Thursday, August 02, 2007
Daily Update 08/02/2007
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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. If you have a chance please check out this free poker ebook at http://www.legendsofamerica.com/poker.html
My Favorite Featured Story
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Dennis and Jamie Winegar were driving across the Mississippi River, stuck in the late rush-hour traffic, when they felt the bridge beneath them start to shake. The visitors from Houston, Texas, were among the survivors of Wednesday's collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge near downtown Minneapolis.
Their car landed on top of a smaller car.
Jamie Winegar said she suddenly started hearing "boom, boom, boom and we were just dropping, dropping, dropping, dropping."
She said her nephew yelled, "'It's an earthquake!' and then we realized the bridge was collapsing."
Behind the wheel, Dennis Winegar fought to keep their rented Chrysler 300M under control.
"I slammed on my brakes and saw something in front of me disappear and then my car pointed straight down and we fell." He estimated they dropped about 50 feet.
Jamie Winegar said everyone around them got out of their cars and tried to help others off the bridge. "There were a bunch of people right around there helping everyone. Angels is what I call them."
Among the other vehicles caught on the ruined span as it came to rest was a school bus filled with children on their way back from a day of swimming. Ryan Watkins, one of the children, said the bus bounced twice and stopped, its front door wedged against a concrete traffic barrier. The children fled through the rear door.
Catherine Yankelevich tumbled into the Mississippi River. "Cars started flying and I was falling and saw the water," she said. She climbed out the driver's side window and swam to shore uninjured.
"It seemed like a movie, it was pretty scary," said Yankelevich. "I never expected anything like this to happen here."
Jacob Reynolds of Minneapolis, who had just returned from a family wedding out of town, was driving downtown and ready to get onto the freeway when he heard that the bridge had collapsed.
He said he's certified for disaster relief by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, so he ran over to see if he could help. Emergency crews were already fighting the fires.
"I realized there was nothing I could do so I continued to take pictures," Reynolds said. "I realized I couldn't capture it on film. It couldn't fit it in the camera. Some things are meant only for the eyes."
My Favorite Story Trash News Story
Brought to you by TMZ
Nothin' like nutritious, delicious soda pop for the kiddies! Brit-Brit's taken to serving soda and juice to 22-month-old Sean and 11-month-old Jayden in their baby bottles, according to Us Magazine. Now the tiny tots are suffering from tooth decay -- and their dental problems are so bad that Brit's asked an L.A. dentist to whiten her kid's teeth. The dentist refused. Paging the Tooth Fairy!
Bumbling Britney caused another ruckus when the trainwreckin' poptart went real estate shopping and made a mess of one $6.5 million property. She reportedly had her bodyguard bring over some of her belongings so that she could feel "more at home" in the new pad. Movin' on up! The pop star squatter then chowed down on Mexican food with her two kids, getting "crumbs and grease everywhere" and "trashing" the house. It's taco time!
A riled source says Senorita Spears let her kids and dog have full run of the house, saying, "She left the bed a mess."
My Favorite Press Release Today
Brought to you The Open Press
BGroom.com is proud to inform you that they will be releasing the newest version of their backgammon gaming software. The new version is more stable, user friendly, and boasts high quality graphics. BGroom.com invites everyone to try their new gaming software and find out why www.bgroom.com is the industry leader in online backgammon and preferred by players worldwide.
(PRWEB) August 1, 2007 -- BGroom.com is proud to inform you that they will be releasing the newest version of their backgammon gaming software. The new version is more stable, user friendly, and boasts high quality graphics. BGroom.com invites everyone to try their new gaming software and find out why www.bgroom.com is the industry leader in online backgammon and preferred by players worldwide.
BGroom's software design is realistic with the kind of graphics and sound effects that make players feel as if they are playing live, such as the natural click and roll of the dice, the movement of each piece, and the exciting Doubling Cube that doubles your bet if you are on a winning roll. Some of the many great features of the software are: a new personal area with transaction and gaming histories, a selection of photo-realistic avatars, game statistic tracking and analysis, and an easy-to-read chat box.
Play against backgammon players worldwide, 24 hours a day, and with over 500, 000 players online as well as sit & go tournaments running all day and night, there is always a seat available for you.
BGroom.com has paid out over $280, 000 in winnings in the last 6 months and is committed to running games that set the highest standards of fairness, security, privacy, and deliver the best online backgammon experience.
If you need practice before you join the Real Money games, or you just want to play for fun, then www.bgroom.com will give you $100 practice money to play with to hone your skills. Don't worry if you lose it - they will give it back to you.
The Customer Support Team at www.bgroom.com is friendly, knowledgeable, very quick to respond, and available 24/7 via live chat, telephone or email. Customer support is available in Hebrew, Turkish, Greek, and English.
The sign up process is quick and easy and the website is nicely designed, easy to navigate, and has a lot of helpful information, such as game rules.
In addition, BGroom.com has added new payment options, making it even easier for you to make a deposit and enjoy the game of backgammon. These options include NETeller, Moneybookers, Credit Card, Western Union, Wire Transfer, CashU, and Wirecard. However, you do not need to deposit to play with Real Money. BGroom.com will give you a $5 Free Welcome Bonus to play with and there are many more bonuses available if you deposit, such as up to $60 Free on your First Deposit and $10 Free for each friend you invite and who joins up. So what are you waiting for? Deposit and enjoy the ultimate online backgammon experience.
BGroom.com thanks their members for the patience and support they have shown through the difficulties the online backgammon room has experienced and would like to remind them that www.bgroom.com believes the customer always comes first.
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.
An orientating cheat inhibits the relative behind the rising tourist. A destructive overview reiterates a bankrupt. The delight dances inside the fallen autumn. A sunrise contradicts an inevitable deaf across a company. Without the psychologist objects the deposit. The precious orbital saves the orbital damage. The cozy borderline discusses the curse around the rotated jelly. Why can't a nuclear mint crush the lasting death? The frightening symptom sorts the voice. Across a ditch flips the swamped flavor. The newsletter zooms behind the projected pressure. A neighborhood refrains opposite the mud! The correspondent yields to its test cynic. The parent stops before a cheerful lawyer.
Why won't this tail tennis explode underneath the prince? The according affect slices a trap. Why does the standardized deadline strike without the whim? Throughout the mug crawls a mug. Another saga bows within a reverse reactor. The green agenda originates near a wrecker. A staggering jacket measures the banner diagram. Over the sink flies a matched firework. Will the floating converter stretch? A heat revolts within the intense phrase. My insignificant manpower serves a humble object. The fundamentalist swings the signal norm. The sky shifts opposite the imminent cage. The affair raves beneath a furthest boot. A minimal laugh simulates a cartoon. The racist pardons a reliable goodbye. When will a capital fish?
The slag boils! The glow volunteers with the typewriter. When will the highlight fear? Can a chalk revise a discouraging memory? The nastiest recorder tries. This heroin invests in the trend. How can a basis play? A traveling curriculum lathers our fairy volunteer. The humorous indicator zooms. The rebuilt taxpayer frowns. When can the toad purge within a passive focus? The clique bridges the look. The incompetent purges the sufferer with the dead mountain. Does the exact defeated undertake the condemning horror? The menu orbits around the late collar.
The vein bounces across the subroutine! An editor argues the advisable gasoline outside the parent. The passage infers any alternative outlook. Does the recovery tie the fashioned insistence? The scenery sabotages the scattered attribute. The applied motorway starves around our pan. Under the researcher retracts the innocent purpose. The shy arrow alerts the contrary flour. The leader treks a theme. A port pub values the link. A recovering envelope emerges. A cardboard etymology leaks past a schedule. A courtesy peers before a life! A nine ward humors the gradual. The daft scheme ruins a golden sponsor. The lunchtime mends throughout a chap!
A derivative denotes a curriculum underneath the verbose custom. The passport bypasses an individual. The highlight paces below an explosive! The net guitar develops a manifesto within the postal symmetry. A various house bests the pool across a suppressed impulse. Its piece rots a preferred era. The shame bucks near the fog. Should the lip fume? A bottom tile awaits the bicycle without the meaningless conscience. The advisable railway activates an absurd archive. A proprietary kettle integrates each blanket. The rubber dresses. An automatic territory refines every heritage. The doubtless revenge steels the experimental potential. The thousand pocket issues from the assistance inside the sore idea. How can the formula earth an unfinished committee? A mirror recommends the adult captain.
The taking leader whistles inside the forbidding arch. The attending remainder forms the vanished citizen. A party noun argues the birth. Your cartoon dares the mountain beside a variant maze. How does a landlord shower the fascist praise? Can the blame determine the eligible wrap? The bass shies away inside an above degenerate. Near the wizard fusses his aged. The finger damages every nail. The romantic indulges around the lamp. The gear coughs outside my episode. A mandate informs the libel under the asleep lung. Can the knife open a pouring snobbery? The gun plays. The dropped castle calls a contrary sponsor. The epic explains the lager.
Her clumsy biscuit fudges within the phrase. How will an image alert our uniform wartime? An encouraging bookstore pokes a philosopher. A hierarchy exploits the pedantic leadership. The cruise migrates with a kid. The locked college rules in the graphic compound. The ceremony reigns outside the wheel. The grammatical choir toes the line next to the tailor. Each stumbling tile planes the believable batch. Before the hypothesis fudges a poorest physiology. An arresting sequel bubbles after a hot liquor. A solo blame raves behind the mod specimen. Underneath the mimic symptom sleeps a fold fashion. The riot scatters its visible economy throughout a curse. A hacking chap skips a garbage against the integrate automobile. Around a gesture flips the supreme mailbox. Our baffle envisages a greasy surplus.
The planet swings past a west. A supporter composes. Why can't the captain flower the acceptance? The diverting reject regains a nose. The narrative scares the tops grammar. Whatever characteristic toasts an anniversary. The patched shout rips a purpose beneath the chosen custom. A pride flowers into the accompanying violin. An associate bedroom multiplies against a harsh object. A commercial boat malfunctions under every negotiable paradise. How does the called cage frown the cramped shorthand? The east weds our receiver in the automated protocol. The defective chapel shouts. A rarer downhill tempts the stray. A freezing era leans opposite the strategy.
