Friday, July 06, 2007
Daily Update 07/06/2007
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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
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The United States has lost billions of dollars and an immeasurable amount of good will since Sept. 11, 2001, terrorism attacks nearly six years ago because of a decline in foreign tourists. Several senators are now trying to get the government involved in bringing those visitors back.
The Senate Commerce Committee has approved a bill to establish a nonprofit public-private corporation to promote the United States as a tourist destination and clear up misperceptions about U.S. travel policies. It also would create a new office in the Commerce Department to work with other agencies on fixing visa policies and entry processes that discourage visits.
Visits to the United States from countries outside of Canada and Mexico totaled 21.7 million in 2006, down 17 percent from a peak of 26 million in 2000, according to Commerce Department figures. In the same period, cross-border travel around the world was up 20 percent.
"The global pie of international travel is steadily increasing, while the U.S. share has been slowly decreasing," said Roger Dow, president and CEO of the Travel Industry Association.
Visits from the six countries that provide the most tourists — Britain, Japan, Germany, France, South Korea and Australia — have dropped 15 percent since 2000 while travel from those six to other countries was up a robust 39 percent. There were 4.2 million arrivals from Britain, last year, down 11 percent from 2000, and 3.7 million visits from Japan, down 27 percent.
"It's a situation that really is disastrous when you take into account the overall global trends in international travel, and the fact that the U.S. currency makes travel to the country so attractive," said Adam Sacks, managing director for tourism economics at Oxford Economics. The weakening of the dollar against the euro and other currencies makes the money of foreign tourists go further.
Oxford Economics, in a recent analysis of travel policies written with former Homeland Security Department Secretary Tom Ridge, said the 17 percent drop in visits since 2000 has cost the United States $100 billion in lost visitor spending, almost 200,000 jobs and $16 billion in lost tax receipts.
It noted that the United States is the only global destination without an ongoing program to promote itself. Greece spends $150 million a year, Australia $113 million and Britain $90 million.
"We have lacked a coordinated program to promote travel to our country," said Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., one of the sponsors of the Senate bill.
The new corporation envisioned by the bill would be funded by industry contributions and a $10 user fee levied on travelers from the 27 countries participating in a visa waiver program with the United States.
But industry experts also stressed that increased advertising about the wonders of Broadway or the Grand Canyon must be accompanied by changes in the visa and entry systems that keep people away.
Geoff Freeman, executive director of the Discover America Partnership, a business group working to improve the U.S. image, said 70 percent of foreign visitors have a great experience once they get beyond the airport. At a time when many in the world have negative feelings about the United States, 74 percent return from visits with favorable views.
"Unfortunately the first three hours" — trying to get through customs — "is creating a poor impression and becoming a great barrier to coming," Freeman said. European papers are "filled with horror stories about why you don't want to come to the U.S."
Entry problems are hardly confined to tourists. Investors from countries such as Brazil or India, where it can take months to get a visa, may take their business elsewhere. People willing to pay considerable amounts to study in the United States or receive medical treatment here may consider other options.
The Oxford study recommended that the United States expand the visa waiver program and apply the proposed $10 visa waiver fee to both promotion and entry security improvements including hiring more border and customs officers.
It said such steps could increase overseas travel to this country by nearly 1.6 million visitors a year, and yield $8 billion in new visitor spending and $850 million in federal tax revenue.
My Favorite Story Trash News Story
Brought to you by TMZ
Lauren Conrad may be giving "Laguna Beach" bad boy Jason Wahler another chance ... for ratings at least.
TMZ caught LC filming portions of the next season of her MTV reality show, "The Hills," and Wahler was by her side during the taping outside of Ketchup. For those not savvy to the dating habits of the blonde from "The Real OC," LC and Jason broke up -- for the second time -- last August and Wahler has since been arrested four times ... in four different states!
LC's enemies Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt were also spotted inside the restaurant.
My Favorite Press Release Today
Brought to you The Open Press
PokerListings.com, the world's best and biggest online poker guide, has been behind the ropes at the 2007 World Series of Poker from Day 1, with live action updates, daily video reports and inimitable coverage of poker's biggest spectacle - and will be there right through to the dramatic final table climax of the imminent $10,000 Main Event. It also happens to be the world's best source for online poker's biggest sign-up bonuses.
Curacao, Netherlands Antilles July 6, 2007 -- The mission at PokerListings.com (http://www.pokerlistings.com/live-tournaments/wsop), the world's biggest and best online poker guide, is two-fold.
One: To guarantee the best online poker sign-up bonuses for its players, bar none. So signing up through a PokerListings.com link will always get you the most money to play with at the poker site of your choosing.
has been everything it was expected to be, and then some.
Two: Provide the best live poker tournament coverage from around the world.
Of particular note over the last few weeks: Superlative and acclaimed live coverage of the 2007 WSOP from Las Vegas.
The esteemed PokerListings team of reporters, photographers and videographers has been between the ropes and behind the scenes at poker's most iconic event from Day 1, with live updates from every event, provocative interviews, daily video and more.
The mysterious disappearance of Vinnie Vinh. Phil Hellmuth's record-setting 11th bracelet. A hallway face-off between poker pros Chad Brown, Vanessa Rousso and Aaron Been. Diminutive Freddy Deeb's miraculous comeback to take the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. championship. Dave "Devilfish" Ulliott's salacious lust for affection.
PokerListings.com has been cheek-by-jowl with the movers and shakers, and brought the finest details to light for their readers. And will continue to do so, right up until the final card is dealt and the expected $10 million plus is handed to poker's next world champion July 17.
"The 2007 World Series of Poker," says Camilla Sundell, Press Secretary at PokerListings.com, "has been everything it was expected to be, and then some."
"Great stories, great pictures, great characters," she adds. "Eli Elezra and Scotty Nguyen having a two-fisted showdown for a bracelet in Seven-Card Stud. Opie Taylor look-alike James Mackey steamrolling to a bracelet in No-Limit Hold'em."
"It would be impossible to list them all," she says, "but the PokerListings team has caught the best of it and posted it around-the-clock in our Live Tournaments Section. And they'll be there right up until the dramatic and much anticipated finish."
PokerListings.com (http://www.pokerlistings.com) was launched in 2003 and quickly became the largest online poker guide in the world. A free-to-use Web site, it provides poker players across the globe with in-depth analysis of all major online poker rooms, the world's best sign-up bonuses 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 of the 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 to post my favorite spam e-mail daily.
