Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Daily Update 08/14/2007
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Phil Rizzuto, the Hall of Fame shortstop during the Yankees' dynasty years and beloved by a generation of fans who delighted in hearing him exclaim "Holy cow!" as a broadcaster, died Tuesday. He was 89.
His death was confirmed by the Yankees. Rizzuto had been in declining health for several years and was living at a nursing home in West Orange, N.J.
Rizzuto, known as "The Scooter," was the oldest living Hall of Famer. He played for the Yankees throughout the 1940s and '50s, won seven World Series titles, was an AL MVP and played in five All-Star games.
Rizzuto later announced Yankees games for four decades and his No. 10 was retired by baseball's most storied team.
"I guess heaven must have needed a shortstop," Yankees owner George Steinbrenner said in a statement. "He epitomized the Yankee spirit -- gritty and hard charging -- and he wore the pinstripes proudly."
At 5-foot-6, Rizzuto was a flashy player who could always be counted on for a perfect bunt, a nice slide or a diving catch in a lineup better known for its cornerstone sluggers. He played 13 seasons alongside the likes of Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle in a career interrupted by Navy service in World War II.
"Phil was a gem, one of the greatest people I ever knew -- a dear friend and great teammate," said Hall of Famer Yogi Berra, who frequently visited Rizzuto in his later years.
"When I first came up to the Yankees, he was like a big -- actually, small -- brother to me. He's meant an awful lot to baseball and the Yankees and has left us with a lot of wonderful memories," he said.
Rizzuto was equipped with a productive bat, sure hands and quick feet that earned him his nickname. A leadoff man, he was a superb bunter, used to good advantage by the Yankee teams that won 11 pennants and nine World Series between 1941 and 1956.
"He was a Yankee all the way," said Indians great Bob Feller, who at 88 became the oldest living Hall of Famer.
"Phil could hit, he could run, he was good on the basepaths and he was a great shortstop. He knew the fundamentals of the game and he got 100 percent out of his ability. He played it hard and he played it fair," he said.
Born in Brooklyn, Rizzuto tried out with the Dodgers and New York Giants when he was 16, but because of his size was dismissed by Dodgers manager Casey Stengel, who told him to "Go get a shoeshine box." He went on to become one of Stengel's most dependable players.
A Rizzuto bunt, a steal and a DiMaggio hit made up the scoring trademark of the Yankees' golden era, and he played errorless ball in 21 consecutive World Series games. DiMaggio said the shortstop "held the team together."
Rizzuto came to the Yankees in 1941 and batted .307 as a rookie. After the war, he returned in 1946 and became the American League MVP in 1950. He batted .324 that season with a slugging percentage of .439 and 200 hits, second most in the league. He also went 58 games without an error, making 288 straight plays.
He led all AL shortstops in double plays three times and had a career batting average of .273 with at least a .930 fielding percentage. He played in five All-Star games.
Rizzuto remembered Aug. 25, 1956, as a day he thought was the "end of the world," the day Stengel released him to make room for clutch-hitting Enos Slaughter in the pennant drive.
Rizzuto then began a second career as a broadcaster, one for which he became at least equally well known. His voice dripped with his native Brooklyn.
In his decades on the radio and TV, Rizzuto's favorite phrase was "Holy cow!" He trotted it out when calling Roger Maris' record-breaking 61st home run in 1961 and the saying became so much a part of him, the team presented him with a cow wearing a halo when they held a day in his honor in 1985. The cow knocked Rizzuto over and, of course, he shouted, "Holy cow!"
"That thing really hurt," he said. "That big thing stepped right on my shoe and pushed me backwards, like a karate move."
Yankee fans also loved his unusual commentary, often punctuated with the phrase, "What a huckleberry!"
In an age of broadcasters who spout statistics and repeat the obvious, Rizzuto loved to talk about things like his fear of lightning, the style of an umpire's shoes or even the prospect of outfielder Dave Winfield as a candidate for president.
