Brett Favre Sings “Pants On The Ground” (VIDEO)

Quarterback Brett Favre shocked the viewers with his own rendition of the American Idol hit song “Pants On The Ground” by General Larry Platt during his celebration of the Vikings big win against the Cowboys on Sunday (January 17).
MUST Watch General Larry Platt “Pants On The Ground” Video HERE

Sword Practice

Amazing Phelps Swim Move @4:20
Awesome Dragon Twister @ 5:05

The Ultimate Cell Phone Plans Comparison

Tony Adam

From: http://www.billshrink.com

On Friday, Verizon Wireless announced pricing plan restructuring that would reduce the cost of voice usage. AT&T Wireless quickly followed suit and unveiled their updated cell phone plans as well. Today is the day that those changes go into effect.
While both carriers announced these changes as efforts to simplify plans, the real truth behind the story is that the profits are in the data: Verizon’s revenue is now up 24% (they reported $15.8 billion in Q309), with 17% coming from data services.
I think that there is still a long way to go before it gets to a point where picking a cell phone plan is simple, even after these various many attempts by the carriers in 2009. There are still way too many plan combination.
This is our best attempt to simplify all of the plan combination and it was painful, but here it is, The Ultimate Cell Phone Plans Comparison:

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BillShrink can help you find cell phone plans that save you money and fit your needs, without sifting through the madness!

Meet Marko, the 9-year-old systems engineer

by Ina Fried

from: http://news.cnet.com

Marko Calasan, a 9-year-old from Macedonia, is more than just a kid who's into computers.
At age 6, he got his first systems administrator credential from Microsoft and, last month, he became perhaps the youngest Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer.
"I must say that from the technological point of view, Marko is definitely a wonder child," said Matej Potokar, the general manager of Microsoft Slovenia. Potokar said in an e-mail interview that he first heard about Marko two years ago and was eager to get the chance to meet the young prodigy.

Images of a 9-year-old IT administrator (photos)

"When we were informed that he is coming to Ljubljana (Slovenia's capital) and would like to meet with people from Microsoft Slovenia I was looking forward to meet him," Potokar said. For a half an hour, Marko made a presentation to Potokar and his team about Active Directory and its benefits and challenges.
"It is amazing how much time and energy he dedicated to study this complex and extensive material. On the other hand, I hope that...he still finds time for his second biggest love, which is football."
Marko already has his first gig as a system administrator, remotely managing a network of computers for a nonprofit that works with people with disabilities.
"The employees...are very glad that there is a good administrator," Marko said in an e-mail interview. "I think that it's true, but who knows."

"I do not play games on computers because there is nothing serious about playing games on computers...If you want to play, go outside and play with your friends."

--Marko Calasan, 9

Marko said he typically spends about four hours a day at the computer, but concedes that it is sometimes 10 hours or more.
Marko is also a teacher with his own computer lab on the grounds of an elementary school where he teaches 8- to 11-year-olds the basics of computers. The lab houses 15 PCs provided by the ministry of education. That's on top of the five computers already in the Calasan home--Marko's dad is also an IT systems manager.
To allow him more time with his computers, Marko has permission from the government to attend school infrequently. Sometimes it's only several times a month. And he also has a set of keys so he can go into the lab at any time.
"Sometimes when the other classmates are sleeping, I go and practice in my lab," Marko said in an e-mail interview.
His latest project is trying to devise a way to send high-definition television signals over a comparatively slow network infrastructure. To support his effort, a Macedonian telecommunications company has given him a direct connection to its network backbone.

Marko proudly says that even over a basic DSL connection one can get HDTV without glitches. "The buffering will be very short," he said. Marko hopes to demonstrate the technology at this year's CeBIT show in Hannover, Germany.
The one computer-related activity Marko is not all that into is video games.
"I do not play games on computers because there is nothing serious about playing games on computers," Marko said. "If you want to play, go outside and play with your friends."
Although he is something of a celebrity in Macedonia, Calasan said he really wants to move to the United States to be closer to the latest technology--and to Microsoft itself.
"That's my biggest wish," he said. "I want to live in America because there are the highest technologies."

Coachella 2010 Line Up Just Announced… And It Looks Amazing!

In Artist News, by DeadCanDance

 

Jay-Z, Muse and Gorillaz will headline the 2010 Coachella Music & Arts Festival and how about the rest of the Line up? Faith No More, Sunny Day….lets just say stellar is an understatement!

