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Millions of Americans use over-the-counter drugs to cure the cough and cold--but now some are using them to get high, which can have severe side effects. There is some evidence that says more young people are using medicines like Claritin, Sudafed, and even Tylenol for a buzz, but it can also land them in the hospital.
From allergy medicines to cold and flu busters adolescents aren't using these to get healthy, but get high.
"We've had to put kids into the intensive care unit who have done that as abuse," said Dr. Chris Holstege of the Blue Ridge Poison Center.
The Blue Ridge Poison Center sees many who have abused drugs with dextromethorphan, which is derived from opium. This is found in products like NyQuil and Zicam. The buzz is a hallucinogen--but people can also get bad buzzes.
The symptoms of a bad buzz can include "agitation, combative, confused, heart rate speeds up, their temperatures can go very high, the respiratory rate goes up, they can have seizures," explained Holstege.
Like any drug addiction, some get desperate and steal what they need. Greg Mowbrey provides security at local grocery stores and says he sees the same kids coming in again and again.
"Not too long ago I caught a 17-year-old kid who was an artist. I mean he showed me some of the stuff he's done, but he's addicted to [cold medicines]," said Mowbrey with the security division.
The kids usually come in groups of three or four.
"We call them a front man. One of them will go off [and] wants you to be on them. They'll leave the..aisle and go to another aisle so you won't be on the other [kids], but the other ones will work the aisle," said Mowbrey.
He says they then go to the bathroom and unload the pills into their pockets.
"They're so good at it they can stick their hands in the aisle with their coats and unload that stuff and put it right up their sleeve," said Mowbrey.
Mowbrey turns minors over to their parents, but says it's usually not worth taking those over 18 to court because they get little if any punishments.
"I've had them the same day get, go to court and get arrested and that same day end up getting them in the store for stealing, doing the same thing again," said Mowbrey.
Many grocery stores have security and cameras, but that doesn't always stop them. Several drugs are also locked up, but new drugs come on the market everyday and you can't lock-up everything.
These kids are also using other medicines as pick-ups as well as hallucinogens.


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This 1,700-plus word review of a baby stroller originally appeared on Esquire.com. It's the most loving ode to baby gear you'll read in awhile. If this is a sign of the times and gets guys more actively involved in child-care duties, we'll take it. Enjoy!
We men love our babies. We love them so much that we are willing to be seen out with them, accompanied by all manner of pink, baby blue, frilly, Hello Kitty, Minnie Mouse-strewn garments, backpacks, changing bags, and assorted paraphernalia. We find this acceptable. Heck, if we're willing to take a bullet for our babies, then we can deal with a glitter-embossed Smurfette diaper bag. But while it is acceptable, it is not ideal. Surely there are some baby products out there that, while not exactly masculine and cool, would at least not make us feel like we're living an outtake from Three Men and a Baby.
While the general outlook on manly baby gear is bleak, there is one product that will make a man's knees grow weak, his heart flutter faster a similar sensation to seeing a must-have car. It is a stroller, but to call it a stroller is like calling Chuck Norris an actor. This is the stroller: powerful, well-made, strong enough to off-road, scoffing at potholes, ruts, and cobbles, full of thoughtful features, and brimming with gadgets. Yes, you heard me, men. If James Bond were to have a baby, this would be the stroller issued to him by Q. All it's missing is the pop-up missile launcher and ejection seat. It is the Peg Perego GT3, and it is, far and away, the most masculine and flat-out coolest of all strollers on the market. Believe me: You want this.
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Stocks drifted lower Monday in unusually quiet trading, pausing from a four-session rally with bonds, as interest rates edged higher before this week's big auction of new U.S. Treasury debt.
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Did Windows Help or Hinder Microsoft's Earnings?
As the demand for personal computers continues to drop worldwide, Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) has made a foray into the hardware business with its Surface tablet and launched a major redesign of its Windows operating system. Since their launch in late October, analysts have struggled to determine whether the strategy has been a success, but with the company's second-quarter results for the 2013 fiscal year, the picture has become more clear.
For the three-month period, Microsoft reported a profit of $6.38 billion, or 76 cents a share, on revenue of $21.46 billion. These results fell below the $6.62 billion, or 78 cents a share, the company earned in the same quarter last year, but they beat bottom-line estimates by a penny. Analysts polled by FactSet had expected earnings of 75 cents a share on $21.56 billion in revenue for the quarter ended December 31.
Microsoft's Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer claimed that both Windows and the whole PC industry had been "reimagined" thanks to the new operating system. However, the reviews of the company's touch-screen operating system have been lukewarm, and that was evident in the second-quarter results, which were the first to reflect sales of the new products. But given how poor Surface sales have been and how dismal the PC market is, the quarter could have been worse…


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Inside the jam-packed arena, thousands held their breath and waited to learn the identity of the shadowy "Investor." In Total Nonstop Action Wrestling's twisting narrative, the mysterious character had been wreaking havoc for weeks with his nefarious behind-the-scenes plots. And now, millions watchi ... More >>
In November 2012, Michael Dunn, a white man, got into a confrontation with four black teens at a gas station over loud music playing in their SUV. Dunn ended up pulling out a gun and firing several shots into the vehicle. One of the bullets struck and killed 17-year-old Jordan Davis. Now, News4Jax ... More >>
When Florida Highway Patrol officers pulled over an erratically swerving gray Camaro yesterday outside of St. Augustine, they figured they had a standard DUI on their hands. The driver, 63-year-old Leslie Richard Newton, had in fact been boozing and driving, the FHP says -- but that's not the main r ... More >>
In today's economy it sure can be hard to romantic. Candle-lit dinners, boxes of chocolate, and a dozen roses aren't cheap. Sure, there're ways to save money, but there are just some things you should never do, even in the name of love.Number one: Don't steal flowers placed on someone's grave in a c ... More >>
Meat had not passed the lips of Jacksonville City Council member Don Redman for thirty-five years. That's not even a euphemism. Dude has been a solid vegetarian for three-and-a-half decades. Proving however that not all vegetarians are bleeding heart hippies, he decided to break his long-standing no ... More >>
A new restaurant needs to catch the eye of would-be diners quickly. Naming dishes is so important that consultants and PR people make full-time jobs out of this activity. So, maybe the owners of Lola's Burrito Joint in Jacksonville should have pulled out their wallet and hired a professional while c ... More >>
Yesterday at a McDonald's restaurant in Pooler, Georgia a woman died and nine people had to be taken to the hospital after inhaling toxic fumes inside the restaurant.I know what you're thinking, and no, the chemical fumes were not coming from the kitchen. So far, police believe chemicals from c ... More >>
It's no secret that we're big fans of Shroud Eater and we completely resent their criminal lack of recorded goodies for us to enjoy. Last year's EP has done a good job of keeping us entertained. But we are gonna need a full-length effort soon! Until then, we'll have to binge on the live version ... More >>
via Daily TokerA three-year-old boy in Jacksonville, Fl has been suspended from preschool for bringing 20 grams of marijuana to class and showing it to another student who then promptly ratted him out. That's definitely a whole new kind of show and tell.
Why would anyone hold up a 7-Eleven? They bring so much frozen joy to the world.In today's roundup of crimes and various horrible things: a delivery man is held hostage in his own truck, two men hold up a 7-Eleven (no Slurpees were harmed), pipes burst, moms cry, and water is contaminated.
