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iPhone 5 vs Samsung Galaxy S III drop test is not for faint-hearted geeks
0. phoneArena 21 Sep 2012, 09:38 posted on
One thing that we don't really enjoy watching is pricey gadgets being tortured, but if that's the only way to test the durability of a high-end smartphone, then count us in. Today's contenders are the iPhone 5, which is now available for purchase in several countries, and the Samsung Galaxy S III, which is currently among the hottest Android smartphones in existence...
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1. remixfa (Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
well look at that. an iphone that isnt a shatter magnet. Gotta give em props on that one.
I really hope samsung fixed whatever the design issue on the SGS3 was for the Note2. I do not want a shatter magnet. lol
14. neutralguy (Posts: 1152; Member since: 30 Apr 2012)
just put a screen protector for that. It would help a lot to resist the shattering of the glass.
47. abdane (Posts: 494; Member since: 07 Oct 2011)
oh well, i confess, iPhone 5 did a better job in screen protection, thats the only thing iPhone's better than GS3, because when we start from the inside, iPhone should be ashamed :P
58. Marcus_h (Posts: 44; Member since: 21 Apr 2012)
Geekbench benchmarks so far show the iPhone 5 as much faster, so nothing to be ashamed of there
61. PhoneArenaUser (Posts: 5498; Member since: 05 Aug 2011)
Does iPhone 5 and Samsung Galaxy S III use the same OS? NO! Then about what benchmarks we can talk about?
70. Marcus_h (Posts: 44; Member since: 21 Apr 2012)
Main point - nothing to be ashamed of, as per your asinine remark.
Sun Spider tests show it does Javascript faster. It does all this with exceptional battery life. Ergo, nothing to be ashamed of.
Compared to JB, well it hasn't happened yet. Maybe, maybe not. By then there will be iOS upgrades. Who knows.
So, even if/when JB is out, iPhone has nothing to be ashamed of. Stupid comment, really
84. structureman116 (Posts: 139; Member since: 14 Sep 2010)
There is plenty for Apple to be ashamed of. They have a fast phone...but its AMAZING, REVOLUTIONARY and INNOVATIVE features have been around for over 2 years now on Android phones.
102. bhsolace (Posts: 5; Member since: 12 Aug 2011)
Apple never completely invented computers or mp3 players, but they made them better. In this case, yes android had it first but apple made it better, these arguments are pointless.
62. theBankRobber (Posts: 681; Member since: 22 Sep 2011)
Yea but it was a ICS firmware, when up against JB firmware on the SGS 3 it beat the iPhone 5 with IOS 6.
65. PhoneArenaUser (Posts: 5498; Member since: 05 Aug 2011)
We can't compare hardware performance since both devices uses different OS. Benchmarks can't directly test hardware because benchmarks runs on OS and Samsung Galaxy S III and iPhone 5 use not the same OS.
If we are comparing hardware + OS performance, then I agree, but if we want to compare only hardware performance, then this way doesn't work...
66. theBankRobber (Posts: 681; Member since: 22 Sep 2011)
Yea but you know how fan boys try so hard to prove which phone is better. I agree with you with both hardware differences and OS. But it still showed IOS's newest OS against Androids newest OS, and some just want to make them selves feel better about their purchase lol
80. remtothemax (Posts: 260; Member since: 02 May 2012)
how is which hardware is better relevant?
if you make a phone that can perform a function with a processor from three years ago faster than the latest quad-core processor
i'm going to buy the one that works the best
not the one with the "best" specs
the gs3 has a faster processor and more ram
but i'm using the operating system, not just raw hardware
i care about how it works, not what's in it
okay, put 8 gigs of ram in, big whoop if it doesn't matter
and btw, i'm not commenting on jb and project butter and all that, which i am very excited about
i just think these stupid competitions about raw hardware are stupid
its like the megapixel war
its over, what matters now is features and performance
(which arguably android or even wp8 may win, that is subjective)
87. PhoneArenaUser (Posts: 5498; Member since: 05 Aug 2011)
Yes, I agree, important general result not separately OS or hardware. But we were talking exclusively about benchmark results and it is the fact that you can't benchmark hardware and compare results if devices are using different OS.
93. remtothemax (Posts: 260; Member since: 02 May 2012)
that makes sense
neutral question: is there no real way to scientifically compare real world performance accross devices?
it just makes sense to me that if you have a test that times how long it takes to load a web page or how fast it takes to crunch some data set, wouldn't that be a pretty good indicator of real world performance, regardless of what operating system/hardware is there?
is this more of an issue of people not being able to program equally well across all platforms, resulting in test programs that perform better because they were programed better?
95. PhoneArenaUser (Posts: 5498; Member since: 05 Aug 2011)
"is this more of an issue of people not being able to program equally well across all platforms, resulting in test programs that perform better because they were programed better?"
OS A isn't equal to OS B because they are wrote differently in other words there is differences between iOS and Android "architectures". In programing world you can make same thing but in different ways and that's makes difference, one function may work faster than another written differently.
Example from mathematics:
1 + 2 + 3 = 6
3 x 2 = 6
Result he same but calculation is different. ;)
64. abdane (Posts: 494; Member since: 07 Oct 2011)
trust me on this, GS3 with jellybean on geekbench will be higher than iOS 6/iPhone 5 ;)
99. estreito (Posts: 15; Member since: 11 May 2012)
If you go now to the geekbench result browser, you'll see the the SGS3 is already faster, even with ICS.
The SGS3's are in the 1700's - 1800's and the iphone 5 is in the 1600's.
BTW, my SGS2 (Exynos), scores 1445 (OC'ed). :)
69. pkiran1996 (Posts: 166; Member since: 22 Oct 2011)
FYI the geekbench test was done with a Galaxy S3 running ICS. The Galaxy S3 in fact foes better when running Jelly Bean.