How will the puzzling ray parallel the orbit? Whatever in sack abuses the culprit without the ringed ploy. Can another official exemplify any developed thoroughfare? The comfort repairs the table inside a strict vinyl. The bathroom acts a bargain. Poker cautions. A ram rings poker opposite the bubble. The adjective defeat studies poker. The incident chief breads poker. A fizzy explosive refutes this illiterate below the marked teenager. The enhanced objective tames the backbone over the sold future. The paranoia subsidizes the smelly silicon beneath the chancellor. The such thrust trips next to the feeble forecast. The obvious library argues beneath a lawn. Poker hunts the swallow. The acquaintance foams near the monster. The adjective affects the curriculum. Poker garages the female variance beneath an essence. With the novice overcomes each numeric counsel. Into the chart overcomes the sexist. The gentleman links poker. A technological translator exacts poker. Poker rocks outside the symbol. Why can't poker release a jerk? The beard leaks against the heresy. An inner chapel dresses the surprise. A husband ministers to poker inside the stranger. Poker degenerates into the counsel next to the reformed servant. Another designer chief compensates poker. When will the cartridge stare? A curriculum suffixes the exam. The alphabet accepts. The rounded pocket hardens behind an extended parameter. Opposite the imaginary stair rages poker. The platform conducts any interpreter. Poker spits after a bean. Another inconsistent trigger sweeps a dress into the doubtful thumb. Poker decks a bankrupt. The exceptional drawback offers an overall tutorial. Another behavior rests behind a neighborhood. A wallet disadvantages poker. The exploited outcome migrates below the desert poke. When can poker sicken behind the virgin boredom? Poker aborts above a psychologist. Poker sticks the circuitry into every retired vocabulary. A man frightens an expenditure opposite an abnormal smile. A luxury diverts a cigarette. The category spits next to poker. Behind a garbage fumes the steady schedule. Can a sea complain? Why can't poker swear across an abysmal misuse? A change boots the cheese into the increased myth. A trial theology deprives poker. When can poker prostitute whatever flipping substitute? Poker succeeds near your grace. A tempting metaphor breaks below the imaginary map. Poker writes past its scream. Poker appalls the topical enthusiasm. The stamped heart cooks poker beneath a rolling passport. Why can't a target rest? The attendant inspires our horse after the spiral. The empire reacts outside the salt! A calculating chemistry forwards poker on top of a prince. The war sleeps! A net roof chairs poker. The off insult bounces the laser before the outside chair. A diagonal desires poker beneath a sexist. The dumb concentrate vends the microprocessor. Each miraculous jacket sneaks. The comprehensible brigade emerges. The trusty statistic shuts the clone. The budget encloses the species. The talent drains his event around the drill. Poker distracts a continuum past the exact manner. The dress jumps poker. The girl clicks in poker. Will a bursting fan rave under poker? The vendor mutters. The contour filters a legend before any applicant. Poker activates the magnetic parade on top of a scroll. A stark drip errs. Why does the supervised scanner lift up every tough? The mercury rockets! Poker fishes the naughty afternoon. The associate thinks above the warrant. The sound cables poker. The greed spins? The geography bumps against a melody near an overlong overflow. Poker succeeds opposite a receipt. With the failed message snacks the adventurous snow. Another opera strikes the consequence outside the genocide. Poker redefines a football throughout an arrogance. An audience distances its incomprehensible approval. When can poker refrain below your racket? The technology strips away poker. The specimen waves the bench. Poker breaks in the snag. The far economy thumbs poker next to the diary. Poker hammers the mixture before the beast. Poker lands the character. How can poker dedicate the competing break? Why won't each smug flood rave? Poker gasps opposite the brass. Poker charges her physic farewell before the holy. Poker warms a socket. Poker purges into a noun. The vain respects the mechanic. Above poker fishes the sign diameter. The classic warm emphasizes the calculator beside the geared follower. Poker waffles behind the fellow. Her cheer leans. Why does poker convict an ambitious joy? The sword lowers the institute. Another long institute prostitutes poker underneath the marital equilibrium. Poker meets the cheek next to the aunt. Why can't a negative bias poker? The continental boredom tries. An overview visits the concentrate. Into a nostalgia copes poker. The charged domestic watches a theme. The descriptive maze peers past the conventional extremist. The conscious fruit paces the soft nonsense. Poker waffles before the filthy suite. Poker absents the thief. The farce bringing poker. A prostitute publishes an economy. Poker invalidates the diverted headline after the afternoon. After a pain snacks the intermittent rescue. The threat bucks over poker. The risky fruit cubes poker before my prefix. The radical jumps inside an embedded tree. Poker worries the unofficial victory before the missing engineer. The enemy treks poker opposite a floppy code. Does a unattended cube refrain throughout poker? The barrier hacks the framework inside a traced shorthand. The struggle repeats the interpreter below my attendant. Poker attends above any aspect. Whatever male chops a reject near its plastic firework. How can a hello dole this reckless cynic? Poker chews! When will the poem rot? Why can't the wood soil our cabinet artist? How does the anarchy persecute the eccentric monkey? On top of my strategy finishes the buck plotter. When can a kingdom stretch the most article? Her worker drags poker underneath the muttering passenger. An executive desires poker. The console treks! Why won't the identifier service poker? Poker overflows. Why can't a firework pace next to poker? Does poker bell the collective fortune? How does poker swing against the justice? Will the lavatory facilitate poker? Will a bastard companion the swallowed protest? The standpoint ribbons poker in a ripping disorder. An affecting lecture recalls the under powder. Poker disconnects the gasp. A touch optimizes the bush on top of a completed knowledge. Poker forwards a legendary material. An algorithm farms before the pilot percentage. A melody wears poker. Behind the matrix staggers the flower. Poker plays the approval across the community gate. When can the prejudiced scotch answer poker? Should a cuckoo triumph under a procedure? Poker expresses any opened cyclist below any ethic. His emulator diverts poker below the sea. How does a typewriter reflect? Should an excess quiz poker? Poker steams the cartridge. Why can't the sliced bowl conform behind poker? Poker relates a misfortune. Poker functions as a gender. Why won't poker boost every needle? A gown dashes in the closet. The public towers after every building salary. Beneath a column weds a man. This museum dodges. The semantic brother embeds the mysterious skirt. Does the clever fame affect a visible? The salesman punts in poker. How will an eye knock over the socialist? Why does a suspicious rope stagger the prejudiced peanut? The work advises your teenager underneath the insensitive floppy. Whatever exhausted sun conveys poker above the geographical director. An atheism motor balances poker throughout the icon. Around the innovative constituent crawls a crucial hello. Poker participates! The virgin sock eggs your diagonal. A raid scandalizes an immune norm past the cleaner. A phrase despises poker. Poker fears below a tunnel. Poker complains about the semantic card around a careful dummy. Poker relieves the heart. Poker stamps around a football. Poker encloses the verbal dog. Poker exaggerates your expanding faucet over the spigot. A benefit behaves. Poker drags the melody outside the mythical answer. Poker speaks with the circular. The wound publishes the routine. The pedestrian bakes poker. Poker waves. The theater destroys a mechanism. Poker mends the buss with the terminal refrain. Every automated inverse refers to an acorn beside the multiple relevance. The heat comprehends an imperfect software throughout a racket. A grace fevers a passage against the flying collar. The lowest royal elaborates poker.
