minister of Tourism and Entertainment, and Washington D.C Attorney Patrick Campbell will deliver the other speaking honors. Entertainment will be provided by reggae singer, Winsome Benjamin. 
Grace Kennedy Group and 25th Century Media will partly sponsor the event.PALAS is still accepting donation, please share and spread the word to donate: Please donate online at www.PALAS1.org or send a check payable to PALAS, P.O. Box 5461, Alpharetta GA 30023 USA.

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Never Forget: Trayvon’s Hoodie May Be Displayed In African American History Museum (VIDEO of Trayvon minutes before he was killed)

Lonnie Bunch, the director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, has expressing interest in procuring the hoodie worn by 17-year-old Trayvon Martin on February 26, 2012, when he was profiled, followed and ultimately shot through the heart by killer George Zimmerman, reports the Washington Post.

RELATED: George Zimmerman Busted For Speeding In Texas, Gun In Car [VIDEO]

“It became the symbolic way to talk the Trayvon Martin case. It’s rare that you get one artifact that really becomes the symbol,” Bunch said. “Because it’s such a symbol, it would allow you to talk about race in the age of Obama.” 

MSNBC’s PoliticsNation host Rev. Al Sharpton, who is largely responsible for catapulting the case to national prominence, said that he “would like to see it preserved” because it is the “first civil rights flash point” of the 21st century.

“The hoodie now represents an image of an urban street kid that either embraces or engages in street thug life,” he said. “I think it’s unfair.” Read More...

Damion Crawford, minister of state in the Ministry of Tourism and Entertainment.....Design Contest For Crafters To Boost Development

The Jamaica Intellectual Property Office (JIPO), in collaboration with the Ministry of Tourism and Entertainment, as well as theEdna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, on Tuesday launched the Authentic Jamaica Design Competition.

Damion Crawford (left) and
Tourism Minister Wykeham McNeill.

According to the organisers of the event, the craft market has long been overlooked by governments. However, this competition signals the end of that era.

According to Damion Crawford, minister of state in the Ministry of Tourism and Entertainment, he and Dr Wykeham McNeill, tourism minister, were tired of hearing craft vendors complain about not maximising returns from their work.

According to Crawford, research done by UNESCO has revealed findings that the craft industry is the best way that persons from lower-incomebrackets of society can benefit from tourism. Read More...

The GLEANER MINUTE: Three Killed In Trelawny Crash

Three people have been confirmed dead following a motor vehicle crash in Trelawny late this afternoon. 

The crash happened on the Braco Main Road when a Toyota Coaster bus collided with a Toyota Tundra pick up. Up to a short while ago the three bodies were still at the crash site. It is reported that several people were rushed to hospital with injuries. Read More...

JAMAICA Emancipendence : 175 years after 'full free'.......

According to the popular view, emancipation from slavery in Jamaica took place on August 1, 1834, which was 179 years ago today. But there was an apprenticeship period for four years. So "full free" as it was called took place on August 1, 1838, which is 175 years ago today.

What we have in Jamaica is an "Emancipendence" celebration which covers both our emancipation on August 1 and our political independence on August 6. This is similar to the Jews whose Passover is about liberation form slavery and political independence. It seems that some people would like to bring back slavery. Today, the euphemism "human trafficking" is used, but it is nothing more than slavery, albeit in modern times. Many times when the list of missing persons is read on radio or TV some wonder if the missing persons have been enslaved.

This is a greater reason to celebrate the anniversary of our emancipation. Not only should we celebrate, but we should also be taking the steps necessary to protect our emancipation just as we should protect Jamaica's political independence.

Jamaica spent a lot of money last year for our 50th anniversary celebration of political independence. In these hard times we could not replicate that with an equally fantastic celebration of our 175th anniversary of 'full free'. But we should still be mindful of the gains made by our national heroes and others. Read more: 

 

3 Nutrients To Help You Sleep Better

I'm not sure exactly when it happened, but the U.S. seems to have become a nation obsessed with pills. If something doesn't work right, no worries, there's a pill for that.

