Court: California cities can ban pot shops

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Local governments in California's have legal authority to ban storefront pot shops within their borders, California's highest court ruled on Monday in an opinion likely to further diminish the state's once-robust medical marijuana industry.

Nearly 17 years after voters in the state legalized medical marijuana, the court ruled unanimously in a legal challenge to a ban the city of Riverside enacted in 2010.

The advocacy group Americans for Safe Access estimates that another 200 jurisdictions statewide have similar prohibitions on retail pot sales. Many were enacted after the number of retail medical marijuana outlets boomed in Southern California after a 2009 memo from the U.S. Justice Department said prosecuting pot sales would be a low priority.

However, the rush to outlaw pot shops has slowed in the 21 months since the four federal prosecutors in California launched a coordinated crackdown on dispensaries by threatening to seize the property of landlords who lease space to the shops. Hundreds of dispensary operators have since been evicted or closed voluntarily.

Marijuana advocates have argued that allowing local government to bar dispensaries thwarts the intent of the state's medical marijuana law ? the nation's first ? to make the drug accessible to residents with doctor's recommendations to use it.

The ruling came in the case filed after Riverside city lawmakers used zoning powers to declare storefront pot shops as public nuisances and ban the operations in 2010. The Inland Empire Patient's Health and Wellness Center, part of the explosion of retail medical marijuana outlets, sued to stop the city from shutting it down.

A number of counties and cities were awaiting the Supreme Court ruling before moving forward with bans of their own.

A mid-level appeals court previously sided with the city of Riverside, but other courts have come to opposite conclusions. Last summer, a trial judge ruled that Riverside County could not close medical marijuana dispensaries in unincorporated areas because the move did not give the shops any room to operate legally under state law.

Meanwhile, an appeals court in Southern California struck down Los Angeles County's 2-year-old ban on dispensaries, ruling state law allows cooperatives and collectives to grow, store and distribute pot.

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Best iPad apps for comic book lovers

All the apps you need to enjoy the latest issues, your favorite collections, Marvel's entire back catalog, and all your existing PDF, CBR, and CBZ comics on your iPad

The iPad is the best thing that ever happened to comic books, especially on the big, beautiful, 9.7-inch Retina iPad screen. Every page comes to life and every panel just pops. Combine that with the convenience of digital delivery, and even the iPad mini has the ability to hold an entire comic book library in your hand. That's almost every adventure of Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman, of the Fantastic Four, Avengers, and X-Men, and of indie titles every bit as good if not anywhere nearly as well known. Comic books on the iPad are every fan's dream, but which are the very best iPad apps for realizing that dream? Follow on to find out, true believer!

Comics by comiXology

Comics by comiXology is how you get current comic book issues on your iPad. They offer a library of over 30,000 titles -- and growing -- from publishers including Marvel, DC, Image, IDW, Disney, and more -- pretty much every major with the galling exception of Dark Horse-as-in-Buffy-Season-9. You can buy right from within the Comics app, which makes for a great experience -- impulse shoppers be warned! -- and with a free comiXology account, you can easily sync your purchases across devices.

comiXology also makes the individual, dedicated Marvel, DC, Image, etc. apps, but since Comics has them all, it's the one-stop shop, the newsstand reborn for the digital era. All we need now is an analog to subscriptions, where we can pay one price and get every new issue served right up to our iPads hot off the presses...

• Free + in-app comic purchases - Download now

Marvel Unlimited

Marvel Unlimited is a subscription service like Netflix. That means you don't get current content, but you do get 70 years and 13,000 issues of back catalog comics -- Spider-Man, Iron Man, the Hulk, Captain America, Thor, Wolverine, the Avengers, the X-Men, Fantastic Four, etc. -- right on your iPad. The interface isn't great, at least not yet, but the content here really is king. I've lost many a night already to the works of Peter David, John Byrne, Art Adams, Chris Claremont, Frank Miller, et. al. and I imagine losing many, many more.