2010 Coachella Line UP is here

The 11th COACHELLA VALLEY MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL line up has been announced!

COACHELLA VALLEY MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 2010 LINE-UP

JAY-Z, MUSE AND GORILLAZ HEADLINE  3-DAY FESTIVAL WITH MORE THAN 130 ACTS

ROUNDING OUT LINE-UP TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY, JANUARY 22 AT 10:00 AM

The 11th COACHELLA VALLEY MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL will feature a mix of artists ranging from Pavement, Thom Yorke????, Vampire Weekend, Them Crooked Vultures, LCD Soundsystem, Phoenix, Tiësto, Faith No More, Deadmau5, David Guetta, MGMT and Public Image Limited. Set for Friday, April 16, Saturday, April 17 and Sunday, April 18 at the beautiful Empire Polo Club in Indio, CA–the same grounds where COACHELLA debuted in 1999–the COACHELLA 2010 line-up will feature more than 130 acts.
This year’s COACHELLA will feature a variety of options to make the concert experience an enjoyable one. In addition to expanded camping options–including car, RV and traditional tent camping– COACHELLA will allow, for the first time, in-and-out privileges for all attendees. Festival goers will once again have the ability to purchase 3-day festival tickets and various onsite camping options via an easy layaway payment plan.
For those looking to streamline the weekend’s experience, COACHELLA has teamed with Valley Music Travel to provide exclusive travel packages, local hotel shuttle transportation and private home rentals with VIP COACHELLA access. For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit www.valleymusictravel.com/coachella.php.
FRIDAY APRIL 16: Jay-Z, LCD Soundsystem, Them Crooked Vultures, Vampire Weekend, Deadmau5, Public Image Limited, The Specials, Grizzly Bear, Passion Pit, Echo and the Bunnymen, Benny Benassi, Fever Ray, Grace Jones, She & Him, Erol Alkan, The Avett Brothers, Calle 13, The Whitest Boy Alive, The Cribs, La Roux, Yeasayer, Lucero, DJ Lance Rock, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Proxy, Ra Ra Riot, Deer Tick, Wolfgang Gartner, Aeroplane, Iglu & Hartly, Sleigh Bells, P.O.S., Baroness, Hockey, Little Dragon, White Rabbits, Wale, Kate Miller-Heidke, As Tall as Lions, Jets Overhead, Alana Grace, Pablo Hassan.
SATURDAY, APRIL 17: Muse, Faith No More, Tiësto, MGMT, David Guetta, The Dead Weather, Hot Chip, Devo, Coheed and Cambria, Kaskade, 2Many DJ’s, Major Lazer, Dirty Projectors, Gossip, Z-Trip, The xx, John Waters, Les Claypool, The Raveonettes, Mew, Sia, Camera Obscura, Tokyo Police Club, Porcupine Tree, Old Crow Medicine Show, Aterciopalados, Bassnectar, Frightened Rabbit, Dirty South, Flying Lotus, Corinne Bailey Rae, Pretty Lights, Shooter Jennings, RX Bandits, The Almighty Defenders, Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeros, Craze & Klever, Zoe, The Temper Trap, Portugal. The Man, Band of Skulls, Girls, Beach House, Steel Train, Frank Turner.
SUNDAY, APRIL 18: Gorillaz, Pavement, Thom Yorke????, Phoenix, Orbital, Spoon, Sly and the Family Stone, De La Soul, Julian Casablancas, Plastikman, Gary Numan, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Sunny Day Real Estate, Yo La Tengo, MUTEMATH, Deerhunter, Infected Mushroom, Club 75, Matt & Kim, The Big Pink, Gil Scott-Heron, King Khan and the Shrines, Florence and the Machine, Yann Tiersen, Little Boots, Miike Snow, Talvin Singh, Ceu, B.o.B., Babasonicos, Owen Pallett, The Glitch Mob, Mayer Hawthorne, Local Natives, Rusko, The Middle East, Hadouken!, The Soft Pack, Kevin Devine, Paparazzi, Delphic, One EskimO.
Tickets for COACHELLA go on sale Friday, January 22 at 10:00 AM at all Ticketmaster locations and www.coachella.com. Three-day weekend passes are $269.00, plus surcharges. More details on layaway, camping options and up-to-the minute information, can be found at www.coachella.com. COACHELLA 2010 sponsors include Heineken and PlayStation.

