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U.S. stock-index futures slumped on Friday amid swelling worries over a showdown in Congress over staving off a government shutdown and debt default.
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As of 8:35 a.m. ET, Dow Jones Industrial Average futures slid 46 points to 15215, S&P 500 futures dipped 6.8 points to 1686 and Nasdaq 100 futures slipped 11.3 points to 3215.
It's deja vu all over again.
America is hurtling toward a potential government shutdown, and much worse, a possible default on U.S. debt. Wall Street had managed to shake the concerns off, but as the deadlines, October 1 and October 17, respectively, grow nearer, traders are getting anxious.
The Senate is mulling a House-backed bill to keep the government's lights on. However, the version from the Republican-controlled House includes legislation to defund ObamaCare -- something that the Democratic-powered Senate is likely to strike completely.
Meanwhile, House Speaker John Boehner is struggling to control his caucus, with the far right of the GOP pushing back on compromises.
"His plan to keep the government open as the new fiscal year starts on October 1 has been rejected by hard-liners, and as Friday begins there is no clear path to avoid a shut-down -- which makes us even more nervous about the looming fight over the debt ceiling," Greg Valliere, chief political strategist at Potomac Research Group, a political consultancy, wrote in a letter to clients.
With only a handful of economic reports on tap, the "focus will remain on Washington and the looming congressional votes to avoid a government shut-down," Barclays told its clients.
The Commerce Department said consumer spending increased 0.3% in August, matching economists' expectations. Personal income rose 0.4% for the month, also meeting expectations, and representing the largest increase since February.
Later, at 9:55 a.m. ET, traders will get a look at consumer sentiment from Reuters and the University of Michigan. The gauge is forecast to have risen to 78 in September from 76.8 in August.
Consumers have been struggling through stodgy wage growth and higher payroll taxes. As the key holiday shopping season looms large, analysts are paying particularly close attention to data on that front.
Meanwhile, in corporate news, Nike (NYSE:NKE), part of the latest class of Dow components, revealed better-than-expected quarterly results. BlackBerry (NASDAQ:BBRY) posted a hefty quarterly loss as revenues plummeted.
In commodities, U.S. crude oil futures dipped 33 cents, or 0.32%, to $102.69 a barrel. Wholesale New York Harbor gasoline fell 0.31% to $2.68 a gallon. Gold rallied $15.90, or 1.2%, to $1,340 a troy ounce.
Foreign Markets
The Euro Stoxx 50 fell 0.29% to 2915, the English FTSE 100 slumped 0.85% to 6509 and the German DAX slipped 0.27% to 8640.
The Japanese Nikkei 225 slid 0.26% to 14760 and the Chinese Hang Seng tilted higher by 0.35% to 23207.


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Whats Features in an EMR add value to the Appointment Workflow?
John Lynn is the Founder of the HealthcareScene.com blog network which currently consists of 10 blogs containing over 8000 articles with John having written over 4000 of the articles himself. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 16 million times. John also manages Healthcare IT Central and Healthcare IT Today, the leading career Health IT job board and blog. John is co-founder of InfluentialNetworks.com and Physia.com. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can also be found on Twitter: @techguy and @ehrandhit and LinkedIn.
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What Do You Say? How Do I Explain Celiac?
K8ling replied to mamaupupup's topic in Celiac Disease - Coping WithI love that as well!!! It makes so much sense,,
Glutened By Mellow Mushroom!
K8ling posted a topic in Celiac Disease - Coping WithThey have been great in the past but I got it for lunch today.... Es no bueno. Within 20 minutes I was sick. Anyone else had similar experiences? I'm not newly diagnosed, are my reactions supposed to be fast and furious?
Odd Symptoms
K8ling posted a topic in Celiac Disease - Coping WithI keep thinking I got glutened... I have the symptoms (Nausea, cramping, etc) but I KNOW I am not cc'd or glutened. I DID just get Mirena and I was thinking maybe it was my body reacting to the progesterone and seeming to be glutened? Thoughts?? I hate feeling like this!!
Do You Keep Wheat Flour In Your Household?
K8ling replied to alicewa's topic in Celiac Disease - Coping WithWe have cheddar bunnies for outdoor snack, and... I think thats it.
Safe Halloween Candy?
K8ling replied to K8ling's topic in Gluten-Free Foods, Products, Shopping & MedicationsThank you! I'll look for it today, I handed him peanut M&M's since I knew they were ok... Everything else is quarantined,.
Safe Halloween Candy?
K8ling posted a topic in Gluten-Free Foods, Products, Shopping & MedicationsI'm not sure what is safe this year so until I find out it's up in the laundry room... My son is not amused lol. Is there a list of safe mini sized candy? I know people had previously had problems with fun sized snickers. Thanks for the help!
hahahahaha I love it. ok well, that's good to know!
Thanks so much guys, I missed having all of you to ask questions/share vents on sharing a kitchen (my inlaws fed my kid wheat the whole time we were there! THEN suggested I allow wheat into MY kitchen ... yeah... no.). I could see the board but only on my iphone so it was tiiiny. So SO happy to be home, and breastfeeding is going well this time. I ran out of milk by 3 weeks with Collin and had lost 24 pounds. This time I am holding steady at 180 and breastfeeding VERY well. SO glad I got diagnosed before I had another baby. So! What have I missed???
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K8ling posted a topic in Celiac Disease - Coping WithHey guys! I'm so sorry I have been away for a few months, the wifi at my inlaws was spotty at best. Anyway, I had the baby on 9/28/11 and brought all my own gluten-free food to the hospital- they weren't sure how to feed me so they went to PUBLIX and bought an Amys bowl! I was like "Um, I hope you didn't bill my insurance for that..." Jacob was 9 pounds, 11 oz... amazing what a healthy diet can do for you AND your kiddos! I can't wait to jump back in now that I am home. The husband is still deployed (and may be extended) soooo... I guess I'll just have to cook to keep busy haha
Ate A "gluten Free" Sandwhich...
K8ling replied to CNV2855's topic in Celiac Disease - Coping WithMy reactions are delayed about 3 days usually. I have to trace back what I ate to figure it out.
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K8ling replied to collgwg's topic in Celiac Disease - Coping WithI would totally want to die.
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K8ling replied to Niebr's topic in Celiac Disease - Coping WithI've been gluten-free for a year and I haven't developed any other problems. Everything has gotten much better for me.
