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By State Senator Daylin Leach
This past November, the people of Washington State and Colorado voted to fully legalize marijuana. Other places, including California, have had de facto legalization for some time. This week, I will introduce legislation which would have Pennsylvania join these other states in ending this modern-day prohibition. My bill will legalize the consumption of marijuana for adults over the age of twenty one, without regard to the purpose of that consumption. Here's why:
For the past 75 years, our marijuana policy has been foolish, ill-conceived, costly and destructive, and it must end. We have been waging a "war on drugs" that includes treating the use of Marijuana as a matter for the criminal justice system. We have spent billions of dollars investigating, prosecuting, incarcerating and monitoring millions of our fellow citizens who have hurt no one, damaged no property, breached no peace. Their only "crime" was smoking a plant which made them feel a bit giddy.
People across our Commonwealth have spent time in prison, lost time at work, been forced to hire lawyers and had their lives disrupted and sometimes destroyed because they used a product less dangerous than beer, less risky than children's cough syrup, less addictive than chocolate and whose societal harm comes from its prohibition rather than its use.
According to the Office of National Drug Control Policy, in 2006, an average year, 24,685 marijuana arrests were made in Pennsylvania at a cost to the taxpayers of $325.36 million. Each year we not only waste a similar amount, we leave several hundred million dollars on the table in taxes that we do not collect because marijuana is illegal, rather than regulated and taxed. Aside from the moral issues involved, we simply can no longer afford the financial costs of prohibition.
Further, prohibition of marijuana has done what it did in the case of alcohol in the 1930s. It has created a dangerous black market with violent and bloody turf wars that kill many people in our country and elsewhere. The original prohibition brought us the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. The modern prohibition has brought us gun battles in the streets between drug cartels. The murders associated with the sale of alcohol ended with prohibition. The same will be true of marijuana.
To be clear, under the terms of this legislation marijuana would be a regulated product, treated in a way similar to how alcohol is treated. It will still be illegal to drive under the influence of marijuana, behave badly while publicly intoxicated or to sell it to minors.
Further, like alcohol, legalization and regulation will make marijuana safer. People will no longer have to buy it on the streets from criminals who may have laced their product with other dangerous drugs. People buying legally will know exactly what they are getting and be able to rely on the safety of what they are purchasing.
The sad history of prohibition is that marijuana was legal, and in fact the most prescribed drug in that nation until the late 1930s. At that time, it was targeted by those who had an economic interest in removing it from the market. Today, prohibition is supported by myths, misconceptions and old wives' tales that no longer stand up to scientific scrutiny.
For example, in response to my bill, Governor Corbett said he opposed it because he "believes" marijuana is a "gateway drug". But science has clearly established that this is untrue. Well over 90 percent of those who use marijuana never go on to use harder drugs, and the percentage of people who do use hard drugs and had previously used marijuana is no higher than the percentage who had previously only tried beer.
The facts are that unlike alcohol, you simply cannot overdose on marijuana. Unlike alcohol and tobacco, marijuana is not physically addictive. Studies have shown that people on marijuana are much less likely to behave violently or recklessly than people who are drunk. And while breathing a hot gas into your lungs certainly isn't good for them, marijuana smokers on average smoke far less often than tobacco smokers. There is simply no way that marijuana does, or ever can, come close to killing the 1,100 people per day that tobacco does.
Yet despite all of this, you can drink and smoke tobacco freely. But if you smoke marijuana, you are a criminal and can go to jail. This horrific policy must end. People around the nation are realizing that. And it is a moral imperative that Pennsylvania wake up and end prohibition now.


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Misch shuts down Knights
After throwing a complete game shutout in his last outing against the Norfolk Tides, starting pitcher Pat Misch took the mound tonight against the Charlotte Knights. Misch was once again dominant as he pitched another gem in a 3-1 win for the Bisons at Coca-Cola field on Thursday night.
Over seven innings of work, Misch gave up only three hits and allowed one run. That one run came in the fifth inning when designated hitter Donny Lucy hit his first home run of the season. Lucy took a 1-0 pitch and launched it over the left field wall to tie the game at one. Lucy's home run ended Misch's streak of 14 consecutive scoreless innings pitched.
The Herd would answer in the bottom half of the inning however. Shortstop Ruben Tejada led off the inning with a single to left field and would eventually score when left fielder Jesus Feliciano sent a double to right field to give the Herd a lead they would not relinquish. The Herd would add an insurance run in the seventh inning when Tejada was again driven home by Feliciano on a sacrifice fly. For the night Tejada was 2-3 with a single and a double and Feliciano went 1-3 with two RBI and extended his hitting streak to nine games. After going 1-3 Feliciano's league high batting average dropped one point to .368.
First baseman Mike Hessman was unable to add to his league high totals of home runs and RBI tonight as he went 0-4 and struck out twice. Hessman did however show off his glove again tonight as he took away a base hit from Knights center fielder Josh Kroger. Kroger hit a line drive right down the first base line and Hessman was able to reach out and snag it to end the inning.
Right handed pitcher Ryota Igarashi pitched one inning for the Herd in his rehab assignment for the Mets. In his inning of relief, Igarashi allowed only one hit when shortstop Brent Lillibridge doubled to center field. Igarashi threw 19 pitches in his inning of work and made the most of them as 13 were for strikes.
The Knights threatened in the ninth inning when Kroeger and right fielder Stefan Gartrell both reached base off of singles with only one out. With Kroeger on third and Gartrell on first, relief pitcher Elmer Dessens settled down and retired the next two batters to secure the win for the Herd and pick up his sixth save of the season.
For the Knights starting pitcher Carlos Torres was credited with the loss. Torress went seven innings and gave up six hits and allowed all three runs that the Herd would score on the night. The win improves the Bisons record to 24-17 and with the loss the Knights drop to 17-25.
BISONS NOTES:The Bisons will finish up their four game series with the Knights tomorrow night. Bobby Livingston (1-5, 4.35 ERA) is slated to start for the Herd while the Knights will send Jeff Marquez (4-3, 3.72 ERA) to the mound. In his last start Livingston went six innings and gave up five hits leading to four runs in a 5-4 Bisons loss.