97. prakesh (Posts: 92; Member since: 13 Sep 2012)
gs3 is under ICS gsmarena/PA says that it can run faster than ip5, when it upgrade to JB.
so ur comment sounds apple fan boy
96. meowcenary (Posts: 187; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
A screen protector aid in scratch reduction and does not the reinforce the structural integrity of the glass display. One should always pay for insurance to cover damages. It is pitiful to see the cracks on peoples smartphones. If you can't afford insurance then you, should not own a smartphone. Either that or cut your starbucks or mcdonalds out.
18. SuperAndroidEvo (Posts: 4833; Member since: 15 Apr 2011)
Well it is a good thing. Remember the Samsung Galaxy S III is 4.8" screen VS the iPhone 5 4" inch screen. So a smaller screen will always fare better than a larger screen in a drop test because there is more real-estate to break. Another reason the iPhone 5 did well is because there is no glass on the back. The iPhone 4 & 4S would either break in the front or the back.
Hey this is good for apple though. lol
31. wendygarett (unregistered)
I think is because of the weight mordecai...
Samsung's phone has gained weight while iphone has reduced...
this is just my opinion :)
41. SuperAndroidEvo (Posts: 4833; Member since: 15 Apr 2011)
Glass by nature is very brittle. So if you have more & longer pieces of glass it will always break faster than the less glass or shorter pieces of glass.
My example would be a glass shot glass & a glass standard drinking glass. The shot glass will always survive because there is less real-estate as supposed to the standard drinking glass.
Yeah I have dropped a shot glass from time to time during the college years. lol
44. remixfa (Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
you know that's a party foul right?
You drop one shot, you have to drink 2. Get movin!! :)
67. SuperAndroidEvo (Posts: 4833; Member since: 15 Apr 2011)
It is a party foul. I only dropped it after I drank it. Some times I couldn't get the shot glass back on the table.
Wow I miss the binge drinking days! lol
53. wendygarett (unregistered)
Ugh!!! It is not because of the size glass, both are gorilla glass dude!!!
I personally think because of the weight!!!
sorry for my stubborness >_
55. Contreramanjaro (Posts: 153; Member since: 04 Dec 2011)
I'm glad for your stubbornness because I agree. But I think the mounting also has a big impact of the shatter. The S3 has glass up to the edge on a plastic body which will flex more and the iPhone has the metal body. With enough pressure to bend the outside, the glass on the iPhone will take pressure but it will take a lot more and a greater weight will help with that.
My friend just cracked his Moto Atrix with a drop and that has gorilla glass. Just an unlucky drop which landed it right on a rock.
71. SuperAndroidEvo (Posts: 4833; Member since: 15 Apr 2011)
Ok let me put it to you this way. Both are Gorilla Glass. So the same principle applies. Short Gorilla Glass length will be tougher than long Gorilla Glass length.
Also the Apple iPhone 5 is only 21g lighter than the Samsung Galaxy S III. The Galaxy S III is a way bigger phone in terms of glass area so it will always break faster.
72. wendygarett (unregistered)
You do realised that 21g is actually heavy when you holding it tho...
Try hold a 20gram of gold bar and see my friend :)
I understand your concept but it doesn't mean mine is wrong...
73. SuperAndroidEvo (Posts: 4833; Member since: 15 Apr 2011)
You have held 21g gold bar?!?!? lol
74. wendygarett (unregistered)
20 gram actually :) just hold other metallic things and you will realise that lol...
Let just use the older example...
Can you explain why the older version galaxy s2 is sturdier than the iPhone4/4s?
I will definitely explain because of weight bro :)
98. prakesh (Posts: 92; Member since: 13 Sep 2012)
4/4s has a glass..
91. EclipseGSX (Posts: 1717; Member since: 18 Oct 2011)
I've held 21g of coke before. It's not that heavy
101. bayusuputra (Posts: 963; Member since: 12 Feb 2012)
actually, it's because of the weight, the glass' surface area, and the shape of the phone itself..
let me explain.
the heavier, the harder the impact, physics..
shape of the phone:
the iPhone 5 has metal sides which is stronger than the plastic sides of the SGS3 and a flat glass whereas the SGS3 has a "bubble" like glass, which means it will be the one that take the impact when it drops, unlike the metal sides of the iPhone which to some extent will still protect it..
Surface area of glass:
consider the glasses are of the same material, same thickness, same width but different length.
the one that is longer will have a lower strength. again, physics.
good job to apple for making it less prone to shattering like the previous iPhones..
But I still prefer Android..
38. remixfa (Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
that's not completely true. Every iphone until now has been a shatter magnet and they are tiny. Every SGS phone and even the Note has been very resistant to breaking until the SGS3 and they have all been bigger than iphones. :)
Its a design issue with the SGS3. They need a bigger bezel or something around the edge, there is no vibration/pressure resistance on the corners from the looks of it.. Every time it drops on a corner it takes out a screen.
25. wendygarett (unregistered)
The weird part is that this drop test again from androidauthority...
Just different host lol
30. protozeloz (Posts: 5396; Member since: 16 Sep 2010)
this just proves android fanboys can be rational
39. remixfa (Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
find that from iOS nuts.
good luck... I'll wait. :)
48. wendygarett (unregistered)
Actually I'm waiting for the 'will it blend' show from Dr. iNut :) remixfa
75. remixfa (Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
ooh.. I love a good "Will it Blend" episode.
What I'm waiting for is for you to stop using pictures of well known asian models and put up a pic of your true male face.
Not that I mind the models, as she is attractive.. but dudes pretending to be chicks is just perverted.
26. protozeloz (Posts: 5396; Member since: 16 Sep 2010)
they could have build the S3 like their windows phone lineup.... it was gonna be their top dog, maybe they decide to go with better stuff on the S IV
33. PhoneArenaUser (Posts: 5498; Member since: 05 Aug 2011)
Yes, Samsung Galaxy S III is very fragile device, iPhone 5 looks build much stronger. In my opinion Samsung Galaxy S III is one, maybe even the most fragile smartphones of current generation. I think that Samsung Galaxy S II was build stronger than Galaxy S III.
Talking about such kind of tests, in this test is just to much accidental chances, as YouTube video it is good but as a serious test it is almost worthless.