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K8ling replied to Poppi's topic in Celiac Disease - Coping WithOh man a whole week??? I'm only 3 months into a 9 month deployment and I keep wishing I had a DAY... man.. what would I do with a week by myself?? *swoon*
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K8ling replied to yepunsarang's topic in Celiac Disease - Coping WithI was actually diagnosed because I was losing my hair. It WAS a malabsorption thing but it cleared up a few months after I went gluten-free. Not my hair is healthy and thick (but who knows maybe it's the baby LOL)
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Huskers Fall in Five-Set Thriller at Texas
Austin, Texas – The No. 12 Nebraska volleyball team (7-2) fell 3-2 (25-20, 19-25, 25-27, 25-21, 12-15) to the No. 6 Texas Longhorns on Sunday afternoon at Gregory Gym on the campus of the University of Texas. In front of a hostile 4,213 fans, the Huskers used a comeback effort to force their first five set match of the season after being down 2-1 in the match.
Kelsey Robinson led Nebraska on the day with a season-high 26 kills on 66 attacks. Kadie Rolfzen tallied 13 kills, while Amber Rolfzen had 12 and Meghan Haggerty notched 11. Robinson and Amber Rolfzen recorded double-doubles with 23 and 13 digs, respectively. Pollmiller paced the offense with a season-high 62 assists. Justine Wong-Orantes had 22 digs for NU.
Nebraska hit .223 for the match, while Texas hit .232. The Huskers were out-blocked 16-9, but out-dug the Longhorns 89-76.
The Huskers came out to a 4-3 lead on a kill by Robinson, as the two teams traded leads and tied four times until the Longhorns went up 15-13 and a timeout was called on the floor. Pollmiller guided NU from the service line, sparking a 5-0 run in helping NU take a 23-19 lead, its largest of the set, and force Texas to call another timeout. Two kills from Robinson helped the Huskers win the first set, 25-20.
Robinson led NU in the first set with six kills, while Amber Rolfzen had four. Pollmiller dished out 13 assists as the Huskers hit .243 as a team. Texas was held to a .118 hitting clip and NU out-blocked UT 3-2 and out-dug the Longhorns 18-14.
Nebraska opened the second set with a 4-1 advantage on a double-block from Hall and Amber Rolfzen. A 3-0 run pushed Nebraska to go up 11-7, but the Longhorns fought back to take a 14-13 lead, their first of the set. Texas used a 4-0 run to spur them to a 19-15 advantage and force Nebraska to call a timeout. A kill from Robinson cut UT's lead to 23-19, but Nebraska was not able to overcome the deficit and lost the second set 25-19.
Robinson posted four kills in the second set, while Amber Rolfzen, Hall and Haggerty all had two kills. Nebraska hit .105 in the set, while Texas hit at a clip of .257. Nebraska was out-blocked 2-5 as a team.
Texas opened up the third set with an 8-4 lead as Nebraska called a timeout. The two teams tied seven times and fought point-for-point as a huge double-block from Robinson and Haggerty gave Nebraska its first lead of the set at 20-19. Texas went on a 3-0 run to make it 23-21, UT, as Nebraska then called a timeout. The Huskers fought off five set points from the Longhorns, but Texas came out on top in the third set, winning 27-25.
Robinson and Kadie Rolfzen both had five kills in the third set. Nebraska hit .317 as a team, while Texas hit .261. The Longhorns out-blocked Nebraska 4-3 in the set.
The intensity did not let up in the fourth set, as Nebraska took a 6-5 lead on a kill from Kadie Rolfzen. An ace from Amber Rolfzen, followed by an error by the Longhorns put NU up 13-11 and forced UT to use a timeout. Texas used a 4-0 run to take a 16-15 lead, but the Huskers answered with a 3-0 run to go up 18-16. The Huskers held on through the end of the fourth set to win 25-21 and force the match to a fifth set.
Robinson continued to lead NU offensively with eight kills, while Kadie Rolfzen had five. Pollmiller tallied 17 assists as Nebraska hit .226 in the set. Texas hit at a clip of .261.
Nebraska went up 5-3 in the fifth set on a kill from Amber Rolfzen. A kill from Haggerty tied the set at 7-7, but Texas went up 8-7 as the two teams switched sides. The Longhorns stretched their lead to 10-7 and Nebraska used a timeout, but the Huskers came back to cut the UT lead to 11-10. Texas gained a 13-10 advantage in the fifth and went on to win 15-12, sealing the match win.
The Huskers hit the road again next weekend as they open Big Ten play at Northwestern on Friday, Sept. 27, before taking on Illinois on Saturday, Sept. 28.


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A panel of seedless citrus interests and beekeepers in the San Joaquin Valley met for a public hearing in Fresno recently to begin the task of resolving complex differences that threaten the way they do business.
The center of contention between the two industries in Fresno, Kern, Madera, and Tulare counties is the separation of lucrative, seedless mandarin orange varieties from honey bee colonies, blamed by mandarin growers for cross-pollination from other citrus and seed formation in the fruit, causing economic losses.
In brief, citrus interests want bee-free zones for two miles around their seedless plantings, while beekeepers want traditional access to citrus and other crops to maintain healthy colonies for pollination and honey production.
The Fresno meeting, attended by about 80 persons, did not find solutions, but the testimony and comments offered during more than three hours by some 25 persons did sharpen points of view.
The Seedless Mandarin and Honey Bee Coexistence Working Group, authorized by Assembly Bill 771 enacted into law on October 8, 2007, was appointed by California Secretary of Agriculture A. G. Kawamura to find best management practices for both sides in the controversy.
The group, which will be meeting during the next several months, has until June 1, 2008 to reach consensus. Failing that, the law requires the secretary to adopt regulations no later than February 1, 2009.
The panel, including some represented by alternates at the Fresno hearing, consists of Ted Batkin, California Citrus Research Board; Gene Brandi, California Beekeepers Association; Dan Cummings, Almond Board of California; Roger Everett, Terra Bella Honey Company; Steve Godlin, S. P. Godlin Apiaries; David Krause, Paramount Citrus; Chris Lange, Beresford Ranches; Joel Nelsen, California Citrus Mutual; Etienne Rabe, Sun Pacific; and Jerry Prieto, Fresno County Agricultural Commissioner, who presided.
