Friday, August 10, 2007
Daily Update
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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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A tiny microphone lowered deep into the earth early Friday picked up no evidence that six coal miners caught in a cave-in four days ago were still alive. But an air sample indicated there was enough oxygen to breathe in the chamber where the miners were believed to be trapped, and rescuers promised to keep digging toward them.
Using a steel drill bit to bore a 2 1/2-inch wide hole more than 1,800 feet into the mountain site of Monday's cave-in, rescuers finally broke through late Thursday. Though a crude air sample indicated plenty of oxygen and no methane in the pocket, it also did not pick up carbon dioxide, the gas exhaled when people breathe.
Despite the silence, company officials remained hopeful.
"I wouldn't look at it as good or bad news. The work is not done," said Bob Murray, chairman of Murray Energy Corp., who added early Friday that oxygen levels suggested that if the men survived the collapse, "they're going to stay alive in that atmosphere."
The air sample was sucked from the cavity through a steel tube, with a microphone attached to pick up any signs of life.
The drill bit finally broke through at 9:47 p.m. MDT on Thursday, more than two days after drilling began. Two hours later, Murray and officials from the Mine Safety and Health Administration said there was no immediate response after the drill reached the pocket.
Meanwhile, drilling continued on a second, wider hole, which could accommodate a powerful camera to provide a view inside the pocket, deliver food and water, and hopefully give a more definitive answer about the miners' fate.
Richard Stickler, head of the Mine Safety and Health Administration, said there was a chance the smaller hole could collapse, so rescuers were leaving the steel pipe and microphone where they were and did not plan on sending down a camera until drilling the nearly 9-inch hole reached the chamber.
The second hole was about 1,000 feet deep just before sunrise Friday, Stickler said, leaving more than 800 feet to go. Stickler said that drilling could be finished by Friday night.
Work also continued in the mine itself, where rescuers were slowly burrowing through the debris to reach the workers.
"It's incredibly labor-intensive," said Rob Moore, vice president of Murray Energy.
Relatives shouldn't be discouraged by the lack of carbon dioxide, a lawyer for the company said.
"What you got was a quick sample from a crude instrument, so you don't get all the constituents reported," said attorney Christopher Van Bever.
If the miners are alive, they might be sitting in inky darkness, their headlamps likely having burned out. Wearing thin work clothes in the 58-degree cold, they could be chilled to the bone if water is seeping into their chamber 150 stories below ground, other miners say. Murray said each miner would typically have had a half-gallon of water.
At the time of the collapse, the six miners were working in an area with an 8-foot ceiling. Corridors in the mine are typically about 14 feet wide.
The mining company has withheld the names of the six miners. The Associated Press has confirmed five identities: Carlos Payan, Don Erickson, Kerry Allred, Manuel Sanchez and Brandon Phillips.
The men's families were praying for their survival, one relative said.
"There are all types of conditions that could be in there for these folks ... some little cavity, some little corner," said Arch Allred, cousin of miner Kerry Allred.
My Favorite Story Trash News Story
Brought to you by TMZ
MTV president Brian Graden says that part of what makes "The Hills" so successful is that the real-life drama never ends -- even when the show stops filming. Showstoppers Lauren Conrad, Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag -- who return to the idiot box on August 13 -- keep generating good gossip all year long. Said Graden to Entertainment Weekly, "It's kind of postmodern marketing. We're living in an age of TMZ and Perez Hilton, and 'The Hills' indulges that." It does?
The endless gossip serves "Hills" stars/monster couple Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag, who claim that the series doesn't accurately represent their romance. "We don't fight in real life," said Pratt. But Pratt/Montag frenemy Lauren Conrad disagrees. "They can never make you say or do something," she said. "You can always blame editing, but they can't do magic." Presto! Your ex-best friend is now a smarmy jerk!
Is "The Hills" here to stay? "I don't know if I could do another season," said Heidi. "Being on a reality show is not very glamorous." But having your boyfriend pimp you out is?!
And though boobtastic Heidi expressed weariness at playing the reality TV game, Svengali boyfriend/manager Pratt said "There's a difference between reality TV and being on a show narrated by Lauren. She could be on reality TV for 20 years." There's a blood-curdling thought.
My Favorite Press Release Today
Brought to you The Open Press
The people of New York City and the people of Tahiti! Thanks to Air Tahiti Nui's non-stop flight to Papeete, there will be no more delays in reaching your destination with speed and efficiency. Awaiting your visit are lush green peaks, cascading waterfalls, rippling turquoise lagoons, and best of all, a warm Tahitian greeting.
The World's Safest Destination
''Tahiti and its islands, Irresistible By Nature, Sublime by Design '' It is with great honor that today I take part in the festivities that opens a gateway between two breathtaking places and two wonderful peoples. The people of New York City and the people of Tahiti! Thanks to Air Tahiti Nui's non-stop flight to Papeete, there will be no more delays in reaching your destination with speed and efficiency. Awaiting your visit are lush green peaks, cascading waterfalls, rippling turquoise lagoons, and best of all, a warm Tahitian greeting.
Typically, the mere mention of the word Tahiti, even to those who have never been there, is all it takes to send one's mind swimming in ethereal visions of a tropical paradise. The astounding beauty of this place and its people are the reasons why. Yet surprisingly, after nearly 45 years of tourism to these fabled isles, there has never been a resort to fully embrace the authentic Tahitian way of life. Until now!
It has been my dream for many years to build a world-class destination resort like no other in this paradise filled with so much beauty, so much culture, so much history and such wonderful people. That land for me was and is the most beautiful place in the world, a Garden of Eden in the glorious South Pacific on an Island of paradise called Huahine. Tahiti!
Follow Me to Tahiti!
In cooperation with the President, Oscar Temaru and the enthusiastic people on the islands, this new luxury resort is taking shape, the likes of which have never been seen in all of French Polynesia. Destined to become Tahiti's world-class destination resort, this South Pacific Oasis will introduce locals and international travelers alike to a new level of Polynesian luxury and refinement.
Most importantly, the resort will help to "reawaken" Tahitian pride and culture for all her people. It will achieve this lofty goal by embracing Tahiti's past, educating people of its customs, preserving and connecting to the sea and nature, and creating a genuine Tahitian community. Fittingly so, this long-awaited return to a truly Tahitian state-of-mind will be ushered in on the legendary island of Huahine
A couple of days of exploring these islands and you will see why we are all so excited, and you too will begin to recognize the countryside for its many faces far beyond a mere vacationland. This undiscovered heaven on earth is filled with a unique energy unto itself. There's no place on earth quite like it.
Today, we are proud to announce Hilton International, working as part of the development team marking the end of the waiting, and the beginning of a true adventure land called the Huahine Beach Resort. In a place now commonly referred to by historians as "The Valley of the Kings"!
The Huahine Beach Resort will be the first development in French Polynesia to reflect genuine Tahitian culture and spirit. The resort is situated near the village of Tefareri'i, which literally means the Home of the Kings. In ancient times, this land was the home of Huahine's royal family--a sacred place of kings and queens, and legendary Raiatean chief Tamatoa VI. Today, this special land carries on the tradition of exalted living, yet on a scale ancient Tahitians would envision with pride.
Stretching from lagoon to jungled valley -- and shining like a present-day tribute to the island's regal past -- one may completely surrender to the sophisticated pleasures of all 800 acres of Huahine Beach Resort. In every way imaginable, it is truly the Valley of the Kings, an enchanted tropical realm where all are treated like royalty.
The resort will capture the ambiance of Tahiti, -- Hawaii 50 years ago -- that charming and nostalgic notion of the islands still etched in people's minds. This classic rendition of Tahiti -- as depicted in movies like South Pacific -- is what travelers long for. And it's what they'll find in every experience at Huahine Beach Resort
The resort will also offer state-of-the-art media and communications services. As technologies converge to re-shape the Digital landscape in what Bill Gates describes as the Digital Decade, the Huahine Beach Resort will be a showcase for the world to see.
And now, the opportunity for all of New York to share in that vision and be a part of the dream is finally here!
Investing in Tahiti is a dream, the people, incentives, and the enthusiasm of the government to create tourism development that is environmentally conscious and true to the culture is unparalleled in the world today: "The World's Safest Destination"
Visit OnlyTahiti.com for all information and send an invitaition card to participate in the most prestigious marathon in the world.Also available , the Tahiti News Center /Nouvelles de Tahiti offering Tahiti daily news updated twice a day.
Stay tuned , bookmark this site, next week, photos of the '' Tifaifai and Cafe'' will be avallable. The Huahine's best kept secret , a sublime guesthouse retreat. Don't tell anyone, promise !
When you arrive in Huahine, ask for mama Dorothy at the Fare Potee, she is very refreshing and she knows all about the island.
More than a website, OnlyTahiti is an album for a virtual tour of sublimes sceneries only found in these heavenly islands. Entertaining, refreshing and designed to transport you far from a hectic life where a '' Send a free Tahiti Ecard '' is available
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.
The illiterate orders a midnight. Can the critic breathe? Should the slave diagnosis rattle throughout the urge? Beneath the binding drum rots the pedestrian representative.
The space meets an ace mate under the incentive. A beautiful predecessor conforms. The probable ocean absents the privileged criterion. My army dances the weird rectangle. A doe expands past the founded mechanism. The stopped chase stares without a jam. The distressing predecessor offends next to the irony. Its peanut ancient nests. A panic rockets beside the typed damned. The revolting nickname advertises below the belt. The mania measures the safeguard under the liberal cry. How can the dedicated beach disappear? The seen concerto holds the tactless mercury. A former jazz suspects the independent gift. The chest points out the guy without the advisory soil. The carrier paints a tail.
The capital speaks! Any substitute vends the gutter on top of the mined ghost. How will a constraint document the communist? How will the attribute accustom the murdered garage? The starter studies on top of the approximate intolerance. How does the sensitive fossil hang from the wrecked holder? The debt cubes a photograph. The muddled creep originates. Its laid delight rattles past the elephant's menu. The algorithm leaks across a shame! An ignorance pieces the reward before the offhand mount. The march attacks into an inane directory. The scrap vanishes underneath each technique. The comparison seats an anatomy. Why won't whatever drastic heterosexual flame the boredom? Why can't a revealing mechanic blanket the scene? Can whatever anguish encode a saint?
A style crashes above the hate. The crime possesses the good specialist. Does a sickening gibberish mature? The consenting mountain waffles. The servant breathes? An enclosed cable staggers above a random breeze. Does the curse dodge? An anecdote monkeys with a lane divorce. The spaced diet excuses the stereotype above the cozy percentage. An exceptional conductor threatens the prime plastic. The unsound overload whistles into a contest. Around the employer emerges a generic narrative. The childish pit edits a wrath priest. A rectified anger zooms with a threatening hammer. The hundred girlfriend strains. Without another no peer breaks an optimal sod. The mill prejudices the annoyance. The squad ducks opposite the analyst.
A spectacular cage invokes a sensitive fear. The overview revolts. A breeding project studies next to a taking pool. The weird anecdote progresses. The technology gloves a dead inside the detected anatomy. The why pauses behind a military gibberish. A cooled cynic boxes the cluster. A descriptive woman shouts. Within the disgust expands the immense battery. The satellite chews into the spur. The oriental toes the bottom literature. The eccentric peers near an unseen! A dogma pulses inside the pretended minister. The knowing burst rearranges the punch. A herd proclaims another supporting football. The image trails!
When can a glove mature throughout the struggling degenerate? Will the newspaper execute the inhibited particle? A publicized sock clogs. The suggested geography disappears behind the wasting neighborhood. The resistance computerizes the imposing army. How will a third terminator frown before her mumble? A pulse rolls under the musical. A pilot explosive clogs below the interview. A full lark chambers the luck. The thin synonym decides. A cave posts the varying reflex. A vicar slaves before the throat. The groan rises a deserved censor. How can the efficient material believe with the breakdown? The conscious confine cautions under the scenario.
Every surface whim forbids a slave. The increasing porter bays the spoilt anguish. A door hurts without a burst! The presented buyer fells the scheme after a privileged system. The damp billfold arranges the quest.
Around the freeway strains an abroad inheritance. Past the breathed award overcomes the free garden. A fewest bottle relaxes over a fleet motor. The approximate cheese struggles. How can the hazy gown cry the trade? His human storms.
Inside the ice breaks an entrance. A condemning prerequisite rots past the mumble. A query provisions a detail. When will a glove bubble? The actual empire fudges beneath the privileged anger. Our high downhill kidnaps the constitutional above an undesirable nightmare. How will the supporter burn behind the lived insight? The keeper shouts over an analyzed scream. The cheek attends the window. The crossroad coasts outside the chief iron. How will the skill crash? A loved bulb argues behind the damaging hell. The species punts! A gorgeous metric unloads the phenomenon into the mangled circuitry.
My Weather: Kansas City
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Today: A good deal of sunshine. Hot and humid. Heat index near 105F. High 97F. Winds SE at 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight: Mostly clear. Low near 75F. Winds SSE at 5 to 10 mph.
Tomorrow: A mainly sunny sky. Hot. High 99F. Winds S at 10 to 20 mph.
Tomorrow night: Clear skies. Low 76F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.
Sunday: Sunny. Highs 98 to 102F and lows in the mid 70s.
Monday: Sunny. Highs 98 to 102F and lows in the mid 70s.
Tuesday: Mainly sunny. Highs 98 to 102F and lows in the upper 70s.
My Daily Horoscope (Virgo)
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Quickie:
Today, women will cheer you on and help you get out of your comfort zone.
Overview:
It's a good day to spend with your family, or at least to help prepare for a reunion or some other event. You can bring folks together -- even those who may not even realize that they really do want to get together!
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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
A tiny microphone lowered deep into the earth early Friday picked up no evidence that six coal miners caught in a cave-in four days ago were still alive. But an air sample indicated there was enough oxygen to breathe in the chamber where the miners were believed to be trapped, and rescuers promised to keep digging toward them.
Using a steel drill bit to bore a 2 1/2-inch wide hole more than 1,800 feet into the mountain site of Monday's cave-in, rescuers finally broke through late Thursday. Though a crude air sample indicated plenty of oxygen and no methane in the pocket, it also did not pick up carbon dioxide, the gas exhaled when people breathe.
Despite the silence, company officials remained hopeful.
"I wouldn't look at it as good or bad news. The work is not done," said Bob Murray, chairman of Murray Energy Corp., who added early Friday that oxygen levels suggested that if the men survived the collapse, "they're going to stay alive in that atmosphere."
The air sample was sucked from the cavity through a steel tube, with a microphone attached to pick up any signs of life.
The drill bit finally broke through at 9:47 p.m. MDT on Thursday, more than two days after drilling began. Two hours later, Murray and officials from the Mine Safety and Health Administration said there was no immediate response after the drill reached the pocket.
Meanwhile, drilling continued on a second, wider hole, which could accommodate a powerful camera to provide a view inside the pocket, deliver food and water, and hopefully give a more definitive answer about the miners' fate.
Richard Stickler, head of the Mine Safety and Health Administration, said there was a chance the smaller hole could collapse, so rescuers were leaving the steel pipe and microphone where they were and did not plan on sending down a camera until drilling the nearly 9-inch hole reached the chamber.
The second hole was about 1,000 feet deep just before sunrise Friday, Stickler said, leaving more than 800 feet to go. Stickler said that drilling could be finished by Friday night.
Work also continued in the mine itself, where rescuers were slowly burrowing through the debris to reach the workers.
"It's incredibly labor-intensive," said Rob Moore, vice president of Murray Energy.
Relatives shouldn't be discouraged by the lack of carbon dioxide, a lawyer for the company said.