DC Comics really needs to get their version of this up and running faster than a speeding bullet...

Note: You can't subscribe within the app, so if you want to use the Marvel Unlimited service, make sure you head on over to Marvel.com and sign up.

• Free with subscription - Download now

iBooks/Kindle

iBooks and Kindle are general purpose readers, but both Apple's iBookstore and Amazon's Kindle Store have an excellent selection of what used to be called trade paperbacks -- collections of individual issues that form a cohesive story-arc. If you don't want to buy or read each comic as it comes out, or navigate through tons of back catalog to find specific stories, buying them as books is the simplest, most coherent way of doing it.

With iBooks, you can buy directly within the app. With Amazon, you can buy via Amazon.com and download to the Kindle app.

Why include both iBooks and Kindle, why not pick a best, or just pick one and stick with it? Sadly, both sometimes have books the other one lacks, or have them in geographies the other doesn't, or has it at a lower price. Right now, to get as many comics as you want, you have to use both of them, even if it does split your collection and is otherwise less than ideal.

• iBooks - Free with in-app purchases - Download now
• Kindle - Free with web purchases - Download now

Comic Zeal

if you already have your comics in a digital format -- especially if you bought those massive Marvel DVDs containing all the early issues of Avengers, Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, X-Men, etc. in PDF -- Comic Zeal should be your go-to reader. You can sync PDF, CBR/RAR, or CBZ/ZIP files straight over to Comic Zeal from iTunes via file sharing if you absolutely have to, and with Wi-Fi sync it's easier than ever. I just drop mine into Dropbox, hit the Dropbox app on iPad, download them, hit the action button, and tell Dropbox to open them in Comic Zeal.

It would be nice if Comic Zeal could hook into Dropbox (and other online storage pools) directly, eliminating a step. Here's hoping we get that in the future.

Your best comic book apps for iPad?

Those are my picks for best iPad apps for comic book lovers. With them, you can get the latest issues right when they come out, access Marvel's enormous back catalog of titles, buy the trade paperbacks for the stories you love most, and even load up your existing digital comics and take them with you anywhere. It's the workflow that just works for me... but what about you? Any apps I'm missing out on? Any you'd recommend more? Let me know! And, of course... Excelsior!

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Jim DeMint: Immigration Reform Will Cost U.S. Trillions (ABC News)

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Former MLB outfielder Otis Nixon arrested

CANTON, Ga. (AP) ? Former Major League outfielder Otis Nixon has been arrested on drug charges following a weekend traffic stop in suburban Atlanta.

Nixon was pulled over just after midnight Saturday after another driver called police to report a Dodge Ram truck weaving all over the road, according to an incident report from the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office. The 54-year-old remained in jail Monday afternoon on $11,880 bond.

Officers found a pipe for smoking crack cocaine in Nixon's pants pocket and found a suspected crack rock in the driver's seat, the report says. They later found another pipe and more suspected crack rocks in the floor board of the driver's side, as well as other paraphernalia.

A sheriff's deputy arrested Nixon on charges of possession of cocaine and possession of a drug-related object. It wasn't immediately clear Monday whether Nixon had a lawyer.

Nixon told officers he was driving a friend home and didn't believe he was weaving. He told the sheriff's deputy that the substance officers found in the car was crack cocaine but said the pipes and drugs belonged to his son and that he had been planning to get rid of the pipe.

Officers conducted field sobriety tests and determined Nixon wasn't under the influence of crack cocaine or alcohol.

