JT Allen

Is this app. "up and running" or is it still in "beta testing?" Do you know when it will be available for the general public's consumption? (pardon the lame pun ...)

Any legitimate competition to MS is good competition imho; IE 8 was supposed to be an "improvement" but crushes my system about every other day.

I'm eating my words over my last comment: True, the Secret Service has top-notch logistics, but communication is a different thing apparently: the 56th Presidential inauguration was a nightmare: there was no comm. between the Secret Service, the Park Service Police and the National Guard (of whom there were many). There was a catastrophic communication breakdown and suffice to say being there was bittersweet as it was a historical momemt to be sure, but the crowd control bordered on retarded. Fool me once, shame on me; fool me twice ....

Please share more on this super-natural phenomenon you posess.

WHY IS THIS EXCITABLE BOY STILL ON THE POLICE FORCE? HE GIVES ALL POLICE OFFICERS A BAD NAME AND WHY THE HELL WAS HE PULLING OVER AN ***AMBULANCE***??? THIS POOR EXCUSE OF A POWER HUNGRY MEGALOMANIACAL NUT-JOB HAS ZERO BUSINESS INTERACTING WITH THE PUBLIC IN ANY CAPACITY WHATSOEVER, PERIOD, END OF STORY. FIRE HIM.

I was under the impression ALL politicians "play both sides" all the time re. everything. The reason the FDA will not approve medicinal marijuana is because marjuana is illegal and and marijuana is illegal because the FDA won't approve it: to me it strikes me as Best Catch 22 EVER. Schedule I all the way ... Nevermind the thousands of first-person accounts about how marijuana relieved their pain and suffering from myriad diseases ... I've been in the field of drug research (ONDCP, HHS, CSAP et. al.) since 1992 and my mother has been in the field since 1973 but I digress. In terms of the "dangers of inhaling smoked marijuana" where does the FDA stand on cigarettes and what is the reason for their stance? (A rhetorical question in fact because it all comes down to money, per usual). As far as MJ being addictive, yes, it certainly can be psychologically addicting, but not physically addicting. Again I would love to know the rationale behind the FDA not examining the 462 chemicals found in cigarettes and the effects on the body. It's all a bunch of BS really ...

A Los Angeles federal judge on Thursday sentenced the owner of a marijuana dispensary to a year in prison, a sign that providers of medical marijuana still face the possibility of jail time despite the Obama administration’s promise not to prosecute them if they comply with state laws. In imposing his sentence on Charles C. Lynch, who ran a dispensary in the surfing hamlet of Morro, Judge George H. Wu said the changed federal policy did not directly affect his ruling. But the judge talked at length about what he said were Mr. Lynch’s many efforts to follow California’s laws on marijuana dispensaries and the difficulty the judge had finding a loophole to avoid sending him to prison. “I find I cannot get around the one-year sentence,” Judge Wu said of federal sentencing laws. The judge said he had reduced the sentence from a mandatory five years because Mr. Lynch had no criminal record or history of violence, and did not fit the strict definition of a “leader” of a criminal enterprise. Mr. Lynch, 47, was convicted last summer on five federal counts in connection with the running of his dispensary and the selling of medical marijuana to customers under 21. Legal experts said the case highlighted the conflict between state and federal laws on medical marijuana. Federal law prohibits the cultivation, sale and use of marijuana for medicinal purposes, but 13 states allow it. In prosecuting for medical marijuana, the Bush administration had considered only federal laws. Advocates of medical marijuana said the Lynch case would have a chilling effect on activities and undermine state laws. At his trial, and again in seeking leniency in his sentence, Mr. Lynch argued that he had complied with California’s law, which allows certain uses of marijuana with a doctor’s prescription. “He is caught between California’s voter-approved medical marijuana system and the Bush administration’s single-minded effort to smother it,” said Stephen Gutwillig of the Drug Policy Alliance, an organization that favors a change in drug policy. “That Attorney General Holder changed federal policy three months ago only makes this miscarriage of justice all the more disturbing. Charlie is like a forgotten prisoner of war, abandoned after a truce was declared.” The United States attorney for the Central District of California, Thomas P. O’Brien, said Mr. Lynch had violated state laws because he was not his customers’ main caregiver and provided no medical services beyond the marijuana sale. Matthew Miller, a Justice Department spokesman, said that as a general rule “we are not prioritizing federal resources to go after individuals or organizations unless there is a violation of both federal and state law.” More than 100 marijuana dispensaries — most in California — have been raided since 1996, when California voters passed Proposition 215, which sanctioned medical marijuana. About half the raids resulted in prosecutions, and about a dozen owners received prison sentences. There are now about 25 pending federal prosecutions of medical marijuana dispensaries, most in California, said Kris Hermes, a spokesman for Americans for Safe Access, a medical marijuana advocacy organization. Among them is a case against Virgil Grant, whose dispensary was raided twice in 2007. He is scheduled to go on trial in the fall. But unlike Mr. Lynch, Mr. Grant has a criminal record and so faces at least 10 years in prison. Most advocates of medical marijuana agreed that Mr. Lynch presented the best face for a movement that has tried to cast itself as mainstream — like yoga and herbal medicine — and distance itself from recreational drug use and advocates for legalization of marijuana. Mr. Lynch’s defense lawyer, Reuven Cohen, said he planned to appeal the sentence. Source: NY Times

