JP Morgan has taken $2 billion in trading losses in the past six weeks and could face an additional $1 billion in second-quarter losses due to market volatility. David Reilly has details on The News Hub.
Jamie Dimon: Wall Street’s Go-To Guy Trips Up
May 18th, 2012Jamie Dimon has been one of the US’s most successful and outspoken bank executives since the financial crisis. On Thursday, he took the blame for a $2 billion trading blunder. David Reilly has details on The News Hub. Photo: Getty Images.
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2012 PokerStars SCOOP Day 12: Dan – Online Poker News Hub
May 18th, 2012
A look at Day 12 of the 2012 Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) at PokerStars.
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- 2012 PokerStars SCOOP Day 6: Barbero, Deeb, ElkY Each Make Final Tables
- PokerStars.com SCOOP Event 17-Hi: Koon, Merrifield Chop
- 2012 PokerStars SCOOP Day 9: Ankush Mandavia and Mayu Roca Win
- PokerStars SCOOP Event #19-Hi: David ‘WhooooKidd’ Baker Wins
- SCOOP Day 7: Barbero, Deeb, and Makarov Capture SCOOP Titles
- PokerStars 2011 SCOOP: Days 5, 6, & 7 Results
- 2012 PokerStars SCOOP Day 8: Shaun Deeb and Viktor “Isildur1″ Blom Eye Third Titles
- PokerStars Finalizes 2012 SCOOP Schedule
- 2012 PokerStars SCOOP Day 3: Viktor “Isildur1″ Blom Wins Again; Negreanu, ElkY Come Close
Poker terminology:
- BIG SLICK – In Texas Hold’em, hole cards of A-K, suited or not.
- SUICIDE KING – King of Hearts. So named because in the drawing the king appears to be stabbing himself in the head.
- FISH – A player who loses money. An old saying is “If you can’t spot the fish at the table, *you* are the fish.”.
- FAMILY POT – A pot where all of the players at the table are participating, even after each has had an opportunity to act.
- DRAWING DEAD – A draw in which it is impossible to obtain a winning hand for any of a variety of reasons: an opponent’s hand is better than whatever you are drawing to, the card(s) that make your hand are out of play, or (in Hold’em) give an opponent a stronger hand even if it makes yours. Frequently used in the past tense, since one rarely knows it at the time.
- FORCED BET – In some stud games a player may be required to make a bet to start the action on the first card. This is similar conceptually to blinds and antes, but in this case is dependent on the cards shown rather than player position. Usually the weakest hand is forced to bet.
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J'Accuse! French news site publishes Muslim street theater as Israeli …
May 18th, 2012“You are a wonderful fighter for liberty” – Bat Ye’or
“Well, I read Atlas Shrugs, Power Line, National Review blogs” …….. “Atlas Shrugs breaks more news than dozens of liberal blogs combined.” …… … Ambassador John Bolton
“I’m a fan!” – Mark Steyn
“Fearless, intelligent, beautiful — Pamela Geller wears her Supergirl
costume well.”
“Pamela Geller is a dynamo of energy and
a paragon of courage and fearlessness.
–Robert Spencer, JihadWatch in his book Stealth Jihad
“You do great work. You are a hero”. — Geert Wilders, Dutch MP
“You are my hero!” – Wafa Sultan, Former Muslim, Author human rights activist
Hot female host with a good sense of humor based in NYC? I nominate Pamela.– Michelle Malkin
“A nationally recognized authority on the threat of radical Islam” – Rep. Steven King (R-IA)
Pamela is one of the nation’s most vigorous opponents of bigoted violence.- John Hinderaker, Powerline
“I’m cheering you on!” — Amanda Carpenter
“Great site,” Dick Morris
“A brash New Yorker and an irrepressible firebrand” — Robert Tracinski, The Freedom Fighter’s Journal and The Intellectual Activist
“Indeed, some of Israel’s best friends and most articulate defenders can be found in the blogosphere …. Atlas Shrugs, [et al] all provide a refreshing alternative to the moral relativism and politically correct anti-Israel blather of the media. Michael Freund, Jerusalem Post
“She does more in one week than most of us do in a frickin’ lifetime — Pamela Geller!” – Jaz McKay, Talk Radio KNZR
“Influential online fanatic” — Max Blumenthal, Writer, Al Jazeera and The Nation
“I never go to MSM for news. Atlas is where I go. I am amazed at all that is happening, that only Atlas readers know about”". — JCL, Atlas reader
“The heroine of the right wing blogosphere. ‘We’re all Pamela Geller now!’” – Charles Johnson, mental patient
“Geller had joined Stop the Madrassa and blogged often about the matter on her website, Atlas Shrugs. Blessed with sultry Hollywood sex appeal and a sassy, scythe-like wit — a personable Ann Coulter and articulate Sarah Palin rolled into one — Geller would ride the Park51 project protest to superstardom.” – Southern Poverty Law Center
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Intel Hub News Brief: Navy Tests Drones on Pirates & Tech with Jason Bermas
May 15th, 2012Jason Bermas talks the Military hacking game consoles and Beta Testing Drone technology on Pirates. He also discusses the DHS purchase of 450 Million rounds of hollow point ammunition and more in this latest Intel Hub News Brief.