He liked to acknowledge birthdays and anniversaries, read notes from fans, praised the baked delicacies at his favorite restaurant and send messages to old cronies. And if he missed a play, he would scribble "ww" in his scorecard box score. That, he said, meant "wasn't watching."
His popularity was such that at a recent auction a Rizzuto cap embedded with a wad of chewing gum sold for more than $8,000. In the New York area, Rizzuto's antics became a staple for TV ads.
Despite his qualifications, Rizzuto was passed over for the Hall of Fame 15 times by the writers and 11 times by the old-timers committee. Finally, a persuasive speech by Ted Williams pushed Rizzuto into Cooperstown in 1994.
Williams, a member of the committee, argued that Rizzuto was the man who made the difference between the Yankees and his Red Sox. He was fond of saying, "If we'd had Rizzuto in Boston, we'd have won all those pennants instead of New York."
As in his playing days, Rizzuto was overshadowed by the headliners, teammates like DiMaggio, Mantle, Whitey Ford and Berra. All of them reached the Hall of Fame before he did.
The flag at Cooperstown was lowered to half-staff and a laurel was placed around his plaque, as is custom when all Hall of Famers die.
"I never thought I deserved to be in the Hall of Fame," Rizzuto would say. "The Hall of Fame is for the big guys, pitchers with 100 mph fastballs and hitters who sock homers and drive in a lot of runs. That's the way it always has been and the way it should be."
Rizzuto is survived by his wife, Cora, whom he married in 1943; daughters Cindy Rizzuto, Patricia Rizzuto and Penny Rizzuto Yetto; son Phil Rizzuto Jr.; and two granddaughters.
AP Sports Writer Hal Bock and AP Sports Writer Tom Withers in Cleveland contributed to this report.
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While K-Fed's lawyers were tying to reach Brit-Brit's former assistant Shannon Funk at home, she was having a girl's night out with OK! magazine staff in NYC. And in the continuing saga of Brit's fantastic train wreckical life, we've learned that it's Shannon who's the source for the juicy new tell-all from an "unnamed employee" that the mag is featuring this week. Confidentiality agreements be damned!
TMZ spotted Funk, who worked for Spears for an all-too-brief three weeks before being fired by the demanding diva July 25, out in the Big Apple on Sunday night with OK! senior reporter Shauna Bass and photo director Maria Collazo. Of course, Funk was the assistant who was with Spears at her chicken-grease-smearing, public-peeing debacle of a photo shoot with OK! a few weeks back. That's irony, mmmkay? Sources tell TMZ that K-Fed's lawyer Mark Vincent Kaplan placed several calls to Funk's mother's home in the past few days an effort to track her down. Kaplan's hoping that her testimony, along with the testimony of Spears' other ass-istant/cousin Alli Sims, will prove that K-Fed should have full custody of the couple's two kids, Jayden and Sean.
My Favorite Press Release Today
Brought to you The Open Press
The Netherlands Antilles (Curacao) Government is confident it will rapidly and rightfully be placed on U.K. white-listing. Remaining questions about scope and scale of regulatory presence raised by UK are all resolved with passing of new legislation. UK received advance draft. New legislation has been accepted by Council of Minister and progressing through parliament.
Curacao, Netherlands Antilles (PRWEB) August 13, 2007 -- The Netherlands Antilles (Curacao) Government is confident it will rapidly and rightfully be placed on U.K. white-listing. Remaining questions about scope and scale of regulatory presence raised by UK are all resolved with passing of new legislation. UK received advance draft. New legislation has been accepted by Council of Minister and progressing through parliament.
"The Government of the Netherlands Antilles has taken notice of the letter containing the decision of the UK Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, to not accept the recently made application to be white listed prior to the UK Gambling Act 2005 coming into effect on September 1st," according to D.A. Dick, Minister of Justice, Netherlands Antilles.