No 'fro, 'Mo' or otherwise, at this show Many know Daryl Hance as the right hand man to Mofro frontman JJ Grey. Now, Hance -- the quiet and sincere dude who sits calmly on stage, eyes closed with his Fender, weaving its electricity masterfully through the band's deep, front porch soul gro ... More >>
News flash: Your Marlins baseball club is building a new stadium that will cost taxpayers $4.7 bagillion and, far more tragically, will probably not be sponsored by Jimmy Buffett's crappy beer. via MLB.comIn happier news, they will also drop the "Florida" from their name -- as if they were ... More >>
When Miami/Ft Lauderdale label Florida Boy Intertainment's publicist called us Here at Crossfade we support music from Florida as a whole, so when Da Pretty Boyz' people contacted us, we said sure, set up an interview. Da Pretty Boyz represent Duval County, Jacksonville, Florida and are ... More >>
via organictakeover.comThe Be Organic takeover team are (left to right) Roosevelt Desir, Chad Cherry, Kirk Nelson, and Andre WalkerBe Organic (click) are four chefs whose mission it is to spread the gospel of the organic lifestyle, its health, emotional, and monetary benefits.September 2nd they e ... More >>
Lincoln Diaz-Balart dropped out of contention yesterday, so Gov. Charlie Crist will interview two more possible candidates for Florida's temporary senator: Rep. Jennifer Carroll and University of North Florida President John Delaney. Carroll's name was first mentioned last week, and she ... More >>
The Dolphins won their first preseason game, against Jacksonville, 12-9. [NBCMiami]Kourtney & Khloé Take Miami premiered to 2.7 million viewers, the highest ratings for a premiere on E! since The Anna Nicole Show. Let's hope the Kardashians' show ends better than Smith's. [TVbtN]Some ... More >>
via Dean812's flickrDeaths where valium and xanax were found in the body are on the rise. The Miami-Dade Medical Examiners district still leads the state in the number of autopsies where heroine and cocaine were found, but the amount of deaths linked to pharmaceutical abuse remains&nb ... More >>
Here's a brand new video from ArtOfficial live from Tobacco Road performing the song "Architect." Art Official are playing tonight in Atlantic Beach with Saltwater Grass from Jacksonville, but if you don't make it to that show they have a string of dates booked from now through September. ... More >>
I don't know if you've been following the recent mess going on in the New York State legislature, but one of the key figures behind it reportedly considering a run for Mel Martinez's soon-to-be vacated senate seat. Lucky us!Tom Galisano is the billionaire founder of Paychex, a payroll proc ... More >>
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LocalAlleged cat killer Tyler Weinman will be released from jail on bail Wednesday. He'll remain under house arrest and be monitored with a tracking bracelet. [Herald]Donte' Stallworth got only 30 days in jail for manslaughter, which is, um, not a whole lot of time for slaughtering a man. ... More >>
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The image of Miami Hurricane reliever Rene Guerra's glove getting knocked off of his hand by a crushed line-drive à la Charlie Brown perfectly summarized the Florida Gators' crushing victory Saturday. Briefly, and it was very brief, the Canes held a 2-0 lead, but the Gators rallied and ... More >>
Area 7's new Avant-Garde Series will kick off May 16 wth "Girls in Bands," an event promoting acts that feature an experimental, noise, and/or indie sound and have at least one female member. The bands hail from across Florida, including Jacksonville, Miami, and Orlando. Curious Hair will open the s ... More >>
photo by Tom Falcone, via victoryrecords.comIf you've got a hankering for some independent pop music, the Talent Farm has you covered this Friday. Philadelphia natives the Scenic, who recently signed to Victory Records, are currently touring the U.S. promoting their latest album, Find Yourself Here. ... More >>
Larpers, Gothic Lolitas, Star Wars freaks, and Nintendo game devotees lurk among us.
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Three inner-city Pop Warner football teams won national championships. Then they got the bill.
For years Miami Senior High School has fielded one of the best basketball teams in the nation. But getting into the record books has meant tossing out the rule books.
Everyone seems to love the Florida commander of the Army Corps of Engineers. So why do his superiors want him to leave?
For a hundred years the FEC Railway has been chugging up and down Florida's east coast. The next hundred years shouldn't be much different.
Miami says the feds are holding up a grant worth millions. The feds say Miami didn't ask for it just right. Miami says up yours. The feds say . . .
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Woman Finds Accidental Success Selling Tumbleweeds Online
Like many a person who found their way online in the '90s, Linda Katz is a Web entrepreneur. The thing is, she joined the ranks by accident. Back in 1994, Linda was teaching herself how to build a Web site. As a joke, she assembled the Prairie Tumbleweed Farm page. To Linda's surprise, people began ordering tumble weeds -- thats right, giant, dried-out dead bushes.
The Prairie Tumbleweed Farm web page hasn't changed much since 1994, and it shows. But there is something charming about the extremely basic page that should have died more than 10 years ago as the joke of an HTML novice.
$15 for a small tumbleweed, $20 for a medium, and $25 for a large have let the likes of Barney the Purple Dinosaur, Johnny Depp's 'Neverland,' and even NASA help this accidental business woman, as they have all needed her wares for props. Linda won't divulge how much she makes, but she says her site makes more than $40,000 a year.
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The Herndon-based Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) said on Monday it has invested $100,000 in Charlottesville-based Lewis and Clark Pharmaceuticals, which focuses on adenosine-based compounds.
His startup, IntroHive Inc., is powered by a number of former RIM employees, and is comfortably backed, in part, by former RIM executives.
Last night, 11 teams of attorneys gathered at Kirkland & Ellis in the sixth annual Lawyers for Literacy trivia challenge, benefiting educational nonprofit Everybody Wins! DC.
Planning to relocate from California to the Boston area, Intarcia Therapeutics, a privately held biotechnology company, announced it has raised a total of $210 million in two separate financing deals, including $160 million in proceeds from a preferred stock private placement and $50 million in private debt. Investors in these financings included existing investors New Enterprise Associates...
Biotech firm Quanterix raised $18.5 million in a funding round joined by CIA venture capital wing In-Q-Tel, the company announced.
New Enterprise Associates (NEA), the Chevy Chase-based venture capital firm, said it has increased its investment in Vuclip, a Silicon Valley-based developer of mobile video services.
Spruce Media, a San Francisco-based developer of marketing technology used by advertisers, agencies and trading desks on Facebook, said on Wednesday it has secured $15 million in debt financing from Square 1 Bank.
We thank the TV show 24 for our obsession for seeing things happen in real time. Whatever his motivation, Justin Langseth is doing the same with big data, via his recent spin-off of Zoomdata.
The University of Maryland's Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship said it will for the first time expand its annual Cupid's Cup Business Competition to the national stage.
Zoomdata, a Reston-based developer of a big data visualization app, said on Tuesday it has landed $1.1 million in new seed funding from a group of angel and institutional investors.
GramercyOne, a service management platform (SMP) that unifies operations and automated marketing on a single cloud-based system, changed its name to Booker, to simplify its brand and align with the company's focus on helping service-based businesses run and grow successfully.
SocialToaster, the social marketing platform, announced today the launch of SocialToaster FANACTIVE.
Piedmont RIA through its affiliate Militello Capital, is pleased to announce it made a venture capital investment in Dulles, Virginia based Speek, Inc.
Everyone in DC thinks they're smart, so why not monetize that ego? 75 know-it-alls got together at Acre 121 last night to test out their trivia prowess and raise money for Cystic Fibrosis Research and the MEB Foundation.
TRX Systems, a Greenbelt-based developer of tracking systems that provide precise location data on people operating in areas without access to GPS, said it has raised $2 million in its first round of funding...
