Medical pot laws & treats may send more kids to ER

CHICAGO (AP) ? Increased use of medical marijuana may lead to more young children getting sick from accidentally eating food made with the drug, a Colorado study suggests.

Medical marijuana items include yummy-looking gummy candies, cookies and other treats that may entice young children. Fourteen children were treated at Colorado Children's Hospital in the two years after a 2009 federal policy change led to a surge in medical marijuana use, the study found. That's when federal authorities said they would not prosecute legal users.

Study cases were mostly mild, but parents should know about potential risks and keep the products out of reach, said lead author Dr. George Sam Wang, an emergency room physician at the hospital.

Unusual drowsiness and unsteady walking were among the symptoms. One child, a 5-year-old boy, had trouble breathing. Eight children were hospitalized, two in the intensive care unit, though all recovered within a few days, Wang said. By contrast, in four years preceding the policy change, the Denver-area hospital had no such cases.

Some children came in laughing, glassy-eyed or "acting a little goofy and 'off,'" Wang said. Many had eaten medical marijuana food items, although nonmedical marijuana was involved in at least three cases. The children were younger than 12 and included an 8-month-old boy.

The study was released Monday in JAMA Pediatrics.

Eighteen states and Washington, D.C., allow medical marijuana, though it remains illegal under federal law. Colorado's law dates to 2000 but the study notes that use there soared after the 2009 policy change on prosecution. Last year, Colorado and Washington state legalized adult possession of small amounts of nonmedical marijuana.

Some states, including Colorado, allow medical marijuana use by sick kids, with parents' supervision.

In a journal editorial, two Seattle poisoning specialists say that at least seven more states are considering legalizing medical marijuana and that laws that expand marijuana use likely will lead to more children sickened.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/medical-pot-laws-treats-may-send-more-kids-202405747.html

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Celebrate Scotland's Finest Ales with Aldi - Scotland Food and Drink

Aldi?s second in-store Beer Festival will take place across Scotland this summer. The festival is back to due to the phenomenal success of the original festival and will feature 33 of Scotland?s finest ales.

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Mon, 27 May 2013

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The festival launches on Thursday 30th May and will be available in all of Aldi?s 45 stores in Scotland for five weeks (or for as long as stocks last).

Aldi held its first in-store beer and ale festival in November 2012 and 55,000 bottles of Scotland?s finest ales and beers were sold, worth ?93,000. The summer festival will see over 70,000 bottles hit shop shelves, to keep up with consumer demand.

The summer Beer Festival will feature beers from thirteen new breweries including Eden Brewery, Highland Brewing Company, Houston Brewery, Oban Bay Brewery and West Beer. All the ales on offer are unique and benefit from the finest ingredients including pure Scottish water and superior malt barley.

The festival celebrates ales and beers produced all over Scotland, from the Highlands to the Borders, and includes:

• Orkney Blast, Highland Brewing Co, 500ml bottle for ?1.99
• Foxy Blonde ? Scottish Borders Brewery, 500ml bottle for ?1.69
• Red Monk of Iona ? Isle of Mull brewery, 500ml bottle for ?1.89
• California Common ? Knops Brewery, 500ml bottle for ?1.99
• Brockville Pale ? Tryst Brewery, 500ml for ?1.79
• Lightness ? Loch Ness Brewery, 500ml bottle for ?1.89

Richard Holloway, Scottish managing director at Aldi, commented: ?We were extremely pleased with the success of the first Aldi Beer Festival and we received some fantastic feedback from our customers. It feels right to bring the festival back ? just in time for summer and BBQ season kicking off. The festival is part of our ongoing commitment to work with local suppliers.?

Charlie Gorham, national manager at Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA), said: "We are delighted that Aldi has decided to run a second beer festival this summer. As it is our mission to support the independent brewing industry as much as possible, we are especially pleased to hear Aldi is working with a further thirteen breweries from across the country."

Aldi?s Scottish Beer Festival starts on Thursday 30th May and will be available while stocks last.

