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Jumbo Loan Rates Fall Below Conforming Mortgage Rates
For those unfamiliar with what a jumbo mortgage is, it is a home loan that does not conform to the standards set by the GSEs because it exceeds the limit set by the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), such as Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. This limit is the maximum amount that the two enterprises are willing to pay for any individual loan.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac after the bail out and what it means for the homebuyer
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, who were regulars in the headlines back in 2008, have maintained a relatively low profile as of late. However, just because the two haven't been making headlines during the more recent years does not mean that they have not been busy. In fact, quite a lot has happened since the bailout of 2008, especially involving Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
An Overview of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
Home Prices Trend Downward as Moderation Sets into Market
The fall's cooler temps are being matched by a cooling off in the housing market's red-hot trends, according to ZipRealty's latest Housing Trends Report. For the month ended Sept. 15, median homes sales prices in the 24 metropolitan areas surveyed were up 14% year-over-year, compared to 16.2% a month prior to that. Median sales prices were higher than a year ago in all cities studied, but the annual price increases shrank in 19 out of 24 markets. The median sales price of about $272,000 in mid-September was also approximately 2% lower than in mid-August 2013.
Figuring Out Home Loan Interest Rates
Trying to figure out home loan interest rates at any given point can initially seem daunting. Actually, it can seem downright impossible. However, after you simplify the process using factors like the U.S. Treasury Yield for example, finding the rate of interest that you might pay on a home loan is really not all that difficult. To help you do so, here are some tips to consider when trying to figure out home loan interest rates in the future. ¨
Staging Your Home for the Fall Selling Season
The weather is getting cooler, the leaves are turning (in most of the country!), and days are getting shorter. To take advantage of fall buyers who are out looking at homes, we have some home staging tips to help your house stand out during the season.
Gorgeous autumn days mean fewer hours of natural light, but you can still brighten up your home with artificial illumination inside and out to put your home in the best light for potential buyers. Designers break lighting into 3 categories:


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Out of long habit, I use Yahoo as my web browser's home page. I kind of like the shifting assortment of news items it presents over the course of a day.
But once in a while they screw up royally. I just caught one such instance. Look at the circled headline: "Evidence suggests WikiLeaks suspect may of had help." Ai yi yi!
It's extremely common in chat boxes and online forums for ignoramuses to write something like, "I would of called you." For them, you can just dismiss it as somebody who failed third grade. But who is Yahoo hiring that writes its news headlines that way???
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Grammar FAIL
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Two more Bodog cashes
I played two more tournaments on Bodog this afternoon, simultaneously, starting 15 minutes apart. The first was $15+1.50, with a $1000 guarantee, the second a $20+2, with a $2500 guarantee. Neither one made the expected numbers, so both had an overlay.
The first one was meh. Frankly, once the second one started, and I got off to a good lead in it, I paid it far more attention. After all, it had a higher buy-in and a prize pool 2.5 times as large. I'm not particularly good at dividing my attention, so the $15 tourney got short shrift, with me looking at what was going on only when it was my turn, and the rest of my time spent following the action in the $20. That probably turned out to be a wise move.
I did cash in the $15, but only a little, finishing in 8th place (out of 64 starters) for $45.
That allowed me to turn full attention to the second one. That worked out pretty well. I ended up seeing this lovely screen at the end:
The payout was actually $750. For some odd reason, when there is an overlay Bodog first displays the amount you won from the prize pool generated by the players' entry fees, and then separately adds in the extra owed due to the guaranteed prize pool. This screen shows it correctly, however:
I didn't do anything spectacularly brilliant--just played solidly, patiently, more willing than usual to let go of hands when challenged by most players, waiting to get paid off with the occasional big hands. It worked. I only sucked out three times. The first time we were at the final table and I was getting very short, so open-shoved from the button with Q-9, called by J-J in the small blind, rivered a queen. The second one I'm no longer remembering.
The third was in the final hand of the tournament. I entered heads-up play with a 4:1 chip lead and still had it (124K to his 32K) when this hand came up, less than ten hands into the two-way action, with blinds 1250/2500/250. I had Jc-10d. He min-raised to 5000 from the button, I called. Flop Kc-10c-2h. I checked, intending to check-raise if he bet. (He had been the most aggressive player at the final table, so I expected a c-bet even if he whiffed.) He checked behind. Turn: 2c, giving me two pair and a flush draw. I bet 8100. He min-raised to 16,200. I shoved, he called. He had Qh-10h, so he had been ahead, but with the board paired we now had the same hand (king on the board playing instead of our kickers), except that I had a flush draw. River was the Js, giving me a better two pair and the win.
I'm not sure that it's right even to refer to that as a suckout. The only money I put in when not a favorite was the original pre-flop min-raise amount. By the turn we were 61% to chop, but I had 12 river cards to win (three jacks and nine clubs), while he had just five (the two non-club queens and the three remaining kings).
I wish I could put that into an animated replayer for you, but I can't. One of the annoying things about Bodog is that it doesn't save your hand histories on your computer. You can get them from the site, but only in a format that is not read by any hand replayer that I know of. (There is a software package you can buy that saves your Bodog hand histories and converts them to a usable format, but I don't think it's worth the cost for my purposes.)
I think that is the first MTT I've won outright on Bodog, at least the first since I moved to Vegas. Of course, I haven't played there much at all until this week. I think it's also my biggest online cash in more than a year. It also means that I've cashed in and final-tabled four of the last five NLHE MTTs I've played on Bodog: 4th, 3rd, 8th, and 1st, all in $10, $15, or $20 events, for a net profit of about $1025. (In the one failure I went out on the second hand. Started with A-Q, flopped a queen, turned trips, then lost to a guy who rivered a crub flush. Of course.) I am pleased with myself for this little streak.
To paraphrase Garrett Morris as the Dominican baseball player on Saturday Night Live, Bodog been berra berra gooda to me.
What to do with the profit? Well, part of that has already been decided. I'm cashing out just enough to buy myself a plane ticket and go visit my wonderful friend Cardgrrl in Washington, D.C., for her birthday next month. Thanks, Bodog!
Incidentally, it looks like I was wrong about something. The other day I mentioned that Bodog has a platform-neutral version (Flash) that Mac users can play with. Looking into it more closely, it turns out that that version will only support cash games, and only one at a time. No tournaments at all, and no multi-tabling cash games. Pretty pathetic. Sorry for the misinformation.
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Poker gems, #382
Steve Zolotow, in Card Player magazine column, July 28, 2010 (vol. 23, #15), p. 78.
I have noticed that the most tapped-out players are always those who think no one else can play. I mentioned to Lyle Berman that a player's opinion of the opposition correlated with his bankroll. Those with low bankrolls had low opinions of their opponents. He extended this concept by adding that the more broke they were, the more convinced they were that they could beat every game playing with your money. Yes, there are a lot of players looking to get staked.