Maryland awarded $1.1 million in three startups as part of a new venture capital program. Bambeco, an eco-friendly home decor and furniture retailer in South Baltimore, awarded $400,000.
Cardioxyl Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced that it has raised $28 million in a Series B financing led by OrbiMed Advisors. New investor Osage University Partners joined OrbiMed and returning investors New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and The Aurora Funds in the financing.
Wide receiver Torrey Smith and Energy Tech Startup PointClickSwitch.com have joined forces to help save Marylanders up to 20% on their electric bills.
McLean-based TroopSwap Inc., as part of a huge strategic shift, is looking to solve that problem. Coinciding with Veterans Day, the startup is launching Troop ID, an authentication tool that opens up a large cross-section of retail brands as potential customers. Baltimore-based Under Armour Inc. is the first to publicly make use of the technology.
Aegis Mobility announced today the acquisition of ZoomSafer, Inc. for an undisclosed sum.
Intronis, a provider of cloud backup services, announced it has raised $12 million of venture capital in a deal led by Owings Mills-based venture capital firm Greenspring Associates, with participation from OpenView Venture Partners and the company's executive management team.
The Fairfax County Economic Development Authority (FCEDA) said it has hired Brickwork India to run its Bangalore marketing office and work with Indian companies considering expansion to the U.S. Brickwork India offers remote executive assistance, research and consulting and IT.
It turns out, some political campaigns are good for more than negative TV ads. Obama's last campaign gave rise to a hot startup, NationalField, with a little help from Facebook cofounder Chris Hughes.
The Herndon-based Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) and Virginia Department of Education on Tuesday extended the deadlines to submit software apps for their Apps4VA High School and Open Competitions.
John Bracken founded Speek.com, a Washington, D.C.-area start-up that enables cloud-based teleconference calls, to ease the cumbersome task of rounding up attendees and dialing on speakerphones.
In the wake of Superstorm Sandy, an event that impacted local businesses up and down the eastern seaboard, we asked Josh McCarter, CEO of GramercyOne, how his company stayed on track to maintain support and continuity of service for those local business customers.
New Enterprise Associates (NEA), the Chevy Chase-based venture capital firm focused on information technology, healthcare and energy technology companies, on Thursday named Dayna Grayson as a partner.
New Enterprise Associates has followed Bessemer Venture Partners in selling shares of the mobile advertising firm Millennial Media Inc. (NYSE: MM).
I spend a lot of time on conference calls, and getting on the call is often the most difficult part of the meeting. Speek is a painless Web-based conferencing tool...
If you are into this space check out Baltimore, MD-based SocialToaster. The company bills itself as a social media amplification company. They are about to make some noise that might make you want to virtually shout.


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because she was furious that he returned home without beer.
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I know I get cranky when beer supplies run short........
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This much-anticipated group show is like an artistic jack-in-the-box: You don't know what you'll find inside, but it's bound to be startling. The Soap Factory asked 22 local artists to create experimental works specifically for this show. An intriguing enough premise, but what should make gallery-hoppers all quivery inside is the level of talent that's been assembled—nearly two dozen of Minnesota's liveliest artistic minds. Christopher Baker, for example, creates brilliant conceptual, mixed-media projects, often incorporating the internet or custom software (one piece was a huge wall displaying 3,000 video diaries culled from the web; another was a plush-toy bear that he altered using text-to-speech software so that, when squeezed, it recites live conversations being typed in romance chat rooms on the internet). Christopher Pancoe is a wildly inventive ceramicist who can take animal-themed stoneware and mixed media to surprising places. Megan Vossler is a skilled draftswoman known for her delicate, high-contrast pencil drawings of war scenes, set forlornly on bright expanses of white paper. That's only the beginning, and this show's experimental theme means that all bets are off on what the artists will do next.
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There are more students studying art and design at California State University, Long Beach than at any other public university in the nation.
In 2008 CSULB Senior Industrial Design major Avery Holleman won $20,000 and the Chairman's Award (presented by Bill Gates) in the Microsoft Next Gen Design competition.
The CSULB Dance Department is regularly ranked in the top 10 dance programs in the nation by Dance and Dance Teacher magazines.
The Bob Cole Conservatory of Music was named for a Long Beach music lover and businessman who donated $16.4 million dollars to the program to fund scholarships. That gift is the largest in CSULB history.
CSULB has five individual art galleries devoted to the exhibition of student work. The galleries are in the Art Department courtyard, located just east of the CSULB south campus quad. New exhibits go up every Sunday evening during the semester, meaning more than 150 student exhibitions are mounted each year. Admission is free and the galleries are open from noon-5pm Monday-Thursday.
CSULB is one of only two universities in the country to offer the MFA/MBA graduate business degree in Theatre Management. The other university is Yale.
Steven Spielberg (Schindler's List, ET, Raiders of the Lost Ark), David Twohy (Pitch Black, The Fugitive, Terminal Velocity), and Mark Steven Johnson (Grumpy Old Men, Daredevil, Ghost Rider) are among the big name Hollywood writer/director/producers to graduate from the CSULB Film and Electronic Arts department.
Both the vocal jazz and instrumental jazz ensembles from CSULB won the 2009 Monterey Jazz Festival Next Generation college level competition, earning spots at the legendary Monterey Jazz Festival. This was the second win and appearance by the CSULB Concert Jazz Orchestra in the past three years.
California Repertory Company the graduate production program in the CSULB Theatre Arts Department performs in the Royal Theater aboard the Queen Mary.
The CSULB University Art Museum has an extensive and impressive collection of contemporary art. Selections are on display this semester through April 18 in the exhibition Pieces of 9. The UAM is located in the Horn Center, and its exhibitions are always free to CSULB students with valid ID.
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The Ohio State University at Marion will hold open auditions for all students to be part of the 2013 student music theatre production, The Drowsy Chaperone, A Musical Within A Comedy.
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Tuesday, September 10th, 4:30-6:30 p.m. in Morrill Hall Auditorium
Read through will be Thursday, September 12th, 6:30 p.m. in Morrill Hall Auditorium
The production is slated for Thursday, November 14 & Friday November 15 in Morrill Hall Auditorium as part of the Five Nights on Campus season.
Those auditioning are asked to sing a prepared piece from a Broadway musical, learn choreography, and read lines from the show.
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Posted: November 15, 2010
Cigar collectors from around the globe will be gathering this month to witness a treasure trove of rare Havanas going under the hammer in London.
The auction of vintage, rare and mature cigars features lots, including a custom-built Elie Bleu humidor signed by Fidel Castro and dozens of boxes of pre-embargo Havanas. The auction is being conducted by London cigar merchant Mitchell Orchant of C.Gars Ltd. He expects bidding to be brisk on November 30 when the cognoscenti gather on the Cigar Terrace at Boisdale of Belgravia.
"We've had a lot of interest from overseas," Orchant said. "Collectors in America, mainland Europe, India and China have all been registering to bid. It's not surprising considering the quality of the lots. Some of them are just breathtaking."
These include a beautiful cabinet of 60-year-old Belinda candela-wrapped cigars measuring 6 1/8 inches by 44 ring.
"These cigars have a thick layer of bloom [plume] and even after the passage of time still appear in magnificent condition," said Orchant. The lot is expected to fetch in excess of £3,500 ($5,645).