Source: http://www.scotlandfoodanddrink.org/news/article-info/4410/celebrate-scotlands-finest-ales-with-aldi.aspx

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'Crack baby' scare overblown, teen research says

CHICAGO (AP) ? Research in teens adds fresh evidence that the 1980s "crack baby" scare was overblown, finding little proof of any major long-term ill effects in children whose mothers used cocaine during pregnancy.

Some studies have linked pregnant women's cocaine use with children's behavior difficulties, attention problems, anxiety and worse school performance. But the effects were mostly small and may have resulted from other factors including family problems or violence, parents' continued drug use and poverty, the researchers said.

They reviewed 27 studies involving more than 5,000 11- to 17-year-olds whose mothers had used cocaine while pregnant. The studies all involved low-income, mostly black and urban families.

The review, led by University of Maryland pediatrics researcher Maureen Black, was released online Monday in the journal Pediatrics.

Widespread use of crack cocaine in the 1980s led to the "crack baby" scare, when babies born to crack users sometimes had worrisome symptoms including jitteriness and smaller heads. Studies at the time blamed prenatal drug use, suggested affected children had irreversible brain damage and predicted dire futures for them. These reports led to widespread media coverage featuring breathless headlines and heart-rending images of tiny sick newborns hooked up to hospital machines.

"The field of prenatal cocaine exposure has advanced significantly since the misleading 'crack baby' scare of the 1980s," the review authors said.

In recent years experts have mostly discounted any link, noting that so-called crack babies often were born prematurely, which could account for many of their early symptoms. Studies that tracked children beyond infancy have failed to find any severe outcomes.

In some studies included in the new review, crack-exposed teens had lower scores on developmental tests than other children but their scores were still within normal limits. Many studies found that the children's family environment or violence were directly related to the teen's performance regardless of whether their mothers had used cocaine during pregnancy, the researchers said.

The government's National Institute on Drug Abuse notes that it's tough to evaluate how drug use during pregnancy affects children's development because so many other factors play a role, including prenatal care, mothers' health and family environment.

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Online:

Pediatrics: http://www.pediatrics.org

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/crack-baby-scare-overblown-teen-research-says-050533110.html

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Chael Sonnen not retiring, eyes Wanderlei Silva

Chael Sonnen's loss to Jon Jones at UFC 159 put his career in question. At 36 years old, and with title losses in two different divisions, would Sonnen consider retiring? He answered that question on Fuel's "UFC Tonight," and that answer is no.

"I have a lot of goals I want to achieve still, and retirement won't help me get that done," Sonnen said.

He said the weight class is up for debate, though he liked the switch to light heavyweight after years as a middleweight. He would also be happy to fight at a catchweight, like Rich Franklin did for a few fights when moving up in weight. But there's no question about who he wants to fight.

"I'm not going anywhere until me and Wanderlei [Silva] straighten this thing out once and for all,"

Like Sonnen, Silva has moved between middleweight, light heavyweight and catchweights somewhere between. He is also 36, but the sensible match-up isn't why Sonnen is interested in this bout. Sonnen has a problem with this video from 2010:

Here is how Sonnen viewed this video.

"Wanderlei pulled a really dirtbag move on me one time. We're in a van, he mutters something at me, I can't understand what he's saying. He then puts it on YouTube with subtitles because he knows I can't understand him. He puts in these subtitles and I don't know if it's what he's said or not. Essentially, he tells me off, and it looks as though I'm conceding to him. That doesn't fly. If he calls you out, whether it's in a van or not, if you're a fighter, you must respond. I'm ready to respond."

Silva responded by tweeting this:

@sonnench?

? Wanderlei Silva (@wandfc) May 1, 2013

And then sharing the above video and saying, "Real men talk face to face."

Is this a fight you want to see, Cagereaders? Speak up on Facebook or Twitter.

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-cagewriter/chael-sonnen-not-retiring-eyes-wanderlei-silva-182102684.html

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23snaps, The Facebook For Families, Flicks The Monetization Switch With Printed Photo Books

23snaps, one of a number of mobile apps that target parents who want to share photos, videos and updates of their children within a private social network, has flicked the monetization switch today. It's launched an on-demand printing feature within the app to let users turn their uploaded photos into a physical printed product -- both photo books and individual prints.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/cstYoQbcyVY/

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Company IDs 7 killed in Afghanistan plane crash

DETROIT (AP) ? Jamie Brokaw was an experienced navigator who was no stranger to dangerous flying situations and had the skills to stay cool in the face of danger, according to close friend Chris Connerton.