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Guess the casino, #585
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Answer: Aria
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Define "celebrity"
There's a full-page ad in the current issue of Card Player magazine for a "Celebrity Poker Tournament" to be held at the Firelake Grand Casino in Shawnee, Oklahoma.
Here's who they boast will be attending:
- "General Larry Platt, Americal Idol, Pants On The Ground"
- "Norm Macdonald, Comedian" (should be "MacDonald," not "Macdonald")
- "Jaime Edmondson, Playboy Playmate" (January, 2010; she was also half of the runner-up team on The Amazing Race last year)
- "Chicken George, Big Brother" (contestant on the first season, 2000)
- "Theo Vonn" (I'm guessing they mean Theo Von, who was on MTV's Road Rules in 2000, plus a couple of other reality shows since then)
- "Kevin O'Conner" (probably means Kevin O'Connor, but even so I can't tell which of several people by that name it might be; Wikipedia lists two Irish footballers, an American actor, the co-founder of DoubleClick, an Amazing Race contestant, the general manager of the Utah Jazz, and the host of This Old House)
- "Mark 'The Chinaman' Britten" (stand-up comic)
Look, I'm an old fuddy-duddy, hardly the most up-to-date on who's who. I saw Twitter messages yesterday pleading to "free Snooki," and had no idea who that was until I Googled the name. So maybe I'm a bad standard by which to judge relative degrees of fame.
But even if we give them a pass on misspelling three--THREE--out of the seven names (budget wouldn't allow for a proofreader, apparently), what kind of "celebrity" list is this? Norm MacDonald? OK, I'll give you that one, as kind of a B-list or C-list guy. I saw Platt on Idol. I saw Edmondson on Amazing Race, though I didn't know she had subsequently done Playboy, and wouldn't have remembered her from the show. I saw Chicken George on Big Brother way back when, but had no idea he was still stretching out his 15 minutes of fame from that. The other three are completely unknown to me, and, as indicated above, I can't even tell which O'Connor they have in mind.
At the very bottom of the ad, it says that there will be "over 20 celebrities playing in the tournament." One has to assume that for purposes of the ad they picked the biggest names that they had from their list, which means that you can expect to see some 13 "celebrities" even less famous than these.
I sure hope they have a crack team of security experts to keep the multitudes of overexcited fans at bay.
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Labels: card player magazine, celebrity
Friday, July 30, 2010
Because I'm a little geeky, that's why
I just made a decision. The next time I have quad aces, I am going to either say out loud or in the chat box (depending on venue, obviously), "All your ace are belong to us."
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Good enough
Would have been nice to take this one all the way, but I'm OK with a $184.80 - $22 = $162.80 profit for three hours' play. Thanks to the railbirds who saw the Tweets and joined me at the end.
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Labels: my results, online poker
Guess the casino, #584
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Answer: Texas Station
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Thursday, July 29, 2010
I'm not sure why I'm spending so much time on the subject of HR 2267, since I'm highly dubious that it's going to get enacted into law. But sometimes I just get curious about something and have to figure it out, even if there are no real-world consequences.
I wrote earlier today about the balkanization of online poker, but only in a footnote. My friend Cardgrrl submitted a comment in which she expressed doubt that this was really a problem. That made me wonder if I'm understanding the matter correctly, so I went back to investigate it a little more, as I had previously been relying primarily on news reports summarizing the bill's provisions.
The first of two amendments that I'm focusing on is Amendment 8, offered by Campbell, and agreed to by voice vote. It adds to the requirements for obtaining a federal license this language: "Require licensees to maintain all facilities within the United States for processing of bets or wagers made or placed from the United States."
The second is Amendment 16, offered by Sherman, and agreed to by voice vote. This specifies that in order to receive a federal online gaming license, the applicant must provide "Certification that the applicant has established a corporate entity or other separate business entity in the United States, a majority of whose officers are United States persons and, if there is a board of directors, that the board is majority-controlled by directors who are United States persons." It further states that the licensing entity must "Require that a majority of all of the employees of the applicant or licensee, and of its affiliated business entities, be residents or citizens of the United States."
Let's suppose that, say, Australia passed an essentially identical law for the licensing of an online gaming company to accept bets from its citizens. Can Acme Poker USA operate in both places?
Clearly Acme Poker is going to have to have its servers and administrative offices in the U.S., using U.S. employees--at least all of those facilities that are going to be handling U.S. customers. I suppose it could set up a subsidiary corporation, something like Acme Poker Australia, and base it in Melbourne--although even there I'm a little uncertain, because of the language about "affiliated business entities."
Now can a U.S. player and an Australian player play at the same virtual cash-game table? That strikes me as problematic. Obviously the two servers have to communicate with each other continuously in order to make such a game happen. I wager $1 here, Kangaroo Ken raises me $2 more. It seems to me that the servers in Australia are necessarily "processing," in some way, the bet that I made, and, in parallel, the U.S. servers are "processing" the bet that Ken is making--in apparently violation of Amendment 8.
You might argue that the Australian servers are not part of the U.S.-licensed company. First, in my hypothetical, Acme Poker Australia is a subsidiary of Acme Poker USA, and thus is under the ultimate control of Acme Poker USA. So maybe we change that and make them, somehow, sister companies, neither one controlled by the other. Or go even further and say that they are wholly independent, but have negotiated a cooperative agreement to use compatible software and exchange real-time poker game data so that their players can freely compete against each other. (I have a hard time seeing how that could actually work, because there would be no common pool of money. But set that aside, and assume it could be figured out.)
But there is still a problem, I think. The language doesn't say that the licensee has to make sure that only those facilities under its control are in the U.S.; it says that "all facilities" for processing bets by U.S. players must be located here. The implication of that is that the company cannot allow the transmission outside of the U.S. of any data required for any part of the "processing" of a bet by a U.S. player, which would seem to imply that there can be no international play. If a server in Australia is receiving the wager information from me and passing it on to Ken, surely that server is "processing" my bet, which violates Amendment 8.
I might be completely wrong about all of this. I'm giving you my admittedly amateur and rather hasty and superficial analysis. But unless somebody presents me with a persuasive argument as to why these amendments do not, in fact, have the effect I'm inferring from them, I will be of the opinion that the version of the bill passed by this committee, if enacted, is going to make it impossible for there to be legal poker played by U.S. residents that involve anybody situated outside of the United States. (It would also mean that you couldn't play on your usual site when you were traveling outside of the country, but that's a much smaller concern.)
It appears to me that if every country passes substantially similar measures, what we will be left with is a global patchwork of sites, none of which can communicate with each other--the very antithesis of what the Internet was supposed to accomplish. The artificial lines we draw on maps to delineate our territory from that of other nation-states will be adopted into online gaming, as if the Internet did not exist beyond our own shorelines.