The act cites several elements of the citrus-grower side in the controversy. To become more competitive in view of increased consumer demand for seedless fruit, the California citrus industry has during the past five years removed an estimated 40,000 acres of citrus and replaced it with new plantings of mandarin varieties, largely Clementines or R. Murcotts, intended to be seedless. The 2005 California Citrus Acreage Report indicates more than 10,000 acres of these were bearing in 2004, and an additional 2,000 acres came into bearing in 2005. Another 12,000 acres is expected to bear within the next three years, and more acreage is being planted.
A University of California, Riverside study published in June of 2005 found that seedless mandarins command three to four times as much revenue as seeded mandarins. Meanwhile, other citrus-producing nations have adopted citrus protection areas to limit losses from cross-pollination.
Also cited in the act is the broad importance of the honey bee industry, which pollinates about $6 billion in California crops. Honey bee colonies are placed in the citrus belt of Fresno, Kern, Madera, and Tulare counties to support existing agricultural practices, including pollination of several commodities and production of honey.
Colony Collapse Disorder has claimed 25 percent of the nation's bee population in the past three years, placing pressure on other crops that rely on a healthy bee population for pollination.
The act also states that any regulation or best management practice under it "shall not affect the actual pollination process of other commodities during the blooming cycle, nor shall it be implemented when almonds, avocados, peaches, plums, nectarines, seed crops or other commodities require pollination."
It also prohibits any regulation or practice that would affect the ability of property owners located within the area impacted by such a provision to farm any commercial crop, including, but not limited to, honey, citrus, and other commodities recognized by the Department of Food and Agriculture.
Concerns of the bee industry are typified by a statement during the hearing from Joe Traynor, a Bakersfield bee broker representing the California Beekeepers Association, who charged, "Mandarin growers with seed problems did not properly isolate their plantings from other pollen sources.
"In some cases they created their own seed problem by planting Murcott Afourers too close to their Clementine mandarins on the same ranch."
Traynor added, "California citrus bloom is an extremely valuable resource for beekeepers, especially in these times of colony collapse problems. If beekeepers are denied access to citrus locations, all will be adversely affected, and some will go out of business." He suggested netting over trees to exclude bees as one solution.
Traynor also submitted a copy of a letter from Ray Copeland, an Exeter citrus consultant, addressed to the secretary of California Department of Food and Agriculture and others. Copeland was instrumental in adoption of seedless mandarin varieties from Spain and Morocco.
Copeland's letter states he emphasized to California growers the importance of Clementines and other seedless varieties being isolated from other pollen sources, but some growers planted trees in high-density bee areas, "knowing full well that pollinization would be a problem and now want to see all of the bees excluded without paying the price of the exclusion."
Orange beekeeper Melinda Moore, who with her husband, Steve Wernett, maintains 650-700 colonies in Orange, Tulare, and Kern counties, told the group their business cannot survive on income from almond pollination fees alone.
Honey production, from citrus and other crops, she said, is essential for the well-being of the hives and the needs of beekeepers' families.
She said they lost bee locations in the Maricopa area when mandarin growers pressured landowners and managers not to allow colonies to be placed near mandarin groves.
Veteran beekeeper Don Burkett of Reedley said citrus is vital to his colonies, and without it recent rental rates of $175 per colony could soar to $500 to maintain colony health. Colonies cannot be moved to the foothills during orange bloom, he added, because of toxic buckeye.
Attorney Louie A. Brown, Jr. of Kahn, Soares and Conway, Sacramento, representing California Citrus Mutual, stated the legislation was drawn to reach best management practices without economic hardship to either side.
He said there was also no intent to force out bee operations bred and raised in the four-county area. He added, however, there has been an influx of imported bees that was not there 10 to 20 years ago.
Etienne Rabe, technical director of Sun Pacific, said they initially had buffers around their mandarin plantings at Maricopa, but a "supersaturation" of bees overwhelmed them.
He said the new seedless Tango mandarin is only a late-season variety, it will need five to seven years before complete testing is done, and it still could have seeds. Netting to exclude bees has not been thoroughly explored, is costly, and inhibits spraying, and few bee repellent products are satisfactory, Rabe added.
David Krause, president of Paramount Citrus, said they are committed to finding a solution through the work group, but it will take compromise from both sides.
Fresno ag commissioner Prieto was optimistic about the panel finding a solution, but he predicted neither side would be completely happy with the outcome.


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Men's Soccer: UNH upsets top seed UVM, heads to conference title game
November 07. 2012 11:54PM
Sophomore forward Paul Bianchi tallied his first goal of the season in the 57th minute of the America East men's soccer tournament semifinals at No. 1 Vermont to lift the No. 5 University of New Hampshire to the title game, 1-0.
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With a bond referendum on the Nov. 4 ballot that will add 16 classrooms at Langley High School and modular units at Cooper Middle, record high SAT scores at Langley last year, and parents and children seemingly happy at Colvin Run Elementary School, Dranesville School Board representative Jane Strauss appears to be an almost invincible incumbent. She's unopposed for a third term on the Board, which pays its 12 members $12,000 annually.
Strauss is seeking her third term on an elected school board that she served previously as an at-large appointee in the early 1990s.
Her second full term, now almost concluded, was almost fully defined by budget issues countywide, and in Dranesville District, a lengthy and contentious struggle to build a new elementary school in Great Falls.
By comparison to those public struggles, her campaign this year is just a tire swing for Strauss, 56, the mother of four children and the wife of Bill Strauss, who writes and directs The Capitol Steps comedy troupe.
AT PUBLIC FORUMS, she uses her speaking time to talk about how well Fairfax County Public Schools are doing and then, warns voters that a 5-percent cap on the annual increase in real-estate taxes could be "dangerous to schools."
Last week, she endorsed three of six at-large candidates for the School Board: Ilryong Moon, Janet Oleszek and Lynn Terhar. All are endorsed by the Fairfax Education Association, which represents teachers.
But her deeper concern is the proposed 5-percent cap on annual real-estate tax increases that her School Board colleague, Republican Mychele Brickner, has pledged in her run for chairman of the Board of Supervisors.
"The right thing to do is a tax restructuring," Strauss told citizens at local candidate forums in McLean and Great Falls.
"People should not be taken in by sound-bite politics. It is easy to cut taxes. It is hard to restructure.
"It takes a lot of bipartisan cooperation by public officials and citizens who are patient and who don't fall in the trap of being a NIMBY [Not In My Back Yard].
