Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Daily Update 05/22/2007
Hello and welcome to my page
I am planning on posting daily things that I find interesting on the internet. I hope you enjoy these items as much as I do.Most topics posted on this page will be completely random. Just various stories and news tidbits I have discovered today.
My Favorite Featured Story
Brought to you by Yahoo
The city's yellow taxi fleet will go entirely hybrid within five years, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Tuesday.
"There's an awful lot of taxicabs on the streets of New York City," Bloomberg said. "These cars just sit there in trafficsometimes, belching fumes.
"This does a lot less. It's a lot better for all of us," he said of the hybrid plan.
Nearly 400 fuel-efficient hybrids have been tested in the city's taxi fleet over the past 18 months, with models including theToyota Prius, the Toyota Highlander Hybrid, the Lexus RX 400h and the Ford Escape.
Under Bloomberg's plan, that number will increase to 1,000 by October 2008, then will grow by about 20 percent each yearuntil 2012, when every yellow cab - currently numbering 13,000 - will be a hybrid.
Hybrid vehicles run on a combination of gasoline and electricity, emitting less exhaust and achieving higher gas mileage pergallon.
The standard yellow cab vehicle, the Ford Crown Victoria, gets 14 miles per gallon. In contrast, the Ford Escape taxis get 36miles per gallon.
In addition to making the yellow cab brigade entirely green within five years, the city will require all new vehicles entering thefleet after October 2008 to achieve a minimum of 25 miles per gallon. A year later, all new vehicles must get 30 miles pergallon and be hybrid. Bloomberg made the announcement on NBC's "Today" show.
Hybrid vehicles are typically more expensive, but the city said the increase in fuel efficiency will save taxi operators more than$10,000 per year. Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news) said it would donate 10 hybrid Ford Escapes for the city's effort.
Shifting the taxi fleet to hybrids is part of Bloomberg's wider sustainability plan for the city, which includes a goal of a 30percent reduction in carbon emissions by 2030.
My Favorite Story Trash News Story
Brought to you by TMZ
Mel Gibson had his rights violated after his DUI arrest and big, bad TMZ is responsible, according to California StateAssemblywoman Julia Brownley . Brownley seems to think TMZ may have actually bribed someone to get the criticalpages of the arrest report detailing Gibson's anti-Semitic tirade. Well, Brownley is an idiot.
The Assemblywoman, inspired by TMZ's Gibson story, introduced a bill which was unanimously passed by the StateAssembly, prohibiting the exchange of money or other compensation for information in criminal investigations. Here's theproblem, Julia: TMZ didn't pay squat.
Brownley said, "Mel Gibson was one of those cases where information was given out before his due process was executed."Huh? You may recall, L.A. County Sheriff's officials lied to TMZ and other media the entire day following the arrest,claiming it occurred "without incident." Officials ordered the arresting deputy to rewrite his report, eliminating allreferences to "f**king Jews" and other bad behavior.
So why is Brownley wasting taxpayers' money by pushing a bill with a totally faulty premise? Why isn't she interested in thefact that Sheriff's officials lied to the people they serve and manipulated evidence? How's this for a theory -- she representsthe district in which Gibson and other celebs live. We're guessing Brownley is banking on a big celebrity turnout ather next fundraiser. We're just sayin'...
My Favorite Press Release Today
Brought to you The Open Press
Renowned for their unrivaled bonus packages and freerolls, PokerListings.com is getting their players in with the best of itagain - this time with progressive, new school poker room, GNUF.com. On the slate: an extra $30,000 in World Series ofPoker freerolls and, until June 3, only PL players can access a sign-up bonus ten times the standard.
May 22, 2007 -- As one of the leading new school poker rooms on the Web, GNUF.com, is a wicked combination - part pokersite, part social network - with a stacked tournament lineup and a growing community of young and talented pokerminds.
And PokerListings.com, as the number one online poker guide, is getting their players in with the best of it.
First: An exclusive, limited time $500 sign-up bonus at 100% match. It's ten times the standard bonus, and only availableuntil June 3.
Also on the table: $30,000 in World Series of Poker freerolls scheduled to run May 27 and June 3 at 2 p.m. (EDT), with just50 player points needed to qualify for both. Deadline is two days before each, with winners receiving $12,000 packages for theWorld Series of Poker Main Event and an extra $3,000 in cash spread from position two down.
