free festivals aren't only popular with couples and families, but also are favorite hangouts for convicted drug dealers, sex offenders and homeless fe

In the 11 years she has patrolled the Bite of Seattle and the Torchlight Parade, Leslie Mills has learned that free festivals aren't only popular with couples and families, but also are favorite hangouts for convicted drug dealers, sex offenders and homeless felons on probation.Mills, a supervisor for the state Department of Corrections (DOC), says Seattle's major public events often draw felons who are wanted for violating terms of their prison release or who are violating probation merely by being there.At Seattle's Torchlight Parade last weekend,...

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lawyers suggested that his murders were not cold-blooded but were the result of drug use, Wilkins said, "I wouldn't put too much weight on that."

"Look, it is no big deal," Christopher Wilkins told the Fort Worth, Texas, jury trying to decide in March whether to send him to death row or life in prison. "I'm as undecided (about that) as you are." Wilkins even belittled his own lawyers for bringing his family in to beg the jury for mercy: "They (my lawyers) sprung that charade on me," he told the jury. When his lawyers suggested that his murders were not cold-blooded but were the result of drug use, Wilkins said, "I wouldn't put too much weight on that." Before leaving the witness stand, Wilkins...

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It just reminded me of long strings of rhubarb Khat contains the alkaloid cathinone, an amphetamine-like stimulant that causes excitement

It looks like a plant that could grow in your garden, but the hallucinogenic drug khat is a very potent substance relatively unknown to law enforcement officials in New Hampshire.On March 2, State Police troopers stopped Mohmed Osman Ahmed, 40, of Roxbury, Mass., and after searching the vehicle, 14 pounds of khat with an approximate street value of $3,000 were seized.It was the first time the state laboratory had seen the drug in New Hampshire. Law...

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Registered sex offender Jason Lee

Registered sex offender Jason Lee, 28, was arrested in Cincinnati in February and charged with several counts of deception for his seemingly benevolent acts of posting bond for two female strangers who had been arrested. Later, according to police, he had demanded sex and drugs from the women as payback, and a prosecutor said Lee had trolled for names of arrested women on the Web site of the Clerk of the Court. [WKRC-TV (Cincinnati), 2-13-...

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"One man actually came in and had a pee right in front of us." Paul Walker's production of "Ladies & Gents"

Irish director-playwright Paul Walker's production of "Ladies & Gents" opened for a March run in New York City 29 blocks north of Broadway in a public restroom. According to an Associated Press report, the entire play takes place among the porcelain in a bathroom in Central Park, portraying "the seedy underside of 1950s Dublin," with the audience of 25 standing beside rows of stalls, near "spiders, foul odors and puddles of questionable origin." Walker proudly admits that he wanted to take the audience "out of their comfort zone" to create...

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Embeddable chunks of code

Embeddable chunks of code have existed since the start of the World Wide Web. Web developers have long sought and used third party code chunks in their pages. It could be said that the original web widgets were the link counters and advertising banners that grew up alongside the early web. Later, ad and affiliate networks used code widgets for distribution purposes.A widget is anything that can be embedded within a page of HTML, i.e. a web page....

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Whats a Widget

no accepted definition of a widget. This is probably because the word itself has quite a long history and can mean different things in different situations. The phrase 'Acme Widget Co.' has long been used as a standin for a generic company that produces, well, anything. In this case, a widget is a sort of mysterious manufactured item, the sort of thing that made America a great manufacturing power. Wikipedia references the first usage of the word...

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Yahoo! Widgets

Yahoo! Widgets help you save time and stay current by bringing an always-updated, at-a-glance view of your favorite Internet services right to your desktop. The Yahoo! Widget Gallery offers over 4,000 desktop Widgets - the most available anywhere online. Yahoo! Widgets is the only major desktop Widgets platform that works on both Windows and Mac OS.Almost all Yahoo! Widgets were dreamt, designed, and built by members of our bustling developer community. Our authors range from professional software designers and developers, to hobbyists, to major...

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