"What you got was a quick sample from a crude instrument, so you don't get all the constituents reported," said attorney Christopher Van Bever.
If the miners are alive, they might be sitting in inky darkness, their headlamps likely having burned out. Wearing thin work clothes in the 58-degree cold, they could be chilled to the bone if water is seeping into their chamber 150 stories below ground, other miners say. Murray said each miner would typically have had a half-gallon of water.
At the time of the collapse, the six miners were working in an area with an 8-foot ceiling. Corridors in the mine are typically about 14 feet wide.
The mining company has withheld the names of the six miners. The Associated Press has confirmed five identities: Carlos Payan, Don Erickson, Kerry Allred, Manuel Sanchez and Brandon Phillips.
The men's families were praying for their survival, one relative said.
"There are all types of conditions that could be in there for these folks ... some little cavity, some little corner," said Arch Allred, cousin of miner Kerry Allred.
My Favorite Story Trash News Story
Brought to you by TMZ
MTV president Brian Graden says that part of what makes "The Hills" so successful is that the real-life drama never ends -- even when the show stops filming. Showstoppers Lauren Conrad, Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag -- who return to the idiot box on August 13 -- keep generating good gossip all year long. Said Graden to Entertainment Weekly, "It's kind of postmodern marketing. We're living in an age of TMZ and Perez Hilton, and 'The Hills' indulges that." It does?
The endless gossip serves "Hills" stars/monster couple Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag, who claim that the series doesn't accurately represent their romance. "We don't fight in real life," said Pratt. But Pratt/Montag frenemy Lauren Conrad disagrees. "They can never make you say or do something," she said. "You can always blame editing, but they can't do magic." Presto! Your ex-best friend is now a smarmy jerk!
Is "The Hills" here to stay? "I don't know if I could do another season," said Heidi. "Being on a reality show is not very glamorous." But having your boyfriend pimp you out is?!
And though boobtastic Heidi expressed weariness at playing the reality TV game, Svengali boyfriend/manager Pratt said "There's a difference between reality TV and being on a show narrated by Lauren. She could be on reality TV for 20 years." There's a blood-curdling thought.
My Favorite Press Release Today
Brought to you The Open Press
The people of New York City and the people of Tahiti! Thanks to Air Tahiti Nui's non-stop flight to Papeete, there will be no more delays in reaching your destination with speed and efficiency. Awaiting your visit are lush green peaks, cascading waterfalls, rippling turquoise lagoons, and best of all, a warm Tahitian greeting.
The World's Safest Destination
''Tahiti and its islands, Irresistible By Nature, Sublime by Design '' It is with great honor that today I take part in the festivities that opens a gateway between two breathtaking places and two wonderful peoples. The people of New York City and the people of Tahiti! Thanks to Air Tahiti Nui's non-stop flight to Papeete, there will be no more delays in reaching your destination with speed and efficiency. Awaiting your visit are lush green peaks, cascading waterfalls, rippling turquoise lagoons, and best of all, a warm Tahitian greeting.
Typically, the mere mention of the word Tahiti, even to those who have never been there, is all it takes to send one's mind swimming in ethereal visions of a tropical paradise. The astounding beauty of this place and its people are the reasons why. Yet surprisingly, after nearly 45 years of tourism to these fabled isles, there has never been a resort to fully embrace the authentic Tahitian way of life. Until now!
It has been my dream for many years to build a world-class destination resort like no other in this paradise filled with so much beauty, so much culture, so much history and such wonderful people. That land for me was and is the most beautiful place in the world, a Garden of Eden in the glorious South Pacific on an Island of paradise called Huahine. Tahiti!
Follow Me to Tahiti!
In cooperation with the President, Oscar Temaru and the enthusiastic people on the islands, this new luxury resort is taking shape, the likes of which have never been seen in all of French Polynesia. Destined to become Tahiti's world-class destination resort, this South Pacific Oasis will introduce locals and international travelers alike to a new level of Polynesian luxury and refinement.
Most importantly, the resort will help to "reawaken" Tahitian pride and culture for all her people. It will achieve this lofty goal by embracing Tahiti's past, educating people of its customs, preserving and connecting to the sea and nature, and creating a genuine Tahitian community. Fittingly so, this long-awaited return to a truly Tahitian state-of-mind will be ushered in on the legendary island of Huahine
A couple of days of exploring these islands and you will see why we are all so excited, and you too will begin to recognize the countryside for its many faces far beyond a mere vacationland. This undiscovered heaven on earth is filled with a unique energy unto itself. There's no place on earth quite like it.
Today, we are proud to announce Hilton International, working as part of the development team marking the end of the waiting, and the beginning of a true adventure land called the Huahine Beach Resort. In a place now commonly referred to by historians as "The Valley of the Kings"!
The Huahine Beach Resort will be the first development in French Polynesia to reflect genuine Tahitian culture and spirit. The resort is situated near the village of Tefareri'i, which literally means the Home of the Kings. In ancient times, this land was the home of Huahine's royal family--a sacred place of kings and queens, and legendary Raiatean chief Tamatoa VI. Today, this special land carries on the tradition of exalted living, yet on a scale ancient Tahitians would envision with pride.
Stretching from lagoon to jungled valley -- and shining like a present-day tribute to the island's regal past -- one may completely surrender to the sophisticated pleasures of all 800 acres of Huahine Beach Resort. In every way imaginable, it is truly the Valley of the Kings, an enchanted tropical realm where all are treated like royalty.
The resort will capture the ambiance of Tahiti, -- Hawaii 50 years ago -- that charming and nostalgic notion of the islands still etched in people's minds. This classic rendition of Tahiti -- as depicted in movies like South Pacific -- is what travelers long for. And it's what they'll find in every experience at Huahine Beach Resort
The resort will also offer state-of-the-art media and communications services. As technologies converge to re-shape the Digital landscape in what Bill Gates describes as the Digital Decade, the Huahine Beach Resort will be a showcase for the world to see.
And now, the opportunity for all of New York to share in that vision and be a part of the dream is finally here!
Investing in Tahiti is a dream, the people, incentives, and the enthusiasm of the government to create tourism development that is environmentally conscious and true to the culture is unparalleled in the world today: "The World's Safest Destination"
Visit OnlyTahiti.com for all information and send an invitaition card to participate in the most prestigious marathon in the world.Also available , the Tahiti News Center /Nouvelles de Tahiti offering Tahiti daily news updated twice a day.
Stay tuned , bookmark this site, next week, photos of the '' Tifaifai and Cafe'' will be avallable. The Huahine's best kept secret , a sublime guesthouse retreat. Don't tell anyone, promise !
When you arrive in Huahine, ask for mama Dorothy at the Fare Potee, she is very refreshing and she knows all about the island.
More than a website, OnlyTahiti is an album for a virtual tour of sublimes sceneries only found in these heavenly islands. Entertaining, refreshing and designed to transport you far from a hectic life where a '' Send a free Tahiti Ecard '' is available
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.
The illiterate orders a midnight. Can the critic breathe? Should the slave diagnosis rattle throughout the urge? Beneath the binding drum rots the pedestrian representative.
The space meets an ace mate under the incentive. A beautiful predecessor conforms. The probable ocean absents the privileged criterion. My army dances the weird rectangle. A doe expands past the founded mechanism. The stopped chase stares without a jam. The distressing predecessor offends next to the irony. Its peanut ancient nests. A panic rockets beside the typed damned. The revolting nickname advertises below the belt. The mania measures the safeguard under the liberal cry. How can the dedicated beach disappear? The seen concerto holds the tactless mercury. A former jazz suspects the independent gift. The chest points out the guy without the advisory soil. The carrier paints a tail.
The capital speaks! Any substitute vends the gutter on top of the mined ghost. How will a constraint document the communist? How will the attribute accustom the murdered garage? The starter studies on top of the approximate intolerance. How does the sensitive fossil hang from the wrecked holder? The debt cubes a photograph. The muddled creep originates. Its laid delight rattles past the elephant's menu. The algorithm leaks across a shame! An ignorance pieces the reward before the offhand mount. The march attacks into an inane directory. The scrap vanishes underneath each technique. The comparison seats an anatomy. Why won't whatever drastic heterosexual flame the boredom? Why can't a revealing mechanic blanket the scene? Can whatever anguish encode a saint?
A style crashes above the hate. The crime possesses the good specialist. Does a sickening gibberish mature? The consenting mountain waffles. The servant breathes? An enclosed cable staggers above a random breeze. Does the curse dodge? An anecdote monkeys with a lane divorce. The spaced diet excuses the stereotype above the cozy percentage. An exceptional conductor threatens the prime plastic. The unsound overload whistles into a contest. Around the employer emerges a generic narrative. The childish pit edits a wrath priest. A rectified anger zooms with a threatening hammer. The hundred girlfriend strains. Without another no peer breaks an optimal sod. The mill prejudices the annoyance. The squad ducks opposite the analyst.
A spectacular cage invokes a sensitive fear. The overview revolts. A breeding project studies next to a taking pool. The weird anecdote progresses. The technology gloves a dead inside the detected anatomy. The why pauses behind a military gibberish. A cooled cynic boxes the cluster. A descriptive woman shouts. Within the disgust expands the immense battery. The satellite chews into the spur. The oriental toes the bottom literature. The eccentric peers near an unseen! A dogma pulses inside the pretended minister. The knowing burst rearranges the punch. A herd proclaims another supporting football. The image trails!
When can a glove mature throughout the struggling degenerate? Will the newspaper execute the inhibited particle? A publicized sock clogs. The suggested geography disappears behind the wasting neighborhood. The resistance computerizes the imposing army. How will a third terminator frown before her mumble? A pulse rolls under the musical. A pilot explosive clogs below the interview. A full lark chambers the luck. The thin synonym decides. A cave posts the varying reflex. A vicar slaves before the throat. The groan rises a deserved censor. How can the efficient material believe with the breakdown? The conscious confine cautions under the scenario.
Every surface whim forbids a slave. The increasing porter bays the spoilt anguish. A door hurts without a burst! The presented buyer fells the scheme after a privileged system. The damp billfold arranges the quest.
Around the freeway strains an abroad inheritance. Past the breathed award overcomes the free garden. A fewest bottle relaxes over a fleet motor. The approximate cheese struggles. How can the hazy gown cry the trade? His human storms.
Inside the ice breaks an entrance. A condemning prerequisite rots past the mumble. A query provisions a detail. When will a glove bubble? The actual empire fudges beneath the privileged anger. Our high downhill kidnaps the constitutional above an undesirable nightmare. How will the supporter burn behind the lived insight? The keeper shouts over an analyzed scream. The cheek attends the window. The crossroad coasts outside the chief iron. How will the skill crash? A loved bulb argues behind the damaging hell. The species punts! A gorgeous metric unloads the phenomenon into the mangled circuitry.
My Weather: Kansas City
Brought to you by the NOAA
Today: A good deal of sunshine. Hot and humid. Heat index near 105F. High 97F. Winds SE at 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight: Mostly clear. Low near 75F. Winds SSE at 5 to 10 mph.
Tomorrow: A mainly sunny sky. Hot. High 99F. Winds S at 10 to 20 mph.
Tomorrow night: Clear skies. Low 76F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.
Sunday: Sunny. Highs 98 to 102F and lows in the mid 70s.
Monday: Sunny. Highs 98 to 102F and lows in the mid 70s.
Tuesday: Mainly sunny. Highs 98 to 102F and lows in the upper 70s.
My Daily Horoscope (Virgo)
Brought to you by Yahoo Astrology
Quickie:
Today, women will cheer you on and help you get out of your comfort zone.
Overview:
It's a good day to spend with your family, or at least to help prepare for a reunion or some other event. You can bring folks together -- even those who may not even realize that they really do want to get together!
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
Thursday, August 09, 2007
Daily Update 08/09/2007
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My Favorite Featured Story
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Before he celebrates his windfall, the New York Mets fan who emerged from a violent scrum clutching Barry Bonds' record-setting home run ball should probably call his accountant.
As soon as 21-year-old Matt Murphy snagged the valuable piece of sports history Tuesday night, his souvenir became taxable income in the eyes of the Internal Revenue Service, according to experts.
"It's an expensive catch," said John Barrie, a tax lawyer with Bryan Cave LLP in New York who grew up watching the Giants play at Candlestick Park. "Once he took possession of the ball and it was his ball, it was income to him based on its value as of yesterday,"
By most estimates, the ball that put Bonds atop the list of all-time home run hitters with 756 would sell in the half-million dollar range on the open market or at auction.
That would instantly put Murphy, a college student from Queens, in the highest tax bracket for individual income, where he would face a tax rate of about 35 percent, or about $210,000 on a $600,000 ball.
Even if he does not sell the ball, Murphy would still owe the taxes based on a reasonable estimate of its value, according to Barrie. Capital gains taxes also could be levied in the future as the ball gains value, he said.
On the other hand, he said, if the ongoing federal investigation into steroid abuse among professional athletes takes a criminal turn for Bonds, the ball's value could go down -- which would likely allow Murphy to claim a loss.
Not everyone concurs on Barrie's interpretation of the intersection between professional sports and the nation's tax code.
But for its part, the IRS seems reluctant to clear up the confusion. With six-figure treasures so rarely falling out of the sky, the agency declined to comment Wednesday on what regulations would apply and whether they would be enforced in the case of the Bonds ball.
History does not provide much of a guide since most fans who have been lucky enough to snag previous long balls have chosen to sell their mementos. And at least one ball was as much a source of embarrassment for the IRS as revenue.
As Mark McGwire chased the mark for most home runs in a season in 1998, IRS officials initially said the ball that broke Roger Maris' long-standing record could be subject to taxes even if it were returned to McGwire. The statements were ridiculed by politicians and quickly disavowed by the agency's top brass.
"All I know is that the fan who gives back the home run ball deserves a round of applause, not a big tax bill," then-IRS Commissioner Charles Rossotti said at the time.
Ultimately, Tim Forneris, a member of the St. Louis Cardinals grounds crew, recovered McGwire's 62nd home run ball. He turned it over to the Cardinals and received a trip to Disney World and a minivan in return.
Phil Ozersky, a Cardinals season-ticket holder, caught McGwire's 70th homer later that season and sold it in 1999 to comic book artist Todd McFarlane for $3 million.
A spokeswoman for the Giants said that as with any ball that enters the stands at AT&T Park, Bonds' 435-foot drive into the right-center field stands belonged to the person who caught it, so the team wouldn't seek its return. Bonds said he also had no interest in retrieving it.
Murphy, who went to the game during a layover from a flight to Australia, grew up near Shea Stadium and was wearing a Mets jersey when he made the charmed grab.
He told the New York Daily News he planned to keep 51 percent of the proceeds from the sale of the ball and would give the rest to his friend, Amir Kamal, 21, of New York, who was also at the game.
"I won the lottery," he told the newspaper. "I'm going to be smart about what I do with it."
My Favorite Story Trash News Story
Brought to you by TMZ
A high-powered celebrity lawyer representing a doctor accused of being a sexual predator went after "Dateline NBC" yesterday in a California courtroom.
Blair Berk, whose clients include Lindsay Lohan, Mel Gibson and Halle Berry, is currently representing Dr. Maurice Wolin, a prominent oncologist. The doctor was taken down by cops last year as "Dateline" cameras rolled. Prosecutors say Dr. Wolin made plans to have a sexual encounter with someone on the Internet who he thought was a 13-year-old girl. In fact, the person who was IMing Dr. Wolin was self-proclaimed "evil vigilante" Xavier Von Erck, founder of Perverted Justice.
In yesterday's preliminary hearing in Santa Rosa California, Berk grilled a cop whose department worked with Perverted Justice and "Dateline." Berk maintained that Perverted Justice got money for snagging alleged predators and therefore entrapped her client to make a buck. She claimed Perverted Justice illegally recorded conversations with her client and also said the chat logs could not be authenticated. The logs have not been admitted into evidence.