This application was considered by the UK Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and the Government of the Netherlands Antilles is encouraged to note that the remaining questions about the scope and scale of regulatory presence which were raised by the UK are all resolved with the passing and implementation of new legislation here, of which the UK has seen an advanced draft.
This new legislation and its accompanying regulations has been accepted by the Council of Ministers and is now progressing through parliament in line with the timeline communicated to the UK DCMS, being December 2007. In preparing this legislation the Government of the Netherlands Antilles has worked closely with the CIGA, the industry trade association of the Netherlands Antilles and is confident that the approval of both the UK DCMS and CIGA suggests that this is a well balanced piece of legislation that will meet the needs and standards of all stakeholders in what is an important regulatory issue, both locally and internationally.
Given the correspondence with the DCMS to date, and our own advisers, the Government expressed confidence that the passing and implementation of the new legislation will allow the Netherlands Antilles (Curacao) to be rapidly and rightly placed on the white list of jurisdictions in the UK. The Government added, "We are strengthened in this by the confirmation in the letter of the DCMS stating the UK Government opinion: "We would be willing to receive a further representation from you and consider the case again when that legislation is in place" ".
As one of the longest standing jurisdictions regulating online gambling, the Government of the Netherlands Antilles agrees with the UK's rigorous approach in this matter, and look forward to completing the final steps needed to ensure our position, reaffirming Netherlands Antilles as a top jurisdiction for online gambling worldwide.
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Past the apple reckons a steam. An improved castle prides a lake next to the smooth focus. Our doubling heaven treks. A lager behaves near a crop! The tongue walls the impressed patience. The lung fiddles under the assisted contour. How can the solo wealth purge? A clause reminds its hated shout. The translator finishes over the champion disaster. The traveled welfare sings.
Past the gateway barks a trouble. The interference mothers the irony. The poke bounces. A patient points to the continent. The preferable case axes the slash. The associate vowel dresses with a purge. The bog thinks? The contract complains. The sail vanishes in a drawback! A seeking wrath overlaps. An abandon hums? Will a campus pace? The hundred machinery scandalizes the asset. Above the swallow talks the springing inertia. A turning headache rattles without the additional shoe.
The trail boards a luggage near your opened handbook. The amended politician leaps. The woods country declines below the castle. The increased guidance stomachs the painful stamp. A node refrains below a relaxed valve. Why can't a muddle herd the borderline? A structured skip unloads the luck. A boy storms before the bullet! Can a gutter nest? The sixty grandmother reverts against the postscript. After the needed cheek staggers the sarcastic gnome. The motto describes the youth. Why won't the play poet starve?
How does the oldest vat locate the petty freak? The tobacco spaces the surface carrot with a recovery. Why does our peculiar key change without our ice? Behind the jail laughs an expiring parody. Any gasoline doses the bath. The dishonest steel reacts. A sigh cries? The opponent freeze works. A trouser crawls after a whole. A tops corpse coasts across the weather piano. The valuable sect stares without the serious staircase. A scanner matures under the surprise. The retiring fuse punches the body. Inside the ace tone poses the severe populace. The national plant hums. A cinema swears!
A symphony discriminates on top of a disgust! An intermediate tough declines next to a walking slave. The conceived hypocrite despairs. A mutual handler waves. An emergency extremist boils. Why won't his third article reckon? Past a bean hurts a honey steam. The disturbance adopts a spectrum below the clinical warp. The temperature reiterates the physical office with the conductor. The break drains an edited mate. How does the festival expand? Underneath a jungle pumps a backward mortal. When will the panic safeguard the doubtful fan? The nurse dances on top of the poem. The gold expenses the believer throughout the reluctant powder.
The forward protein expenses another ballot around a contentious gospel. Each portable royal rolls. The kettle thirsts across a continental. The defective gutter surprises the wasted listener. Your loud quantum expires next to the ritual. The sector camps into the afternoon. The bear confronts the constituent resemblance below the handful. The creep loses. Each effective egg expires without the chemical. The doctor expands near the counterexample. The lit evil steams the excited clue. When can a regular horde name the blob? When will the evidence bite the settled buffer? The slice chases a realizing gun. A fear accents a cathedral into a listed billfold.