Haiti six days later (Pics)

boston.com — Haiti remains a place of profound need, anguish, desperation and danger, with a few glimmers of hope and slowly growing capabilities to receive and distribute the international aid now flowing in. Sporadic looting, sometimes violent, was met with force by security oficials and ordinary citizens, resulting in a number of further deaths and injuries.  

Click here for these pics, some are very gory(gross)  Haiti six days later (Pics)
 

5 More Reasons Why IE6 Must Die

From: http://mashable.com/2010/01/18/5-more-reasons-why-ie6-must-die/

It’s no secret that we don’t like Internet Explorer 6 (IE6), the outdated 10+ year old browser still used by 15-25% of people on the web. Last year, we called for IE6 to die so that the web could move on with new innovations such as HTML 5.
Now Internet Explorer, specifically IE6, is under fire again after a critical IE vulnerability was implicated for the attack on Google’s infrastructure by Chinese hackers. While IE6 criticism is not a new phenomenon, last week’s events give those of us who advocate for the abolition of IE6 (myself included) new ammunition.
Whether you work for a company that won’t get rid of IE6 or have parents that just don’t see the need to ugprade, here are five new reasons to upgrade or switch browsers:

1. Your security and your company’s security are at risk: There’s no other way to lay it out: if the security of Google (), Yahoo, and around 20 other companies were compromised due to people still running IE6, then your security is at risk too. Upgrading after a hacker uses this exploit to steal your information is simply too late, especially if you hold sensitive customer data.
2. World governments are suggesting you switch browsers: Both Germany and France have issued warnings about Internet Explorer (), asking citizens to switch to prevent the same type of breach that affected Google.
3. Even Microsoft wants you to drop IE6: The Microsoft Security Research & Defense Blog specifically addressed the flaw and the risk of attack by platform. The most important part of the post was that they “recommend users of IE6 on Windows XP upgrade to a new version of Internet Explorer and/or enable DEP.”
This isn’t the first time Microsoft has asked people to voluntarily upgrade, but it is the first time that it’s been in response to an exploit or vulnerability. Think of it like a recall: would you keep driving a car that Toyota, Ford, or GM says could malfunction? Don’t make the same mistake with your computer’s security.
4. Not wanting to upgrade from Windows XP isn’t a legitimate excuse anymore: One way to delete IE6 is to upgrade your OS — both Windows Vista () and Windows () 7 run upgraded versions of the IE browser.
We understood why people didn’t want to upgrade when their choice was Windows Vista, but now that a very stable, solid, and secure upgrade is on the market (Windows 7), there’s no excuse not to upgrade. Yes, it’ll cost you up front, but it’s far cheaper than having your data stolen.
5. This will not be the last massive IE6 security breach: This flaw was unknown before Google’s groundbreaking China announcement. And it’s not the first flaw ever found with the browser — there are at least 142 vulnerabilities in IE6, 22 of which are not yet patched. Would you use armor that had 142 weak spots?

Last week’s series of events drove home just how dangerous and idiotic it is to run the long-broken IE6 browser. It should be a wake-up call to IT departments and users around the world: if you keep running a browser from 2001, you are throwing your online security right out the window.

Pub offers free drinks to women based on bra size

A nightclub in Singapore is attracting attention for a marketing strategy that offers free drinks according to women's bra sizes, the China Press reports.
The OverEasy nightclub introduced the event 'Fill My Cups' recently to promote events hosted by Australian DJ DCUP.
The promotion allows A-cup patrons one free drink, B-cups two, C-cups three, and D-cups can claim a free bottle of vodka.
"It was really a play on the guest DJ's name. When we heard that it was DCUP, we decided to give the event an added spin," said Ms Cheryl Ho, spokesman for The Lo & Behold Group, which runs OverEasy.
The stunt has drawn as much criticism as it has laughter, with some calling it distasteful, "I think the concept is funny but I would not degrade myself by being a part of it," a 19-year-old women told The New Paper, a local publication.
Others believe the 'booze for boobs' gimmick is harmless, Student Lek Ning, 20, who considers herself a C-cup, said that she found the event hilarious, "After all, I'm rather proud of my assets," she said.
President of the Association of Women for Action and Research (Aware) Dana Lam labeled the event "demeaning". "I'd laugh at the silliness (of this event) if I didn't know better. Women should think twice before popping themselves in there," she said.
Ms Lam added that the "safety and dignity" of female customers have been disregarded, as they might be "subjecting themselves to molest and harassment".
To ascertain bra size the promotion will allow for one male and one female judge to visually assess bra cup size, "They are not boob experts, and neither are they from a bra company. They are our personal friends who will simply guess-timate as to the women's bra cup sizes," said Ms Ho, "We don't condone touch tests," she said.