"In the end, if people work in good faith, you will wind up with a tax system that is more fair, yet still provides the basic revenue stream to pay for the services people want," Strauss said.
"Virginia still labors under a system of taxation that was appropriate in an agrarian age. We are too reliant on real estate as the basic revenue stream.
"An urban county like Fairfax County provides the same services as a city. It should have the same taxing authority" as cities like Fairfax and Falls Church, she said.
"We understand the result is not a windfall of new money," Strauss said. "It simply means a more balanced menu of taxes that would be more fair."
Restructuring "has to be done by the General Assembly," Strauss said. "The citizens have to elect people who have the courage to do the tax restructuring, and then be willing to ride it through.
In Fairfax County, the real-estate property tax is the largest source of revenue. More than half of that revenue — 53 percent — goes to public schools.
Ironically, property taxes on real estate have risen by the same amount — 53 percent — during Strauss's current term on the School Board. That's too high for many citizens, and Brickner among others proposes freezing such increases at 5 percent per year.
"YOU ARE HEARING in this campaign season a willingness to simply cut taxes, or tie the hands of local supervisors by capping real estate taxes, rather than taking the longer and more difficult road of tax restructuring," Strauss said.
"Families look with horror at what Proposition 13 did to public schools in California. People who move back having lived there, or have family and friends who lived there, tell anecdotes" about the deterioration of quality that followed, "Strauss said.
By comparison, she has plenty of good things to say to her constituents in McLean, Great Falls and Herndon.
And she's hearing good things too, she said.
"I am hearing very positive things about schools and the services offered to kids.
"I am not hearing from anyone who wants to go backward," she said. "I hear a lot of support from parents who have children with disabilities."
But there is room for improvement. "We have things, like the start-time at high school, that we need to work toward," Strauss said.
"I AM DELIGHTED" about the additional space at Cooper and Langley" that will be provided if the school bond referendum is approved on Nov. 4.
"We are adding space at the middle- and high-school levels in order to accommodate the bulge of children coming up from elementary school."
Additions at the two higher-level McLean schools "also solidify our promise that we were not moving anybody out of the Cooper-Langley Pyramid," she said. "We will accommodate them within the pyramid."
Nor is she getting complaints about Colvin Run Elementary school or its boundaries. "It was difficult, but we did it," Strauss said.


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"Any time we replace a system that's been working for decades, a lot of fine-tuning will be necessary," says Dan Hunter, executive director of the Southwestern Peanut Growers Association in Gorman.
Peanut growers moved from a "structured marketing system to an open market," Hunter says. Such a major change comes with a steep learning curve.
"The biggest challenge for growers (as well as those trying to help market their crops) is determining the national posted price."
Hunter says the formula the government uses to arrive at a daily national posted price has not been made public. "We're not certain if they use prices for runner type peanuts and prices for Virginia types and then blend them," he says. That system may work well for growers of one type but not for the other, as prices vary according to demand.
Hunter says lack of a public market for peanuts also poses problems with a loan-type system. "A loan program has worked for years with cotton, corn, and other commodities," he says. "But those crops have established public markets where a producer can check a price daily and establish a futures price or move his crop into the cash market.
"A world price for cotton, for instance, is easy to determine because of the public trade available."
"Peanuts have no public market, so growers can't look at the board to hedge their production. Also, we're dealing with a perishable product. We have to move each crop in a limited time."
He says at some point, interest in peanuts may peak enough to create a market. "We've talked about the possibilities," he says. "I even visited with the Commodity Futures Traders Commission. But economics 101 indicates a market needs a willing seller and a wiling buyer to work. Growers would like to see an open market, but manufacturers are less willing. And until they come together, there is no way for a trading board to make any money. Eventually, need for producers to identify a cash market may encourage development of a public trading system."
Hunter says farmers are learning how to market peanuts under "the confines of a loan program."
He says warehouse receipts also pose a challenge as peanut farmers learn to sell under this new system. "Most warehouse receipts are still paper," he says. "We've run a trial with electronic receipts but are not yet fully equipped to engage the whole program. As we turn more to electronics, however, marketing will improve."
He says quite a few growers took advantage of the marketing pool offered by the Southwestern Peanut Growers Association.
"We had a good year through the pool," he says. "We averaged above the market price last year."
He says the national posted price also dictates how well a pool will do. Growers who "pool" their peanuts actually do better when the national posted price is low. "The jury is still out on where the market for 2003 will settle," Hunter says. "The national posted price was up after harvest. If it drops to a level where we can get more peanuts into the market, we'll make more for pool participants."
Hunter says the changes in the peanut support and management system created new challenges for the association.
"We still operate as the Southwest Peanut Growers Association but we also have undertaken a second role, as a designated marketing association (DMA). We service loans for growers not in the pool," he says.


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The salaries of the Deputy Comptrollers and of all national bank examiners and assistant examiners assigned to duty in the office of the bureau in Washington in connection with the supervision of national banks shall be considered part of the expenses of the examinations provided for by subchapter XV of chapter 3 of this title.
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Lester sharp again as Sox finish sweep of RoyalsThe Sports Xchange
July 20. 2014 6:39PM
BOSTON — Jon Lester pitched eight shutout innings as the Boston Red Sox beat the Kansas City Royals 6-0 on Sunday afternoon to complete a three-game sweep.
The left-handed Lester, making his first appearance since pitching one inning in the All-Star Game, improved to 10-7 and lowered his ERA to 2.50. He gave up four hits and two walks with eight strikeouts.
"Through the month here, he's been outstanding," said Boston manager John Farrell. "Eight shutout innings here again today. I think the difference today might have been the ability to change speeds with his breaking ball.
"He threw a lot of strikes to both sides of the plate with his fastball. But he was able to add and subtract to his breaking ball with particularly the cutter. And then his curveball the last three starts has probably been the best stretch in quite some time."
Lester was satisfied with his performance.
"I felt good," he said. "After that first inning overthrowing a little bit, just first start back after the break felt almost too good. After that settled in, felt a lot better after that."
Royals designated hitter Billy Butler was impressed with Lester's performance.
"He has four-plus pitches and all of them throwing for strikes today," said Butler, who went 0-for-4 with a strikeout against Lester. "He was tough.
"We had a few chances early and then they started tacking on runs. It was his day. He had his A-game. He's shown why he's one of the top lefties in the game."