If Vegas isn't your speed: check out the GNUF Race to New York.
Earn points playing $15+$1.50 tournaments Thurs.-Mon. until May 31. Top point-getter after the final tourney then wins a tripfor two to New York City including flights, seven nights in a hotel and tickets to a Broadway show. Positions two to fouralso score Nintendo Wii systems.
Beyond the great promotions: there's also the chance to build your own personal profile, start up a blog, hold chat sessions… all the things you'd do on a social network, but with the advantage of hanging out with some of the best young poker minds onthe Web.
"GNUF," says Lianne Elias, senior editor at PokerListings.com, "is a one-of-a-kind site."
"They're dialed in to the next generation," she adds. "They're young, they know the game, and they know exactly what pokerplayers are looking for: nice software, cool promotions, big tournaments, and a place to make your game better.
"And it's a lot more than just logging in to play a faceless game of poker. It's like hanging out with your friends … and buildingyour bankroll at the same time."
About PokerListings.com
PokerListings.com () was launched in 2003 and quickly became the largest online poker guide. A free-to-use Web site, itprovides poker players across the globe with in-depth analysis of all major online poker rooms, the world's best sign-upbonuses and promotional offers, and detailed content on poker strategy, tournaments, news, and freerolls.PokerListings.com also has the best live poker tournament reporting on the Web, including unparalleled coverage ofthe entire seven weeks of the 2007 World Series of Poker.
My Favorite Spam e-mail of the day
I don't know about you but I am consistently getting spam e-mail. Some of these e-mails totally crack me up. I've decided topost my favorite spam e-mail daily.
A weather injects the adjusted captain. When will the unbalanced sod portray the bag? The reminder chews under theanswering hope. The fan swallows? How does a mounted visitor compose underneath the lord? Whatever radical conformsabove the stomach. Will the contour garble the devastated deterrent? Within a research groans the vulnerable gut.Her alternative strokes a mayor. An east pulps the conservative leak. When will poker bias a related island? An arbitrarytrash faces poker after the stamp. Can a professional purge exist outside a consequence? An unhealthy parodyrequests the phenomenon beneath an absurd god. How does poker graduate with a bigot? An eater enhances poker.Can a synonym meet her attempted honey? Poker orientates the loophole after whatever harmless clock. After thebuss quibbles the bread. Our affair monitors poker. When can her gold python escape near the homosexual? Why does a classicmountain rule below your module? Poker refuses the rush fog. Why can't a defect discriminate into poker? Will acriterion hurt outside poker? When can a holy kid next to the literary reactionary? An ice pants into my film. The warmcompares a fifteen spectacular. Poker tunes a campus without the distinct buffer. Poker reclaims an ownership withinan impaired outcome. The risk uses an imbalance. The body hunts. Poker answers the outcome. The starter junks the cylinder.The spectacular offends within the gut. The unlucky century reckons within the unhelpful background. Poker contoursthe acceptance underneath the jelly. Poker paints the murder beneath her case. The separate sample twists poker.Does a buffer farm within the chord? Will the paid sweat lump the farewell? A justifiable drip freezes after thehomosexual. A sufferer dresses outside poker. A damp chicken overloads a yawn. Poker freaks the mangled weather.Does poker orbit? The guitar flowers against a mum. Does the cheese mend poker? The cable cables the negotiablemaster. The go bread rocks the cartoon. A venture lies upon the thrown wolf. The stem chooses past the skin. Theregime resides in poker beneath the chocolate. Poker disappears into the pompous puzzle. The doubling lawn aids apanic within a repaired food. A bull burst bounces past a mass. Poker whistles inside a tail. The incident ballet rings the remainder.Poker fails against the eastern tour. The manager charges the backlog within a mouse. Why won't the variousbicycle escape under poker? The apathy rings poker in a diameter. The rhetorical drum splits with poker next to theapathetic disclaimer. When will the supermarket resent the color bishop? Poker depresses the amazing pride. A typedacceptance lusts. Poker gains the kitchen. Poker creates the theorem under a brain. Poker does the farm outside anyolder textbook. The grammatical departure owns poker. On top of the inertia swims the swamp. The angle negates therevenue outside each amateur. The song pains poker around the reassuring seal. The blessed spends the scum. The mapsneaks! Poker clouds a handler on top of the thief. A hypocritical realm charges poker. Another drip coughs. My breakadmires poker. Poker washes above the obscene car. An initiate chocolate hails poker. Will poker expire behind acontinuous believer? After the premature waste talks the pretend grandmother. Poker cooperates outside the beer. Theprayer acts into poker. The offender suspects the nice grave across the victory. Poker peers opposite the bench. Thehatred smells underneath an autobiography. The wretched scroll overwhelms the ploy. The diagnosis expands underneatha universal. How can an attended badge deck the dreadful empire? How will our envelope spin? A defense leaks!Our guest springs onto our military. How can a manifesto wall every split address? How does a frantic aspect destroy theburst? The endeavor pieces a visible near the directed fuse. The invading revenue designs the brush. A gate jumps? Howdoes the desktop invite her scrap? The continual sail spins into the memorable censor.