82. remtothemax (Posts: 260; Member since: 02 May 2012)
...so do you don't even use your phone in the real world where drops happen?
i think knowing the relative "drop resistance" of a phone is incredibly important to making a buying decision
they don't do just one of these, they do a lot
so the gs3 is more fragile, that isn't necessarily a deal breaker at all
but it is something i want to know when i am thinking about buying a phone and how accident prone i may or may not be
88. PhoneArenaUser (Posts: 5498; Member since: 05 Aug 2011)
"...so do you don't even use your phone in the real world where drops happen?"
Show me where I say that ???
2. wsker (Posts: 24; Member since: 02 Dec 2011)
Oh yeah, just "Throw" the SGS3 !
45. wendygarett (unregistered)
why? if you have it, just used it...
86. wsker (Posts: 24; Member since: 02 Dec 2011)
I meant like it wasn't fair Dx ... he just drops the iphone 5, and throws the SGS3 !
3. StephenGalop (Posts: 52; Member since: 21 Sep 2012)
What the f***... dropping it right after buying?
32. wendygarett (unregistered)
because of the ANDROIDauthority silly :D
they hate iphone too :D
4. bucky (Posts: 2573; Member since: 30 Sep 2009)
iPhone 5 seems to be built pretty well
35. wendygarett (unregistered)
Your phone will never be as slim as sturdy as iphone :)
37. tcy148 (Posts: 3; Member since: 19 Sep 2012)
I think the only phone to rival the iPhone 5 for build quality, slimness and lightness is the HTC One S. IMO, that is a beautifully crafted phone. Specs can't match the iPhone though.
40. bucky (Posts: 2573; Member since: 30 Sep 2009)
i dont get what ur saying wendy...
68. protozeloz (Posts: 5396; Member since: 16 Sep 2010)
neither do we bucky..... neither do we.....
5. ajac09 (Posts: 1481; Member since: 30 Sep 2009)
lol @ the old people in the background
6. andro. (Posts: 1998; Member since: 16 Sep 2011)
It toltally depends on the angle of impact. You can drop a device at the same height 5 times and it may not crack at all depending on its angle of impact or it may crack the very first time. If the iphone 5 is actually less fragile than its iphone 4$ alternative than apple could see alot of replacement iphone sales drop.
10. good2great (Posts: 1042; Member since: 22 Feb 2012)
Even remixfa gave the phone props bro... And he's one of the most respected android users here...
Give it a rest lol
43. remixfa (Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
Aww, thanks
Ya gotta give it where its due man. We've laughed at every iteration of iphone before for how easily it shattered. It seems like they've put a little thought into this version. Unfortunately it looks like the opposite for Samsung who is known for great build quality/drop resistance. I guess "built by lawyers" means "built to withstand the impact of the court, not the floor". lol
56. VZWuser76 (Posts: 4201; Member since: 04 Mar 2010)
Technically they're both right. While apple has certainly improved he design in regards to durability (never understood a glass back on a phone when it's just painted anyway), that doesn't mean that it couldn't have just as easily gone the other way. When dealing with glass the main factors in shattering are height of the drop, area of the glass, angle of the drop, and weight of the device. Also, and I know this would've been expensive, for a truer test they should've done each segment with a new phone. Since the s3 was already cracked, it hurt it in the following test. Not saying the same thing wouldn't have happened anyway, but if it's already broken another impact will only further fracture it, whereas a new unit may have come out okay.
The main thing is you can drop a phone 100 times and no matter how hard you try you'll never get the drop exactly the same. Sometimes the phones in the video just dropped, other times (like when the s3 shattered) they hit and shot across the ground. Assuming the ground is fairly flat, a face down drop would be better than a corner drop, since the impact would be absorbed by a larger area than on a corner drop. I've cracked one screen (my OG Incredible) but that was after going down a half a flight of stairs and hitting the cement floor. The screen itself cracked, not the glass, and that was with a tpu case and screen protector on it. So really there is no rhyme or reason to why some phones crack and others don't. Certainly a smaller phone with less weight will fare better than a larger, heavier phone. In the end be careful and try to safeguard your phone. If you're super worried go with a case & screen protector, or insurance, or both. But at least now apple users have less to worry about.
13. StephenGalop (Posts: 52; Member since: 21 Sep 2012)
another fan screaming "unfair", "retest", "bias!"


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These students designed and painted puppet stages, props and scenery for the middle school academy puppet shows: fourth-graders Katelynn Bauman, Jack Burkholder, Madison Grabert, Calista Morrison, Rylie Roggow, Carson Silardi, and Nora Zirm; and fifth-graders Dylan Alford, Avery Durham, Ethan Feasel, Chloe Mack, Nina Navarette, Anthony Thallman and Jade Worden.
"This is something that the kids are never going to forget," Hillier said. "I, along with the kids, use art as a form of visual communications. I enjoy using art to make people smile and laugh and just enjoy their life."
"I think puppets have been used around the world in most cultures to convey the traditions and life skills of that culture. Our art academy students learned about this first hand through the long distance learning class from the Center for Puppetry Arts they had the first art academy session in September," Hillier said. "The three plays our students are presenting all have a life application character skills as the focal point."
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Hotel is inappropriate for former psych center
I'm glad I haven't heard any more talk about turning the former Buffalo Psychiatric Center into a hotel. As a former psych center caseworker, I wonder: Do not any of these planners have a soul?
There are tens of thousands of human beings who spent years – some of them all their lives – in that hell hole. Do they not think there are souls crying and screaming in the halls of that building?
There is nothing beautiful about that building. The preservationists are preventing this area from moving into this century. They may or may not be smart, but they have no wisdom whatsoever. Please wake up and use the money on something useful.
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The 6 Most Terrifying Dating Scenes Around the World
The act of meeting someone and deciding that you'd really like to fill them with or be filled by their babies is something everyone on Earth is familiar with. In fact, it might be the most fundamental sensation the universe knows: It's what doesn't separate us from the animals.
