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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton recently received a gag gift of protective headgear after she suffered a concussion and blood clot near her brain after a fall. While Clinton can now make light of the injuries, a blood clot can be a serious health risk that can lead to death. Dr. James L. Frazier, III, a neurosurgeon at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore, talks about the dangers. What causes a blood clot to form in the brain? A blood clot or thrombus can form in the arteries that supply blood to the brain.

They're calling it the fitting room of the future, an enclosed kiosk in a mall common area that shoppers step into for a free, full (and fully clothed) body scan. After 10 seconds, a shopper emerges, then gets printed recommendations on size, style and brand and a list of stores offering the apparel. Me-Ality, the New York-based company behind "Measured Reality" body scanning stations, says the days of trying on four different sizes to find the best fit could be over.  Inside the scanning station, a vertical wand moves around a person's body, emitting low-power radio signals - not X-Rays or radiation  - similar to, but weaker than, signals sent by a cell phone.

Harford County public school officials said no drugs or tobacco products were found during a routine, random drug dog scan conducted in the Havre de Grace High School parking lot on Thursday, Feb. 23. The scan, done as part of the school system's commitment to keeping illicit drugs out of the schools, was accomplished using a drug-sniffing dog under the direction of the Harford County Sheriff's Office, according to a school system news release....

BOSTON -- After he was hit in the head in the ninth inning of Friday night's game, Orioles second baseman Robert Andino was out of the starting lineup for this afternoon's game. Andino, who took a 94-mph fastball to the back of his helmet from Mark Melancon, went to a local hospital after Friday's game to get a CT scan, the results of which were negative. He was scheduled to take a concussion test before today's game. He'd have to pass that before he's cleared to play. Orioles manager Buck Showalter said he's optimistic that if cleared Andino would return to the starting lineup on Sunday.

No illegal drugs or tobacco was found during a drug dog scan at Fallston Middle School Tuesday. The scan, done as part of the school system's commitment to keeping illicit drugs out of the schools, was done using a police dog under the direction of the Harford County Sheriff's Office. The building scan involved 344 lockers. The 25-minute scan (8:25 to 8:50 a.m.), supervised by four deputies from the Harford County Sheriff's Office, one drug dog, two school administrators and the school system's Coordinator of Safety and Security, resulted in two alerts that produced no controlled dangerous substances or tobacco.

A routine, random drug dog scan was conducted without any alerts for illegal drugs or tobacco at Bel Air High School on Friday, March 9, Harford County Public Schools said. The scan was conducted using a dog under the direction of the Harford County Sheriff's Office. The 15-minute scan, conducted from 12:45 to 1 p.m., involved 360 lockers being sniffed by the dog and did not result in any alerts for controlled dangerous substances or tobacco violations, according to a school system news release.

At the beginning of March, the Scan showroom, which had been at York and Seminary roads for 11 years, moved north some four blocks to the York Ridge Center.The snazzy new location, where Comcast used to be, gives the contemporary furniture store more space, all on one floor; more parking; and better exposure to customers driving by on York Road.Hours are 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.Great kitchensThe newest kitchens follow the "great room" concept and flow into adjoining rooms to let hosts and guests interact while food is being prepared.

PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. - Orioles right-hander Jake Arrieta sparkled in his Grapefruit League debut - his first spring outing since undergoing right elbow surgery last August - throwing two hitless innings in Baltimore's 3-3 10-inning Grapefruit League tie with the Rays. Arrieta's performance, however, was overshadowed by a very scary moment in the top of the first, when Orioles left fielder Nolan Reimold was hit in the left side of his jaw by an Alex Cobb fastball. Reimold fell to the ground holding his face and was carted off the field.

BOSTON -- After he was hit in the head in the ninth inning of Friday night's game, Orioles second baseman Robert Andino was out of the starting lineup for this afternoon's game. Andino, who took a 94-mph fastball to the back of his helmet from Mark Melancon, went to a local hospital after Friday's game to get a CT scan, the results of which were negative. He was scheduled to take a concussion test before today's game. He'd have to pass that before he's cleared to play. Orioles manager Buck Showalter said he's optimistic that if cleared Andino would return to the starting lineup on Sunday.