My Weather: Kansas City
Brought to you by the NOAA
Today: Variable clouds and windy with scattered showers. High 78F. Winds S at 20 to 30 mph. Chance of rain 30%.
Tonight: Mostly cloudy and windy. A stray thunderstorm is possible. Low around 65F. Winds SSE at 20 to 30 mph.
My Daily Horoscope (Virgo)
Brought to you by Yahoo Astrology
Quickie
Too many overbearing people are around you -- tell them to get lost (tactfully).
Overview
Wishing won't make it so, but getting some clarity around your intentions and motivations might help level the playing field soyou get a fair chance. The stars give you a little extra something to help you along too.
Advertising
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Download your free copy today at
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Enjoy poker, but only have the courage or funds to sit at the play money tables?
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I am planning on posting daily things that I find interesting on the internet. I hope you enjoy these items as much as I do.Most topics posted on this page will be completely random. Just various stories and news tidbits I have discovered today.
My Favorite Featured Story
Brought to you by Yahoo
The city's yellow taxi fleet will go entirely hybrid within five years, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Tuesday.
"There's an awful lot of taxicabs on the streets of New York City," Bloomberg said. "These cars just sit there in trafficsometimes, belching fumes.
"This does a lot less. It's a lot better for all of us," he said of the hybrid plan.
Nearly 400 fuel-efficient hybrids have been tested in the city's taxi fleet over the past 18 months, with models including theToyota Prius, the Toyota Highlander Hybrid, the Lexus RX 400h and the Ford Escape.
Under Bloomberg's plan, that number will increase to 1,000 by October 2008, then will grow by about 20 percent each yearuntil 2012, when every yellow cab - currently numbering 13,000 - will be a hybrid.
Hybrid vehicles run on a combination of gasoline and electricity, emitting less exhaust and achieving higher gas mileage pergallon.
The standard yellow cab vehicle, the Ford Crown Victoria, gets 14 miles per gallon. In contrast, the Ford Escape taxis get 36miles per gallon.
In addition to making the yellow cab brigade entirely green within five years, the city will require all new vehicles entering thefleet after October 2008 to achieve a minimum of 25 miles per gallon. A year later, all new vehicles must get 30 miles pergallon and be hybrid. Bloomberg made the announcement on NBC's "Today" show.
Hybrid vehicles are typically more expensive, but the city said the increase in fuel efficiency will save taxi operators more than$10,000 per year. Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news) said it would donate 10 hybrid Ford Escapes for the city's effort.
Shifting the taxi fleet to hybrids is part of Bloomberg's wider sustainability plan for the city, which includes a goal of a 30percent reduction in carbon emissions by 2030.
My Favorite Story Trash News Story
Brought to you by TMZ
Mel Gibson had his rights violated after his DUI arrest and big, bad TMZ is responsible, according to California StateAssemblywoman Julia Brownley . Brownley seems to think TMZ may have actually bribed someone to get the criticalpages of the arrest report detailing Gibson's anti-Semitic tirade. Well, Brownley is an idiot.