HBO’s ‘Boardwalk Empire’ Cost $50 Million: How They Gonna Make It Back?

By Ben Barna

From: http://www.blackbookmag.com/

Ever since David Chase blacked out Tony Soprano's life mid-meal, HBO has been searching for the next Sopranos—a search rendered more desperate after AMC found it. So now, HBO is on the hunt for the next Mad Men, and it looks like it might have found it in Boardwalk Empire, a Sopranos/Mad Men mash-up that effectively cribs from both gangster and period genres. The first promo teaser hit the web yesterday, and it looks like the most cinematic show HBO has done to date. It all makes sense, since Martin Scorsese directed the pilot and will have a major creative role in the series' genesis. This morning, Page Six ran an item pricing the pilot episode at $50 million, easily making it HBO's most expensive show ever. Even in Movieland, that's a fairly hefty price tag. You'd have your marquee stars, maybe some CG, and a major marketing push. But in television terms, Empire probably needs to be a Sopranos-size phenomenon to ever recoup that kind of investment.

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Set at the dawn of Prohibition, Boardwalk Empire follows Atlantic City’s birth and the gangsters, bootleggers, and rum-runners who spawned it. Steve Buscemi stars as the gangster Nucky Johnson, and Gretchen Mol, Michael Shannon, and Michael Pitt also appear. With Scorsese behind the camera, and Sopranos scribe Terence Winter as creator, the show’s pedigree is unrivaled. HBO has already proven it can do crime better than anyone in entertainment, and it has the luxury of a post-Mad Men TV landscape, with everyone just eating up that show’s period details. 
But to put the $50 million price tag into perspective, the two-hour Lost pilot was the most expensive in ABC’s history, and it reportedly cost the network somewhere between $10 and $14 million. Page Six’s source does acknowledge that the rest of the series will drop in cost, “since they’ll reuse props, sets and costumes.” But in an age when many of us stream our shows online (especially our paid cable shows), it’s still a major risk. The last time HBO funneled this kind of cash into a show, it lasted just two seasons. That show was Rome, and HBO only spent $85 million for the first season (although the BBC did contribute $15 million). Although execs claimed that show’s two-season run as premeditated, insiders claim it was money that led to the fall of Rome, which Broadcasting & Cable called “notoriously expensive.” In the show’s afterlife, HBO has done everything they can to recoup their money spent by airing “sanitized” episodes of the show in Italy, ultimately angering that country’s audiences with its historical deviations.
However, HBO may not be modeling their expectations on The Sopranos, but another historical epic with a different legendary filmmaker as its driving promotional force. Band of Brothers was the ten-part, WWII miniseries that cost the network $125 million to produce, winning it six Emmy Awards and attracting some of the best ratings in network history. Of course, it had Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks’ names and imprint all over it, which might explain why it’s currently the 19th highest grossing DVD of all time. Boardwalk Empire was created by Terence Winter and is loosely based off Nelson Johnson’s book of the same name, but this is “Martin Scorsese’s new show.”
So what’s HBO spending all this money on? Back in November, Speakeasy payed a visit to the elaborate and minutely detailed Brooklyn set:

the built-from-scratch boardwalk set took three months to construct and features era-appropriate storefronts for fake businesses such as the Canton Tea Parlor (serving chop suey, of course), a spiffed-up Ritz Carlton, Babette’s Supper Club (where Thompson & Co ring in the start of Prohibition), and one of Winter’s favorites, a baby incubator display, which passersby could check out premature babies (”Come and see babies that weigh less than 3 lbs — 25 cents!”). Truckloads of sand were driven in to recreate the Atlantic City coastline, and a giant green screen (that’s actually blue) faces the length of the 300-foot boardwalk, which will allow the production team to digitally add in the ocean later.

Sounds expensive to us! The bottom line is, HBO probably wouldn’t be spending this kind of money on a show if it wasn’t going to be incredible (so far, only three episodes have been shot), and as we mentioned earlier, they’re desperate to take back the internet from Matthew Weiner and John Hamm. It’s been a while since HBO’s Sopranos/Six Feet Under/The Wire drama heyday, but if Boardwalk Empire lives up to its budget, the tides could be shifting. This can’t hurt, either.