The Red Sox battered Kansas City starter Yordano Ventura (7-8) for a career-high six runs and nine hits over 4 1/3 innings, with four walks, a home run and a wild pitch. It was the only start this season in which he has not recorded a strikeout.
"Mostly command," said Kansas City manager Ned Yost of Ventura's struggles. "Just struggled with command a little. He got some pitches in the fat part of the strike zone. That's a good hitting team over there.
"On a day like today the only thing you can do is hope Jon Lester doesn't bring his A-game and he gets his pitch count up and makes mistakes and you take advantage of it. He was pretty good."
The Red Sox got to Ventura right away, as lead-off hitter Brock Holt pulled a 100-mph fastball into right field for a single. Holt went to third on left fielder Daniel Nava's single and scored on a fielder's choice by second baseman Dustin Pedroia.
That would be all the runs the Red Sox would need, but they added two more in the third when Nava's ground-rule double scored catcher David Ross, who opened the inning with a walk, and center fielder Jackie Bradley, who followed with a single.
Boston added three in fourth on Ross' sixth home run of the season, scoring right fielder Shane Victorino, who led off with a double. After consecutive singles by Bradley and Holt put runners on the corners, Nava's sacrifice fly gave the Red Sox a six-run lead.
Boston knocked Ventura from the game in the fifth. After the first three batters reached — first baseman Mike Carp on a walk, Victorino on a single, and shortstop Stephen Drew with another walk — Ross was out on foul pop to catcher Brett Hayes. Left-hander Francisley Bueno entered, keeping Boston in check by striking out Bradley on three pitches before Holt flied out to end the inning.
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I was cuddling Miss M on the couch Saturday morning, cradling my coffee in one hand and a book in the other. My arm was around her and the chill of our back family room bit our noses as we snuggled under a blanket. This is one of the most familiar and cherished scenes in my life, as comfortable and familiar as my stretched elastic waistband pajamas and my worn-out sheep skin slippers. In that end-of-book silent pause Miss M burst into song:
J'aime papa
J'aime Baby Daisy aussie
"What?" I thought to myself with more than a few exclamation marks. To the best of my knowledge, my daughter does not speak French. Yet here she was declaring her love (if rather dubiously in the same company as Baby Daisy) in the language of love itself.
WASPy old me, I speak French about as well as the next box of Shreddies. I do, however, live in Canada's only officially bilingual province, a province that is butted up against Quebec. Suffice to say my ear knows the difference between Ken Dryden French and la chose authentique. Miss M was singing la langue propre. One of her sitters is francophone by birth and, no doubt, she has been singing and possibly even speaking to Miss M in French, all of which is lovely. It's just that until this moment I didn't know. This woman is accent-free bilingual and I have a very unilingual relationship with her. I didn't have a clue that she was bilingual with my daughter.
This moment of being ripped quickly and wholly from my profoundly familiar world got me thinking about the power of language to transform. It also got me really thinking about the infant ability to absorb and acquire language in all its verbal complexity. Language acquisition is an aptitude that erodes quickly as we age. This fact saddens me greatly. Just imagine what our lives would be like if we retained this ability as we got older, the ability to hear and speak the words of others correctly, as they were intended, and with all the beauty and nuance of the native tongue. Imagine if we had access to all the world's languages to pick and choose from as we wish. Imagine if we could each make a lexicon of our own choosing to describe the world according to our own sense of aesthetics. There are definitely English words I adore like "slacks," "sandwich" and "chesterfield" that I would always keep in my vocabulary but oh how wonderful it would be to augment them with multi-lingual synonyms. I could take étoile instead of "star"; casa instead of "house"; kuchen instead of "cake", and so on and so on and so on. I could find those necessary words for which there is no equivalent in English. My world would expand according to my ability to describe it.
Indulging in all these wild imaginings has led me to realize that with each passing day Miss M becomes further enslaved by her mother tongue. I see it time and again. She encounters a word, she plays with it on her tongue, and eventually she adopts it with an evolving-to-correct pronunciation. The signified gets nailed to its signifier. Each time this happens her world becomes more concrete yet somehow so much more narrow for it. It's as if all the million possible alternative synonyms die in that moment of her very concrete language acquisition.
Fortunately I do hear sounds of rebellion coming from her, indications that she is willing to take agency and name the world for herself with her own words. Her favourite song right now is "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star." For the longest time she believed the word for "star" was "twinkle" and because she could not pronounce "twinkle" she substituted her version, "Wait-da" instead. "Wait-da, wait-da" she sings day and night, particularly on cloudless nights from atop the swing in the park. Her command of the language is much better now and she definitely knows that the proper term for those points of light is "star" but she has consciously decided, in this instance, to name the world her way. Those magical dots in the sky and in the books, those brilliant companions to the "moooon", they simply can't be anything as prosaic as "stars"; no, they can't even be the more mystical étoiles of that other tongue she has heard; no those sparkling diamonds must be "wait-das." It's as if her entire understanding of the cosmos is weighted upon this knowledge of the right and proper word, this perfect marriage of signifier and signified.
Oh, where is this post going? There is so much I want to say about language and the way it brings us freedom because it gives us the power of understanding; about places in the world where being multi-lingual is simply a way of life; about my own regrets at being too poor and insecure to follow through with the Au Pair posting I had lined up in Paris the year after high school only to watch my French-language skills wither and die; about the size of Shakespeare and Joyce's vocabularies; about the dwindling lexicon of high school students today versus fifty years ago; about how my own relationship to words is one of the most powerful and transformative forces in my life; about the fact that I would genuinely like my daughter to learn as many languages as she can so that her world and her mind will be more expansive for it; about how I fear that ticking time-clock of lost aptitude because I also fervently believe these first few years should be entirely about play not structured learning; about the despair of living in a province with separate French, English, and Immersion school systems and a population-base that can support none of them adequately; and about the beauty of being told "I love you" in language and song that exists just beyond my grasp.
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
How I wonder what you are
I was cuddling Miss M on the couch Saturday morning, cradling my coffee in one hand and a book in the other. My arm was around her and the chill of our back family room bit our noses as we snuggled under a blanket. This is one of the most familiar and cherished scenes in my life, as comfortable and familiar as my stretched elastic waistband pajamas and my worn-out sheep skin slippers. In that end-of-book silent pause Miss M burst into song:
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- mo-wo said...