This is "definitely...good for poker"?
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Labels: HR2267, laws, news, online poker, politics
Strange language
I was just reading Todd Brunson's column in the July 28 Card Player magazine. It included this brief story about a mixed-game tournament he was playing, with Phil Hellmuth at the table:
A few hands later, the game was razz, and Phil again tried to dump me some
chips. I raised from the one hole with like six small cards behind me, and Phil
reraised me with a 7 up. Nice hand there, Phil--lol, I mean, did he really think
I had raised into six babies with an 8 in the hole?
I had a 3 up with A-2 in the hole. The one redeeming factor for Phil was
that he might have had a 5 in the hole, as there were three out. But that proved
not to be the case, as Phil bricked on fourth street (as did three others,
including me), then hit the miracle 5 on fifth street.
The only thing remarkable about this account, for me, was the sudden realization that it would have been complete jibberish to me, say, three years ago, before I had played my first hand of razz. Even with a pretty solid understanding of hold'em, I would have had no comprehension of what this story was relating, or the underlying strategic concepts.
I have a few readers who know little or nothing about poker. They read the blog because they know me personally and want to keep up with what I'm doing and thinking. Once in a while I pause and realize how nonsensical it must sound when I write a paragraph or a story that is chock-full of poker terminology and shorthand allusions to strategic concepts that I tend to assume my readers understand without having it all laid out in detail.
The thing that most commonly reminds me of this is when Memphis Mojo does a post about bridge rather than poker, and I'm left scratching my head, trying to grasp what the hell he is talking about--since I don't even know how the game goes. Take this bit from earlier today, for example:
West led the ♦8, a singleton! This has to be an awful lead. Does he
really hope his partner will win the ace and give him a ruff? Haha.
Kate won and led a low diamond to ruff. West was now void, but couldn't
beat my ♠9. Of course, I wouldn't have opened without that card, ahem. She
now had 13 tricks: She took six spades, two hearts, two diamonds, two clubs and
one ruff.
This all means precisely nothing to me. It might as well be written in Egyptian hieroglyphics. It makes me feel a bit stupid, though logically it shouldn't; I'm simply not informed about the relevant subject matter. (In my defense, I recently had occasion, on a completely unrelated writing project, to toss off a paragraph considering porphyria cutanea tarda, mononeuritis multiplex, reflex sympathetic dystrophy, and venous stasis dermatitis, and I'm guessing that Memphis Mojo would be the one left scratching his head over that. So there! Ha!)
All of which is just to say this: Thanks to the non-pokery people who put up with what must be a nearly continual sense of bewilderment at the poker jargon found here. I actually do have some sympathetic sense of how foreign it must feel.
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A legal oddity
I was just skimming through the actual text of H.R. 2267 to tie up a few loose ends on my previous post, when I noticed something unexpected. I was looking for what I assumed would be a provision for criminal prosecution and punishment for offering online gaming without a federal license. As far as I can tell, there is none. I.e., there's nothing that lays out as a crime, with specific associated penalties, the act of providing online gaming without a license. It looks to me as if the only way the feds will have to prohibit such gaming is by going to court and obtaining an injunction--basically a cease-and-desist order, the continued violation of which would bring the offender under the provisions of contempt of court.
That strikes me as odd and unexpected, because virtually every time a licensing program of any sort is put into place by any jurisdiction it is accompanied by a provision making it a crime to engage in the activity involved without obtaining said license. Still, I'm not at all sure what, if any, significance to attach to this fact. I also don't know how it would work in actual practice. After all, if a company has its headquarters and servers entirely outside of the U.S., what can a federal court actually do it? Of course, that's true of criminal provisions, too, as long as the owners/operators don't make the mistake of deciding to celebrate a good year by going to Disneyland.
Incidentally, there is also no clause that I can find making it a crime to engage in online betting as a person prohibited from doing so under the new regulatory scheme; the responsibilities lie wholly with the licensee/operator. Similarly, nothing in this bill makes a federal crime out of placing online bets with an unlicensed operator. Interesting.
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More on H.R. 2267
Yesterday I reiterated my opposition to any federal licensing scheme for online gambling on general principle.
I should have also added that an independent, sufficient reason to be opposed to the idea is that the last thing this monstrously money-addicted Congress needs is another new revenue source; we should be looking for every possible way to starve it rather than feed it. That the current bill is picking up supporters who like it purely for the fact that it gives them more of our money to spend is alarming, though misguided people and groups (such as the Poker Players Alliance) are using this as a selling point.
Here's a snippet from the New York Times demonstrating this mindset:
Supporters of legalization said fiscal considerations played a role in
their thinking. "I was looking for the money," Representative Jim McDermott,
Democrat of Washington, said in an interview. He sponsored the companion measure
to allow taxation of Internet gambling; he wants to dedicate the money to
Representative Brad Sherman, Democrat of California, said in an interview
that the money was an attractive source of financing for other programs. "We
will not pass an Internet gaming bill," Mr. Sherman predicted. "We will pass a
bill to do something very important, funded by Internet gaming."
He added, "Forty-two billion dollars over 10 years has an
This is just wrong. First, any tax and licensing fees should be no more than required to operate the regulatory body. Second, at a time when Obama's budget projections show a tripling of the federal debt to more than $15 trillion by 2020, compared to 2008 levels, it is simply insane to be thinking of doing anything with new revenue other than trying to reduce that number. Using it for yet more new spending commitments is so fundamentally irresponsible from a fiscal and public policy standpoint that any member of Congress advocating it (as, e.g., Sherman and McDermott above) should be impeached and removed from office--or maybe just shot where he stands.
Along the same lines, states that don't opt out of the federal plan will be able to tack on their own taxes, which causes the same problems for both the profitability of the game and for overstretched state budgets as I have outlined at the federal level.
But what I really wanted to address in this post is this offhand remark from a Wicked Chops Poker post of earlier today: "The bill, which ... definitely falls under the 'Good for PokerTM' category, would effectively undo the UIGEA and make all online gambling, except sports betting, legal at the federal level."
Good for poker? "Definitely"? Let's consider that.
Now there is no state or federal tax taken out of cash pots or tournament payouts that I win. Under H.R. 2267 there will be. (OK, technically the taxation part will be under a separate bill that is still in committee. But it is unthinkable that 2267 would pass without that part coming along for the ride. Also, having not read that companion bill, I suppose it's possible that the taxes will come out of deposits rather than individual bets or pots. Same difference.)
Now online poker sites do not report one's winnings or losses to the IRS. Under H.R. 2267 they will.
Now I can play on Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars, Ultimate Bet, Bodog, Cake network, etc. Under H.R. 2267 those sites would not be available.*
Now I can bet on sports through any number of online sites. Under 2267 that will not be possible.
Now I can fund at least some online poker accounts via credit card. Under 2267 that option will be taken away.
