Diego [redux] - October 06, 2012
 

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Diego [redux]
skuds says: Diego came to us when he was about six weeks old. He had been part of a litter from a local farm cat. When we saw all six in a basket we wanted them all but somehow knew that one would be enough of a handful! We wanted a kitten to keep our six-month-old Chiquita company. The day Diego arrived she was promoted from kitten to cat and she greeted him with some hissing but within a week they were curled up in the basket together. Having seen his mother and half brother, we know Diego is going to be a big cat, but for now he is the baby of the family.


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2012 EPT San Remo Main Event, Day 1A: Local Player Erion Islamay Tops Excellent Star
 

Fresh off the finale of the World Series of Poker Europe, poker’s international vagabonds have traipsed from Cannes, France, to San Remo, Italy, for the second Main Event on the European Poker Tour’s Season Nine schedule.

The Casino San Remo was filled with players looking to take down what has traditionally been one of the most popular events on the EPT schedule. Since Season Four, the EPT San Remo has been on the agenda for the tournament poker world and has drawn outstanding crowds for the event. In 2010, the EPT San Remo drew in 1240 players (crowning Liv Boeree the champion) and, although numbers dropped a bit last year (defending champion Andrey Pateychuk navigated a 837 player field), the Casino San Remo was stuffed to the gills as the cards hit the air.

Starting with 30,000 in chips, you would think that the players would ease into the day, but the exact opposite was the case. Within fifteen minutes of the opening bell, former EPT champion Michael Elier was sent to the rail when his pocket Kings were coolered by Thomas Gabriel’s pocket Aces. On the other side, Hendon Mob member Barny Boatman was able to double his stack before the players headed off to their first break of the day.

One table inside the Casino San Remo seemed to draw the most interest from the railbirds in attendance. 2010 World Champion Jonathan Duhamel faced off against 2005 World Champion Joe Hachem several times on their particular patch of felt, but neither would be able to work their way to the end of Day 1A. They were joined rail side by such notable players as Max Pescatori, Konstantin Puchkov, Arnaud Mattern, Anton Wigg and Jonathan Little as the day’s play wore on.

This doesn’t mean that there aren’t several top players that made it through the carnage. 2012 World Poker Tour Grand Prix de Paris champion Matt Salsberg is on the hunt for the second leg of poker’s mythical “Triple Crown,” finishing the day with 135,200 in chips. Former EPT champion David Vamplew is looking to become the first player to ever win two EPT Main Events, bagging up 119,300 chips at the end of the day. They are joined by other notables such as Ludovic Lacay, Mike McDonald, former EPT Grand Final champ Nicolas Chouity, Todd Terry and Andy Frankenberger, all who finished Day 1A with double the stacks they started with.

When the EPT officials rounded up the bags, 172 players were left in the battle and it was a previously unknown player that held down the top slot on the ladder:

1. Erion Islamay, 162,300
2. Michael Ferrell, 146,600
3. Matt Salsberg, 135,200
4. Alberto Musini, 125,000
5. Inge Forsmo, 123,700
6. Mustapha Kanit, 120,600
7. David Vamplew, 119,300
8. Brandon Barnes, 115,100
9. Ondrej Majercik, 113,200
10. David Peters, 111,400

Day 1B is currently in action at the Casino San Remo and the field is replete with powerful players. Pateychuk is back to defend his title and Boeree has popped up ready to try for a second EPT San Remo crown. Team PokerStars Pro is well represented with Daniel Negreanu, Bertrand ‘ElkY’ Grospellier, Chris Moneymaker and Eugene Katchalov carrying the banner and other pros such as Joseph Cheong, Davidi Kitai, Vadzim Kursevich and Faraz Jaka are also in attendance.

At this point, late registration is still in play, meaning that the official field size has yet to be determined. According to the tournament clock, more than 450 players have already entered the Day 1B proceedings and it should guarantee another million Euro payout to whoever becomes the newest champion on the EPT when the tournament concludes next Thursday.



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Previewing the 2012-2013 World Series of Poker Circuit Horseshoe Southern Indiana
 

The WSOP Circuit Hoseshoe Southern Indiana will culminate this weekend with a $1,675 Main Event. Check out our recap of the ring events thus far.

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The Weekly Gaming Business Wrap -- 10/6/12
 

Here’s a look at the headlines for this week in the gaming business world. Ohio Still Struggling Despite New Casino Tax Revenue Ohio will open its third casino on Monday ...