My Weather: Kansas City
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Today: Plentiful sunshine. High 89F. Winds light and variable.
Tonight: Mostly clear. Low 69F. Winds light and variable.
Tomorrow: Sunny skies. High around 90F. Winds SSW at 10 to 15 mph.
Tomorrow night: A mostly clear sky. Low 71F. Winds S at 10 to 15 mph.
Sunday: Sunshine. Highs in the upper 80s and lows in the low 70s.
Monday: Isolated thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s and lows in the low 70s.
Tuesday: Scattered thunderstorms possible. Highs in the low 80s and lows in the low 70s.
My Daily Horoscope (Virgo)
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Quickie:
Facing your fears today will leave you feeling high-spirited well into the evening.
Overview:
Pretty words are fine and dandy, but you need to put your money where your mouth is. Loosen the reins on your self-control and see what happens when you let yourself go with your instincts. It'll be pretty fabulous!
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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 United States has lost billions of dollars and an immeasurable amount of good will since Sept. 11, 2001, terrorism attacks nearly six years ago because of a decline in foreign tourists. Several senators are now trying to get the government involved in bringing those visitors back.
The Senate Commerce Committee has approved a bill to establish a nonprofit public-private corporation to promote the United States as a tourist destination and clear up misperceptions about U.S. travel policies. It also would create a new office in the Commerce Department to work with other agencies on fixing visa policies and entry processes that discourage visits.
Visits to the United States from countries outside of Canada and Mexico totaled 21.7 million in 2006, down 17 percent from a peak of 26 million in 2000, according to Commerce Department figures. In the same period, cross-border travel around the world was up 20 percent.
"The global pie of international travel is steadily increasing, while the U.S. share has been slowly decreasing," said Roger Dow, president and CEO of the Travel Industry Association.
Visits from the six countries that provide the most tourists — Britain, Japan, Germany, France, South Korea and Australia — have dropped 15 percent since 2000 while travel from those six to other countries was up a robust 39 percent. There were 4.2 million arrivals from Britain, last year, down 11 percent from 2000, and 3.7 million visits from Japan, down 27 percent.
"It's a situation that really is disastrous when you take into account the overall global trends in international travel, and the fact that the U.S. currency makes travel to the country so attractive," said Adam Sacks, managing director for tourism economics at Oxford Economics. The weakening of the dollar against the euro and other currencies makes the money of foreign tourists go further.
Oxford Economics, in a recent analysis of travel policies written with former Homeland Security Department Secretary Tom Ridge, said the 17 percent drop in visits since 2000 has cost the United States $100 billion in lost visitor spending, almost 200,000 jobs and $16 billion in lost tax receipts.
It noted that the United States is the only global destination without an ongoing program to promote itself. Greece spends $150 million a year, Australia $113 million and Britain $90 million.
"We have lacked a coordinated program to promote travel to our country," said Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., one of the sponsors of the Senate bill.
The new corporation envisioned by the bill would be funded by industry contributions and a $10 user fee levied on travelers from the 27 countries participating in a visa waiver program with the United States.
But industry experts also stressed that increased advertising about the wonders of Broadway or the Grand Canyon must be accompanied by changes in the visa and entry systems that keep people away.
Geoff Freeman, executive director of the Discover America Partnership, a business group working to improve the U.S. image, said 70 percent of foreign visitors have a great experience once they get beyond the airport. At a time when many in the world have negative feelings about the United States, 74 percent return from visits with favorable views.
"Unfortunately the first three hours" — trying to get through customs — "is creating a poor impression and becoming a great barrier to coming," Freeman said. European papers are "filled with horror stories about why you don't want to come to the U.S."
Entry problems are hardly confined to tourists. Investors from countries such as Brazil or India, where it can take months to get a visa, may take their business elsewhere. People willing to pay considerable amounts to study in the United States or receive medical treatment here may consider other options.
The Oxford study recommended that the United States expand the visa waiver program and apply the proposed $10 visa waiver fee to both promotion and entry security improvements including hiring more border and customs officers.
It said such steps could increase overseas travel to this country by nearly 1.6 million visitors a year, and yield $8 billion in new visitor spending and $850 million in federal tax revenue.
My Favorite Story Trash News Story
Brought to you by TMZ
Lauren Conrad may be giving "Laguna Beach" bad boy Jason Wahler another chance ... for ratings at least.
TMZ caught LC filming portions of the next season of her MTV reality show, "The Hills," and Wahler was by her side during the taping outside of Ketchup. For those not savvy to the dating habits of the blonde from "The Real OC," LC and Jason broke up -- for the second time -- last August and Wahler has since been arrested four times ... in four different states!
LC's enemies Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt were also spotted inside the restaurant.
My Favorite Press Release Today
Brought to you The Open Press
PokerListings.com, the world's best and biggest online poker guide, has been behind the ropes at the 2007 World Series of Poker from Day 1, with live action updates, daily video reports and inimitable coverage of poker's biggest spectacle - and will be there right through to the dramatic final table climax of the imminent $10,000 Main Event. It also happens to be the world's best source for online poker's biggest sign-up bonuses.
Curacao, Netherlands Antilles July 6, 2007 -- The mission at PokerListings.com (http://www.pokerlistings.com/live-tournaments/wsop), the world's biggest and best online poker guide, is two-fold.
One: To guarantee the best online poker sign-up bonuses for its players, bar none. So signing up through a PokerListings.com link will always get you the most money to play with at the poker site of your choosing.
has been everything it was expected to be, and then some.
Two: Provide the best live poker tournament coverage from around the world.
Of particular note over the last few weeks: Superlative and acclaimed live coverage of the 2007 WSOP from Las Vegas.
The esteemed PokerListings team of reporters, photographers and videographers has been between the ropes and behind the scenes at poker's most iconic event from Day 1, with live updates from every event, provocative interviews, daily video and more.
The mysterious disappearance of Vinnie Vinh. Phil Hellmuth's record-setting 11th bracelet. A hallway face-off between poker pros Chad Brown, Vanessa Rousso and Aaron Been. Diminutive Freddy Deeb's miraculous comeback to take the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. championship. Dave "Devilfish" Ulliott's salacious lust for affection.
PokerListings.com has been cheek-by-jowl with the movers and shakers, and brought the finest details to light for their readers. And will continue to do so, right up until the final card is dealt and the expected $10 million plus is handed to poker's next world champion July 17.
