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Obama: Not halting
 all NSA spying


He avoided major action on
the practice of sweeping up
billions of phone, email and
text messages from across the
globe.

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 California nut
farmers ban together


The soaring value of California's
nut crops is attracting a new
breed of thieves who have been
making off with the pricey
commodities by the truckload,
recalling images of cattle
rustlers of bygone days.

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 Fake chips upend
 NJ poker match


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The New Jersey Division of
Gaming Enforcement canceled
the first event of the Borgata
Winter Poker Open.

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 Europe launches
'Wikipedia for Robots'


Expectations are high for
RoboEarth, a new European-
funded system to speed the
development of human-serving
robots. Scientists from five
major European technical
universities have gathered in
the Netherlands this week for
its launch and to demonstrate
possible applications.
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 Voters back Egypt
 constitution


Almost everyone who cast
ballots supported Egypt's new
constitution in this week's
referendum, results announced
Saturday show, but a boycott by
Islamists and low youth turnout
suggest the country is still
dangerously divided.
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Smart contact lens monitors glucose levels


 HAYLEYTSUKAYAMA
 WASHINGTON POST WRITER

 Wearable devices are already
bringing technology much closer
to you than you ever may have
expected, but Google's just kicked
it up to a whole new level. The
company has announced a project
to make a smart contact lens. But
this gadget isn't going to be used
to deliver your email straight into
your skull at least not yet. This
project is working to tackle one of
the biggest health problems facing
the country today: diabetes.
 Given the wariness around wear-
able devices and their capabilities
for data collection, the idea that
the company would get that much
closer raises the question: how will


Google handle this data? Or, for
that matter, how can any com-
mercial company stepping into a
new world of collecting sensitive
medical data deal with the security
concerns?
 It's a question that Google's
clearly thought a lot about, said
Joseph Lorenzo Hall, chief technol-
ogist at the Center for Democracy
and Technology, who was briefed
on the lens before the company's
Thursday announcement. Hall
said that Google assured him that
the data would not be added to
the company's banks of personal
information gathered from other
servers.
 "The data will never hit Google's

 GLUCOSE14


AP PHOTO


This undated photo released by Google shows a contact
lens Google is testing to explore tear glucose. After years of
scalding soldering hair-thin wires to miniaturize electronics,
Brian Otis, Google X project lead, has burned his fingertips so
often that he can no longer feel the tiny chips he made from
scratch in Google's Silicon Valley headquarters.


 21 die in Afghan attack


 Restaurant incident is most deadly against foreign civilians

 By PATRICK QUINN
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRrrITER -

 KABUL, Afghanistan 49' I *
- A Taliban attack .... .
against popular _, I
Kabul restaurant killed -
21 people, authorities B
said Saturday making .
it the deadliest single
attack against foreign -
civilians in the course
of a nearly 13-year
U.S.-led war there now
approaching its end. '
 The attack comes
as security has been l
deteriorating and
apprehension has _...
been growing among
Afghans over their
country's future as
U.S.-led foreign forces ,
prepare for a final
withdrawal at the end
of the year.
 Afghan President
Hamid Karzai, who is
deferring signing an
agreement allowing AP PHC
U.S. forces to stay past Afghan security forces personnel investigate at the site of the Friday's suicide attack and shooting, in Kabul, Afghani-
the planned withdraw stan. Saturday. A Taliban suicide bomber and two aunmen on Friday attacked a Lebanese restaurant that is pooular wit


 foreigners and affluent Afghans in Kabul, a brazen attack that left 21 dead, including foreigners dining inside and two
 ATTACK 1 4 other gunmen, officials said.