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Reasons we don't fast
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus enjoins his disciples, "when you fast, do not do as the hypocrites do. . . " So I guess it's possible that many people take this so seriously that I just do not know what they are fasting from. Perhaps many people's piety does not allow them to talk about what they have given up for Lent. Maybe we ARE fasting, intensely and quietly.
But I kinda doubt it.
I suspect that G. Jeffrey MacDonald is right when we wrote this week that mos American Christians just don't take Lent seriously anymore -- certainly not the fasting part. Yes, there are exceptions, but compared to our Muslim counterparts, who are very clear about what they are to do during Ramadan, our "have-it-your-own-way" faith consists of very little self-sacrifice at all.
MacDonald lays the blame at the feet of the consumer economy, which relies on keeping our desires stoked in all seasons, every day. We are so used to being pleased, being the customer who is always right, that we really can't imagine living another way for forty days. "The church," he argues, has become "the handmaiden of desire," giving people what they want rather than holding up a higher vision of what God knows we need.
But there's another reason MacDonald has overlooked which is very much connected to our consumer culture, but a little less evil-looking than self-indulgence: we are afraid to stop. For the flip side of constant consumerism is the need to "be your best" at every moment. As a recreational runner, I've learned that food is fuel; pick up any women's magazine, and you'll read about foods that provide energy; our health plans urge us to eat "right" and exercise every single day.
The message is clear: in this economy, you have to perform, and if you don't -- because you have low blood-sugar from fasting, or your prayer life is making you question the very premise of your business-- you are "less."
I suspect that this temptation -- not self-indulgence but the myth that I can please everyone at all times -- is especially hard for successful middle-class Christians to face. We know about sacrfice, whether it's for our jobs our our families. We know about missing meals and hours of sleep -- but we do so "accidentally," in the service of chasing the approval of everyone around us. it seems more benign than mere gluttony, but it is just as dangerous to the soul.
Truth be told, if we take Lent seriously, more than rich foods will be given up: we will "lose" some time which might otherwise be spent being efficient producers of "added value." We might spend some time assisting others that would otherwise be helping our children win the rat race. We might be distracted from the best business strategy by our hollow stomachs. We might have to contend with our bodies in a way that no one rewards like they do a successful 10K or a few pounds lost.
It's been my experience that Lent can be freeing, but it can also bring me face-to-face with the least pleasant parts of my personality. Quite honestly, I don't want to inflict them on others if I can avoid it. I'd rather be my "best self." Jesus was right. In the short term, fasting can cause a kind of self-obsession that can be the very definition of hypocrisy.
But my worst self shows up regularly when I'm not fasting too. I can be distracted even when I'm not trying to pray, irritable when I'm not hungry, and stingy even when there is no practice to remind me of the poor. Perhaps the intentional disciplines of these forty days -- especially when they are shared with others -- give me an opportunity to take that worst self out and turn her over to God.
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A private nonprofit group led by former astronauts, spacecraft designers, and asteroid specialists has proposed a spacecraft to find a half million asteroids in Earth-crossing orbits and provide advance warning of impact threats.
It seems like just weeks ago that a high-profile group of space entrepreneurs announced plans to track down vast numbers of asteroids in Earth's vicinity. (Oh, wait: it was!)
Now a second group hopes to blaze its own interplanetary trail in search of near-Earth objects (NEOs). Yesterday the B612 Foundation released details of a spacecraft called Sentinel, which could be launched as early as 2017. Its objective is to find and track a half million asteroids in Earth's vicinity, sweeping up 90% of those with diameters of at least 450 feet (140 m) over its 5½-year mission.
B612, as you literature buffs already know, is the name of the house-size asteroid featured in Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's 1943 novella The Little Prince. Former astronauts Rusty Schweickart and Ed Lu, together with astronomers Clark Chapman and Piet Hut, formed the foundation in 2002 with the goal of protecting Earth from asteroid strikes. The Sentinel team is stacked with A-list space veterans, including program architect Scott Hubbard (former director of NASA's Ames Research Center) and mission director Harold Reitsema (former director for science-mission development at Ball Aerospace). Schweickart and Lu aren't slouches either.
Although the B612 proposal and the one announced in April by Planetary Resources might seem similar, they're not. For one thing, the latter group is looking for accessible asteroids in the hope of mining them for water, platinum, and other valuable resources. But the B612 Foundation is focused on finding big space rocks likely to strike Earth and, assuming they can be found in time, alter their orbits very slightly to avoid collisions.
Another big difference is in approach. Whereas Planetary Resources intends to build and launch an army of small, low-cost satellites, conceived from scratch using cutting-edge technologies, B612 envisions a single spacecraft that inherits much of its design from previous space observatories like Spitzer Space Telescope and Kepler. Hubbard calls this approach "retirement of the risk," using proven technology to ensure that Sentinel will succeed .
(Don't confuse this concept with the European Space Agency's forthcoming Sentinel satellites, which will study Earth beginning next year.)
The mission approach shows that these guys have done their homework. First, Sentinel would have an elliptical, low-inclination orbit roughly at Venus's distance from the Sun, using a close flyby of that planet to get into place. From there, Reitsema explains, "We can look toward Earth in a dark sky." Moreover, Sentinel will circle the Sun in just 7 months and "lap" Earth every 2.2 years, permitting relatively rapid coverage of the entire sky.
Second, the B612 team plans to equip Sentinel with a 20-inch (0.5-m) telescope and a single detector array recording infrared light from 5 to 10.4 microns. This is key to its success. Asteroids vary in color from medium gray to coal-tar black, which can make them challenging to find in visible light and to estimate their diameters come in all kinds of shades of gray. But they all get warm as they near the Sun — thermally speaking, they literally glow in the dark. And, as Reitsema points out, any variations in surface reflectivity tend to even out in the infrared, which will make diameter estimates more reliable.
OK, I can't resist — here's some more technical detail: About the size of a small school bus, Sentinel will have plenty of shielding to protect it from the Sun's heat (roughly twice the intensity as here). Active cooling will keep its 24-million-pixel detector array chilled to about 40 K (–390°F). The scope's big field of view, 5½° by 2°, will allow it to cover the entire sky every 26 days. Multiple looks at each field means that discovered asteroids can be followed for up to three months — crucial to determining their orbits accurately.
Finally, while Sentinel stands to become the first privately funded interplanetary mission, the B612 Foundation will have some significant partners. Thanks to a Space Act Agreement signed just a few days ago, the space agency has agreed to provide experts to review plans for Sentinel and its mission, track and communicate with the spacecraft once its launched, and use its team of dynamicists to provide orbit calculations and threat assessment.
This all sounds great, but who's gonna pay for it? Lu says Sentinel itself will cost a few hundred million dollars to build, and it'll about that much in addition to pay for the launch vehicle (a SpaceX Falcon 9, as of now) and mission operations. Fundraising is under way, he says.
It makes you wonder why NASA hasn't conjured up a satellite like Sentinel. Well, it has, but it's competing with lots of other great mission proposals for limited dollars. The agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has proposed a mission called NEOCam, notes Lindley Johnson, who manages NASA's NEO efforts. The design looks much like the Sentinel concept (or vice versa), but it would operate closer to Earth, at the L1 Lagrange point.
Everyone's on the same page here. We'd all like to know the whereabouts of every threatening space rock out there, but NASA managers like Lindley accept that federal funding (and ground-based telescopes) can't do it all. The B612 Foundation, Lu says, is "dedicated to protecting the long-term future of our planet." That goal seems very reasonable to me.
By the way, the foundation has compiled a solid set of FAQs about B612 and the Sentinel mission.
Gregory E. Garcia
June 29, 2012 at 1:22 pm
I think it's a great Idea, you are right,eventually an asteroid will come close enough to the Earth, however a 5 year mission is not enough. Agreed, funds must be obtained for longer missions, idealy,it should be a permanent mission or different countries can establish a sequence to maintain the missions in space.
Thank you
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Peter Wilson
July 3, 2012 at 12:01 pm
Mankind faces a lot more threats from mankind than from space rocks. Although deflecting an asteroid would be many times easier, at least in principle, than taking on any number of man-made threats, I think we need to get our priorities in line with the actual danger. An asteroid impact is something that could happen. Already happening? Dwindling water and mineral resources, deforestation, fishery collapse, increasing tensions between race, religion and culture, unsustainable population growth, etc. If I knew how to fundraise several hundred million dollars, I would put it towards one of these immediate problems, and ignore the one-in-a-million odds of a major asteroid threat lurking sun-side of the Earth.
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The New Face of Reverse Mortgages
Published by Reuters
Reverse mortgages used to be the last recourse of the little old lady: A way for her to get money for household help and stay in her home until she died.
But now, baby boomers are sniffing around these backwards loans, looking for a way to pay off other debts and provide bridge funding for the early years of retirement. In a reverse mortgage, a lender pays money to a homeowner, but the homeowner has no monthly payments. The loan, plus interest, is repaid when the home is sold.
Almost half of the people now considering a reverse mortgage are under the age of 70, and 21% are ages 62 to 64, according to a new study by the MetLife Mature Market Institute and the National Council on Aging. The average age of borrowers is 73; in 1990 it was 76, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
MetLife hypothesizes that the increased demand from younger borrowers is a result of the punishing economy: Reverse mortgages don't require borrowers to have income or healthy credit scores because they don't make payments. But there's something else in play, too. As the Federal Housing Authority has issued more consumer-friendly standards and lower cost options for reverse mortgages, they are having some appeal to a broader demographic.
Americans 62 and older (that's the minimum age for qualifying for a reverse mortgage) have $3.19 trillion in home equity, according to the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association.
Surely among them are some young retirees who may want to stay in their homes for a few years, but not forever. By using a reverse mortgage for those few years, they can wipe out their existing regular mortgage, make home repairs, defer starting their Social Security benefits and more. Those are the kinds of strategies that experts see coming to the fore.
"In the future it is likely that tapping home equity will be viewed as part of the entire retirement planning process," said Barbara Stucki, vice president for home equity initiatives for NCOA. "It is likely the reverse mortgage option will be considered alongside some of the more traditional methods of saving and investment."
So, it's a strategy, but is it a smart one? Here are some considerations.
-- It can fill gaps. Ken Weingarten, a financial adviser from Lawrenceville, New Jersey, had one couple in their mid-60s take out a reverse mortgage so the 67-year-old husband could defer his Social Security benefit for three more years. He expects the couple, who had little savings, to pull no more than $60,000 out of their reverse mortgage. But that 3-year delay will increase the husband's permanent Social Security benefit by about 8% a year for each of the three years he defers, and that makes it worthwhile.
There's another way for a reverse mortgage to fill gaps. A couple who expects to downsize and live off the proceeds of their home sale in retirement can defer their move for a few years by pulling money from a reverse mortgage and paying it back when they sell the house.
-- It still isn't cheap. Even though FHA has created a lower cost reverse mortgage called a "saver" loan, closing costs can approach $20,000 or more on some reverse mortgages. And the interest rates run higher than they do for typical mortgages. Finally, because borrowers make no monthly payments, the balance on these loans actually grows as interest is assessed.
Here's an example from Norberto Maldonado, a Paramus, New Jersey, mortgage banker who acts as a broker for reverse loans: A couple of 66-year-olds with a $500,000 home and a $100,000 balance on a traditional mortgage could get $304,513 in a reverse mortgage. They would pay (after a rebate from his company) around $10,000 in closing costs. Their interest rate would be 5.06%, and after paying off their original loan and closing costs, they would receive $194,513. After one year, they would owe $321,000; after two years they would owe $341,000. After five years, they would owe $412,000, and after 10 years, $565,000. After 20 years? "They would owe about a million... it just keeps going up and up," he said.
-- These are no-recourse loans. That means that you won't owe the lender more than the sales price of the home, even if the loan eventually outstrips that. So if the couple above build a loan balance of $1 million and sell their house (at a fair market rate) for $700,000, it would be as if they got away with a free $300,000. That could theoretically offer a strategic opportunity for young borrowers, suggests David Hultstrom, a financial adviser from Woodstock, Georgia. But it would be risky.
-- You could keep it in the family. Joan Gagnon, a Mansfield, Massachusetts, financial adviser, once helped clients do an intrafamily reverse mortgage. The children, who (along with siblings) expect to inherit the home, loaned money to Mom so she could stay in it. Once she leaves and the home is sold, they will get their principal and interest back, first, and then the remaining value in the home would be divided among her heirs. If family members can afford this, it can be a much cheaper solution than a bank loan, says Gagnon. But siblings and parents should all agree, work with a lawyer to make sure the paperwork is done right, and know exactly what they are getting into.
-- Couples have to be careful. Sometimes a married couple will remove one partner from the home deed so the other can take out a reverse mortgage. That's not a good idea: If the borrowing spouse dies, the remaining spouse may be stuck with a balance due and no affordable way to repay it.
-- There goes the backup plan. Traditionally, reverse mortgages were viewed as last-ditch emergency funds. "People need to understand that if they tap their home equity at a young age, they may not have any left in 10 or 20 years, when they are facing a different kind of financial emergency," says Lori Trawinski, a reverse mortgage expert with AARP.