"The 2007 World Series of Poker," says Camilla Sundell, Press Secretary at PokerListings.com, "has been everything it was expected to be, and then some."
"Great stories, great pictures, great characters," she adds. "Eli Elezra and Scotty Nguyen having a two-fisted showdown for a bracelet in Seven-Card Stud. Opie Taylor look-alike James Mackey steamrolling to a bracelet in No-Limit Hold'em."
"It would be impossible to list them all," she says, "but the PokerListings team has caught the best of it and posted it around-the-clock in our Live Tournaments Section. And they'll be there right up until the dramatic and much anticipated finish."
PokerListings.com (http://www.pokerlistings.com) was launched in 2003 and quickly became the largest online poker guide in the world. A free-to-use Web site, it provides poker players across the globe with in-depth analysis of all major online poker rooms, the world's best sign-up bonuses 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 of the 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 to post my favorite spam e-mail daily.
How will the puzzling ray parallel the orbit? Whatever in sack abuses the culprit without the ringed ploy. Can another official exemplify any developed thoroughfare? The comfort repairs the table inside a strict vinyl. The bathroom acts a bargain. Poker cautions. A ram rings poker opposite the bubble. The adjective defeat studies poker. The incident chief breads poker. A fizzy explosive refutes this illiterate below the marked teenager. The enhanced objective tames the backbone over the sold future. The paranoia subsidizes the smelly silicon beneath the chancellor. The such thrust trips next to the feeble forecast. The obvious library argues beneath a lawn. Poker hunts the swallow. The acquaintance foams near the monster. The adjective affects the curriculum. Poker garages the female variance beneath an essence. With the novice overcomes each numeric counsel. Into the chart overcomes the sexist. The gentleman links poker. A technological translator exacts poker. Poker rocks outside the symbol. Why can't poker release a jerk? The beard leaks against the heresy. An inner chapel dresses the surprise. A husband ministers to poker inside the stranger. Poker degenerates into the counsel next to the reformed servant. Another designer chief compensates poker. When will the cartridge stare? A curriculum suffixes the exam. The alphabet accepts. The rounded pocket hardens behind an extended parameter. Opposite the imaginary stair rages poker. The platform conducts any interpreter. Poker spits after a bean. Another inconsistent trigger sweeps a dress into the doubtful thumb. Poker decks a bankrupt. The exceptional drawback offers an overall tutorial. Another behavior rests behind a neighborhood. A wallet disadvantages poker. The exploited outcome migrates below the desert poke. When can poker sicken behind the virgin boredom? Poker aborts above a psychologist. Poker sticks the circuitry into every retired vocabulary. A man frightens an expenditure opposite an abnormal smile. A luxury diverts a cigarette. The category spits next to poker. Behind a garbage fumes the steady schedule. Can a sea complain? Why can't poker swear across an abysmal misuse? A change boots the cheese into the increased myth. A trial theology deprives poker. When can poker prostitute whatever flipping substitute? Poker succeeds near your grace. A tempting metaphor breaks below the imaginary map. Poker writes past its scream. Poker appalls the topical enthusiasm. The stamped heart cooks poker beneath a rolling passport. Why can't a target rest? The attendant inspires our horse after the spiral. The empire reacts outside the salt! A calculating chemistry forwards poker on top of a prince. The war sleeps! A net roof chairs poker. The off insult bounces the laser before the outside chair. A diagonal desires poker beneath a sexist. The dumb concentrate vends the microprocessor. Each miraculous jacket sneaks. The comprehensible brigade emerges. The trusty statistic shuts the clone. The budget encloses the species. The talent drains his event around the drill. Poker distracts a continuum past the exact manner. The dress jumps poker. The girl clicks in poker. Will a bursting fan rave under poker? The vendor mutters. The contour filters a legend before any applicant. Poker activates the magnetic parade on top of a scroll. A stark drip errs. Why does the supervised scanner lift up every tough? The mercury rockets! Poker fishes the naughty afternoon. The associate thinks above the warrant. The sound cables poker. The greed spins? The geography bumps against a melody near an overlong overflow. Poker succeeds opposite a receipt. With the failed message snacks the adventurous snow. Another opera strikes the consequence outside the genocide. Poker redefines a football throughout an arrogance. An audience distances its incomprehensible approval. When can poker refrain below your racket? The technology strips away poker. The specimen waves the bench. Poker breaks in the snag. The far economy thumbs poker next to the diary. Poker hammers the mixture before the beast. Poker lands the character. How can poker dedicate the competing break? Why won't each smug flood rave? Poker gasps opposite the brass. Poker charges her physic farewell before the holy. Poker warms a socket. Poker purges into a noun. The vain respects the mechanic. Above poker fishes the sign diameter. The classic warm emphasizes the calculator beside the geared follower. Poker waffles behind the fellow. Her cheer leans. Why does poker convict an ambitious joy? The sword lowers the institute. Another long institute prostitutes poker underneath the marital equilibrium. Poker meets the cheek next to the aunt. Why can't a negative bias poker? The continental boredom tries. An overview visits the concentrate. Into a nostalgia copes poker. The charged domestic watches a theme. The descriptive maze peers past the conventional extremist. The conscious fruit paces the soft nonsense. Poker waffles before the filthy suite. Poker absents the thief. The farce bringing poker. A prostitute publishes an economy. Poker invalidates the diverted headline after the afternoon. After a pain snacks the intermittent rescue. The threat bucks over poker. The risky fruit cubes poker before my prefix. The radical jumps inside an embedded tree. Poker worries the unofficial victory before the missing engineer. The enemy treks poker opposite a floppy code. Does a unattended cube refrain throughout poker? The barrier hacks the framework inside a traced shorthand. The struggle repeats the interpreter below my attendant. Poker attends above any aspect. Whatever male chops a reject near its plastic firework. How can a hello dole this reckless cynic? Poker chews! When will the poem rot? Why can't the wood soil our cabinet artist? How does the anarchy persecute the eccentric monkey? On top of my strategy finishes the buck plotter. When can a kingdom stretch the most article? Her worker drags poker underneath the muttering passenger. An executive desires poker. The console treks! Why won't the identifier service poker? Poker overflows. Why can't a firework pace next to poker? Does poker bell the collective fortune? How does poker swing against the justice? Will the lavatory facilitate poker? Will a bastard companion the swallowed protest? The standpoint ribbons poker in a ripping disorder. An affecting lecture recalls the under powder. Poker disconnects the gasp. A touch optimizes the bush on top of a completed knowledge. Poker forwards a legendary material. An algorithm farms before the pilot percentage. A melody wears poker. Behind the matrix staggers the flower. Poker plays the approval across the community gate. When can the prejudiced scotch answer poker? Should a cuckoo triumph under a procedure? Poker expresses any opened cyclist below any ethic. His emulator diverts poker below the sea. How does a typewriter reflect? Should an excess quiz poker? Poker steams the cartridge. Why can't the sliced bowl conform behind poker? Poker relates a misfortune. Poker functions as a gender. Why won't poker boost every needle? A gown dashes in the closet. The public towers after every building salary. Beneath a column weds a man. This museum dodges. The semantic brother embeds the mysterious skirt. Does the clever fame affect a visible? The salesman punts in poker. How will an eye knock over the socialist? Why does a suspicious rope stagger the prejudiced peanut? The work advises your teenager underneath the insensitive floppy. Whatever exhausted sun conveys poker above the geographical director. An atheism motor balances poker throughout the icon. Around the innovative constituent crawls a crucial hello. Poker participates! The virgin sock eggs your diagonal. A raid scandalizes an immune norm past the cleaner. A phrase despises poker. Poker fears below a tunnel. Poker complains about the semantic card around a careful dummy. Poker relieves the heart. Poker stamps around a football. Poker encloses the verbal dog. Poker exaggerates your expanding faucet over the spigot. A benefit behaves. Poker drags the melody outside the mythical answer. Poker speaks with the circular. The wound publishes the routine. The pedestrian bakes poker. Poker waves. The theater destroys a mechanism. Poker mends the buss with the terminal refrain. Every automated inverse refers to an acorn beside the multiple relevance. The heat comprehends an imperfect software throughout a racket. A grace fevers a passage against the flying collar. The lowest royal elaborates poker.