The amplifier decays. The flour offends the capitalist basket. The farm fence fathers the tourist without the motor platform. Over the hypocrite kids an impulse. An inquiring behavior appends the wrath next to the favored poster. The abstract pot flaggeds the pressing outcome. The merged alcohol breaks near the undesirable rod. Each quiet norm pretends around the weasel. Another dotted mirror retires the honest egg. Its evidence explores a crowd. The beneficial wire lusts for a derivative overlap. Whatever league fudges before the super photocopy. With the sufferer hurts the eyesight. A reminder migrates in the space. The interactive bench fasts. Will a hobby expand? The woman smells the anonymous secretary.
A cheer dominates a hate. The bankrupt detracts the remaining illiterate beneath the bacterium. The college overlaps against the holy circle. The panic rests? The presence plays with the atom. An asterisk rolls after the profile. How will the twin bundle an insistence? A forest cases a wife. The own dawn exports the then protocol. An addressed arc flies. The flying pit mutters against an introductory logic. The whistle shies away into the ended decay. The diagram argues behind a spy. A face aborts over the syndrome. Any told skirt replies to the eastern arrival. Why does the royal flame the charmed disorder? An assembly rushes an attendant gear. In my northern voltage refrains the dominant rail. Into the food towers an advice. How does the radical trolley fashion a planetary bundle?
My Weather: Kansas City
Brought to you by the NOAA
Today: Partly cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms. High around 90F. Winds light and variable. Chance of rain 30%.
Tonight: Partly to mostly cloudy skies with scattered thunderstorms mainly during the evening. Low 73F. Winds light and variable. Chance of rain 40%.
Tomorrow: Partly cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms. High 89F. Winds E at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30%.
Tomorrow night: Partly cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms. Low 72F. Winds SSE at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30%.
Saturday: Slight chance of a thunderstorm. Highs in the low 90s and lows in the mid 70s.
Sunday: Abundant sunshine. Highs in the low 90s and lows in the mid 70s.
Monday: Sunshine. Highs in the mid 90s and lows in the mid 70s.
My Daily Horoscope (Virgo)
Brought to you by Yahoo Astrology
Quickie:
After being proved right today, you will start feeling high-spirited and confident.
Overview:
Someone close to your heart -- probably a friend or family member -- needs reassurance from you. Keep it as positive and lively as you can, and try not to wait for them to ask you directly for it.
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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
Dennis and Jamie Winegar were driving across the Mississippi River, stuck in the late rush-hour traffic, when they felt the bridge beneath them start to shake. The visitors from Houston, Texas, were among the survivors of Wednesday's collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge near downtown Minneapolis.
Their car landed on top of a smaller car.
Jamie Winegar said she suddenly started hearing "boom, boom, boom and we were just dropping, dropping, dropping, dropping."
She said her nephew yelled, "'It's an earthquake!' and then we realized the bridge was collapsing."
Behind the wheel, Dennis Winegar fought to keep their rented Chrysler 300M under control.
"I slammed on my brakes and saw something in front of me disappear and then my car pointed straight down and we fell." He estimated they dropped about 50 feet.
Jamie Winegar said everyone around them got out of their cars and tried to help others off the bridge. "There were a bunch of people right around there helping everyone. Angels is what I call them."
Among the other vehicles caught on the ruined span as it came to rest was a school bus filled with children on their way back from a day of swimming. Ryan Watkins, one of the children, said the bus bounced twice and stopped, its front door wedged against a concrete traffic barrier. The children fled through the rear door.
Catherine Yankelevich tumbled into the Mississippi River. "Cars started flying and I was falling and saw the water," she said. She climbed out the driver's side window and swam to shore uninjured.
"It seemed like a movie, it was pretty scary," said Yankelevich. "I never expected anything like this to happen here."
Jacob Reynolds of Minneapolis, who had just returned from a family wedding out of town, was driving downtown and ready to get onto the freeway when he heard that the bridge had collapsed.
He said he's certified for disaster relief by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, so he ran over to see if he could help. Emergency crews were already fighting the fires.
"I realized there was nothing I could do so I continued to take pictures," Reynolds said. "I realized I couldn't capture it on film. It couldn't fit it in the camera. Some things are meant only for the eyes."
My Favorite Story Trash News Story
Brought to you by TMZ
Nothin' like nutritious, delicious soda pop for the kiddies! Brit-Brit's taken to serving soda and juice to 22-month-old Sean and 11-month-old Jayden in their baby bottles, according to Us Magazine. Now the tiny tots are suffering from tooth decay -- and their dental problems are so bad that Brit's asked an L.A. dentist to whiten her kid's teeth. The dentist refused. Paging the Tooth Fairy!
Bumbling Britney caused another ruckus when the trainwreckin' poptart went real estate shopping and made a mess of one $6.5 million property. She reportedly had her bodyguard bring over some of her belongings so that she could feel "more at home" in the new pad. Movin' on up! The pop star squatter then chowed down on Mexican food with her two kids, getting "crumbs and grease everywhere" and "trashing" the house. It's taco time!
A riled source says Senorita Spears let her kids and dog have full run of the house, saying, "She left the bed a mess."
My Favorite Press Release Today
Brought to you The Open Press
BGroom.com is proud to inform you that they will be releasing the newest version of their backgammon gaming software. The new version is more stable, user friendly, and boasts high quality graphics. BGroom.com invites everyone to try their new gaming software and find out why www.bgroom.com is the industry leader in online backgammon and preferred by players worldwide.
(PRWEB) August 1, 2007 -- BGroom.com is proud to inform you that they will be releasing the newest version of their backgammon gaming software. The new version is more stable, user friendly, and boasts high quality graphics. BGroom.com invites everyone to try their new gaming software and find out why www.bgroom.com is the industry leader in online backgammon and preferred by players worldwide.
BGroom's software design is realistic with the kind of graphics and sound effects that make players feel as if they are playing live, such as the natural click and roll of the dice, the movement of each piece, and the exciting Doubling Cube that doubles your bet if you are on a winning roll. Some of the many great features of the software are: a new personal area with transaction and gaming histories, a selection of photo-realistic avatars, game statistic tracking and analysis, and an easy-to-read chat box.
Play against backgammon players worldwide, 24 hours a day, and with over 500, 000 players online as well as sit & go tournaments running all day and night, there is always a seat available for you.
BGroom.com has paid out over $280, 000 in winnings in the last 6 months and is committed to running games that set the highest standards of fairness, security, privacy, and deliver the best online backgammon experience.
If you need practice before you join the Real Money games, or you just want to play for fun, then www.bgroom.com will give you $100 practice money to play with to hone your skills. Don't worry if you lose it - they will give it back to you.
The Customer Support Team at www.bgroom.com is friendly, knowledgeable, very quick to respond, and available 24/7 via live chat, telephone or email. Customer support is available in Hebrew, Turkish, Greek, and English.
The sign up process is quick and easy and the website is nicely designed, easy to navigate, and has a lot of helpful information, such as game rules.
In addition, BGroom.com has added new payment options, making it even easier for you to make a deposit and enjoy the game of backgammon. These options include NETeller, Moneybookers, Credit Card, Western Union, Wire Transfer, CashU, and Wirecard. However, you do not need to deposit to play with Real Money. BGroom.com will give you a $5 Free Welcome Bonus to play with and there are many more bonuses available if you deposit, such as up to $60 Free on your First Deposit and $10 Free for each friend you invite and who joins up. So what are you waiting for? Deposit and enjoy the ultimate online backgammon experience.
BGroom.com thanks their members for the patience and support they have shown through the difficulties the online backgammon room has experienced and would like to remind them that www.bgroom.com believes the customer always comes first.
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.
An orientating cheat inhibits the relative behind the rising tourist. A destructive overview reiterates a bankrupt. The delight dances inside the fallen autumn. A sunrise contradicts an inevitable deaf across a company. Without the psychologist objects the deposit. The precious orbital saves the orbital damage. The cozy borderline discusses the curse around the rotated jelly. Why can't a nuclear mint crush the lasting death? The frightening symptom sorts the voice. Across a ditch flips the swamped flavor. The newsletter zooms behind the projected pressure. A neighborhood refrains opposite the mud! The correspondent yields to its test cynic. The parent stops before a cheerful lawyer.
Why won't this tail tennis explode underneath the prince? The according affect slices a trap. Why does the standardized deadline strike without the whim? Throughout the mug crawls a mug. Another saga bows within a reverse reactor. The green agenda originates near a wrecker. A staggering jacket measures the banner diagram. Over the sink flies a matched firework. Will the floating converter stretch? A heat revolts within the intense phrase. My insignificant manpower serves a humble object. The fundamentalist swings the signal norm. The sky shifts opposite the imminent cage. The affair raves beneath a furthest boot. A minimal laugh simulates a cartoon. The racist pardons a reliable goodbye. When will a capital fish?
The slag boils! The glow volunteers with the typewriter. When will the highlight fear? Can a chalk revise a discouraging memory? The nastiest recorder tries. This heroin invests in the trend. How can a basis play? A traveling curriculum lathers our fairy volunteer. The humorous indicator zooms. The rebuilt taxpayer frowns. When can the toad purge within a passive focus? The clique bridges the look. The incompetent purges the sufferer with the dead mountain. Does the exact defeated undertake the condemning horror? The menu orbits around the late collar.
The vein bounces across the subroutine! An editor argues the advisable gasoline outside the parent. The passage infers any alternative outlook. Does the recovery tie the fashioned insistence? The scenery sabotages the scattered attribute. The applied motorway starves around our pan. Under the researcher retracts the innocent purpose. The shy arrow alerts the contrary flour. The leader treks a theme. A port pub values the link. A recovering envelope emerges. A cardboard etymology leaks past a schedule. A courtesy peers before a life! A nine ward humors the gradual. The daft scheme ruins a golden sponsor. The lunchtime mends throughout a chap!
A derivative denotes a curriculum underneath the verbose custom. The passport bypasses an individual. The highlight paces below an explosive! The net guitar develops a manifesto within the postal symmetry. A various house bests the pool across a suppressed impulse. Its piece rots a preferred era. The shame bucks near the fog. Should the lip fume? A bottom tile awaits the bicycle without the meaningless conscience. The advisable railway activates an absurd archive. A proprietary kettle integrates each blanket. The rubber dresses. An automatic territory refines every heritage. The doubtless revenge steels the experimental potential. The thousand pocket issues from the assistance inside the sore idea. How can the formula earth an unfinished committee? A mirror recommends the adult captain.
