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McCarthy backing Keogh
Striker Andy Keogh has been backed to make a positive impact back at Leeds by Wolves boss Mick McCarthy.
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A Cosmic Exclamation Point
VV 340, also known as Arp 302, provides a textbook example of colliding galaxies seen in the early stages of their interaction. The edge-on galaxy near the top of the image is VV 340 North and the face-on galaxy at the bottom of the image is VV 340 South. Millions of years later these two spirals will merge - much like the Milky Way and Andromeda will likely do billions of years from now. Data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory (purple) are shown here along with optical data from the Hubble Space Telescope (red, green, blue). VV 340 is located about 450 million light years from Earth.Because it is bright in infrared light, VV 340 is classified as a Luminous Infrared Galaxy (LIRG). These observations are part of the Great Observatories All-Sky LIRG Survey (GOALS) combining data from Chandra, Hubble, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) and ground-based telescopes. The survey includes over two hundred LIRGs in the local Universe. A chief motivation of this study is to understand why LIRGs emit so much infrared radiation. These galaxies generate energy at a rate this is tens to hundreds of times larger than that emitted by a typical galaxy. An actively growing supermassive black hole or an intense burst of star formation is often invoked as the most likely source of the energy.Work on the full GOALS survey is ongoing, but preliminary analysis of data for VV 340 provides a good demonstration of the power of observing with multiple observatories. The Chandra data show that the center of VV 340 North likely contains a rapidly growing supermassive black hole that is heavily obscured by dust and gas. The infared emission of the galaxy pair, as observed by Spitzer, is dominated by VV 340 North, and also provides evidence for a growing supermassive black hole. However, only a small fraction of the infrared emission is generated by this black hole.By contrast most of the ultraviolet and short wavelength optical emission in the galaxy pair - as observed by GALEX and HST - comes from VV 340 South. This shows that VV 340 South contains a much higher level of star formation. (The Spitzer and GALEX images are not shown in the composite above because they strongly overlap with the optical and X-ray images, but they are shown in a separate composite image (below)). VV 340 appears to be an excellent example of a pair of interacting galaxies evolving at different rates.These results on VV 340 were published in the June 2009 issue of the Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. The lead author was Lee Armus from the Spitzer Science Center in Pasadena, CA.
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The Nightly Turbo: Poker Player Relocation Services, Online Poker Ads, and More
The Nightly Turbo is bringing you the day's top poker news stories including a look at the new player relocation service that was launched, online poker ads in California, and more.
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ESPN?s WSOP Main Event Coverage Begins Tuesday
ESPN’s coverage of the 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event gets going Tuesday night and viewers might be surprised by what they see. In years past the coverage has included the entirety of the Main Event, beginning with coverage from each of the starting days and carrying through until a World Champion is crowned in [...]
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Wynn Resorts Looking to Acquire Bwin.Party?
http://cdn.wickedchopspoker.com/wp-c...ynn-merger.jpg Look out America...here comes Bwin?
Well this is interesting. On the heels of Senator Harry Reid‘sproclamationsthat online poker legislations will “get done” in the U.S. soon, Steve Wynn is now rumored to be a suitor for Bwin.Party (read more here). As we’ve written before, many “in-the-know” types have maintained that when Steve Wynn threw his hat in the online poker ring, laws would be passed. It’s why we believed his allegiance with PokerStars was such a massive deal for the industry in general. Our sources from across the pondTM say that there has been some dissatisfaction from Austrian-based Bwin’s stockholders. Bwin has been in merger & acquisition mode, which typicallydamagesinternal operationalefficiencies (and the short-term bottomline), and the company’s leadership may be feeling pressure to deliver something of value back to the shareholders (especially as stock value has dropped off since the Party merger). All speculation on our part, but with Bwin in particular being such an aggressive “buyer” over the years, giving up the conch to American-based Wynn seems against their basic instincts. However, maybe they see the potential of what a Wynn could do for them (and their shareholders) once online poker opens up in the States as worth the change in philosophy. As to what will happen with this, we think you know the answer. Related Posts
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2011 Player of the Year Update: Current Leader Sam Stein
2011 is more than half over, and the Card Player Player of the Year race is starting to take shape. Current POY points leader Sam Stein spoke to Card Player TV about his great year so far, and his plans for the rest of the year as he continues his quest to earn the title of 2011 Player of the Year.
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Syria protests continue despite crackdown
Night demonstrations held in several cities as military keeps up assault in Latakia, with deaths and arrests reported.
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Perseid Below
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_110817.jpg Denizens of planet Earth watched this year's Perseid meteor shower
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Washington - August 17, 2011
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Washington Shayna says: Washington and his sister Emily, natives of the streets of Queens, NY, were rescued with their feral mom when they were between four and five weeks old. I set them all up in a crate and mom nursed them until they were eating solid food. She was spayed and released back into her colony and the kittens stayed with me. Emily has already found her forever home (and been renamed Didi Dynamite), and Washington is waiting to find his. He's a little over six weeks old now and is growing fast! Courtesy of: Shayna M. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheDa...~4/1pgLqTF7DTI More... |
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