Now I can play online even if I'm behind in child support payments. Under 2267 that will become illegal.**(As a matter of general principle, you tell me how the status of my child support payments is any business of either the federal government or Party Poker.)
Now I can easily transfer to or receive from friends funds from my online poker accounts. Under 2267, that freedom will almost certainly be eliminated, due to the anti-money-laundering requirements.
So, Wicked Chops Entities, can you explain to me how any of these things makes my life as an online poker player better, i.e., how these provisions are "definitely...Good for Poker"?
*PokerStars seems oddly confident that it will be able to become a licensee under this bill. Similarly, the blogger for Doyle's Room is calling this bill "a great success for legalized poker in the U.S." I don't know what they are seeing or thinking that escapes me, because it sure looks to me like they would be excluded. Even if they somehow were to get past being able to prove that they had never violated any state or federal law with respect to online gaming (itself a dubious proposition, given the Justice Department's interpretation of current federal law and several state laws that are pretty unambiguous), I simply can't believe that they would be willing to move their entire operation to the United States, as would be required for licensure. By the way, this is another problem with the whole idea of licensure: Every jurisdiction wants the businesses it regulates to be physically within its borders. FTP and Stars simply cannot simultaneously be wholly located within the borders of the U.S. AND France AND England AND Italy AND every other nation that wants to regulate and tax them. This trend will inevitably lead to the unnecessary balkanization of the online poker world.
**My friend Shamus reads this provision as saying only that one cannot obtain a license to operate an online gaming site if one is behind in child support payments. Though the wording of the amendment is clumsy, I think that's pretty clearly wrong. It doesn't say that the licensee must not be behind in child support payments; it says that the licensee is required not to take bets from any person who is behind on child support payments.
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Guess the casino, #583
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Answer: Sandia
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Research on the best poker face
Pointer supplied by Cardgrrl:
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Slippery slopes
A convergence of events prompts me to pick this subject.
First, last night I was reading the new issue of Card Player magazine. There's a news story about the broadening of Florida's laws to allow real no-limit poker (July 28 issue, page 26, article by Stephen A. Murphy). That wasn't news to me, but it gave more background about the history of Florida's poker laws than I had been aware of:
Florida legislators legalized penny-ante poker in 1989, but capped all pots
at $10. While the law would loosen up a little over the years, it never went as
far as most serious poker players would've liked.
In 1996, state-licensed pari-mutuel facilities were allowed to begin
spreading poker games with the $10 cap. In 2003, a new law passed that scrapped
the $10 cap but still forced the max bet in any action to be only $2. In 2007,
no-limit hold'em was finally introduced, but with the $100 max buy-in.
The second convergent event was reading today the final arguments in an interesting pro-con debate about online gambling sponsored by The Economist, available here.
The third event was today's passage out of committee of H.R. 2267, proposing to establish a federal licensing/regulatory scheme for online gaming. See the Poker Players Alliance's press release on it here.
Slippery slopes are real. (For an excellent overview of how and why slippery slopes work in law and politics, see Eugene Volokh's article here.) You can easily imagine how the latest Florida law is the literal, nightmarish fulfillment of an anti-gambling activist's parade of horribles. "You see? We warned you back in 1989 that penny-ante was just the first step, and they'd demand more and more. Now they have finally achieved what they really wanted 20 years ago."
It works in other subjects, too. A friend of mine from back in Minnesota, Joe Olson, co-authored a fine historical essay for a law review about how England went from almost no gun-control laws to a nearly total ban on firearms (and, along the way, use of any force for self-defense) in just a few decades ("All the Way Down the Slippery Slope"). When the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional restrictions on sale of contraceptives and laws against interracial marriage, few would have guessed that those decisions created a slippery slope leading to judicial striking of anti-abortion laws and legalization of same-sex marriage.
On the other hand, perhaps those pressing the first cases knew exactly what they were doing and saw the end from the beginning. After all, there is a clear history of smart, strategically-minded people using the slippery slope to achieve their purposes through patient gradualism. Thurgood Marshall's brilliant stepwise attack on racial discrimination laws jumps to mind. He very carefully plotted out how to use courts, legislatures, and public opinion to knock down barriers one at a time, starting with the most patently unfair and unreasonable ones. It took decades for his plan to play out fully.
It's good to see examples like Marshall's, and like the Florida poker history, and know that you can achieve meaningful reform of stupid, restrictive laws by continuing to press an issue over time. After all, you can't just fly to the top of Mount Everest in a helicopter and say you've conquered it. You can only get there one step at a time.
But it works both ways. Freedoms can be just as easily destroyed in small steps as they can be won--probably more easily, in fact. It is easy for politicians to vote either to ban or to continue or tighten a ban on some activity that only a minority of people want to do, whether it be smoking marijuana or riding a Jet Ski or shooting a machine gun or piloting a motorcycle without a helmet. Those examples also share the characteristic of being things that are either objectively or arguably bad or dangerous, which makes it even easier for politicians to prohibit them by law, in the name of protecting people from their own folly.
I'm not proud of this, but I was once all in favor of a bunch of prohibitions of things that I knew were bad for people. I have supported anti-tobacco legislation, helmet laws, seat belt laws, and even an attempted ban on tanning booths. They seemed like no-brainers to me; these activities are dangerous and no reasonable person could want to see his fellow citizens harmed needlessly.
I'd like to think that I'm more enlightened now. I have come to realize that if I don't want other people mucking around with the liberties that I want to engage in (driving ridiculously overpowered fast cars, playing with guns, entering poker tournaments, eating foods crammed with salt and trans fats, etc.), I can't very well be working to prohibit the things that they so irrationally want to do (drink themselves into a stupor, smoke cigarettes, hire prostitutes, go sky diving, drive Humvees, worship Baal, etc.), even if I think they've gone mental to want to do them.
Today's second and third items provide vivid reminders that there are lots and lots of people out there who remain as paternalistic as I used to be. The "con" author of the Economist debate and any number of politicians opposing H.R. 2267 (because they want online gaming to be illegal) want to control your life. They claim the right and power to decide for you whether you should be able to enter $1 tournaments on PokerStars in your pajamas, because, Lord knows, you're just too stupid to be trusted to make such decisions for yourself. Although they would undoubtedly deny it, it is absolutely, demonstrably the case that they believe they are in a better position than you are to decide what you do with your time and your money.
You should be appalled and resentful of this--unless, of course, you try to do the same to others with respect to some activity that you find abhorrent and want to ban, in which case you're just getting tit for tat and you deserve it.
Anyway, I have strayed from where I set out to go. What I wanted to get to was this: I remain opposed to the Frank bill, and all others like it, precisely because of the slippery slope. As I have argued here several times before, I think it is a dangerous precedent that is far more likely, ultimately, to kill online poker than to save it.