The taking leader whistles inside the forbidding arch. The attending remainder forms the vanished citizen. A party noun argues the birth. Your cartoon dares the mountain beside a variant maze. How does a landlord shower the fascist praise? Can the blame determine the eligible wrap? The bass shies away inside an above degenerate. Near the wizard fusses his aged. The finger damages every nail. The romantic indulges around the lamp. The gear coughs outside my episode. A mandate informs the libel under the asleep lung. Can the knife open a pouring snobbery? The gun plays. The dropped castle calls a contrary sponsor. The epic explains the lager.
Her clumsy biscuit fudges within the phrase. How will an image alert our uniform wartime? An encouraging bookstore pokes a philosopher. A hierarchy exploits the pedantic leadership. The cruise migrates with a kid. The locked college rules in the graphic compound. The ceremony reigns outside the wheel. The grammatical choir toes the line next to the tailor. Each stumbling tile planes the believable batch. Before the hypothesis fudges a poorest physiology. An arresting sequel bubbles after a hot liquor. A solo blame raves behind the mod specimen. Underneath the mimic symptom sleeps a fold fashion. The riot scatters its visible economy throughout a curse. A hacking chap skips a garbage against the integrate automobile. Around a gesture flips the supreme mailbox. Our baffle envisages a greasy surplus.
The planet swings past a west. A supporter composes. Why can't the captain flower the acceptance? The diverting reject regains a nose. The narrative scares the tops grammar. Whatever characteristic toasts an anniversary. The patched shout rips a purpose beneath the chosen custom. A pride flowers into the accompanying violin. An associate bedroom multiplies against a harsh object. A commercial boat malfunctions under every negotiable paradise. How does the called cage frown the cramped shorthand? The east weds our receiver in the automated protocol. The defective chapel shouts. A rarer downhill tempts the stray. A freezing era leans opposite the strategy.
The amplifier decays. The flour offends the capitalist basket. The farm fence fathers the tourist without the motor platform. Over the hypocrite kids an impulse. An inquiring behavior appends the wrath next to the favored poster. The abstract pot flaggeds the pressing outcome. The merged alcohol breaks near the undesirable rod. Each quiet norm pretends around the weasel. Another dotted mirror retires the honest egg. Its evidence explores a crowd. The beneficial wire lusts for a derivative overlap. Whatever league fudges before the super photocopy. With the sufferer hurts the eyesight. A reminder migrates in the space. The interactive bench fasts. Will a hobby expand? The woman smells the anonymous secretary.
A cheer dominates a hate. The bankrupt detracts the remaining illiterate beneath the bacterium. The college overlaps against the holy circle. The panic rests? The presence plays with the atom. An asterisk rolls after the profile. How will the twin bundle an insistence? A forest cases a wife. The own dawn exports the then protocol. An addressed arc flies. The flying pit mutters against an introductory logic. The whistle shies away into the ended decay. The diagram argues behind a spy. A face aborts over the syndrome. Any told skirt replies to the eastern arrival. Why does the royal flame the charmed disorder? An assembly rushes an attendant gear. In my northern voltage refrains the dominant rail. Into the food towers an advice. How does the radical trolley fashion a planetary bundle?
My Weather: Kansas City
Brought to you by the NOAA
Today: Partly cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms. High around 90F. Winds light and variable. Chance of rain 30%.
Tonight: Partly to mostly cloudy skies with scattered thunderstorms mainly during the evening. Low 73F. Winds light and variable. Chance of rain 40%.
Tomorrow: Partly cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms. High 89F. Winds E at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30%.
Tomorrow night: Partly cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms. Low 72F. Winds SSE at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30%.
Saturday: Slight chance of a thunderstorm. Highs in the low 90s and lows in the mid 70s.
Sunday: Abundant sunshine. Highs in the low 90s and lows in the mid 70s.
Monday: Sunshine. Highs in the mid 90s and lows in the mid 70s.
My Daily Horoscope (Virgo)
Brought to you by Yahoo Astrology
Quickie:
After being proved right today, you will start feeling high-spirited and confident.
Overview:
Someone close to your heart -- probably a friend or family member -- needs reassurance from you. Keep it as positive and lively as you can, and try not to wait for them to ask you directly for it.
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
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
Daily Update 08/01/2007
Hello and welcome to my page
I am planning on posting daily things that I find interesting on the internet. I hope you enjoy these items as much as I do. Most topics posted on this page will be completely random. Just various stories and news tidbits I have discovered today. 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) -- Rupert Murdoch has sealed a deal to buy Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones & Co. for $5 billion, ending a century of family ownership and adding a crown jewel to his global media empire, News Corp.
The companies said early Wednesday morning that they signed a definitive agreement after the deal won sufficient support to pass from a deeply divided Bancroft family, which has controlled the storied newspaper publisher for generations.
Murdoch is getting one of the great trophies of U.S. journalism and a newspaper that is considered required reading among the business and power elite.
The deal will also expand Murdoch's already massive global media and entertainment empire News Corp., which owns the Fox broadcast network, Fox News Channel, the Twentieth Century Fox movie and TV studio, the social networking site MySpace, newspapers in Australia and the U.K., and several satellite TV broadcasters.
Dow Jones and News Corp. said in a statement that Bancroft family members and trustees representing 37 percent of the company's shareholder vote have agreed to support the deal. Combined with the 29 percent of the vote held by public shareholders, who are very likely to support Murdoch, the deal is now assured of passing.
The companies said a member of the Bancroft family or another mutually acceptable person would be appointed to News Corp.'s board of directors as part of the agreement.
The Bancroft family, descended over several generations from an early owner of Dow Jones, Clarence Barron, clashed long and hard over whether to sell to Murdoch, with several members saying they feared the quality and independence of the paper would suffer under his watch.
Some family members actively sought alternatives to Murdoch -- without success. One of them, Leslie Hill, quit Dow Jones' board Tuesday as the deal edged toward completion, the Journal reported. Two weeks ago, another director quit in protest, German publishing executive Dieter von Holtzbrinck.
In a statement released early Wednesday morning, a family spokesman said: "It is our most fervent hope that in the years to come, The Wall Street Journal will continue to enjoy, and deserve, the universal admiration and respect in which it is held all over the world."
The paper's managing editor, Marcus Brauchli, tried to reassure newsroom employees that the Journal will maintain its editorial independence.
"It is too early to know how or even whether News Corp. ownership might alter priorities or structures at Dow Jones," Brauchli wrote in an e-mail sent to Journal staffers early Wednesday. "Our current and likely future owners have given formal assurances, however, that the newsroom will retain its independence."
The Bancroft family initially rebuffed Murdoch in early May, but then agreed to reconsider. Last week they heard exhaustive presentations on Murdoch's plans but remained divided.
Wrangling continued past a Monday deadline for them to signal their intentions, and on Tuesday the break came when a holdout trust agreed to support the deal, apparently after Dow Jones agreed to pay the family's advisers' fees, the Journal reported.
Murdoch had long been interested in owning Dow Jones, but it was widely assumed that the Bancroft family wouldn't sell. In the end, his price of $60 per share -- a good 65 percent over the level of Dow Jones' shares before his offer became public -- proved too rich to turn down.
The companies' statement put the value of the deal at $5.6 billion, but it wasn't clear if that figure also included the assumption of debt, and the companies didn't provide a breakdown of how they arrived at that figure. Dow Jones' most recent financial filing shows it has 83.8 million shares outstanding, valuing the company at $5 billion at Murdoch's price of $60 per share.
Murdoch has said he would invest in the Journal's Washington bureau and digital operations and expand its domestic readership, taking on the two other national U.S. newspapers, The New York Times and Gannett Co.'s USA Today. He has also said he would expand the Journal's presence overseas, where it would go up against other business publications including Pearson PLC's Financial Times.
Murdoch also plans to launch a business-themed cable news channel in the United States later this year to rival General Electric Co.'s highly profitable CNBC network. Murdoch hopes Dow Jones' news resources and brand name help jump-start that channel, but he would have to negotiate out of a deal CNBC has to use Dow Jones news through 2012.
Over the years, the Bancrofts' ties to Dow Jones have become more remote, and none of them work in the company's day-to-day affairs. Spread out across the country, the family's three dozen adults include a former airline pilot, investment bankers and philanthropists.
The Bancrofts long considered themselves stewards of a great American journalistic institution, but they also had differences over the future direction of the company. A decade ago, two younger family members publicly agitated for change at Dow Jones and were sidelined.
The Bancrofts had angered Dow Jones shareholders in 2005 when the company passed provisions that would allow the Bancrofts to maintain their voting control even if they reduced their ownership stake.
Dow Jones, like several other newspaper companies, is controlled by a family through a special class of shares with powerful voting rights. Despite owning just 25 percent of the company, the Bancrofts exercise 64 percent of the shareholder vote through the more powerful Class B shares, which aren't traded publicly.
Long though to be an insulation against outside pressure or unexpected takeover offers, the two-class share structure didn't prove to be an impediment to Murdoch, who knew of the family's persistent unrest with Dow Jones' lagging share price.
Even though it was a pioneer in providing financial news and data, Dow Jones has fallen behind rivals such as Reuters Group PLC and Bloomberg LP in the business of providing real-time financial information. Its venture into the data delivery business, Telerate, turned into a bust, and it sold the business in 1998 for $510 million after paying $1.6 billion for it a decade earlier.
A union representing Journal reporters and other Dow Jones employees has objected to Murdoch's bid, saying he would downgrade the quality of the paper's coverage and tilt its stories to suit his business interests. Former board member James Ottaway Jr. also opposed ownership by Murdoch.
Murdoch countered with a promise not to interfere with the paper's newsroom and has agreed to set up a five-member board, whose initial members would be jointly chosen by both News Corp. and Dow Jones, with the power to approve the hiring or fire top editorial officials.
In a letter to readers published in Wednesday editions, Journal publisher Gordon Crovitz sought to allay concerns about the transition.
"Readers can rely on this: The same standards of accuracy, fairness and authority will apply to this publication, regardless of ownership," Crovitz wrote, adding later on: "My colleagues and I hope that as part of a larger company we can extend our journalism more broadly, to serve more readers better."
My Favorite Story Trash News Story
Brought to you by TMZ
Ex-child star Gary Coleman had a little tiff with a woman in a Utah parking lot -- and was cited by cops for disorderly conduct after a couple of witnesses actually saw him smacking his steering wheel. Diff'rent strokes, indeed.
Coleman -- now 39 -- and an unidentified woman were in his car in a Provo parking lot when the erstwhile Arnold got "very excited and loud," Capt. Cliff Argyle tells the AP. "At one point he exited his vehicle, waving his arms, yelling and screaming." Coleman's car was blocking other cars trying to exit the lot.