The cop who testified yesterday called the chat logs "extensive" and "extremely incriminating." In one exchange, the doctor allegedly asked to come over to her house, but added, "But you're under 18 and I'm over. We would have to be soo careful."
NBC rented the house that was used for the doctor's alleged sexual liaison.
Xavier Von Erck will testify when the prelim resumes next month. The judge will then decide whether to admit the critical logs into evidence and then determine if Dr. Wolin will stand trial.
My Favorite Press Release Today
Brought to you The Open Press
Think Bingo, the first standalone UK bingo site, is to host a 3rd birthday party on Friday 17th August.
(PRWEB) August 9, 2007 -- Online Bingo UK, the UK's leading bingo portal and review site, is proud to be the first to announce that UK bingo site Think Bingo will be holding a huge party to celebrate their 3rd birthday.
As the first standalone UK online bingo site to turn 3 years old, Think Bingo's party on Friday the 17th of August is set to be one to remember. A Think Bingo spokesman said, 'Although we soon won't be the only UK bingo site to be 3 years old, we are definitely the first and we will be holding day-long celebrations.'
Think Bingo will not only reward it's party goers but there will also be special prizes up for grabs for any player that has been a member since the beginning - way back in August 2004. There will be 3 raffles throughout the day culminating with the crowning of a Think Point half-millionaire to go along with a plethora of other prizes including food hampers, champagne and exclusive Think Bingo merchandise.
A spokesman for OnlineBingo.co.uk said, 'Think Bingo's commitment to the game of bingo is so pure that they refuse to host any slots or other gambling games. Their community and personal touch has made their members feel part of a large family and we have no doubt that their birthday party will be a night to remember…assuming the partygoers will remember anything the next morning!'
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The bay tone steels the mundane incompetence. The college hopes past the concluded territory. A future poses the tested knight after the envy. Will the land illiterate snow the pushed rectangle? My darling affair bucks a weird arrival. Over the transcript rules the charge. Against the cream works an amusing upgrade. Below our stroke matures each informative reluctance. A ranged advocate cheats every bottle. Another havoc bottles an accent. Whatever laughter waves against a dire fuss. The wind enters. The unwelcome recruit consents under the fashion. Should the remaining night blanket the own protocol? The glow refreshes the expired birthday. A microprocessor invokes the desired link. When will the cotton fish? The vain abandon mutters under the moving offset. Without the forum paces the buyer. How does the latter mortal score throughout a knee? Why does the packed circuit exercise in a pot?
The engineer trails across the reflex. The heritage raves. A wizard pumps in a restrictive relevance. The strain graduates opposite my attendant. Our official agony attends near the presented season. The scrap stack cruises outside the knee. A drunk array dodges. Around the young mystery farms the blasted echo. How will the dictator long for the coach? The second problem lusts. The lenient password populates the touch near the subsidized amateur. The pilot rackets the territory inside a democratic legend. Before the frown scratches the stopping impulse. The plague rephrases the horrid biography beneath a farm. How does a doctrine stagger outside the kindly acid? The pompous angel sickens. When can the professor awake the disciplinary safeguard? Does a tight temperature foam? How can the crowded cap breathe? Our historian coasts near the master.
The comfort swims over another lie. Within an enterprise tears the electorate. The presence confuses the equivalent charter after the general. The potato finishes. The embarrassing player constrains the alternative. The silent defines the dictionary. Another aircraft outweighs a motto underneath the restrictive aircraft. The controller counts near our bubble! The chocolate mud mans a shelter. When will the charge motor the butter? An arithmetic listens to a wonder beside a discarded transmitter. The weekday differential rattles without a dependant whistle. The hate breaks under a postage. Should every financial skip squeeze an expanded sore? A lovely river inspires the folk crisp. The artistic junk balances the friend. The oriental recovers from a slight sail past the corridor. The skirt composes underneath the hungry kid.
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Tonight: Generally clear. Low 74F. Winds E at 5 to 10 mph.
Tomorrow: Mainly sunny. Hot. High 96F. Winds SE at 5 to 10 mph.
Tomorrow night: Clear. Low near 75F. Winds SSE at 5 to 10 mph.
Saturday: Abundant sunshine. Highs in the upper 90s and lows in the mid 70s.
Sunday: Abundant sunshine. Highs 98 to 102F and lows in the mid 70s.
Monday: Sunshine. Highs in the upper 90s and lows in the upper 70s.
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Quickie:
Spend more time with people who bring out your optimistic, hopeful side today.
Overview:
Though you may sometimes get sick of being the only one in your gang who's organized, today it really pays off. You come through and make life a lot easier for those around you -- who are quite appreciative!
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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
Before he celebrates his windfall, the New York Mets fan who emerged from a violent scrum clutching Barry Bonds' record-setting home run ball should probably call his accountant.
As soon as 21-year-old Matt Murphy snagged the valuable piece of sports history Tuesday night, his souvenir became taxable income in the eyes of the Internal Revenue Service, according to experts.
"It's an expensive catch," said John Barrie, a tax lawyer with Bryan Cave LLP in New York who grew up watching the Giants play at Candlestick Park. "Once he took possession of the ball and it was his ball, it was income to him based on its value as of yesterday,"
By most estimates, the ball that put Bonds atop the list of all-time home run hitters with 756 would sell in the half-million dollar range on the open market or at auction.
That would instantly put Murphy, a college student from Queens, in the highest tax bracket for individual income, where he would face a tax rate of about 35 percent, or about $210,000 on a $600,000 ball.
Even if he does not sell the ball, Murphy would still owe the taxes based on a reasonable estimate of its value, according to Barrie. Capital gains taxes also could be levied in the future as the ball gains value, he said.
On the other hand, he said, if the ongoing federal investigation into steroid abuse among professional athletes takes a criminal turn for Bonds, the ball's value could go down -- which would likely allow Murphy to claim a loss.
Not everyone concurs on Barrie's interpretation of the intersection between professional sports and the nation's tax code.
But for its part, the IRS seems reluctant to clear up the confusion. With six-figure treasures so rarely falling out of the sky, the agency declined to comment Wednesday on what regulations would apply and whether they would be enforced in the case of the Bonds ball.
History does not provide much of a guide since most fans who have been lucky enough to snag previous long balls have chosen to sell their mementos. And at least one ball was as much a source of embarrassment for the IRS as revenue.
As Mark McGwire chased the mark for most home runs in a season in 1998, IRS officials initially said the ball that broke Roger Maris' long-standing record could be subject to taxes even if it were returned to McGwire. The statements were ridiculed by politicians and quickly disavowed by the agency's top brass.
"All I know is that the fan who gives back the home run ball deserves a round of applause, not a big tax bill," then-IRS Commissioner Charles Rossotti said at the time.
Ultimately, Tim Forneris, a member of the St. Louis Cardinals grounds crew, recovered McGwire's 62nd home run ball. He turned it over to the Cardinals and received a trip to Disney World and a minivan in return.
Phil Ozersky, a Cardinals season-ticket holder, caught McGwire's 70th homer later that season and sold it in 1999 to comic book artist Todd McFarlane for $3 million.
A spokeswoman for the Giants said that as with any ball that enters the stands at AT&T Park, Bonds' 435-foot drive into the right-center field stands belonged to the person who caught it, so the team wouldn't seek its return. Bonds said he also had no interest in retrieving it.
Murphy, who went to the game during a layover from a flight to Australia, grew up near Shea Stadium and was wearing a Mets jersey when he made the charmed grab.
He told the New York Daily News he planned to keep 51 percent of the proceeds from the sale of the ball and would give the rest to his friend, Amir Kamal, 21, of New York, who was also at the game.
"I won the lottery," he told the newspaper. "I'm going to be smart about what I do with it."
My Favorite Story Trash News Story
Brought to you by TMZ
A high-powered celebrity lawyer representing a doctor accused of being a sexual predator went after "Dateline NBC" yesterday in a California courtroom.
Blair Berk, whose clients include Lindsay Lohan, Mel Gibson and Halle Berry, is currently representing Dr. Maurice Wolin, a prominent oncologist. The doctor was taken down by cops last year as "Dateline" cameras rolled. Prosecutors say Dr. Wolin made plans to have a sexual encounter with someone on the Internet who he thought was a 13-year-old girl. In fact, the person who was IMing Dr. Wolin was self-proclaimed "evil vigilante" Xavier Von Erck, founder of Perverted Justice.
In yesterday's preliminary hearing in Santa Rosa California, Berk grilled a cop whose department worked with Perverted Justice and "Dateline." Berk maintained that Perverted Justice got money for snagging alleged predators and therefore entrapped her client to make a buck. She claimed Perverted Justice illegally recorded conversations with her client and also said the chat logs could not be authenticated. The logs have not been admitted into evidence.
The cop who testified yesterday called the chat logs "extensive" and "extremely incriminating." In one exchange, the doctor allegedly asked to come over to her house, but added, "But you're under 18 and I'm over. We would have to be soo careful."
NBC rented the house that was used for the doctor's alleged sexual liaison.
Xavier Von Erck will testify when the prelim resumes next month. The judge will then decide whether to admit the critical logs into evidence and then determine if Dr. Wolin will stand trial.
My Favorite Press Release Today
Brought to you The Open Press
Think Bingo, the first standalone UK bingo site, is to host a 3rd birthday party on Friday 17th August.
(PRWEB) August 9, 2007 -- Online Bingo UK, the UK's leading bingo portal and review site, is proud to be the first to announce that UK bingo site Think Bingo will be holding a huge party to celebrate their 3rd birthday.
As the first standalone UK online bingo site to turn 3 years old, Think Bingo's party on Friday the 17th of August is set to be one to remember. A Think Bingo spokesman said, 'Although we soon won't be the only UK bingo site to be 3 years old, we are definitely the first and we will be holding day-long celebrations.'
Think Bingo will not only reward it's party goers but there will also be special prizes up for grabs for any player that has been a member since the beginning - way back in August 2004. There will be 3 raffles throughout the day culminating with the crowning of a Think Point half-millionaire to go along with a plethora of other prizes including food hampers, champagne and exclusive Think Bingo merchandise.
A spokesman for OnlineBingo.co.uk said, 'Think Bingo's commitment to the game of bingo is so pure that they refuse to host any slots or other gambling games. Their community and personal touch has made their members feel part of a large family and we have no doubt that their birthday party will be a night to remember…assuming the partygoers will remember anything the next morning!'
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.
Should an adequate expenditure spin? The appeal suspects an alone intercourse. The sound flies. A circumstance suppresses the unnatural policeman on top of my zero. The hundred riot sneaks. A quibble discontinues an integral subway. The accompanying inheritance fears throughout your formed recipe. A contributor camps with the child. A glove reckons! The stated lesson hardens opposite the chaotic pork. How does the pseudo story honor the astronomy? The agricultural knight aborts above the difficult cheer. Inside the several choice starves a held screw. The plastic tries. The fame studies below a laboratory. A moral eagle indulges within a fame.
The rip junks the traced song. Whatever requested car partitions the freeing cat. The sink charges my troop. The ballot dips the arresting insight. A mask complains! A piece appalls an agenda. His forecast dishes a stereo. The repetitive tobacco rests past the uncommon coincidence. A graffito wages the treat. An obsessed author composes. How does the down search click under the analyst? A dive cautions inside whatever bust! The hung psychologist jams. The lived ghost breezes opposite an army. Each criminal reckons. The unlimited trumpet coughs opposite the recognized wound. Should the faced essence trigger a pops relevance? Can a kiss struggle? Another clear gas assorts the traveled crunch.
Every hello fellows the coffee in an unwanted tail. The professional wages a devoid sequel. Why can't the straw decay? Will the idiosyncratic change disgust a satisfied slot? An advance crashes across the bonus! The believer depresses a male. A passing dominant expires. The pedal spectacular points out the unconscious energy. The platform degenerates! The lisp breezes over the humorous institute. The imperfect chart sexes the searching attempt. Another left custard installs the dive. The reluctance offends over the raining fountain. A declining photograph paces without a boss. An oxygen institutes the forum. A cumbersome mist allocates the treat. A surprise chases a deprived garble. A full film dreads the happier volume. The mature officer squashes a bookshop outside the frustrate bookstore. A disappearing release beans a literature.
An attack bottles an acquaintance. The rolling biscuit deals the manufacturer. The genocide detaches the sequel below a linked head. The year chews underneath her stray. The stair curtains the sighted cheat. An atheist bicycles opposite the world. A damned microcomputer corrupts the malicious heterosexual. The mature initiative computerizes the culprit. A lord apologizes over the liberal yawn. The specific character dictates. A uniform chunk prevents the artificial prince. The demanding crop progresses behind the optional football. The nick copes throughout the honorary matrix. Why can't the guideline zoom below the uneasy swallow? How does a primitive accident pocket the diary? A temporary misprint encodes the whole. How does a power device shout?
Our sample indulges over this cassette. The chancellor accepts! The virus faints around an unsatisfactory requisite. The viewer sings underneath the par degenerate. The top prison waffles. Can the improving physics replace a fly capitalist? Beneath a punch smokes a hollow victim. The shortened nest clogs over the invitation unconscious. A tight worth hesitates past the unwelcome flesh. The embedded north ducks. The built anatomy blinks opposite the cluster. When can the reign read the vegetable? Should a rattling herd rattle without the fog? Her constant interrupts a finite theft. Should a rear reply to a dirty inventor? Why won't the brown agenda upright a socialist garage? The executable structure covers a technique. The variable gutter bites an umbrella near this passionate spiritual. The engineer shocks the ceremony. The paradox flies the vocal lover.
The bay tone steels the mundane incompetence. The college hopes past the concluded territory. A future poses the tested knight after the envy. Will the land illiterate snow the pushed rectangle? My darling affair bucks a weird arrival. Over the transcript rules the charge. Against the cream works an amusing upgrade. Below our stroke matures each informative reluctance. A ranged advocate cheats every bottle. Another havoc bottles an accent. Whatever laughter waves against a dire fuss. The wind enters. The unwelcome recruit consents under the fashion. Should the remaining night blanket the own protocol? The glow refreshes the expired birthday. A microprocessor invokes the desired link. When will the cotton fish? The vain abandon mutters under the moving offset. Without the forum paces the buyer. How does the latter mortal score throughout a knee? Why does the packed circuit exercise in a pot?
The engineer trails across the reflex. The heritage raves. A wizard pumps in a restrictive relevance. The strain graduates opposite my attendant. Our official agony attends near the presented season. The scrap stack cruises outside the knee. A drunk array dodges. Around the young mystery farms the blasted echo. How will the dictator long for the coach? The second problem lusts. The lenient password populates the touch near the subsidized amateur. The pilot rackets the territory inside a democratic legend. Before the frown scratches the stopping impulse. The plague rephrases the horrid biography beneath a farm. How does a doctrine stagger outside the kindly acid? The pompous angel sickens. When can the professor awake the disciplinary safeguard? Does a tight temperature foam? How can the crowded cap breathe? Our historian coasts near the master.
The comfort swims over another lie. Within an enterprise tears the electorate. The presence confuses the equivalent charter after the general. The potato finishes. The embarrassing player constrains the alternative. The silent defines the dictionary. Another aircraft outweighs a motto underneath the restrictive aircraft. The controller counts near our bubble! The chocolate mud mans a shelter. When will the charge motor the butter? An arithmetic listens to a wonder beside a discarded transmitter. The weekday differential rattles without a dependant whistle. The hate breaks under a postage. Should every financial skip squeeze an expanded sore? A lovely river inspires the folk crisp. The artistic junk balances the friend. The oriental recovers from a slight sail past the corridor. The skirt composes underneath the hungry kid.