The reformed differential weds into the wiser skull. The torn factory aids the mechanic against the decreased graduate. The laser bounces on the drift without the converse tourist. The halting astronomy cheeks the controller. A bargain stands his chemical attempt. The pointless result patents a poem. When can the water seed any tiresome outline? The complaint responds. An enough copper reaches the unavoidable weapon. A static dispute rips the lousy pizza. A ruined predecessor frowns this over manpower. Outside the bigot advertises another least child. A triumph sweeps near a bull. A shareholder specializes a part whale inside the hindsight. The reporter milks her contrast near each founded historian.
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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. If you have a chance please check out this free poker ebook at http://www.legendsofamerica.com/poker.html
My Favorite Featured Story
Brought to you by Yahoo
NEW YORK (AP) -- Phil Rizzuto, the Hall of Fame shortstop during the Yankees' dynasty years and beloved by a generation of fans who delighted in hearing him exclaim "Holy cow!" as a broadcaster, died Tuesday. He was 89.
His death was confirmed by the Yankees. Rizzuto had been in declining health for several years and was living at a nursing home in West Orange, N.J.
Rizzuto, known as "The Scooter," was the oldest living Hall of Famer. He played for the Yankees throughout the 1940s and '50s, won seven World Series titles, was an AL MVP and played in five All-Star games.
Rizzuto later announced Yankees games for four decades and his No. 10 was retired by baseball's most storied team.
"I guess heaven must have needed a shortstop," Yankees owner George Steinbrenner said in a statement. "He epitomized the Yankee spirit -- gritty and hard charging -- and he wore the pinstripes proudly."
At 5-foot-6, Rizzuto was a flashy player who could always be counted on for a perfect bunt, a nice slide or a diving catch in a lineup better known for its cornerstone sluggers. He played 13 seasons alongside the likes of Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle in a career interrupted by Navy service in World War II.
"Phil was a gem, one of the greatest people I ever knew -- a dear friend and great teammate," said Hall of Famer Yogi Berra, who frequently visited Rizzuto in his later years.
"When I first came up to the Yankees, he was like a big -- actually, small -- brother to me. He's meant an awful lot to baseball and the Yankees and has left us with a lot of wonderful memories," he said.
Rizzuto was equipped with a productive bat, sure hands and quick feet that earned him his nickname. A leadoff man, he was a superb bunter, used to good advantage by the Yankee teams that won 11 pennants and nine World Series between 1941 and 1956.
"He was a Yankee all the way," said Indians great Bob Feller, who at 88 became the oldest living Hall of Famer.
"Phil could hit, he could run, he was good on the basepaths and he was a great shortstop. He knew the fundamentals of the game and he got 100 percent out of his ability. He played it hard and he played it fair," he said.
Born in Brooklyn, Rizzuto tried out with the Dodgers and New York Giants when he was 16, but because of his size was dismissed by Dodgers manager Casey Stengel, who told him to "Go get a shoeshine box." He went on to become one of Stengel's most dependable players.
A Rizzuto bunt, a steal and a DiMaggio hit made up the scoring trademark of the Yankees' golden era, and he played errorless ball in 21 consecutive World Series games. DiMaggio said the shortstop "held the team together."
Rizzuto came to the Yankees in 1941 and batted .307 as a rookie. After the war, he returned in 1946 and became the American League MVP in 1950. He batted .324 that season with a slugging percentage of .439 and 200 hits, second most in the league. He also went 58 games without an error, making 288 straight plays.
He led all AL shortstops in double plays three times and had a career batting average of .273 with at least a .930 fielding percentage. He played in five All-Star games.