How 'bout that one lobster that was caught which was half-albino and the one just recently caught that was a "yellow" which in this case actually means red as it looked like it had already been cooked. Unsure about the half-albino lobster but the yellow one is estimated to be 1 in 20,000,000. I like the half albino one personally as it's astoundingly cool looking. Niether will be eaten as they are so rare.

53.4 cubic feet of cargo capacity is Huge for the Caddy crossover, but the entire scenario still strikes me as GM having too many models overall; I know cutting more jobs at GM is a grim prospect at best, but I knew Pontiac was done for in 1999 when GM gave the ax to Eli Ransom Oldsmobile's line. Godspeed and good luck to "The General." On a side note, my grandmother had a GM REFRIGERATOR purchased who knows when but it was still running strong in the 1980's. The thing was a beast. Anyone know any history of the diversified products GM used to manufacture? Post up if you would!

von Brunn is clearly a homicidal psychopath with delusions of grandeur and persecution. It's a shame we had to lose an innocent man just to have this abhorrant malcontent put behind bars once again. "No freedom of speech" you say von Brunn? Seems to me I'm practicing it this very moment. May your soul rest peacefully in hell and good riddance!

That's great information. I have a Tagged account but I've seen those emails sent to my secondary email address (the one not associated with Tagged) and obviously don't open them because how would anyone know I have tagged if it's the wrong email address it's being sent to? Thanks.

(May 27) -- Hidden beneath the U.S. West's Great Basin, scientists have spied a giant blob of rocky material dripping like honey. The Great Basin consists of small mountain ranges separated by valleys and includes most of Nevada, the western half of Utah and portions of other nearby states. The Great Basin, which covers most of Nevada, western Utah and parts of other states, is characterized by mountain ranges separated by valleys. Scientists have discovered a huge, oozing blob of rock beneath the basin that may have begun forming about 15 million years ago. Above is Nevada's Great Basin National Park. While studying the area, John West of Arizona State University (ASU) and his colleagues found evidence of a large cylindrical blob of cold material far below the surface of central Nevada. Comparison of the results with CAT scans of the inside of Earth taken by ASU's Jeff Roth suggested they had found a so-called lithospheric drip. (Earth's lithosphere comprises the crust or outer layer of Earth and the uppermost mantle.) Here's how it works: "The Earth's mantle, which lies below the thin outer crust we live on, consists of rock which deforms plastically on very long time scales due to the heat and pressure at depth," West said. "In any material which can flow (including the mantle), a heavy object will tend to sink through lighter material." And this is what the scientists think is happening with the lithospheric drip. A region of heavier material trapped in the lithosphere gets warmed up and begins to sink into the lighter, less dense mantle beneath, pulling a long tail of material after it. "Honey dripping off of a spoon is a visual aid to what we think the drip looks like," West told LiveScience. "Dripping honey tends to lead with a large blob of honey, with a long tail of material following the initial blob." He said the blob is between about 30 miles and 60 miles in diameter and extends from a depth of about 47 miles to at least 310 miles beneath Earth's surface. The team thinks this drip started some 15 million to 20 million years ago and probably detached from the overlying plate only recently. At first, it was hard for the team to reconcile their discovery with what scientists knew about the region. Over the past tens of millions of years, the Earth's crust in the Great Basin has undergone extension, or stretching. "We wondered how you could have something like a drip that is drawing material into its center when the surface of the whole area is stretching apart," said ASU researcher Matthew Fouch. "But it turns out that there is an area right above the drip, in fact the only area in the Great Basin, that is currently undergoing contraction." Last year, Arizona State University Allen McNamara explained how Earth is not neatly divided into a crust, mantle and core. Rather, several large blobs of highly compressed rock — which he described as behaving like honey or peanut butter — exist. The researchers' analyses suggest the newfound drip won't cause the area to sink down or pop up quickly; nor will it cause earthquakes. In fact, they say there would probably be little or no impact on people living above the drip. The research, funded by the National Science Foundation, is detailed in the May 24 issue of the journal Nature Geoscience. Source: LiveScience