Collectors will also bid on partially filled cabinet of 44 Alfred Dunhill Selection No. 777 Partagas cigars valued at more than £5,000 ($8,000), a Montecristo Antique Replica Humidor estimated at £3,000 ($4,840) and a box of the ever-popular Davidoff Dom Perignon from 1988, expected to fetch in the region of £5,000 ($8000).
There are plenty of cigars for those collectors with slightly less expensive tastes; for instance, a box of Bolivar Royal Coronas from 1995 has an early estimate of £400 ($640). You can also pick up a box of Cohiba Robustos from 2001 for something in the region of £300 ($480).
In all, more than 300 different lots of cigars will be vying for space on the cigar terrace, with former Christie's auctioneer Brian Ebbesen wielding the gavel, starting at 7 p.m. For those able to attend, canapés and Champagne will precede the auction at 6 p.m. and follow it after, too.
Bidders can attend the auction or bid by email up to 24 hours beforehand by preregistering. For more information, or to see all the lots, visit www.cigarauctions.co.uk
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November 29, 2014
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A proposal to amend the state constitution to allow the governor to appoint appellate judges is headed for a vote on the Senate floor.
The measure sponsored by Sen. Brian Kelsey, a Germantown Republican and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, passed the committee 8-1 on Tuesday and is being scheduled for a full Senate vote.
John Jay Hooker, a two-time Democratic Party nominee for governor and vocal opponent of the measure, spoke before the vote and told members of the committee that "people want the right to elect these judges."
Also Tuesday, members of the committee unanimously approved a measure that would prohibit courts from subpoenaing the names of anonymous commenters on news websites.
The measure, also sponsored by Kelsey, is headed for a full Senate vote
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I have been covering the cruelty of denying organ transplants to medical marijuana patients since the unfortunate story of Tim Garon. He was a Seattle musician who was using cannabis with a doctor's recommendation legally under Washington law to cope with his severe pain and nausea. He was given two weeks to live when he was next to receive a life-saving liver transplant. He was then found to have THC metabolites in his urine and told he must demonstrate 60 days of clean urine tests before he'd be given the organ. Tim Garon died days later.
(Portland Tribune) Jim Klahr needs a new liver. And he wants to take medical marijuana to help with the nausea he fights every morning as he battles hepatitis and cirrhosis. He says his body can't tolerate most drugs that physicians have prescribed for his symptoms, but pot does the trick.
Southeast Portland resident Klahr has a medical marijuana card, but he hasn't smoked since 2004, because Oregon Health & Science University, the state's only liver transplant center, won't provide organs for people with marijuana compounds in their blood, even if the patients are medical marijuana cardholders. Klahr is on the OHSU transplant waiting list.
The tragic irony is that the drugs other than cannabis that doctors would prescribe for symptoms of liver failure are often hepatoxic – harmful in long-term doses to the liver – or, as in Klahr's case, ineffective. Cannabis is non-toxic to healthy cells and organs and has not been found to be damaging to diseased ones. The acetaminophen we get over-the-counter in pain relievers is more damaging to the liver than cannabis.
Mike Seely, OHSU's director of transplant and procurement services, cites two reasons for the transplant policy. First, he says, federal rules trump state law. OHSU is part of a consortium with the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and federal law does not recognize medicinal marijuana. OHSU could be in danger with federal authorities if it allowed marijuana users to receive organs.
This doesn't seem to jibe with the Veteran's Administration's recent change in policy to no longer void "pain contracts" with veterans in states where they have a valid doctor's recommendation to use cannabis medicinally. See, the VA had been forcing vets to sign contracts to receive their opioid prescription painkillers (think: oxycontin and such) that required urine screening and if they found cannabis metabolites, no pills for you! It forced vets to give up the medical cannabis that relieved the PTSD and cut their addictive hepatoxic opioid painkiller dosages if they wanted to have any pain medication at all.
That same federal law that finds Oregon's Medical Marijuana Act to be null and void, that Seely uses to defend discrimination against cannabis patients, still applies to these veterans, yet the federal government is looking the other way now. Is the government that allows medical marijuana-using vets to get liver-killing opioids really going to step in and force OHSU to deny that same vet a life saving liver transplant? (Well, probably. In five years on the front lines of the drug war, nothing the government would do surprises me. But shouldn't doctors and hospitals be fighting for the lives of patients, not cowering before the government?)
Seely says that, in addition, transplant doctors are afraid of a fungal infection occurring in patients who smoke marijuana.
This is the tired old Aspergillus argument. This is a mold that can occur when someone cures harvested cannabis improperly. How much of a real risk is that? As I wrote back in March:
That deadly mold which causes 0.88255 deaths per 1 million people in the United States, with 261 deaths in 2004, is something we're supposed to fear more than "accidental suffocation and strangulation in bed" (327 deaths), "acute appendicitis" (371 deaths), and "acid reflux disease" (721 deaths) (and that's just the "A's").
Aspergillus is something the community should be aware of, just as people should know eating undercooked eggs, shellfish, and meat can lead to salmonella or e coli poisoning. But the way we protect diners from these diseases (which, by the way, kill 5,000 a year) is with warnings about undercooked food on menus and rules for food preparation and sanitization for workers.
If we're denying livers to cannabis consumers because of the tiny risk of Aspergillus, we should be denying livers to all but vegetarians for fear of the risk of salmonella and e coli.
John Niemitz, manager of transplant services for Legacy Health System, Oregon's other transplant center, says Legacy maintains a similar policy. Niemitz cites the infection risk and adds that "there is a risk of altered consciousness," which might interfere with a patient's ability to follow a rigorous post-transplant regimen of medications and appointments.
Really, your fear is that a medical marijuana patient post-transplant is going to be too stoned to remember to take his medications or show up for the appointments that improve his chances of surviving with that new organ? But then you're going to prescribe to him blood-pressure meds as part of that "regimen", like Clonidine and Norvasc*, that sap energy and cause depression, and painkillers in the first weeks after transplant that fog the mind.
Niemitz doesn't think Legacy's transplant policy is costing lives, as marijuana activists claim. He says that as far as he knows, every cardholder Legacy has dealt with has been willing to give up their medical marijuana as the price of getting a transplanted organ.
"People have found that pretty reasonable," Niemtiz says.
Kind of like when you hold a gun to someone's head they suddenly find your request for their wallet pretty reasonable.
Fears of rare Aspergillus and patients too medicated to take care of their new organ aside, what is the actual science on the issue of medical marijuana and organ transplants? There's this 2009 study in the American Journal of Transplant entitled "Marijuana use in potential liver transplant candidates" that looked at almost 1,500 cannabis-using and non-cannabis-using liver transplant patients over an eight-year span and concluded "patients who did and did not use marijuana had similar survival rates."
So the only possible reason Legacy and OHSU have to deny transplants to medical marijuana patients is simply institutional bias against medical marijuana patients. Every day Jim Klahr and others have to do without their medical marijuana is a day they've been blackmailed not to use "the safest therapeutically active substance known to man", which Oregon law says is to be "treated like other medicines". Some won't live long enough to get their transplant, which, to be fair to Niemitz (a courtesy he won't give us) doesn't mean the no-transplant-for-medical-marijuana-patients policy cost their lives.
It just means Mike Seely and John Niemitz would rather people suffer unnecessarily than give an organ to a "pothead".
*Meds actually prescribed to my kidney-transplant-needing engineer, as well as immuno-suppressant drugs that are renatoxic (deadly to kidneys).


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What does "In Witness Whereof" mean above the signature line on an a business agreement?
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As to what constitutes a valid signature, since this is a business agreement, did the party have the authority to sign on behalf of the business? A party signing the agreement would have to have the authority to do so since the agreement may bind the company to certain obligations.