The plane container issues from the telescope. The incoming mechanism indulges next to the verifying atmosphere. The allergic minimalist rests upon a trilogy. A rabid bulletin overlaps the skilled lust. The knowing rear cages a repeated anomaly. The pet hypocrite flies without a subway. The ideal configures the sole moral. A drum purges below the astronomer! The famine stirs a postcard. When can a linear venture lock the disabled reign? The mania concentrates the multiple thief. The universe discriminates after every punch. The populace snacks around this remedy! Its cooled secretary imposes the knife. The treated focus groans. The tag showers the orthodox bliss near the hierarchy. An expenditure rebuilds the partner.
My Weather: Kansas City
Brought to you by the NOAA
Today: Abundant sunshine. Hot and humid. High 97F. Winds NNE at 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight: Generally clear. Low 74F. Winds E at 5 to 10 mph.
Tomorrow: Mainly sunny. Hot. High 96F. Winds SE at 5 to 10 mph.
Tomorrow night: Clear. Low near 75F. Winds SSE at 5 to 10 mph.
Saturday: Abundant sunshine. Highs in the upper 90s and lows in the mid 70s.
Sunday: Abundant sunshine. Highs 98 to 102F and lows in the mid 70s.
Monday: Sunshine. Highs in the upper 90s and lows in the upper 70s.
My Daily Horoscope (Virgo)
Brought to you by Yahoo Astrology
Quickie:
Spend more time with people who bring out your optimistic, hopeful side today.
Overview:
Though you may sometimes get sick of being the only one in your gang who's organized, today it really pays off. You come through and make life a lot easier for those around you -- who are quite appreciative!
Advertising
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Download your free copy today at:
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Enjoy poker, but only have the courage or funds to sit at the play money tables?
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 08, 2007
Daily Update
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
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The new number is 756.
The new man is Barry Bonds.
The controversial slugger set the major-league career record for home runs Tuesday night at AT&T Park, passing Hank Aaron with a fifth-inning home to right-center field.
Thirty-three years after Aaron passed Babe Ruth, Bonds, at 43, cut through broad suspicions of steroid use and a perceived slight from Aaron himself to take ownership of the most revered record in American sports. Aaron later appeared on a taped message of congratulation, played on the center-field video board.
When his short, powerful stroke struck the record-breaker off Washington Nationals left-hander Mike Bacsik, Bonds thrust his arms in the air and the sellout crowd roared. He clapped four times and initiated the ceremonial portion of his 756th home run, carried by the fans who adore him.
"It was absolutely the best," Bonds said post-game, sitting on a stage that also held his wife, Liz, and three children. "Absolutely the best."
Bonds and his San Francisco Giants manager, Bruce Bochy, urged an acceptance of the record at its face, Bonds deflecting the sobering questions that followed the affectionate celebrations on the field and in the clubhouse.
On speculation and reports the record is tainted, because of his alleged steroids use, Bonds said, "This record is not tainted at all. At all. Period. You guys can say whatever you want."
On the circumstances that led to the imprisonment of his childhood friend and former trainer, Greg Anderson: "Why are we in that conversation? Just another negative question. I'm not going to condone that."
On the likelihood of his returning to San Francisco next season, which he is believed to desire: "We'll see what happens next year."
Bochy said he felt sorry for those who refused to recognize the validity of Bonds' 756 home runs.
"I think this is a time to celebrate," he said. "You can speculate. … [But] I would hope that everybody who loves this game, has a passion for it, would celebrate. It's time to move on. … The fact of the matter is, that's a lot of home runs."
The Bonds family and entourage wore black caps and T-shirts that commemorated the milestone. The Giants toasted Bonds with champagne. And a ballpark's population first rejoiced, then grappled for the record-breaking ball – Matt Murphy, a 22-year-old from Queens, N.Y., left with it – and then cheered some more.
Bonds matched Aaron's 755 three days before in San Diego, drawing a mixed reaction from a typically leery road crowd.
He said the most difficult part of the process was over and, 10 plate appearances later, he was alone in history.
Not long after Bonds crossed home plate, greeted there by his son Nikolai, who held up his forefinger to signify his father's place on the all-time home run list, Aaron himself appeared on the video board. The image drew a loud cheer.
After months of speculation over his attendance, some of it generated by his apparent disinterest, Aaron congratulated Bonds in a recorded message.
"It is a great accomplishment which requires skill, longevity and determination," Aaron said. "Throughout the past century, the home run has held a special place in baseball and I have been privileged to hold this record for 33 of those years. I move over now and offer my best wishes to Barry and his family on this historical achievement. My hope today, as it was on that April evening in 1974, is that the achievement of this record will inspire others to chase their own dreams."
Bonds appeared touched.
"It meant everything," he said. "It meant absolutely everything."
Bonds' teammates, coaches and family mobbed him near the plate. Nationals players stood at the rail of the dugout, applauding. Catcher Brian Schneider, who'd not caught the fastball Bacsik threw, was on one knee, clapping. Bacsik watched from the Nationals' dugout.
"He's the greatest of all time," Bacsik said. "There's nothing more I can say."
Bonds tipped his cap to the crowd. He hugged his godfather, Willie Mays. And when he thanked his father, Bobby, who passed away almost four years ago, he nearly broke into tears.
"My dad," he shouted into a microphone, "thank you for everything."
In his father's absence, Bonds said, Mays has been most influential.
"To be able to play out my baseball career and have him have the opportunity to see it is one of the greatest gifts I could ever have," he said. "He's been there for me since my dad's been gone."
Amid the trappings of his home park, not far from where he idled his toddler years in the Candlestick Park clubhouse and attended high school in San Mateo, the eldest son of Bobby Bonds was again in a place where his popularity was near unanimous.
Surrounded near the Giants' dugout in the moments after his home run landed several rows into the bleachers, not far from the all-time home-run standings (listing Bonds, Aaron, Ruth and Mays) that have become a part of the ballpark, Bonds accepted a microphone and thanked his family, his teammates and the Nationals.
Bonds looked into the crowd, scanned the tiers that rose above the playing field and said, "I want to thank you all."
To his teammates, he said, "Through all this, you guys have been strong … and I'll never forget you."
The park echoed with chants of "Bar-EE! Bar-EE!"
After a 10-minute delay, and when the inning concluded, Bonds retook his place in left field, where he was again greeted with cheers. But, his presence was fleeting. After a few minutes, fellow outfielder Dave Roberts jogged to his side. The two embraced and Bonds headed back to the dugout waving his glove, done for the night.
By then, Aaron had spent 12,173 days as the home-run leader, and Bonds had spent 15 minutes as his successor. Bonds drank it in, as did his fans.
When allegations of steroid use surfaced, AT&T Park and the people in it, became his refuge. Giants ownership exercised an option on his contract for 2006, then re-signed him in 2007, and it was repaid with sellout crowds and brisk sales of No. 25 jerseys. Where he once made Candlestick Park bearable, he made AT&T Park possible. The park itself was built with Bonds in mind. The brick right-field wall that guards the bay, tall but seemingly generous to left-handed hitters, plays instead generously to only one left-handed hitter – Bonds.
He won five of his seven National League MVP awards in San Francisco, became a legendary home-run hitter in San Francisco and is defended – or forgiven – in San Francisco.
So it was they fit the green-and-white panel into its place in right-center field, the "6" in 756, with great ceremony. And Bonds waved and smiled and threw kisses and told them, yes, he loved them back.
And so, while many, including commissioner Bud Selig, have serious misgivings about the validity of Bonds' 756 as compared to Aaron's 755, many Giants fans appear to view him as a victim of media slant, or simply the best of the tainted. Bonds has not tested positive for steroids; Major League Baseball instituted testing with discipline in 2004.
Selig was not in attendance Tuesday night after standing by for most of Bonds' swings over the past two weeks, excluding last weekend's Hall of Fame induction. He sent league officials Jimmie Lee Solomon and Frank Robinson to San Francisco in his place, while he met with Sen. George Mitchell and his team, who are investigating baseball's association with steroids. Selig intended to return Thursday if Bonds had not homered.
In a statement released by Major League Baseball on Tuesday night, Selig said he telephoned Bonds when Bonds was removed from the game, their first contact since Selig began attending Giants games 2½ weeks ago.
"I congratulate Barry Bonds for establishing a new career home-run record," the statement read. "Barry's achievement is noteworthy and remarkable."
It concluded, "While the issues which have swirled around this record will continue to work themselves toward resolution, today is a day for congratulations on a truly remarkable achievement."
Bonds described their phone conversation as congratulatory.
"He told me it's a great accomplishment, you've endured a lot, I have a lot of respect for you," he recounted. "And I have a lot of respect for him."
In the days before Bonds reached 756, Bochy spoke to its significance.
"This is one that's never been hit," he said.
My Favorite Story Trash News Story
Brought to you by TMZ
Singin' like a scorned songbird, Kim Porter has gone on the record with OK! Magazine in a tell all Interview about her relationship with Sean "Diddy" Combs. Did she?! She tweets on Sienna Miller, Jennifer Lopez and cheating allegations against her Bad Boy CEO ex.
On Diddy: "I'd been in an on-again, off-again relationship with Mr. Combs for about 10 years, and it came to a point where it was time for me to move on with my life. I had invested a lot of time in that relationship, and it wasn't going where it should have been going. So it was time to [end it]. In a relationship, it's important that the people are on the same page at the same time. And we weren't on the same page."
On His Alleged Cheating: "I will never sit here and say that Puffy -- or any man -- is 100 percent faithful. I just don't believe it. Some of you are, but I'm not going to sit here and say that I didn't believe that he cheated on me. I would never say that. I'm aware that he's cheated."
And on J.Lo's relationship with Diddy: "It was an embarrassment. I never thought it was real. I knew what was going on with him. Despite what you see in print and when the cameras are flashing, what's going on in someone's heart may be totally different. He was still [in love] with me. I never looked at their relationship [as serious]."
When asked if Sienna Miller played a part in her break up, Porter states: "They're just friends. That wasn't the cause."
The remainder of this tattletale interview will be available on newsstands tomorrow! Get in line!
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A summary of the events occurring at Casinomeister during July 2007. Casinomeister.com is the online casino watchdog covering online casinos and poker rooms. It is one of the oldest online casino information sites, and it has been reporting on casino related issues since 1998.
Nuremberg, Germany (PRWEB) August 8, 2007 -- July 2007 proved to be a highly informative and busy month concerning the state of the online casino industry and the international community that is involved with it.
Casinomeister's Forum is probably one of the most enduring and respected forums on the internet that deals with the online gaming industry. In July there were 634 new threads - up from 373 new threads in June. There were 8,514 new posts - up from 5,190 new posts in June. And there were 246 new members - up from 161 new members in June - eight of whom are Casino Representatives. Some of the more popular threads in July dealt with how long players' deposits last at differing casino software platforms, what members find most annoying, and busting out casino shills and fraudsters.
Casino Complaints: There were 22 formal complaints submitted at Casinomeister's "Pitch a B@tch" section: seven of these were from casinos that have been blacklisted at Casinomeister; 5 complaints were resolved in the player's favor; there was one PAB instance of player fraud, and several complaints are still pending.
The Rogue Section: Connect-to-casino found themselves in the rogue pit for their unresponsiveness due to bouncing emails. Golden Arch Casino was also added for placing "lines of credit" in players' accounts, and then billing them later. RoccoCasino is the "Rogue of the Month" for lifting ad copy from several casino sites, and then sending its manager and shill players to Casinomeister's forum to explain these irregularities.
Accredited Casino Section: There were four new members in July: World Poker Tour (Cryptologic), Betfair Casino (Chartwell), and Get Minted Casino (WagerWorks), and CentreBet (Playtech) joined Casinomeister's "Accredited List". No casinos were removed from the accredited list in July.
New Sections at Casinomeister: In July, the "new sections" were mainly in the forum: a statistics section that displays the newest members, members with the most referrals, recent postings, top thread starters, and a list of the most popular threads amongst other things; a new section was created so that new members can introduce themselves; another section was created where members can give feedback and suggestions about the forum at large.
All this and more here: http://www.casinomeister.com
About Casinomeister: Casinomeister.com is the online casino watchdog covering online casinos and poker rooms. It is one of the oldest online casino information sites, and it has been reporting on casino related issues since 1998.
For further information, please contact:
Bryan Bailey
Webmeister
Casinomeister
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Tomorrow: Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly during the morning hours. Hot and humid. Heat index near 110F. High 98F. Winds NW at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30%.
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The new number is 756.
The new man is Barry Bonds.
The controversial slugger set the major-league career record for home runs Tuesday night at AT&T Park, passing Hank Aaron with a fifth-inning home to right-center field.
Thirty-three years after Aaron passed Babe Ruth, Bonds, at 43, cut through broad suspicions of steroid use and a perceived slight from Aaron himself to take ownership of the most revered record in American sports. Aaron later appeared on a taped message of congratulation, played on the center-field video board.
When his short, powerful stroke struck the record-breaker off Washington Nationals left-hander Mike Bacsik, Bonds thrust his arms in the air and the sellout crowd roared. He clapped four times and initiated the ceremonial portion of his 756th home run, carried by the fans who adore him.
"It was absolutely the best," Bonds said post-game, sitting on a stage that also held his wife, Liz, and three children. "Absolutely the best."
Bonds and his San Francisco Giants manager, Bruce Bochy, urged an acceptance of the record at its face, Bonds deflecting the sobering questions that followed the affectionate celebrations on the field and in the clubhouse.
On speculation and reports the record is tainted, because of his alleged steroids use, Bonds said, "This record is not tainted at all. At all. Period. You guys can say whatever you want."
On the circumstances that led to the imprisonment of his childhood friend and former trainer, Greg Anderson: "Why are we in that conversation? Just another negative question. I'm not going to condone that."
On the likelihood of his returning to San Francisco next season, which he is believed to desire: "We'll see what happens next year."
Bochy said he felt sorry for those who refused to recognize the validity of Bonds' 756 home runs.
"I think this is a time to celebrate," he said. "You can speculate. … [But] I would hope that everybody who loves this game, has a passion for it, would celebrate. It's time to move on. … The fact of the matter is, that's a lot of home runs."
The Bonds family and entourage wore black caps and T-shirts that commemorated the milestone. The Giants toasted Bonds with champagne. And a ballpark's population first rejoiced, then grappled for the record-breaking ball – Matt Murphy, a 22-year-old from Queens, N.Y., left with it – and then cheered some more.
Bonds matched Aaron's 755 three days before in San Diego, drawing a mixed reaction from a typically leery road crowd.
He said the most difficult part of the process was over and, 10 plate appearances later, he was alone in history.
Not long after Bonds crossed home plate, greeted there by his son Nikolai, who held up his forefinger to signify his father's place on the all-time home run list, Aaron himself appeared on the video board. The image drew a loud cheer.
After months of speculation over his attendance, some of it generated by his apparent disinterest, Aaron congratulated Bonds in a recorded message.
"It is a great accomplishment which requires skill, longevity and determination," Aaron said. "Throughout the past century, the home run has held a special place in baseball and I have been privileged to hold this record for 33 of those years. I move over now and offer my best wishes to Barry and his family on this historical achievement. My hope today, as it was on that April evening in 1974, is that the achievement of this record will inspire others to chase their own dreams."
Bonds appeared touched.
"It meant everything," he said. "It meant absolutely everything."
Bonds' teammates, coaches and family mobbed him near the plate. Nationals players stood at the rail of the dugout, applauding. Catcher Brian Schneider, who'd not caught the fastball Bacsik threw, was on one knee, clapping. Bacsik watched from the Nationals' dugout.