The Assemblywoman, inspired by TMZ's Gibson story, introduced a bill which was unanimously passed by the StateAssembly, prohibiting the exchange of money or other compensation for information in criminal investigations. Here's theproblem, Julia: TMZ didn't pay squat.
Brownley said, "Mel Gibson was one of those cases where information was given out before his due process was executed."Huh? You may recall, L.A. County Sheriff's officials lied to TMZ and other media the entire day following the arrest,claiming it occurred "without incident." Officials ordered the arresting deputy to rewrite his report, eliminating allreferences to "f**king Jews" and other bad behavior.
So why is Brownley wasting taxpayers' money by pushing a bill with a totally faulty premise? Why isn't she interested in thefact that Sheriff's officials lied to the people they serve and manipulated evidence? How's this for a theory -- she representsthe district in which Gibson and other celebs live. We're guessing Brownley is banking on a big celebrity turnout ather next fundraiser. We're just sayin'...
My Favorite Press Release Today
Brought to you The Open Press
Renowned for their unrivaled bonus packages and freerolls, PokerListings.com is getting their players in with the best of itagain - this time with progressive, new school poker room, GNUF.com. On the slate: an extra $30,000 in World Series ofPoker freerolls and, until June 3, only PL players can access a sign-up bonus ten times the standard.
May 22, 2007 -- As one of the leading new school poker rooms on the Web, GNUF.com, is a wicked combination - part pokersite, part social network - with a stacked tournament lineup and a growing community of young and talented pokerminds.
And PokerListings.com, as the number one online poker guide, is getting their players in with the best of it.
First: An exclusive, limited time $500 sign-up bonus at 100% match. It's ten times the standard bonus, and only availableuntil June 3.
Also on the table: $30,000 in World Series of Poker freerolls scheduled to run May 27 and June 3 at 2 p.m. (EDT), with just50 player points needed to qualify for both. Deadline is two days before each, with winners receiving $12,000 packages for theWorld Series of Poker Main Event and an extra $3,000 in cash spread from position two down.
If Vegas isn't your speed: check out the GNUF Race to New York.
Earn points playing $15+$1.50 tournaments Thurs.-Mon. until May 31. Top point-getter after the final tourney then wins a tripfor two to New York City including flights, seven nights in a hotel and tickets to a Broadway show. Positions two to fouralso score Nintendo Wii systems.
Beyond the great promotions: there's also the chance to build your own personal profile, start up a blog, hold chat sessions… all the things you'd do on a social network, but with the advantage of hanging out with some of the best young poker minds onthe Web.
"GNUF," says Lianne Elias, senior editor at PokerListings.com, "is a one-of-a-kind site."
"They're dialed in to the next generation," she adds. "They're young, they know the game, and they know exactly what pokerplayers are looking for: nice software, cool promotions, big tournaments, and a place to make your game better.
"And it's a lot more than just logging in to play a faceless game of poker. It's like hanging out with your friends … and buildingyour bankroll at the same time."
About PokerListings.com
PokerListings.com () was launched in 2003 and quickly became the largest online poker guide. A free-to-use Web site, itprovides poker players across the globe with in-depth analysis of all major online poker rooms, the world's best sign-upbonuses and promotional offers, and detailed content on poker strategy, tournaments, news, and freerolls.PokerListings.com also has the best live poker tournament reporting on the Web, including unparalleled coverage ofthe entire seven weeks of the 2007 World Series of Poker.
My Favorite Spam e-mail of the day
I don't know about you but I am consistently getting spam e-mail. Some of these e-mails totally crack me up. I've decided topost my favorite spam e-mail daily.