The reason I think this is that taxes and regulations, with rare exceptions, tend to ratchet in one direction only. If we get federal licensing of online gaming, then every time there is some crime or other scandal, as there surely will be, the regulations will get tighter and more severe. Witness what happened just last week with the banking industry, and what happened with respect to offshore oil drilling almost as fast as the tar balls washed up on the Florida beaches.
Same thing with taxes. How often do you see tax rates cut, compared to how often you see them raised? Isn't the latter, oh, about a hundred times more common than the former? Politicians tend to disbelieve the Laffer curve, or at least always convince themselves that they're still on the upslope side of it so that raising tax rates will increase governmental revenue. It will be the same with online poker. The initial tax rate will be painful but not lethal to the industry. Over time, though, the slippery slope will make the games less and less profitable, both because of increased tax drains (as you can see happen with tobacco taxes, gasoline taxes, alcohol taxes--heck, just about any kind of tax you can name) and because of increased rake due to ever-higher overhead costs of complying with ever-more-burdensome regulations.
The process may eventually stop or reverse, but it will only do so when the damage has become so great (i.e., both the sponsoring companies and the government making less and less money) that it is impossible to deny--and then it's too late. The kitten will have fallen off the end of the slide, and mother cat won't be able to rescue it. They will have killed the goose that lays the golden eggs. (Add your own overblown metaphor here.)
The current situation is not great. I am not fond of the legal haze of today's status quo, nor the fears that such uncertainty generates. I have heard from many friends, readers, and fellow players at the live tables that they don't play online because they're worried about cheating, or it being illegal, or the IRS being able to trace transactions, or funds being suddenly confiscated by the government, or sites being shut down or going bankrupt. It is a disgrace, an outrage that people in Russia are more free to play poker online than we are in the allegedly last great bastion of freedom. But I remain convinced that the way things are is better than the way they eventually will become if the feds get involved.
I am fully persuaded that what we will witness will not be a repeat of Florida, with gradual liberalization of the game. No, it will be a promise of Shangri-La, but actually leading to slow death by regulatory and confiscatory strangulation. Ironically, I believe that those currently fighting federal licensing will in the long run get their wish--the end of online gambling--while those begging "Tax and regulate it, please!" will celebrate now, only to see it all go to pieces on them later, one small step at a time.
The best hope for online poker is for the government to leave it the hell alone. That is what a free nation would do. That is what a free people deserve.
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Guess the casino, #582
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Answer: Paris
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Norman Chad, in WSOP broadcast, July 27, 2010, commenting on a hand in which brothers Robert and Michael Mizrachi squared off against each other.
By the way, Lon, correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Cain murdered Abel after taking a bad beat in razz.
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Where to play online?
As mentioned at the end of the last post, VegasRex announced today that he will be leaving town. As a consequence, he said that he's going to start exploring the previously uncharted territory of online gaming. I have no idea what the online world holds for games other than poker (though there's obviously a lot to choose from), but I do have a decent amount of experience with and opinions about the online poker realm.
Here's what Rex wrote about the prospect:
There will be one challenge for me as it pertains to online gaming.Here's a useful page that lists Mac-friendly online poker rooms, with the ones open to U.S. depositors helpfully flagged with the red, white, and blue: http://www.flopturnriver.com/Mac-Poker.php
I do not own a Windows PC.
I have access to one, but I've not personally used Windows for my own day-to-day purposes for some time. For the most part, I only use Unix-based operating systems such as Linux, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X. Since Windows 7 has been getting rave reviews for the past 9 months, and since Mac Snow Leopard was perhaps the most ridiculous OS "upgrade" ever, I'm not going to do the cliche'd "Windows sucks" thing, but I do prefer the "Unix way" to the "Windows way".
Because of this, I may have to buy a copy of the dreaded OS or see if various programs run under Wine or some kind of emulator. My assumption is that there aren't a lot of Mac/Linux friendly online rooms, but I may be wrong.
Let's go through these one by one--or almost.
We can consider Full Tilt and PokerStars together, because as far as I am concerned they are pretty much equivalent and interchangeable. Whether I play on one or the other is almost completely arbitrary--a function of where a private tournament is being hosted, or where my current bankroll is bigger, or where the next razz game will be starting up. In terms of being able to find a game of the type and size that you want at the time that you want to play, in terms of security, in terms of ease and reliability of getting money in or out of your account, there is very, very little difference between the two. With FTP you can sign up through an affiliate and get rakeback, but Stars effectively equals that with its frequent-player points system. Flip a coin, pick which one you like the display and controls on better, you really can't go wrong. In fact, for the sake of flexibility, you just oughtta have both of them loaded and ready to go.
But, frankly, I use both sites mostly for (1) just fun (e.g., bloggers' tournaments, where I know a fair number of the other players), and (2) when I want to play a game other than hold'em. It's virtually impossible to find anything other than hold'em and Omaha anyplace else. If you want to learn other games or want to play them seriously because you think you have an edge over the opposition, you really have to play at FTP and Stars; there just isn't any other choice available.
Next up we have UltimateBet and Absolute Poker, which are now just two slightly different versions of the same site. I think that the utterly shameful way that the company has, even up to the present, dealt with its two cheating scandals (not to mention all the other security and software glitches that seem to crop up with some regularity) is reason enough to want to see them go out of business due to players turning their backs. I haven't played on AP in more than four years. When the UB scandal first broke, I decided to abandon the site, but they made it such a pain to take my last $60 or so out that I eventually gave up. (I'm not alone in this experience--which all by itself should be sufficient reason to be leery of the site.) So I pop back in once in a while and play a $5 or $10 tournament. I'm down to less than $10 now, I think. I won't absolutely swear that I'll never put another dollar in, because something unforeseen could happen that would induce me to do so, but right now I don't anticipate giving them any more of my money, and I'd be happy if everybody else shunned them, too. Good riddance to an ugly blight on the world of poker.
"Luvin Poker" is another one listed by the FlopTurnRiver page. I'm not sure why they singled this one out. It's just one of many skins of the Everleaf network. Victory Poker is probably the best known of them, though they're all quite new. I opened an account there a month or so ago, but I have not yet tried playing there, nor have I deposited any money, so I can't report on the experience. This network is a very small player in the online poker market, and it will be lucky if it survives. I wouldn't want to keep an amount on account there that would hurt to lose, due to the worry that they'll go belly-up with no forewarning. They don't have a dedicated Mac version, but you can use their "instant play" version, which I assume is Flash-based, playing inside a web browser.
Finally there's Bodog. I gotta tell you, if what you're looking for is bad players, Bodog and the Cake network (I use Doyle's Room for the latter, but you could pick any of them and it would be the same) are today like Party Poker was back before it withdrew from the U.S.--just unbelievably fishy. I guess I'd toss the Merge network in with them (Carbon Poker and many others), though I don't especially like their user interface, so I sign on less often there. But neither Cake nor Merge has yet released either a Mac-dedicated version or a platform-neutral web-based version.