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"Gurl, I'm gonna crawl out of the surf and fertilize the clutch of eggs you laid in the sand so hard."
But it turns out that this universal impulse of "sticking it to each other" has been wrapped up in all sorts of cultural baggage and ceremony, which can vary significantly depending on which part of the world you're trying to do your sticking in. And to illustrate how weird we can make this really basic thing, allow me to now, with great seriousness and solemnity and just the bare minimum of mocking other cultures, present some of the oddest dating problems (and solutions) from around the world.
#6. In Iceland, They Keep Accidentally Laying Their Cousins
Iceland is known for two things: having terrible spelling, and being really difficult to drive to. These two factors have greatly discouraged people throughout history from moving there, which has resulted in a present-day population that is small and closely related to one another. Which isn't a very good setup for dating; it's not uncommon for an Icelander, after a night of drinking fftirz down at the local GhhjkkSdottr, to meet another Icelander who appears to be interested in being on or under them that is also technically and legally their cousin.
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"I just realized what it is I like about you. You look like me!"
Which is why an Icelander had to come up with the Cousin Alarm, an app for smartphones. When two young Icelanders meet in a bar, they can bump their phones together, echoing potential bumps to come, and let the app tell them via alarm if they're closely related.
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The alarm can be set to play a hillbilly banjo riff or a longer hillbilly banjo riff.
#5. In Indian "Dating," Private Detectives Are Pretty Heavily Involved
Arranged marriages are still very much the done thing in India, with potentially up to 90 percent of all marriages originating this way. If you're unfamiliar with the concept, perhaps because your family's simply given up on you, it basically involves your family scouring the local community looking for a suitable match for you. Famously, romance has almost nothing to do with this, and other than a basic effort to match up boys with girls, the actual interests of the couple have nothing to do with anything. It's more like a business transaction than anything else, as the respective families look to align their various religious, business, and political interests.
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This is basically a stockholder meeting.
And, just like in the business world, one of the most important aspects of "courtship" in India is for both parties to do their own due diligence, which essentially means that they do their own research on how many goats the other guy actually owns and precisely how "fly" their daughter actually is. Which is how private detectives came to become an integral part of the Indian dating scene.
Frankly, it makes our Western efforts at due diligence look pretty half-assed.
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(thinking) "Karen. Kathryn. Katelyn. Kathy. Jeffy. Jeff. No! Not Jeff! That's your name, asshole. Crap crap crap crap crap crap! Crap? Crapryn!"
#4. In India (Again), Roaming Cults Threaten to Forcibly Marry Any Unwed Couples They Find
I'll try not to pick on India too much here. (Big, big fan of the bhajis, guys. Also the number zero. Nice one; works great.) But once I read about this, it was too crazy not to include.
Sri Ram Sena is a particularly hard-line (and slightly assholish) Hindu sect that just hate, hate, hates the idea of women behaving immorally, by doing things like "talking to a man" or "being in public." In 2009, members of this group were caught on video attacking girls at pubs for the crime of being girls at pubs.
Now, despite the fact that India is a pretty conservative country that is struggling to adjust to a world where women think and do things, this is still pretty far outside acceptable behavior. It's an attitude that appears to be based on this group's own unique interpretation of various Hindu texts, and also possibly because of the sinful thoughts that women and their shapes inspire in men.
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"Hey, are those ass pants? Because I can see myself in them. Wait, let me explain ..."
Anyways, a few weeks after their little pub attack, like as kind of an encore, the leaders of the group threatened to go around on Valentine's Day and marry unwed couples they caught in the streets. To be fair, this does appear to have just been a threat and not an actual thing that happened, although that may have just been because 140 members of the sect were taken into "protective custody" the day before Valentine's to prevent that from happening.
So there you go. Private detectives, insane cults, and drive-by marriages. Harlequin romances in India must be insane.


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Reed, 25, cites irreconcilable differences and seeks to deny the American Idol alum ex, 29, spousal support, according to divorce papers filed May 16 in Los Angeles Superior Court.
The couple, who tied the knot in a "perfect" Malibu, California, ceremony in October 2011, met in March of that year at the Red Riding Hood premiere and got engaged that June.
At the time their split was announced, they had been separated for six months but "still working [together] on their debut album, I'm Not Falling," her rep said of the slated 2014 release, adding that the pair "remain best friends and look forward to their continued journey together."


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At a recent orthodontist visit, my 9 year old daughter was given bite blocks that prevent her from biting her teeth together. "You'll need to make sure she doesn't eat food that requires much chewing," the orthodontist told me. My jaw dropped and I watched his expression that I assumed was judgment when I described how limited her diet already is. As someone who will eat just about anything, I've historically had a low tolerance for picky eaters, you know…those adults who ask a million questions in restaurants before ordering, or vegetarians who hate vegetables (I dated one of those once). Then I became Bakha's mom and I had to expand my views.
Due to her early institutional diet and years of malnutrition, Bakha has been a picky eater since I adopted her. Apparently, she wasn't a picky eater at the orphanage. Her caregivers told me she'd eat anything. But the first night I took Bakha out of the orphanage to the hotel, she refused her dinner. I naively thought she would gobble up food from her culture because it would be familiar. I quickly realized the food of one's country is not the same as the food of one's orphanage.
I spent the next several years expanding Bakha's repertoire of foods. I had worked for years as a speech-language pathologist, often working with children with feeding disorders, so I understood the reasons for her food aversions and I knew the methods that should help her increase the foods she'd accept. Here are some of the tips I incorporated into our mealtimes (for more tips click here, ):
- Try adding a small amount of a new texture to a preferred texture. If the small amount is accepted, add slightly more each time the preferred food is offered. The same can be done with new flavors.
- Kids are more likely to eat if they see others doing the same. That is especially true when they are fed in the presence of other kids who are eating, and is often how they acquire a liking for a new food.
- Encourage your child to be active before meal time – if possible, time outside in fresh air stimulates appetite.
- If your child tends to fill up on fluids, offer drinks at the middle or end of a meal.