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Video: Event Innovators 2011: Who Do You Find Innovative?
For our first Innovation Issue, we set out to find the most innovative people in the event industry, the creative professionals at the forefront of how this business is changing. For our seventh and final video with our 2011 innovators, we turned the tables on some of the 68 people in the issue and asked them, "Who do you find innovative?"
The innovators in this video:
Dan Mathieu, co-owner, Max Ultimate Food, Boston
Marc Hall, principal, Marc Hall Design, Boston
David Michael Rich, senior vice president of strategy and planning/worldwide, George P. Johnson Experience Marketing, Boston
Bryan Rafanelli, founder, president, and C.E.O., Rafanelli Events, Boston
Marlo Fogelman, principal, Marlo Marketing/Communications, Boston
Barbara Lynch, chef and owner, Barbara Lynch Gruppo, Boston,
Dennis Remer, production designer and account representative, Frost, Chicago
Rita Gutekanst, co-owner, Limelight—Food Illuminated, Chicago
Bill Heffernan, creative director, Heffernan Morgan Ronsley, Chicago
Marina Birch, principal, Birch Design Studio, Chicago
Sean Canon, C.E.O., Event Creative, Chicago
Michelle Mahoney, director of worklife, Leo Burnett, Chicago
André Wells, owner, Events by André Wells, Washington
Eric Michael, owner and creative director, Occasions Caterers, Washington
Philip Dufour, principal, Dufour & Company Productions, Washington
Jayne Sandman, director, BrandLinkDC, Washington
David Solsbery, executive design director, Hargrove, Washington
Suzanne Goin, chef and owner, Lucques Catering, Los Angeles
Craig Waldman, owner, 15/40 Productions, Los Angeles
Carleen Cappelletti, president, Bounce-AEG, Los Angeles
Cara Kleinhaut, owner, Caravents Inc. Event Production & Design, Los Angeles and New York
Branden Chapman, vice president of production and process management, the Recording Academy, Los Angeles
Youngsong Martin, founder and chief designer, Wildflower Linen, Los Angeles
Pablo Oliveira, president, Nüage Designs, Miami and New York
Alain Perez, president, EventStar Structures Corporation, Miami
Javier Velarde, president and executive producer, Triton Productions, Miami
Karla Dascal, president, Karla Conceptual Event Experiences, Miami
Robert Wennett, president, UIA Management, Miami
Isabel Chattas, co-founder and C.O.O., Siinc Agency, Miami
Sandra Novas, co-founder and chief creative officer, Siinc Agency, Miami
Brian Aaron, president, Aaron's Catering, Miami
Bobby Taylor, owner, Taylor Creative Inc., New York
Jennifer Blumin, president, Skylight Group, New York
Liz Neumark, C.E.O. and founder, Great Performances, New York
Ira Levy, president, Levy Lighting, New York
David Stark, president and creative director, David Stark Design and Production, New York
Tom Webster, partner and creative director, Mother New York, New York
Jeffry Roick, director, McNabb Roick Events, Toronto
Lara McCullouch-Carter, chief brand storyteller, Ready2Spark, Toronto
Domenic Chiaromonte, owner and chef, T2 Resto-Lounge and Events, Toronto
Charles Khabouth, founder and C.E.O., INK Entertainment, Toronto
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My previous post titled An Ingenious Postman told an anecdote of a resourceful postman who was able to deliver a letter despite the ambiguity of the address. This post includes several more instances in which a postman was able to successfully deliver a letter even if the recipient's address was vague, illegible or partially wrong.
Didn't Know About the Address
Some letter senders have no idea about the exact address of the recipient so they settled on providing more — albeit vague — information that may help the postman.
A letter addressed to "My dear Ant Sue as lives in the Cottage" found its way to Aunt Sue, after some difficulties, who was living in a cottage near Lyndhurst.
It made me wonder how they were able to deliver this letter directed to
H. M. Steem Friegkt,
Vutur, Uncon or els ware,
to H. M. Steam Frigate Vulture in Hong Kong.
The letter addressed
was duly delivered to George Miller, on board the Amphitrite in Valparaiso.
The following was not only curious but praiseworthy as well:
An American man who went to England didn't know the current residence of his sister at the time so he addressed his letter to her previous residence:
Upper Norwood,
Or Elsewhere
Curiously, the post office was still able to deliver the letter to his sister. The man was surprised when he got a reply from his sister, who told him that she received the letter on the top of a stagecoach in Wales.
The man was both amazed and grateful to the post office for their ingenuity and dedication, he wrote, "[…] no other country can show the parallel, or would take the trouble at any cost."
Didn't Know the Name
Sometimes, the senders didn't include the name of the recipient either because they didn't think that it's necessary or they didn't know the name of the recipient. In these cases, they tried to give a description of the recipient's physical appearance or occupation.
This is for her that maks dresses for ladies, that livs at tother side of road to James Brocklip.
The fate of this letter was unknown:
Travelling Band, one of the four playing in the street.
Persha [Pershore], Worcestershire.
Please to find him if possible.
This letter's fate from Mrs. Gamp was also undetermined:
To E. E, a cook as lived tempery with a Mrs L, or some such a name, a shoemaker in Castle St. about No. — Hoburn in 1851; try to make this out. She is a Welsh person about 5 feet 1 — stoutish. Lives in service some ware in London or naboured. London.
Vague Addresses
In these examples, the senders were familiar with the address to a certain degree. However, they didn't know how to spell the addresses correctly. For instance, someone who wanted to send a letter to Scotland wrote "Stockling" and another wrote "10 S C" instead of Tennessee. But there are much worse examples, like spelling Ratcliffe Highway as "Ratlifhaivai" and "Ratlef Fieway", and High Wycombe as "Ivicum".
If you are a postman, you better know different spelling variations of several places in case someone messes up the spelling of the address. A couple of centuries ago, the Danish and Norwegian Consul of Ipswitch noted that "Ipswitch" had a large number of spelling variations in the addresses of letters he received from overseas. Thus, he decided to assiduously compile a list of all the incrorrect spellings of Ipswitch. There were 57 in total and here's some of them:
Ispovich, Ie yis wich, Ipsvikh, Vittspits, Ipsveten, Epsig, Elsfleth, Ixvig, Ibsvi, Hoispis, Ipsvitx, Iysuich, Ipswgs, Ipswitis
Some people addressed letters using shorthand which included numbers:
The letter addressed to,
23 Adne Edle Street, London,
was correctly delivered to 2 Threadneedle Street, London.
The address
John 7, Scotland
looked confusing at first glance, but the postman was able to duly deliver this letter to Johnshaven, a village in the North of Scotland.
Consider this letter which was addressed to
Mr. Weston
Osburn Cottage
This letter was meant to someone who lived in Osborne Cottage, Isle of Wight.
It's hard to think how
Mr. Dick
Bishop Cans
ner the Wises
received the letter as his place of residence was Devizes.
And this letter addressed
too dad Thomas
hat the ole oke
10 Bary. Fade
was successfully delivered to The Old Oak Orchard, Tenbury.
Other Curious Addresses
This one was rather ambiguous, but the postman was able to locate her:
To my sister Jean, Up the Canongate,
Down a Close, Edinburgh.
She has a wooden leg.
Some letter senders were too general in their descriptions. The post office may need to hire a psychic or two for these letters to be delivered:
To Mr. Michl
In the town of
This letter was probably written as a joke. Obviously, it wasn't delivered:
To the Britisher most Ashamed of his Country,
House of Commons,
Someone addressed a letter addressed to
The biggest fool in the world,
The post office endorsed the letter as:
"The Postmaster of Tunbridge cannot decide whom to deliver this
to, as he does not know the writer. Cannot find."
This one was written by a student in Salsbury:
To my Uncle Jon,
In London.
A letter together with a pair of spectacles had the following superscription:
My dear Father in Yorkshire at the white cottage with white pailings.
There are instances when the eyes are not enough to decipher an unclear address. In the following case, the postman also had to rely on his sense of hearing. A letter arrived in London addressed to
Mr Owl O'Neil,
General Post Office.
However, nobody in the post office knew someone with that name. A clerk kept repeating "Mr Owl O'Neil, Mr Owl O'Neil" aloud while looking at the letter. Another clerk who heard suddenly exclaimed, "Why! That must be intended for Mr. Rowland Hill." — which was correct.
Modern Examples
If you think that the digital age had already dulled the ingenuity of modern postmen, then think again.
In December 2016, Nicole Lally received a Chrismas card that didn't contain an exact address from her friend Amanda. The postman was clued that the letter should be sent "between between Ballinasloe and Galway". The letter was addressed to
Yer wan, her mother's from Castleblakeney but the daughter's an ex-townie, grew up in Athlone and moved to Ballymacward when she got married, lives next door to her in-laws now and has a rake of children, 7 dogs, 4 cats and about 30 hens and ducks, some rabbits and fish and I think she has a hamster as well.
Finally, the postman was given an additional hint, "She also has a shrine to the Virgin Mary at the left corner of her garden." Using all the information provided and his local knowledge, he managed to deliver the letter successfully.
In August 2016, a letter which contained a hand-drawn map of a remote corner of Iceland instead of a detailed address was promptly delivered to its proper recipient.
The sender addressed the letter to Iceland, identified the city as the village of Búðardalur, and named the recipient as "a horse farm with an Icelandic/Danish couple and three kids and a lot of sheep".
At the bottom right corner of the letter, the sender wrote that the letter's recipient was "the Danish woman [who] works in a supermarket in Búðardalur". The letter also depicted a map that pointed the direction to the house.
The map showed some roads and the bay of Hvammsfjörður. A red dot (with a boxed label "here") was used to indicate the location of the house. Fortunately, the postman succeeds in delivering the letter despite the circumstance.
Andrew Wynter, Curiosities of Toil and Other Papers, 1870
Charles Dickens, Jan Myrdal (trans.), Vardagsord: Tidningsmannen Dickens i urval av Jan Myrdal, 2011
Walter Thombury, Old and New London: A Narrative of its History, its People, and its Places Vol. 2, 1873
The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Vol. 9, 1869
Amazing Galway postman manages to deliver Christmas card addressed to 'Yer wan who lives next door to the in-laws with a rake of kids'
Letter with hand-drawn map and no address makes it to remote home in Iceland