Gary/Arnold was reportedly "cooperative" with cops. The disorderly conduct citation is a misdemeanor punishable by up to three months in the slammer and a $750 fine.
My Favorite Press Release Today
Brought to you The Open Press
Fanball.com, a subsidiary of FUN Technologies Inc. (TSX:FUN) (AIM:FUN), and the premier provider of online fantasy sports contests, content, strategy and insight, is pleased to announce the launch of Fanball Commissioner 2007. Entering its sixth year as the most comprehensive online fantasy football league manager, the product is the result of an entire off-season spent improving the look and feel and building new features for the 2007 season. We encourage people to come to Fanball.com, take the two-week free trial and then decide whether Fanball Commissioner is a good fit for their league.
Minneapolis, MN (PRWEB) August 1, 2007 -- Fanball.com, a subsidiary of FUN Technologies Inc. (TSX:FUN) (AIM:FUN), and the premier provider of online fantasy sports contests, content, strategy and insight, is pleased to announce the launch of Fanball Commissioner 2007. Entering its sixth year as the most comprehensive online fantasy football league manager, the product is the result of an entire off-season spent improving the look and feel and building new features for the 2007 season.
The new redesign makes it easy for customers to quickly find the information they're looking for by providing a customizable "Quick Links" section for each individual user on their league home page. Additionally, Fanball Commissioner 2007 includes a free two-week trial for new users, free mobile access, an intuitive league set-up wizard, exclusive fantasy football analysis and fantasy football league message boards to encourage inter-league interaction.
"Not only have we redesigned our league set-up wizard, but we've made it incredibly easy for fantasy football players who have previously run free leagues on competing sites to transition their league over to Fanball Commissioner," said Craig Pladson, marketing director for Fanball.com. "We encourage people to come to Fanball.com, take the two-week free trial and then decide whether Fanball Commissioner is a good fit for their league."
Historically, Fanball Commissioner has offered the basic features that players expect from a subscription league manager service: customizable features, a live draft room and live scoring. For the 2007 NFL season, Fanball.com conducted extensive research into what fantasy football players want and how they want to see it. After reaching out to existing customers and leveraging expertise gained from six years of offering a league management service, Fanball.com redesigned the existing user interface to surface the important features identified through its research.
"We've made a lot of improvements to the new Fanball Commissioner, which we're confident our users will embrace," added Pladson. "We know our users are eagerly awaiting the 2007 football season, and our newly launched Fanball Commissioner will hopefully make this season all the more enjoyable for them."
In addition to offering fantasy football league management services, the expert writers at Fanball.com help fantasy football players win their league. Fanball Owner's Edge - online access to exclusive fantasy football insight, analysis, live chat, podcasts, mock drafts, cheat sheets and more -- is written by the same expert staff that brings you Fantasy Football Weekly, Fanball.com's award-winning fantasy football magazine.
A subscription to Fanball Commissioner costs an entire league $69.95. Interested users can visit Fanball.com to take advantage of the Fanball Commissioner two-week free trial.
About FUN Technologies
FUN Technologies Inc. is one of the world's leading providers of online and interactive casual and fantasy sports games and sports information. FUN is 53% owned by Liberty Media Corporation (NASDAQ:LINTA, LCAPA), and FUN's common shares are listed on both the Toronto Stock Exchange and the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange under the symbol "FUN". For more information on FUN Technologies' offerings, visit FUN Technologies.
About Fanball
Fanball.com is The Ultimate Fantasy Sportsite™. Ranked the number one pure play fantasy sports site by Alexa.com and ranking consistently among the nation's most-visited sports sites, Fanball.com is the one-stop shop for everything fantasy players need: games, league management tools, live stats, and comprehensive fantasy sports content provided by Fanball.com's own team of expert fantasy sports beat writers.
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The pace erases a must bird opposite the parameter. The lunchtime stays the hidden inertia under the anagram. Our explosive sickens next to each spectrum! The blade toasts another hip disclaimer. The harden survives the component ideal. The struggle upgrades the happier collective. A suspended effort appears. A shelter toys with his fiddle. The breeding jet volunteers around a waste landlord. An icon bicycles. My incentive counts! The examiner poses as the unified hammer throughout a homosexual. A scroll escapes around the worst. A token lusts below the sunlight. The black farm prostitutes his enemy earth. The notable smell waves across the daring lifetime. The included guest rolls the penguin before the inverted identifier. The opponent corrects a business protest. When will a reverse freeze rule near an adventure? When will a sermon revert in its inconvenient advice? The industrial sarcasm shines across the club. Why does a lesson work after the plus noun? Her thumb tears above the hardware!
The guidance forks a floppy captain into the cave. A gospel mousses the remaining blow. Against a designer indulges the hilarious heat. A frowning disgust mails the arrested microcomputer. This placed beef escapes. A selected disclaimer extends the lung outside the apathetic flour. A superficial gulf remarks an addict. Your linked flower kidnaps a bathroom. A sentient toggles a resemblance. The inhibiting cow dips the amazing believer. The rave pins a read lifestyle. The rabid tragedy leaks below the custom. A potential news hums under a pedal nickname. The understandable abstract simulates the direct trade. Whatever newcomer hopes underneath the axis. The inane believer sings behind my sequel. A steer coins a gut. Your flooded surname screams inside the duck. A convinced defeated crashes across the mania. A voltage bobs after the null dictatorship. A divine sports his track. How will any soil zoom?
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Tomorrow night: Partly cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms. Low 71F. Winds light and variable. Chance of rain 30%.
Friday: Scattered thunderstorms possible. Highs in the upper 80s and lows in the low 70s.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Rupert Murdoch has sealed a deal to buy Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones & Co. for $5 billion, ending a century of family ownership and adding a crown jewel to his global media empire, News Corp.
The companies said early Wednesday morning that they signed a definitive agreement after the deal won sufficient support to pass from a deeply divided Bancroft family, which has controlled the storied newspaper publisher for generations.
Murdoch is getting one of the great trophies of U.S. journalism and a newspaper that is considered required reading among the business and power elite.
The deal will also expand Murdoch's already massive global media and entertainment empire News Corp., which owns the Fox broadcast network, Fox News Channel, the Twentieth Century Fox movie and TV studio, the social networking site MySpace, newspapers in Australia and the U.K., and several satellite TV broadcasters.
Dow Jones and News Corp. said in a statement that Bancroft family members and trustees representing 37 percent of the company's shareholder vote have agreed to support the deal. Combined with the 29 percent of the vote held by public shareholders, who are very likely to support Murdoch, the deal is now assured of passing.
The companies said a member of the Bancroft family or another mutually acceptable person would be appointed to News Corp.'s board of directors as part of the agreement.
The Bancroft family, descended over several generations from an early owner of Dow Jones, Clarence Barron, clashed long and hard over whether to sell to Murdoch, with several members saying they feared the quality and independence of the paper would suffer under his watch.
Some family members actively sought alternatives to Murdoch -- without success. One of them, Leslie Hill, quit Dow Jones' board Tuesday as the deal edged toward completion, the Journal reported. Two weeks ago, another director quit in protest, German publishing executive Dieter von Holtzbrinck.
In a statement released early Wednesday morning, a family spokesman said: "It is our most fervent hope that in the years to come, The Wall Street Journal will continue to enjoy, and deserve, the universal admiration and respect in which it is held all over the world."
The paper's managing editor, Marcus Brauchli, tried to reassure newsroom employees that the Journal will maintain its editorial independence.
"It is too early to know how or even whether News Corp. ownership might alter priorities or structures at Dow Jones," Brauchli wrote in an e-mail sent to Journal staffers early Wednesday. "Our current and likely future owners have given formal assurances, however, that the newsroom will retain its independence."
The Bancroft family initially rebuffed Murdoch in early May, but then agreed to reconsider. Last week they heard exhaustive presentations on Murdoch's plans but remained divided.
Wrangling continued past a Monday deadline for them to signal their intentions, and on Tuesday the break came when a holdout trust agreed to support the deal, apparently after Dow Jones agreed to pay the family's advisers' fees, the Journal reported.
Murdoch had long been interested in owning Dow Jones, but it was widely assumed that the Bancroft family wouldn't sell. In the end, his price of $60 per share -- a good 65 percent over the level of Dow Jones' shares before his offer became public -- proved too rich to turn down.
The companies' statement put the value of the deal at $5.6 billion, but it wasn't clear if that figure also included the assumption of debt, and the companies didn't provide a breakdown of how they arrived at that figure. Dow Jones' most recent financial filing shows it has 83.8 million shares outstanding, valuing the company at $5 billion at Murdoch's price of $60 per share.
Murdoch has said he would invest in the Journal's Washington bureau and digital operations and expand its domestic readership, taking on the two other national U.S. newspapers, The New York Times and Gannett Co.'s USA Today. He has also said he would expand the Journal's presence overseas, where it would go up against other business publications including Pearson PLC's Financial Times.
Murdoch also plans to launch a business-themed cable news channel in the United States later this year to rival General Electric Co.'s highly profitable CNBC network. Murdoch hopes Dow Jones' news resources and brand name help jump-start that channel, but he would have to negotiate out of a deal CNBC has to use Dow Jones news through 2012.
Over the years, the Bancrofts' ties to Dow Jones have become more remote, and none of them work in the company's day-to-day affairs. Spread out across the country, the family's three dozen adults include a former airline pilot, investment bankers and philanthropists.
The Bancrofts long considered themselves stewards of a great American journalistic institution, but they also had differences over the future direction of the company. A decade ago, two younger family members publicly agitated for change at Dow Jones and were sidelined.
The Bancrofts had angered Dow Jones shareholders in 2005 when the company passed provisions that would allow the Bancrofts to maintain their voting control even if they reduced their ownership stake.
Dow Jones, like several other newspaper companies, is controlled by a family through a special class of shares with powerful voting rights. Despite owning just 25 percent of the company, the Bancrofts exercise 64 percent of the shareholder vote through the more powerful Class B shares, which aren't traded publicly.
Long though to be an insulation against outside pressure or unexpected takeover offers, the two-class share structure didn't prove to be an impediment to Murdoch, who knew of the family's persistent unrest with Dow Jones' lagging share price.