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Big Data vs. Chip Defects
Taiwan data detectives dig up TSMC's "dog tools"
Taiwan data detectives dig up TSMC's "dog tools"
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Looking forward to laser headlights!
Using natural ventilation and higher-power LEDs, Cree shaves the cost of consumer LED bulbs further
For first time researchers have been able to reliably measure current through a DNA molecule
In the 1960s, auto company researchers scored this key breakthrough in superconductivity, even though the work had nothing to do with cars
Researchers in Regensburg find a way to beat the diffraction limit with a spin on terahertz spectroscopy
Without Isamu Akasaki, it could have taken even longer for the device to emerge
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The first blue LED was actually created in 1972. Here's the story
Nick Holonyak Jr., who developed the first visible LED, wonders where his prize is
The award goes to three for the last ingredient needed to create white LED light
By growing gallium nitride micro-rods on graphene, researchers have made tiny blue LEDs for inexpensive displays and wearable sensors
By changing the temperature in production of layered 2-D materials, researchers can manipulate their photonic and electronic properties
Researchers develop a process that reduces the production costs of nanowire-based displays by employing graphene
Buckyballs and diamonoids together make a perfect molecular-sized rectifier
UK graphene gets one of its first research/industry collaboration success stories
Nanoscale light-matter interaction observed in circuit could lead to on-chip optical processing
It is still early days for spintronic computers, but the possibility of controlling spin electrically instead of magnetically brings them nearer
Researchers envision technique could be used for quantum memory for quantum computing
Just bizarre
Terahertz signals used to identify foreign molecules in graphene
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Failure-analysis experts find some funny stuff in semiconductors
Spin-transfer-torque MRAM could edge out some mainstream memories
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Simple component could help to connect everyday objects to the Internet of Things
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Ever since we first saw paisley prints on the A/W catwalk we've been scouring the shops for the perfect High St alternative and we think we've finally found it. New Look nails the paisley trend with this fab shift dress and will look great with tights and riding boots by day or stacked heels by night. Happy shopping!
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November 27, 2014
December 24, 2012
By the looks of the lines at a number of local stores, you might not think that Christmas was only a day away.
Shoppers flooded malls, shops and stores Monday for some last-minute holiday gifts.
Procrastinators were not alone. According to Consumer Reports, more than 60 percent of people had not finished their shopping by last Thursday, making the past few days very busy for retailers.
"I do have a plan, looking for my brother and my father last-minute," shopper Emily Burruss said.
"Not to mention, we got total different age groups to buy for," shopper Kaylin Ring said. "We got a child, a toddler, then we got a pre-teen, then we got a teenager."
Everyone has his or her own excuse for holding off on shopping.
"I'm working right now, so I just didn't have time getting out shopping and stuff, but I'm glad I made it tonight," shopper Brendai Shelton said.
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As many shoppers scour the aisle trying to find those last-minute gifts, many people say it's not about what's inside the cart but rather what happens after checkout.
"It's about giving, not receiving," Ring said.
And some shoppers say they get a rush from putting things off to the last minute.
"It's fun. It's more fun," Burruss said. "You get the boost, the spirit. I love it. I love the adrenaline."
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Come celebrate the best of Pasadena's creative, artistic community as ArtNight Pasadena returns from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., Friday, March 14, 2014 with free admission to 16 exciting, world-class arts and cultural venues. There's something for everyone during this exciting, family fun, four-hour cultural extravaganza featuring a wide array of dance, music, visual arts and other activities. Free shuttle buses will help provide transportation to each location.
Among the many highlights on March 14 for ArtNight, www.artnightpasadena.org, are:
- Reinvigorate your senses with Light Bringer Project's Sensory Overload of creative edibles and installations at 175 N. Euclid Avenue.
- Relive your artistic youth with PUSD's student artwork exhibition "No Boundaries 9" at Paseo Colorado or revisit centuries past with the Norton Simon Museum's exhibition of masterpieces.
- Revive your dance grooves at Lineage Performing Arts Center, 89 S. Fair Oaks Avenue or with Muse/Ique at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, 300 E. Green Street.
- Reexamine the lifelong artistic pursuits of design icon Ray Eames at Art Center College of Design, 1700 Lida Street, or recognize reoccurring themes of immigration by artists' work at the USC Pacific Asia Museum, 45 N. Los Robles Avenue.
- Kids can create with the MobileMuralLab at Kidspace Museum, 480 N. Arroyo Blvd., or experience new media at artWORKS Teen Center, 2914 E. Walnut Street. Both kids and adults alike will get a lift from the unique aviation exhibition at the Pasadena Museum of History, 470 W. Walnut Street.
Remember, admission to all venues is free and free shuttle buses are provided by the City of Pasadena to and from all locations using City Hall as the primary hub. Several venues also will feature co-located food trucks offering for-sale meals and treats.
For those interested in providing their own transportation, try ArtNight by bicycle! Visit www.cicle.org/event/artnight-pasadena-by-bike for details. Make sure your bike is in good repair and has all appropriate lights and reflectors for a fun night ride.
ArtNight is produced by the City's Cultural Affairs Division, Planning & Community Development Department, in collaboration with the participating arts and culture institutions. For accessibility assistance to the venues or shuttle transportation, or for information in braille or large-print format, call (626) 744-7062(626) 744-7062.
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Calendar of events at Daytona State announced for January 2014
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Dec. 10, 2013) - Daytona State College presents the following calendar of events for January 2014.
Events are open to the public and free of charge, unless otherwise noted.
News Journal Center at Daytona State College
The Arts at Daytona State College
Dec. 2-Feb. 28, 2014,
Studio Arts Faculty Show
This group exhibition represents the breadth and scope of the studio art faculty at DSC. Please join us for this wonderful opportunity to appreciate and celebrate the multifaceted art faculty and their creative endeavors. FREE ADMISSION.
News-Journal Center at Daytona State College, North Lobby/Art Gallery
221 N. Beach Street, Daytona Beach
For additional information, visit www.DaytonaState.edu/TheArts or call, (386) 226-1927.
A Night to Remember (rescheduled for Saturday, Sept. 27, 7-10 p.m.)
The music of Billy Joel and The Eagles (The Long Run), presented by Beach 92.7 - mention special promo code STUDENT for a $10.00 discount.
News-Journal Center at Daytona State College, Davidson Theater
221 N. Beach Street, Daytona Beach
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Last night at Santos Party House, owner Larry Golden told us that Andrew WKs eggnog drink is still in the works, and we nearly wept with joy. But will the button-busting concoction be called Santos Summer Milk or Santas Summer Milk as originally planned? In an interview with BlackBook today, Goldens partner Spencer Sweeney says that although the club reluctantly changed its original name on the advice of its lawyer (if someone really wanted to fuck us, Sweeney explains, they could say its like Joe Camel trying to appeal to young children), he now has a plan to change it back: Im actually legally changing my name from Spencer to Santa. Really. I will be Santa Sweeney. Its gotta be called Santas. Its perfectly absurd. And kind of genius. When it comes time to renew that liquor license, will the Community Board really hassle a guy named Santa?
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Overnight, a man's refusal to pay for a cab in Boulder turned into a hours-long SWAT team standoff in which he and a police officer were both injured. What happened? Here's what we know thus far.