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Seventh annual Crew Stadium fest set for May 17-19.
As explained in my feature earlier this year, behemoth rock festival Rock on the Range just keeps growing and growing. That expansion shows no signs of stopping; in 2013, the Crew Stadium-based fest will spread across three days for the first time. The seventh annual installment is set for May 17-19, 2013. (It should be noted that there was a Friday night pre-show last year with four bands; presumably this announcement means they'll be scheduling a full day's worth of entertainment with a full-fledged headliner on Friday this year.)
No word yet in regard to the lineup, but presale layaway tickets go on sale starting Cyber Monday, Nov. 26, with a four-ticket minimum. Camping packages are available starting Thursday, Nov. 29. Standard tickets go on sale in January. Find more info at the ROTR site.
Is this the year they get Soundgarden and/or Sabbath to headline? If so, count me in.


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Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Counter Culture Coffee Subscription
We're giving away a crazy good food item today on Serious Eats. Try your luck!
We're giving away plenty of meats and sweets in our Holiday Giveaways, but we had to include some coffee in the mix, too. How else are we supposed to stay awake for all this serious noshing? We're big fans of Counter Culture and are excited to give away this three-month coffee club subscription. Winners will enjoy one 12-ounce bag of two seasonal, fresh-roasted coffees delivered directly to the door for three months (two bags per month).
The coffee subscriptions might include single-origin coffees such as Finca Mauritania, La Golondrina, and the Good Food Award finalist Haru, as well as farmhouse, Counter Culture's new seasonal blend concept.
To enter to win: tell us how you take your coffee.
You have until 1 p.m. ET tomorrow (December 15) to enter. One winner will be chosen at random from among the commenters. Contest winners are limited to residents of the continental U.S. You can only win once during the duration of the Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway contest, and only enter once per giveaway post. The standard Serious Eats contest rules apply.


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|Aerial shot of Dolphin Research Center
Dolphin Research Center is all about stories. We love to share the stories about our family with guests, whether inside of the facility, at the grocery store, on a trip, or anywhere people will listen! Our stories began before DRC was even a facility. Dolphins have been living on our grounds since the 1940's, so as you can imagine there's a lot to talk about.
Many of our stories begin with the 1960's movie, Flipper. The man who initially started the grounds as a dolphinarium, Milton Santini, lived here with his favorite dolphin Mitzi. Being a beautiful dolphin, Mitzi became the face of the original Flipper. But a lot of people don't know that there were at least three dolphins that played Flipper!
As we stand in front of our large lagoon dedicated to the maternity pod that currently lived at DRC, and tell the account about Santini and Mitzi, people become entranced with our story. Then, as if on cue, Tursi jumps out of the water and screams almost as if to say "enough about Mitzi, it's time to talk about me!" The conversation quickly turns to Tursi, who is the product of a Flipper romance between two of Mitzi's stunt doubles, and her four offspring that live here as well. Depending on which dolphins are currently in view, or where you're standing on the causeway, the conversation branches out in a million different directions. Dolphin Research Center is a never ending book of anecdotes, which we love to share with anyone who will listen.
Then, the scoop turns to us. By us, I mean you and me. People often ask "How did you find out about DRC?", "What brought you here?", or "What did you study to get a job working with dolphins?" The misconception is that most people think that to have any possibility of working with marine mammals, we all must have studied Marine Biology. Interestingly enough, almost everyone at DRC has a different educational background. Ranging from Zoology to Communications to Psychology, everyone's background brings something unique to the DRC table.
So what brought us all here? Probably the same thing that brought you here; a love of marine mammals. Many have been in love with dolphins since they were a child. Some have always had a connection to marine mammals that branched out to interest in their intelligence, athleticism, and nature. Everyone's story is different, but the end result is that at some point we all chose to walk through DRC's doors and see what's on the other side.
Every day, we're honored to have new guests visiting Dolphin Research Center. Regardless of what brought you through our doors our hope is that you, as a one time visitor, will see what we see in our facility and become a member, and that you'll keep up with our family. Many of our one time visitors become members, then volunteers, then staff. They share the same enthusiasm for the dolphins as someone on their first visit.
We'd like to know how you, our readers, found out about DRC. What brought you here and why do you continue to stay updated with us?