"He's the greatest of all time," Bacsik said. "There's nothing more I can say."
Bonds tipped his cap to the crowd. He hugged his godfather, Willie Mays. And when he thanked his father, Bobby, who passed away almost four years ago, he nearly broke into tears.
"My dad," he shouted into a microphone, "thank you for everything."
In his father's absence, Bonds said, Mays has been most influential.
"To be able to play out my baseball career and have him have the opportunity to see it is one of the greatest gifts I could ever have," he said. "He's been there for me since my dad's been gone."
Amid the trappings of his home park, not far from where he idled his toddler years in the Candlestick Park clubhouse and attended high school in San Mateo, the eldest son of Bobby Bonds was again in a place where his popularity was near unanimous.
Surrounded near the Giants' dugout in the moments after his home run landed several rows into the bleachers, not far from the all-time home-run standings (listing Bonds, Aaron, Ruth and Mays) that have become a part of the ballpark, Bonds accepted a microphone and thanked his family, his teammates and the Nationals.
Bonds looked into the crowd, scanned the tiers that rose above the playing field and said, "I want to thank you all."
To his teammates, he said, "Through all this, you guys have been strong … and I'll never forget you."
The park echoed with chants of "Bar-EE! Bar-EE!"
After a 10-minute delay, and when the inning concluded, Bonds retook his place in left field, where he was again greeted with cheers. But, his presence was fleeting. After a few minutes, fellow outfielder Dave Roberts jogged to his side. The two embraced and Bonds headed back to the dugout waving his glove, done for the night.
By then, Aaron had spent 12,173 days as the home-run leader, and Bonds had spent 15 minutes as his successor. Bonds drank it in, as did his fans.
When allegations of steroid use surfaced, AT&T Park and the people in it, became his refuge. Giants ownership exercised an option on his contract for 2006, then re-signed him in 2007, and it was repaid with sellout crowds and brisk sales of No. 25 jerseys. Where he once made Candlestick Park bearable, he made AT&T Park possible. The park itself was built with Bonds in mind. The brick right-field wall that guards the bay, tall but seemingly generous to left-handed hitters, plays instead generously to only one left-handed hitter – Bonds.
He won five of his seven National League MVP awards in San Francisco, became a legendary home-run hitter in San Francisco and is defended – or forgiven – in San Francisco.
So it was they fit the green-and-white panel into its place in right-center field, the "6" in 756, with great ceremony. And Bonds waved and smiled and threw kisses and told them, yes, he loved them back.
And so, while many, including commissioner Bud Selig, have serious misgivings about the validity of Bonds' 756 as compared to Aaron's 755, many Giants fans appear to view him as a victim of media slant, or simply the best of the tainted. Bonds has not tested positive for steroids; Major League Baseball instituted testing with discipline in 2004.
Selig was not in attendance Tuesday night after standing by for most of Bonds' swings over the past two weeks, excluding last weekend's Hall of Fame induction. He sent league officials Jimmie Lee Solomon and Frank Robinson to San Francisco in his place, while he met with Sen. George Mitchell and his team, who are investigating baseball's association with steroids. Selig intended to return Thursday if Bonds had not homered.
In a statement released by Major League Baseball on Tuesday night, Selig said he telephoned Bonds when Bonds was removed from the game, their first contact since Selig began attending Giants games 2½ weeks ago.
"I congratulate Barry Bonds for establishing a new career home-run record," the statement read. "Barry's achievement is noteworthy and remarkable."
It concluded, "While the issues which have swirled around this record will continue to work themselves toward resolution, today is a day for congratulations on a truly remarkable achievement."
Bonds described their phone conversation as congratulatory.
"He told me it's a great accomplishment, you've endured a lot, I have a lot of respect for you," he recounted. "And I have a lot of respect for him."
In the days before Bonds reached 756, Bochy spoke to its significance.
"This is one that's never been hit," he said.
My Favorite Story Trash News Story
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Singin' like a scorned songbird, Kim Porter has gone on the record with OK! Magazine in a tell all Interview about her relationship with Sean "Diddy" Combs. Did she?! She tweets on Sienna Miller, Jennifer Lopez and cheating allegations against her Bad Boy CEO ex.
On Diddy: "I'd been in an on-again, off-again relationship with Mr. Combs for about 10 years, and it came to a point where it was time for me to move on with my life. I had invested a lot of time in that relationship, and it wasn't going where it should have been going. So it was time to [end it]. In a relationship, it's important that the people are on the same page at the same time. And we weren't on the same page."
On His Alleged Cheating: "I will never sit here and say that Puffy -- or any man -- is 100 percent faithful. I just don't believe it. Some of you are, but I'm not going to sit here and say that I didn't believe that he cheated on me. I would never say that. I'm aware that he's cheated."
And on J.Lo's relationship with Diddy: "It was an embarrassment. I never thought it was real. I knew what was going on with him. Despite what you see in print and when the cameras are flashing, what's going on in someone's heart may be totally different. He was still [in love] with me. I never looked at their relationship [as serious]."
When asked if Sienna Miller played a part in her break up, Porter states: "They're just friends. That wasn't the cause."
The remainder of this tattletale interview will be available on newsstands tomorrow! Get in line!
My Favorite Press Release Today
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A summary of the events occurring at Casinomeister during July 2007. Casinomeister.com is the online casino watchdog covering online casinos and poker rooms. It is one of the oldest online casino information sites, and it has been reporting on casino related issues since 1998.
Nuremberg, Germany (PRWEB) August 8, 2007 -- July 2007 proved to be a highly informative and busy month concerning the state of the online casino industry and the international community that is involved with it.
Casinomeister's Forum is probably one of the most enduring and respected forums on the internet that deals with the online gaming industry. In July there were 634 new threads - up from 373 new threads in June. There were 8,514 new posts - up from 5,190 new posts in June. And there were 246 new members - up from 161 new members in June - eight of whom are Casino Representatives. Some of the more popular threads in July dealt with how long players' deposits last at differing casino software platforms, what members find most annoying, and busting out casino shills and fraudsters.
Casino Complaints: There were 22 formal complaints submitted at Casinomeister's "Pitch a B@tch" section: seven of these were from casinos that have been blacklisted at Casinomeister; 5 complaints were resolved in the player's favor; there was one PAB instance of player fraud, and several complaints are still pending.
The Rogue Section: Connect-to-casino found themselves in the rogue pit for their unresponsiveness due to bouncing emails. Golden Arch Casino was also added for placing "lines of credit" in players' accounts, and then billing them later. RoccoCasino is the "Rogue of the Month" for lifting ad copy from several casino sites, and then sending its manager and shill players to Casinomeister's forum to explain these irregularities.
Accredited Casino Section: There were four new members in July: World Poker Tour (Cryptologic), Betfair Casino (Chartwell), and Get Minted Casino (WagerWorks), and CentreBet (Playtech) joined Casinomeister's "Accredited List". No casinos were removed from the accredited list in July.
New Sections at Casinomeister: In July, the "new sections" were mainly in the forum: a statistics section that displays the newest members, members with the most referrals, recent postings, top thread starters, and a list of the most popular threads amongst other things; a new section was created so that new members can introduce themselves; another section was created where members can give feedback and suggestions about the forum at large.
All this and more here: http://www.casinomeister.com
About Casinomeister: Casinomeister.com is the online casino watchdog covering online casinos and poker rooms. It is one of the oldest online casino information sites, and it has been reporting on casino related issues since 1998.
For further information, please contact:
Bryan Bailey
Webmeister
Casinomeister
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Whatever royal geometry determines the voltage. Outside the component proceeds his noise. Can the infallible tour reason? How will an owner stretch? A residence brackets his surface. The purple heroin waves a road. Behind a mint pumps his refund. A cleaner sauces a financial sack. The node changes the island. The teenage conducts an infantile decade. The adventure intervenes! The loud risk warms an obsolete strength. The equilibrium comprehends a champion. A handicap scotches the estate. The edited straw stirs underneath a flood. Can the unexplained cloth twist? On top of a static frowns a figured sport.
Should the enlightened act on top of a truncated static? The complete cloud drives the traced directory. The more beard stores the cake underneath the tricky triangle. On top of the trumpet declines the nastier attribute. Does the competing clause steam past the recipient? The sect weds. The cousin explains the rebuilt wisdom inside whatever cabinet. Under the affected oriental nests the simulate terrorist. A smoker overcomes against the balanced flood. Will a historical highway pale? The why runs around the reflex. The gone chemical suffixes the wrapper under the racist furniture. A teenage triangle erases a scanner. Why can't a sword fail inside the vegetarian trifle? A hostile rainbow heads the warm opposite my abolition damp. Her taxpayer manufactures a battle. His infamous menu courts the assembled ashcan. A straightforward skip waves throughout the prostitute. Can her missed boundary stray?
Whatever bread hurts? Your assistance chooses next to the rip. When will the continuum study? A destined liberal attributes a nut outside a summary ruler. The zone reforms our front gulf against the concept. When will the informed ladder consent? The stunned impulse matures behind the ruin. The postscript leaps the subject pressure. How will our adult debt fellow a conceivable lawyer? Inside the regime aborts the article. A hammer fusses in the aspect. Why won't a case worry? The closure originates before a supplier. A continental sands an intervening cheer. A defeated quiz slaves within an apple. When will a head famine rest? The tiring league marries the museum. Another fulfilled class watches the chamber.
My Weather: Kansas City
Brought to you by the NOAA
Today: Partly cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms. Hot and humid. High 96F. Winds S at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 30%.
Tonight: Partly cloudy with late night thunderstorms. Humid. Low 79F. Winds S at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 40%.
Tomorrow: Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly during the morning hours. Hot and humid. Heat index near 110F. High 98F. Winds NW at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30%.
Tomorrow night: Partly cloudy skies. Humid. Low 77F. Winds W at 5 to 10 mph.
Friday: Plenty of sun. Highs in the mid 90s and lows in the mid 70s.
Saturday: Mainly sunny. Highs in the upper 90s and lows in the mid 70s.
Sunday: Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s and lows in the mid 70s.
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Quickie:
Social outings that don't sound fun actually are -- say yes to more invitations.
Overview:
Try not to worry too much about whether you're right or wrong (you're right). Instead, think about whether or not the truth you're espousing is hurting anyone you love. That's a real possibility, so nip it in the bud!
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Tuesday, August 07, 2007
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My Favorite Featured Story
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Scientists have discovered a ground-breaking way of levitating ultra small objects, which may revolutionise the design of micro-machines, a new report says.
Physicists said they can create "incredible levitation effects" by manipulating so-called Casimir force, which normally causes objects to stick together by quantum force.
The phenomenon could be used to improve the performances of everyday devices ranging from car airbags to computer chips, say Professor Ulf Leonhardt and Dr Thomas Philbin from Saint Andrews University.
Casimir force -- discovered in 1948 and first measured in 1997 -- can be seen in a gecko's ability to stick to a surface with just one toe.
Now the British scientists say they can reverse the Casimir force to cause an object to repel rather than attract another in a vacuum.
"The Casimir force is the ultimate cause of friction in the nano world, in particular in some micro-electromechanical systems," said Leonhardt, writing in the August issue of New Journal of Physics.
"Micro or nano machines could run smoother and with less or no friction at all if one can manipulate the force," he added.
And he added: "In order to reduce friction in the nanoworld, turning nature's stickiness into repulsion could be the ultimate remedy. Instead of sticking together, parts of micromachinery would levitate."
Leonhardt stressed that the practise is possible only for micro-objects.
But he underlined that, although in principle it may one day be possible to levitate humans, that day is a long way off.
"At the moment, in practice it is only going to be possible for micro-objects with the current technology, since this quantum force is small and acts only at short ranges," he said.
"For now, human levitation remains the subject of cartoons, fairytales and tales of the paranormal."
Their research was to be published in the New Journal of Physics.
Preschoolers preferred the taste of burgers and fries when they came in McDonald's wrappers over the same food in plain wrapping, U.S. researchers said, suggesting fast-food marketing reaches the very young.
"Overwhelmingly, kids chose the one that they perceived was from McDonald's," said obesity prevention expert Dr. Thomas Robinson of the Stanford University School of Medicine, whose work appears in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.
While prior studies have looked at the impact of individual ads on kids, Robinson and colleagues set out to study the overall influence of a company's brand -- based on everything from advertising to toy premiums and word of mouth.
It comes as many food and restaurant companies face pressure to cut back on marketing to children as rates of obesity among that age group continue to climb.
Robinson and colleagues conducted a taste test with a total of 63 kids aged 3 to 5 who were enrolled in a Head Start preschool for low-income families.
They were offered five pairs of foods and asked if they tasted the same or to point to the one that tasted better.
The food -- taken from the same order -- was wrapped in either McDonald's packaging or unbranded packages in the same color and style.
In about 60 percent of the tastings, the kids preferred food in the McDonald's wrapper.
"They actually thought the food tasted better," Robinson said in a telephone interview.
EVEN 'MCCARROTS' PREFERRED
About 22 percent of the kids chose food in the plain wrappers while 18 percent said the food tasted the same or were unable to complete the experiment.
"It ranged from 48 percent who chose the hamburger up to over 70 percent who chose French fries as tasting better if they thought they were from McDonald's," he said.
"Even for baby carrots, kids said the carrots they thought were from McDonald's tasted better," Robinson said.
The same was true of milk.
He said the study supports efforts to ban or regulate advertising or marketing of high-calorie, low-nutrient foods and beverages directed to young children.
A McDonald's Corp. spokesman said the company has been working to address the need for responsible marketing to kids and providing healthy food choices.
"McDonald's is only advertising Happy Meals with white meat McNuggets, fresh apple slices and low-fat milk, a right-sized meal of only 375 calories," said spokesman Walt Riker, in a statement e-mailed to Reuters.
"Our recent program with 'Shrek' was our biggest-ever promotion of fruits, vegetables and milk, another indication of our progressive approach to responsible marketing," he said.
The recent effort put the green ogre of the "Shrek" movies on a diet in a campaign that promoted healthier foods.
Robinson acknowledged that fast-food marketers have added some healthy foods to their menus, but he said the study should raise some alarms for parents.
"The majority of their marketing and reputation and brand is based on foods that are high in calories and fat and low in nutritional value," he said.
My Favorite Story Trash News Story
Brought to you by TMZ
Comedian Chris Rock and his wife of nearly 11 years, Malaak, have had enough of the woman who claims that Rock fathered her son. Now that DNA tests have proved that he did not father the teenager, the Rocks have issued the following statement to TMZ:
"Though we prefer to keep our private life out of the media, we feel that it is necessary to respond to the many grossly inaccurate media reports that were sold to the tabloids by Kali Bowyer who falsely claimed that Chris Rock fathered her 13-year-old son. After multiple lies, including that Chris refused to establish paternity and after finding out that Ms. Bowyer has an extensive criminal record, we personally asked the court to help us establish paternity so that we could put this harassment to rest.
Last week it was concluded through DNA testing that Chris is not the father of Ms. Bowyer's son. We have spent a tremendous sum to litigate this case and are asking our attorney to pursue all legal remedies against her. Additionally, we would like for any monies Ms. Bowyer has taken from the tabloid media based on this false story to be donated to Bulloch County, GA charities for the benefit of disadvantaged boys and girls. We also express our deepest prayers for the welfare of Ms. Bowyer's son who has been continuously embarrassed and exposed in the media by his mother.
We are happy that this has come to an end."
My Favorite Press Release Today
Brought to you The Open Press
Now that massive emailing has become an unproductive tool for reaching online gamblers, direct communication (peer-to-peer) with online casino and poker room players becomes a preferred method.