The speedy Nixon collected more than 600 stolen bases in 17 seasons from 1983-99. He played for several teams including the Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians and Montreal Expos.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/former-mlb-outfielder-otis-nixon-arrested-193549585.html

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Los Alamos National Lab has had quantum-encrypted internet for over two years

Nothing locks down data better than a laser-based quantum-encrypted network, where the mere act of looking at your data causes it to irrevocably change. Although such systems already exist, they're limited to point-to-point data transfers since a router would kill the message it's trying to pass along just by reading it. However, Los Alamos National Labs has been testing an in-house quantum network, complete with a hub and spoke system that gets around the problem thanks to a type of quantum router at each node. Messages are converted at those junctures to conventional bits, then reconverted into a new encrypted message, which can be securely sent to the next node, and so on.

The researchers say it's been running in the lab for the last two and a half years with few issues, though there's still a security hole -- it lacks quantum integrity at the central hub where the data's reconverted, unlike a pure quantum network. However, the hardware would be relatively simple to integrate into any fiber-connected device, like a TV set-top box, and is still more secure than any current system -- and infinitely better than the 8-character WiFi code you're using now.

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With caution, Japan's neighbors welcome 'Abenomics'

By Rajesh Kumar Singh and Tetsushi Kajimoto

GREATER NOIDA, India (Reuters) - Emerging Asian neighbors are bracing for a surge in capital flows after Japan's unprecedented bid to pump up its long-moribund economy but most believe the upside of cheap cash and a stronger Japanese economy outweighs the risks.

The Bank of Japan stunned global markets last month with its plan to release some $1.4 trillion to end nearly two decades of stagnation and deflation, adding to the wave of quantitative easing stimulus already unleashed by central banks including the U.S. Federal Reserve and the Bank of England.

"We have to be wary of the building up of the asset bubbles. Inflationary pressures are on a bit of an uptick," Rajat Nag, Managing Director General of the Asian Development Bank, said during its annual meeting on the outskirts of New Delhi.

While others including Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said they would be on the lookout for signs of unintended spillovers on emerging economies, many hope that the benefits of increased Japanese consumption outweigh the risks of asset bubbles, inflation and the competitive impact of a weaker yen.

They also said Asia would gain from investment by Japanese companies and in infrastructure that would result from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic program, known as "Abenomics," but stressed the need to monitor capital flows to pre-empt risks to financial and economic stability.

Thailand, for example, is worried that its export-oriented economy could be hurt by strength in the baht currency as a result of higher inflows.

"When it was as strong as it was a couple of weeks ago, I have all the reasons to be worried," Thai Finance Minister Kittiratt Na-Ranon said of the baht.

Kittiratt, however, resists capital controls to manage flows. Instead, he said Thailand could look to lower interest rates -- which the central bank opposes -- and work with neighboring countries to use inflows to help fund projects that depend on imported goods.

The Philippines also faces upward pressure on its currency after Standard & Poor's raised its credit rating to investment grade. Japanese institutions, however, account for just 2.8 percent of Philippines stocks and bonds.

The Philippines has avoided capital controls and has looked to manage flows by giving easier access to foreign exchange in the banking system and retiring some of its external debt.

Central bank Governor Amando Tetangco said ultra-low interest rates in developed economies mean policymakers will have to rely increasingly on non-conventional means and absorb capital flows through investment in the real economy.

"Interest rate policy is no longer sufficient," Tetangco said. "You will have to use other tools."

PREVIOUS CRISIS WEIGHS

The 1997 currency crisis that led to economic collapse in several Asian countries means policymakers are sensitive to the risks of volatile fund flows.

"I understand that there are various concerns about effects Japan's monetary policy could cause overseas," Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso said, adding that he had not heard of any such concerns directly from other countries.

India, for example, has been able to finance a current account deficit that ballooned to a record 6.7 percent of GDP at the end of December thanks to robust portfolio inflows, making it vulnerable if the quantitative easing spigot is turned off.

"The global liquidity situation could quickly alter for EDEs (emerging and developing economies), including India," Reserve Bank of India Governor Duvvuri Subbarao said in his monetary policy statement on Friday in Mumbai.

"With quantitative easing, (advanced economy) central banks are in uncharted territory with considerable uncertainty about the trajectory of recovery and the calibration of QE," he said.