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PICK OF THE WEEK: Halo CMEs Galore
 

The Sun produced four halo coronal mass ejections (CMEs) in just three days as well as several other eruptions...

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Deadwood
 

I have always been fascinated by the Old West, so this week will be Deadwood Week here at OPOD. We will be looking at the sites of this iconic gold rush town of the late 1800's. Today's picture was taken in 1890, and shows the City Hall of Deadwood.https://blogger.googleusercontent.co...s.blogspot.com
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Short Hairstyles
 

Looking for a short hairstyle? These pictures of short styles worn by such celebrities like Halle Berry, Kelly Rowland, Eva Pigford, Janet Jackson and may just inspire you to get a short snip!

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Black smoke...
 

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Mars Hooke Crater
 

High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) nadir and color channel data taken during revolution 10743 on 8 June 2012 by ESA’s Mars Express have been combined to form a natural-color view of Hooke Crater region in Argyre. Centered at around 45°S and 314°E, this image has a ground resolution of about 22 m per pixel. The image shows the western half of the 138 km-wide Hooke Crater, with wind formed dunes at its heart, while to the left of the crater, the ice-covered plains of Argyre Planitia are coated with a thin dusting of frozen carbon dioxide. The very large Argyre impact basin brought materials from the deeper Martian crust and mantle to the surface. It provides scientists with one of the locations on Mars with a greater mixture of young/old and deep/surface terrains, providing a window into the planet’s past.

Credits: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum)

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Cosmic Tantrum
 

A dying star is throwing a cosmic tantrum in this combined image from NASA\'s Spitzer Space Telescope and the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX), which NASA has lent to the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. In death, the star\'s dusty outer layers are unraveling into space, glowing from the intense ultraviolet radiation being pumped out by the hot stellar core.

This object, called the Helix nebula, lies 650 light-years away, in the constellation of Aquarius. Also known by the catalog number NGC 7293, it is a typical example of a class of objects called planetary nebulae. Discovered in the 18th century, these cosmic works of art were erroneously named for their resemblance to gas-giant planets.

Planetary nebulae are actually the remains of stars that once looked a lot like our sun. These stars spend most of their lives turning hydrogen into helium in massive runaway nuclear fusion reactions in their cores. In fact, this process of fusion provides all the light and heat that we get from our sun. Our sun will blossom into a planetary nebula when it dies in about five billion years.

When the hydrogen fuel for the fusion reaction runs out, the star turns to helium for a fuel source, burning it into an even heavier mix of carbon, nitrogen and oxygen. Eventually, the helium will also be exhausted, and the star dies, puffing off its outer gaseous layers and leaving behind the tiny, hot, dense core, called a white dwarf. The white dwarf is about the size of Earth, but has a mass very close to that of the original star; in fact, a teaspoon of a white dwarf would weigh as much as a few elephants!

The glow from planetary nebulae is particularly intriguing as it appears surprisingly similar across a broad swath of the spectrum, from ultraviolet to infrared. The Helix remains recognizable at any of these wavelengths, but the combination shown here highlights some subtle differences.

The intense ultraviolet radiation from the white dwarf heats up the expelled layers of gas, which shine brightly in the infrared. GALEX has picked out the ultraviolet light pouring out of this system, shown throughout the nebula in blue, while Spitzer has snagged the detailed infrared signature of the dust and gas in yellow A portion of the extended field beyond the nebula, which was not observed by Spitzer, is from NASA\'s all-sky Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). The white dwarf star itself is a tiny white pinprick right at the center of the nebula.

The brighter purple circle in the very center is the combined ultraviolet and infrared glow of a dusty disk circling the white dwarf (the disk itself is too small to be resolved). This dust was most likely kicked up by comets that survived the death of their star.

Before the star died, its comets, and possibly planets, would have orbited the star in an orderly fashion. When the star ran out of hydrogen to burn, and blew off its outer layers, the icy bodies and outer planets would have been tossed about and into each other, kicking up an ongoing cosmic dust storm. Any inner planets in the system would have burned up or been swallowed as their dying star expanded.

Infrared data from Spitzer for the central nebula is rendered in green (wavelengths of 3.6 to 4.5 microns) and red (8 to 24 microns), with WISE data covering the outer areas in green (3.4 to 4.5 microns) and red (12 to 22 microns). Ultraviolet data from GALEX appears as blue (0.15 to 2.3 microns).

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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