I like the actual game interface on Bodog, but its main lobby, tournament lobby, and hand history reviewing pieces are pure garbage--difficult and unintuitive to use. That's ancillary, though. Customer service is crappy, but I don't have any serious worries about the site's basic integrity. It's much smaller than FTP or Stars, but there are still plenty of low buy-in tournaments going on all the time.
FTP and Stars are so good in their execution of nearly everything, and in the overwhelming torrent of games available, that you'd think there would be no reason to even consider an also-ran site like Bodog. But here's the bottom line from my experience: FTP and Stars are slow leaks for me, in that I'm a long-term loser playing them. Some unquantifiable part of that is because a large percentage of my play on them is games other than hold'em, where I'm more a recreational/learning player than a serious one. But even in NLHE tournaments (I haven't tried NLHE cash games online, at least not more than dipping my toe in them) I struggle to break even. Tournaments aren't my best thing, nor is online poker generally, so even though I'm not facing pros at the stakes I buy in for, it's not a money-making proposition for me.
But Bodog is something else entirely. It is not difficult to cash in tournaments there. If there are even three players at a table who seem to know what they are doing, it's a surprise and a small miracle. Just don't bluff. Repeat: DO NOT BLUFF. You will be surrounded by calling stations, so wait for made hands and value-bet them. That's it. That's the whole secret. If I were going to try to make it as a low-stakes online grinder, I would use Bodog and one of the Cake sites as my primary hangouts.
So there's my best advice about where to play if you're using a Mac in the United States.
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Thanks, Rex
VegasRex has announced that he is pulling up stakes, so to speak, and moving off to the Northwest sometime soon.
I've been thinking about this on and off today, trying to think of a way to express my thanks and admiration for his blog without embarrassing myself by sounding like a pathetic fanboy. I failed, so I'll just have to risk that he'll see this and roll his eyes in puzzlement and/or disgust.
I first learned about Rex when the Hilton poker room closed. It had been my primary spot for poker, so a reader (Smudger) sent me a link to Rex's post about the closure. It was clear he and I saw this--and a bunch of other stuff--similarly, so I posted a note about his eulogy. I've been a loyal reader ever since.
I have to admit that at first I was jealous, because I quickly discovered that he had the kind of style and tone that I had originaly envisioned for this blog: some blend of outrage and disgust that still managed to be humorous and not sound like I took myself too seriously. (If you look back at my first few posts--October through December of 2006--you'll see what I mean.) I was rarely able to achieve it, and certainly couldn't sustain it as my primary "voice." It seems to come naturally to him, though.
What's strange is that he and I have still never run into each other, despite both spending inordinate amounts of time in casinos. (I didn't know what he looked like at the time I put up that first post, but I do now, and--trust me--he would not be hard to spot.) My loss.
I owe him another round of thanks for bringing attention, commentary, and outrage to my incident at the Cannery last year, at a time when many others had attitudes such as, "You had it coming," or, "Everybody knows you can't take pictures in a casino," or, "You should have just done what they asked you to do," or, "You were just looking for trouble/attention." He knew by repeated personal experience how insanely arbitrary and thuggish both casino security personnel and Vegas-area cops can be, and was unflinching in taking my side, despite having never met me, and despite having no way to verify that I was telling the truth about the episode.
I'd be writing this paean even without that incident, though, because there is no other blog about Vegas that is even remotely as consistently original, thoughtful, and funny as his has been. Funny, as in, you don't dare read it on a laptop in public because people will look at you strangely when you're laughing your head off in Starbucks, and you won't be able to share, because the best bits would likely shock and offend the unprepared.
I also tend to agree with most of his opinions about how things ought to be, but even when I don't I have to admit that he nearly always presents good reasons and persuasive arguments for holding a different point of view.
OK, I guess that's enough fawning to constitute sufficient payback for three years of some of the most pleasureable reading I've gotten in this city.
Rex, I won't wish you happiness where you go, since you already expressed well in your announcement why you won't attain it. I hope, though, that you find more contentment than Vegas seems to be affording you lately. Moreover, I hope that you continue to write about it, wherever you land.
If you do, I'll be there to read and enjoy.
P.S. You mentioned in the posts today some uncertainty about where to start online play. That deserves more extended comment, so I'll do the next post addressing that question.
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Guess the casino, #581
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Answer: Mandalay Bay
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Monday, July 26, 2010
Guess the casino, #580
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Answer: Green Valley Ranch
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Sunday, July 25, 2010
For introverts only
Here's a blog I just discovered that I think you'll like: The Introvert's Corner. I've just read the most recent half-dozen posts, and want to highlight most of them: Why introverts hate telephones, the perils of being a good listener, how to piss off an introvert, how introverts fare in intimate relationships--it's all good stuff.
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Guess the casino, #579
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Answer: Bellagio
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.- President George Bush should name a new commissioner to head the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to replace Dr. Andrew C. von Eschenbach, MD, the current acting commissioner, says an international pro-life leader.
Fr. Thomas Euteneuer, president of Human Life International, claims that von Eschenbach in unable to act as an independent authority. He claims the current commissioner is too easily swayed by political pressure and it is the reason why he is allowing Barr Pharmaceuticals to submit a new application for over-the-counter use of its Plan B abortion drug.
Fr. Euteneuer claims the doctor is "kowtowing to Senator Hillary Clinton (D—NY)" which "disqualifies him from being an independent commissioner for the FDA."
"Barr Pharmaceutical's Plan B is an abortion-causing drug that contains high doses of a powerful synthetic hormone. Low doses of this hormone when used for 'contraception' are only available with a prescription. It makes no sense for the FDA, under Dr. von Eschenbach, to allow the higher dosage Plan B to be available without a prescription."
He said von Eschenbach should be replaced with a medical authority, "who puts the health of the American people first, and does not bow to pressure from politicians and pharmaceutical corporations."
.- President George Bush should name a new commissioner to head the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to replace Dr. Andrew C. von Eschenbach, MD, the current acting commissioner, says an international pro-life leader.
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Bobby also has a KSWO-TV connection. His grandfather, Robert P. Scott, helped found the station more than 50 years ago.


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on Sep 24, 2012 at 4:49 pm
I have a relative who gives a lot of blood through Stanford and I'm just wondering...
I've noticed when some technicians take blood (and here I'm speaking in general, I don't know if they do this at Stanford), a lot of times they'll take off their glove and palpate the vein with their bare finger, and they think then if they take a swipe with alcohol, that it sterilizes everything. But I've read about research that this does almost nothing, and they often don't even let things dry, which is key to the alcohol killing any germs at all.
Blood technicians don't usually wash their hands between patients, either. I've had draws where the skin was still broken in the area from a previous draw and a technician palpating the area actually made it sting from the salt of their fingers on the open spot (meaning, it had been awhile since they'd washed their hands).