NEW YORK -- Scan, whose year has been marked by frustration, regained the lead in the final strides and beat Subordinated Debt by a nose in the $177,600 Remsen Stakes for 2-year-olds at Aqueduct Race Course yesterday.The son of Mr. Prospector out of the Nijinsky II mare Video paid $3.80 to win as the favorite in a field of eight.Entering the stretch of the 1 1/8 -mile race, Scan held a narrow lead before Subordinated Debt pushed his nose in front at the sixteenth pole.But under strong urging by jockey Jerry Bailey, Scan rallied to win and earn $106,560 for his owner, William Haggin Perry.

Sometimes living in the future is awesome.  Crate & Barrel just launched its new registry app. Similar to a QR code, you hold your phone up to an item, scan it and it automatically populates in your online registry. From this app, you can monitor the registry, too. You can track which gifts have been purchased, edit your list, and - to make it cooler - you can do all this through voice command. As I discussed before, we're using myregistry.com and asking primarily for wine, though if this app had been invented a few months ago we would have considered going with Crate & Barrel.

Plenty of shoppers at a Baltimore Safeway have started checking their cell phones while pushing carts and scanning shelves. They may have been texting or checking Facebook updates, but now grocery customers could use mobile devices to plan meals, organize lists, download coupons, compare prices, check rewards points, get personalized sale offers and scan bar codes Mobile technology is the latest front opened by a growing number of supermarket chains...

Baltimore's Afro-American newspaper has a rich photo archive - 1.5 million images dating from the Depression, World War II and the civil rights era up to today. But one of the nation's oldest African-American newspapers didn't have the hundreds of thousands of dollars needed to digitize its historic images for the Internet age. Now, thanks to a little robot built by a former Johns Hopkins student, the effort has gotten a lot cheaper. Using off-the-shelf electronics, Thomas Smith, a 2011 Hopkins graduate, built Gado, a swiveling, motorized arm with a nozzle that uses vacuum suction to "grab" photos and place them on a scanner.

A routine, random drug dog scan was conducted without any alerts for illegal drugs or tobacco at Bel Air High School on Friday, March 9, Harford County Public Schools said. The scan was conducted using a dog under the direction of the Harford County Sheriff's Office. The 15-minute scan, conducted from 12:45 to 1 p.m., involved 360 lockers being sniffed by the dog and did not result in any alerts for controlled dangerous substances or tobacco violations, according to a school system news release.

PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. - Orioles right-hander Jake Arrieta sparkled in his Grapefruit League debut - his first spring outing since undergoing right elbow surgery last August - throwing two hitless innings in Baltimore's 3-3 10-inning Grapefruit League tie with the Rays. Arrieta's performance, however, was overshadowed by a very scary moment in the top of the first, when Orioles left fielder Nolan Reimold was hit in the left side of his jaw by an Alex Cobb fastball. Reimold fell to the ground holding his face and was carted off the field.

Harford County public school officials said no drugs or tobacco products were found during a routine, random drug dog scan conducted in the Havre de Grace High School parking lot on Thursday, Feb. 23. The scan, done as part of the school system's commitment to keeping illicit drugs out of the schools, was accomplished using a drug-sniffing dog under the direction of the Harford County Sheriff's Office, according to a school system news release....

No drugs were found yesterday when a police dog trained to sniff out narcotics was used to scan lockers at East Middle School in Westminster, authorities said.Random drug scans by local police and investigators from the state's attorney's office are performed in cooperation with school administrators, police said.Students normally are in class and are not disrupted by the police operation, which generally takes about an hour, officials said.Students' cars at high schools also are randomly scanned for drugs, police said.

No drugs were found during a routine, random drug dog scan Friday at Patterson Mill Middle/High School. The scan, done as part of the school system's commitment to keeping illicit drugs out of the schools, was done using a police dog under the direction of the Harford County Sheriff's Office. The dog sniffed 250 lockers in 25 minutes (8:45 to 9:10 a.m.), alerting once. No controlled dangerous substances or tobacco products were found when the locker was searched. The scan was supervised by four Harford County Sheriff's Office deputies, one drug dog, four school administrators and the school system's coordinator of safety and security.