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Prevention is better than cure . . . UltraWellness a new Paradigm shift
We all know that human body is complicated and consists of 90% of water content. It's a great challenge for all of us to be in better health. Dr. Mark Hyman shares some insights on better health without having any medicine and how we can achieve these.
He strongly feels that our eating habits determine our health. It's the root cause of all health problems. He talks about how we changed our eating habits over a period of time. Basically, he strongly condemns the food factory and medical doctors. He suggests that a simple food plan over 2-4 weeks can change your health and if you continue to follow these, you will feel better and healthy and get rid of aging.
UltraWellness is a new approach pioneered by Mark Hyman, M.D., that shows you how to work with the fundamental underlying laws by which your body operates to create optimal health. This is 21st-century medicine is finally available to everyone.
This new approach is based on the cutting edge science of systems biology and functional medicine. If put it simply, this means that UltraWellness works with your body as an integrated whole to achieve what conventional medicine cannot.
Here are the 7 keys to your UltraWellness. Try it and you will be amazed with its powers.
- How Your Environment Affects Your Health
- The Hidden Threat of Inflammation
- How to Balance Your Hormones to Control Your Mood, Weight and Health
- Why Your Digestive System is the Core of Good Health
- How to Rid Your Body of Deadly Poisions by Optimizing Your Detoxification System
- How to Boost Your Energy By Optimizing Your Mitochondria
- How to Improve Your Health by Optimizing your Body-Mind Connection
The process is relatively simple:
- first, identify which of your seven key underlying systems isn't working correctly;
- second, remove the sources that are causing problems with each one of those keys; and
- third, nourish each of these systems with what it needs to function optimally. Then, your body's natural intelligence takes over and automatically fixes your remaining problems.
Dr. Hyman has written several books (UltraMetabolism, The Ultra Thyroid Solution, The UltraMetabolism Cookbook, The Ultra Simple Diet, UltraPrevention) and many audio video programs. You can also visit http://www.ultrawellness.com/store to know about these.
UltraMetabolism is a simple plan of 8 week program for automatic weight reduction and optimal health. It consists of mix of recipes and natural way of achieving this. You can also search more UltraMetabolism recipes or join the community for more details.
UltraPrevention is a 6-week plan that will make you Healthy for life. In this book he talks about how to eliminate the five forces, which makes us sick. Also, talking about the principles for restoring and maintaining health. He speaks about underlying causes of sickness.
Some information and facts mentioned by Dr. Hyman are written below to raise your awareness and consciousness.
According to Dr. Hyman:
"The fact is that the human body is complicated. It has evolved over hundreds of thousands of years. There is no one magic bullet that will shoot down all your health issues."
"I believe, however, that once you stop falling for the myths of modern medicine and once you begin adopting the recommendations of Ultraprevention you will be on your way to a future of better health."
"Ultraprevention, is a new paradigm of well-being and a system of thought, evaluation, and treatment derived from the scientific study of health. This system is based on remarkable truths uncovered by researchers over the last few years. These truths provide tremendous insights into our health and give us a framework that not only explains but unites the processes of health and illness."
The five forces of illness are:
- Malnutrition or sludge
- Impaired Metabolism or burnout
- Inflammation or heat
- Impaired detoxification or waste
- Oxidative stress or rust
"I believe that every person who pays attention to these forces will enjoy better health. My program is not just about getting better when you feel ill – it is about staying better so you don't have to feel ill at all."
"Many doctors talk about early detection as the cornerstone of prevention. But true prevention has to start long before detection can occur. Why? Patients are not an ambulatory collection of separate organs and various conditions – everything in the body is related. Imbalances or dysfunctions in one system lead to added stresses in the other systems. When these stresses and imbalances tax the organ reserve symptoms and illness result. Remember the old children's song – the Thighbone is connected to the hipbone… No organism can exist in isolation, and neither can a body system. Most doctors don't try to put the clues together to form a big pictures – we do!"
Consider the person who has a heart attack — The heart attack didn't occur out of the blue. It was preceded by decades of plaque buildup caused by oxidation (rusting) of fats in the bloodstream, which became deposited in the wall of the artery, followed by activation of the immune system leading to inflammation (heat) in the wall of the artery and this was aggravated by malnutrition (sludge) and tipped over by the resulting stress on the detoxification (waste) system which finally made one of those plaques break open and rupture causing a clot to form that in turn caused your heart attack. There is a similar chain of events with all common illnesses. The beginnings of all these diseases are like the first in a long line of dominoes to fall in a reaction that may take years to complete eventually ending with the diagnosis of a preventable illness. We look for the very first domino and pick it up before it has a chance to fall. The human body can right itself, if given the chance to do so.
You can identify the illness if you conduct the test as per below parameters. Here are some answers to your queries if you have the above illness.
Test for Malnutrition:
- Homocysteine — Blood test. The Ideal level is less than 9
- Essential Fatty Acids — Blood test. Measured in the red blood cells (Test for Omega 3, 6, and other fatty acids directly)
- Red Blood cell mineral levels — Blood test. Test for the levels of Magnesium, Selenium, Iodine, Zinc and Copper.
- Methylmalonic Acid — Blood or Urine Test. High levels indicate a B12 deficiency.
- Stool analysis — determines digestion and absorption. This will identify if foods are not being broken down and digested properly, or not being absorbed.
Test for Impaired Metabolism:
- Urinary Organic Acids — By measuring acidic compounds in the urine provides a rich amount of information about nutritional aspects of cellular energy production.
- Cardiometabolic stress testing: Measuring oxygen consumption during exercise (VO2 Max) tests for your mitochondria's metabolic capacity.
- Insulin response test: Normal insulin values at two hours are less than 25 and a normal glucose level is less than 140.
- Lipid profile: Total cholesterol (LDL, HDL, triglycerides) A triglyceride level over 150 or a triglyceride to HDL ratio greater than 4.3 are highly suggestive of insulin resistance as is an HDL level of less than 40.
- TSH or Thyroid Stimulating Hormone — Blood Test. Normal Level is 0.3 to 3.5 with the optimal being 1.0-2.0.
- Free T3 and Free T4: Direct measurement of thyroid hormone in the blood in conjunction with the TSH level provides helpful information regarding thyroid function.
- Thyroid antibodies: This test can detect people at risk of developing hypothyroidism because these antibodies attack the thyroid gland.
- Resting metabolic rate. Clues us into the presence of an underactive thyroid gland.
Test for Inflammation:
- C-reactive protein – The high-sensitivity CRP (Normal levels 0.7 or less)
- Sedimentation rate (SED rate) High SED rates indicated inflammation (Normal values <20)
- Fibrinogen level — Blood Test: Fibrinogen is one of the chief constituents involved in clotting and is made by the liver. It rises in response to inflammation.
- Food Allergy blood tests: I measure the levels of antibodies (IgG, IgE) in the blood to a battery of different foods, potentially reactive foods.
- Gluten/Celiac disease — Blood Test: Specific tests check for gluten allergy and include the anti-gliadin antibody test and the tissue transglutaminase assay.
- Tests for Infections: Antibody tests (H. Pylori and Lyme disease), PCR tests and Cultures.
Test for Impaired Detoxification:
- Detoxification challenge test (Blood and Urine Test) Delayed or impaired detoxification in a specific area can point to nutritional deficiencies involved in detoxification or weak enzyme systems in the liver.
- Blood reduced Glutathione
- Hair analysis: A screening test for heavy metal toxicity (mercury, arsenic, lead, and cadmium)
- Urinary organic acids: Provides information about the body's ability to detoxify certain solvents as well as hormones and carcinogens.
Test for Oxidative stress:
- Lipid peroxides — Blood or Urine. Measuring the level provides and index of the body's antioxidant status.
- Superoxide dismutase (SOD), Gluathione peroxidase (GSHPx) and catalase. These are three of the most important natural anti-oxidant enzymes.
- Glutathione — Blood Test
- Urinary hydroxyl markers: Levels of free radicals such as catechol and 2,3-dihydroxybenzoate.
- Blood anti-oxidant levels. Vitamin A, Vitamin E, Co-enzyme Q10 and Beta Carotene
Why do we test for these?
Most doctors don't pay attention to any of these forces because they operated under this method — if it ain't broke don't fix it. The problem as I see it is that "it" may well be broken already. But most Doctors don't realize this because they wait until something is damaged almost beyond repair before they act.
Knowledge provide by these tests gives us the advantage over other Doctors — they give us lead time to prevent them from occurring.
It is up to you. One of the greatest changes taking place in our medical system is the empowerment of the patient. Everyone needs to become their own health advocate.
Dr. Mark Hyman M.D
Author of UltraPrevention and UltraMetabolism
Dr. Mark Hayman – A biography
Mark Hyman, M.D., is author of the New York Times bestseller The UltraSimple Diet, co-author of the New York Times bestseller Ultraprevention (Scribner), which won a Books for a Better Life Award, creator of The Detox Box, and author of The Five Forces of Wellness. There are nearly 1 million copies of Dr. Hyman's books in print in the U.S. His New York Times bestseller, UltraMetabolism: The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss, published in more than 12 languages, also hit The Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller lists and was the #1 health book on Amazon the year it was published. He is Editor-in-Chief of "Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine" and the Medical Editor of "Natural Solutions."
He has appeared on Weekend Today, Good Morning America Weekend, The Early Show, The View, and CNN, FOX, PBS, and NPR, as well as in leading consumer magazines including Body & Soul, Elle, Family Circle, Fitness, Glamour, Health, Men's Health, Natural Health, Parade, Self, Shape, Town & Country, and Woman's World. Hyman's website, www.ultrawellness.com, empowers health care consumers by enabling them to take advantage of the medicine of the future, today.


