Atlanta Man Sentenced to 8 months fo Slapping Baby and Using Racist Slur.

What kinda person calls a toddler a “n***er”???? Via USAToday A man who pleaded guilty to slapping a crying toddler on a U.S. flight has been sentenced to eight months in federal prison. Joe Rickey Hundley was sentenced Monday. He pleaded guilty in October after reaching a plea agreement with prosecutors. Prosecutors say Hundley used a racial slur to refer to the 19-month-old boy, who is black, and hit him under the eye as the flight descended to the Atlanta airport in February. Prosecutors had recommended six months in prison. The judge said he imposed a higher sentence in part because of Hundley’s criminal history, which includes a prior assault. Hundley’s lawyer objected to the deviation from the recommendation in the plea agreement and said after the hearing that she believes the sentence is disproportionate - See more at: http://bossip.com/891496/hate-crimes-atlanta-man-sentenced-8-months-in-federal-prison-for-using-racial-slur-and-slapping-crying-toddler-aborad-airplane-43081/#sthash.kzphN7g7.dpuf

Missing Doctor Stalked Marvin Sapp

Court documents show that Grammy-nominated gospel singer Marvin Sapp received a personal protection order against a 30-year-old Michigan doctor about three months before she went missing.

Sapp alleged that Teleka Patrick claimed to be his wife and won a protection order in September. It's effective until March 18.

Patrick's car was found in a ditch on Dec. 5 along Interstate 94 in northern Indiana, about 100 miles from the hospital where she was a resident in Kalamazoo. Her wallet, cash and identification were in the car.

Investigators say she'd tried to check into a Kalamazoo hotel earlier that day.

Her family says regardless of Patrick's emotional state, they believe she encountered danger because it's unlike her to not contact family or friends.

Police and the FBI are investigating her disappearance.

12 inch Ipad

A series of predictions by analysts shows that Apple may introduce its 12-inch iPad Pro this year in the fall season. The large screen is the most obvious reminder that Apple is thinking big. It will furthermore contain an A8 processor. In the capacity of a notebook, this model will surely upset the market trends.
This was something that Microsoft had been trying to accomplish for a while yet had desperately failed to do. Its Windows 8 platform just couldn’t face the competition. The current plans of Apple have lent ARM a hand since it will be manufacturing the chips in the large screen iPad. And while the processor in a MacBook Air occupies a hefty chunk of the total cost price of building the device, the processor in a 128 GB iPad accounts for a mere 4% in sum of costs to Apple.
Whichever way you look at it, the 12-inch screen remains the most prominent feature of the slated contraption from Apple. This is akin in many ways to the 11.6 inch MacBook Air. Yet of course there are subtle differences. The prognostications point to the fact that it is not just a longer and wider screen that is at stake here.
Rather Apple has allowed extra space in order to build a hybrid that will be both notebook and tablet in its makeup. That would be a new thing in its own right. And it would thus be an attractive alternative to the pre-existing situation in the market.

Read more at http://www.i4u.com/2014/01/60034/12-inch-ipad-pro-coming#mtMvUhSvsBHaipIl.99

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Apple and Google have both already done a lot to shake up the traditional PC market but don’t expect either of them to stop anytime soon. Barron’s flags a note from Evercore Partners analyst Patrick Wang, who thinks that Apple’s upcoming 12- to 13-inch iPad has the potential to “transform the traditional notebook market as we know it” because it will be the first time that Apple has made an iPad that’s targeted specifically toward Microsoft’s PC customer base.

“Arriving in fall ‘14, Apple goes Enterprise with an 12-inch iPad,” Wang writes. “Powered by the A8 chip (perhaps 4C), this expands ARM’s reach and, once again, transforms the traditional notebook market as we know it. Expect a 2-1 hybrid — think iPad + MBA — similar to how most iPads are used in the workplace and in the same spirit of MSFT’s Surface.”

As Wang acknowledges, Apple isn’t really doing something innovative as far as form factor goes since it’s basically releasing a new version of the iPad that will be built like Microsoft’s Surface. So why would companies flock to the Apple device instead toward devices such as the Surface Pro? One answer could be that the iPad already enjoys a robust app ecosystem that isn’t at all lacking for developers. Another is that workers who have iPhones and iPads at home are already familiar with iOS so in theory there shouldn’t be the same sort of learning curve that comes with Windows 8.

What’s particularly interesting about Apple’s upcoming “iPad Pro,” however, is the specific market that it will reportedly target: Schools. We’ve read reports that Google has been making major inroads into schools with its low-cost, low-maintenance Chromebook laptops, so it looks like Microsoft rivals smell blood when comes to displacing PCs as the default computing machines in schools.

Legal marijuana sales start in Colorado

 

First off, I ask myself, how long until pot is legal in the entire USA?

 

Retail marijuana stores are open for business on New Years’ Day in Colorado, the first state that has successfully legalized the controlled sale and use of recreation pot. But that doesn’t necessarily mean the cloud of legal controversy has lifted.

 

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Source: United States Fish and Wildlife Service

Several approved retail stores planned to open on New Years’ morning in Colorado, with as many as 30 stores officially ending the prohibition on legalized marijuana in that state.

Washington state also legalized marijuana in November 2012, but it is at least six months away from having a government-controlled sales system in place.

Officials in Washington state are using their liquor control board (or LCB) to handle the legal process of making marijuana available to the public, which has turned out to be a much-slower tactic that the Colorado model- which uses a medical marijuana network that is already in place.