My Weather: Kansas City
Brought to you by the NOAA
Today: Plentiful sunshine. High 89F. Winds light and variable.
Tonight: Mostly clear. Low 69F. Winds light and variable.
Tomorrow: Sunny skies. High around 90F. Winds SSW at 10 to 15 mph.
Tomorrow night: A mostly clear sky. Low 71F. Winds S at 10 to 15 mph.
Sunday: Sunshine. Highs in the upper 80s and lows in the low 70s.
Monday: Isolated thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s and lows in the low 70s.
Tuesday: Scattered thunderstorms possible. Highs in the low 80s and lows in the low 70s.
My Daily Horoscope (Virgo)
Brought to you by Yahoo Astrology
Quickie:
Facing your fears today will leave you feeling high-spirited well into the evening.
Overview:
Pretty words are fine and dandy, but you need to put your money where your mouth is. Loosen the reins on your self-control and see what happens when you let yourself go with your instincts. It'll be pretty fabulous!
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• 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 build a bankroll slowly using their money.
Still not convinced? Read some of the reviews this eBook has received at
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Thursday, July 05, 2007
Daily Update 07/05/2007
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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
Beachgoers lulled into the breezy, bronzed glow of summer take note: Most sunscreens don't live up to their promise of protecting against harmful ultraviolet rays, a new study contends.
"Sunscreens just aren't as good as people think they are," said Dr. James Spencer, a dermatologist in St. Petersburg, Fla. "They aren't perfect, but they are the best tool we have."
"There's no such thing as a safe tan," added Dr. Darrell Rigel, a clinical professor of dermatology at New York University who does laboratory research on melanoma and other skin cancers.
The culprits in sunshine are the ultraviolet rays, particularly UVA and UVB.
Rigel said that sunscreens were designed initially to block out UVBs, because scientists thought these rays were to blame for sunburns and skin cancer. More recent studies suggest that UVA rays are also dangerous. But most current sunscreen labels don't offer a measure of UVA protection, he said.
While there's agreement on how to measure UVB rays, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has spent almost three decades trying to determine how best to measure UVA rays. There are at least six different ways to do it, and the health agency hasn't settled on the best one. The agency said it would have a final answer in the coming months.
Spencer is working with the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) to create a seal of approval for sunscreens, much like the American Dental Association has done. Companies wanting to carry the AAD seal would have to submit independent measures of their product to show that it offers adequate SPF protection and provides "broad-spectrum" protection against ultraviolet rays, as well as evidence of durability.
Meanwhile, unless you're a chemist or a dermatologist, it's tough to make sense of labeling on sunscreen lotions.
For one thing, many products claim "broad-spectrum" protection, meaning they block both UVA and UVB rays, and that means absolutely nothing, Riger said. He added that consumers should look for chemicals like oxybenzone, avobenzone and parsol 1789 that block both UVA and UVB rays. European manufacturers use another powerful UV blocker called mexoryl. L'Oreal just introduced a product, called Anthelios SX, with this newly approved ultraviolet ray blocker.
One of the biggest problems with sunscreens is the stability of the chemicals used -- some break down faster than others when exposed to sunlight and lose their potency to block UVA and UVB rays. Riger said that Neutrogena's Helioplex is one product that maintains stability over time.
More than a million new skin cancers are diagnosed each year in the United States, and rates are climbing. The most aggressive and deadly is melanoma, diagnosed in 60,000 people a year. Unchecked, melanoma thickens and spreads and is responsible for about 8,000 deaths a year, according to federal statistics. The two other types of skin cancer -- basal cell and squamous cell -- are slow-growing and can generally be caught in time for successful treatment. Still, squamous cell carcinoma claims about 2,200 lives a year.
"The development of cancer is not a single event," Spencer explained. Unlike some other cancers, "the cause of skin cancer is not confusing," he added. "One thing causes it -- overexposure to the ultraviolet rays of the sun. Period. It's a short-term cosmetic benefit with long- term damage."
The Environmental Working Group, a consumer advocacy organization, recently set out to analyze hundreds of scientific studies on sunscreens to develop a list of the best and the worst sun products.
The group analyzed 400 scientific studies (on 780 name-brand sunscreens) to see how many are actually safe and effective. One in every eight did not protect against UVA rays, the study found. And only 16 percent of the products studied were both safe and effective. This can include anything from harmful chemicals used in the products to false labeling that states that it can offer all-day protection.
"No one had ever looked at the safety or efficacy of sunscreens," said Richard Wiles, executive director of the Environmental Working Group. The FDA has approved 17 chemicals for use in sunscreens, and only four of them provide UVA protection, he said.
The working group found that 84 percent of the sunscreens studied did not offer adequate protection from the harmful effects of the sun. They did identify 128 products that passed the rigors of testing.
The best on the list, Wiles said, include products with zinc oxide or titanium oxide that provide broad-spectrum effectiveness. What's more, they don't easily break down in the sun, which means they remain active longer. The group only studied products with SPF 15 or higher.
While dermatologists agree that sunscreens should be used to protect against harmful ultraviolet rays, there are other things people can do short of staying in the shade. Wear protective clothing and stay out of the sun between the hours of 11 a.m. and 3 p.m., when the UV rays are the strongest and most damaging. And, Rigel said, sunscreens should be reapplied every two hours in the sun.