Rizzuto remembered Aug. 25, 1956, as a day he thought was the "end of the world," the day Stengel released him to make room for clutch-hitting Enos Slaughter in the pennant drive.
Rizzuto then began a second career as a broadcaster, one for which he became at least equally well known. His voice dripped with his native Brooklyn.
In his decades on the radio and TV, Rizzuto's favorite phrase was "Holy cow!" He trotted it out when calling Roger Maris' record-breaking 61st home run in 1961 and the saying became so much a part of him, the team presented him with a cow wearing a halo when they held a day in his honor in 1985. The cow knocked Rizzuto over and, of course, he shouted, "Holy cow!"
"That thing really hurt," he said. "That big thing stepped right on my shoe and pushed me backwards, like a karate move."
Yankee fans also loved his unusual commentary, often punctuated with the phrase, "What a huckleberry!"
In an age of broadcasters who spout statistics and repeat the obvious, Rizzuto loved to talk about things like his fear of lightning, the style of an umpire's shoes or even the prospect of outfielder Dave Winfield as a candidate for president.
He liked to acknowledge birthdays and anniversaries, read notes from fans, praised the baked delicacies at his favorite restaurant and send messages to old cronies. And if he missed a play, he would scribble "ww" in his scorecard box score. That, he said, meant "wasn't watching."
His popularity was such that at a recent auction a Rizzuto cap embedded with a wad of chewing gum sold for more than $8,000. In the New York area, Rizzuto's antics became a staple for TV ads.
Despite his qualifications, Rizzuto was passed over for the Hall of Fame 15 times by the writers and 11 times by the old-timers committee. Finally, a persuasive speech by Ted Williams pushed Rizzuto into Cooperstown in 1994.
Williams, a member of the committee, argued that Rizzuto was the man who made the difference between the Yankees and his Red Sox. He was fond of saying, "If we'd had Rizzuto in Boston, we'd have won all those pennants instead of New York."
As in his playing days, Rizzuto was overshadowed by the headliners, teammates like DiMaggio, Mantle, Whitey Ford and Berra. All of them reached the Hall of Fame before he did.
The flag at Cooperstown was lowered to half-staff and a laurel was placed around his plaque, as is custom when all Hall of Famers die.
"I never thought I deserved to be in the Hall of Fame," Rizzuto would say. "The Hall of Fame is for the big guys, pitchers with 100 mph fastballs and hitters who sock homers and drive in a lot of runs. That's the way it always has been and the way it should be."
Rizzuto is survived by his wife, Cora, whom he married in 1943; daughters Cindy Rizzuto, Patricia Rizzuto and Penny Rizzuto Yetto; son Phil Rizzuto Jr.; and two granddaughters.
AP Sports Writer Hal Bock and AP Sports Writer Tom Withers in Cleveland contributed to this report.
My Favorite Story Trash News Story
Brought to you by TMZ
While K-Fed's lawyers were tying to reach Brit-Brit's former assistant Shannon Funk at home, she was having a girl's night out with OK! magazine staff in NYC. And in the continuing saga of Brit's fantastic train wreckical life, we've learned that it's Shannon who's the source for the juicy new tell-all from an "unnamed employee" that the mag is featuring this week. Confidentiality agreements be damned!
TMZ spotted Funk, who worked for Spears for an all-too-brief three weeks before being fired by the demanding diva July 25, out in the Big Apple on Sunday night with OK! senior reporter Shauna Bass and photo director Maria Collazo. Of course, Funk was the assistant who was with Spears at her chicken-grease-smearing, public-peeing debacle of a photo shoot with OK! a few weeks back. That's irony, mmmkay? Sources tell TMZ that K-Fed's lawyer Mark Vincent Kaplan placed several calls to Funk's mother's home in the past few days an effort to track her down. Kaplan's hoping that her testimony, along with the testimony of Spears' other ass-istant/cousin Alli Sims, will prove that K-Fed should have full custody of the couple's two kids, Jayden and Sean.