- Lots of praise for trying new foods or finishing a meal can actually backfire. If your child realizes how important his eating is to you, he may use it to gain the upper hand at mealtimes.
It did take longer than I expected, but little by little Bakha added new foods. After we'd been home a week, I let her drink milk out of a bowl after she'd picked out each piece of cereal. After that she accepted milk. At three months home, she watched a little boy repeatedly ask for more pesto at dinner and she was intrigued. Pesto has been a staple ever since. At six months home, I put four small bowls of mac and cheese in front of her and let her try different toppings. Soy sauce won out and it's still the only way she'll eat cooked cheese. At twelve months home, she discovered that everything tastes better with turkey bacon. She'll now eat oatmeal if it can have bacon crumbled in it; her pizza consists of crust, pesto, and bacon. She recently tried an omelet (a bacon omelet, of course). Yes, some of her food choices are a bit odd, but they are her own choices after years of never having choices about what she could eat, when she could eat, or how much she could eat. They are powerful choices, and it's always in the back of my mind that as important as the nutritional content of her food is, her relationship to food is even more important. It's one she'll have for the rest of her life.
So when the orthodontist told me that her slowly expanding diet would have to be limited again, I swallowed hard and waited for his judgment. His response? "I completely understand. My kids are picky eaters, too. Any suggestions for me?" Oh boy, I thought, just get me started…
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Governor Walker and his team of lawyers will probably go in for "voluntary" questioning this week, that is, if he can take time off from all that campaing fundraising out of state. Sounds more Nixonesque all the time.
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I talked to her at home last night. Feel bad. She feels Worse.
We cannot afford another story like this one. No one can give them any reason to do another story. That means no laptops, no websites, not time away during the work day, etc.
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In the decade since the discovery of siRNA, the use of these molecules as therapeutics has received ample R&D investment and delivered a lot of promise. In the past two and a half months alone, several companies have reported positive clinical trial results for RNAi drug candidates.
The development of RNAi therapeutics faces all the challenges one would expect with gene-based therapies: delivery, localization of activity, toxicity, and drug-stability—as Tekmira, for instance, might acknowledge. The company recently announced that it will delay a Phase I–II trial of its TKM-ApoB candidate to treat high low-density-lipid cholesterol patients, because the compound had "not met the company's expectations" in this particular application.
Herein lies one of the particularly interesting aspects of RNAi: its function as both an analytical tool and potential therapeutic, such that it may be employed as a workhorse component even toward its own eventual development into a pharmaceutical compound.
Drug delivery, for example, is a critical challenge for all drug candidates in development. But given the generally short time windows of biological efficiency of siRNAs, and their potential for unwanted systemic effects (they are, after all, systemically delivered agents of gene knockdown), identification of targeted delivery is particularly critical. Basic research, at medical centers and in company laboratories, is seeking to overcome this challenge.
Focusing on kidney injuries associated with ischemia and exposure to nephrotoxins, Bruce Molitoris, M.D., director of nephrology, and his team at Indiana University's School of Medicine, have determined that intravenously injected siRNA can protect kidney function and, specifically, the proximal tubule cells that are the primary cellular injury sites following ischemic or nephrotoxic events.
"siRNA, when injected intravenously, is filtered rapidly across the glomerulus and into proximal tubule cells, which pick it up like candy," Dr. Molitoris describes. "siRNA is inherently targeted to the kidney, from where it can be transported to the cytosol to effect its therapeutically intended function."
Dr. Molitoris' conclusions were based on analysis drawn from different datasets. His team assessed siRNA-based phenotypic nephroprotective effects in several models of injury and tracked these nephroprotective effects to mRNA expression of p53 (associated with apoptotic effects in tissues following ischemia and other insults). With RNAi essentially a means of gene knockdown, the requirement of corroborative data is inherent for meaningful conclusions in RNAi therapeutics development.
Amgen understands the value, and limitations, of RNAi analysis. "Genetic approaches are ideally and uniquely suited to identifying the genes essential for, say, cancer cell survival and proliferation," says Kim Quon, Ph.D., principal scientist. But prior to the advent of RNAi technologies, he notes, this was not possible, "because the tools needed to efficiently apply loss-of-function genetics to human cancer cells did not exist."
Amgen is conducting siRNA screens of panels of cancer cells lines. As Dr. Quon says, the approach sounds great, on paper.
"It is not so simple to implement in practice. False positives and false negatives abound, making very general phenotypes such as viability and proliferation particularly difficult to interpret."
Dr. Quon's research has focused on parsing out meaningful conclusions from the spectra of phenotypes that result from differential siRNA knockdown efficiencies. His research team has suggested that siRNAs be considered as series of "hypomorphic alleles" instead of knockout agents, and they have used this approach to develop a means of quantifying siRNA data.
"The long-term potential of RNAi is huge," agrees Francesca Santini, Ph.D., cellular discovery biology leader at Merck. "The technology provides access to an enormous wealth of disease targets that were previously inaccessible with traditional small molecule drugs."
Merck acknowledges the need of combined areas of expertise here, noting that it conducts adjunct substantiating studies throughout its RNAi drug development process. Safety assessments include microarray gene-expression studies for assessing off-target effects of siRNA drug candidates, and preclinical toxicology routinely involves monitoring of immune system activation.
Since its $1 billion-plus acquisition of Sirna Therapeutics in 2006, the company has made few announcements regarding its siRNA R&D, though it has presented data at meetings in recent years regarding identification of modulators of hypoxia-induced factor (HIF). Primary siRNA knockdown screens were coupled with gene-expression and cell-imaging assays and network-based analyses to more clearly elucidate specific HIF pathway activity.
"At Merck, we have a mid-term goal of using RNAi to improve decision-making and increase the probability of success of our traditional therapeutics. We are using RNAi to validate disease-specific targets and pathways, as well as generate in vitro disease models. In the preclinical setting, RNAi technology can be used to assess the effect of knocking down specific target genes in model systems. Data from such experiments will help us decide whether to pursue novel targets for small molecule or biologics development," Dr. Santini says.