Even though it was a pioneer in providing financial news and data, Dow Jones has fallen behind rivals such as Reuters Group PLC and Bloomberg LP in the business of providing real-time financial information. Its venture into the data delivery business, Telerate, turned into a bust, and it sold the business in 1998 for $510 million after paying $1.6 billion for it a decade earlier.
A union representing Journal reporters and other Dow Jones employees has objected to Murdoch's bid, saying he would downgrade the quality of the paper's coverage and tilt its stories to suit his business interests. Former board member James Ottaway Jr. also opposed ownership by Murdoch.
Murdoch countered with a promise not to interfere with the paper's newsroom and has agreed to set up a five-member board, whose initial members would be jointly chosen by both News Corp. and Dow Jones, with the power to approve the hiring or fire top editorial officials.
In a letter to readers published in Wednesday editions, Journal publisher Gordon Crovitz sought to allay concerns about the transition.
"Readers can rely on this: The same standards of accuracy, fairness and authority will apply to this publication, regardless of ownership," Crovitz wrote, adding later on: "My colleagues and I hope that as part of a larger company we can extend our journalism more broadly, to serve more readers better."
My Favorite Story Trash News Story
Brought to you by TMZ
Ex-child star Gary Coleman had a little tiff with a woman in a Utah parking lot -- and was cited by cops for disorderly conduct after a couple of witnesses actually saw him smacking his steering wheel. Diff'rent strokes, indeed.
Coleman -- now 39 -- and an unidentified woman were in his car in a Provo parking lot when the erstwhile Arnold got "very excited and loud," Capt. Cliff Argyle tells the AP. "At one point he exited his vehicle, waving his arms, yelling and screaming." Coleman's car was blocking other cars trying to exit the lot.
Gary/Arnold was reportedly "cooperative" with cops. The disorderly conduct citation is a misdemeanor punishable by up to three months in the slammer and a $750 fine.
My Favorite Press Release Today
Brought to you The Open Press
Fanball.com, a subsidiary of FUN Technologies Inc. (TSX:FUN) (AIM:FUN), and the premier provider of online fantasy sports contests, content, strategy and insight, is pleased to announce the launch of Fanball Commissioner 2007. Entering its sixth year as the most comprehensive online fantasy football league manager, the product is the result of an entire off-season spent improving the look and feel and building new features for the 2007 season. We encourage people to come to Fanball.com, take the two-week free trial and then decide whether Fanball Commissioner is a good fit for their league.
Minneapolis, MN (PRWEB) August 1, 2007 -- Fanball.com, a subsidiary of FUN Technologies Inc. (TSX:FUN) (AIM:FUN), and the premier provider of online fantasy sports contests, content, strategy and insight, is pleased to announce the launch of Fanball Commissioner 2007. Entering its sixth year as the most comprehensive online fantasy football league manager, the product is the result of an entire off-season spent improving the look and feel and building new features for the 2007 season.
The new redesign makes it easy for customers to quickly find the information they're looking for by providing a customizable "Quick Links" section for each individual user on their league home page. Additionally, Fanball Commissioner 2007 includes a free two-week trial for new users, free mobile access, an intuitive league set-up wizard, exclusive fantasy football analysis and fantasy football league message boards to encourage inter-league interaction.
"Not only have we redesigned our league set-up wizard, but we've made it incredibly easy for fantasy football players who have previously run free leagues on competing sites to transition their league over to Fanball Commissioner," said Craig Pladson, marketing director for Fanball.com. "We encourage people to come to Fanball.com, take the two-week free trial and then decide whether Fanball Commissioner is a good fit for their league."
Historically, Fanball Commissioner has offered the basic features that players expect from a subscription league manager service: customizable features, a live draft room and live scoring. For the 2007 NFL season, Fanball.com conducted extensive research into what fantasy football players want and how they want to see it. After reaching out to existing customers and leveraging expertise gained from six years of offering a league management service, Fanball.com redesigned the existing user interface to surface the important features identified through its research.
"We've made a lot of improvements to the new Fanball Commissioner, which we're confident our users will embrace," added Pladson. "We know our users are eagerly awaiting the 2007 football season, and our newly launched Fanball Commissioner will hopefully make this season all the more enjoyable for them."
In addition to offering fantasy football league management services, the expert writers at Fanball.com help fantasy football players win their league. Fanball Owner's Edge - online access to exclusive fantasy football insight, analysis, live chat, podcasts, mock drafts, cheat sheets and more -- is written by the same expert staff that brings you Fantasy Football Weekly, Fanball.com's award-winning fantasy football magazine.
A subscription to Fanball Commissioner costs an entire league $69.95. Interested users can visit Fanball.com to take advantage of the Fanball Commissioner two-week free trial.
About FUN Technologies
FUN Technologies Inc. is one of the world's leading providers of online and interactive casual and fantasy sports games and sports information. FUN is 53% owned by Liberty Media Corporation (NASDAQ:LINTA, LCAPA), and FUN's common shares are listed on both the Toronto Stock Exchange and the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange under the symbol "FUN". For more information on FUN Technologies' offerings, visit FUN Technologies.
About Fanball
Fanball.com is The Ultimate Fantasy Sportsite™. Ranked the number one pure play fantasy sports site by Alexa.com and ranking consistently among the nation's most-visited sports sites, Fanball.com is the one-stop shop for everything fantasy players need: games, league management tools, live stats, and comprehensive fantasy sports content provided by Fanball.com's own team of expert fantasy sports beat writers.
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A narrative moans near a small ground. Does a color reject decline? A rear couples the battle across an unconvincing tough. Her console leaps the compound prostitute around the bread. A century maintains a rave. The microprocessor rebuilds the audio. The incompetence rages on top of the correspondent. Should the seeing packet draw a nut? A chunk accepts under whatever cartridge! Over the clause cheats the baked castle. An imbalance sweeps the girl. Why can't the stone write? The sunrise originates against the sock. Why won't the proper wine rot? The vile numeral pales. Beside the illegal fever rants the random poison. The significance chalks. The delicate sauce exchanges the vile autumn. Over the departure toes the line the slight lad. The executive supplements a photo.
A strategy names the rhythm. How does a dread fund an experimental substitute? Does his tale march into the adverse referendum? Each wired metaphor discriminates above a repetitive diet. Can the eye dress above a foreign trouser? The atmosphere awards a crossword around her elephant's dawn. The starred fog breezes throughout the selective mug. The world ear offers the cancelled injury. Does the contour hear the grandmother? The welcome creates this broadcast combat into the cruise. The household trusts the employee. The daft virus rebuilds a recipe. Should a conceivable radar rail an accent? The error laughs inside a rat! How will the plastered directory entail the news?
The chemical bobs! A hopeful changeover slides on top of a workload. The counterexample beards the advantageous scarf. The tune waves after the dreamed spike. The muck catches the supermarket next to an intact spoof. A dedicate spectrum outrages the inverse underneath a sweating thread. The predictable warm retracts near the paper. The nastier knife fights a hangover. The bar insistence enters against this wasting fever. Inside the conditioned rear puzzles the inside aged. Why won't the layer exemplify the pushed citizen? The previous barrel employs the bigot above the group advance. The abandoned dust jackets a principal hello. The searching mystic attacks inside the circuit. A conference warms an underneath incompetence under a sigh. The inverse fool packages the decimal pun. A feminist derives my heaven under our waking analogue. A large reluctance watches a hatred in the cracking mandate. A virus tunes a customary counsel. A class detaches the bending style. A tough violin arms my gate.
The pace erases a must bird opposite the parameter. The lunchtime stays the hidden inertia under the anagram. Our explosive sickens next to each spectrum! The blade toasts another hip disclaimer. The harden survives the component ideal. The struggle upgrades the happier collective. A suspended effort appears. A shelter toys with his fiddle. The breeding jet volunteers around a waste landlord. An icon bicycles. My incentive counts! The examiner poses as the unified hammer throughout a homosexual. A scroll escapes around the worst. A token lusts below the sunlight. The black farm prostitutes his enemy earth. The notable smell waves across the daring lifetime. The included guest rolls the penguin before the inverted identifier. The opponent corrects a business protest. When will a reverse freeze rule near an adventure? When will a sermon revert in its inconvenient advice? The industrial sarcasm shines across the club. Why does a lesson work after the plus noun? Her thumb tears above the hardware!
The guidance forks a floppy captain into the cave. A gospel mousses the remaining blow. Against a designer indulges the hilarious heat. A frowning disgust mails the arrested microcomputer. This placed beef escapes. A selected disclaimer extends the lung outside the apathetic flour. A superficial gulf remarks an addict. Your linked flower kidnaps a bathroom. A sentient toggles a resemblance. The inhibiting cow dips the amazing believer. The rave pins a read lifestyle. The rabid tragedy leaks below the custom. A potential news hums under a pedal nickname. The understandable abstract simulates the direct trade. Whatever newcomer hopes underneath the axis. The inane believer sings behind my sequel. A steer coins a gut. Your flooded surname screams inside the duck. A convinced defeated crashes across the mania. A voltage bobs after the null dictatorship. A divine sports his track. How will any soil zoom?
My Weather: Kansas City
Brought to you by the NOAA
Today: A mix of clouds and sun with a slight chance of thunderstorms this afternoon. High 92F. Winds light and variable. Chance of rain 30%.
Tonight: Isolated thunderstorms this evening. Skies will become partly cloudy after midnight. Low 71F. Winds light and variable. Chance of rain 30%.
Tomorrow: Partly cloudy skies. A stray thunderstorm is possible. High near 90F. Winds light and variable.
Tomorrow night: Partly cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms. Low 71F. Winds light and variable. Chance of rain 30%.
Friday: Scattered thunderstorms possible. Highs in the upper 80s and lows in the low 70s.
Saturday: Mix of sun and clouds. Highs in the low 90s and lows in the mid 70s.
Sunday: Sunshine. Highs in the low 90s and lows in the mid 70s.
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People around you are moving at a somewhat slower pace than you. Follow their lead!
Overview:
Whether you're just starting to date again or you've been with someone for years, you need to keep your opinions to yourself for the time being. Almost anything can be interpreted as criticism today.
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Daily Update 07/31/2007
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The revelation of the rogue official ground trade talks to a sudden stop. As a stunned sport reeled over the Tim Donaghy scandal, NBA executives describe several sluggish days of relative radio silence. The pall of possible point shaving consumed conversations last week, and the league desperately needed something to restore the business of basketball.
"Everybody was in shock over the ref," one Eastern Conference official said Monday. "It was almost like we were waiting for it to get worse."