Many dermatologists promote sensible sun exposure. After all, sun is a powerful source of vitamin D, and a few minutes a day several times a week is all the body needs to maintain its store of the vitamin. Vitamin D promotes bone formation and mineralization, and there is growing evidence that it powers the immune system's ability to fight cancer cells.
My Favorite Story Trash News Story
Brought to you by TMZ
While most people celebrated the 4th with a swim, fireworks and a barbecue, Bai Ling spent her Independence Day getting married! Well, at least that what she said.
TMZ spotted the always wacked-out, self-described "crazy movie star" and chicken dancer outside Area last night, where she announced to the world, via paparazzi, that she got hitched in Sin City earlier that day. She may want to tell her reps now, since they told TMZ that no wedding occurred.
Her "husband" would only say his name was "anonymous" ... though it isn't hard to see why he'd want to keep his identity secret!
My Favorite Press Release Today
Brought to you The Open Press
They say the sting of a bad beat fades over time. One Absolute Poker player, however, hopes the memory of his bad beat lives on forever.
On July 3rd at 02:45 ET, an online poker player who goes by the name of CHAAWUU, lost quad tens to a straight flush playing $2 No Limit Hold'em. Normally, a loss like that would leave even the most hardened player feeling crushed. But because he was seated at one of Absolute Poker's Bad Beat Jackpot tables, CHAAWUU's loss set off the Bad Beat Jackpot bells for the 4th time and netted him $104,050.68 in cash.
"This latest win represents our biggest jackpot yet and we're just getting started," stated David Clainer, senior vice president for Absolute Poker. "We're turning losing hands into cold hard cash and Texas Hold'em players are loving it."
Since the 3rd jackpot was hit on June 26th, online poker players swarmed to Absolute Poker in droves in hopes of hitting a qualifying bad beat and becoming the 4th Bad Beat Jackpot winner. Countless played up to three Texas Hold'em tables at once, driving the jackpot up even faster.
To help the jackpot build, $0.50 is collected from qualifying hands at Bad Beat Jackpot tables. As a result of the game's popularity, the latest jackpot grew by over $2,000 every hour. By early morning on July 3rd, the jackpot had reached $297,287.63.
Absolute Poker is the only online poker site open to American players to feature Bad Beat Jackpot tables. If a player loses a hand holding four 8s or anything better at a Bad Beat Jackpot table, they'll win a piece of the Bad Beat Jackpot. A percentage of the jackpot is shared amongst the players where the bad beat occurred and a fraction of the jackpot is placed back into the pot for the next jackpot. In this case, the 5th jackpot starts out at $59,457.53.
Bad Beat Jackpot tables are noted with the word "jackpot" written in brackets after the table name and are categorized in red text. Read the complete details on Absolute Poker's Bad Beat Jackpot.
About Absolute Poker
Team Absolute is dedicated to providing players from around the world with the best online poker game experience that is second to none. Players worldwide can access Absolute Poker online 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from any PC or Mac and experience the best multi-player game online poker has to offer. Absolute Poker is committed to remaining the most trusted and best online poker experience, created by poker players for poker players.
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 to post my favorite spam e-mail daily.
A dictator resides opposite the petty leg. The faith chews above an impulse. The peripheral combats the numeral door. The shell serves the annoyance. A commentary lathers his least hand. The well groans against the premium devil. The purple stands the nostalgia behind a binding analysis. An equilibrium writes about a tame farmer. The structure kids next to the specialist. Any flowing orange worries below a minimum calm. Will the jacket disturb another perpetual melody? On top of the oar fumes poker. Why can't poker march without a specialist ploy? The helicopter fines the ambient cosmology. The leather messes poker with any unpopular calculator. Poker pinches this nine shadow outside the dip. The atmosphere whales the grade college after the falling advocate. Poker owns the steel after whatever idiom. Why does the shed bind the surrounding discovery? Poker dictates the fume below a popular diagonal. My backward muscle compresses a practicing address. The hated timetable connects with a waffle near the inertia. A candidate boils below poker. The explicit vehicle coughs with a matter. A peanut hurts above a boss wit. Poker screens every ritual past next to the axiom. Poker proceeds after the surface. The skull disgusts poker. A fashionable husband convinces poker. Poker imposes the hypocrite. A banned schedule resides next to a challenging public. When can poker tame a numerous herd? When will the wombat spin the frustrate blackmail? The intense coincidence sneaks beside the result. Poker trails before the settled soldier. Poker disciplines a master into a closest shoe. A student argues. The imperative thinks? The caffeine graduates without the megabyte. Poker abbreviates the rejected preface against a multiplied myth. Will our defect shout? The abused oil reads in the bottle. The eater cables poker. When will poker suspect below a wiring answer? The degenerate cooks the drastic crisp within the nail. A safeguard shakes poker against the meaning plague. Poker feels a speeding graduate under the grouped memory. Poker swims a butter without the smell. Poker ghosts a card near a pool. The grace riots a cleaner under the counterexample. The paradox searches the cultural bowl behind the wound work. Inside poker trails the swept weekday. The justifiable shareholder arrives inside a sport girlfriend. An upward metro shells a signature near a dry light. Poker tanks the patient around the telling triumph. A biology malfunctions. Before the sock triumphs the destroyed motive. Poker enables the premium stunt over the switch sport. Why won't the invented overlap attack the transient witch? A crossroad progresses outside the rights culprit. The analogue alternates our sentient. Any mixture poses the hostile movie. Outside a distress crashes poker. Can the focus finish? Each concert swears! Does every restriction mailbox retract beneath the pose? The farce punts beneath a quota. When will the flavor trip below poker? The custom exchanges a waffle throughout the defeated card. The headline nests! A tomato freezes. Poker gasps across the scanner. An algebraic deaf matures on top of the relief. The banner pants next to poker. Your ray pardons the biggest astronomer. The overhead poles an electron over the intervening closet. The explosive bag retires poker beneath the held panic. Any screen sees poker beside the scene. A theological subroutine bucks beside the salary. The west crystal terrifies whatever struggling atmosphere. The quibble expands underneath poker. Why won't poker consent within a budget? An envelope tears into poker. Every anguish messes with poker. Poker extracts the fashioned wrong within a fossil. Poker crashs into the pressure outside a picture. Poker bows a planted desktop in the escaped residence. The worker breaks. The novice fevers poker into its choral. When can the attorney cope inside poker? Poker garages a designer. Poker invests the predicted carrot beneath the supervised flute. Next to poker rots the paragraph. Poker contains an air. The sensible spokesman proceeds outside the passive astronomy. A thrown teenager pretends over the lyric. The prevalent journal pipelines the author next to the complex envy. Will a graffito spin outside a champion? Poker decks the worth feminist into any bomb. The tricky sexist tools poker. Poker toys with the chairman. A norm opens the shape. The drinking acid ventures poker. A lion scarfs the lens opposite the continuing numeral. The icon copyrights a sarcasm before my deciding skip. Poker mans the sworn bench behind the revealed stagger. Near the scanner pales poker. How can any fell glory blink around the beer?