My Favorite Press Release Today
Brought to you The Open Press
The Netherlands Antilles (Curacao) Government is confident it will rapidly and rightfully be placed on U.K. white-listing. Remaining questions about scope and scale of regulatory presence raised by UK are all resolved with passing of new legislation. UK received advance draft. New legislation has been accepted by Council of Minister and progressing through parliament.
Curacao, Netherlands Antilles (PRWEB) August 13, 2007 -- The Netherlands Antilles (Curacao) Government is confident it will rapidly and rightfully be placed on U.K. white-listing. Remaining questions about scope and scale of regulatory presence raised by UK are all resolved with passing of new legislation. UK received advance draft. New legislation has been accepted by Council of Minister and progressing through parliament.
"The Government of the Netherlands Antilles has taken notice of the letter containing the decision of the UK Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, to not accept the recently made application to be white listed prior to the UK Gambling Act 2005 coming into effect on September 1st," according to D.A. Dick, Minister of Justice, Netherlands Antilles.
This application was considered by the UK Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and the Government of the Netherlands Antilles is encouraged to note that the remaining questions about the scope and scale of regulatory presence which were raised by the UK are all resolved with the passing and implementation of new legislation here, of which the UK has seen an advanced draft.
This new legislation and its accompanying regulations has been accepted by the Council of Ministers and is now progressing through parliament in line with the timeline communicated to the UK DCMS, being December 2007. In preparing this legislation the Government of the Netherlands Antilles has worked closely with the CIGA, the industry trade association of the Netherlands Antilles and is confident that the approval of both the UK DCMS and CIGA suggests that this is a well balanced piece of legislation that will meet the needs and standards of all stakeholders in what is an important regulatory issue, both locally and internationally.
Given the correspondence with the DCMS to date, and our own advisers, the Government expressed confidence that the passing and implementation of the new legislation will allow the Netherlands Antilles (Curacao) to be rapidly and rightly placed on the white list of jurisdictions in the UK. The Government added, "We are strengthened in this by the confirmation in the letter of the DCMS stating the UK Government opinion: "We would be willing to receive a further representation from you and consider the case again when that legislation is in place" ".
As one of the longest standing jurisdictions regulating online gambling, the Government of the Netherlands Antilles agrees with the UK's rigorous approach in this matter, and look forward to completing the final steps needed to ensure our position, reaffirming Netherlands Antilles as a top jurisdiction for online gambling worldwide.
My Favorite Spam e-mail of the day
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Past the apple reckons a steam. An improved castle prides a lake next to the smooth focus. Our doubling heaven treks. A lager behaves near a crop! The tongue walls the impressed patience. The lung fiddles under the assisted contour. How can the solo wealth purge? A clause reminds its hated shout. The translator finishes over the champion disaster. The traveled welfare sings.
Past the gateway barks a trouble. The interference mothers the irony. The poke bounces. A patient points to the continent. The preferable case axes the slash. The associate vowel dresses with a purge. The bog thinks? The contract complains. The sail vanishes in a drawback! A seeking wrath overlaps. An abandon hums? Will a campus pace? The hundred machinery scandalizes the asset. Above the swallow talks the springing inertia. A turning headache rattles without the additional shoe.
The trail boards a luggage near your opened handbook. The amended politician leaps. The woods country declines below the castle. The increased guidance stomachs the painful stamp. A node refrains below a relaxed valve. Why can't a muddle herd the borderline? A structured skip unloads the luck. A boy storms before the bullet! Can a gutter nest? The sixty grandmother reverts against the postscript. After the needed cheek staggers the sarcastic gnome. The motto describes the youth. Why won't the play poet starve?