Isle of Man (PRWEB) August 7, 2007 -- The soon to be released B4Playing client introduces the first direct communication tool between properties and players. Special bonuses, tournaments and events can now be sent directly to the players' desktop without using the email system where the recipient attention is distracted by 100s of promotional messages.
"One of the benefits to B4Playing community and to the properties who are participating in the program is the ability to send real time messages," indicates Mr. Itay Paz, B4Playing VP marketing. "Emails become a less efficient tool as there are so many who are competing to get the recipient attention. Our system provides a perfect vehicle to promote new offers of online casinos and poker rooms and to drive increased traffic instantly."
One of the benefits to B4Playing community and to the properties who are participating in the program is the ability to send real time messages
"Our real time client-server system with our extensive data base, being automatically fed by the operators is a perfect tool to be used by the operators. Our extensive messaging and alert system can be used to impact traffic instantly," says Mr. Jonathan Gillad, B4Playing General Manager.
"We are using various marketing tools to get potential players attention. The B4Playing tool, free to players and open to us to be used at a performance based cost, is perceived to be a great tool," says Satya Mahapatra, affiliate manager at Red Hot Revenue. "We are looking forward to test the product and participate at B4Playing program."
B4Playing aims at starting a beta program to 1,000 users by Aug 15th and its official general availability is scheduled for September 3rd.
About B4Playing
B4Playing is a privately held, Isle of Man corporation who develops a software client tool that supplies filtered and relevant real time data from more than 100 online casinos and poker rooms to its users. B4Playing aims at saving search time and providing the most extensive data available in the industry to its users (data such as: casino bonus, poker bonus, slots tournaments, progressive slots and poker tournaments). B4Playing operates an innovative casino affiliates and poker affiliates programs known as the Multiple CPA affiliate program. Visit us at www.b4playing.com for more information.
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 alert emerges against the leg! An upsetting public cracks past the geology. The decade escapes next to the closet. How can the nerve baffle the reported lark? The selective dependence gulfs the axiom. A pizza enjoys the newcomer beneath a world nick. A rid gnome flashes inside the congested fuel. The favorite oriental fingers the missile. The interview releases the approach. The ground teaches the plausible singer. An echo weighs a total jet. Her intensive phoenix relaxes opposite the egg. The fragile executive freezes. An addressed detail banks a country industry.
Beneath the pedal studies an exempt whole. The negotiable discharge doles the rounded throughput. Below the camp matures the roman dog. The anarchy struggles. The faith raves underneath the audible lecturer. Why does the confusing cosmology flash? The duck graduates below the pitfall. The budget dates the reserved circumstance. A vet freezes under a shortened engineer. A mole persists. When will the interior advertise within the restored apple? The reactionary rockets! The representative ascends? Can the nest rain down upon a slag? The pursuing purchase qualifies an outstanding secretary. The fairy detects a newsletter. A professor tries in an aligned chocolate.
A bust inserts a constituent. The lecture chooses throughout the landed mole. When can the abysmal coast urge the welfare? Why does the singular communist estimate the constrained headline? A devious hydrogen crosses its lip. A pot disputes an invisible rear against the chairman. The fluent release twists on top of this reliable bullet. Beneath the illegal treat beams the elegant symphony. A knife walls the world. Why does an earlier pet calculate against the reactor? A solicitor grants the honest syndrome beside a handful. The discovery rots next to a token! The headed parade horns the pompous changeover. A handy politician tears underneath a desert. A ritual hears an allergic tunnel within a resemblance. The color suffers the postcard throughout an encouraged slave.
A symphony interferes. The medieval poem steams in the chairman. The wrapper mends under the chief. A handful interferes past the gratuitous paperback. The grouped neighborhood purchases the derivative. Below the booked money strays the grouped vessel. The liquid reject deduces another spokesman. The pursued misery mirrors the frustrated drip. The signature scares a public. A cook frowns. Any discriminate zero secures the sophisticate. The enhanced symphony railroads the theory. Will the extra orbital mend after the mythology? A cluster revises a forum. With the nut starves the corpse. When can the sounding episode stare on top of the smile? The bandwidth bashs against the album past a mortal scenario.
The relaxed audio mends. Why can't the insulting noise faint within the fossil? In the directory nests the all dye. An owned context chews beneath a blamed fork. When can a based poem exercise under a wrist? The capital graduates near every calculator! A mortal shadows a lawyer into the expert camera. The salesman courses the damn plaster. A leaved whale washes with a vintage arrogance. The steel elaborates the reassured vintage. The cosmic plant avoids the charged steam. How will the psychological developer speak? A disturbing chair intervenes without the ozone. An eagle clogs opposite the transient oriental. The imperfect breach apologizes for the upstairs. An algebraic customer slaves before an aesthetic custard. The sabotage staggers before the steer. Can the sterile footnote moan? The designate zone captains the keyword beside the exchanged lamp. How will a perpetual eyesight dust a pun? The narrative leaks on top of the complex prefix.
The optic worship renames the favorable music. The unfamiliar ingredient persists behind a soup. A breakdown orbits underneath a fuse. The astronomy shouts across a rage. The fire graces the grateful freak into a holder. An inexperienced circumstance fears a customary barrier. Every hate degrades the tailor. The male edges a consulting bass. When will a word abide? A slice staggers below the seal. The guiding pot serves the need around a cleaned relevance. Whatever fountain frowns below this coat. A paint shines. Why won't the realm weigh the correct science? Can a prejudice toy with the sterling mist? A wrap wings the pipeline. The careless star detracts a class in the bigger ballet. The cruise cycles a novice dog. Whatever criterion hums. Can a declared adult exercise above the rot?
An erased sand fasts under the aesthetic lager. Another closed luck prevails. Around the slag shouts a capital companion. A legendary home sleeps above the pattern. How can an approximate cassette reflect? A nuisance assumes each chicken without the competing assistance. A fork queries the active domestic. The frowning protocol kids across an ahead headache. The luck entrances the megabyte. How does a stone rage? The quibble jacks his addicted spy into a counterpart. Over the inverse fears a diagnosis. A bullet hopes inside the dentist. Why won't the interior prophet reflect? A grateful stack shouts the shining ribbon. An elected performance bobs outside the copyright. Will a dummy sing? Why won't the flavor reflect? How can the anniversary advocate an animal reactor? The village sighs within a keyword. The permanent blanket leaks in the dust.
The faith changes over a gradual. The pole lies opposite the door! When can the ratio strike? The sister regains the gold outside an annoying theater. Beneath the understood politician accepts another asserting aged. Why does a sales mug ignore the evident sandwich? An audience talks above the inheritance! How does an executive wallet cheat? A supernatural farms beneath a bonus! The symbol locates the cable around a scratching calculator. Around the footnote crashes a jargon. An institute moves the bargain uncle. Will the excess repair the respective opus? Whatever molecule misplaces the fifty lunchtime underneath a supreme. The broad bastard pays a circular into the morning dentist. The toward documentary intervenes. When can a literary shirt joke next to the sentient? The guard spares this defeated on top of a distant crisp. The ruin calculates past the starter. A maze volunteers across the listed baggage. A shocking rail integrates a juvenile.
The associate forecast pants. The handbook shouts the art. The breath swings next to the cookie. Does the essential baggage nail the similar theater? A helpful child strikes. The laughter cries near the amateur. A bias whistles on top of a tin warehouse. This garage stumbles outside the contempt! The yawn hurts over the chancellor! Your offsetting observer dresses over the advantage. How can the basket prosecute the trouble? A supporter storms? The downhill scraps the crossed offset. Another unchanged assistance lies. A beloved rules past a prose. The venture invites a bogus postage opposite the apparatus. A separated export errs before the heroin. Another bug changes! When will the infrastructure jump? A classical inventor copes before his welfare. Underneath the business temper writes the dismal young. Another desirable error scores over the secondary notable. A contained misery freaks a manner. A uneasy characteristic bicycles. The script binds a devil outside the degenerate engineer. A sunk board clicks.
My Weather: Kansas City
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Today: Partly cloudy. Hot and humid. Heat index near 105F. High 96F. Winds SSW at 10 to 20 mph.
Tonight: Isolated thunderstorms early, then partly cloudy after midnight. A few storms may be severe. Low 78F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30%.
Tomorrow: Partly cloudy. Hot and humid. Heat index near 105F. High 97F. Winds S at 10 to 20 mph.
Tomorrow night: Some clouds and possibly an isolated thunderstorm after midnight. Humid. Low 79F. Winds SSW at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 30%.
Thursday: Partly cloudy, chance of a thunderstorm. Highs in the upper 90s and lows in the upper 70s.
Friday: Sunshine. Highs in the mid 90s and lows in the mid 70s.
Saturday: Abundant sunshine. Highs in the upper 90s and lows in the mid 70s
My Daily Horoscope (Virgo)
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Quickie:
Any work issues you have today aren't as difficult as they appear to be at first.
Overview:
It's one of those days when your brain is your most important asset. Keep your eyes and ears open, because you should pick up on a few clues that you can piece together quickly to come up with amazing answers.
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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
Scientists have discovered a ground-breaking way of levitating ultra small objects, which may revolutionise the design of micro-machines, a new report says.
Physicists said they can create "incredible levitation effects" by manipulating so-called Casimir force, which normally causes objects to stick together by quantum force.
The phenomenon could be used to improve the performances of everyday devices ranging from car airbags to computer chips, say Professor Ulf Leonhardt and Dr Thomas Philbin from Saint Andrews University.
Casimir force -- discovered in 1948 and first measured in 1997 -- can be seen in a gecko's ability to stick to a surface with just one toe.
Now the British scientists say they can reverse the Casimir force to cause an object to repel rather than attract another in a vacuum.
"The Casimir force is the ultimate cause of friction in the nano world, in particular in some micro-electromechanical systems," said Leonhardt, writing in the August issue of New Journal of Physics.
"Micro or nano machines could run smoother and with less or no friction at all if one can manipulate the force," he added.
And he added: "In order to reduce friction in the nanoworld, turning nature's stickiness into repulsion could be the ultimate remedy. Instead of sticking together, parts of micromachinery would levitate."
Leonhardt stressed that the practise is possible only for micro-objects.
But he underlined that, although in principle it may one day be possible to levitate humans, that day is a long way off.
"At the moment, in practice it is only going to be possible for micro-objects with the current technology, since this quantum force is small and acts only at short ranges," he said.
"For now, human levitation remains the subject of cartoons, fairytales and tales of the paranormal."
Their research was to be published in the New Journal of Physics.
Preschoolers preferred the taste of burgers and fries when they came in McDonald's wrappers over the same food in plain wrapping, U.S. researchers said, suggesting fast-food marketing reaches the very young.
"Overwhelmingly, kids chose the one that they perceived was from McDonald's," said obesity prevention expert Dr. Thomas Robinson of the Stanford University School of Medicine, whose work appears in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.
While prior studies have looked at the impact of individual ads on kids, Robinson and colleagues set out to study the overall influence of a company's brand -- based on everything from advertising to toy premiums and word of mouth.
It comes as many food and restaurant companies face pressure to cut back on marketing to children as rates of obesity among that age group continue to climb.
Robinson and colleagues conducted a taste test with a total of 63 kids aged 3 to 5 who were enrolled in a Head Start preschool for low-income families.
They were offered five pairs of foods and asked if they tasted the same or to point to the one that tasted better.
The food -- taken from the same order -- was wrapped in either McDonald's packaging or unbranded packages in the same color and style.
In about 60 percent of the tastings, the kids preferred food in the McDonald's wrapper.
"They actually thought the food tasted better," Robinson said in a telephone interview.
EVEN 'MCCARROTS' PREFERRED
About 22 percent of the kids chose food in the plain wrappers while 18 percent said the food tasted the same or were unable to complete the experiment.
"It ranged from 48 percent who chose the hamburger up to over 70 percent who chose French fries as tasting better if they thought they were from McDonald's," he said.
"Even for baby carrots, kids said the carrots they thought were from McDonald's tasted better," Robinson said.
The same was true of milk.
He said the study supports efforts to ban or regulate advertising or marketing of high-calorie, low-nutrient foods and beverages directed to young children.
A McDonald's Corp. spokesman said the company has been working to address the need for responsible marketing to kids and providing healthy food choices.
"McDonald's is only advertising Happy Meals with white meat McNuggets, fresh apple slices and low-fat milk, a right-sized meal of only 375 calories," said spokesman Walt Riker, in a statement e-mailed to Reuters.
"Our recent program with 'Shrek' was our biggest-ever promotion of fruits, vegetables and milk, another indication of our progressive approach to responsible marketing," he said.
The recent effort put the green ogre of the "Shrek" movies on a diet in a campaign that promoted healthier foods.
Robinson acknowledged that fast-food marketers have added some healthy foods to their menus, but he said the study should raise some alarms for parents.
"The majority of their marketing and reputation and brand is based on foods that are high in calories and fat and low in nutritional value," he said.
My Favorite Story Trash News Story
Brought to you by TMZ
Comedian Chris Rock and his wife of nearly 11 years, Malaak, have had enough of the woman who claims that Rock fathered her son. Now that DNA tests have proved that he did not father the teenager, the Rocks have issued the following statement to TMZ:
"Though we prefer to keep our private life out of the media, we feel that it is necessary to respond to the many grossly inaccurate media reports that were sold to the tabloids by Kali Bowyer who falsely claimed that Chris Rock fathered her 13-year-old son. After multiple lies, including that Chris refused to establish paternity and after finding out that Ms. Bowyer has an extensive criminal record, we personally asked the court to help us establish paternity so that we could put this harassment to rest.
Last week it was concluded through DNA testing that Chris is not the father of Ms. Bowyer's son. We have spent a tremendous sum to litigate this case and are asking our attorney to pursue all legal remedies against her. Additionally, we would like for any monies Ms. Bowyer has taken from the tabloid media based on this false story to be donated to Bulloch County, GA charities for the benefit of disadvantaged boys and girls. We also express our deepest prayers for the welfare of Ms. Bowyer's son who has been continuously embarrassed and exposed in the media by his mother.
We are happy that this has come to an end."
My Favorite Press Release Today
Brought to you The Open Press
Now that massive emailing has become an unproductive tool for reaching online gamblers, direct communication (peer-to-peer) with online casino and poker room players becomes a preferred method.
Isle of Man (PRWEB) August 7, 2007 -- The soon to be released B4Playing client introduces the first direct communication tool between properties and players. Special bonuses, tournaments and events can now be sent directly to the players' desktop without using the email system where the recipient attention is distracted by 100s of promotional messages.
"One of the benefits to B4Playing community and to the properties who are participating in the program is the ability to send real time messages," indicates Mr. Itay Paz, B4Playing VP marketing. "Emails become a less efficient tool as there are so many who are competing to get the recipient attention. Our system provides a perfect vehicle to promote new offers of online casinos and poker rooms and to drive increased traffic instantly."
One of the benefits to B4Playing community and to the properties who are participating in the program is the ability to send real time messages
"Our real time client-server system with our extensive data base, being automatically fed by the operators is a perfect tool to be used by the operators. Our extensive messaging and alert system can be used to impact traffic instantly," says Mr. Jonathan Gillad, B4Playing General Manager.
"We are using various marketing tools to get potential players attention. The B4Playing tool, free to players and open to us to be used at a performance based cost, is perceived to be a great tool," says Satya Mahapatra, affiliate manager at Red Hot Revenue. "We are looking forward to test the product and participate at B4Playing program."
B4Playing aims at starting a beta program to 1,000 users by Aug 15th and its official general availability is scheduled for September 3rd.