The Washington LCB has 3,746 applications to grow, process, or sell marijuana that it needs to weed through.

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer says that it was told by the LCB that it takes 90 days to process each application.

It also asks a question that we covered in depth last month.

Baboon Syndrome

    

'Baboon Syndrome': An Unusual Complication of Antibiotics

                                                               

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Baboon syndrome is a rare rash that appears on the buttocks, but can also appear in the armpits.

                                                                          

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A 40-year-old man with a sore throat and fever was diagnosed with tonsillitis, and was prescribed penicillin, a common antibiotic. But several days later, the man developed a rash over his armpits, groin and buttocks — an unusual condition known as "baboon syndrome."

The condition, more formally called symmetrical drug-related intertriginous and flexural exanthema (SDRIFE), is known as baboon syndrome because the rash on the patient's buttocks resembles the red hindquarters of some monkeys.

Because doctors often prescribe penicillin antibiotics to treat tonsillitis and other bacterial infections, it is important to be aware that baboon syndrome is one of the medication's possible side effects, wrote the researchers who reported the man's case online Nov. 28 in the journal BMJ Case Reports.

The condition is usually caused by an allergic reaction to penicillin drugs, but can also be caused by exposure to mercury or nickel, said Dr. Andreas Bircher, a dermatologist at University Hospital of Basel in Switzerland. (He was not involved in the study but has reported other cases of baboon syndrome.)

In the present case, during the man's initial examination, he had enlarged and inflamed tonsils, according to the physicians at the NHS Lothian hospital in the United Kingdom who reported the case. His regular doctor had prescribed penicillin for him two days earlier, but the patient became unable to swallow

       

 

Hezbollah's help to Assad?

Beirut car bomb: Sunni payback for Hezbollah's help to Assad?

The bombing follows Lebanon's arrest of a Saudi member of an Al Qaeda-linked group that bombed the Iranian embassy in Beirut in Nov.

A car bomb ripped through the southern suburbs of Beirut today, killing at least five people in what appeared to be the latest blowback from the civil war in neighboring Syria.

 

 

The blast occurred amid reports that the Lebanese authorities have arrested a Saudi member of an Al Qaeda-affiliated organization which claimed responsibility for a twin suicide bomb attack in November against the Iranian embassy in Beirut. The explosion occurred about 200 yards from the political office of Lebanon's Shiite militant organization Hezbollah, although it was unclear whether the building, which sustained no damage, was the target of the attack. 

At least three cars were burned in the explosion, which shattered windows and shopfronts and scarred the facades of surrounding apartment blocks. Lebanese army green berets cordoned off the blast site while Hezbollah men, some carrying AK-47 rifles, others with walkie-talkies, marshaled rescue workers and ambulances to the scene. At least 60 people were wounded by the blast.

Walmart Manager, Hops in Theives Car to Stop them From Stealing Beer.

Walmart manager, in quest to stop Bud Light theft, winds up going on a 15-mile ride in the back of the thieves’ truck

           

Earlier this week, a man and a woman walked into a Titusville, Florida Walmart. They loaded up a shopping cart with 12 cases of beer and then startedwalking it out toward their truck in the store’s parking lot. As WRDQ/WFTV Eyewitness News reports, that’s when store manager Mike Dawson steps into the story. Suspicious of the pair, he asked them for, “…a receipt and they kept throwing beers into their car.” They began to back up their truck with Mike behind it. Not wanting to get run over, he decided to jump on in.

WKMG Local 6 News reports that despite a Walmart manager joining their stolen beer in the truck, the thieves took off, speeding miles away from the store. They wound up making two stops.
Dawson told WRDQ, “One time, they tried to beat me up, and I fought with them and lost my glasses. The second time was like in the back woods somewhere, I’m like, ‘I’m not getting out for you run me over.’”Along the way, Mr. Dawson started throwing beer cans out of the back, in an attempt to get the attention of other drivers, hoping for some kind of help. And, as WESH 2 News reports , help did arrive in the form of veteran Dave Stewart.Police say the unidentified suspects are still at large and Walmart has not given a statement regarding the incident.

Trey Griffey's Catches First Touchdown Pass

Trey Griffey caught the first touchdown pass of his Arizona career in Tuesday's AdvoCare V100 Bowl with his father, Ken Griffey Jr., behind an end zone with a camera.

Griffey made a leaping grab on the 26-yard pass from quarterback BJ Denker to give the Wildcats a 21-6 lead over Boston College at the end of the first quarter.

However his dad, the former Seattle Mariners legend who finished his career with 13 All-Star appearances and 630 homers, was stationed in the other end zone's photography area. But in the fourth quarter of Arizona's blowout 42-19 win, Trey Griffey caught a second touchdown pass, this one in the end zone in front of his dad.

After not making a catch in any of Arizona's first nine games, Griffey had 11 catches in the past three games for the Wildcats, including three for 25 yards in Arizona's upset win over Oregon.

For those of us children of the 1990s, it's jarring to see Ken Griffey Jr.'s son playing college football. He was the epitome of baseball cool for many of us when we were kids. And Trey's not the only son of a famous 1990s era athlete to make his mark for a Pac-12 team this year either. Barry Sanders' son, Barry Sanders Jr., displayed some quick feet reminiscent of his father earlier this season against Washington State