"He was a very good person and very smart person," Connerton told The Associated Press by telephone from Rochester, Minn.

Brokaw, 33, of Monroe, Mich., was among seven Americans killed Monday when their National Air Cargo plane crashed near an Air Force base in Afghanistan. Six of the victims were from Michigan and a seventh was from Kentucky, said Shirley Kaufman, National Air Cargo vice president.

Connerton said Brokaw was a key reason he was able to make it through flight school in Jacksonville, Fla., where they met.

Connerton also described a harrowing flight two years ago from Toledo, Ohio, to an international flight expo in Lakeland, Fla. Connerton said ice had built up on the plane to the point that he could no longer get it to climb.

"If it wasn't for Jamie's navigation and know-how ... we wouldn't have made it," Connerton said.

Killed along with Brokaw in the Afghanistan crash were maintenance worker Gary Stockdale, 51, of Romulus, Mich.; pilots Brad Hasler, 34, of Trenton, Mich., and Jeremy Lipka, 37, of Brooklyn, Mich.; first officer Rinku Summan, 32, of Canton, Mich.; loadmaster Michael Sheets, 36, of Ypsilanti, Mich.; and maintenance crewman Timothy Garrett, 51, of Louisville, Ky.

Building model planes and working on real ones comprised Stockdale's passion, filling the family's basement with models in his youth, jumping into aviation as a career at age 16 ? and later working at two Detroit-area airports.

Stockdale also knew the dangers of flying, his older brother said Tuesday.

"He always said it was dangerous," said Glenn Stockdale, 55. "He would always say, 'You either will die in a car crash or a ball of flame in a plane.'"

Lipka had flow in Iraq as well as Afghanistan and had close calls before, said his stepfather, Dave Buttman.

"There was risk there all the time. He knew the risks. He volunteered to take the trips," Buttman told the Star Tribune of Minneapolis. "Basically, you're taking your chances flying in there and he was just happy to be one of the pilots to do it."

The Dubai-bound Boeing 747-400 ? operated by National Air Cargo ? crashed just after takeoff Monday from Bagram Air Base around 11:20 a.m. local time, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a statement Tuesday.

The accident site is within the perimeter of Bagram Air Base.

The Taliban quickly claimed responsibility for downing the plane, but NATO said the claims were false and there was no sign of insurgent activity in the area at the time of the crash.

The NTSB said it will lead a team of three investigators to assist the Afghanistan Ministry of Transportation and Commercial Aviation in investigating the crash. But a ministry spokesman, Nangoialy Qalatwal, said Tuesday the ministry is not involved with the investigation because it occurred at a military and not a civilian airport.

Kaufman said the plane ? owned by National Airlines, an Orlando, Fla.-based subsidiary of National Air Cargo ? was carrying vehicles and other cargo.

Elena Garrett, of Jeffersonville, Ind., just across the Ohio River from Louisville, said ex-husband Timothy Garrett would have turned 52 on Saturday. They have two daughters together, ages 11 and 12.

"We're all devastated," Elena Garrett said about his death. "We were still best friends. He's the best father I've ever seen (and) ready to help anybody. He would give the shirt off his back for anybody."

Bill Hasler said his family learned Monday morning that his brother, Brad, was one of the crash victims.

"Brad was a wonderful father to two young children, a beloved husband to a wife who is expecting another child, a loving son, and the most loyal and supportive brother I could have ever asked for," Bill Hasler said in a statement. "His influence in the lives of all of us who loved him is immeasurable, and our grief is indescribable."

National Airlines was based until recently at Michigan's Willow Run Airport, west of Detroit. It carries cargo both commercially and for the military, Kaufman said. She said the company employs about 225 people.

Summan had worked 2? years for National Air Cargo, said his wife, Rajnit Summan.

Rajnit Summan said she last spoke to her husband Sunday.

"I told him to be safe," she said.