I hear where this post went. Hmmmmm, what now.
- Em said...
Your post resonates so strongly with me... I developed a passion for languages after I left school and I was desperate to learn a foreign language. I spent a year in France as an au pair (I went never having studied French and not speaking a single word), studied french at university and lived in Brussels for two years. My french is good but I'll never be truly, deeply fluent.
If I could give one thing to my children it would be a second language... when we were in Brussels my son went to a French school and he learnt to speak French fluently. It was beautiful and awe-inspiring. It broke my heart when we left Brussels - because despite my best efforts he did not retain a single word. In fact, after a couple of weeks he even resisted me speaking to him in French and told me to use English. He was determined to fit in with his US classmates, which meant being monolingual and thus he was determined to forget his French. I'll always feel sad about this.
In Australia, unless one parent speaks a second language, there is not much hope for people who want to raise a bilingual child. Bilingual schools do not exist, languages are not taught until high school and are not taught particularly well. There isn't much motivation for children to learn because there isn't much opportunity for a child to use a second language. I've tried to interest my son in attending French classes outside of school, but he'd rather play cricket now... and I guess I have to respect that :)
- DaniGirl said...
This is the first of your posts I have read, and what a wonderful introduction! Any blogger who can write such a gorgeous lament and tribute to language goes instantly into my 'must read' list.
I've agonized with bilingualism all year. I struggled and failed twice to pass my government French test, and finally succeeded on the third try. I also enrolled my eldest son in a junior kindergarten immersion program (they speak English one week and French the next) despite my very strong concerns that he will end up master of neither language.
What a great post - I can't wait to read more!
- Andrea said...
This was really beautiful.
I speak a smattering of French and German--enought that I get them confused and end up with sentences made up of each.
The way I heard it was that sounds heard in the first few years of life are retained--the synapses for them don't wither--so if your daughter hears French consistently at this age her capacity for learnign languages will be greater for her entire life. It is a tremendous gift, and does not require structured learning. I'm very jealous!
- Beck said...
Gasp! This post was SO beautiful! I studied Latin at the university level and what do I recall of it? Nada, zilch, not enough to direct one gladiator to one Coliseum.
- Mad Hatter said...
Beck, it's probably in the Gladiator's best interest to avoid the Coliseum at all costs anyway. Glad you liked the post.
- bubandpie said...
I can still remember how very excited I felt as a child at the idea of learning another language. We didn't begin taking French until grade six in those days, and I always appreciated the romance and mystery of being able to speak in another tongue - even after that mystery was reduced to the humdrum banality of "Bonjour mes amis! Bonjour Madame Fortner!"
- Julie Pippert said...
Oh AWESOME post!
My youngest is working on the speech thing and it's amazing.
Plus funny...you know, as she has some misses with the hits.
There's a children's authors Something Clements (not literally Something...that's code for "Having a Mommy Moment and Can't Recall) and he has a book called Frindle about a kid who questions why things are called what they are...so he makes up a different word for a pen and it catches on.
Anyway...love these musings. :)
- Momish said...
Being an avid language nut, I loved this post. I am in awe of watching my daughter's language skill take off and soar higher with each day. It's truly an amazing miracle! Great, great post!
I tried to post earlier and blogger kicked me out. Probably because I said I think Raffi sings a song with those lyrics.
I absolutely love your fantasy. I truly envy the multi-lingual.
My daughter is in school with 3 Indian children this year. One asked her, "How did you learn English?" Fiona responded, "I was born, I learned the words." So simple.
- penelopeto said...
I make up words all the time and i'm teaching my daughter to swear in yiddish.
how's that for contributing to the evolution of linguistics?
- cinnamon gurl said...
I couldn't comment yesterday when I first read this because I had to think first.
In my marvelling at how little ones pick up language, pretty much only from social context, I have only really thought of language of liberating. But you're right; it's simultaneously liberating and restricting.
One of the many things I love about South Africa is that it has 11 (eleven!) official languages. Many signs have the 4 most common languages on them. Most of the time in public, there was at least one conversation going on near me in a language I couldn't understand.
I think I was in university before I really understood that translation is only ever an approximation, and I found that tremendously exciting somehow.
I love daufiero's anecdote about her daughter's answer.
- ewe are here said...
Truly a great post.
I desperately want MF to learn other languages while he's young. I think it's so important. I had years and years of French, and then Latin in University (don't ask!), and still don't have 'the ear' for it. I actively encourage my husband's mom, who's Norwegian, to sing and speak to him in Norwegian whenever she feels like it. Just so he can get a feel for the differences early on ...
Oh. And 'Etoile'. Yes! Have always loved that sound!
- Karen said...
What a beautifully written post about one of my favorite subjects! I teach Spanish at my younger son's preschool and I have to say it's one of the best jobs I've ever had. Each time I'm absolutely amazed at how quickly they pick the language up. Unfortunately I only get 20 minutes per week which is so frustrating. I don't understand why foreign language is not right up there with other subjects. At home I speak Spanish to my children, but not as much as I should. I need to work on that. Might have to print your post to use as inspiration. :)
- Susanne said...
This is coming at a very appropriate time for me. I have just enrolled my son in English class again, and then a friend told me that English for first-graders is much the same as for kindergarteners (which he took for three years), and consists of learning words only like the colors, some animals and fruit. He has yet to learn to form a sentence. I'm sure that if I only threw him in a room with a couple of English-speaking children once or twice a week he'd be almost fluent by now.
It's such a waste. the discussion about how children learn foreign languages has led schools to start English (our major second language here in Germany) earlier than before but the children don't learn to speak it.
I might just look for some DVDs and board books in English and teach him on my own...
Speaking different languages as well as learning about different cultures definitely broadens the horizon... Ask me about that.


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Frankie came into my life in March 2003. I had recently lost a beloved Newfoundland named Petie at the young age of 3 years. Still feeling my loss, I went to the Cudahy Kennel Club dog show. Watching the Newf puppies in the ring, my eyes quickly fell upon this magnificent animal. While all the other puppies were strutting their stuff, this sweet, awkward puppy was taking his potty break. Not once, mind you, but twice. I knew then and there that the show ring was no place for this sweet boy. About one month later, Frankie came to live with his new family. Frankie came to us with the personality to become a certified therapy dog. He was perfect. Frankie has made hundreds of visits and has touched the lives of thousands of people.
