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Arcade Adventure for Young Stars
Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study the young open star cluster IC 1590, which is found within the star formation region NGC 281  nicknamed the Pacman Nebula due to its resemblance to the famous arcade game character. This image only shows the central part of the nebula, where the brightest stars at the core of the cluster are found, with part of the Pacman’s hungry mouth visible as the dark region below.But Pacman isn’t gobbling up these stars. Instead, the nebula’s gas and dust are being used as raw ingredients to make new stars. However, the stars in IC 1590 are still plotting their escape from the Pacman Nebula, as open clusters are only loosely bound together and the grouping will eventually disperse within a few tens of millions of years.IC 1590 lies about ten thousand light-years from Earth in the constellation of Cassiopeia (The Queen). Through small telescopes the core of the cluster that appears at the top of this picture shows up as a triple star, but the nebula that surrounds it is much fainter and very hard to see. The eagle-eyed American astronomer E. E. Barnard, using a 15 cm telescope, first recorded it in the late nineteenth century.This picture was created from images taken using the Wide Field Channel of Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys. Images though yellow (F550M, colored blue), orange (F660N, colored green) and red (F658N) filters were combined. The F658N filter isolates light from glowing hydrogen gas. The total exposure times per filter were 450 s, 1017 s and 678 s, respectively and the field of view is about 3.3 arcminutes across.
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Daily Pic # 1135, TNG Parody
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A new TNG parody film is coming, in both PG-13 and X-rated versions about the return of Tasha Yar. SUCKINGHOBBITDICKSThe production values are really not bad as you can see in the still images above. SUCKINGHOBBITDICKSTo learn more about this, click HERE (safe for work). More... |
Daniel Tzvetkoff Purportedly Behind Online Poker Indictments
According to Business Insider, indicted Aussie payment processor Daniel Tzvetkoff may be the engine behind today’s online poker site seizures and Federal indictment. Tzvetkoff was arrested a year ago in Las Vegas and released on bail in September.
His business reportedly consisted of payments for “repayments of short-term loans, transfer of funds to prepaid debit cards, and e-commerce purchases†rather than online poker transactions. In an article from May 2009, it was revealed that Intabill, Tzvetkoff’s company, allegedly owed $25 million to Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars, $3 million to Absolute Poker, and another $2 million to Golden Palace. In June 2009, Kolyma Corporation AVV and BT Projects filed suit against Intabill for $52 million. According to Business Insider, Tzvetkoff was pulling in as much as $150,000 per day. At its height, Intabill had over 5,000 customers until it all came crumbling down. So what happened in recent weeks? Business Insider explains that the tables may have been turned on the online poker industry: “Last April, Tzvetkoff was arrested in Las Vegas and charged with the same crimes those sites founders were charged with today: money laundering, bank fraud, wire fraud. As an Australian citizen with a lot of wealth, he was considered a flight risk and denied bail. Then after a ‘secret’ meeting with prosecutors, he was suddenly out on bail. And now, his former colleagues are the ones facing serious jail time.†The same news outlet labeled U.S. District Attorney Arlo Devlin-Brown as Tzvetkoff’s “handler†and quoted a source as saying, “He knows how to reverse-engineer transactions to determine its original source.” About 75 bank accounts in 14 countries were affected by today’s Department of Justice action. As if all that weren’t enough, it appears that PokerStars and Full Tilt could have tipped off the FBI as to Tzvetkoff’s whereabouts, leading to his arrest in the first place. Dragging PokerStars further into the fray seemed to be a 2009 letter that the Justice Department sourced. In its statement issued on Friday, the Department of Justice explained the rumored money laundering scheme: “[A] PokerStars document from May 2009 acknowledged that they received money from U.S. gamblers through company names that ‘strongly imply the transaction has nothing to do with PokerStars,’ and that PokerStars used whatever company names ‘the processor can get approved by the bank.’†Among those commenting on Friday was Full Tilt Poker pro Tom “durrrr†Dwan, who explained via Twitter, “Clearly it makes sense to seize Stars n Tilt n UB at the same time b/c 2 of those companies are providing a service while trying to operate in a market which the DoJ is (anti-constitutionally) making it difficult to operate in, and one of them is a complete fraud of a company.†On the cashout side of the coin, Dwan noted, “I wouldn’t be too worried about FTP/Stars $$. I would shit myself abt UB/Cake etc… I’d guess FTP/Stars is worth more than 93c on the $ (almost 100% u get paid but could take 2-3mnths n worst case more).†Cake Poker and Bodog appear to be accessible as normal today. Keep checking back with Poker News Daily for the latest developments. More... |
Online Poker's Big Three Indicted (UPDATED 5:30 p.m. PDT)
On Friday, the Department of Justice indicted Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars, and Absolute Poker on fraud and illegal gambling charges.
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DOJ Charges Three Major Online Poker Sites with Fraud
The U.S. Department of Justice has charged the founders of online poker sites PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker with fraud and conspiracy in an idictment unsealed Friday morning. The indictment includes Isai Scheinberg and Paul Tate from PokerStars, Ray Bitar and Nelson Burtnick from Full Tilt, Scott Tom and Brent Beckley of AbsolutePoker. Also [...]
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DOJ Indicts Top Online Poker Sites
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As one industry insider put it, “Today is D-day.” From MarketWatch: Federal authorities unsealed an indictment Friday against the founders of the three largest internet poker companies operating in the U.S. The indictment charges eleven defendants, including the founders of PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, and Absolute Poker, with bank fraud, money laundering, and illegal gambling offenses, according to Federal authorities in New York. Restraining orders were issued against more than 75 bank accounts used by the poker companies and their payment processors, while five Internet domain names used by the companies to host poker games were seized, federal authorities added in a statement.Read the DOJ indictment here. In total, there are nine counts, including: Conspiracy to violate UIGEA; Violation of UIGEA; Operation of Illegal Gambling Business; Conspiracy to Commit Bank and Wire Fraud; Money Laundering Conspiracy. Developing… Related Posts
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Department of Justice Indicts Owners of Major Online Poker Sites
The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Forbes and other financial media outlets are reporting that the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York has indicted the founders of PokerStars, …
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Tom Phelan
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Tom on his work: My work draws its inspiration from the constantly changing urban landscape. As a visual artist the development and redevelopment or indeed the dilapidation of these architectural environments is of central interest to my artistic approach. The work develops out of a familiarity built up by repeated visits to specific urban spaces, which leave a memory and a personal attachment from which I can draw. It is this memory that creates the catalyst for the drawings and onto the process of re-drawing to produce object related, basic emblematic images, inaccessible in a less specified procedure. http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/...b1fKBoVXE/0/di http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/...b1fKBoVXE/1/di http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Arti...?d=yIl2AUoC8zA http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Arti...oA:F7zBnMyn0Lo http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Arti...oA:V_sGLiPBpWU http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Arti...?d=qj6IDK7rITs http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Arti...oA:gIN9vFwOqvQ http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Artis...~4/t3lI_M261DQ More... |
The Tadpoles of IC 410
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Kehinde Wiley at Roberts + Tilton
The above artwork is from an exhibit last year commissioned by PUMA, but it does adequately reflect the wonderful, otherworldly brilliance of artist Kehinde Wiley. His current exhibit, The World Stage: Israel, is at swanky gallery Roberts + Tilton in Culver City, CA through May. Peep it. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments More... |
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