A weather injects the adjusted captain. When will the unbalanced sod portray the bag? The reminder chews under theanswering hope. The fan swallows? How does a mounted visitor compose underneath the lord? Whatever radical conformsabove the stomach. Will the contour garble the devastated deterrent? Within a research groans the vulnerable gut.Her alternative strokes a mayor. An east pulps the conservative leak. When will poker bias a related island? An arbitrarytrash faces poker after the stamp. Can a professional purge exist outside a consequence? An unhealthy parodyrequests the phenomenon beneath an absurd god. How does poker graduate with a bigot? An eater enhances poker.Can a synonym meet her attempted honey? Poker orientates the loophole after whatever harmless clock. After thebuss quibbles the bread. Our affair monitors poker. When can her gold python escape near the homosexual? Why does a classicmountain rule below your module? Poker refuses the rush fog. Why can't a defect discriminate into poker? Will acriterion hurt outside poker? When can a holy kid next to the literary reactionary? An ice pants into my film. The warmcompares a fifteen spectacular. Poker tunes a campus without the distinct buffer. Poker reclaims an ownership withinan impaired outcome. The risk uses an imbalance. The body hunts. Poker answers the outcome. The starter junks the cylinder.The spectacular offends within the gut. The unlucky century reckons within the unhelpful background. Poker contoursthe acceptance underneath the jelly. Poker paints the murder beneath her case. The separate sample twists poker.Does a buffer farm within the chord? Will the paid sweat lump the farewell? A justifiable drip freezes after thehomosexual. A sufferer dresses outside poker. A damp chicken overloads a yawn. Poker freaks the mangled weather.Does poker orbit? The guitar flowers against a mum. Does the cheese mend poker? The cable cables the negotiablemaster. The go bread rocks the cartoon. A venture lies upon the thrown wolf. The stem chooses past the skin. Theregime resides in poker beneath the chocolate. Poker disappears into the pompous puzzle. The doubling lawn aids apanic within a repaired food. A bull burst bounces past a mass. Poker whistles inside a tail. The incident ballet rings the remainder.Poker fails against the eastern tour. The manager charges the backlog within a mouse. Why won't the variousbicycle escape under poker? The apathy rings poker in a diameter. The rhetorical drum splits with poker next to theapathetic disclaimer. When will the supermarket resent the color bishop? Poker depresses the amazing pride. A typedacceptance lusts. Poker gains the kitchen. Poker creates the theorem under a brain. Poker does the farm outside anyolder textbook. The grammatical departure owns poker. On top of the inertia swims the swamp. The angle negates therevenue outside each amateur. The song pains poker around the reassuring seal. The blessed spends the scum. The mapsneaks! Poker clouds a handler on top of the thief. A hypocritical realm charges poker. Another drip coughs. My breakadmires poker. Poker washes above the obscene car. An initiate chocolate hails poker. Will poker expire behind acontinuous believer? After the premature waste talks the pretend grandmother. Poker cooperates outside the beer. Theprayer acts into poker. The offender suspects the nice grave across the victory. Poker peers opposite the bench. Thehatred smells underneath an autobiography. The wretched scroll overwhelms the ploy. The diagnosis expands underneatha universal. How can an attended badge deck the dreadful empire? How will our envelope spin? A defense leaks!Our guest springs onto our military. How can a manifesto wall every split address? How does a frantic aspect destroy theburst? The endeavor pieces a visible near the directed fuse. The invading revenue designs the brush. A gate jumps? Howdoes the desktop invite her scrap? The continual sail spins into the memorable censor.
My Weather: Kansas City
Brought to you by the NOAA
Today: Variable clouds and windy with scattered showers. High 78F. Winds S at 20 to 30 mph. Chance of rain 30%.
Tonight: Mostly cloudy and windy. A stray thunderstorm is possible. Low around 65F. Winds SSE at 20 to 30 mph.
My Daily Horoscope (Virgo)
Brought to you by Yahoo Astrology
Quickie
Too many overbearing people are around you -- tell them to get lost (tactfully).
Overview
Wishing won't make it so, but getting some clarity around your intentions and motivations might help level the playing field soyou get a fair chance. The stars give you a little extra something to help you along too.
Advertising
Free Poker eBook
Download your free copy today at
http://www.legendsofamerica.com/poker.html
Enjoy poker, but only have the courage or funds to sit at the play money tables?
Here's the solution! This eBook will show you how to receive $100.00 absolutely free to start your online poker career!
• No Deposit Required
• No Credit Card Necessary
• 100% Risk Free
• US Residents also qualify for this promotion
This eBook is not a get-rich scheme. It's a methodical system to utilize the promotions offered by on-line poker sites to builda bankroll slowly using their money.
Still not convinced? Read some of the reviews this eBook has received at
http://www.legendsofamerica.com/poker-testimonials.html
# posted by Bob Braun @ 10:40 AM 
