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Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em, New Jersey — as long as you’ve got a prescription.
Weed-smoking New Jersey residents sparked a joint today to celebrate the opening of the Garden State’s state’s first medical marijuana dispensary — but the card-carrying patients weren’t doing the toking.
Wilfredo Gomez, 32, and his brother, Angel — neither of whom have pot prescriptions — lit up outside the Greenleaf Compassion Center in Montclair to cheer the first bag of legal reefer doled out.
“It will give people a chance to, you know, relax,” said Gomez.
It was less of a party for the first six clients, including an injured electrician, a man with a cane and chronic pain-sufferer, all of whom declined to talk to reporters.
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The Greenleaf Compassion Center, the first legal medical marihuana facility in Monclair, NJ.
The clinic sells three types of medical marijuana, grown in a warehouse by owners, but no edible ganja, said owner Julio Valentin.
Inside looks like “an upscale doctor’s office,” where patients must present state-issued health cards, Valentin said.
Windows are tinted and a security guard monitors the site.
A law legalized cannabis for patients with some medical conditions — like cancer and glaucoma, among others — in New Jersey three years ago.
“The patients are very excited — they don’t have to live in the shadows anymore,” Valentin said.
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MIAX Options Exchange, a new fully electronic, equity options trading exchange, said it will begin trading on Friday.
MIAX Options Exchange is based in Princeton, N.J., but its parent company is Miami International Holdings. While MIAX’s executive offices, technology development center and national operations center are based in Princeton, additional executive offices, and a multi-purpose training, meeting and conference center will be located in Miami, the company said.
MIAX Options Exchange’s trading platform has been developed in-house and designed for the functional and performance demands of derivatives trading, the company said.
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The reward for information leading to an arrest in the case of a corrections officer shot to death in his driveway grew Wednesday, while police continued to search for the killer.
Officer Andrew Johnson, 46, was off-duty when he was shot dead Saturday night outside his Miami Gardens home near Northwest 211th Street and 27th Avenue.
He was married, had three children and had been with the Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Department for a decade.
On Wednesday, the Dade County Police Benevolent Association announced it had raised $5,000 to put toward the reward for information that leads to an arrest.
PBA President John Rivera said the money came from fellow officers and members of the community. They hope the money and ability to remain anonymous would encourage people with information to come forward.
“Someone has to have seen something,” Rivera said.
Miami-Dade police are investigating. But what motivated the killer — and if that person even knew Johnson was a corrections officer — remained unclear Wednesday.
Johnson graduated from Miami Central Senior High School, the PBA said, and received an associate degree from Miami-Dade College.
He started with Miami-Dade corrections in 2001, according to the corrections department, and worked the day shift at the Metro West Detention Center.
Outside of work, Johnson served as an elder, head deacon and drum player at Razor Sharp Ministries in Miami. He volunteered to feed the needy and mentor youth.
On Saturday night, according to the PBA, Johnson’s wife, Ebony, was out getting her nails done. He dropped off his daughter at a movie theater and came home, where he was shot in the driveway.
“They killed a life. And let’s assume for a second that they didn’t know he was a corrections officer, they are still a danger to the community,” Rivera said. “And if they knew he was a law enforcement officer, it only intensifies that danger. If you’re willing to kill a law enforcement officer, you still surely will kill anybody.”
Anyone with information is urged to call Miami-Dade County Crime Stoppers, anonymously, at 305-471-8477.
After recently opening up about a bout of extreme morning sickness similar to Kate Middleton, a pregnant Holly Madison received some kind words of support from her famous ex, Hugh Hefner.
Video: Holly Madison 'Freaked Out' by Hospitalization
The newly engaged head honcho of Playboy took to his Twitter to deliver the thoughtful message to his former bunny girlfriend.
"I hope Holly Madison is feeling better after being hospitalized for morning sickness in the late stages of her pregnancy," wrote the 86-year-old, signing off his tweet with "Love, Hef."
Related: Holly Madison Reveals Baby's Gender
The mom-to-be spoke to ET this week about her troubling ailment which, seven months into her pregnancy, landed the 32-year-old model in the hospital.
"I was really vomiting a lot during the day, it freaked me out," Madison said. "I was told to go to the doctor and get an IV and everything. So, that was kind of scary to me just because it seemed like something so unusual...but everything's O.K. so far, so that's good."
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The estate or guardian of the infant of the Chiefs player who killed her mother before turning a gun on himself will receive more than $1 million under terms of the NFL's collective-bargaining agreement.
Jovan Belcher's 3-month-old daughter, Zoey, stands to receive $108,000 annually over the next four years, $48,000 in the fifth year and then $52,000 each year until age 18. She'll continue to receive that amount until age 23 if she attends college.
The beneficiary of Belcher, who was in his fourth season, also will receive $600,000 in life insurance, plus $200,000 for each credited season. There is also $100,000 in a retirement account that will go to his beneficiary or estate.
Kasandra Michelle Perkins and daughter Zoey.
Players' beneficiaries are kept confidential.
The current collective bargaining agreement was ratified in August 2011.
With Florida under heavy fire for funneling sick and disabled children into nursing homes designed for elders, child welfare administrators have quietly enacted a new policy aimed at keeping sick foster kids in community settings.