PHOENIX - The 4-year-old daughter of boxer Mike Tyson died at a hospital Tuesday, a day after her neck apparently got caught in a treadmill cord at her Phoenix home, police said. Exodus Tyson was pronounced dead just before noon, police Sgt. Andy Hill said. She had been on life support and police have said their investigation showed her injury on Monday was a "tragic accident." "There are no words to describe the tragic loss of our beloved Exodus," the family said in a statement. "We ask you now to please respect our need at this very difficult time for privacy to grieve and try to help each other heal." Police said Exodus either slipped or put her head in the loop of a cord hanging under the console. Her 7-year-old brother found her and told their mother. She took Exodus off the cord, called 911 and tried to revive her. Responding officers and firefighters performed CPR as they took the girl to the hospital. Former heavyweight champion Tyson was in Las Vegas at the time of the accident and flew Monday to Phoenix, where he was seen entering the hospital. Tyson spokeswoman Cynthia Schwartz said the family had not arranged a funeral yet and would release a statement later. Source: AP

It does not say where LUX nightclub is located in your post ... looks interesting though.

I looked around a bit but was unable to locate either of the people you mentioned. Perhaps try looking for other members of the family and backwards trace them. JT

"Anybody? Anybody? Bueller? Anybody?"

Excellent guess and astute observation - I'll give you a hint - it's not man made and cannot be found around the tropics (to my knowledge).

Take a guess:

World Health Organization’s Ranking of the Most Effective Health Systems 1. France 2. Italy 3. San Marino 4. Andorra 5. Malta 6. Singapore 7. Spain 8. Oman 9. Austria 10. Japan 11. Norway 12. Portugal 13. Monaco 14. Greece 15. Iceland 16. Luxembourg 17. Netherlands 18. United Kingdom 19. Ireland 20. Switzerland 21. Belgium 22. Colombia 23. Sweden 24. Cyprus 25. Germany 26. Saudi Arabia 27. United Arab Emirates 28. Israel 29. Morocco 30. Canada 31. Finland 32. Australia 33. Chile 34. Denmark 35. Dominica 36. Costa Rica 37. United States of America 38. Slovenia 39. Cuba 40. Brunei 41. New Zealand 42. Bahrain 43. Croatia 44. Qatar 45. Kuwait 46. Barbados 47. Thailand 48. Czech Republic 49. Malaysia 50. Poland

That's extremely fascinating to me - when you mention 3-D - will that be similar to a holographic experience?

With a petition in hand and a sign at his feet that simply reads "STOP Speed Cameras," Daniel Zubairi attracted more than a hundred people in about two hours Friday to join his effort to repeal a law authorizing automated enforcement in Maryland. He also attracted two police officers, who were called to investigate whether Mr. Zubairi had permission to collect signatures of commuters outside the Grosvenor-Strathmore Metro station in Bethesda. "I'd sign it if I wasn't on duty," said one of the officers, as he told Mr. Zubairi to move along. "I get ticketed by these things, too, and I hate them as much as he does, but we have a job to do," said his partner. Neither of the officers wanted to be named. Before being dislodged, Mr. Zubairi collected about 150 signatures in two hours, doing little more than standing behind his sign with a sly grin, knowing it and the clipboard would do the talking. "It goes to show how ordinary, working folks feel about speed cameras. They just hate them," said Mr. Zubairi, founder of the speed-camera opposition group Maryland for Responsible Enforcement, which is circulating the petition. "You don't need to persuade anybody that cameras are a drag." People who signed the petition had different reasons for doing so. Some said speed cameras are an infringement of privacy rights; others said they amount to an additional tax on drivers. Still others said they are ineffective. Most just said the cameras should go. "I feel that it's not fair, and it's basically just a way for government to steal money from people," said Leon Iofin, 63, a resident of Bethesda and an information-technology professional. "In my experience, they don't do anything for safety, and they just suck money from people." Steve Alexander, 33, also an IT professional from Bethesda, said he didn't think traffic cameras were effective in deterring speeders. Source: The Washington Times Online

Genetically engineer the females' (easier said than done) to be infertile as the U.S. has done with other species of "bugs" in the last 10 years would be my recommendation as opposed to chemicals but this sounds like a very real (if not very near) ecosystem-killer so whatever is quickest at the moment. 669 billion dollars is a very ugly number ...

I wish GM all the luck in the world with this project as they just announced they, too, are filing for bankruptcy.

That's just great news all around. I disticntly remember 1993 as the best crabs I've ever had. Too, I hope the states' do not "backslide" on these initiatives.

After watching last nights game with the Capitals winning 2-1 over the NY Rangers it occured to me hockey is the "anti-golf" of sports - these guys are FAST - and for a real treat check out Olympic ice hockey: these guys are even faster and a treat to watch.