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Back in Action Alternate Opening
I really wanted to like 2003's Looney Tunes: Back in Action more than I did. I remember buying into the hype of how this was finally going to be the modern-day LT project that brought the characters back to their roots and would finally wipe away the stench of the likes of Space Jam, Baby Looney Tunes, et al. Well, the release day finally came and it still stands out in my mind as one of the most depressing movie going experiences I have had in recent memory. Sure, Space Jam has aged terribly and I will probably never own the DVD, but I remember seeing it in a packed house with an audience who was really in to it. On the other hand, I saw BIA in a nearly-empty theater (maybe five or six others, including some rather uninterested kiddies). I think you could have heard the crickets chirping (a la "Show Biz Bugs"). What went wrong?
The movie had some super talent on board, folks who cared about the Looney Tunes characters like director Joe Dante and animator Eric Goldberg... but the plot of the movie is where it crashed and burned. Despite the dozens of rewrites, the whole thing felt half-baked and overloaded with too many smug, Hollywood in-jokes for its own good (see also - The Rocky & Bullwinkle Movie, many Animaniacs cartoons). It's no wonder it didn't catch on with mainstream audiences. Don't get me wrong, there are some bright spots in the finished film... but for every bright spot, there are also embarrassingly unfunny scenes like the one with Brendan Fraser prancing around with midgets in Yosemite Sam masks. Another problem was how the LT characters took a backseat to the uninteresting live-action lead characters. The finished film feels like a Brendan Fraser/Jenna Elfman movie that just happens to have some cartoon characters in it. Perhaps a mostly animated "buddy" comedy starring Bugs and Daffy (minus the hammy human co-stars) would have made a more satisfying final product.
Anyway, I bring up the movie since I discovered someone posted the complete original opening (Daffy envisioning himself as the star of a Batman-like action movie) to YouTube. It was released as an excerpt (with Daffy's "commentary") on the official DVD, but here it is in its entirety. I actually think it's funnier than the rehash of "Rabbit Fire" that ended up kicking off the finished film.
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I admit that the live-action parts wern't really good, but the animated parts were a hit about 96% of the time. Did wish they also used this opening. Bugs's line about toilet humor was really funny.
- April 9, 2008 at 5:00 PM
- J.E.Daniels said...
This scene, plus others in the production stage, can be seen if you take a look at the CD ROM features of the DVD.
They really cut out a lot of funny stuff. Too intense for kiddies? Maybe, but still the final product could've been a lot funnier.
Another scene had Daffy chasing Marvin out of Area 52 in spaceships while engaging in a canyon battle.
The proposed "booby trap" scene seemed kind of over-the-top violent, but it would've been entertaining nevertheless. The swinging blades looked really nasty!
The one thing that ruined the movie for me, is the fact there is hardly any actual interaction between the Tunes and humans. Bugs and Daffy just seem 'placed' in the scene...
- April 9, 2008 at 7:45 PM
- Jon Cooke said...
The CD-ROM extras weren't compatable on my Mac, which explains why I never saw this before I caught it on YouTube. Thanks!
- April 9, 2008 at 9:43 PM
- J.E.Daniels said...
I'm a fellow MAC user myself, but my fiance has a PC. Hope you have a chance to check out those scenes in the future...
- April 10, 2008 at 6:14 AM
- Brandon said...
Hey, Jon! I'm the one that posted 7 of the 10 deleted scenes on YouTube. Just check under my "Ninski" account and you'll see them all.
I actually don't mind BIA, but I do dislike all the things you mentioned. The video game adaption is actually better since it focuses soley on Bugs & Daffy.
In one of the deleted scenes, Bugs actually comments, "Wow, you movie execs sure know how to hack things up." Dispensing commentary on what might have been going on behind the scenes.
- April 10, 2008 at 12:14 PM
- Martin Juneau said...
I remember see this alterned opening of this so-sad movie. It's just bad than they replaced by a rip-off of the trademark "Rabbit Fire".
- April 10, 2008 at 1:46 PM
This is hillarious! I've seen the Daffy commentary version-but this is even better.
"It's a bird.It's a plane."
"No,it's a bird."XD
Elmer being a crazy psychopathic villain-I could not stop laughing.
Truthfully-I liked this movie much better than Space Jam.(although I adored that one as a child.) It was definately the cartoon parts that made me laugh the hardest though. Maybe they should have just animated the whole thing instead.
- April 10, 2008 at 7:06 PM
- Matthew Hunter said...
Notice that Bugs addresses people in the boardroom as "Chuck", "Bob", "Mel", and "Leon".
And I LOVE the Elmer bit..."I don't wanna pway a cwown! I'm AFWAID of cwowns! Wahhhh!!!" If Billy west sucked as Bugs Bunny, this movie at least proved that he's the best Fudd voice since Arthur Bryan, bar none.
- April 10, 2008 at 8:43 PM
- Mattieshoe said...
Seeing this makes me realise just how good the animation under all of that Photoshop 3-d live-action crap is.
why would you possibly want Cartoon characters to look like 3d models?
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When the feds seized three poker domains, one of the big concerns was if players would be able to get back their money. When the initial questions were raised, the Justice Department made some statements about how they didn't want people to be able to claim money that was obtained through illegal means -- suggesting that players would not be able to get their money back. However, it appears that someone let those in power know that there are a lot of people who play online poker... and they vote. So, suddenly, the government has agreed to reactivate two of the seized domains to help players retrieve their money. They're spinning the story to suggest people have "always" been able to reclaim their money, but many players say that was not the case at all, and they were completely frozen out of their accounts.
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Frankz (profile), 22 Apr 2011 @ 6:17amOr they want to charge people with illegal gambling, and this is merely a way for them to garner more "evidence" for possible prosecutions.
Anonymous Coward, 22 Apr 2011 @ 6:35am
That's a pity......because anyone who supported those domains financially, and thus put money in the pockets of spammers/scammers, really should lose everything. I say confiscate it all.
Anonymous Coward, 22 Apr 2011 @ 8:03am
Re: That's a pity...You trolls crack me up.
I am surprised to see this much reason from the feds, though it never should have got to this point to begin with.
Anonymous Coward, 22 Apr 2011 @ 8:28am
Re: Re: That's a pity...It's not a troll. Online gambling sites have one of the highest incident rates of spamming out of all categories, and the ones in this case are notorious for it. I suggest doing the research: if you're careful and thorough enough, you'll have no trouble finding substantiating evidence.
