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...remains unclear exactly what impact the new policy will have, and some see it as a mere public relations ploy. Police department spokesman Roland Lee told TIME Daily that the specifics have not been worked out yet, and that it remains unclear whether the women's groups will have the authority to review each and every case that is downgraded. What's more, said Lee, "the women's groups will look at some cases, but the final determination of whether to investigate them will still be made by the police department." Still, the move can be taken as another sign...
...smart card was invented by a former French journalist and technological autodidact, Roland Moreno, in the 1970s. Initial applications centered on ID cards, but by the 1980s--in another example of state-led adoption of new technology--France Telecom introduced prepaid telecartes that rendered coins in phone booths obsolete. Applications quickly blossomed as the association of Carte Bleue debit cards ordered their banks to fight fraud by issuing only chip-embedded cards, and as France Telecom issued the Minitel with smart-card readers to enable online purchase of everything from opera tickets to train reservations--well before anyone had heard...
Their upcoming projects include writing a script about the Marx Brothers that will focus on the comedians' early wild years in vaudeville, and producing films about the flamboyant pianist Liberace, First Brother Billy Carter, and Roland Stewart, the ubiquitous fan with the rainbow-colored Afro wig who appeared at nearly every televised sporting event in the 1980s before he snapped violently and was arrested after a shootout with police. As Alexander explains, "We behave like gentlemen at the studio, but we try to write punk-rock material...
...most rock-oriented form of dance music and thus has had the biggest crossover success. It borrows the percussion style of breakbeat (common samples include the drums in James Brown's "Funky Drummer" and those in Incredible Bongo Band's "Apache"), and throws in the squelch of the Roland 303 synthesiser, rock guitars, and whatever else fits. Fatboy Slim's You've Come a Long Way, Baby or the Chemical Brothers' Dig Your Own Hole are both fairly well-known albums, but try the import-only Fatboy Slim mix album On the Floor at the Boutique...
...good as his word, throwing in a exaggerated slap bass effects and general goofing around on his sling-on keyboard. LRD blended in the familiar if childish "Popcorn" melody into "Dreamin'" and went on to do a version of the catchy "Jacques Your Body" that inserted an interesting Roland 303 break, and perhaps more unique, a cheesy guitar face-off, a la hair-metal rock concerts...