So when we have trouble sleeping, naturally, we go see the doctor for a prescription. Who cares that we might try to sleepwalk our way behind the wheel of a car? At least we're sleeping, right? Wrong!

If you ask me, prescriptions, especially those with severe and dangerous side effects, should always be a last resort.

There could be many reasons for not sleeping well, and stress often plays a role, but quite a few studies have shown that getting the right nutrients can help you get a good night's rest. Why not try eating right, before popping an Ambien?

Here's a look at three common sleep problems that have been linked to vitamin or mineral deficiencies:

Trouble getting to sleep: Magnesium plays a key role in the bodily function that regulates sleep. Insomnia is one of the symptoms of magnesium deficiency, and in fact, a 2006 analysis in the journal Medical Hypothesis suggests that such a deficiency may even be the cause of most major depression and mental health problems. Read More...

IN JAMAICA: Partying To Debt - Sprint Financial Services Sees More Patrons Taking Loans For Events

Partygoers attending some of the priciest events this summer will once again be able to benefit from loans being offered by one lending agency expressly for this purpose.

A section of the crowd at
 last year's Smirnoff XClusive,
 one of the events at
Smirnoff Dream Weekend

Sprint Financial Services started offering loans to patrons attending some of the most expensive parties in the west of the island in 2012 and is doing the same this year.

Founder and CEO of the company, Christopher Barrett, pointed out that the number of persons accessing these loans is on the increase.

"An increase is putting it mildly. It has actually more than doubled since then. As a matter of fact, even throughout the year for all the other little expensive parties for which happen, people take out loans. This is the time of year when it is a little more than usual," Barrett said.

He added that ATI (not on this year) and Dream Weekend were among the most popular parties for which individuals take out loans for.

Barrett mentioned that persons can get loans for any kind of party costing more than $6,500 per person. He also said that persons have between either one or two months to repay the loan at 6.5 per cent per month and that no collateral was necessary. Read More...

Abuse Files Reveal Priest Had Sex With Over 100 Boys: Los Angeles Catholic Church Sex Abuse Files Released Including Files On Ruben Martinez Who Abused 100 Boys

LOS ANGELES -- Hundreds of pages of secret church files released Wednesday shed light on the troublesome careers of a dozen religious order priests, brothers and nuns accused of sexually abusing children while working in the nation's largest Roman Catholic archdiocese.

The files include one case of a priest who later admitted to having sexual contact with more than 100 boys while serving in several Southern California parishes for years.

The papers, which were released under the terms of a $660 million settlement agreement reached in 2007, are the first glimpse at what religious orders knew about the envoys they posted in Roman Catholic schools and parishes around the Los Angeles area. The archdiocese itself released thousands of pages under court order this year for its own priests who were accused of sexual abuse, but the full picture of sex abuse in Los Angeles remained elusive without the religious orders' records. Several dozen more files are expected to be released by the fall. Read More...

REPORT: LIFETIME BAN FOR NEW YORK YANKEES ALEX RODRIQUEZ (A-ROD)

(Photo: Jeff Blake, USA TODAY Sports)

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Yankees slugger would appeal with case heard by independent arbitrator
• Some players will not be suspended for lack of evidence
• Rodriguez scheduled to play in rehab game on Friday.

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Commissioner Bud Selig is prepared to levy a lifetime suspension on New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez, while suspending about eight others before the weekend, two people with knowledge of the negotiations told USA TODAY Sports.

The people were unauthorized to speak publicly because no announcement is expected until Thursday or Friday.

BRENNAN: Crackdown shows tide has turned on MLB dopers 

Rodriguez, according to his attorney, David Cornwell, will appeal any suspension, regardless of the severity. The other players are expected to receive 50-game bans, and most are considering accepting the discipline without appealing,  Read More...

Ridin' Dirty: Cops Stop George Zimmerman For Speeding, Find Gun In His Car (VIDEO)

UPDATE 6:30 PM EST

Robert Zimmerman, Jr., George Zimmerman's brother has released a statement regarding George's traffic stop and his need to carry a gun.

George Zimmerman

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