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LOS MOLINOS — A 5-year-old boy died in a three-vehicle crash that blocked Highway 99 in Los Molinos for several hours Wednesday afternoon.
Gunner Langenderfer, of Gerber, was killed and his mother, Katie Ramsey, 31, of Gerber, suffered major injuries when her black 1997 Nissan Maxima was rear-ended, pushing it into the path of an oncoming semi-truck, said officers with the California Highway Patrol.
Officers said the crash began when Tyler Burrone, 21, of Fort Jones, was driving his 2008 Ford pickup, which was hauling an empty horse trailer, south on Highway 99 behind Ramsey.
They said Ramsey slowed to make a left turn onto Sherwood Boulevard around 1:20 p.m., but Burrone reportedly didn"t see her stop. He braked but still hit Ramsey, sending her Maxima into the northbound lanes.
There, a 2003 Freightliner driven by Roderick Abbott, 56, of Medford, Ore., was heading north. Officers said he tried to veer out of Ramsey"s path but hit her and jackknifed his big rig.
The overturned semi blocked both directions of the highway, officers said. Ramsey"s vehicle caught fire but it was quickly extinguished.
Officers said the boy, Langenderfer, was pronounced dead at the wreck. His mother was flown to Enloe Medical Center in Chico with major injuries.
They said neither drugs nor alcohol nor distracted driving appear to have contributed to the crash.
The wreck blocked Highway 99, which was closed for a 10-mile stretch from Aramayo Way in Los Molinos to South Avenue in Vina until 5:47 p.m.
They said Burrone has not been charged, though he could face manslaughter without gross negligence charges.


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In watching the conclusion of the Harry Potter epic last weekend (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2), I was struck by a number of themes that have become visible during the 10-year evolution of the J.K. Rowling book-based movie series. As Scott Eblin of the Next Level Leadership blog has written a wonderful column on the servant-leadership ideas inherent in Harry's story, I'd like to reflect on leadership lessons visible in the making of the movies themselves.
Leadership Lessons
These leadership points stand out to me:
Hire for "talent" … then provide them with all the support they need
I wrote several months ago about the unique challenge of casting three 10-year old leads on whose shoulders would rest Continue reading


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Disgraced former Pakistan Captain Salman Butt and promising 19-year-old sensation, Mohammad Amir, lost their appeals yesterday when the Lord Chief Justice dismissed their claims of disproportionate sentencing in the Lord's spot fixing case.
On November 3, Pakistan's Butt, Amir and Mohammad Asif were convicted of spot fixing and sentenced to prison. Butt was given a 30 month sentence and Amir was charged to spend six months at a youth correctional facility. The bookie, Mazhar Majeed, was handed a sentence of 2 years and 8 months.
Asif, who is facing a one-year sentence, is also scheduled to appear. Balham Chambers, a London-based lawyer will be representing him. Unlike his fellow disgraced teammates though, Asif is appealing against the conviction itself.
The Incident
During the course of the fourth and final test match between England and Pakistan, at Lord's from 26-29 August, it was proved that Butt influenced Asif and Amir to bowl no-balls to signal to Majeed that 'everything was going according to plan'
Had he not been caught, Butt's pocket would have been ₤150,000 heavier.
Deadly Impact
Any illegal activity in sport is disastrous, let alone players accepting money to underperform. They represent their country when on the field. Is ₤150,000 enough justification to betray one's motherland?
At a time when the International Cricket Council (ICC) is looking to widen the reach of cricket around the globe, the poison of match fixing is the last thing they want. As seen by the misdemeanor of the Pakistani trio, something as small as a no-ball has caused widespread havoc: young talents ruined; old cases dug up; fingers pointed; administrations in uproar. Would someone new want to pursue a sport in such malady?
And what of the loyalists?
The thrill of watching a 'good game' is now diluted with persecuting doubts. 'Wait, this is too spectacular. Could it have been fixed? they wonder. 'Can I ever watch a game without being paranoid?'
But it is the players who are true to the game who bear the worst impact of match fixing.
They adhere to rigorous training, tackle overwhelming pressure and display inspiring human toughness to bring glory to their country. But instead of the recognition they deserve, their efforts are rubbished in one simple phrase: 'Oh, it's obviously been fixed!'
Change in attitude
Cricket is already suffering from a lack of fan involvement. People are starting to prefer the comfort of their homes to the excitement of the stadiums. Add in the needless Umpire Decision Referral System (UDRS) controversy and the ICC has more than enough on its plate already without having the bane of match fixing threatening to destroy the credibility of the sport.
Punishments and procedures can only go so far in curbing cricket's worst illness, as seen from previous cases (Salim Malik's life ban being removed, Marlon Samuels' light sentence). The incentive is on the players themselves to resist temptation and it isn't that hard. All one needs to do is remember the pride of wearing the national crest to spit in its face.
Wanting a little extra on the side doesn't give anyone the right to cheat.


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Anti-Malware.ru, an independent analytical organization that focuses on information security software, announces the publication of its latest annual report "Analysis of the Russian antivirus protection market 2007-2008"
The final figures for the Russian antivirus software market in 2008 amounted to$210 million, which represents an increase of 57% compared to the last year. Though the growth rate of the market becomes slower (94% last year), it remains rather high.
Kaspersky Lab continues to lead the Russian market, with sales of $98 million and a market share of 46.6% in 2008. This result was achieved primarily due to the success of the company in retail: last year Kaspersky Lab presented a new version of products for home users. Good results are also shown in SMB and government segments.
Eset got the second place with sales volume of $43 million and with a market share of 20.5%), due to the great results in retail that is approximately 50% of all their sales volume. Moreover, Eset continues to actively develop the partner system and to carry out an aggressive marketing policy.
The third position on the market is occupied by Symantec with sales volume of $31 million. Its market share decreased from 18.4% to 14.7% in 2008. The company received most of its profits from enterprise segment, but it wasn't successful in retail as Kaspersky Lab or Eset.
The market share of Trend Micro continues to decrease in 2008. The reason for that lies in internal problems of the company's exclusive distributor in Russia, and in a lowering of the attractiveness of the company's products for its partners. McAfee has the similar problems in Russia. The situation was about to change in 2008 — McAfee has opened an official representative office in Russia, but it has not still effected on the market.
Panda Security closes the list of the main players on the Russian antivirus market with the share of the market of approximately 1.5%. The share of this company is decreasing from year to year. The rest of the players have shares not exceeding the 1% barrier and therefore they are not included in the detailed analysis.
Overall, the top three companies (Kaspersky Lab, Eset and Symantec) together earned $172 million, accounting for 82% of total antivirus software sales in Russia. This fact points to a virtual monopoly of the market by those vendors, which push out of the market the other players.
It is expected, that the market growth will be much slower than it was during the last several years because of the global economic crisis in 2009 — it will hardly exceed 30%. The Anti-Malware Test Lab experts forecast that sales volumes of antivirus software will reach $270 million in Russia in 2009.
"In spite of the global economy recession, the antivirus market will continue to grow. We believe that antivirus software is one of the key IT services for any business and people don't save money on IT security even in tough economic times. Those vendors, who sell mostly to large enterprises, will be in much better position this year than companies focused on retail and SMB. In our opinion the IT security budgets in businesses will not be considerably cut this year, while consumers will tend to save on such things as software", said Sergey Ilyin, Managing partner of Anti-Malware.ru.
Anti-Malware.ru, an independent analytical organization that focuses on information security software, announces the publication of its latest annual report "Analysis of the Russian antivirus protection market 2007-2008".
The final figures for the Russian antivirus software market in 2007 amounted to $131 million, which represents an increase of 94% on 2006. The key factors behind this market growth are the continued development of the corporate sector and retail sales, an increase in the amount of state orders and a reduction in pirated software.
Comparative testing of 21 popular firewalls to check the quality of protection from attacks, coming from inside the system. In the test we checked the protection on 64 specially developed utilities, checking the protection of processes from quitting, protection from standard outbound attacks, protection from non-standard leaks and protection from non-standard techniques of penetration inside the kernel-mode.
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Use it in the car! Use it on the bus! Use it on the train! You can *even* use it on an airplane! So tells the creator of the SNAZZY NAPPER, a Snuggie/Burqa hybrid-breed for nappers.
Yes, civilization has progressed this far. Relish the moment. Watch the video. Then order the original Snazzy for just $14.99 plus postage, or the extra-large Snazzy for just $24.99 plus postage! Really, I'm surprised you're still reading this! [Snazzy Napper via Gawker TV via @katiesol]