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TDS Staff: Tim Carvell's "Planet Tad" – Colbert News Hub
May 15th, 2012It’s unlikely any seventh-grade teacher today would bat an eye at “Planet Tad,” a comic novel for middle schoolers based on Tim Carvell’s serialized story in the pages of modern-day Mad. This fundamentally sweet tale, with illustrations by Doug Holgate, is entirely unsubversive. It’s charming and entertaining, to be sure. But I feel a little bit sad that a book with the Mad logo emblazoned on its cover can safely be handed by librarians to boys who might never appreciate the invigorating grossness of a Don Martin cartoon.
Tad isn’t aiming for the stars, is what I’m saying. Carvell is clearly writing about an Everyboy, but there’s a difference between being relatable and being forgettable. Tad has no real interests or passions, few close friends or enemies, not even a particularly fraught relationship with his parents.
What does he have? A little sister who pushes him around. Teachers whom he unwittingly insults. Classmates who can’t even remember his name. Tad most comes to life not when relating his day-to-day struggles, but in the short and sharp gags that interrupt the narrative. “Werewolves are badly named,” Tad muses in one entry. “They’re not people who were wolves. They’re people who are wolves. They should be called arewolves.” With a bit of judicious editing, this would be an excellent tweet. (Indeed, Carvell, the head writer for “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart,” is a Twitter aficionado.) I wondered, in fact, why Tad hasn’t embraced Twitter or Tumblr or some other microblogging service, rather than using what appears to be LiveJournal for his entries, complete with little mood emoticons garnishing each one. That’s so 2007, Tad!
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Indonesian Rescuers in Arduous Climb to Russian Jet Site | Video …
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2012 PokerStars SCOOP Day 6 – Online Poker News Hub
May 12th, 2012
A look at Day 6 of the 2012 Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) at PokerStars.
Related Poker News:
- SCOOP Day 7: Barbero, Deeb, and Makarov Capture SCOOP Titles
- 2012 PokerStars SCOOP Day 4: Second Career SCOOP Victory for Shaun Deeb
- PokerStars.net LAPT Lima Day 2: Nacho Barbero and Karlo Lopez Highlight Top Ten
- The Nightly Turbo: Nacho Barbero Wins PokerStars LAPT Lima, Poker After Dark $100,000 Cash Game, and More
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- PokerStars.com SCOOP Event 17-Hi: Koon, Merrifield Chop
- PokerStars SCOOP Event #19-Hi: David ‘WhooooKidd’ Baker Wins
- PokerStars 2011 SCOOP: Days 5, 6, & 7 Results
- PokerStars Finalizes 2012 SCOOP Schedule
- 2012 PokerStars SCOOP Day 3: Viktor “Isildur1″ Blom Wins Again; Negreanu, ElkY Come Close
- PokerStars.net LAPT Punta del Este Day 4: Nacho Barbero Scores Big
Poker argot:
- EDGE – An advantage over an opponent, either specific or subjective.
- LIVE [CARD] – In Stud, a card probably not held by other players.
- WHITE BLACKBIRD – A hand so astonishingly rare as to be unworthy of the opponents’ consideration, e.g., being dealt a pat royal flush in 5-card draw.
- RAIL – A barrier dividing the card playing area from a public area.
- LAY ODDS – To give favorable odds to an opponent.
- BUTTON – A distinctive token held by the player sitting in the theoretical dealer’s position, when a house dealer is used. The button rotates around the table so that every player has an opportunity to be the last to act. Also, “THE BUTTON” can refer to the player who currently has the button. (“I was the button and called the blind”.) Synonyms: BUCK, PUCK.
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War News Updates: Is Iran Cleaning Up It's Nuclear Sites?
May 9th, 2012Iran may have carried out a clean-up operation at a building suspected of being used for nuclear weapons experiments within a key military facility, experts warned last night.
New satellite photographs appear to show that unusual activity has taken place in recent weeks at the Parchin site outside Tehran, according to the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS).
A large stream of water pictured flowing from the building, said to feature an “explosive chamber” for testing, “raises concerns that Iran may have been washing inside the building”, according to the group.
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Update: U.S. institute says sees “new activities” at Iran site — Reuters
My Comment: Iran must know that these actions do not build trust or good-will.
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