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Editorial: Police body cams good for officers, citizens

Edit Detroit news 26 May 2016
Over the next year and a half, 1,500 cameras will be deployed throughout the department to record interactions between officers and citizens ... A basic question is to determine how continuously cameras will be recording. It would seem that either continuous recording throughout an officer’s shift or continuous recording once a citizen interaction has begun makes the most sense....

Local to global: Akash Sharma launches independent label for artists to succeed

Edit The Examiner 26 May 2016
This is not the case for Akash Sharma, the man who officially launched the record label OTH Records under Sharmatic Media, an international media and marketing company. OTH Records was created to showcase music artists exclusively on OTH Connect start May 30th. Sharm plans to small with OTH Records by signing one artist and see where the label goes from there....

Sleepwalkers head out on tour in support of the Lumineers

Edit The Examiner 26 May 2016
Their debut album, Greenwood Shade, released in 2014, caught the attention of many people, including Ryan Adams who claimed the record “...like the lost friend I was looking for but didn’t know.” ... Drummer and studio engineer Alex DeJong hooked up the band with some late nights of recordings (and bonfires) at White Star Sound, a studio outside Charlottesville, VA ... Our next record we’ll make a lateral move....

Low loonie could cost NHL $200 million in revenue

Edit Toronto Sun 26 May 2016
In a Wednesday interview with Bloomberg Television, commissioner Gary Bettman said the league is likely to set a revenue record even though the Canadian dollar fell to 68 cents U.S....

86 requests to City Hall from feds probing Chicago police

Edit Chicago Sun-Times 26 May 2016
Additionally, they’re seeking a variety or records related to the Independent Police Review Authority, which investigates shootings by police officers and disciplinary complaints against them ... The feds have been seeking records from the city since Dec ... Many of the requests seek records dating back to Jan ... having no audio of incidents they record....

USA Songwriting Competition (ASCAP - American Society of Composers Authors and Publishers)

Edit Public Technologies 26 May 2016
USA Songwriting Competition has a long history of having winners getting recording and publishing contracts, have their songs placed on the charts as well as having their songs placed on film and television. 2013 winner American Authors were signed to Island Records, and hit #1 on the Billboard Charts....

Johnny Depp's wife files for divorce in Los Angeles

Edit Austin American Statesman 26 May 2016
Court records show Amber Depp, an actress known as Amber Heard, filed for divorce on Monday and is seeking spousal support from the Oscar-nominated actor ... Court records show Heard filed for divorce in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday, May 23, 2016, citing irreconcilable differences ... Court records show Heard filed for divorce in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday, May 23, 2016, citing irreconcilable differences....

Recordings put pressure on allies of Brazil's acting leader

Edit The Oklahoman 26 May 2016
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Secretly recorded conversations hit two more key allies of Brazil's acting president Wednesday, leaving the country wondering if there are more taps that could affect the interim government after only 13 days in office ... Transcripts and audio recordings of the conversations, published by the newspaper Folha de S ... The newspaper did not say when or by whom the recordings were made....

Public records overhaul goes to Mass. governor's desk

Edit Worcester Telegram 26 May 2016
Charlie Baker's desk a compromise bill that represents the first major overhaul of public records access laws in 43 years.In addition to requiring state agencies and cities and towns to designate records officers to field requests, the proposal requires public agencies to provide requested public records within 10 business days, while allowing for extensions beyond that deadline capped at ... ....

Record number of city whistleblower reports in 2015

Edit Canada Dot Com 26 May 2016
The city's whistleblower program racked up a record number of reports last year, according to council's audit boss ... Allan Hubley, the chair of council's audit committee, said Wednesday the fraud and waste hotline recorded more than 400 reports in 2015. That's a record for a single year, Hubley said....

The Heartland Is The Place To Beat The Heat This Summer

Edit WPTV 26 May 2016
We've broken record-high temperatures here in the U.S ... Remember when New Yorkers were walking around in shorts and T-shirts days before Christmas? The unseasonably warm temperatures were the highest ever recorded for several cities on the East Coast and probably made for some very toasty ugly Christmas sweater parties. ....

Two women killed in fire after power wire snaps

Edit The Times of India 26 May 2016
BHUBANESWAR/CUTTACK ... Chandbali recorded 26 mm rainfall followed by Balasore 15 mm and Cuttack 14.4 mm. Bhubaneswar recorded 40.2°C during the day and witnessed Nor'wester in the afternoon and evening ... The IMD report said the city recorded 6.6 mm rainfall. Heatwave prevailed in Bhawanipatna, which recorded the highest day temperature of 45.5°C ... RELATED. From around the web....

'Dangerous' police recording system putting children at risk, MPs say

Edit The Guardian 26 May 2016
At least 10,000 children who go missing could be at “terrible risk” because a “dangerous” police recording system means they fall off the radar, an all-party group of MPs has said. Ann Coffey, the Labour chair of the all-party inquiry, said that a new “absent” category introduced in the police recording system was dangerous and should be scrapped ... The longest period a child was recorded as “absent” was 20 days and 16 hours....
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