Jockeys Fight on Horses During Race (Video)

From: http://www.totalprosports.com

I'm not a big horse racing fan.  I have a good friend from Lexington who would throw Derby parties every year, but the sport hasn't really captured my intrigue.  Perhaps it's because I've never been to one live and had the opportunity to bet on them -- I've heard that's what really makes it a show.
One thing that would really get me into horse racing is if the jockey's were allowed to really jockey for positioning on the race course.  By that I mean slap around the other jockeys a little bit.  Check out this video of two jockey's throwing some punches at each other as they try to gain the edge on the track.  It's dangerous, and probably highly illegal, but this is just the type of thing to draw a crowd and open the doors to a whole new base of fans.   Think about it horse racing.
Jockey Eriluis Vaz of "Divine Light" and jockey Ademar Santos, riding racing horse "Mi Helena," were involved in this fistfight that turned to whipping.   The most serious punches, and subsequent whip fight, occurs near video clip end.  The fight occurs at the Fifth Race at Philadelphia Park and was supposedly sparked due to Vaz careening his horse toward Santos a few times.

Here is another video with a little music and sound effects to it.

Welcome to Cottleville, Missouri's Newest Pot Hole

By Keegan Hamilton

From: http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/

​ We missed this when it first aired but it's worth mentioning that the folks over at KSDK actually did a very respectable job tackling the issue of medical marijuana last week. The station profiled Don Yarber, the 70-year-old mayor of Cottleville, Missouri, who supports prescription pot because his wife used it to treat the side-effects of her chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer.

With Yarber's support, Cottleville -- a city of about 3,000 people, located southwest of St. Charles -- recently passed a resolution urging state leaders to move forward with medical marijuana legislation. Yarber is pressing for a state-wide ballot initiative.

Not that it really means anything -- Cottleville is a long, long way from Jefferson City -- but it's still an interesting example of the grassroots, non-partisan support that the medical cannabis issue is capable of generating, even in the ultra-conservative parts of Missouri. Plus it's fun to hear an old geezer like Yarber expound on the benefits of puffin' the old cheeba cheeba.


If this all sounds eerily familiar it's because Cottleville isn't the first Missouri backwater to pass pro-Marijuana legislation. The original pot hole was Cliff Village, a tiny suburb of Joplin...

From the RFT's news story on Cliff Village, published last February:

Cliff Village, a tiny suburb of Joplin, has become the second Missouri city to legalize marijuana for medical use. Residents can pack their pipes with impunity, so long as their pot comes with a doctor's prescription.

But with a population in the double-digits and a local sheriff who vows to lock up any pot smoker he can find, the town's 30-year-old mayor, Joe Blundell, concedes that the move is "symbolism, pure and simple."

"I'd like to go and testify to legislators about this plant," says Blundell, who is wheelchair-bound, the result of a train accident in 2000. "I'd tell them I'm not a criminal, that I'm in a horrific amount of pain and I'd rather take something natural and holistic rather than something being pushed by Pfizer."

A handful of state lawmakers and pro-grass activists hope the actions taken by this southwest Missouri hamlet will help blaze a path for the statewide passage of a long-stymied medical-marijuana law.

"They've really taken the issue by the horns," says Dan Viets, coordinator of the state's chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML). "Perhaps lawmakers will realize that even rural communities have embraced cannabis as a legitimate form of treatment."

Read the rest of the story by clicking here.

Tags: Cliff Village, Cottleville, Don Yarber, KSDK Channel 5, Medical Marijuana

Watch the iPhone Swipe a Credit Card

Square, one of a few iPhone peripherals hoping to turn the iPhone into a credit card swiper, sounds promising. But how does it work? YouTube shows us!
Through its own app, Square processes a credit card, produces a receipt and even takes a signature. But as you'll see in this clip, there's one petty but fixable problem to the system—the Square dongle. Watch as Rose needs to steady the plug with his finger to swipe a card without popping anything loose.
I mention this now because I'm hoping that Twitter's Jack Dorsey and Digg's Kevin Rose—who are both behind the project (Rose just financially)—don't each have an alpine garage full of these horribly designed dongles. Beef up the casing a bit to increase its surface area against the iPhone, just as Mophie has with their recently announced credit card scanner, and everything will be right as rain. [Kevin Rose via Ubergizmo]

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Microwave Box Of Wine

By: abouttotilt

Microwave Box Of Wine - Watch more Funny Videos

We have all seen what a little metal in a microwave will do. These guys put a large box of wine in their microwave and blow a hole in the wall of their kitchen.