My Weather: Kansas City
Brought to you by the NOAA
Tonight: Mostly clear. Low around 70F. Winds light and variable.
Tomorrow: Mainly sunny. High 89F. Winds light and variable.
Tomorrow night: Clear. Low 69F. Winds SSE at 5 to 10 mph.
Saturday: Sunny skies. High 91F. Winds SSW at 10 to 15 mph.
Sunday: Abundant sunshine. Highs in the upper 80s and lows in the low 70s.
Monday: Isolated thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s and lows in the low 70s.
My Daily Horoscope (Virgo)
Brought to you by Yahoo Astrology
Quickie:
Not a lot will get done today -- enjoy this unexpected day of leisure with friends.
Overview:
Sometimes you feel like Alice at the tea party, but other times you identify with the Mad Hatter. Hey, go with it. Even a balanced and graceful sign like yours feels off-kilter every now and then.
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 build a 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
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
Beachgoers lulled into the breezy, bronzed glow of summer take note: Most sunscreens don't live up to their promise of protecting against harmful ultraviolet rays, a new study contends.
"Sunscreens just aren't as good as people think they are," said Dr. James Spencer, a dermatologist in St. Petersburg, Fla. "They aren't perfect, but they are the best tool we have."
"There's no such thing as a safe tan," added Dr. Darrell Rigel, a clinical professor of dermatology at New York University who does laboratory research on melanoma and other skin cancers.
The culprits in sunshine are the ultraviolet rays, particularly UVA and UVB.
Rigel said that sunscreens were designed initially to block out UVBs, because scientists thought these rays were to blame for sunburns and skin cancer. More recent studies suggest that UVA rays are also dangerous. But most current sunscreen labels don't offer a measure of UVA protection, he said.
While there's agreement on how to measure UVB rays, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has spent almost three decades trying to determine how best to measure UVA rays. There are at least six different ways to do it, and the health agency hasn't settled on the best one. The agency said it would have a final answer in the coming months.
Spencer is working with the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) to create a seal of approval for sunscreens, much like the American Dental Association has done. Companies wanting to carry the AAD seal would have to submit independent measures of their product to show that it offers adequate SPF protection and provides "broad-spectrum" protection against ultraviolet rays, as well as evidence of durability.
Meanwhile, unless you're a chemist or a dermatologist, it's tough to make sense of labeling on sunscreen lotions.
For one thing, many products claim "broad-spectrum" protection, meaning they block both UVA and UVB rays, and that means absolutely nothing, Riger said. He added that consumers should look for chemicals like oxybenzone, avobenzone and parsol 1789 that block both UVA and UVB rays. European manufacturers use another powerful UV blocker called mexoryl. L'Oreal just introduced a product, called Anthelios SX, with this newly approved ultraviolet ray blocker.
One of the biggest problems with sunscreens is the stability of the chemicals used -- some break down faster than others when exposed to sunlight and lose their potency to block UVA and UVB rays. Riger said that Neutrogena's Helioplex is one product that maintains stability over time.
More than a million new skin cancers are diagnosed each year in the United States, and rates are climbing. The most aggressive and deadly is melanoma, diagnosed in 60,000 people a year. Unchecked, melanoma thickens and spreads and is responsible for about 8,000 deaths a year, according to federal statistics. The two other types of skin cancer -- basal cell and squamous cell -- are slow-growing and can generally be caught in time for successful treatment. Still, squamous cell carcinoma claims about 2,200 lives a year.
"The development of cancer is not a single event," Spencer explained. Unlike some other cancers, "the cause of skin cancer is not confusing," he added. "One thing causes it -- overexposure to the ultraviolet rays of the sun. Period. It's a short-term cosmetic benefit with long- term damage."
The Environmental Working Group, a consumer advocacy organization, recently set out to analyze hundreds of scientific studies on sunscreens to develop a list of the best and the worst sun products.
The group analyzed 400 scientific studies (on 780 name-brand sunscreens) to see how many are actually safe and effective. One in every eight did not protect against UVA rays, the study found. And only 16 percent of the products studied were both safe and effective. This can include anything from harmful chemicals used in the products to false labeling that states that it can offer all-day protection.
"No one had ever looked at the safety or efficacy of sunscreens," said Richard Wiles, executive director of the Environmental Working Group. The FDA has approved 17 chemicals for use in sunscreens, and only four of them provide UVA protection, he said.
The working group found that 84 percent of the sunscreens studied did not offer adequate protection from the harmful effects of the sun. They did identify 128 products that passed the rigors of testing.
The best on the list, Wiles said, include products with zinc oxide or titanium oxide that provide broad-spectrum effectiveness. What's more, they don't easily break down in the sun, which means they remain active longer. The group only studied products with SPF 15 or higher.
While dermatologists agree that sunscreens should be used to protect against harmful ultraviolet rays, there are other things people can do short of staying in the shade. Wear protective clothing and stay out of the sun between the hours of 11 a.m. and 3 p.m., when the UV rays are the strongest and most damaging. And, Rigel said, sunscreens should be reapplied every two hours in the sun.
Many dermatologists promote sensible sun exposure. After all, sun is a powerful source of vitamin D, and a few minutes a day several times a week is all the body needs to maintain its store of the vitamin. Vitamin D promotes bone formation and mineralization, and there is growing evidence that it powers the immune system's ability to fight cancer cells.
My Favorite Story Trash News Story
Brought to you by TMZ
While most people celebrated the 4th with a swim, fireworks and a barbecue, Bai Ling spent her Independence Day getting married! Well, at least that what she said.
TMZ spotted the always wacked-out, self-described "crazy movie star" and chicken dancer outside Area last night, where she announced to the world, via paparazzi, that she got hitched in Sin City earlier that day. She may want to tell her reps now, since they told TMZ that no wedding occurred.
Her "husband" would only say his name was "anonymous" ... though it isn't hard to see why he'd want to keep his identity secret!
My Favorite Press Release Today
Brought to you The Open Press
They say the sting of a bad beat fades over time. One Absolute Poker player, however, hopes the memory of his bad beat lives on forever.
On July 3rd at 02:45 ET, an online poker player who goes by the name of CHAAWUU, lost quad tens to a straight flush playing $2 No Limit Hold'em. Normally, a loss like that would leave even the most hardened player feeling crushed. But because he was seated at one of Absolute Poker's Bad Beat Jackpot tables, CHAAWUU's loss set off the Bad Beat Jackpot bells for the 4th time and netted him $104,050.68 in cash.