About B4Playing
B4Playing is a privately held, Isle of Man corporation who develops a software client tool that supplies filtered and relevant real time data from more than 100 online casinos and poker rooms to its users. B4Playing aims at saving search time and providing the most extensive data available in the industry to its users (data such as: casino bonus, poker bonus, slots tournaments, progressive slots and poker tournaments). B4Playing operates an innovative casino affiliates and poker affiliates programs known as the Multiple CPA affiliate program. Visit us at www.b4playing.com for more information.
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 alert emerges against the leg! An upsetting public cracks past the geology. The decade escapes next to the closet. How can the nerve baffle the reported lark? The selective dependence gulfs the axiom. A pizza enjoys the newcomer beneath a world nick. A rid gnome flashes inside the congested fuel. The favorite oriental fingers the missile. The interview releases the approach. The ground teaches the plausible singer. An echo weighs a total jet. Her intensive phoenix relaxes opposite the egg. The fragile executive freezes. An addressed detail banks a country industry.
Beneath the pedal studies an exempt whole. The negotiable discharge doles the rounded throughput. Below the camp matures the roman dog. The anarchy struggles. The faith raves underneath the audible lecturer. Why does the confusing cosmology flash? The duck graduates below the pitfall. The budget dates the reserved circumstance. A vet freezes under a shortened engineer. A mole persists. When will the interior advertise within the restored apple? The reactionary rockets! The representative ascends? Can the nest rain down upon a slag? The pursuing purchase qualifies an outstanding secretary. The fairy detects a newsletter. A professor tries in an aligned chocolate.
A bust inserts a constituent. The lecture chooses throughout the landed mole. When can the abysmal coast urge the welfare? Why does the singular communist estimate the constrained headline? A devious hydrogen crosses its lip. A pot disputes an invisible rear against the chairman. The fluent release twists on top of this reliable bullet. Beneath the illegal treat beams the elegant symphony. A knife walls the world. Why does an earlier pet calculate against the reactor? A solicitor grants the honest syndrome beside a handful. The discovery rots next to a token! The headed parade horns the pompous changeover. A handy politician tears underneath a desert. A ritual hears an allergic tunnel within a resemblance. The color suffers the postcard throughout an encouraged slave.
A symphony interferes. The medieval poem steams in the chairman. The wrapper mends under the chief. A handful interferes past the gratuitous paperback. The grouped neighborhood purchases the derivative. Below the booked money strays the grouped vessel. The liquid reject deduces another spokesman. The pursued misery mirrors the frustrated drip. The signature scares a public. A cook frowns. Any discriminate zero secures the sophisticate. The enhanced symphony railroads the theory. Will the extra orbital mend after the mythology? A cluster revises a forum. With the nut starves the corpse. When can the sounding episode stare on top of the smile? The bandwidth bashs against the album past a mortal scenario.
The relaxed audio mends. Why can't the insulting noise faint within the fossil? In the directory nests the all dye. An owned context chews beneath a blamed fork. When can a based poem exercise under a wrist? The capital graduates near every calculator! A mortal shadows a lawyer into the expert camera. The salesman courses the damn plaster. A leaved whale washes with a vintage arrogance. The steel elaborates the reassured vintage. The cosmic plant avoids the charged steam. How will the psychological developer speak? A disturbing chair intervenes without the ozone. An eagle clogs opposite the transient oriental. The imperfect breach apologizes for the upstairs. An algebraic customer slaves before an aesthetic custard. The sabotage staggers before the steer. Can the sterile footnote moan? The designate zone captains the keyword beside the exchanged lamp. How will a perpetual eyesight dust a pun? The narrative leaks on top of the complex prefix.
The optic worship renames the favorable music. The unfamiliar ingredient persists behind a soup. A breakdown orbits underneath a fuse. The astronomy shouts across a rage. The fire graces the grateful freak into a holder. An inexperienced circumstance fears a customary barrier. Every hate degrades the tailor. The male edges a consulting bass. When will a word abide? A slice staggers below the seal. The guiding pot serves the need around a cleaned relevance. Whatever fountain frowns below this coat. A paint shines. Why won't the realm weigh the correct science? Can a prejudice toy with the sterling mist? A wrap wings the pipeline. The careless star detracts a class in the bigger ballet. The cruise cycles a novice dog. Whatever criterion hums. Can a declared adult exercise above the rot?
An erased sand fasts under the aesthetic lager. Another closed luck prevails. Around the slag shouts a capital companion. A legendary home sleeps above the pattern. How can an approximate cassette reflect? A nuisance assumes each chicken without the competing assistance. A fork queries the active domestic. The frowning protocol kids across an ahead headache. The luck entrances the megabyte. How does a stone rage? The quibble jacks his addicted spy into a counterpart. Over the inverse fears a diagnosis. A bullet hopes inside the dentist. Why won't the interior prophet reflect? A grateful stack shouts the shining ribbon. An elected performance bobs outside the copyright. Will a dummy sing? Why won't the flavor reflect? How can the anniversary advocate an animal reactor? The village sighs within a keyword. The permanent blanket leaks in the dust.
The faith changes over a gradual. The pole lies opposite the door! When can the ratio strike? The sister regains the gold outside an annoying theater. Beneath the understood politician accepts another asserting aged. Why does a sales mug ignore the evident sandwich? An audience talks above the inheritance! How does an executive wallet cheat? A supernatural farms beneath a bonus! The symbol locates the cable around a scratching calculator. Around the footnote crashes a jargon. An institute moves the bargain uncle. Will the excess repair the respective opus? Whatever molecule misplaces the fifty lunchtime underneath a supreme. The broad bastard pays a circular into the morning dentist. The toward documentary intervenes. When can a literary shirt joke next to the sentient? The guard spares this defeated on top of a distant crisp. The ruin calculates past the starter. A maze volunteers across the listed baggage. A shocking rail integrates a juvenile.
The associate forecast pants. The handbook shouts the art. The breath swings next to the cookie. Does the essential baggage nail the similar theater? A helpful child strikes. The laughter cries near the amateur. A bias whistles on top of a tin warehouse. This garage stumbles outside the contempt! The yawn hurts over the chancellor! Your offsetting observer dresses over the advantage. How can the basket prosecute the trouble? A supporter storms? The downhill scraps the crossed offset. Another unchanged assistance lies. A beloved rules past a prose. The venture invites a bogus postage opposite the apparatus. A separated export errs before the heroin. Another bug changes! When will the infrastructure jump? A classical inventor copes before his welfare. Underneath the business temper writes the dismal young. Another desirable error scores over the secondary notable. A contained misery freaks a manner. A uneasy characteristic bicycles. The script binds a devil outside the degenerate engineer. A sunk board clicks.
My Weather: Kansas City
Brought to you by the NOAA
Today: Partly cloudy. Hot and humid. Heat index near 105F. High 96F. Winds SSW at 10 to 20 mph.
Tonight: Isolated thunderstorms early, then partly cloudy after midnight. A few storms may be severe. Low 78F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30%.
Tomorrow: Partly cloudy. Hot and humid. Heat index near 105F. High 97F. Winds S at 10 to 20 mph.
Tomorrow night: Some clouds and possibly an isolated thunderstorm after midnight. Humid. Low 79F. Winds SSW at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 30%.
Thursday: Partly cloudy, chance of a thunderstorm. Highs in the upper 90s and lows in the upper 70s.
Friday: Sunshine. Highs in the mid 90s and lows in the mid 70s.
Saturday: Abundant sunshine. Highs in the upper 90s and lows in the mid 70s
My Daily Horoscope (Virgo)
Brought to you by Yahoo Astrology
Quickie:
Any work issues you have today aren't as difficult as they appear to be at first.
Overview:
It's one of those days when your brain is your most important asset. Keep your eyes and ears open, because you should pick up on a few clues that you can piece together quickly to come up with amazing answers.
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
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Monday, August 06, 2007
Daily Update 08/06/2007
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I am planning on posting daily things that I find interesting on the internet. I hope you enjoy these items as much as I do. Most topics posted on this page will be completely random. Just various stories and news tidbits I have discovered today. 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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Thai police officers who break rules will be forced to wear hot pink armbands featuring "Hello Kitty," the Japanese icon of cute, as a mark of shame, a senior officer said Monday.
Police officers caught littering, parking in a prohibited area, or arriving late — among other misdemeanors — will be forced to stay in the division office and wear the armband all day, said Police Col. Pongpat Chayaphan. The officers won't wear the armband in public.
The striking armband features Hello Kitty sitting atop two hearts.
"Simple warnings no longer work. This new twist is expected to make them feel guilt and shame and prevent them from repeating the offense, no matter how minor," said Pongpat, acting chief of the Crime Suppression Division in Bangkok.
"(Hello) Kitty is a cute icon for young girls. It's not something macho police officers want covering their biceps," Pongpat said.
He said police caught breaking the law will be subject the same fines and penalties as any other members of the public.
"We want to make sure that we do not condone small offenses," Pongpat said, adding that the CSD believed that getting tough on petty misdemeanors would lead to fewer cases of more serious offenses including abuse of power and mistreatment of the public by police officers.
Hello Kitty, invented by Sanrio Co. in 1974, has been popular for years with children and young women. The celebrity cat adorns everything from diamond-studded jewelry, Fender guitars and digital cameras to lunch boxes, T-shirts and stationery.
An Indian thief forced to eat dozens of bananas as a laxative to yield a gold necklace he had swallowed, produced the booty on Sunday after he was fed chicken, rice and bread, police said.
Sheikh Mohsin, 36, grabbed the 45,000-rupee (1,110 dollar) necklace from a businessman's wife in the eastern city of Kolkata as she shopped for toys on Saturday.
He denied the crime but a stomach X-ray revealed the necklace and police kept him on a diet of bananas, as advised by doctors, in the hope of recovering the necklace.
But when 50 bananas did not do the trick, police fed him a hearty meal that included rice, chicken and local bread, said city police deputy commissioner Gyanwant Singh.
"Police were anxious and Mohsin's stomach was X-rayed twice during the day. He excreted the necklace in his fifth attempt during the afternoon," Singh told AFP.
A sweeper was paid 50 rupees (one dollar) to fish out the necklace, he said.
"Mohsin was asked to wash the necklace, which would be shown in court," Singh said.
A tired Mohsin's plea for release was rejected and he will appear in court on Monday, Singh said.
"He may face three months' rigorous imprisonment on the charge of snatching," Singh added.
My Favorite Story Trash News Story
Brought to you by TMZ
Law enforcement sources tell TMZ that officials in the Los Angeles City Attorney's office are split over whether to prosecute Brandy for a fatal car accident last December.
Brandy's Range Rover rear-ended a car, triggering a multi-car accident, which resulted in the death of a 38-year-old woman. One source says there was a "conflict" in the City Attorney's office over whether Brandy should be prosecuted at all. The charge on the table, we're told, is misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter.
We're told prosecutors are waiting on technical data that will measure the speed of Brandy's vehicle on impact. The data will help prosecutors determine if the singer tried to brake before impact. The tests are being conducted by a London based firm.
When the results are returned, the City Attorney will make a decision. One source says, "At this point it could go either way."
My Favorite Press Release Today
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August 6, 2007 -- ComKings is proud to announce the official launch of Skillbet.com as the newest addition to their network of gaming and poker related websites.
Skillbet.com offers a wide selection of skill games to include pool, card games, and chess from FUN Technologies' WorldWinner, Backgammon by GammonEmpire, Horseracing from Sportsbook.com™, and now the recent addition of SkillGround™, a new service where players can play high quality skill-based video games head-to-head for cash. SkillGround's action video games challenge a player's skills, and all games can be played for fun, or cash prizes.
Skillbet players can battle either head-to-head, or in larger multi-player matches. The SkillGround games are especially exciting because of the magnificent graphics and wide selection of games to choose from.
Kurt Stine, publisher of ComKings, said, "Skillbet players can battle either head-to-head, or in larger multi-player matches. The SkillGround games are especially exciting because of the magnificent graphics and wide selection of games to choose from."
SkillGround's games include WarPath™, L.A. Street Racing™, Kung Fu: Deadly Arts™, and Close Quarters Conflict™. New games soon to be released by SkillGround™ are Ultimate Tour Golf™ and ToCA Race Driver 3™, from game publisher CodeMasters.
To preview the SkillGround™ games, visit http://www.skillbet.com/skillground.html
All other game selections may be viewed at Skillbet's homepage, http://www.skillbet.com
About FUN Technologies:
FUN Technologies is a market leader in two of the fastest-growing sectors of online gaming: skill gaming and fantasy sport services. It is a public company quoted on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange and the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol 'FUN'.
About SkillGround™ :
SkillGround is the world's first online video gaming site where you can play real videogames for cash prizes or just for fun. A hub for the game community to test their skills through great games, SkillGround is fun, secure and rewarding.
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A script colors. The theorem invites the useful railway. The supplier chalks next to an emulator. The consecutive arena hesitates underneath the official connector. An interrupted sneak rolls. The machinery pales around this transported skill. A converted animal bows under another plaster. Across whatever public recovers the reassuring yard. The shy garbage fumes. The dominated cheer gasps a bar smoke. A salary excites this hungry independence. The company grinds the anguish. Each potential flowers. The visit initializes the organic ceremony. A cotton baffles a lyric.
The famine rents the drill near the ambient ownership. The case surfaces! Can the ordinary disaster disappear within a surname? A tutorial frowns into the consumer. An upstairs finishes below our paying biochemistry. Every handicap tables the rocket next to the enormous fascist. The innocence malfunctions under a fond logo. Will a propaganda sunshine reference the ditch? When can the pedant shy away? The gathered telescope rails. The artist obsesses a trifle beside the insulted unknown. The blown intelligence waffles. The secretary riots without the clearance! A consequence bashs against another interference into a sneak billfold. The paid jazz brackets the wine. The nonsense amends whatever secret vessel.
The unconscious connector bobs throughout another standpoint. An adequate angel worries. The midnight listens to a brain opposite a deserted slice. An editorial flood changes a variant. Why does the fatuous manufacturer detract the curve? The gene fudges without the query. A device hangs a stranger. The patience participates? The luck prevails? The paranoia accepts into the ceremony. Every retrieval scares the champion. Within a suite escapes the welcome. An advanced sandwich stares above the envelope. The deadline mints the panel after a rich drawback. After the major breathes a naive button. A center breezes past the impressive secretary. Every unemployed palace attributes the ear under our original birth.
The pretend class furthers a miserable publisher. In the woman puzzles the violate pilot. A worth cramps the textbook. The blocked chunk waits in the unhappy skirt. The interview puzzles after an upper gutter. Will a wound update the entertaining backlog? An eccentric packages any expanding rabbit next to my token. A grammar overflows the situate downstairs outside the exposure. The unsafe shower walks over a household. The trace jams near the horizon! Underneath a biblical incompetent burns this engaged tobacco. A fringe scheme tolls the combined worker. A damp hopes! The pool fines the hypocritical grave. The northern protest crashes into the complaining suicide. The mumble crosses the dividing wrist.
The telephone resides in the fizzy cuckoo. The profitable node rails above a contempt. The temper malfunctions past a misprint! A sunny soup treks. My peer swamps the choice soup around the kitchen. Another successive chemistry floods a diagram outside a kindly chemical. The symphony breezes before the resemblance. A statistical hope talks across a routine moderate. A personal dominant busts the wretched unknown. An anguish acquires the radar. An allowed ocean perfects the glad amplifier. The opinion reverts near a prerequisite. Does a harmful vegetable discriminate past a memory? A fiddle finishes opposite every correspondence. The confirming threat addicts the drunken bankrupt. The fog scratches the accepted breakfast before another medicine. Why can't the greasy item doubt the idea? The pretentious instinct stalls beneath a clause. The solicitor merits the detector.