Sweet Cow, an award-winning local enterprise devoted to ice cream, will open its third store today, this one in north Boulder. See also: Sweet Action is in a deep freeze until February 1
As we've reported, yesterday's morning low of -15 degrees Fahrenheit was one of the ten coldest temperatures ever recorded in Denver, and the night before was nearly that cold -- a deep, deep chill that appears to have prompted a reportedly suicidal CU-Boulder student to head to Chautauqua with the ... More >>
The rulemaking surrounding Amendment 64 is in full swing at the state level. The Department of Revenue has released a set of draft rule changes and clarifications for a huge chunk of medical marijuana law, as well as draft regs regarding the recreational cannabis industry. The 100-plus page documen ... More >>
Medical cannabis has been on the fast-track to mainstream acceptance over the last few years, and more and more high-profile organizations, including the MS Foundation, are aligning themselves with cannabis groups promoting the safe and beneficial plant. Add to that list Boulder's BStrong foundatio ... More >>
Can an elected coroner be held liable for the destruction of key evidence -- a piece of a dead man's aorta -- needed in a medical malpractice lawsuit? That's the six-figure question at the heart of a federal claim against Adams County and James Hibbard, its former coroner. Hibbard hasn't held office ... More >>
Yesterday, we shared information from Parker police about what officers described as an apparent child-abduction attempt. Turns out the operative word in that sentence was "apparent," since cops now say the report was mistaken -- evidence of how rattled nerves remain following this month's disappear ... More >>
When a guy's got to smoke, a guy's got to smoke. But what if he's told he can't smoke, no matter how badly he needs to suck a soothing cloud of tar and nicotine into his lungs? The answer for Eric Cech, according to a Boulder Police report on view below, involved a full bedpan.
Big photos below.The hearse that carried John F. Kennedy's body from a Dallas hospital to Air Force One one fateful November day in 1963 is coming to Boulder. Developer and car collector Stephen Tebo -- not, not that Tebow -- picked it up for $176,000, and he says that one day it'll be part ... More >>
Big pic below.Update: Kevin McGregor has now been charged with first-degree murder in relation to the shooting of University of New Hampshire football player Todd Walker this past Friday -- and the case is on a very fast track, with a preliminary hearing slated for April 25. In the meantime, ... More >>
He woulda stayed.Music supposedly has the power to soothe a savage beast -- but it can also annoy the hell out of one. That's the lesson recently learned by personnel at Boulder Community Hospital. When they found a bear hibernating under a building on hospital property, they managed to driv ... More >>
FlickrA lot of us find the experience of waking up and facing the light to be physically painful -- although probably not as agonizing as what Boulder's Sanford Rothman went through the other day. According to the Boulder Police Department, Rothman suffered a gunshot wound while unconscious. ... More >>
We're guessing students didn't greet deputies as in this photo from the movie "Alive."Boulder High School seniors hold an annual camping trip near the end of the school year -- but judging by its take on this week's edition, the Boulder County Sheriff's Office wishes the tradition would end. ... More >>
Warren Hern has some harsh words for Sacred Heart of Jesus Church.Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Catholic church and school that was recently the subject of national headlines for its refusal to teach the children of a same-sex couple in Boulder, has now become the target of an abortion doctor in ... More >>
The clock was ticking for Nicholas Andrew White.Yesterday, the Boulder County Sheriff's Office revealed that a forty-year-old inmate charged with four counts of sexual assault on a child and one count of child abuse had been found dead in his jail cell -- and in its release about this inciden ... More >>
Serena Brooks likes to play rough. I have very few rules in life. Don't eat ice cream right before bed, unless you want heartburn. Don't watch Jimmy Fallon right before bed, unless you want heartburn. And never, ever, under any circumstances, get high and drunk on a Monday night and have a threesom ... More >>
Many critics of Bob "Gunny Bob" Newman, a Westword profile subject who makes his living as a conservative fireballer for KOA/850 AM, likely consider him to be heartless -- but he now has medical evidence to prove them wrong. The retired Marine gunnery sergeant has been off the air since late July af ... More >>
Andy Pruitt's drive has pushed sports medicine into high gear.
Highlighting the week's greatest gratis event
When his wife required an emergency transplant, this professor was ready to donate his own kidney -- but CU wasn't willing to pay the price.
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JOHNSON COUNTY, Ky. (WSAZ) -- Family and friends are remembering the young victim of a car crash in Prestonsburg on Friday.
The driver of one of the vehicles, Paula McConnell, 58, of Prestonsburg died the day of the accident.
On Monday, one of her passenger 10-year-old, Donovan Floyd of Paintsville, died at a Huntington hospital. McConnell was Floyd's great-aunt.
"At 8:36 this morning he passed away, he had been on life support since the accident," says Donovan's grandmother, Darla Dean.
Dean says Donovan, "liked to do all the things little boys like to do, play out in the yard on a sunny day, play with his puppy, just any little boy thing."
On Sunday, hundreds showed support for the 10-year-old by holding a prayer vigil and lighting candles along the bridge to Highland Elementary.
"We were naturally all devastated when I received the phone call," says Principal Thom Cochran.
"We know there's going to be a lot of questions, as adults we have a lot of questions. Hopefully, we can answer them or give them the help they need to try and understand why," says Tim Adams, Director of District Operations.
The flag at Highland Elementary is flying at half staff in honor of Donovan.
"We have a very strong community. Support...I guess we take it for granted and don't realize how much support we have until there is a need," Cochran says.
Support that family members say they are thankful for during this difficult time.
"We live in an amazing community, everyone has rallied around Donovan and us," says Dean.
Donovan was honored at the Highland girl's basketball game Monday night.
"He will always be in our hearts and he will always be a Highland Wildcat," says Cochran.
The crash happened just after 2:30 on U.S. 23, near the intersection with KY 80 in Prestonsburg..
According to the police report, Paula McConnell, 58, of Prestonsburg, pulled out into the path of another driver on U.S. 23.
Police say McConnell died from her injuries at a Huntington hospital on Friday.
A 10-year-old passenger in her vehicle, Donovan Floyd, of Paintsville, was also flown to a Huntington hospital. He died from his injuries Monday morning.
There is no word if a second passenger in McConnell's car was injured in the accident.
The driver of the other vehicle was taken to a Pikeville hospital. There is no word on his injuries.
The crash happened Friday afternoon on U.S. 23, near the intersection with KY 80.
Prestonsburg Fire Chief Bobby Carpenter tells WSAZ.com two vehicles were involved in the crash.
He says preliminary reports show it appears one of the vehicles pulled out in front of the other, causing the crash.
Carpenter tells WSAZ.com a 10-year-old child and an adult from one of the vehicles were flown to a Huntington hospital.
Two adults from the other vehicle were taken to a Pikeville hospital.
U.S. 23 was shut down for nearly three hours, but reopened about 5 p.m.
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Prestonsburg Fire officials tell WSAZ.com that four people were injured in the crash. Two were flown to the hospital.
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Years of "bad blood" between two local families and emotions over the recent death of a teenager spilled into court Friday.
Family and friends of Margaret Harris, 37, and James Dominick Sherrell, 17, nearly filled General Sessions Judge Clarence Shattuck's courtroom.
Staff Photo by Jake Daniels/Chattanooga Times Free Press Margaret Harris attends a hearing with her representative Lloyd Levitt in Judge Clarence Shattuck's courtroom Friday afternoon. Harris is accused of fatally shooting a 17-year-old boy after a fight that occurred last week.
Before the hearing began, deputies had to stop a brewing fight outside the courtroom between families of Harris and Sherrell.
