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Signs a senior is developing a gambling problem: Frequency in playing, lengthy absences from home, increased health issues because their medication and food money is spent on gambling, cashing-in life insurance policies, depression, anxiety, stress-related disorders, missing household items to get extra cash.

More signs that someone you know is developing a gambling problem:

Lying about gambling
Hiding gambling losses
Changing from gambling with groups to gambling alone
Talking only about wins, not losses
Missing household or personal items
Becoming withdrawn from family and friends
Use of credit cards to gamble

Help is available, both for the gambler and his family members. Visit: Wisconsin Council on Problem Gambling (version 3) Call: 24-hour helpline: 1-800-GAMBLE-5

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Twitter's site crashed on Thursday at about 3pm BST due to a "denial of service" attack – thousands of remote-controlled virus-infected PCs trying to contact the site.

Though the site came back up after an hour, the company said it was "continuing to defend against and recover from this attack".

The company's status blog says that: "We are defending against a denial-of-service attack, and will update status again shortly."

(DDOS attacks have become relatively commonplace online, but this is believed to be the first time that Twitter has been targeted. As companies get larger and more geographically distributed, they can handle such attacks because their servers are remote from each other. Twitter however is still comparatively small, with most of its resources in the US).

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That should pressure the american government.

US is in hot water with the European Commission over their online gambling laws. They have given the US a grace period to come into compliance or risk a problem with the World Trade Organization.

The US and EC have been in contact, and they have said they are attempting to resolve the dispute. Unlike his predecessor, President Obama has addressed problems that other countries have had with the US, as opposed to simply turning their back on these countries.

The desire of Obama to reach out is what has people believing that he will eventually oversee the changing of online gambling laws. There have been two proposals offered in regards to online gambling in the past several months.

Wednesday was a day of hope for anyone in the US who enjoys online casinos. :dance:

Several online gambling operators have invested tens of millions of dollars lobbying US lawmakers in attempts to shape the future US gaming market.

According to an article in the Telegraph, PartyGaming, PokerStars, and Sportingbet all have hired lobbyists to represent their specific and individual interests with US lawmakers. US casino companies will get a huge advantage on licensing when the US laws change. Clearly, foreign online operators sense this possibility, and are willing to spend vast sums to avoid seeing this happen.

:dirol

Mostly online I read my mail and talk to my friend but my big stuff is doing MLM, trying to earn a little something more every month a part of my hard work in a hotel.
For my vacation I receive $500 for my shopping!!

I know a lot of people is doing different stuff. May some can talk more about it....

Several online gambling operators have invested tens of millions of dollars lobbying US lawmakers in attempts to shape the future US gaming market.

According to an article in the Telegraph, PartyGaming, PokerStars, and Sportingbet all have hired lobbyists to represent their specific and individual interests with US lawmakers. US casino companies will get a huge advantage on licensing when the US laws change. Clearly, foreign online operators sense this possibility, and are willing to spend vast sums to avoid seeing this happen.

:dirol