Paul Sheard, chief global economist at Standard and Poor's, said the Bank of Japan's move is "long overdue."

"If Japan comes out of deflation and if the broader agenda of Abenomics is successful, raising the potential growth rate, restoring more animal spirits to the Japanese economy, that's good. It's good for Japan, it's good for the region and it's good for the world."

(Writing by Tony Munroe; Editing by Frank Jack Daniel and Sanjeev Miglani)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/caution-japans-neighbors-welcome-abenomics-094404684.html

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'Volatile mix': Kids at risk for suicide can get guns, report finds

?Guns are the most lethal method that is commonly used in suicide attempts,? says Dr. Matt Miller, an injury control expert at the Harvard School of Public Health. People who try to commit suicide using pills or by cutting themselves complete the suicide just 3 percent of the time, he said.

Teach and colleagues made their discovery while trying to come up with an easy, short questionnaire for emergency room doctors to use while seeing children for a range of troubles. Their study included 524 patients ages 10 to 21 being seen at three pediatric emergency rooms.

?When we were asking kids these questions, we also asked kids questions about firearms and bullets. To our surprise, one-fifth reported firearms in the home,? Teach said in an interview. ?That?s a pretty volatile mix. Nearly half of all completed suicides involve firearms, which is pretty scary.?

They found 151 of the kids, or 29 percent of them, were at risk for suicide, and 17 percent of them reported guns in or around the home. Of those at risk for suicide and who knew guns were in their home, 31 percent knew how to get the guns, 31 percent knew how to find the bullets, and 15 percent knew how to access both the guns and the bullets.

Other studies show that suicide is usually an impulsive act. If a person tries but fails to commit suicide, he or she is unlikely to try again. So taking away a quick and lethal method could save many lives.

One in 10 kids who were not in the emergency department for psychiatric complaints also screened positive for suicide risk. ?It is frighteningly common in this age group,? Teach said.

So, number one, says Teach -- it?s important to identifiy children who might be thinking about suicide. ?Once you identify the kids, be willing to engage in a conversation about access to firearms,? he said.

The four questions are simple:

• In the past few weeks, have you wished you were dead?
• In the past few weeks, have you felt that you or your family would be better off if you were dead?
• In the past week, have you been having thoughts about killing yourself?
• Have you ever tried to kill yourself?

"It works. It identifies the kids (at risk)," Teach said. He says the conversation does not seem to put ideas into the kids? heads.

?What we found, to our surprise, was that kids really want to be asked,? he said. ?The reactions were positive. They said, ?I am glad you asked?.?

The key signs for parents to look for: Withdrawal from friends, substance abuse, differences in performance in school, changing their group of friends, says Teach. ?Changes in appetite, dropping hobbies, and just appearing sad are also warning signs.

?If you feel sad around your kids, it may be a sign,? he said. ?If they bum you out, they are probably bummed out.?

Such conversations are very difficult, Teach said. ?This is on the list of hard things to talk about, like sex and drugs,? he said. ?It?s all dialogue, dialogue, dialogue. Don?t be afraid to ask.?

And if kids are at risk, they need to be kept safe from guns, pediatricians at the meeting agreed. ?Between 1999 and 2010 there were 22,193 suicides among children 5 to 19,? Miller said.

Miller says suicide rates overall are much higher in states with higher gun ownership.

?Where there are more guns in the United States, there are more people dying,? he told a session at the meeting.

He said people with guns need to learn more about how to protect their children from them.

?There are 300 million firearms in civilian hands in the United States,? Miller said. ?He said the latest statistics showed 1.5 million children lived in homes with loaded and unlocked guns.

The issue can be political, but Teach is clear he does not want to get into a political argument about gun ownership. ?This is not really a story about who has guns. The issue is a significant proportion of kids at risk for suicide have access to firearms,? Teach said.

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