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Joan Lowy reported from Washington. Associated Press writers David N. Goodman in Detroit, Elizabeth Campbell in Louisville, Ky., and Patrick Quinn in Kabul, Afghanistan, contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/company-ids-7-killed-afghanistan-plane-crash-224039256.html

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200 jobs coming with turbine blade plant

WELLAND?-?

As many as 200 jobs will be coming to Welland after a wind turbine blade manufacturing plant opens as early as July.

?Yes, we?re coming to town,? said Helmut Herold, chief executive officer of Hamburg, Germany-based REpower Systems, during a Tuesday news conference at Welland Civic Square.

Herold said the company will be moving into the former Welland Pipe plant at 615 Rusholme Rd. to set up a facility to make wind turbine blades to supply projects throughout Ontario, western Canada and the U.S.

The new plant will be called PowerBlades Inc.

?It?s the first and only manufacturing facility of REpower in North America,? Herold said. ?It?s quite a big premier for us.?

Initially the company will manufacture 45-metre-long turbine blades with 125 employees, but in the months following, Herold said, the company plans to hire an additional 75 workers and manufacture 59-metre-long blades as well.

A job fair to hire the first 125 workers is taking place Wednesday from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at Job Gym at 225 East Main St.

Javier Martinez, REpower?s head of global blade manufacturing operations, said the company is looking for people with experience in metal working, plastic manufacturing and surface finishing.

?But we?re looking for any kind of skilled workers, to be honest,? he said. ?We know the industry is relatively young here in Canada, but ideally we?re looking for people with experience in composites or construction.

?Even if we don?t find people with the right specific skills, we are ready to train the people,? he added.

A team of seven to eight local people will also be hired to manage the new facility. The company will spend a few weeks in training at REpower manufacturing facilities in Germany and Portugal before returning to Welland to oversee operations, Martinez said.

In addition to the jobs being created at the plant itself, Herold said, the facility could create work for other local companies. For instance, he said, his company is in negotiations with TSB in Thorold to manufacture the towers the turbines will be mounted on.

?They are at the moment in the qualification process. They are one of the companies we?re looking at. In any case, it?s good news,? he said.

?If you put all this together, including small pieces we?re sourcing for the inside of the machine, you almost have 40% to 50% of the value coming out of Ontario,? Herold said, adding even the metal used to manufacture the blades will be produced in Ontario.

He said it is hoped that PowerBlades will produce blades for as many as 125 wind turbines a year once the plant is operational.

Martinez said he spent the past two years leading the company?s efforts to establish a facility in Welland, adding there were several reasons for choosing the city.

Welland, he explained, offers experienced and available workers, a suitable facility and access to highways, canal shipping and railways. City staff were also extremely helpful, he added.

?It?s an ideal location for the factory,? Martinez said, referring to the empty facility that was most recently home to a short-lived compost plant called Universal Resource Recovery that ceased operations in 2011.

?We are really excited with this project.?

Roy Timms from Timbro Construction said the new company has already led to employment for several of his workers who are renovating the facility just east of the Welland Canal.

Timms said he?s been able to call back three or four workers for a full complement of 25 workers who have been at the plant for the past few weeks. He also said two designers have been working on the project full time.

Welland economic development officer Dan Degazio said the company chose Welland ?because it?s a good place to do business.?

?The workforce is superior and so are the people,? he said.

Degazio called REpower a ?premier company.?

?This is not a one-trick pony. These guys have been in business for a lot of years, and they?re an established company. There?s a lot of credibility that comes with this company,? he added.

Mayor Barry Sharpe called the new plant ?a major step for all of Niagara to really prove that we are the Green Energy Capital of this country.?

He said he was encouraged to hear about the company?s long-term plans for the facility.

?It?s very significant. This will be REpower?s only North American manufacturing facility,? Sharpe said.

REpower Systems was founded in Europe in 2000, and set up its first Canadian offices in 2007. Its turbines are in use in several wind farm projects in Quebec, British Columbia and Ontario.

allan.benner@sunmedia.ca

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Source: http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/2013/04/30/wind-turbine-manufacturer-coming-to-welland

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