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- 4 boneless, skinless chicken breast, about 6 ounces each
- Plastic wrap
- Salt
- Freshly ground black pepper
- 8 tablespoons butter, softened
- 1/4 cup chopped chives
- 1 lemon, juiced
- 1 cup flour
- 2 eggs, beaten with 1 tablespoon water
- 2 cups fine dried bread crumbs
- Oil, for frying
- 1 pound fresh asparagus, roasted and hot
- 1 tablespoon chopped chives
- 2 1/2 tablespoons paprika
- 2 tablespoons salt
- 2 tablespoons garlic powder
- 1 tablespoon black pepper
- 1 tablespoon onion powder
- 1 tablespoon cayenne pepper
- 1 tablespoon dried oregano
- 1 tablespoon dried thyme
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 3 tablespoons flour
- 2/3 cup ale
- 10 ounces extra sharp cheddar cheese, grated
- 1 teaspoon English mustard
- 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- 2 to 3 drops hot sauce
- Preheat the fryer.
- Place each breast between 2 sheets of plastic wrap. Using a meat mallet, pound each breast out very thin. Remove the top piece of plastic wrap from each breast. Season with salt, pepper, and Essence.
- Combine butter, chopped chives, and lemon juice. Cover the top of each breast with some of the butter mixture. Fold the 2 smaller ends of each breast in by 1-inch. Beginning with 1 of the long ends, roll each breast up tightly and secure with toothpicks.
- In 3 separate plates or bowls place the flour, beaten eggs, and bread crumbs and season each with Essence.
- Dredge the stuffed chicken in the flour, shaking off any excess. Dip each in the beaten egg, letting the excess drip off. Finally, dredge each rolled breast in the seasoned bread crumbs, coating completely.
- Remove the basket from the fryer and add the rolled chicken breast. Slowly lower the basket into the hot oil and fry until golden brown, about 8 minutes, turning occasionally for overall browning.
- Remove chicken when done and drain on paper towels. Season with Essence.
- To serve, slice each rolled breast into 1-inch pieces and lay in the center of each serving plate. Place the asparagus around the chicken. Spoon the sauce over the chicken. Garnish with chives.
- CREOLE SEASONING: Combine all ingredients thoroughly.
- Yield: 2/3 cup
- WELSH RAREBIT SAUCE: Melt the butter in a saucepan over low heat. Add the flour and whisk to make a roux. Cook for 2 to 3 minutes. Whisk in the ale and boil the mixture for 3 minutes while whisking. Reduce heat to low, add the Cheddar cheese, mustard, Worcestershire, and hot sauce.
- Cook, stirring, until hot but not boiling.
- Yield: 6 servings
Recipe Details
- Source: Emeril Live EM1D74
- Dish Type: Entree


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The Authentication Page of the Configuration Editor allows you to edit the server authentication settings.
It contains four sections : Supported Authentication Mechanisms , SASL Settings , SASL Quality Of Protection and SASL Realms .
Here's what the Authentication Page looks like:
This section allows you to specify the supported authentication mechanisms. You can choose between the following mechanisms:
This section allows you to specify to the SASL setting.
The SASL Host field represents the name of the host.
The SASL Principal field represents the service principal name that the server-side of the LDAP protocol provider will use to "accept" a GSSAPI context initiated by the LDAP client. The SASL principal MUST follow the name-form "ldap/[fqdn]@[realm]".
The Search Base DN field represents the Distinguished Name where a subtree-scoped DIT search will be performed. This is BOTH where the LDAP service principal must reside, as well as where user principals must reside.
This section allows you to specify the SASL quality of protection. You can choose between the following values:


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Have you ever had a really strong belief about something only to be proven wrong? There are so many things these days that if you base it on face value without doing your research, eventually you will be proven wrong.
Let me give you an example. You know how when you go to pick up your kids to school, you see moms in the carpool line or standing outside the school to pick up their kids. You look around and immediately peg them to be one way or another. You don't do it on purpose, but your mind tends to wander… "Look at her…totally high maintenance", "She has it all together… look at her with her perfect hair, well dressed kids and pda.", "She must be some kind of coffee addict… every time I see her she has a cup of coffee in her hand. How hard is it to walk two blocks to school without a cup of coffee?"
Several years ago, there was a lady I had seen around town. She was at church, at school, at neighborhood functions. For some reason, she and I never spoke. We'd brush past each other and say hi, but we never had the chance to talk or get to know each other. I just assumed, because she was always so aloof and quiet that she was a snob… too good to have anything to do with the rest of us.
Fast forward a couple of years and this woman and I got put in a task group together. I saw her walk in and immediately felt disappointed that we were going to have to work together. She sat down, turned to me and said, "I have seen you around here for the past few years and am so excited to finally get the chance to work with you and know you!" Ugh – did I feel like the biggest snot in the world or what? After I let my initial beliefs about her slide, we worked well together and now she is one of my best friends.
We miss out on a lot of great opportunities when we have preconceived notions and don't take the opportunity to really look into something or someone. Beer Bread was that way for me. Several years ago when beer bread became really popular, a friend of mind had some out at her house. I'm not a fan of beer at all and just assumed that because it was made of beer it would have a heavy beer taste. I passed on tasting it based only on my misconceptions.
Beer bread has a very slight yeasty taste… it is soft in the middle and has a gorgeous, buttery outer crust. The best part about it is this delicious loaf of bread can be on your table in about an hour. If you are a mom, you know how wonderful a bread recipe has to be if you can make it and have it ready by dinner time… even if you remember to make it at 5pm.
Put your misconceptions aside and give beer bread a try. Once you do, you will be sorry you didn't give it a chance earlier!
Beer Bread – Adapted from Recipezaar
- 3 cups flour (sifted)
- 3 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 (12 ounce) can beer
- 1/4 cup butter
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Mix dry ingredients and beer.
- Pour into a greased loaf pan.
- Pour melted butter over mixture.
- Bake 1 hour, remove from pan and cool for at least 15 minutes.
Beer Bread is so versatile too! Check out what these other food bloggers have done to make their beer bread unique:
- Beer Bread with Sharp Cheddar and Dill by Farmgirl Fare
- Rosemary Feta Beer Bread by Kitchenmage
- Apricot Beer Bread from Baking Bites
- Italian Cheddar Beer Bread from Just Baking


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Banana Republic debuts third 'Mad Men' collection
Banana Republic is taking the 1960s from television to the stores.
Later this month, it will debut a third Banana Republic "Mad Men" collection in partnership with AMC because the Fall 2011 and Spring 2012 lines were widely received. The collection takes inspiration from the costumes featured in the popular show.
Shoppers can find bold prints, bright colors and new silhouettes in the '60s-inspired collection for both men and women. Prices range from $29.50 to $375 for apparel and accessories.
Distinct women's pieces include a shift dress with a shorter hemline, which was very popular during that time, and accessories like a mirrored heel shoe and geometric jewelry. The menswear collection includes tailored pieces, like suits and skinny ties.
The collection will be available at select Banana Republic retail locations and online starting Feb. 27, 2013.
The Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning series will be returning for its sixth season starting April 7.