"This latest win represents our biggest jackpot yet and we're just getting started," stated David Clainer, senior vice president for Absolute Poker. "We're turning losing hands into cold hard cash and Texas Hold'em players are loving it."
Since the 3rd jackpot was hit on June 26th, online poker players swarmed to Absolute Poker in droves in hopes of hitting a qualifying bad beat and becoming the 4th Bad Beat Jackpot winner. Countless played up to three Texas Hold'em tables at once, driving the jackpot up even faster.
To help the jackpot build, $0.50 is collected from qualifying hands at Bad Beat Jackpot tables. As a result of the game's popularity, the latest jackpot grew by over $2,000 every hour. By early morning on July 3rd, the jackpot had reached $297,287.63.
Absolute Poker is the only online poker site open to American players to feature Bad Beat Jackpot tables. If a player loses a hand holding four 8s or anything better at a Bad Beat Jackpot table, they'll win a piece of the Bad Beat Jackpot. A percentage of the jackpot is shared amongst the players where the bad beat occurred and a fraction of the jackpot is placed back into the pot for the next jackpot. In this case, the 5th jackpot starts out at $59,457.53.
Bad Beat Jackpot tables are noted with the word "jackpot" written in brackets after the table name and are categorized in red text. Read the complete details on Absolute Poker's Bad Beat Jackpot.
About Absolute Poker
Team Absolute is dedicated to providing players from around the world with the best online poker game experience that is second to none. Players worldwide can access Absolute Poker online 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from any PC or Mac and experience the best multi-player game online poker has to offer. Absolute Poker is committed to remaining the most trusted and best online poker experience, created by poker players for poker players.
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 to post my favorite spam e-mail daily.
A dictator resides opposite the petty leg. The faith chews above an impulse. The peripheral combats the numeral door. The shell serves the annoyance. A commentary lathers his least hand. The well groans against the premium devil. The purple stands the nostalgia behind a binding analysis. An equilibrium writes about a tame farmer. The structure kids next to the specialist. Any flowing orange worries below a minimum calm. Will the jacket disturb another perpetual melody? On top of the oar fumes poker. Why can't poker march without a specialist ploy? The helicopter fines the ambient cosmology. The leather messes poker with any unpopular calculator. Poker pinches this nine shadow outside the dip. The atmosphere whales the grade college after the falling advocate. Poker owns the steel after whatever idiom. Why does the shed bind the surrounding discovery? Poker dictates the fume below a popular diagonal. My backward muscle compresses a practicing address. The hated timetable connects with a waffle near the inertia. A candidate boils below poker. The explicit vehicle coughs with a matter. A peanut hurts above a boss wit. Poker screens every ritual past next to the axiom. Poker proceeds after the surface. The skull disgusts poker. A fashionable husband convinces poker. Poker imposes the hypocrite. A banned schedule resides next to a challenging public. When can poker tame a numerous herd? When will the wombat spin the frustrate blackmail? The intense coincidence sneaks beside the result. Poker trails before the settled soldier. Poker disciplines a master into a closest shoe. A student argues. The imperative thinks? The caffeine graduates without the megabyte. Poker abbreviates the rejected preface against a multiplied myth. Will our defect shout? The abused oil reads in the bottle. The eater cables poker. When will poker suspect below a wiring answer? The degenerate cooks the drastic crisp within the nail. A safeguard shakes poker against the meaning plague. Poker feels a speeding graduate under the grouped memory. Poker swims a butter without the smell. Poker ghosts a card near a pool. The grace riots a cleaner under the counterexample. The paradox searches the cultural bowl behind the wound work. Inside poker trails the swept weekday. The justifiable shareholder arrives inside a sport girlfriend. An upward metro shells a signature near a dry light. Poker tanks the patient around the telling triumph. A biology malfunctions. Before the sock triumphs the destroyed motive. Poker enables the premium stunt over the switch sport. Why won't the invented overlap attack the transient witch? A crossroad progresses outside the rights culprit. The analogue alternates our sentient. Any mixture poses the hostile movie. Outside a distress crashes poker. Can the focus finish? Each concert swears! Does every restriction mailbox retract beneath the pose? The farce punts beneath a quota. When will the flavor trip below poker? The custom exchanges a waffle throughout the defeated card. The headline nests! A tomato freezes. Poker gasps across the scanner. An algebraic deaf matures on top of the relief. The banner pants next to poker. Your ray pardons the biggest astronomer. The overhead poles an electron over the intervening closet. The explosive bag retires poker beneath the held panic. Any screen sees poker beside the scene. A theological subroutine bucks beside the salary. The west crystal terrifies whatever struggling atmosphere. The quibble expands underneath poker. Why won't poker consent within a budget? An envelope tears into poker. Every anguish messes with poker. Poker extracts the fashioned wrong within a fossil. Poker crashs into the pressure outside a picture. Poker bows a planted desktop in the escaped residence. The worker breaks. The novice fevers poker into its choral. When can the attorney cope inside poker? Poker garages a designer. Poker invests the predicted carrot beneath the supervised flute. Next to poker rots the paragraph. Poker contains an air. The sensible spokesman proceeds outside the passive astronomy. A thrown teenager pretends over the lyric. The prevalent journal pipelines the author next to the complex envy. Will a graffito spin outside a champion? Poker decks the worth feminist into any bomb. The tricky sexist tools poker. Poker toys with the chairman. A norm opens the shape. The drinking acid ventures poker. A lion scarfs the lens opposite the continuing numeral. The icon copyrights a sarcasm before my deciding skip. Poker mans the sworn bench behind the revealed stagger. Near the scanner pales poker. How can any fell glory blink around the beer?
My Weather: Kansas City
Brought to you by the NOAA
Tonight: Mostly clear. Low around 70F. Winds light and variable.
Tomorrow: Mainly sunny. High 89F. Winds light and variable.
Tomorrow night: Clear. Low 69F. Winds SSE at 5 to 10 mph.
Saturday: Sunny skies. High 91F. Winds SSW at 10 to 15 mph.
Sunday: Abundant sunshine. Highs in the upper 80s and lows in the low 70s.
Monday: Isolated thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s and lows in the low 70s.
My Daily Horoscope (Virgo)
Brought to you by Yahoo Astrology
Quickie:
Not a lot will get done today -- enjoy this unexpected day of leisure with friends.
Overview:
Sometimes you feel like Alice at the tea party, but other times you identify with the Mad Hatter. Hey, go with it. Even a balanced and graceful sign like yours feels off-kilter every now and then.
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 build a 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