The Department of Children & Families has distributed a new agency policy that requires high-level approval before any child in state care can be admitted to a nursing home, or move from one institution to another. DCF also will ramp up its efforts to recruit foster parents who are specially trained to care for children with significant special needs. Such medical foster homes reduce the need for nursing homes.
DCF has custody of 31, or close to 15 percent of the 220 or so disabled or fragile children who currently live in nursing homes, and child welfare bosses have no authority over the remaining youngsters.
But the move sends a powerful message: DCF, the “parent” to 19,000 Florida children in state care, no longer favors the institutionalization of kids. The new policy runs counter to that of another branch of state government, the Agency for Health Care Administration, whose funding formula has forced some parents to put their disabled kids into institutions.
“A core mission of DCF is to ensure that children are raised in families,” wrote Assistant Secretary for Operations Pete Digre, whose signature will be required before a foster child can be institutionalized.
The Florida health agency’s decision to shunt very sick children into nursing homes has come under attack in recent weeks as the U.S. Justice Department has threatened to sue the state to curtail the practice, which, civil rights lawyers say, violates the Americans with Disabilities Act. The landmark 1990 federal legislation, signed by President George H.W. Bush, requires that people with disabilities be allowed to live and receive care outside large, segregated institutions.
Forcing children into nursing homes, advocates say, is especially cruel because isolation and lack of socialization can stunt their development and lead to psychological disorders. Records reviewed by The Miami Herald show that, at many nursing homes, children receive little education or stimulation; some children appear to spend their days in virtual isolation.
The policy appears to be an about-face, comes on the heels of Miami Herald reports about the death of a 14-year-old girl with cerebral palsy and a seizure disorder hours after she arrived at a Miami Gardens nursing home. Marie Freyre, sent to the home against her mother’s strong objections, had been in DCF care for two months.
In a letter to a children’s advocacy group three months ago, DCF Secretary David Wilkins defended his agency’s actions regarding severely disabled foster children.
“These children have very complex medical diagnoses requiring a 24-hour nursing environment,” Wilkins wrote to Christina Spudeas, who heads the advocacy group Florida’s Children First. “As part of our review of the children in long-term care facilities, we take special care to ensure that their case managers are providing strong, active advocacy and oversight.”
In recent months, the U.S. Justice Department’s civil rights division has accused the state of “systematically” forcing disabled children into nursing homes through a combination of deep cuts to in-home nursing care that enables parents to keep their children — as well as offering financial incentives to nursing homes that accept children. AHCA will pay homes $506-per-day to care for children, double the per-diem for elders.
According to the latest numbers from Chitika Insights, iOS users generate more than twice the amount of Web traffic as Android users. The six-month study found that while the two operating systems were nearly tied when it came to smartphone Web traffic, Apple (AAPL) has a substantial lead with its iPad tablet. Despite Android’s commanding share of the overall mobile market, the Cupertino-based company’s platform totaled 67% of Web traffic measured in the past six months, compared to Android’s 35% share.
“Despite all the new Android and Apple devices that have been released over the past six months, little has changed in the overall Web traffic distribution between iOS and Android,” the research firm wrote. “iOS’s share has hovered around 65%, while Android largely has stayed around 35%, the OS hit a peak of 40% in late August thanks partially to strong Samsung Galaxy S III sales. Apple then regained some share with the release of the iPhone 5 in the September timeframe.”
To qualify for the study Chitika Insights analysed billions of ad impressions coming from iOS or Android devices from May 27th to November 27th.
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She wasn’t like the other girls.
The yeshiva principal who forced an Orthodox Jewish pre-teen to continue seeing the Hasidic counselor prosecutors say sexually abused her testified that her clothes and behavior drew disapproval from the leadership of the insular Satmar sect.
“It was brought to my attention her behavior, her modesty, was not like the other girls,” Benzion Feuerwerger, a principal at the United Talmudical Academy in South Williamsburg, testified today in Brooklyn Supreme Court. “The principals were not happy and it came to the attention of the other rabbis, too.”
The school would have expelled the teen if she stopped going to prominent Hasidic leader Nechemya Weberman, 54, for counseling after her manner of dress — including her tights and the open top button of her shirt — drew reproach from the conservative Satmar sect, Feuerwerger testified.
Weberman allegedly sexually abused the girl during their counseling sessions over three years beginning when she was just 12 years old, prosecutors charge.
The recently married girl — who testified for four grueling days last week — turns 18 tomorrow.
“When we see a girl is not following the tradition, we try to work on it,” testified Feuerwerger, who answered, “Yes,” when asked if the goal of his school was to make sure the students followed “each and every role of Satmar.”
Feuerwerger, who is Weberman’s first cousin, drew incredulous laughter from several Orthodox spectators when he testified that the modesty squad — or Vaad Ha’Tnius — didn’t exist.
The alleged victim testified last week that part of the reason she was afraid to report Weberman was his Vaad Ha’Tnius membership.
The brave teen was so distraught when she reported the alleged abuse by Weberman that she fled the room, a social worker testified in the morning session.
“It took her awhile to get the words out. At the end of the session she uttered the words, ‘I was molested,’” said Sarah Fried, a social worker for a Jewish organization. “Then [she] ran out of the office.”
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