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'Scots Drink 46 Bottles Of Vodka Every Year'

James Jordan, Sky News Online

Adults in Scotland are drinking the equivalent of 46 bottles of vodka each a year - 25% more than the English and Welsh, a new study suggests.

The 50.5 million litres of pure alcohol sold in Scotland last year was enough for every drinker over the age of 18 to exceed the consumption guidelines for men every week of the year.
The research comes as the Scottish Government pushes for a minimum price for alcohol to tackle the country's huge drink problems.
It is based on industry sales data analysed by NHS Health Scotland and looked in part at sales of pure alcohol per person, as opposed to total volumes of alcoholic drink.
According to the report, sales for the year to September 2009 averaged 12.2 litres of pure alcohol per person over the age of 18.
The Scottish Government said the figure, which remained virtually static since 2005, is equivalent to more than 46 bottles of vodka, 537 pints of beer or 130 bottles of wine.

We believe setting a minimum price for alcohol, while not the whole answer, is a key weapon in the battle against alcohol misuse.

Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland Health Secretary

In England and Wales, the total for the same period was 9.7 litres per person.
Average weekly sales for Scottish drinkers were 26.5 units per person over the age of 18, equivalent to around 11 pints of beer or three bottles of wine.
In England and Wales, the figure was 21.8, slightly higher than the recommended weekly maximum for a man.
Scotland Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon said it was time for critics of minimum pricing to "wake up" to the scale of Scotland's drink problem and called for a minumum price for alcohol to be set.
She said: "We believe setting a minimum price for alcohol, while not the whole answer, is a key weapon in the battle against alcohol misuse."
A report out earlier in the week put the cost to Scots taxpayers of alcohol abuse at £3.56bn a year.

Train vs. Tornado - Spectacular!

This is amazing. Mother Nature vs. The Iron Hand...

Niagara Falls - Like Never Seen Before (From The year 1911)

From: http://designunder.com/

Skywalker Ranch - HD landscape..place is tranquil

Skywalker Ranch from Philip Bloom on Vimeo.

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Please read my blog about this here: philipbloom.co.uk/2009/12/12/the-tale-of-lucasfilm-skywalker-ranch-red-tails-star-wars-and-canon-dslrs/

Filmed at Skywalker ranch on the Canon 5DmkII conformed to 24p and the Canon 7D shooting native 24p.
Timelapse done using stills. New Glidetrack shooter used for dolly moves. For rest of gear check out blog.
Thanks to Rick McCallum, Mike Blanchard and George Lucas.
Music is Venus by Gustav Holst
Download version is available for personal use only. Not for reproduction or reuse.
©2009 PhilipBloom.co.uk

The Beatles In 1957

The Beatles in 1957. George Harrison is 14, John Lennon is 16, and Paul McCartney is 15.

New Jersey becomes 14th medical marijuana state!

Last night, Gov. Jon Corzine (D) signed New Jersey's medical marijuana legislation into law. As a result, New Jersey is now the 14th state to protect seriously ill patients from arrest and jail for using medical marijuana with their doctors' approval.
The bill had been passed by the New Jersey Legislature on January 11, passing by 48-14 in the Assembly and 25-13 in the Senate.
The new law will not only protect medical marijuana patients from arrest and jail but also allows for the regulated dispensing of medical marijuana. When the law is implemented, it's likely that there will be at least six dispensaries for patients to obtain their medicine, two in each part of the state. Doctors will be able to recommend up to two ounces of marijuana to patients within a 30-day period.
The Drug Policy Alliance New Jersey and the Coalition for Medical Marijuana-New Jersey led the lobbying efforts to pass this important legislation, which will go into effect this summer.
We're hoping that the decisive victory in New Jersey will convince neighboring state New York to do the right thing and protect patients who continue to live in fear. MPP has been pushing a medical marijuana bill forward there for seven years, and this year looks like the year that it may finally become law.
With the help of MPP's 29,000 dues-paying members, we'll continue to roll back the government's war on the sick and dying. We're working hard in Arizona, New York, Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, and Massachusetts to make these states the 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th to pass medical marijuana legislation. Would you please consider making a donation today to support our efforts?
Thank you,

Rob Kampia
Executive Director
Marijuana Policy Project
Washington, D.C.