Most nurses and technicians are okay if you ask them to please wash first, though often they'll just use the sanitizers, which help but are not as good as washing, and as a patient, I am often just trying to figure out what I need to be doing and focusing the healthcare, so I forget to ask until it's too late. I have asked that they use gloves to find the vein, but many complain they can't feel the vein through the glove.
I'm just wondering if in the midst of this terrible dispute, if there isn't something to be learned from it about improving practices for drawing blood. (I didn't say I'm expecting anyone to try, I'm just wondering it there is.) I know I would feel a lot more comfortable if technicians would palpate using a clean glove only and avoid using their hands which harbor microorganisms. If clean gloves are not allowing technicians to do their job by their design, perhaps they should be designed better, or Stanford/other blood collection places can investigate what other options would create the same level of protection.
My opinion in this situation of paying lawyers oodles of money is money down the drain and the bad will and destruction that comes from this kind of fight only hurts everyone. This is what insurance is for -- err on the side of covering the guy's bills, investigate and improve drawing practices and next time, they really will know for sure it couldn't be related.
I know I'll get flamed for saying it, but it's the right thing to do, and probably cheaper than paying the legal costs. (People always think organizations make decisions based on what is cheaper, but it's not so -- lawyers influence the decisions, and they often have a fairly self-serving perspective. For example, it turns out to be a lot cheaper when doctors apologize and take responsibility for mistakes, but lawyers tell people never to apologize...)
on Sep 24, 2012 at 5:16 pm
@hmmmm. In my many years of donating platelets at the SBC, I've always found their practices to be precise and careful. Iodine is used unless one is allergic to alcohol. In either case, the sanitizer is rubbed for a timed period (watches are used). In the case of iodine (not sure about alcohol), two applications are used; the second is meant to leave a pool of iodine on the skin. The mechanical nature of the butterfly needles (and, for that matter, the finger piercers used when one's hemoglobin level is checked) is such that the needle tip is exposed for the first time only as the piercing is about to occur.
However, I bet what you say about some nurses in a hospital environment is sometimes unfortunately true. My guess is SBC maintains standards at the very top of the health care profession, but there are probably some non-Stanford places around here that do not.
Let me make another point. One doesn't pierce skin and draw blood without some small risk. I have donated well over a hundred times, and I'm proud of that. I take on some risk and experience physical pain to help others. Angry drivers out there: if you ever see me bicycling to work wearing an SBC bicycle jersey, try not to run me over: there are a lot of future blood recipients who will miss out on my blood.
on Sep 24, 2012 at 6:06 pm
I should have added that I'm sympathetic to the plaintiffs' illnesses. I hope they fully recover. I wish our country had true universal healthcare.


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My understanding is that the We the People program participants enroll in a class called Comp Civics which is offered at Amador for credit but they only offer one section.
How can this happen in a public school? Granted, for many classes like Honors English there is a test students must pass, but ALL the students who pass the test and want to enroll get in as they offer more than one section. That, apparently, does not happen in Comp Civics. Many qualified students who meet the academic requirements are denied enrollment into the Comp Civics class since there is only one section.
I understand that federal funding ended for this program, and that is a good thing now that I find out how it works.
My question is: does this happen only at Amador or do all the schools that participate offer only one class and therefore have to reject many students who would like to enroll?
If anyone knows, I would appreciate the information.
In my opinion, a public school should only offer classes that will be able to accomondate ALL students who are qualified and want to enroll in them. If a class like Comp Civics must reject qualified students because only one section is offered, then that class must be cancelled until more sections can be offered to accomodate ALL the qualified students who wish to enroll.
I will be contacting my representatives on Monday but want to find out more about this program before then. I looked on the web but can only find general information. What I need to know is whether this happens only at Amador or in every high school where this program is offered.
It is important that Washington does not fund or support programs like this that exclude many qualified students in a PUBLIC school CLASS.
on Feb 26, 2012 at 12:09 am
Hi Wondering,
The requirements for We the People are not just grade-based (in fact, I don't even think they check your grades before you apply). For example, a really shy person could have excellent grades, yet they are probably not in a (comfortable) position to debate/speak in front of people. To answer your question, FHS also does it this way. The students are handpicked after seeing their ability to form an opinion and debate with others, but I don't think there is an excess of people qualified like you describe. The class itself is STRENUOUS and requires meeting almost everyday after school and on weekends and endless hours of work, so you really can't just be "qualified," you have to go beyond.
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to be honest you kind of just sound like your kid did not make the team. the class is one section be it is in groups breaking up the class would make it unorganized.
on Feb 26, 2012 at 6:52 am
I do not have a child who applied to that class; my child is too busy with other classes and activities and does not have time for a class like this. I was at a party where I found out about several students not making it. I personally know some of those students, and they are very qualified (not just academically), and some of them are even in debate, speech clubs, are outgoing and simply qualified for what this class sounds like
My question now is this: is this the way Pleasanton (AVHS, FHS) does it? Or is this how it works in every high school that participates in the program?
Regardless of how a class is, every student who qualifies and wants to enroll should be allowed to do so. This is a public school district, and so far, I do not know of any other class that has such enrollment limitations. Even classes that have tough requirements accept all qualified (and some not so qualified) students.
Now, if this were just a club or extracurricular activity, I would not be so concerned. But this is a CLASS, and a class should not be rejecting students but accomodating everyone who has the potential of handling it with success.
We the people should be a club, not a class for credit. It should also not receive federal funding as no other club does. I read on the web something about the government having spent in years past 21.6 million in this program. That is a lot of money, and with budget deficits these days and cuts to education, how can our government justify financing a program that rejects so many students (only 30 can enroll out of more than 2 thousand students in a high school)? This program should not get funding from the taxpayers but from the parents of the small group that is allowed in the club (again it should not be a for credit class in a public school whose teachers are paid by taxpayer funds).
Please if someone knows more about this program outside of Pleasanton, let me know. I want to finalize my letter and emails.
I tried to find out information from the internet but I was not able to, and friends I have in other school districts did not know as they did not have this program at their high schools.
Does someone know how it works in other high schools outside of Pleasanton?


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"When he came up on that grass, he just sat there with his mouth open for quite a long time," Wanda Vekasi said. "He was so scary, so much scarier and more powerful looking than the gators, that I just thought I'm never going to be as afraid of gators as I am of that."
FWC spokesperson Gary Morse said this is likely the same reptile initially spotted a couple years ago and then several times since.
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Morse said Florida is the only state in the country with crocodiles; the animal is being taken to an area where about 2,000 other crocodiles currently live.
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- If you have school-aged children and you hope to be able to remain in the marital home until they finish school the last thing you want to do is leave the home. If your spouses income in greater than your income and you want to negotiate him paying the mortgage or part of the mortgage you lose your ability to negotiate keeping the home once you leave the home. Stay put!