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Through meditation to ancient music, that will stimulate your primal nature,focusing on your chakras you will begin your process. I am here to support you and in a safe environment I will facilitate your session by utilizing healing techniques with guidance from Spirit.
The sessions will be designed exclusively for you. Drawing from intuition, and ancient wisdom, guided visualization , meditation, toning, messages from spirit, movement/dancing,drumming,chakra clearing and Reiki healing.
When you release blocked energy from past wounds and patterns that no longer serve you, you will experience freedom, you will align with flow and create space for new energy and a joyful life. You will be the conductor of your life's orchestra and will dance to your life's symphony. You will access and integrate in your spiritual journey many aspects of yourself that are not resonating with your higher self. You will awaken your true essence and connect with your true life's purpose.
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Website: http://tennisopolis.com/group/sandiegotenniskeepyoureyeontheball
Location: san diego, ca
Members: 92
Latest Activity: Sep 15
Started by Faizan Masood. Last reply by gabriel meza Nov 23, 2015. 2 Replies 0 Likes
Hi everyone! I am looking to shake the tennis rust off and find a good hitting partner. :] I'm between 3.0 and 3.5 but with some good, consistent hitting, I'm sure I can progress quite nicely. I love the challenge and strive to always do better.
tennis anyone?? i am around 4.0..
Hi...I just moved back to San Diego after living up in L.A. for the past year. I've been playing in a flex league up there but want to just get some playing in now that I'm back in town. Flexible on what courts to play at although Balboa is closest to me. I've been in the 4.5 league but playing with anyone that's in the 3.5-5.0 range would be great! I work for myself so can play day or night, any day of the week. Hitting or playing matches are both fine. Thanks, Eric
I moved from Chicago about one year ago. I played a lot in high school, college and after college. I need to get exercising again as life and work has interfered with my tennis. I am a 4.0 player and live in Carmel Valley area and have access to a free court. Sat. or Sunday preferred.
New 3.5ish to Mission Valley area, would like to rally/doubles/singles in that order, M-W after 6:00 p.m. Please let me know if you need a hitting partner.
Hello Ruth,
My name is Larry, and I also live in the Chula Vista area. I am available on Saturday, after 9 am. On Sunday, I can play in the afternoon. I can play on weekdays after 6 pm. I am flexible. Singles or doubles, it doesn't matter. Just let me know. Thank you.
Hi, played in high school and loved the sport ever since. I am in the Chula Vista area but will make exception to furthest Mission Bay. I am looking for a hitting partner as well. Sat & Sun available after 9am, Weekdays maybe's after 6.
Hey everyone. I just getting back into tennis after a two year break....that damn thing called work. Anyone interested in playing? i'm available most evenings and some weekends....i'm a RUSTY 4./4.5. let me know. i live in the mission valley area...
My name is Larry, and I am looking for someone to play tennis with. I am between a 3.0 and 3.5, depending on what kind of day I am having. During the summer I can play anytime. Singles, doubles, or mixed doubles; I like to play them all. Please let me know. Thank you.
Aloha! I am a beginner (in my 3rd month of lessons) and would love to find a weekly regular hitting partner, preferably Mon, Tues, or Fri; I have a flexible schedule. I am a good sport and just happy to finally be learning how to play after wanting to for forever! I hope to improve enough to join a league in the fall. Anyone available? :)
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24 workers at an Amazon warehouse in New Jersey were taken to the hospital after a robot accidentally tore open a can of bear repellant. Other workers at the facility were treated onsite and relocated to a different part of the warehouse. All the workers who were taken to the hospital were expected to be released within 24 hours.
Officials said that a nine ounce can of bear repellant, which contains a highly concentrated form of capsaicin, the active ingredient in pepper spray, fell off a shelf and was punctured by a robot, sending the chemical into the air. The 1.3 million square foot warehouse had to be ventilated following the incident, and officials said that nearby residents were not at risk.
Amazon released a statement saying that "the safety of our employees is our top priority."
"Today at our Robbinsville fulfillment center, a damaged aerosol can dispensed strong fumes in a contained area of the facility. The safety of our employees is our top priority, and as such, all employees in that area have been relocated to safe place and employees experiencing symptoms are being treated onsite. As a precaution, some employees have been transported to local hospitals for evaluation and treatment."
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text: Celebrating Victories 02/27/2020 Andrew Reinholdt is a 2019 National Challenge finalist and member at Farrell's Peoria, Illinois. Andrew's story is truly inspiring and we are honored to have him as part of our Farrell's family. Congratulations, Andrew! The Diagnosis My Farrell's journey began during the summer of 2018, but it took years – four years – to overcome a rare form of cancer to get there finally. My only regret is not starting my fitness journey sooner. My health decline and weight gain began in late 2013. I started experiencing severe stomach pains and figured it was just a case of the stomach flu. During the next few years, the pain came and went, progressively getting worse. I lost a large amount of weight from constantly being sick. After years of countless doctor appointments, it was finally determined that I had a blockage in my small intestines. A biopsy discovered that the cause of my pain was neuroendocrine carcinoma, and my surgery was scheduled for May of 2017. During surgery, they found 37 tumors and removed 17 inches of my small intestine. My appendix was also deformed from the tumors. After healing from surgery, I finally could eat without experiencing pain for the first time in years. Because of this, I just started eating, and my weight quickly climbed. Time To Make A Change When my weight peaked at 277 pounds, I decided it was time to lose the extra weight. I'd considered joining Farrell's for a few years, but I always had an excuse as to why I shouldn't. I was too busy. I didn't have the time. I didn't want to spend the money. But in the summer of 2018, my family gifted me a Farrell's 10-Week Challenge membership for my birthday. At first, the workouts were hard. I could not understand why people worked out for fun! I dreaded the cardio kickboxing workouts but looked forward to the slower-pace resistance band days. But after a few weeks, I started to make it through the workouts more easily! Within five weeks, I lost 27 pounds and running one-mile in just over 11 minutes – a big difference from my first one-mile run, which took me 18 minutes! By the end of my 10-Week Challenge, I was shocked by the results. I had lost a total of 45 pounds and ran a 9:23 minute mile. I won the $1,000 10-Week Challenge prize and signed up for the National Challenge! From Setback to VICTORY Summer turned to fall, then winter, and I continued to work out every day. My workouts were going great! But after a December scan, my doctor discovered my cancer had returned. I had two new spots on my intestines and one in my colon. I was discouraged because I finally started getting healthy, and my cancer came back. I almost quit Farrell's. I felt defeated. After all, what good did it do me to get healthy? But I got out of my head and decided that I needed to become a Farrell's coach. Helping others would help me stay motivated. Coaching was what I needed to stay the course. I think that to be a good coach; you must practice what you preach. I always chat and joke around with my fellow Farrell's members because I want to make them comfortable. I understand first-hand that change can be very hard and terrifying. Now, every day I look forward to coming to Farrell's, giving it my all, and having fun while doing it. The crazy part is that if I miss one class, my whole week is off! A Bright Future Ahead I am trying to celebrate all of the victories, both inside the gym and outside. I am finally able to play baseball and basketball with my kids. This summer we went to the beach and I took off my shirt – this was a huge victory for me! On the scale, I also just hit a huge milestone and reached my 100 pounds lost mark. Moving forward, my goal is to stay fit and follow healthy nutrition. I participate in all of the challenges at my local Farrell's gym, and was just named the 2019 8-Week Elite FIT Champion for the Central Illinois locations! I also just coached my third 10-Week Challenge, but I am ready to get out of my comfort zone again. I plan on becoming a Farrell's instructor and overcoming my apprehension of talking in front of a group of people. In my mind, by doing this and coaching, I stay accountable. I cannot thank my family, friends, and my Farrell's family for all of the support and motivation throughout this past year. I would never have accomplished what I did without all of your encouragement and motivating me to achieve my Level 10 every day! Back to Blog


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A truly special teacher is very wise,
and sees tomorrow in every child's eyes.
~Author Unknown
Do you remember your favorite teacher from grade school, high school, or even college? Can you give credit to a teacher who influenced you or your child…or one who helped you or your children discover new directions and paths in your lives? If you can, then you know that teachers deserve more recognition and appreciation than they ever receive. After all, teachers help shape the people who shape the world.
Getting Involved
May 7th is National Teachers Day and it occurs on the Tuesday of Teacher Appreciation week. It's the perfect time to give back to special teachers in your life. In addition to sending a card or a kind note, you might consider one or more of the following throughout the school year:
- Consider supporting an import classroom project or goal
- Volunteer your time
- Donate to a cause the school or teacher supports
- Participate in or support bake sales and school fundraisers
- If you have kids in school, keep them engaged in their studies
and their classroom activities
- Attend open houses and teacher-parent conferences
- Help pass school levies. They're not just good for the schools
and the teachers, they're good for the community as well
- Offer to help with classroom basics
Your Support
When you give your support, teachers don't feel alone in their endeavors to help our children. Nor will they have to personally take on all the burden of paying for children who can't afford lunch or those who don't have enough money for a gym suit. Teachers spend nearly $1.5 billion annually of their own money on school supplies, covering the basics so that every child has the same opportunity to learn and grow. Statistically, 91% of teachers buy basic school supplies for their classrooms!
Teachers Are Heroes
Teachers do a heroic job of stimulating kids to think on their own…helping them to achieve a sense of satisfaction in a job well done, and cultivating and nurturing the dreams of the students who will lead us into tomorrow. Children may only be one-third of our population today, but they are one hundred percent of our future. Teachers give these children, and us, a chance to strive for a better tomorrow and a stronger humanity.
A Big Thank You
National Teachers Day is an opportunity for you and your kids to thank the ones who taught you to love certain subjects, to help you think for yourself, and to become the person you were meant to be. After all, a teacher made it possible for you to read this blog today. Thanks to teachers everywhere! We honor and appreciate them!