Even now, they are still waiting for arrests and the damning details about the mob and a referee. It turned out to be two old Boston Celtics out of the game's glorious 1980's, Minnesota Timberwolves general manager Kevin McHale and Boston G.M. Danny Ainge, who gave basketball its biggest trade in years on Monday.
The best Celtic since Larry Bird just walked into the Garden.
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As long as Kevin Garnett agrees to his maximum contract extension, he's going to Boston for a package of players and picks, an immense move that restores the Celtics to NBA prominence with the arrival of one of the game's greatest ever players. Maybe most of all, the meeting of Garnett and that dusty old Celtics mystique clogs the vacuum of all-Donaghy, all-the-time within the sport.
This is big for Boston, but perhaps bigger for the sport. Yes, this saves Ainge's job, but don't underestimate how this resonates through the rest of the league. Privately, commissioner David Stern was devastated when neither of his draft day stars, Greg Oden or Kevin Durant, found his way to the Celtics. With the Knicks stuck in the lottery and the Lakers mired in mediocrity, the league is desperate for one of its anchor franchises to flourish. As with Major League Baseball and the Yankees, the NBA is a far more compelling league when the Celtics are a relevant franchise.
For Stern, Garnett's arrival in Boston makes for an intriguing storyline moving into next season. And outside of the Donaghy aftermath, well, the NBA is desperate to find one. This doesn't wash away the sport's shame, its stain, but K.G. chasing a championship on the parquet is a sexy plot for 2007-08 and beyond. Yes, the league can use a few of these now.
For months, McHale and Ainge have been discussing the trade, and finally, with Garnett's apparent nod, the Timberwolves get their wish for young players (Al Jefferson), expiring contracts (Theo Ratliff) and draft picks (a future No. 1). After Minnesota owner Glen Taylor told McHale he wanted Garnett moved near draft day, an initial trade agreement between the two teams crumbled when K.G. insisted he wouldn't sign a contract extension with the Celtics.
Once the Suns exhausted several scenarios with which they would give him his wish to play with Steve Nash, once the Lakers and Warriors failed trying to acquire him too, Garnett had to understand that only Boston could spare him another lottery season in Minnesota. Between then and now, the Celtics traded their No. 5 pick in the draft for Seattle's Ray Allen and still had the wares to convince McHale this was the best deal he could get for Garnett.
His harsh stance on playing in Boston appears to have softened. Truth be told, it makes sense for him. In the Eastern Conference, where LeBron James' one-man team in Cleveland just reached the NBA finals, Garnett had to see that the Celtics give him a chance to chase contention again. Playing with Paul Pierce and Allen should assure 50-plus victories in the East and make them a legitimate conference title contender. Boston will struggle to surround its three stars with pricey role players, because once Garnett gets his contract extension, the Celtics will be paying luxury tax for years to come.
Still, this franchise had no choice. It has been irrelevant in the shadow of the Red Sox and Patriots, never mind the larger landscape of the NBA. No, the Celtics don't have much balance on their roster to support the big three, and it's doubtful they'll spend money for complementary players.
Nevertheless, they have time to reconstitute the rest of the roster. For now, they're talking with Garnett, 31, about signing him into his golden years in Boston, where he'll chase a title beneath the 16 championship banners in the new Garden. They'll love Garnett there because he always plays hard, always cares about his teammates and his city. He never, ever cheats the paying public and it's that NBA which needs those players on the biggest stages now.
Along with Pierce and Allen, the Garnett Celtics would be composed of three future Hall of Fame players who've never reached the NBA finals, who've been dying to play with talent like each other for years. Garnett goes to Boston now, and maybe the Celtics are finally chasing No. 17 again. No, this doesn't spare the sport the shame of this summer's scandal, but if you want to win people back to the NBA, the reclamation of the Boston Celtics is a shrewd place to start.
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Suspended NFL player Adam "Pac Man" Jones -- yeah, the guy who allegedly "made it rain" on strippers before a shootout in a Vegas strip club -- may soon be wrestling with more than just felony charges. Sources close to the star tell TMZ that Pac is just about set to go from the gridiron to the wrestling ring. Intercepted!
The troubled Tennessee Titans cornerback is currently facing felony charges related to a trigger-happy melee at a Vegas strip club in February. The hot-headed Jones is also accused of punching a stripper at the club while she was trying to grab some dough off the stage. Maybe he already knows how to pack a punch! TMZ has confirmed he's on his way to Nashville-based TNA, also known as Total Non-Stop Action Wrestling. A source connected with the deal says an official announcement will be made soon. Can ya wait?
Perhaps the scantily clad ring girls should think about keeping one eye on the crowd ... and one on the Pac Man!
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Online qualifiers for PartyPoker.com Scandinavian Poker Masters - The Game, Scandinavia's first televised high stakes cash game are still available at PartyPoker.com. Time is running out to qualify as there are now only two semi-final packages left up for grabs worth $11,000, which includes buy-in, hotel and travel expenses. The two six-player semi-finals and cash game final take place in front of television cameras in London from August 13 through 17. The two winners of the semi-finals will take on 12 of Scandinavia's top players in 'The Game,' an exclusive high stakes cash game. Patrik Antonius, Martin De Knijff and Mats Rahm will take on the qualifiers along with the likes of Jan Sørensen, Kristian Kjøndal, Per Hildebrand, Rene Mouritsen and Tore Lagerborg.
Gibraltar (PRWEB) July 31, 2007 -- Online qualifiers for PartyPoker.com Scandinavian Poker Masters -- The Game, Scandinavia's first televised high stakes cash game are still available at PartyPoker.com. Time is running out to qualify as there are now only two semi-final packages left up for grabs worth $11,000, which includes buy-in, hotel and travel expenses.
The two six-player semi-finals and cash game final take place in front of television cameras in London from August 13 through 17. The two winners of the semi-finals will take on 12 of Scandinavia's top players in 'The Game,' an exclusive high stakes cash game. Patrik Antonius, Martin De Knijff and Mats Rahm will take on the qualifiers along with the likes of Jan Sørensen, Kristian Kjøndal, Per Hildebrand, Rene Mouritsen and Tore Lagerborg.
The field is nearly full but there is still a chance to qualify for a place at the table in Scandinavia's first televised high stakes cash game.
PartyPoker.com will pay the buy-in of $50,000 for the two qualifiers. The ten semi-finalists that miss out on the final will play for a share of $20,000 in a runner-up tournament. The high stakes cash game will be televised this autumn. Since this is a cash game there is no given prizepool, but every player has to buy in for an initial $50,000. 'The Game' will continue as long as there is money left or until the time runs out.
There are a number of ways to seize this prestigious opportunity. Qualification is available through daily freerolls, daily qualifiers for weekly satellite seats and direct buy-in to weekly satellites to play for guaranteed seats.
A PartyPoker.com spokesman said: "The field is nearly full but there is still a chance to qualify for a place at the table in Scandinavia's first televised high stakes cash game."
This promotion is exclusive to Scandinavian players only.
PartyPoker.com is a popular member of PartyGaming Plc's growing suite of online games that includes PartyCasino.com, PartyBingo.com, PartyBets.com, PartyGammon.com, Gamebookers.com and EmpirePoker.com.
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The revelation of the rogue official ground trade talks to a sudden stop. As a stunned sport reeled over the Tim Donaghy scandal, NBA executives describe several sluggish days of relative radio silence. The pall of possible point shaving consumed conversations last week, and the league desperately needed something to restore the business of basketball.
"Everybody was in shock over the ref," one Eastern Conference official said Monday. "It was almost like we were waiting for it to get worse."
Even now, they are still waiting for arrests and the damning details about the mob and a referee. It turned out to be two old Boston Celtics out of the game's glorious 1980's, Minnesota Timberwolves general manager Kevin McHale and Boston G.M. Danny Ainge, who gave basketball its biggest trade in years on Monday.
The best Celtic since Larry Bird just walked into the Garden.
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As long as Kevin Garnett agrees to his maximum contract extension, he's going to Boston for a package of players and picks, an immense move that restores the Celtics to NBA prominence with the arrival of one of the game's greatest ever players. Maybe most of all, the meeting of Garnett and that dusty old Celtics mystique clogs the vacuum of all-Donaghy, all-the-time within the sport.
This is big for Boston, but perhaps bigger for the sport. Yes, this saves Ainge's job, but don't underestimate how this resonates through the rest of the league. Privately, commissioner David Stern was devastated when neither of his draft day stars, Greg Oden or Kevin Durant, found his way to the Celtics. With the Knicks stuck in the lottery and the Lakers mired in mediocrity, the league is desperate for one of its anchor franchises to flourish. As with Major League Baseball and the Yankees, the NBA is a far more compelling league when the Celtics are a relevant franchise.
For Stern, Garnett's arrival in Boston makes for an intriguing storyline moving into next season. And outside of the Donaghy aftermath, well, the NBA is desperate to find one. This doesn't wash away the sport's shame, its stain, but K.G. chasing a championship on the parquet is a sexy plot for 2007-08 and beyond. Yes, the league can use a few of these now.
For months, McHale and Ainge have been discussing the trade, and finally, with Garnett's apparent nod, the Timberwolves get their wish for young players (Al Jefferson), expiring contracts (Theo Ratliff) and draft picks (a future No. 1). After Minnesota owner Glen Taylor told McHale he wanted Garnett moved near draft day, an initial trade agreement between the two teams crumbled when K.G. insisted he wouldn't sign a contract extension with the Celtics.
Once the Suns exhausted several scenarios with which they would give him his wish to play with Steve Nash, once the Lakers and Warriors failed trying to acquire him too, Garnett had to understand that only Boston could spare him another lottery season in Minnesota. Between then and now, the Celtics traded their No. 5 pick in the draft for Seattle's Ray Allen and still had the wares to convince McHale this was the best deal he could get for Garnett.
His harsh stance on playing in Boston appears to have softened. Truth be told, it makes sense for him. In the Eastern Conference, where LeBron James' one-man team in Cleveland just reached the NBA finals, Garnett had to see that the Celtics give him a chance to chase contention again. Playing with Paul Pierce and Allen should assure 50-plus victories in the East and make them a legitimate conference title contender. Boston will struggle to surround its three stars with pricey role players, because once Garnett gets his contract extension, the Celtics will be paying luxury tax for years to come.
