In an ice bucket?
"Ohio bill inspired by fake ice bucket challenge" AP October 30, 2014
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A bill that would require prison time for many felony crimes against the disabled or elderly was inspired by a fake ice-bucket challenge that led to charges against five teenagers, a state lawmaker said.
The boys were charged with dumping a bucket of urine, water, and tobacco spit on an autistic 15-year-old boy who thought he was participating in a charity event.
State Representative Bill Patmon said that the arrest of the teenagers prompted the legislation he introduced Tuesday. It would require at least two years in prison or juvenile custody for certain felonies against the elderly or the disabled, plus any other punishment imposed by the court.
Patmon, a Cleveland Democrat who has a grandson with autism, said those who commit crimes against the disabled or senior citizens should get more than a light punishment.
‘‘There shouldn’t be anything that you do to a senior or a handicapped person that there shouldn’t be some kind of guarantee that you’re not going to spend some time in jail for that — no slap on the wrist for that,’’ Patmon said.
Bankers excepted, of cour$e.
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Related: Police Protected Ice Bucket Bullies
Birds of a feather....
I was able to grab four apples:
"Sales of iPhones, including the new, big-screen iPhone 6 models released last month, helped carry Apple to a record-breaking quarter, with $8.5 billion in profit, the company said Monday. The company’s profit for its fiscal fourth quarter was 13.3 percent higher than the same quarter a year ago. Revenue over the quarter was $42.1 billion, up from $37.4 billion in the same period last year. “Our fiscal 2014 was one for the record books,” Timothy D. Cook, Apple’s chief executive, said in a statement.....
He will have more to say below.
While Apple has partnered with major banks and large retail chains including Macy’s Inc., Walgreen Co., and McDonald’s Corp., critics have noted that its system is not accepted by a number of other large chains. Among them are the drugstore chains CVS Caremark Corp. and Rite Aid Corp., which belong to a retail coalition that’s working on a rival system. Cook also said he plans to talk this week with Jack Ma, executive chairman of the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, about a possible partnership, although he offered no details. On Monday, Ma told the same audience that he would be ‘‘very interested’’ in teaming up with Apple to bring Apple Pay to China. Ma and Cook spoke during separate appearances on an outdoor stage on the opening night of a three-day technology conference organized by The Wall Street Journal."
Also see: ‘Proud to be gay,’ Apple CEO Tim Cook comes out
Don't you just love it?
"Cyanide searches found on poison suspect’s laptop" Associated Press October 29, 2014
PITTSBURGH — A medical researcher charged with poisoning his wife had a computer on which someone conducted searches relating to cyanide poisoning two or three days after she died, a State Police computer specialist testified Tuesday.
The searches found on Dr. Robert Ferrante’s laptop occurred days before test results on Dr. Autumn Klein’s blood revealed a fatal level of cyanide.
Earlier in the fourth day of what is expected to be a three-week trial, one of Ferrante’s lab assistants testified he placed an overnight order for potassium cyanide two days before Klein fell suddenly ill in the couple’s kitchen. Another lab assistant said he was acting a ‘‘little bizarre’’ around the time his wife fell ill.
In the days after her death, Ferrante, 66, had told friends and family he believed she died of a sudden, unexplained illness such as a stroke.
Corporal John Roche, a computer specialist, testified Tuesday that one of the searches typed into Yahoo Answers on his computer was, ‘‘How would a coroner detect when someone is killed by cyanide?’’
Under cross examination, Roche acknowledged that he cannot prove whether Ferrante or someone else did the computer searches.
Some of the searches were done as early as January 2013, including one seeking the legal definition of ‘‘malice of forethought,’’ an apparent reference to malice aforethought, a legal term that means premeditation.
Investigators contend that Ferrante, a specialist on Lou Gehrig’s disease, laced Klein’s creatine energy drink with the poison on April 17, 2013.
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Also see: Former MGH researcher charged in wife’s poisoning death
