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Anytime people have a hard time understanding something, the first thing they turn to is easy label. In the case of people with strong voices, the easy label is "crazy."

I've heard it a lot over the years, and even more so over the past few months. I've mostly heard it in small voices, whispered as I leave the room. I've often heard it from third parties, since the scared little rabbits who utter it are too timid to even imagine saying it to my face. As technology advanced, I began to hear it via email and from anonymous idiots on the Internet.

What I've heard, I believe men like Dr. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey, and even Jesus Christ heard during their lives and times. Not that I dare to place myself on the same level or in the same company of such great men, but if I'm being given the same label, then maybe I'm actually on to something.

What I've heard is "Darryl James is crazy."

And maybe I am.

Perhaps because I am unafraid to stand for what I believe is right, and for what I believe is just, no matter the consequences, then I am crazy. Dr King, a man of peace said "A man who doesn't have something for which he is prepared to die, is not fit to live."

People called him crazy for that.

Perhaps because I am carving my own way, creating my own destiny and urging others to do the same, then I am crazy.

I believe that Blacks ought to reverse integration. Marcus Garvey urged Black folks to return to Africa.

People called him crazy for that.

Perhaps because I don't believe in turning the other cheek, and that if you do harm to me, I have the right to defend myself by any means necessary, then, like Malcolm X, I am crazy.

Perhaps because I often take the cause of the underdog, the weak, the voiceless or the outcast, or those shunned by the masses, then like Jesus Christ of Nazareth, I am crazy.

Or, perhaps, because I have seen, read, heard, touched, tasted, smelled, crapped on and slept near too much of the cold reality that this nation can dish out to a Black man, it has driven me to a fife on the edge.

The angry, ignorant women and sissified little men with safe little lives who call me crazy would be quick to look for the refuge found in the company of one so crazy when the realities of being colored in this nation come to serve their asses. They couldn't survive one week being in the shoes of Malcolm, Martin or even Darryl James.

And they couldn't survive one of their worthless minutes living in the shoes of men of color like Nelson Mandela, who stayed in prison for twenty-six years on principle.

Standing for something with integrity and fortitude gets you labeled as crazy these days.

It's simply not the popular thing to do.

But I've never pursued only that which is popular.

For all of the ugly things people say about some our so-called "craziest," they have more plans to work for our community than the window-dressing, self-serving public figures like Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton.

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Appearing before Carmarthen magistrates last Wednesday, Carl Derrick Lawrence Aldous, aged 49, of Water Street, admitted possessing 19.2 grams of herbal cannabis and trace amounts replica breitling watches of cannabis resin.

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They found a plastic bag containing the herbal cannabis, which was valued at Pounds 81.

A similar complaint led to small amounts of cannabis resin being discovered on January 23.

Aldous was given a 12-month conditional discharge and was ordered to pay costs of Pounds 40, reduced from Pounds 85.

The authority is urging residents to recycle as much as possible through their kerbside schemes and bring banks.

Residents who are in the council's garden waste scheme can leave out Christmas trees up to five feet high with their garden waste bags.

Trees larger than this should be cut up and put in the green waste bags for collection.

The council also accepts Christmas trees at its Swindon Road recycling centre.

Wrapping paper cannot be accepted and neither can glitter and plastics.

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The men broke into the Laurels Care Home overnight last Sunday after they gained access through the window of a rear office.

It is thought the same men tried to get into the Leonard Cheshire Disability's Greenhill House, also in Timsbury, on the same night but were disturbed by a member of staff.

Police believe the men are also behind two other burglaries that took place on the same night at care homes in Wells and Portishead.

Inspector Paul Kendall asked witnesses to come forward and urged people to remain vigilant and report any suspicious vehicles they saw around the vicinity of care homes.

Anyone with information about the break-ins can call Avon and Somerset police on 0845 456 7000.

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One of the gang pushed the teenager in the chest and then snatched the mobile phone from his hand.

The victim managed to run away. He was unable to give any descriptions of offenders.

The incident occurred at around 6pm on January 30.

Witnesses are asked to call Lincolnshire Police on (01522) 532222.

The two men were seen running away from the barn in fields near Balkwill Road, Kingsbridge, just before a member of the public spotted smoke pouring from the building.

Firefighters from Kingsbridge and Salcombe were forced to close roads near the barn as they tackled the blaze which virtually gutted the building.

It is thought the barn may have been being used by squatters.

There were armchairs, a bed, tables and food inside the barn, all of which were destroyed in the fire.

Police said the fire was being treated as arson.

A police spokesman appealed for any witnesses who may have spotted the two men in the area of the barn or in the town itself.

They are both described as being dark skinned around 5ft 10ins tall.

One in his early 30s had a beard, dark hair and was wearing a hoodie and jeans. The other in his late 40s also had dark hair.

The fire teams wore breathing apparatus to tackle the blaze using main jets.

A witness who first spotted the fire and called the police reported seeing two men running away across fields.

Another reported the two men jumping over a fence at the edge of the field in which the barn was located.

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WINTER Olympics organisers have postponed the men's downhill alpine skiing competition until tomorrow due to slushy conditions on the course.