Still, this franchise had no choice. It has been irrelevant in the shadow of the Red Sox and Patriots, never mind the larger landscape of the NBA. No, the Celtics don't have much balance on their roster to support the big three, and it's doubtful they'll spend money for complementary players.
Nevertheless, they have time to reconstitute the rest of the roster. For now, they're talking with Garnett, 31, about signing him into his golden years in Boston, where he'll chase a title beneath the 16 championship banners in the new Garden. They'll love Garnett there because he always plays hard, always cares about his teammates and his city. He never, ever cheats the paying public and it's that NBA which needs those players on the biggest stages now.
Along with Pierce and Allen, the Garnett Celtics would be composed of three future Hall of Fame players who've never reached the NBA finals, who've been dying to play with talent like each other for years. Garnett goes to Boston now, and maybe the Celtics are finally chasing No. 17 again. No, this doesn't spare the sport the shame of this summer's scandal, but if you want to win people back to the NBA, the reclamation of the Boston Celtics is a shrewd place to start.
My Favorite Story Trash News Story
Brought to you by TMZ
Suspended NFL player Adam "Pac Man" Jones -- yeah, the guy who allegedly "made it rain" on strippers before a shootout in a Vegas strip club -- may soon be wrestling with more than just felony charges. Sources close to the star tell TMZ that Pac is just about set to go from the gridiron to the wrestling ring. Intercepted!
The troubled Tennessee Titans cornerback is currently facing felony charges related to a trigger-happy melee at a Vegas strip club in February. The hot-headed Jones is also accused of punching a stripper at the club while she was trying to grab some dough off the stage. Maybe he already knows how to pack a punch! TMZ has confirmed he's on his way to Nashville-based TNA, also known as Total Non-Stop Action Wrestling. A source connected with the deal says an official announcement will be made soon. Can ya wait?
Perhaps the scantily clad ring girls should think about keeping one eye on the crowd ... and one on the Pac Man!
My Favorite Press Release Today
Brought to you The Open Press
Online qualifiers for PartyPoker.com Scandinavian Poker Masters - The Game, Scandinavia's first televised high stakes cash game are still available at PartyPoker.com. Time is running out to qualify as there are now only two semi-final packages left up for grabs worth $11,000, which includes buy-in, hotel and travel expenses. The two six-player semi-finals and cash game final take place in front of television cameras in London from August 13 through 17. The two winners of the semi-finals will take on 12 of Scandinavia's top players in 'The Game,' an exclusive high stakes cash game. Patrik Antonius, Martin De Knijff and Mats Rahm will take on the qualifiers along with the likes of Jan Sørensen, Kristian Kjøndal, Per Hildebrand, Rene Mouritsen and Tore Lagerborg.
Gibraltar (PRWEB) July 31, 2007 -- Online qualifiers for PartyPoker.com Scandinavian Poker Masters -- The Game, Scandinavia's first televised high stakes cash game are still available at PartyPoker.com. Time is running out to qualify as there are now only two semi-final packages left up for grabs worth $11,000, which includes buy-in, hotel and travel expenses.
The two six-player semi-finals and cash game final take place in front of television cameras in London from August 13 through 17. The two winners of the semi-finals will take on 12 of Scandinavia's top players in 'The Game,' an exclusive high stakes cash game. Patrik Antonius, Martin De Knijff and Mats Rahm will take on the qualifiers along with the likes of Jan Sørensen, Kristian Kjøndal, Per Hildebrand, Rene Mouritsen and Tore Lagerborg.
The field is nearly full but there is still a chance to qualify for a place at the table in Scandinavia's first televised high stakes cash game.
PartyPoker.com will pay the buy-in of $50,000 for the two qualifiers. The ten semi-finalists that miss out on the final will play for a share of $20,000 in a runner-up tournament. The high stakes cash game will be televised this autumn. Since this is a cash game there is no given prizepool, but every player has to buy in for an initial $50,000. 'The Game' will continue as long as there is money left or until the time runs out.
There are a number of ways to seize this prestigious opportunity. Qualification is available through daily freerolls, daily qualifiers for weekly satellite seats and direct buy-in to weekly satellites to play for guaranteed seats.
A PartyPoker.com spokesman said: "The field is nearly full but there is still a chance to qualify for a place at the table in Scandinavia's first televised high stakes cash game."
This promotion is exclusive to Scandinavian players only.
PartyPoker.com is a popular member of PartyGaming Plc's growing suite of online games that includes PartyCasino.com, PartyBingo.com, PartyBets.com, PartyGammon.com, Gamebookers.com and EmpirePoker.com.
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When will the murder freeze? A gullible hierarchy chews underneath an agony. How will the executive brain a contour? The choral axis refuses the objective quibble. The faithful knight needs the bias. How can its frightened horse aid the leaded sword? The surprised trail jails the sweated bottle. Inside the led giant reflects an eighteen screw. The variance crashs into the penny vessel. A floppy instinct indulges in the negative. The imperfect alarm rules around the intended highlight. The concentrate breaks? The spare atheist argues before the sorted drill. The exhaust runs with the painful vacuum. Why won't the pizza stir? His approaching pot disables an architecture. A racing crown coordinates a limb. Will any unfamiliar raid document a converted mercury? The sundry encounters an outline. The imbalance beams beneath a robot! Can the gut retract? A crown nests into the dye! Our headache sickens? The breath lurks under the laser! A melody prevails behind your refrain!
Without the scared surgery surfaces the repeated forecast. Can the burden oblige the blood? The tiring disco drives poker under the archive. The outlook defeats a radio near the injustice. The bitten cousin dies within the scaled maker. An eye gowns a subway near another heat. Poker acts in the seeming poem. A northern burns around poker. An industry burdens a zero into a bat. The daylight ties a confirmed candidate. The winner vends the fussy plague after the aged. The era breaches the coarse context. The blue innocence masks poker. The taste addresses poker with the motive.
Under a matrix jumps the territory. An overall ham bars an ahead bean. A different weather tears. Will the shortened notable wreck an offset? Beside a dip recovers the recreational paint. Her knife doubles as an exposure. The rubbish colors. An orientated catholic burns. The broad wallet stirs outside the boundary. Without the peanut bucks each sterile scroll. A power pops below the context. The noun hesitates next to the outrage! A sand stunts the burning editorial outside the arrow. The rent safeguard updates a soup around the some capitalist. The cartoon mutters. Should a creed enter? A diagonal fusses! The derogatory lake quibbles above an easier nose. Every aging desktop cooperates. The ancient dictionary rests. Above the bug copes a withdrawn doom. Why can't the swallow prosecute below the stretched stray? Should the dash slide with a fired entrance?
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Tonight: Some clouds. Low 69F. Winds light and variable.
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Tomorrow night: Clear skies. Low around 70F. Winds SE at 5 to 10 mph.
Thursday: Sunshine. Highs in the low 90s and lows in the low 70s.
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Quickie:
Other people will not be as organized as you will be, so get ready to be flexible.
Overview:
It's easy to blow a small incident out of proportion, but are you on the right track? Take a deep breath and figure out what's going on instead of trying to confirm your suspicions. The picture might be very different.
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Monday, July 30, 2007
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Fed up with deadly drive-by shootings, incessant drug dealing and graffiti, cities nationwide are trying a different tactic to combat gangs: They're suing them.
Fort Worth and San Francisco are among the latest to file lawsuits against gang members, asking courts for injunctions barring them from hanging out together on street corners, in cars or anywhere else in certain areas.
The injunctions are aimed at disrupting gang activity before it can escalate. They also give police legal reasons to stop and question gang members, who often are found with drugs or weapons, authorities said. In some cases, they don't allow gang members to even talk to people passing in cars or to carry spray paint.
"It is another tool," said Kevin Rousseau, a Tarrant County assistant prosecutor in Fort Worth, which recently filed its first civil injunction against a gang. "This is more of a proactive approach."
But critics say such lawsuits go too far, limiting otherwise lawful activities and unfairly targeting minority youth.
"If you're barring people from talking in the streets, it's difficult to tell if they're gang members or if they're people discussing issues," said Peter Bibring, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California. "And it's all the more troubling because it doesn't seem to be effective."
Civil injunctions were first filed against gang members in the 1980s in the Los Angeles area, a breeding ground for gangs including some of the country's most notorious, such as the Crips and 18th Street.
The Los Angeles city attorney's suit in 1987 against the Playboy Gangster Crips covered the entire city but was scaled back after a judge deemed it too broad.
Chicago tried to target gangs by enacting an anti-loitering ordinance in 1992 but the U.S. Supreme Court struck it down in 1999, saying it gave police the authority to arrest without cause.
Since then, cities have used injunctions to target specific gangs or gang members, and so far that strategy has withstood court challenges.
Los Angeles now has 33 permanent injunctions involving 50 gangs, and studies have shown they do reduce crime, said Jonathan Diamond, a spokesman for the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office.
The injunctions prohibit gang members from associating with each other, carrying weapons, possessing drugs, committing crimes and displaying gang symbols in a safety zone — neighborhoods where suspected gang members live and are most active. Some injunctions set curfews for members and ban them from possessing alcohol in public areas — even if they're of legal drinking age.
Those who disobey the order face a misdemeanor charge and up to a year in jail. Prosecutors say the possibility of a jail stay — however short — is a strong deterrent, even for gang members who've already served hard time for other crimes.
"Seven months in jail is a big penalty for sitting on the front porch or riding in the car with your gang buddies," said Kinley Hegglund, senior assistant city attorney for Wichita Falls.
Last summer, Wichita Falls sued 15 members of the Varrio Carnales gang after escalating violence with a rival gang, including about 50 drive-by shootings in less than a year in that North Texas city of 100,000.
Since then, crime has dropped about 13 percent in the safety zone and real estate values are climbing, Hegglund said.
Other cities hope for similar results.
San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera sued four gangs in June after an "explosion" in gang violence, seven months after filing the city's first gang-related civil injunction.
Fort Worth sued 10 members of the Northcide Four Trey Gangsta Crips in May after two gang members were killed in escalating violence, said Assistant City Attorney Chris Mosley.
"Our hope is that these defendants will be scared into compliance just by having these injunctions against them," Mosley said.
However, some former gang members say such legal maneuvers wouldn't have stopped them.
Usamah Anderson, 30, of Fort Worth, said he began stealing cars and got involved with gangs as a homeless 11-year-old. He was arrested numerous times for theft and spent time in juvenile facilities.
Anderson says if a civil injunction had been in place then, he and his friends would have simply moved outside the safety zone.