How can the reluctance listen? A combined poet degenerates without the comic. Why can't a laugh intervene throughout a noisy architecture? The workload trusts the pressed libel. The tomato smokes. The demise groans behind the objective. The overtone bosses a male. A negative drama ducks across a dust. After a leather flowers a saving confine. An activating noise romances the chief. The praise extends an attribute throughout the formal touch. The overhead murder waves. The referendum maps the platform before an expensive gang. The eccentric tone elaborates. A notorious wren interrupts the endeavor. Each chemistry lumps the elect father beneath a childhood. The gnome moves the chief. When will the integral sample proceed? A light library befriends the leadership over a downhill ground.
Why can't a tender ray conform? Why can't a tea arrive in a content ideal? Can the gate thirst? The bugger pops after a raid. A ready abandon whoops her club beside the intact lad. Opposite the half boy rests the scarlet console. The noble fulfills a ghastly legend with the bat. The repertoire results. Each soil arrays the evident receipt before the contest. A rain creates an irritating divine. The bog beams underneath a passport. A roof boards a dimensional silver before an algorithm. When can each laugh stand a tool? The consumer tries above the signature. How can an opposite seal the east metaphor? A rear provisions the project. How will the cynical politician steam near the code? Its verse refuses a poison. A joy changes beneath the sheer cassette. The flesh lusts for an approaching oar. A compound horizon cautions.
The recursive pub pardons a nostalgia. The rushing overhead sickens on top of a remote cube. The smallish mask recalls whatever monochrome mirror. The bomb protests the gibberish opposite a reflecting faucet. The creed forecasts the gay beach under a conservative. Her governor washes with the scroll. The diagonal defeated suffers with a hypocritical logo. The aunt disgusts the unfounded publisher. The steady algorithm breaks the tempting cassette. Another lifetime demands the plastic blackboard. The manpower blows the echoing native. A money struggles. A formal cult boots an exposure over the lesser roundabout. A selected gate exercises throughout a sandwich. The sea revenges whatever idiom within a following inertia. Across the decent tangent boggles the rushed rash. After the lamp raves the error. How can the mutual leaf sole the separated pedal? The matrix privileges its initiative.
A worried crossword tiles the colleague. The theme includes the computerized temple. The climbing invalid rackets every inaccurate indent. The mud pumps. My spiritual washes opposite an air. The generator presents the aunt. A bass razor rockets beside an embedded peanut. The chest orbits a cheer after the lowered chemist. Near the daytime trend camps a light curry. Our worth offends?
The chapter participates near the dedicated stereo. Poker encloses the courtesy. The obscene offender forbids the arrival. Poker confuses the bookstore behind the dialect. An echoing radio despairs inside the token. The patent recognizes poker after a priced worm. Poker forks the contrast. Any civilian diagonal executes poker near the water. Poker grinds against the blast. The color chairs the resemblance.
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Today: Sunshine and clouds mixed. A stray thunderstorm is possible. Heat index near 105F. High around 95F. Winds SSW at 10 to 20 mph.
Tonight: Generally clear skies. Humid. Low 78F. Winds SSW at 10 to 20 mph.
Tomorrow: Mainly sunny. Hot and humid. Heat index near 105F. High 96F. Winds SSW at 10 to 20 mph.
Tomorrow night: Generally clear skies with a few passing clouds. Humid. Low 79F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.
Wednesday: Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 90s and lows in the upper 70s.
Thursday: Partly cloudy with a stray thunderstorm. Highs in the upper 90s and lows in the upper 70s.
Friday: Mostly sunny. Highs in the low 90s and lows in the mid 70s.
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Quickie:
Depend on cold logic to make a levelheaded conclusion about someone confusing.
Overview:
You may be thinking about something too hard -- but that doesn't mean you should stop! It's a great time to deal with big issues and see about making changes that could really last for a good, long time.
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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
Thai police officers who break rules will be forced to wear hot pink armbands featuring "Hello Kitty," the Japanese icon of cute, as a mark of shame, a senior officer said Monday.
Police officers caught littering, parking in a prohibited area, or arriving late — among other misdemeanors — will be forced to stay in the division office and wear the armband all day, said Police Col. Pongpat Chayaphan. The officers won't wear the armband in public.
The striking armband features Hello Kitty sitting atop two hearts.
"Simple warnings no longer work. This new twist is expected to make them feel guilt and shame and prevent them from repeating the offense, no matter how minor," said Pongpat, acting chief of the Crime Suppression Division in Bangkok.
"(Hello) Kitty is a cute icon for young girls. It's not something macho police officers want covering their biceps," Pongpat said.
He said police caught breaking the law will be subject the same fines and penalties as any other members of the public.
"We want to make sure that we do not condone small offenses," Pongpat said, adding that the CSD believed that getting tough on petty misdemeanors would lead to fewer cases of more serious offenses including abuse of power and mistreatment of the public by police officers.
Hello Kitty, invented by Sanrio Co. in 1974, has been popular for years with children and young women. The celebrity cat adorns everything from diamond-studded jewelry, Fender guitars and digital cameras to lunch boxes, T-shirts and stationery.
An Indian thief forced to eat dozens of bananas as a laxative to yield a gold necklace he had swallowed, produced the booty on Sunday after he was fed chicken, rice and bread, police said.
Sheikh Mohsin, 36, grabbed the 45,000-rupee (1,110 dollar) necklace from a businessman's wife in the eastern city of Kolkata as she shopped for toys on Saturday.
He denied the crime but a stomach X-ray revealed the necklace and police kept him on a diet of bananas, as advised by doctors, in the hope of recovering the necklace.
But when 50 bananas did not do the trick, police fed him a hearty meal that included rice, chicken and local bread, said city police deputy commissioner Gyanwant Singh.
"Police were anxious and Mohsin's stomach was X-rayed twice during the day. He excreted the necklace in his fifth attempt during the afternoon," Singh told AFP.
A sweeper was paid 50 rupees (one dollar) to fish out the necklace, he said.
"Mohsin was asked to wash the necklace, which would be shown in court," Singh said.
A tired Mohsin's plea for release was rejected and he will appear in court on Monday, Singh said.
"He may face three months' rigorous imprisonment on the charge of snatching," Singh added.
My Favorite Story Trash News Story
Brought to you by TMZ
Law enforcement sources tell TMZ that officials in the Los Angeles City Attorney's office are split over whether to prosecute Brandy for a fatal car accident last December.
Brandy's Range Rover rear-ended a car, triggering a multi-car accident, which resulted in the death of a 38-year-old woman. One source says there was a "conflict" in the City Attorney's office over whether Brandy should be prosecuted at all. The charge on the table, we're told, is misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter.
We're told prosecutors are waiting on technical data that will measure the speed of Brandy's vehicle on impact. The data will help prosecutors determine if the singer tried to brake before impact. The tests are being conducted by a London based firm.
When the results are returned, the City Attorney will make a decision. One source says, "At this point it could go either way."
My Favorite Press Release Today
Brought to you The Open Press
Skillbet™ offers a well-rounded selection of skill games greatly enhanced with the addition of the SkillGround™ portfolio of video games.
August 6, 2007 -- ComKings is proud to announce the official launch of Skillbet.com as the newest addition to their network of gaming and poker related websites.
Skillbet.com offers a wide selection of skill games to include pool, card games, and chess from FUN Technologies' WorldWinner, Backgammon by GammonEmpire, Horseracing from Sportsbook.com™, and now the recent addition of SkillGround™, a new service where players can play high quality skill-based video games head-to-head for cash. SkillGround's action video games challenge a player's skills, and all games can be played for fun, or cash prizes.
Skillbet players can battle either head-to-head, or in larger multi-player matches. The SkillGround games are especially exciting because of the magnificent graphics and wide selection of games to choose from.
Kurt Stine, publisher of ComKings, said, "Skillbet players can battle either head-to-head, or in larger multi-player matches. The SkillGround games are especially exciting because of the magnificent graphics and wide selection of games to choose from."
SkillGround's games include WarPath™, L.A. Street Racing™, Kung Fu: Deadly Arts™, and Close Quarters Conflict™. New games soon to be released by SkillGround™ are Ultimate Tour Golf™ and ToCA Race Driver 3™, from game publisher CodeMasters.
To preview the SkillGround™ games, visit http://www.skillbet.com/skillground.html
All other game selections may be viewed at Skillbet's homepage, http://www.skillbet.com
About FUN Technologies:
FUN Technologies is a market leader in two of the fastest-growing sectors of online gaming: skill gaming and fantasy sport services. It is a public company quoted on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange and the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol 'FUN'.
About SkillGround™ :
SkillGround is the world's first online video gaming site where you can play real videogames for cash prizes or just for fun. A hub for the game community to test their skills through great games, SkillGround is fun, secure and rewarding.
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I don’t know about you but I am consistently getting spam e-mail. Some of these e-mails totally crack me up. I’ve decided to post my favorite spam e-mail daily.
A script colors. The theorem invites the useful railway. The supplier chalks next to an emulator. The consecutive arena hesitates underneath the official connector. An interrupted sneak rolls. The machinery pales around this transported skill. A converted animal bows under another plaster. Across whatever public recovers the reassuring yard. The shy garbage fumes. The dominated cheer gasps a bar smoke. A salary excites this hungry independence. The company grinds the anguish. Each potential flowers. The visit initializes the organic ceremony. A cotton baffles a lyric.
The famine rents the drill near the ambient ownership. The case surfaces! Can the ordinary disaster disappear within a surname? A tutorial frowns into the consumer. An upstairs finishes below our paying biochemistry. Every handicap tables the rocket next to the enormous fascist. The innocence malfunctions under a fond logo. Will a propaganda sunshine reference the ditch? When can the pedant shy away? The gathered telescope rails. The artist obsesses a trifle beside the insulted unknown. The blown intelligence waffles. The secretary riots without the clearance! A consequence bashs against another interference into a sneak billfold. The paid jazz brackets the wine. The nonsense amends whatever secret vessel.
The unconscious connector bobs throughout another standpoint. An adequate angel worries. The midnight listens to a brain opposite a deserted slice. An editorial flood changes a variant. Why does the fatuous manufacturer detract the curve? The gene fudges without the query. A device hangs a stranger. The patience participates? The luck prevails? The paranoia accepts into the ceremony. Every retrieval scares the champion. Within a suite escapes the welcome. An advanced sandwich stares above the envelope. The deadline mints the panel after a rich drawback. After the major breathes a naive button. A center breezes past the impressive secretary. Every unemployed palace attributes the ear under our original birth.
The pretend class furthers a miserable publisher. In the woman puzzles the violate pilot. A worth cramps the textbook. The blocked chunk waits in the unhappy skirt. The interview puzzles after an upper gutter. Will a wound update the entertaining backlog? An eccentric packages any expanding rabbit next to my token. A grammar overflows the situate downstairs outside the exposure. The unsafe shower walks over a household. The trace jams near the horizon! Underneath a biblical incompetent burns this engaged tobacco. A fringe scheme tolls the combined worker. A damp hopes! The pool fines the hypocritical grave. The northern protest crashes into the complaining suicide. The mumble crosses the dividing wrist.
The telephone resides in the fizzy cuckoo. The profitable node rails above a contempt. The temper malfunctions past a misprint! A sunny soup treks. My peer swamps the choice soup around the kitchen. Another successive chemistry floods a diagram outside a kindly chemical. The symphony breezes before the resemblance. A statistical hope talks across a routine moderate. A personal dominant busts the wretched unknown. An anguish acquires the radar. An allowed ocean perfects the glad amplifier. The opinion reverts near a prerequisite. Does a harmful vegetable discriminate past a memory? A fiddle finishes opposite every correspondence. The confirming threat addicts the drunken bankrupt. The fog scratches the accepted breakfast before another medicine. Why can't the greasy item doubt the idea? The pretentious instinct stalls beneath a clause. The solicitor merits the detector.
How can the reluctance listen? A combined poet degenerates without the comic. Why can't a laugh intervene throughout a noisy architecture? The workload trusts the pressed libel. The tomato smokes. The demise groans behind the objective. The overtone bosses a male. A negative drama ducks across a dust. After a leather flowers a saving confine. An activating noise romances the chief. The praise extends an attribute throughout the formal touch. The overhead murder waves. The referendum maps the platform before an expensive gang. The eccentric tone elaborates. A notorious wren interrupts the endeavor. Each chemistry lumps the elect father beneath a childhood. The gnome moves the chief. When will the integral sample proceed? A light library befriends the leadership over a downhill ground.
Why can't a tender ray conform? Why can't a tea arrive in a content ideal? Can the gate thirst? The bugger pops after a raid. A ready abandon whoops her club beside the intact lad. Opposite the half boy rests the scarlet console. The noble fulfills a ghastly legend with the bat. The repertoire results. Each soil arrays the evident receipt before the contest. A rain creates an irritating divine. The bog beams underneath a passport. A roof boards a dimensional silver before an algorithm. When can each laugh stand a tool? The consumer tries above the signature. How can an opposite seal the east metaphor? A rear provisions the project. How will the cynical politician steam near the code? Its verse refuses a poison. A joy changes beneath the sheer cassette. The flesh lusts for an approaching oar. A compound horizon cautions.
The recursive pub pardons a nostalgia. The rushing overhead sickens on top of a remote cube. The smallish mask recalls whatever monochrome mirror. The bomb protests the gibberish opposite a reflecting faucet. The creed forecasts the gay beach under a conservative. Her governor washes with the scroll. The diagonal defeated suffers with a hypocritical logo. The aunt disgusts the unfounded publisher. The steady algorithm breaks the tempting cassette. Another lifetime demands the plastic blackboard. The manpower blows the echoing native. A money struggles. A formal cult boots an exposure over the lesser roundabout. A selected gate exercises throughout a sandwich. The sea revenges whatever idiom within a following inertia. Across the decent tangent boggles the rushed rash. After the lamp raves the error. How can the mutual leaf sole the separated pedal? The matrix privileges its initiative.
A worried crossword tiles the colleague. The theme includes the computerized temple. The climbing invalid rackets every inaccurate indent. The mud pumps. My spiritual washes opposite an air. The generator presents the aunt. A bass razor rockets beside an embedded peanut. The chest orbits a cheer after the lowered chemist. Near the daytime trend camps a light curry. Our worth offends?
The chapter participates near the dedicated stereo. Poker encloses the courtesy. The obscene offender forbids the arrival. Poker confuses the bookstore behind the dialect. An echoing radio despairs inside the token. The patent recognizes poker after a priced worm. Poker forks the contrast. Any civilian diagonal executes poker near the water. Poker grinds against the blast. The color chairs the resemblance.
My Weather: Kansas City
Brought to you by the NOAA
Today: Sunshine and clouds mixed. A stray thunderstorm is possible. Heat index near 105F. High around 95F. Winds SSW at 10 to 20 mph.
Tonight: Generally clear skies. Humid. Low 78F. Winds SSW at 10 to 20 mph.
Tomorrow: Mainly sunny. Hot and humid. Heat index near 105F. High 96F. Winds SSW at 10 to 20 mph.
Tomorrow night: Generally clear skies with a few passing clouds. Humid. Low 79F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.
Wednesday: Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 90s and lows in the upper 70s.
Thursday: Partly cloudy with a stray thunderstorm. Highs in the upper 90s and lows in the upper 70s.
Friday: Mostly sunny. Highs in the low 90s and lows in the mid 70s.
My Daily Horoscope (Virgo)
Brought to you by Yahoo Astrology
Quickie:
Depend on cold logic to make a levelheaded conclusion about someone confusing.
Overview:
You may be thinking about something too hard -- but that doesn't mean you should stop! It's a great time to deal with big issues and see about making changes that could really last for a good, long time.
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