Anonymous Coward, 22 Apr 2011 @ 8:57am
Re: Re: Re: That's a pity...If you are careful and thorough enough you can find evidence to support anything.
Even assuming you are correct, are you seriously claiming that customers should be punished for completely unrelated actions of the businesses?
If so then anyone who has used viagra needs to be whipped, because pretty much everyone gets tons of spam for that all the time.
Getefix, 22 Apr 2011 @ 9:48am
Re: Re: Re: Re: That's a pity...
If so then anyone who has used viagra needs to be whipped
With (cough, snort, giggle) what?
Why aren't you players signed up with someplace that provides a nice VPN so it looks like you're in Denmark or some country where vice is usually serviced reasonably? And if you don't have an offshore bank account after everything that American banks have done to you, well, you should be whipped in the face with a viagra punisher. Try Iceland, we'll happily accept your accounts ;)
Faceless Minion, 22 Apr 2011 @ 9:47am
Re: Re: Re: That's a pity...So by this logic, anyone that has gotten BP fuel has helped destroy thousands of lives and businesses, right? Right.
So, what should their punishment be?
jnols33177, 11 Feb 2012 @ 6:55pm
Re: That's a pity...they were playing poker, not donating money to pedophiles and terrorists
The eejit (profile), 22 Apr 2011 @ 6:42amI'd rather beleive a pack of poker players than the government any day of the week - for a start, it's much harder to tell when a poker player's lying (here's a hint; it isn't always when they open their mouths).
Anonymous Coward, 22 Apr 2011 @ 8:56am
Re:No, but just like poker players, even when they are telling the truth they are trying to be deceptive.
ComputerAddict (profile), 22 Apr 2011 @ 6:44amThe Article does not say the players have been able to refund the money, the article says: "... and each implicated poker company has at all times been free to reimburse any player's deposited funds." meaning they could have logged into their webhost/CC processor (not domain host) and issued refunds... the individuals however were SOL.
David Cortright (profile), 22 Apr 2011 @ 6:53am
The spin is a lieI have a PokerStars account with about $100 in it. I have tried to both cash out and to transfer the money to another account several times over the past week. I've been locked out of all attempts. My emails to customer support have gone unanswered.
Personally, I really don't want the cash back. I just want it in an account that I can use to play poker online from time to time. I will figure out a way to work around this, as will most other savvy consumers, just like Canadians who have figured out ways to get DirecTV service.
bdhoro (profile), 22 Apr 2011 @ 7:19am
INDIAN RESERVATIONSLets get rid of online gambling... And sell more land to the Native Americans, so they can open up more Casinos. Then instead of people gambling online from the safety of their own homes, they can drive, get incredibly drunk, and establish a single place for all the degenerate gamblers to hang out with each other!
This way society is much better off as a whole.
Overcast (profile), 22 Apr 2011 @ 9:54amYeah, online gambling is so much worse than state lottery...
So very hypocritical.
dirtbag71 (profile), 22 Apr 2011 @ 10:01am
fedsWhat a joke, if these sites are crooked, why take the players $$? Why don't the feds focus on real crooks like Sir Allen Stanford and Madoff?
Domain name seizure — and restoration — of course has nothing to do with anything. I suspect the FBI (unlike DHS/ICE, who perhaps really don't get it) always knew that, but mounted the seizure simultaneously with unsealing the indictments for maximum shock value.
Though Techdirt readers should know what a domain seizure does and does not accomplish, many online poker players are not generally Internet-savvy; neither are many news sources: the commonly reported story said that the FBI had "shut down" these online poker sites, when of course the client software (which connects via numeric IP address and doesn't require DNS) was unaffected. New domains were up in days.
The sites themselves, not the FBI, chose to block real-money play by Americans. Since the DOJ placed restraining orders against various accounts used for payment processing, it's not hard to guess what's holding up cashouts.
PokerStars has a United States Players FAQ that says something about cashouts:
PokerStars has reached an agreement with the US Department of Justice that will allow players to cash out as soon as a suitable processor is found. This publically available agreement includes assurances from the DOJ that player cashouts can be processed safely. Cashouts for US residents are expected to be available within several weeks.What I have to wonder is whether the US government will be watching the payouts... Prosecuting individuals for playing poker online would be a can of worms the DOJ probably wouldn't want to open, but the IRS might be interested in names and account numbers of citizens who seem to have a lot of money coming back.
The Cash Out option in the PokerStars Cashier will temporarily be unavailable, to allow us to prepare the technical solutions and formulate the plan and processes required to allow you to cash out your balance. We will notify all US players as soon as this option is available again.
Monarch818, 22 Apr 2011 @ 1:10pm
FullTilt Poker's FAQRead through Full Tilt Poker's FAQ for U.S. players. Reads like the U.S. has now set up a GREAT FireWALL, just like China!
Anonymous Coward, 22 Apr 2011 @ 1:42pmAnother point of interest: why only reopen two of the sites? If you went to another poker site that got shut down, does this mean your money isn't worth as much to the government?
keith (profile), 23 Apr 2011 @ 7:32am
duhMy theory - this is just crony takeover just like killing other disruptive technology/early adopters.
This is just the 1st step to bleeding off the existing market share of the current players.
Next, congress will make online poker legal, but you must use state/federally approved services.
Those services will be provided by the large lobbying casino firms that are currently behind in the game.
In return for the gift of killing the existing businesses uncle sam will be rewarded with campaign contributions and any and all other kickbacks under then sun. Wink wink, nudge nudge, thanks for helping your buddy out!
that is all.
Scott Gage, 4 Mar 2012 @ 7:38pm
Bovada needs to be shut downOK people if you play at bovada make sure you are prepaired to lose all your money to bad beats as well as being cheated by the blackjack game I just lost hands in a row with big bets loseing $500 in the mean time. They are crooked and I plan to contact the federal government and even testify to make sure they dont continue to take peoples hard earned money. I am done playing the game and this is from someone that has played for 6 years. Finished done never going to let them steal my money again. No casino in my life have I ever seen win 14 hands in a row EVER. I will make sure its done for Bovada. Horrible dont play its sooooooooooooooo fixed its crazy.
online, 24 Mar 2012 @ 7:27am
reIt's high time they done that. I have a lot of money on some sites.
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