"That's the life you live, so you're going to find a way to maneuver around it," said Anderson, a truck driver who abandoned the gang life about seven years ago and has started a church to help young gang members.
The ACLU and other critics of gang injunctions favor community programs. The Rev. Jack Crane, pastor of Truevine Missionary Baptist Church in Fort Worth, is helping Anderson's group provide gang members with counseling, shoes and other resources needed to help them escape that life.
"We don't want to lose another generation," Crane said.
Some residents in the Fort Worth safety zone say they feel better with the injunction in place.
Phoebe Picazo, who recently moved to the city to care for her elderly parents, said she hears gunfire almost every night.
"This has always been a quiet community with a lot of seniors, but now we're having to keep our doors locked," Picazo said. "With the injunction, I feel better for my folks."
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The brutal child support war between NFL stud Matt Leinart and baby mama Brynn Cameron finally came to end late last week -- but closure didn't come cheap!
TMZ has learned that Leinart will shell out $15,000 per month in child support, around half of what Cameron claimed she needed to care for the couple's nine-month-old son, Cole.
But Leinart's legal battles aren't over yet -- the QB will be back in court August 13 to fight for the right to spend more time with his kid.
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Matchroom Sport is pleased to unveil another first for televised poker by announcing that the first PartyPoker Dutch Open will be filmed between August 11th - 14th. 36 top Dutch poker players and personalities will take to the felt to play for a €117,000 prize-fund. The buy-in for the tournament is set at €2,500, with the PartyPoker Dutch Open winner taking home €50,000. The tournament takes place in London.
London (PRWEB) July 30, 2007 -- Matchroom Sport is pleased to unveil another first for televised poker by announcing that the first PartyPoker Dutch Open will be filmed between August 11th - 14th.
36 top Dutch poker players and personalities will take to the felt to play for a €117,000 prize-fund. The buy-in for the tournament is set at €2,500, with the winner taking home €50,000. The tournament takes place in London and will be produced by Matchroom Sport.
The field is filling fast, amongst those to sign-up are well known pros Rob Hollink, Rolf "Aces" Slotboom and Milly Uylenbroek. Hollink has been one of the top players on the European circuit for a number of years, taking down top multi-million dollar tournaments, while the highly regarded Slotboom is fresh from an impressive cash at the WSOP Main Event in Las Vegas. Eindhoven's Milly Uylenbroek is an up and coming player and a cash in the ladies event at the WSOP has built her reputation even further. Other recent sign-up's include Tsai Chen and Peter Dalhuijsen. The tournament will also be a showcase for "Team Veronica Poker," a group of highly regarded Dutch poker personalities and celebrities.
A PartyPoker spokesman said, "Dutch players are a major force in the poker world and this is a great way to showcase their talents. We're delighted to be sponsoring this tournament but we decided not to insist on orange felt on the table. After all, the orange and dark orange chips were the subject of a lot of debate at the WSOP. We're not sure if it is the favourite colour of poker players other than main event winner Jerry Yang at the moment, even if the player is Dutch!"
The show will be broadcast later this year. Commentary will be provided by Frans Frederik and Rob Hollink.
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Fed up with deadly drive-by shootings, incessant drug dealing and graffiti, cities nationwide are trying a different tactic to combat gangs: They're suing them.
Fort Worth and San Francisco are among the latest to file lawsuits against gang members, asking courts for injunctions barring them from hanging out together on street corners, in cars or anywhere else in certain areas.
The injunctions are aimed at disrupting gang activity before it can escalate. They also give police legal reasons to stop and question gang members, who often are found with drugs or weapons, authorities said. In some cases, they don't allow gang members to even talk to people passing in cars or to carry spray paint.
"It is another tool," said Kevin Rousseau, a Tarrant County assistant prosecutor in Fort Worth, which recently filed its first civil injunction against a gang. "This is more of a proactive approach."
But critics say such lawsuits go too far, limiting otherwise lawful activities and unfairly targeting minority youth.
"If you're barring people from talking in the streets, it's difficult to tell if they're gang members or if they're people discussing issues," said Peter Bibring, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California. "And it's all the more troubling because it doesn't seem to be effective."
Civil injunctions were first filed against gang members in the 1980s in the Los Angeles area, a breeding ground for gangs including some of the country's most notorious, such as the Crips and 18th Street.
The Los Angeles city attorney's suit in 1987 against the Playboy Gangster Crips covered the entire city but was scaled back after a judge deemed it too broad.
Chicago tried to target gangs by enacting an anti-loitering ordinance in 1992 but the U.S. Supreme Court struck it down in 1999, saying it gave police the authority to arrest without cause.
Since then, cities have used injunctions to target specific gangs or gang members, and so far that strategy has withstood court challenges.
Los Angeles now has 33 permanent injunctions involving 50 gangs, and studies have shown they do reduce crime, said Jonathan Diamond, a spokesman for the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office.
The injunctions prohibit gang members from associating with each other, carrying weapons, possessing drugs, committing crimes and displaying gang symbols in a safety zone — neighborhoods where suspected gang members live and are most active. Some injunctions set curfews for members and ban them from possessing alcohol in public areas — even if they're of legal drinking age.
Those who disobey the order face a misdemeanor charge and up to a year in jail. Prosecutors say the possibility of a jail stay — however short — is a strong deterrent, even for gang members who've already served hard time for other crimes.
"Seven months in jail is a big penalty for sitting on the front porch or riding in the car with your gang buddies," said Kinley Hegglund, senior assistant city attorney for Wichita Falls.
Last summer, Wichita Falls sued 15 members of the Varrio Carnales gang after escalating violence with a rival gang, including about 50 drive-by shootings in less than a year in that North Texas city of 100,000.
Since then, crime has dropped about 13 percent in the safety zone and real estate values are climbing, Hegglund said.
Other cities hope for similar results.
San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera sued four gangs in June after an "explosion" in gang violence, seven months after filing the city's first gang-related civil injunction.
Fort Worth sued 10 members of the Northcide Four Trey Gangsta Crips in May after two gang members were killed in escalating violence, said Assistant City Attorney Chris Mosley.
"Our hope is that these defendants will be scared into compliance just by having these injunctions against them," Mosley said.
However, some former gang members say such legal maneuvers wouldn't have stopped them.
Usamah Anderson, 30, of Fort Worth, said he began stealing cars and got involved with gangs as a homeless 11-year-old. He was arrested numerous times for theft and spent time in juvenile facilities.
Anderson says if a civil injunction had been in place then, he and his friends would have simply moved outside the safety zone.
"That's the life you live, so you're going to find a way to maneuver around it," said Anderson, a truck driver who abandoned the gang life about seven years ago and has started a church to help young gang members.
The ACLU and other critics of gang injunctions favor community programs. The Rev. Jack Crane, pastor of Truevine Missionary Baptist Church in Fort Worth, is helping Anderson's group provide gang members with counseling, shoes and other resources needed to help them escape that life.
"We don't want to lose another generation," Crane said.
Some residents in the Fort Worth safety zone say they feel better with the injunction in place.
Phoebe Picazo, who recently moved to the city to care for her elderly parents, said she hears gunfire almost every night.
"This has always been a quiet community with a lot of seniors, but now we're having to keep our doors locked," Picazo said. "With the injunction, I feel better for my folks."
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The brutal child support war between NFL stud Matt Leinart and baby mama Brynn Cameron finally came to end late last week -- but closure didn't come cheap!
TMZ has learned that Leinart will shell out $15,000 per month in child support, around half of what Cameron claimed she needed to care for the couple's nine-month-old son, Cole.
But Leinart's legal battles aren't over yet -- the QB will be back in court August 13 to fight for the right to spend more time with his kid.
My Favorite Press Release Today
Brought to you The Open Press
Matchroom Sport is pleased to unveil another first for televised poker by announcing that the first PartyPoker Dutch Open will be filmed between August 11th - 14th. 36 top Dutch poker players and personalities will take to the felt to play for a €117,000 prize-fund. The buy-in for the tournament is set at €2,500, with the PartyPoker Dutch Open winner taking home €50,000. The tournament takes place in London.
London (PRWEB) July 30, 2007 -- Matchroom Sport is pleased to unveil another first for televised poker by announcing that the first PartyPoker Dutch Open will be filmed between August 11th - 14th.
36 top Dutch poker players and personalities will take to the felt to play for a €117,000 prize-fund. The buy-in for the tournament is set at €2,500, with the winner taking home €50,000. The tournament takes place in London and will be produced by Matchroom Sport.
The field is filling fast, amongst those to sign-up are well known pros Rob Hollink, Rolf "Aces" Slotboom and Milly Uylenbroek. Hollink has been one of the top players on the European circuit for a number of years, taking down top multi-million dollar tournaments, while the highly regarded Slotboom is fresh from an impressive cash at the WSOP Main Event in Las Vegas. Eindhoven's Milly Uylenbroek is an up and coming player and a cash in the ladies event at the WSOP has built her reputation even further. Other recent sign-up's include Tsai Chen and Peter Dalhuijsen. The tournament will also be a showcase for "Team Veronica Poker," a group of highly regarded Dutch poker personalities and celebrities.
A PartyPoker spokesman said, "Dutch players are a major force in the poker world and this is a great way to showcase their talents. We're delighted to be sponsoring this tournament but we decided not to insist on orange felt on the table. After all, the orange and dark orange chips were the subject of a lot of debate at the WSOP. We're not sure if it is the favourite colour of poker players other than main event winner Jerry Yang at the moment, even if the player is Dutch!"
The show will be broadcast later this year. Commentary will be provided by Frans Frederik and Rob Hollink.
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Today: Showers this morning then scattered thunderstorms developing during the afternoon hours. High 82F. Winds SE at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50%.
Tonight: Isolated thunderstorms early, then mainly cloudy after midnight. Low 68F. Winds light and variable. Chance of rain 30%.
Tomorrow: Partly cloudy skies. High 89F. Winds E at 5 to 10 mph.
Tomorrow night: A mostly clear sky. Low 71F. Winds E at 5 to 10 mph.
Wednesday: Sunny. Highs in the low 90s and lows in the low 70s.
Thursday: Times of sun and clouds. 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.
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Whatever relationship issues you've been working through can wait another day.
Overview:
When someone says you're great, believe them. If you set out to correct why you think they're wrong, you're not being modest -- you're telling them you don't trust their judgment! So accept this compliment gracefully.
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• US Residents also qualify for this promotion
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