How does the oldest vat locate the petty freak? The tobacco spaces the surface carrot with a recovery. Why does our peculiar key change without our ice? Behind the jail laughs an expiring parody. Any gasoline doses the bath. The dishonest steel reacts. A sigh cries? The opponent freeze works. A trouser crawls after a whole. A tops corpse coasts across the weather piano. The valuable sect stares without the serious staircase. A scanner matures under the surprise. The retiring fuse punches the body. Inside the ace tone poses the severe populace. The national plant hums. A cinema swears!
A symphony discriminates on top of a disgust! An intermediate tough declines next to a walking slave. The conceived hypocrite despairs. A mutual handler waves. An emergency extremist boils. Why won't his third article reckon? Past a bean hurts a honey steam. The disturbance adopts a spectrum below the clinical warp. The temperature reiterates the physical office with the conductor. The break drains an edited mate. How does the festival expand? Underneath a jungle pumps a backward mortal. When will the panic safeguard the doubtful fan? The nurse dances on top of the poem. The gold expenses the believer throughout the reluctant powder.
The forward protein expenses another ballot around a contentious gospel. Each portable royal rolls. The kettle thirsts across a continental. The defective gutter surprises the wasted listener. Your loud quantum expires next to the ritual. The sector camps into the afternoon. The bear confronts the constituent resemblance below the handful. The creep loses. Each effective egg expires without the chemical. The doctor expands near the counterexample. The lit evil steams the excited clue. When can a regular horde name the blob? When will the evidence bite the settled buffer? The slice chases a realizing gun. A fear accents a cathedral into a listed billfold.
The reformed differential weds into the wiser skull. The torn factory aids the mechanic against the decreased graduate. The laser bounces on the drift without the converse tourist. The halting astronomy cheeks the controller. A bargain stands his chemical attempt. The pointless result patents a poem. When can the water seed any tiresome outline? The complaint responds. An enough copper reaches the unavoidable weapon. A static dispute rips the lousy pizza. A ruined predecessor frowns this over manpower. Outside the bigot advertises another least child. A triumph sweeps near a bull. A shareholder specializes a part whale inside the hindsight. The reporter milks her contrast near each founded historian.
Does a road waste the convicted microprocessor? The corrupted physiology fusses underneath the debatable parameter. A recipient fails within the wrap. The fluffy acceptance rings a justified cartoon. A silent choral fears. The private researcher abides on top of the comic neck. Its classified brush resides across a questionnaire. Why won't every complex killer deck the computerized stem? The laboratory stirs beside an audience. A struggle marches over the nonsense! The cue acts in the widest tale. How does the horrifying eater storm? Does the disturbance surface above the emptied glove? A club dislikes the sequel.
A career monkeys with the menu. The trolley tails the grain beside an unread thief. The disgusted lifestyle arrives. Why does the dragon reign? Another passage keeps his undergraduate near a fashionable terminator. In the dash weds the smelly bag. The railroad springs the turned virus before the reward. A continual childhood storms inside a daytime bog. The vat tears. The procedure obtains its judge throughout a sloppy farm. Why does the departmental propaganda span the permissible elephant? The dependence exists inside the screwed misfortune. My alcoholic reflects below the efficient criterion. How can a reduced nut gasp below a stunt? The ingredient complements another pan line after a lecturer.
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Today: Sunshine and clouds mixed. Very hot. High 101F. Winds SW at 10 to 20 mph.
Tonight: Generally clear. Low near 75F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.
Tomorrow: Mainly sunny. Very hot. High 101F. Winds SSW at 10 to 20 mph.
Tomorrow night: Mostly clear skies. Low 76F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.
Thursday: Slight chance of a thunderstorm. Highs in the mid 90s and lows in the low 70s.
Friday: Times of sun and clouds. Highs in the low 90s and lows in the low 70s.
Saturday: Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 80s and lows in the low 70s.
My Daily Horoscope (Virgo)
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Quickie:
Spend time with things you don't understand, and they will start to make more sense.
Overview:
You're so well organized that your friends and family sometimes make fun of you, but today you get the last laugh. Systems you set in place ages ago really start to pay off! Enjoy the benefits.
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