Would Fla. pot vote tip governor race?


the country are moni-
toring Florida's quest to
become the first state
in the South to legalize
some marijuana use,
watching to see if the
issue has a spillover
effect that may offer a
blueprint for the 2016
elections.
 "It's an issue that the
Democrats can use to
pump up the youth
vote," said Alex Patton,
a Republican political
consultant and pollster
based in Gainesville,
Fla. "The politics of it
are dangerous for the
GOP"
 In previous elections,


Republicans benefited
from social issues being
on the ballot. During
President George W
Bush's re-election cam-
paign in 2004, 11 states
voted on gay marriage
bans. Karl Rove, Bush's
top strategist, denied
engineering the ballot
drives, while acknowl-
edging the importance
of social issues in
fueling Republican
turnout.
 The architect of
Florida's medical
marijuana initiative,
Orlando trial lawyer
John Morgan, employs
Charlie Crist, 57, the


leading Democratic
candidate for Florida
governor, and serves
as an adviser. No
Democrat has won
a governor's race in
Florida since 1994. Crist
held the office for four
years, ending in 2011,
as a Republican. He
later switched parties.
 Morgan who runs
one of the country's
largest personal injury
law firms and has
hosted fundraisers
for President Barack
Obama said he has
contributed more than
$3 million to the pot
effort so far. He said


 TOLUSE OLORUNNIPA
 BLOOMBERG NEWS WRITrrER
 TALLAHASSEE- The
pot vote may decide
the Florida governor's
race.
 Democratic oper-
atives are pushing a
statewide referendum
on medical marijuana
that Republican Gov.
Rick Scott's supporters
say threatens to tilt the
race against him. State
Republicans have filed
a legal challenge to
keep the referendum
off the ballot.
 Democrats and mar-
ijuana activists across


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h


he's planning to be a
top fundraiser for Crist.
 Activists hoping
to put the question
of legalizing medical
marijuana before voters
have collected about
1 million signatures,
said Ben Pollara,
campaign manager of
the People United for
Medical Marijuana and
a Democratic strategist.
 The Morgan-led
group, created to
support the Florida
initiative, needs to
have about 683,000
signatures verified by

 GOVERNOR


By SUSAN TAYLOR MARTIN
TAMPA BAY TIMES WRrrITER
 ST. PETERSBURG
- A few weeks before
Thanksgiving, staff at
the Loving Care assisted
living facility in St.
Petersburg realized
something had changed
in Malcolm Ramsey's
life.
 Relatives who had
never paid much
attention to Ramsey, 55
and mentally incompe-
tent, suddenly started
showing up in droves.
Bulging bags from T.J.
Maxx and Bealls filled


his half of a tiny, shared
bedroom. Boxes of new
athletic shoes Nike,
New Balance, K-Swiss
- towered against the
wall.
 Then there were the
rumors that Ramsey
had hit it big in the
Florida Lottery.
 Ramsey's legal guard-
ian got involved. So did
St. Petersburg police, an
adult protective services
worker and, eventually,
a judge. And slowly, the
story came out.
 Sometime in October,
Ramsey had won "$500
a week for life" on a


scratch-off Florida
Lottery ticket. With the
help of a cab driver, he
had gotten an ID, a copy
of his birth certificate
and a ride to Tallahassee
to claim the prize. He
took it as a lump-sum
payout -$403,288.
 In barely four weeks,
Ramsey blew through
more than half the
money, with little of
value to show for it.
He says he wanted the
cash, but by taking it
all he is in danger of
losing the government
benefits he has relied on
to survive.


 Judge Lauren
Laughlin, who monitors
Ramsey's guardianship,
sees another problem:
Why was there nothing
to keep the Florida
Lottery from handing
over thousands of
dollars to someone that
a court found incapable
of caring for himself?
 "You clearly can't
be giving this kind of
money to people who
have had the right
to manage their own
financial affairs re-
moved," Laughlin says.
"You would like it to be
a Forrest Gump time,


good for you, but not
with $170,000 walking
out the door in 30 days."
 000
 Malcolm Ramsey,
gray-bearded and
missing most of his
front teeth, can express
himself but speaks in
short sentences and
a low, flat voice. He
mowed lawns, washed
dishes and worked in
a warehouse before
mental illness took hold
and never let go.
 Diagnosed with
paranoid schizophrenia,
 LOTTERY|4


Lottery winner's money gone in weeks