For compounds in later clinical development, the analytical potential of siRNA is further supportive. "In the clinic, RNAi could potentially be given to humans to measure the effect of knocking down target genes on well-established biomarkers such as blood glucose levels or LDL cholesterol. Obtaining human proof-of-concept for targets with RNAi could increase the probability of success of small molecule or biologic therapeutics once they reach the clinic."
For certain treatment-recalcitrant viral infections, RNAi has been a particularly beneficial analytical tool. "To target HIV specifically, given the high sequence variation of HIV isolates, is always a challenge," notes Renate Koenig, Ph.D., research assistant professor in the infectious and inflammatory disease center of the Burnham Institute for Medical Research. "Only siRNA has made it possible to knockdown each gene in the human genome, enabling us to gain a whole snapshot of the life cycle of HIV and an understanding of the virus' pathways in detail."
Through RNAi analysis, she adds, her team "determined several previously undescribed virus-host interactions that likely occur in concert to facilitate the early stages of HIV infection. For instance, nuclear import of the virus and integration of the virus seem to be coupled processes mediated by nuclear porins, karyopherins, and other soluble transport factors."
Dr. Koenig and her colleagues are conducting whole-genome siRNA screening, with the goal of discovering new antiviral targets, for HIV and influenza virus. "It is the main research tool we are using, but it is inherently prone to false negatives and positives."
Dr. Koenig's team thus uses these approaches, in conjunction with other methodologies, to "rank" the data mined from the RNAi screens more effectively. The researchers combined their RNAi results with interrogation of "human interactome" databases, and assessment of protein-protein interactions, mRNA expression, and gene ontology.
The end result is a functional map that includes subnetworks of interacting pathogen-host factors, each of which may be a potential drug target. Such RNAi analyses can contribute substantially to greater efficacy of eventual pharmaceutical treatment regimens. For complex systemic infections such as HIV, for instance, eventual therapeutics based on RNAi may seemingly do well to target both host and pathogen pathways.
"Given the changeability of viral DNA, therapeutic targeting of virus genes is always a moving target. But to target host cellular proteins in addition to the viral proteins adds a fixed drug target," Dr. Koenig notes. "Administration of multiple RNAi drugs, some targeting host processes and others viral processes, may be the most effective."
Educated as a mathematician, Auguste Genovesio, Ph.D., head of the image-mining group at Institut Pasteur Korea, brings an understanding of the necessity of progressive data visualization in RNAi analysis. Citing the enormous variability of results in RNAi HIV screens (there may be as low as 7% overlap across results of different studies), he says single-gene knockdown studies by siRNA can be "a nightmare" in practice.
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Prettily set between cliffs and a river estuary, the 15,000-strong town of WHAKATANE, 65km east of Te Puke, sprawls across flat farmland around the last convulsions of the Whakatane River. It has had a turbulent history but is now a relatively tranquil service town with a couple of cultural attractions, and walks along the spine of hills above the town and to the viewpoint at Kohi Point.
It also makes a great jumping-off point for sunbathing at Ohope Beach, swimming with dolphins, visits to the bird sanctuary of Whale Island and cruises to volcanic White Island, which billows plumes of steam into the sky.
Brief history
The area has had more than its fair share of dramatic events. The Maori word Whakatane ("to act as a man") originated when the women of the Mataatua canoe were left aboard while the men went ashore; the canoe began to drift out to sea, but touching the paddles was tapu for women. Undeterred, Wairaka, the teenage daughter of a chief, led the women in paddling back to shore, shouting Ka Whakatane Au i Ah au ("I will deport myself as a man"); a statue at Whakatane Heads commemorates her heroic act.
Apart from a brief sortie by Cook, the first Europeans were flax traders in the early 1800s. In March 1865, missionary Carl Völkner was killed at Opotiki and a government agent, James Falloon, arrived to investigate. Supporters of a fanatical Maori sect, the Hau Hau, attacked Falloon's vessel, killing him and his crew. In response, the government declared martial law, and by the end of the year a large part of the Bay of Plenty had been confiscated and Whakatane was a military settlement. Te Kooti chose Whakatane as his target for a full-scale attack in 1869 before being driven back into the hills of Urewera.


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If your answer is an enthusiastic "YES!" then you've come to the right place!
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The USA Swimming Foundation serves as the philanthropic arm of USA Swimming. Established in 2004, the Foundation works to strengthen the sport by saving lives and building champions—in the pool and in life. Whether we're equipping our children with the life-saving skill of learn-to-swim through our Make a Splash initiative, or providing financial support to our heroes on the U.S. National Team, the USA Swimming Foundation aims to provide the wonderful experience of swimming to kids at all levels across the country.