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If a person has had surgery due to severe symptom of Crohn's Disease, your diet will never be the same again and will definitely be severely restricted per your doctor's instructions.
This is not something you want to endure, believe me. I met someone who had an Illeostomy. It's not a pleasant sight.
It is very unfortunate at this point if a person has had there intestines altered in this manner.
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I was very fortunate to NOT have ANY kind of surgery on ANY part of my intestines due to Crohn's Disease.
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My heart goes out to those who have gone through surgery. If only they were able to catch this in time, they would have had the success I had by fully using the Vegan Diet to correct the irritations and problems caused by Crohn's.
It was an amazing and astonishing experience using this incredible Divine Diet.
Because no alterations were made to any part of my intestines, the Vegan Diet went right to work, healing the irritated and inflamed parts of my small intestine.
You see, I worked together with my digestive tract to get it back in shape, eating only plant foods, and not eating any kind of animal foods. This is a most troublesome and bad habit we have been taught.
The animal diet has caused more problems for the human body than anyone could possible imagine. I should know. I ate every kind of animal food out there. And them some.
And because of the power of the Almighty King Jesus, permitting me NOT to undergo surgery, I feel very blessed.
This is why it is so vitally important, that if you still have some normal function of your intestines, and never have had surgery on them, to switch from eating animal foods to all plant foods as soon as you can.
This the true secret and miracle of healing this stupid disease. Eating meat and all other animal foods reeks havoc on the digestion of the human body.
People can't seem to get it through their thick sculls. This is not the appropriate diet for mankind to eat.
Now, mind you, you probably won't feel the effects for a while. However, over time, your body will begin to rebel against having to digest the animal diet that was not meant for it to use. Sometimes sooner that you think.
To some people this may sound rather strange. I can understand that. But what I have discovered through all my pain and suffering with Crohn's Disease, is that if you EAT RIGHT, your body, my friend, will WORK RIGHT.
It is that simple. It's not rocket science, my friend. It took me so much pain and agony to finally process and understand this very important fact.
No one should have to endure this foul disease any more than being hit by a car in the street.
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You see friend, the Vegan Diet, also known as the Edenic or Genesis 1 : 29 Diet, was lovingly made for you and me by Dear Jesus Himself.
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Did you notice anything unusual about this scripture? Herb bearing seeds, fruit of a tree yielding seed – these are supposed to be our meat! Not steaks, pork or lobster!
Quite wonderful, wouldn't you say? To think that He made this diet for you to stay healthy and not have Crohn's Disease is more than enough proof that Dear Jesus cares and loves you and me, and everyone on this planet.
The problem lies with people just wanting to do their own thing. Eat whatever they want, regardless of the consequences. Do you see what I am getting at?
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Despite leading in shots, the Dolphins couldn't find any luck as Florida International scored on a penalty kick with less than nine minutes remaining in the match to down the JU men's soccer team, 1-0, on Monday night in Miami Fla.
With the match scoreless in the 81st minute, the Golden Panthers (4-7) had a shot attempt that was saved by sophomore goalie Johnny Foley, but he bobbled the ball and in the process fouled an FIU player to set up a penalty kick. Steven Cabas calmly knocked it in the top of the goal for the game-winning score.
Cabas finished the night with match-high six shot attempts, which Phillip Lamarre tallied eight saves between the posts to help secure the win.
The Dolphins (3-7-1) finished the night with an 18-8 shot advantage and held the Golden Panthers to only a pair of attempts in the first half. Senior midfielder Jonathan Jackson had a team-high five shots, while sophomore forward Tyler Williams finished with four attempts. Senior goalie Joey Sanchez and sophomore goalie Johnny Foley each had a half between the posts and tallied one save apiece.
"This was a tough way to lose," said JU head coach Mike Johnson. "We played hard all night. I was pleased with how aggressive we were on offense, but we just couldn't get any in the back of the net. As long as we continue to work hard then good things will eventually happen. I'm glad we had this game because it will help us as we prepare for our matches in Nashville this weekend."
The Dolphins came right after the Golden Panthers as Williams and senior defender Eddie Munnelly launched shots on goal within the first two minutes of the match.
Williams caught Lamarre out of position in the seventh minute of the match, but his shot sailed wide.
JU took eight shots in the first half before FIU tallied its first attempt of the match in the 38th minute by Cabas, which was saved by Sanchez.
In the second half, Jackson and junior forward Wesley Lartey each had consecutive shots in the 70th minute for the Dolphins, but they were knocked down by Lamarre.
Less than three minutes after FIU's goal, Williams tried one last shot for the Dolphins, which was once again saved by Lamarre.
The Dolphins dive back into the Atlantic Sun schedule on Friday when they head to Nashville to play Belmont at 7:30 p.m. JU finishes the weekend on Sunday against Lipscomb at 1 p.m.


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Walk into an NFL locker room during the preseason and you
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for a roster spot must share lockers.
Former Mountaineer Will Johnson is in the latter of the two
groups, but could find himself with his own locker in the near future.
Johnson opened training camp as one of two fullbacks on the
Steelers roster. Presumed starter David Johnson suffered a season-ending injury
in the preseason, which left Will Johnson as the only fullback on the roster.
The Steelers have left Johnson as the only fullback on the
roster for now, which indicates he could see plenty of playing time this fall.
"It's definitely been a dream come true," Johnson said. "I
have been fortunate enough to be in this organization and blessed to come in
here and show what I can do."
Johnson, as any good young player in the NFL would do, paid
close attention to David Johnson in camp. Having an opportunity to start is
something he wanted, just not due to injury.
"I've been given a great opportunity," Johnson said. "It is
unfortunate the way I got it, but I am more than capable of doing it. I'm just
excited they have given me the opportunity to do it."
Johnson played tight end and fullback by the end of his
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him prepare for his current job with the Steelers.
"I believe reading defensive fronts and tight end blocking
transitions over to the fullback really well," Johnson stated. "Just being able
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Versatility is important for players trying to make the
final cut on an NFL roster. Typically those who can play special teams win the
tiebreaker over those who cannot.
The Steelers could decide to pick up a fullback who is cut
right before the season. They could also decided to go with Johnson this fall.
"Hopefully I am still around come the regular season," Johnson
said. "I am taking it day-by-day and not looking ahead. I am just focusing on
right now."
Johnson has decent hands and can be a factor in the passing
game. At this point, the Steelers are using his size and agility to help
protect Ben Roethlisberger and lead the way for the running backs.
"I am basically a lead blocker and a halfback some," Johnson
said of his role with the Steelers. "I got one carry tonight and it was okay
because we are down on backs right now. They are using me as a lead blocker and
trying to fulfill that role and I am comfortable with that."
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