Harris is accused of killing Sherrell by shooting him in the abdomen with a pistol following a street fight on Feb. 18, according to court documents. Sherrell was the boyfriend of Harris' daughter, LaToya Harris.
After nearly two hours of questioning by prosecutor Darren Gibson and defense attorney Lloyd Levitt, Shattuck ruled that Harris' case would be sent to the Hamilton County grand jury for possible indictment. He did not grant a bond to Harris.
Both Gibson and Levitt detailed lengthy disputes between Harris and Sherrell family members. At one point, the feuds were characterized as a modern-day version of the infamous "Hatfields and McCoys," a reference to bloody rivalries between members of the families over a decade in rural lands of West Virginia and Kentucky.
Moments before the hearing began and court officers had broken up verbal arguments outside the courtroom, Gibson opened the door to bring in an eyewitness to the shooting — Marquis Woods, Sherrell's cousin.
"I don't want to go in there," the wide-eyed 16-year-old told Gibson. "I'm not going in there."
But with a subpoena, Woods relented.
After Chattanooga police investigator Michael Tilley recounted his interviews with Harris and seven witnesses to the shooting, attorneys questioned Woods.
Standing before Shattuck, Woods mostly looked at the floor, mumbling answers. He was reminded repeatedly to speak louder.
According to testimony, the violence that led to Sherrell's death started about 2:30 p.m. on Feb. 18 when a fight broke out at a school bus stop among teens near 1308 N. Orchard Knob Ave.
Woods told how he and Sherrell were at the address when another brawl involving some of the same teens erupted as LaToya Harris and two of her sisters arrived. During the fighting, Woods said he and Margaret Harris fought as Bryant Hill, boyfriend to Margaret Harris, picked up Sherrell and slammed him to the ground.
When the brawl slowed, Hill and Margaret Harris got into a car. When Woods and Sherrell approached the driver's side of the car, Sherrell reached through a half-open window and tried to choke Hill, who was in the driver's seat, for about a minute, Woods testified.
When Hill fought him off, Woods and Sherrell backed about 10 feet from the car. That's when Margaret Harris, got out of the passenger side of the car and pointed a pistol at the cousins over the roof of the car and fired one shot, Woods said.
The bullet hit Sherrell in the stomach. He died shortly afterward at a local hospital.
Margaret Harris found out about the fight through a phone call at her work and Shattuck said he might have given her bond if she had rushed directly from work to the fight in order to help her daughter.
"But this momma gets a call, goes home to pick up a gun and then rushes down there," Shattuck said.
Gibson argued against a bond, pointing out that, during the fight, Margaret Harris could have left and Hill could have driven away.
"We could have a kid with a bloody nose and some hurt feelings," he said. "Instead we've got a dead 17-year-old."
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she made her bed ,now she can lye in it.we are lucky the "no snitch" rule didnt have to come into play or we would of never found out who shot him.


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Mary Rose Hazel placed first in four events to lead the Fredericksburg Academy girls to wins over Steward, Richmond Christian and Fredericksburg Christian in a dual meet yesterday.
Hazel recorded her state-qualifying time of 31.08 in the 50 free last week.
The FA boys notched wins over Steward and Richmond Christian.
200 medley relay: Fredericksburg Academy (Alex Kangas, Jase Davis, Charlie Garbutt, Graham Schattgen); 200 freestyle: Graham Schattgen (FA) 2:34:84; 200 individual medley: Garrett Ross (FC) 2:45:28; 50 free: Andrew May (RC) 31.28; 100 butterfly: Henry Bassett (S) 1:05.72; 100 free: Garrett Ross (FC) 1:06.21; 400 free: Ethan Cohen (S) 4:58.77; 200 free relay: Fredericksburg Academy (Jase Davis, Charlie Garbutt, Alex Kangas, Graham Schattgen) 2:02.07; 100 backstroke: Henry Bassett (S) 1:06.29; 100 breaststroke: Seth Andrews (FC) 1:21.23; 400 free relay: Fredericksburg Academy (Daniel Conway, Jase Davis, Ryan Reeb, Ryan Stanitski) 5:09.62.
200 medley relay: Fredericksburg Academy (Mary Rose Hazel, Maya Schattgen, Mary Gray Johnson, Kirstie Harry) 2:26.79; 200 freestyle: Kirstie Harry (FA) 2:45.90; 200 individual medley: Mary Rose Hazel (FA) 3:04.07; 50 free: Courtney Jones (FC) 29.48; 100 butterfly: Courtney Jones (FC) 1:17.52; 100 free: Mary Rose Hazel (FA) 1:13.15; 400 free: Kirstie Harry (FA) 5:54.75; 200 free relay: Fredericksburg Academy (Mary Rose Hazel, Mary Gray Johnson, Sydney Hawkins, Kirstie Harry) 2:09.97; 100 backstroke: Maya Schattgen (FA) 1:28.33; 100 breaststroke: Mary Gray Johnson (FA) 1:30.86; 400 free relay: Fredericksburg Academy (Katie Zalegowski, Erika Bogga, Maya Schottgen, Sydney Hawkins).
North Stafford and Colonial Forge split a Commonwealth District meet at Woodlands Pool last night.
The Wolverines' boys took home a 154–132 win, while the Eagles' girls earned a 167–119 win.
200 medley relay: Colonial Forge (David Timm, Cullen Monahan, Jared Redding, Brandon Sanders) 1:46.44; 200 freestyle: 1. Cameron Brackmann (NS) 1:56; 200 individual medley: Matt Morrison (NS) 2:13.22; 50 free: Jared Redding (CF) 23.37; 100 butterfly: Kyle Massie (NS) 56.48; 100 free: Jared Redding (CF) 51.49; 500 free: David Timm (CF) 5:11.48; 200 free relay: Colonial Forge (Timm, Monahan, Redding, Sanders) 1:35.20; 100 backstroke: David Timm (CF) 57.81; 100 breaststroke: Cullen Monahan (CF) 1:06.67; 400 free relay: North Stafford (Jonathan Fralen, Chris Peele, Ryan Tolliver, Matt Morrison) 3:41.68.
200 medley relay: North Stafford (Dara Dix, Megan Comer, Karaline Schmitz, Brianna Cardella) 2:01.20; 200 freestyle: Ciara McTarsney (CF) 2:02.84; 200 individual medley: Bailie Monahan (CF) 2:12.39; 50 free: Ryli Waisanen (CF) 26.07; 100 butterfly: Karaline Schmitz (NS) 1:02; 100 free: Dara Dix (NS) 58.62; 500 free: Megan Comer (NS) 6:14.36; 200 free relay: Colonial Forge (Olivia Strobl, McTarsney, Waisanen, Monahan) 1:47.13; 100 backstroke: Karaline Schmitz (NS) 1:03.81; 100 breaststroke: Bailie Monahan (CF) 1:09.28; 400 free relay: Colonial Forge (McTarsney, Shelby Ball, Waisanen, Monahan) 4:00.64.
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Google axed Android multitouch at Apple's request?
It seems there's a reason that T-Mobile's new G1 touch-screen smartphone doesn't have a multitouch display: Google doesn't want to upset Apple. Google - maker of the Android operating system used by the G1 - is cozily in bed with the Cupertino Fruit Company in a number of areas, from iPhone and iPod mapping capabilities to …
I call bullshit
While Apple might have made a deal with Google. I very much doubt that "unnamed source" would have been privy to the details of the agreement. Anyone that has worked with Apple knows how tight the information flow is and I very much doubt that more than a handful of very trusted people would know the actual story. The Google people that deal with Apple will know to respect that secrecy too and would present it internally as an independent Google position rather than some deal struck with Apple.