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Ayelet WaldmanAyelet Waldman has proven that she's much more than Michael Chabon's wife. Her new novel, Love and Treasure, is testimony to a unique literary voice as she re-frames the tragic story of WW2's Hungarian gold train, found abandoned and filled with treasure.01/27/2014Time: 7:30 pmCarnegie Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
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MadagascarSheila McKenna directs the regional premiere of J.T. Rogers' play Madagascar, winner of the American Theatre Critics Association's 2004 Osborn Award and the 2005 Pinter Review Prize, starring Helena Ruoti, Larry John Meyers, and Melinda Helfrich. About the nature of memory, the Rashomon-style play puts the audience in a sort of jurists' box, as the three characters tell their stories in direct address, weaving an interlocking web designed to reveal the elusive truth.01/30/2014 - 02/16/2014Location: The Carlyle, 306 4th Ave. Pittsburgh, PAwebsite
Asana Utsava: A Celebration of Music and MovementCome celebrate yoga as a breathtaking artistic expression.� OvreArts has collaborated with several area yoga studios to create music inspired by each studio's philosophy, and each studio will demonstrate the beauty of bridging mind and body with music.01/30/2014Time: 7:30pmHeinz Chapel, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
Bach, Beethoven, & BrahmsOriginally for organ, Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor was orchestrated by Leopold Stokowski who conducted it in Disney's Fantasia. With its fiery, rich harmonies and powerful spirit, Beethoven's fourth is surprisingly one of his lesser-known works. With playing touted as "superb, tightly controlled and forcefully articulated" by the L. A. Times, pianist and wildlife conservationist Helene Grimaud returns in Brahms' Piano Concerto #1.01/31/2014 - 02/02/201401/31 - 8:00 pm02/01 - 8:00 pm02/01 - 8:00 pmHeinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
HeadsAn American engineer. A British embassy employee. A network journalist. And a freelance photographer. As hostages in a war zone, each responds to the unbearable situation differently, with stark reality and difficult choices. Written by EM Lewis and directed by John Shepard, Heads is a heart-wrenching story about finding hope and intimacy in an environment with seemingly no way out.01/31/2014 - 02/16/2014Pittsburgh Playhouse, 222 Craft Avenue Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
Oscar Shorts The annual program featuring Oscar nominees in the Live Action and Animated categories. Nominees will be announced Jan. 16th. 01/31/2014Location: Regent Square Theaterwebsite
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Asase Yaa African-American Dance TheatreThe members of Asase Yaa have traveled to around the world, bridging the gap between African and African-American culture. They've worked with VH1 Hip Hop Honors Awards, Stars of New York Dance, and the premiere of the HBO "Sing your Song" documentary with Harry Belafonte. Presented by Kente Arts Alliance.02/01/2014Time: 8:00 pmNew Hazlett Theater, 6 Allegheny Square East, Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
Compagnie KafigThis innovative hip-hop ensemble has become an international phenomenon. Inspired by an encounter with eleven young dancers from the shantytowns of Brazil, director and choreographer Mourad Merzouki created Correria and Agwa—two heart-stopping works that showcase a sensational combination of athletic samba, hip-hop and capoeira dance styles. The all-male company from Brazil exhibits theatrical intelligence and is gifted with irresistible personality and astonishing dancing. Bursting with fun, humor and vitality, this show is set to an energetic soundtrack of samba and bossa nova music.02/01/2014Time: 8:00 pmByham Theater, 101 6th St., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
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Cimarosa's Il Matrimonio SegretoCarolina and Paolino want to be openly married, so they plot to marry off Carolina's older sister Elisetta to appease a strict father. As it turns out, Carolina's aunt Fidalma is also in love with Paolino. And when the man betrothed to Elisetta arrives, he falls in love with Carolina. Much scheming, amorous intrigue, and silliness ensue. Sara Jobin conducts a production featuring Pgh Opera's resident artists.01/26/2013 - 02/03/201301/26 - 8:00 pm01/29 - 7:00 pm02/01 - 8:00 pm02/03 - 2:00 pmLocation: CAPA Theater, 111 9th St., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite
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quote: On that note, your proposition that the culture environment is totally irrelevant as long as its suitable for cultivation is balderdash.
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EAST LIVERPOOL-Scott Dahl has been attending Quaker Digital Academy at its new downtown East Liverpool location since the start of the new school year, and already he and his mother have noticed a difference.
Dahl, 17, of East Liverpool, talks about advancing to the 11th grade soon, and a smile comes over his face. He starts talking about graduating from high school, and the smile gets even bigger.
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Quaker Digital Academy tutor Jeff Edgell explains a math concept to student Holly McCartney on Friday. The online, public school opened an office at 108 E. Fifth St., East Liverpool, in August and has already grown to an enrollment of 75 students. (Photo by Stephen Huba)
Dahl is among a growing number of students signing up for classes at QDA's downtown East Liverpool office, which opened in August. QDA was founded in 2003 as a cyber charter school sponsored by New Philadelphia City Schools and has since opened satellite offices in Steubenville and East Liverpool.
In three months, mostly by word of mouth, QDA's East Liverpool office has grown in enrollment from 25 to 75 students, said Richard Varrati, school chief executive officer.
"Most of these are work-from-home cyber students, but they can access the academic and administrative support at the new East Liverpool office," said Varrati, formerly superintendent of New Philadelphia City Schools.
Dahl was attending East Liverpool High School but said he got tired of bullying from other students. He enrolled at QDA and attends five days a week, several hours a day.
Best of all, said his mother, Elizabeth Dahl, he's getting A's and B's.
"At the high school, the highest he ever got was a C," she said. "They kept passing him on, but he wasn't learning anything. Here, he actually comes home and tells me what he learned on the computer. I think it has made a huge difference."
Dahl is studying language arts, math, science and social studies. "I don't mind coming here. It's nice here," he said. "I like the computers."
Students who attend QDA receive free instruction from tutors or via the Internet and also are assigned an instructional supervisor who serves as the main point of contact between the student and the family. The school covers the cost of the curriculum and the Internet access.
Unlike other cyber charter schools, QDA has several curriculum providers, Varrati said. "We find a curriculum that fits the needs of the student academically. We'll assess the student and match up the curriculum to the student," he said.
QDA started working in Columbiana County three years ago as the academic component of the "Youth Build Columbiana County" program, operated with a federal grant by the Way Station, a faith-based, non-profit organization. "Youth Build" was a two-year work-study program to help males age 16-21 earn a high school diploma and learn construction skills.
"Most of these were high school dropouts who weren't going to end up doing anything else, so this was a better opportunity for them," said Casey Havens, coordinator of the QDA East Liverpool office.
Students in "Youth Build" alternated between a week of paid training and a week of classroom instruction provided by QDA. When the federal funding dried up in June, however, so did the program.
QDA decided to open the East Liverpool office so that the 25 former "Youth Build" students could continue their studies and get their diploma. "After they had been provided services for so long, we didn't want to drop them," Havens said.
Some of those students will complete their studies by Christmas, while others will be done in June 2013, Havens said.
"We didn't want to leave them out in the cold," Varrati said, "so we found a place in East Liverpool that we could rent and put a lab in to service those students."
A former social worker with a teaching certificate in math, Havens said she joined QDA to see the "Youth Build" students through to the end of their program. "I just decided to do that so I could stay working with the kids," she said.