The blue riband event had been scheduled for to take place yesterday at Whistler Creekside but a combination of rain, snow, fog and temperatures that have been too warm have turned the slopes to slush making them too dangerous to be used.

The first women's event was scheduled to be the super-combined today but that was postponed on Friday for the same reasons.

Meanwhile, Switzerland's SimonAmmannproduced a giant final-round jump of 108 metres to claim the first gold medal of the 2010 Games in the men's normal hill ski jumping competition.

Poland's Adam Malysz took the silver and Austria's Gregor Schlierenzauer claimed the bronze medal at Whistler Olympic Park.

Ammann, whose winning points total was 276.5, had led after the first round of jumps and was last to go in the final round.

But the 28-year-old held his nerve brilliantly to produce the biggest jump of the competition and secure gold.

Malysz had taken the lead with only two jumpers remaining.

His leap of 105 metres was less than Schlierenzauer's earlier jump of 106.5 metres but the judges marks took Malysz into the lead with a points total of 269.5.

Schlierenauer's final-round jump gave him a points total of 268.

Midway through the final round of jumps 17-year-old Slovenian Peter Prevc had edged ahead with a leap of 104.5 metres.

After the first round of jumps, Ammann had led with a leap of 105 metres for a points score of 135.5.

Germany's Michael Uhrmann was second after a jump of 103.5 (133 points) with Malaysz third with 132 points after matching Uhrmann's jump.

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Thomas sabo charms Having defied the odds on Sunday to eliminate world No.1 Safuan Said, the 15-year-old was upstaged by Bendigo's Matt Wilson, who registered an 11-6 11-3 win to advance to the final 16.

Pedersen was humble in defeat, having ridden a rollercoaster over the past four days since his victory against the Malaysian superstar. "I never came here to think I would get that far," Pederson said. "He (Wilson) played better than me."

With the sentimental favourite bowing out, the heavyweights of the men's game decided yesterday was moving day, with three of the world's top 10 players - defending champion Brett Wilkie, Ali Forsyth and Aron Sherriff - claiming a spot in the replica hublot watches fourth round.

In the women, world No.1 Val Smith led New Zealand teammates Clare McCaul and Jan Khan through to today's triples final.

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The Americans may have lost the gold-medal men's hockey game to Canada in overtime. But the silver gave the United States 37 medals for these Olympics. That is an all-time record for any country in any Winter Games. The previous mark was set by Germany at the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City (36). The United States had not won the overall medal count at the Winter Olympics since hosting the 1932 Games in Lake Placid.

"I think the programs that we put in place after Nagano [in 1998] are having an impact on us today," said Scott Blackmun, chief executive officer of the U.S. Olympic Committee. "We completely restructured the way that we approach our support of the national governing bodies in 2000 in that we started building customized partnerships based on their individual needs. I think what you're seeing here now is in part a result of our efforts. But we need to continue providing the resources that the athletes need to be their best."

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"It's been so cool to watch the American flag go up on the podium so many times," Vonn said. "All the stories that go behind all the success and all the hard work that everyone put in is really paying off. For me, as an athlete and as a spectator, it's very inspiring."

Canada, meanwhile, overcame a slow start to post 26 medals overall, including 14 golds. That, too, sets a new Olympic record for gold and is a huge boost to a country that had pledged to "Own the Podium" entering its own Winter Olympics. The Canadians finished third overall in the medal standings.

It's a practice that leads actors to grab on to him as if he were the last life preserver on the Titanic ... which, for Leonardo DiCaprio, he was.

"I was headed down a path of being one kind of actor, and he helped me become another one: the one I wanted to be," DiCaprio said.

The pairing has become one of the most productive in Hollywood, and it has been career-altering for both men.

For Scorsese, mentoring the 35-year-old actor is a return to the kind of relationships he forged in the 1970s, when he was writing bitter serenades to New York with movies such as Mean Streets and Taxi Driver.

As he did with Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel, Scorsese, 67, takes a paternal interest in DiCaprio, suggesting roles, demanding dozens of takes and watching the actor mature.

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"Sometimes, you relate to an actor in ways you can't explain," Scorsese said.

"I felt it with Harvey, I felt it with Robert, I feel it now.

"Over the course of years, you develop a rhythm that's hard to find in this business.

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Since Scorsese got to know DiCaprio (at the urging of De Niro), the director has cast him in every feature film he has done since: Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004) and The Departed (2006).

Together, the movies have taken in more than $A346.9 million domestically (a fortune for R-rated Scorsese films) and tallied 26 Oscar nominations and wins.

They pair again for Shutter Island - a mystery thriller that marks replica breitling watches new territory for both men.

The film, which opens in Australia next Thursday, is as close as Scorsese has come to a horror film since Cape Fear - his 1991 remake with De Niro.

In Shutter Island, DiCaprio plays Teddy Daniels: a US marshal in 1954, who investigates the disappearance of a murderer from a hospital for the criminally insane.

Ask Scorsese why he's teaming for the fourth time in eight years with DiCaprio, and his answer is straightforward: "I love seeing an actor at this stage in his life, when he can try new, braver things.

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