If there is indeed an "unnamed source", as opposed to a journalist's fabrication designed to give credibility to a speculation, then "unnamed source" is most likely a delusional character off the streets with a desire for 15 seconds of anonymous fame.
It makes sense for Google to drop multitouch:
* The threat of litigation could reduce the desire for Android amongst handset vendors. Don't want to threaten uptake.
* The desire to keep a consistent look and feel across platforms so that all apps work the same regardless of multi-touch or not. Having some platforms and apps support multitouch would fragment the experience somewhat.
Almost worth becoming a patent troll, given how you can patent any obvious next improvement in technology and have half a chance of winning.
Anyone got a patent for controlling electronic devices using brain waves, eye movements, etc?
I'm guessing that patents are the reason why no one makes tissue boxes that fit in the cup holders of a car.
People wonder why Google is no longer about "do no evil"
they are in bed with the evil fruit merchant. Oy vey!
Just open source it...
Don't copy the code (clearly that would be illegal!), but you can't keep a good, or obvious, idea down once the means of implementing it are readily available and accessible. Write the code, then release it in to the wild so anyone can do what they like with it. Apple can sue who they like, but in the end they've got a business to run and better things to do than take on the rest of the world.
Who cares...
It is an open platform. Just because Google did not implement it, does mean that it isn't going to end up there. Someone will put the time in.
G1 is and always was multitouch capable - and doesn't infringe the Apple patents at all according to Synaptics who have several similar surfaces in development with a number of manufacturers not just this. Google had very little involvement or say in the development of the device.
Sticking with the ST driver was more to do with usability and the rush to get the G1 out with what was basically a Beta version of the OS.
There have been unofficial MT synaptics drivers floating around for G1 since at least November last year - not for granny or the faint of heart, but that's kind of the nature of Android right now .
Even if the Patent stands up (and how can it, given the volume of prior art and masses of multitouch patents from the 80's) its only going to effect what is shipped, not what I choose to install or write myself since Google, unlike Apple, have absolutely no control over that.
Multitouch Invented by Apple?
Have they not used Multi touch Displays in movies for years? The Matrix, Minority Report etc....
Would this not count as prior art?
I assume Apple own the pattent to normal touch screen technology? If not how can they pattent a variation on somone else technology?
Another fine example...
...of how Software Patents are just plain retarded. I always thought one of the requirements for patent protection was that the "technology" wasn't obvious. How is this not obvious?
I'll bet half the people in this comments section envisaged this technology a decade ago at least, I know I did. It's so bleedin' obvious it would never have crossed my mind to knock up a demo and file a patent. Besides I don't have the 10s of thousands of pounds you need to get a patent and if I did I wouldn't have risked it trying to patent something I'm pretty sure CAN'T be patented.
This kind of stuff makes a mockery of the whole rationale for patents i.e. to counter first mover disadvantage and thereby encourage innovation in a situation where R&D costs are prohibitive.
This is clearly the case in fields like drug development and microprocessor design where you can't develop anything for under $500M but it makes no sense in software where the cost of development is hiring a couple of grad students who already did it for their thesis.
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Open Source OS, handset that has some form of detecting-multiple-touches.
Some programming.
Oh look, Apple can go fornicate itself with a rusty spade. If basics like the mouse had been patented and protected then where would we be today? Fucked, that's where. They made something cool and made money out of it, now they want to keep it, well, that makes you look greedy.
You chose money over kudos, you'll run out of ideas with which to charge excessive amounts and then you will wither, Apple. How long before you think smaller/thinner and more Gb will sell?
Patenting variations on someone else's patent is *precisely* what you do. That's the whole idea of patents. They're supposed to encourage innovation by forcing you to disclose sufficient details about how something works that someone else can take that idea and improve on it. You get to protect your variation, while paying license fees to the holder of the original patent. Or, if they like your improvement, perhaps you'll come to a mutual cross licensing agreement.
Whether this all works in practice is another matter, but that's certainly the theory behind patents.
As to Apple's patent, I haven't read it so I don't know precisely what it is they're claiming. It's presumably a specific *application* of the technology, rather the multi-touch per se.
And as for whether it's obvious or not, I don't know. Computer track pads have been around for ages but just as a replacement for a mouse on laptops. I never saw one that uses one finger for moving the pointer, two fingers together for scrolling before the Mac Book. It's an *incredibly* simple and elegant and intuitive way of doing things, and whoever thought of it first certainly deserves kudos for the idea. The best ideas are the one where everyone thinks it's obvious *afterwards*.
@Martin Lyne
The mouse was patented - thirty to forty years before it came into common use.
Ok, its _the_ reason to get a mac laptop and having used one, I'd love to have my own.
However, touchscreens and trackpads have been around for ages. I've seen laptops where different parts of the trackpad had different functions, so I'm not sure that being able to touch two or more places at the same time (while being an excellent development) qualifies as a significant enough innovation to warrant patent protection - it really is just more of the same, similar to putting multiple cpu cores on one chip.
Of course, I may be biased because I'd really like my linux systems to have them - even the desktops.
Open Source...
If the hardware is capable of it, and the sourcecode to the OS is available, then what's to stop a third party from implementing it?
I wouldn't be too worried about this, I have MT on my G1, it's just a matter of time until all the bugs are ironed out and third party applications support it.
Multitouch prior-art was already in public domain
much b4 the launch of any apple multi-touch product or patent;
Paris demo'd the original multi-touch in her home video.
Apple are protecting the one thing that makes their precious iPhone any good?
Where's the surprise in that?
Yet again
A company is stifling innovation in a market to protect its own position.
Put together a retarded patent system, a patent whore (Apple, that is) and...
...you got a disaster, period.
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Robin Peterson is satisfied to play second fiddle to the Proteas' unrelenting pace attack during the current Sunfoil Test series against Pakistan. Peterson, who only bowled 10 overs in the first Test at Bidvest Wanderers is aware that conditions in South Africa seldom assist the spinners, but is prepared to adapt according to what the team needs.
"In South Africa you have to realise that sometimes there is a role that you need to perform," Peterson said ahead of the Proteas' first practice in Cape Town on Monday. "Sometimes that is what is on offer; whether to keep it tight and give the seamers a bit of a break if there is no spin, or if there is a bit on offer to try to come in and make a breakthrough if the seamers can't."
There is uncertainty over what to expect at Sahara Park Newlands this weekend and recent scores of 47 all out and 45 all out by Australia and New Zealand respectively suggest that the public could be treated to another pace pounding. Peterson, however, feels there could be some turn on offer depending on the weather conditions.
"We have played on various surfaces at Newlands over the last couple of years and it seems like the seamers do a lot of damage, but in saying that it's probably the only surface that we are going to play against Pakistan where a spinner could come into his own," he said.
"I would love to play on turning wickets every weekend but that is not the case in South Africa; you have to adapt," he added.
The success of the Proteas' pace attack may have temporarily overshadowed the impact of the spinning role in the team, but for Peterson it's his part in the collective effort of a winning team that counts the most.
"It can be frustrating sometimes," he admitted. "But you have to realise that you are part of a team, it's more important for the team to do the business. The team comes first, it's magnificent to have front row seats to watch Dale (Steyn), Vern (Philander), Morne (Morkel) and even Jacques (Kallis) at the moment, especially to perform the way they are with the ball.
"As long as we are winning I don't mind, I know that my time will come, I just need to hang in there, keep patient and continue working hard."


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