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An open letter to my longtime friend Google
Dear Google,
We've been together a long time. Had a lot of good times together. There are so many things about you I love. Gmail, great idea. Docs, very useful for sharing. I call GOOG-411 all the time. Heck, I even tried out Knol. (That was just me, wasn't it?) But I'm starting to think you might be losing sight of your best feature--that whole "don't be evil" thing.
And since we've had so many good memories together, I feel like we should talk about what's happening to the place we met. I've seen you hanging out with a new friend, talking about what's going to happen to our place. But I'm afraid you've been led astray.
You keep talking about turning this great place into an "open Internet." But it already is an open Internet. One that really must stay that way. Net neutrality isn't important because I don't want to pay extra for Hulu, premium cable channel style. (Which I don't.) No--it's important because openness of the Internet is absolutely, fundamentally critical to the future of collaborative innovation. And I don't mean this "public Internet" you keep mentioning. I mean just plain Internet. It's all public. Open to all of our friends--even the ones we don't really like.
And I know you know about this open innovation idea. Remember summer camp? I think it's even why you went to the beach last year. (I'm sorry nobody else showed up.) But maybe visions of Androids with dollar signs in their eyes have clouded your memories.
Google, do you remember that time, late one night, we searched together for Amazing Fantasy 15? Do you remember what it said? "With great power, there must also come--great responsibility!"
Like Spider-Man, there aren't many with the same kind of power you have. Don't go all Venom on me, OK?
One of your many loyal, openness-loving users
PS--I still love you, and I hope we can stay together. But you're making it a little harder for me to see our long-term future.
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Don't be evil went away many many many years ago, if it was ever more than propaganda. Too
Any examples to list.....China anyone?
Good that people are staring lose th blind spot between what they want to believe an what is real. Apparently still hard to let go though, as shown by this article.
Yeah good points, but really Google has been dodgy for almost a decade. I liked them in like 1999 but the writing has been on the wall for a very long time.
I don't think the opposite of cynicism has to be gullibility ;-)
Ruth Suehle, Great, really great!
Maybe we can have a class action suit for breach of promise?
We are all saddened by Oracle's very anti-OpenSource move
against Google. Are we surprised? Not even a little.
Oracle has always been the big evil in OpenSource. Let us
all hope that the two giants destroy each other and some new
and better entity will come along to save the world.
Where is Google's headquarters? Washington, DC?
I am a bit surprised to see such a response against Google in this matter. In the course of a week, Oracle has closed down OpenSolaris and gone to war with Google over Android. I think the whole Java thing has less to do with FOSS and more to do with money. I think Oracle wants to get paid for every Android device. Frankly I am not sure how I feel about this. On one side, Sun never really open sourced J2ME from what I understand. But on the other, is it really a stretch to go from OpenJDK to what Google has?
Google on the other hand has done a lot for open source. And lets remember that there are two sides to every story. Google has barely had time to get its lawyers wound up and people are already chastising Google for being evil. Remains to be seen what the actual truth of the matter is. If this just ends in some licensing agreement, all the hype this week will have been pointless.
I don't think the original article is chastising Google for the lawsuit with Oracle. I believe she is referencing their proposed net neutrality rules, released jointly with Verizon, in which they exempt mobile wireless networks from the rules. The proposal says, "In recognition of the still-nascent nature of the wireless broadband marketplace, under this proposal we would not now apply most of the wireline principles to wireless, except for the transparency requirement."
I hear the issues, and I for one do not want to have to pay for "buy ups" such as email. I would assume that walled gardens such as this will fail anyways (see classmates or aol mail). However, why is there no ferver over edge Content Deliver Networks. With third parties such as this, companies with money are getting a superior service that companies who can not afford to pay for the improved hosting. Is the issue in this case "who pays"? I get the feeling that if the company pays, it is ok. But, if the consumer pays.. then it is a net neutrality issue. Am I missing something?
When two fight the third wins!
Guess who's the third.
Java was created ti kill the third. It didn't work this way, rather we got .net to play with. As it wasn't enough Google is pushing now Dalvik which is another artificial creation...
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HOLLIDAYSBURG - The organization accused of transporting large amounts of cocaine from Baltimore to Altoona was formed by one of the group's suspects so his drug business could continue while he was serving a prison term, the prosecutor in the Operation Last Call drug cases said.
Damion "Benny" Floyd, 33, of Baltimore was sentenced in 2011 to four to eight years in state prison after troopers making a Bedford County traffic stop found a large amount of cocaine in Floyd's vehicle.
In an unusual move, Senior Deputy Attorney General Dave Gorman has asked for court approval to tell a Blair County jury in Floyd's upcoming trial about the 2011 incident.
Judges typically bar the use of a defendant's past criminal history so that it won't prejudice the jury. Gorman is arguing that the jury should be told about the Bedford case because it provides a motive and understanding as to why a drug organization was created by Floyd.
No hearing date had been scheduled on Gorman's request.
It was just more than a year ago the Blair County Drug Task Force, Altoona and state police arrested 14 alleged members of the drug organization.
Gorman's filing this week for the first time clarifies the roles that each person in the organization played and names Floyd as the person behind the group.
The organization was put in place so that Floyd's girlfriend, Natasha Qiana Miller, 31, of Altoona would be financially secure and Floyd would have money when he eventually was paroled, Gorman contends.
Miller was sentenced a month ago to 16 to 32 years behind bars after she entered guilty pleas to assisting Floyd in his efforts to bring at least 18 kilograms of cocaine into the Altoona area.
Some members of the drug ring were designated to contact the source of the cocaine in Baltimore and pay for it, while others went to Baltimore to transport the drugs back to Altoona, Gorman said. The drugs were then processed for street sales at the Corner Bar & Grill in Altoona and distributed through many dealers.
Attempts to get comment from Blair County attorney Thomas Hooper, who represents Floyd, were unsuccessful. A gag order, issued by Blair County Judge Elizabeth Doyle, continues in the case.
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