Friday, July 20, 2007
Daily Update 07/20/2007
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I am planning on posting daily things that I find interesting on the internet. I hope you enjoy these items as much as I do. Most topics posted on this page will be completely random. Just various stories and news tidbits I have discovered today.
My Favorite Featured Story
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Harry Potter's life hangs in the balance. Millions of fans are holding their breath. Meanwhile, his creator is baking a cake — and keeping her secret.
On Saturday, readers around the globe will learn the schoolboy wizard's fate with the publication of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," the seventh and final book in J.K. Rowling's fantasy series. Will Harry defeat his evil nemesis, Lord Voldemort, and restore order to the wizarding world? Will he die in the attempt, as many fans fear — and as Rowling, an expert narrative tease, has hinted?
"Harry's story comes to a definite end in book seven," is all she will say a few days before publication, serving up tea and home-baked sponge cake in her comfortable Edinburgh house. Writing the final words of the saga felt "like a bereavement."
That sounds ominously final. So have we really seen the last of the staff and students of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry?
"Because the world is so big, there would be room to do other stuff," Rowling says carefully. "I am not planning to do that, but I'm not going to say I'm never going to do it."
Rowling (her name rhymes with bowling, rather than howling), looking relaxed in jeans and a sweater, shoulder-length blonde hair stylishly cut, has wildly mixed emotions at leaving behind the character she conjured up during a train journey across England in 1990: a neglected, bespectacled orphan who learns on his 11th birthday that he is a wizard.
She's enjoying the absence of pressure from publishers and fans clamoring for the next installment in Harry's adventures. And she's reveling in the chance to focus on normal life with her husband and three children.
But after finishing the last book, "I felt terrible for a week."
"The first two days in particular, it was like a bereavement, even though I was pleased with the book. And then after a week that cloud lifted and I felt quite lighthearted, quite liberated," she says.
"Finishing is emotional because the books have been so wrapped up with my life. It's almost impossible not to finish and look back to where I was when I started."
It has been an extraordinary journey. When Rowling created Harry Potter, she was a struggling single mother, writing in cafes to save on the heating bill at home. Now, at 41, she is the richest woman in Britain — worth $1 billion, according to Forbes magazine — with houses in Edinburgh, London and the Scottish countryside.
Her first book, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone," was published in 1997, with a print run of less than 1,000. Rowling's publisher suggested she use gender-neutral initials rather than her first name, Joanne, to give the book a better chance with boys. Lacking a middle name, she took the K from her paternal grandmother, Kathleen.
By the time the book appeared in the United States in 1998 — as "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" — Harry was on his way to becoming a publishing phenomenon.
The six Potter books have sold some 325 million copies in 64 languages, including Latin and Ancient Greek. "Deathly Hallows" has an initial print run of 12 million in the United States alone; more than 2 million copies have been ordered from Internet retailer Amazon.
The novels have produced five movies, mountains of toys, a riot of Internet fan sites and scores of companion books — from academic studies to parodies to pop psychology. A theme park, complete with Hogwarts castle and Forbidden Forest, is to open in Orlando, Fla., in 2009.
The launch of each new book is now accompanied by choreographed chaos and military-level security. No book is sold until a minute past midnight on Saturday.
The series' success has been "a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon," said Joel Rickett, news editor of trade magazine The Bookseller. "It has brought a new generation to reading — got kids absorbed in huge hefty hardbacks the way they wouldn't have been," he said.
While some critics have dismissed the books as lightweight kiddie fare, others have been impressed by their moral complexity and darkening tone. Death haunts Harry Potter, who was orphaned at the age of 1 when Voldemort killed his parents. He loses his godfather Sirius Black in the fifth book and his beloved headmaster Dumbledore in the sixth. No wonder fans fear for Harry's future.
Rowling was profoundly affected by the death of her own mother from multiple sclerosis in 1990 at the age of 45.
"My mum died six months into writing (the books), and I think that set the central theme — this boy dealing with loss," Rowling says.
And she makes no apologies for exposing children to death.
"I think children are very scared of this stuff even if they haven't experienced it, and I think the way to meet that is head-on," she says. "I absolutely believe, as a writer and as a parent, that the solution is not to pretend things don't happen but to examine them in a loving, safe way."
Rowling says her success has been "the experience of a lifetime." But it also has brought an intense level of pressure, scrutiny and criticism. In the United States, her book tours have attracted thousands of screaming children, but also death threats. Some Christians have called for the books to be banned, claiming they promote witchcraft.
But it's only now that she realizes just how intense the pressure has been at the center of the Harry Potter whirlwind.
"I was very lonely with it," she says. "It's not like being in a pop group, where at least there would be three or four other people who knew what it was like to be on the inside. Only I knew what it was like to be generating this world as it became bigger and bigger and bigger and more and more people were invested in it.
After producing a book a year between 1997 and 2000, Rowling took a break. There was a three-year gap between the fourth book, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," and "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," published in 2003. During the gap, Rowling met and married Neil Murray, a Scottish doctor. They live in Edinburgh with their children David, 4, and Mackenzie, 2, as well as Jessica, Rowling's daughter from her first marriage to a Portuguese journalist.
Rowling now seems reconciled to her success. She says she lives a normal life and is rarely recognized in the street, although her graystone town house on a tree-lined street is protected by an 8-foot stone wall and iron security gates. Like the neighborhood — a leafy literary enclave that's also home to crime novelist Ian Rankin and "No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" writer Alexander McCall Smith — the house exudes solid affluence, rather than extravagance.
The modestly sized lawn holds a soccer net and a colorful plastic jumble of children's toys. In the tidy family room, are crowded bookshelves, an aquarium, photo albums and board games — the trappings of any middle-class family's life.
Rowling predicts that some of Harry's fans will dislike "Deathly Hallows." But she is proud of it. "The final book is what it was always supposed to be, and so I feel very at peace with that fact," she says.
As for the future, she says she has no plans.
"I can never write anything as popular again," she said. "Lightning does not strike in the same place twice.
"I'll do exactly what I did with Harry — I'll write what I really want to write, and if it's something similar, that's OK, and if it's something very different, that's OK.
"I just really want to fall in love with an idea again, and go with that."
My Favorite Story Trash News Story
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Lindsay Lohan's next film just got the final 86 -- and one crew member claims it's because the funding dried up after LiLo was spotted playing in Las Vegas.
According to Page Six, the set designer on "Poor Things," starring Shirley MacLaine, sent an email around saying that the plug had been pulled, and explained, "Apparently, Ms. Lohan's antics in Las Vegas over the weekend have scared the bond companies and all of the funding has been pulled."
It didn't seem to make any difference that Lohan wasn't boozing during her trip to Sin City. A friend of Lohan responds to the Post: "She had nothing to do with that movie shutting down. It was a mess to begin with ... producers spent money like water."
Cruises Roll Out Welcome Wagon for British Invaders
In case Hollywood hadn't already figured out that David and Victoria Beckham had arrived, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes just wanted to do their part to welcome the aging soccer star and his wife to Tinseltown.
"Please join Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes and Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith in welcoming David and Victoria Beckham to Los Angeles," reads the "gold lettering" on the invite, says People, to the big event Sunday at the Museum of Contemporary Art. No word on whether recipes and muffin baskets will be exchanged. Oprah Winfrey and George Clooney are also expected to show up.
Silverman to Paris – My Bad for MTV Smackdown
Sarah Silverman, acid-tongued comedienne, says she actually feels "bad" about the vicious -- but funny -- jokes she made at Paris Hilton's expense the night she went to jail. You'll remember that Silverman made cracks about Hilton's jail time during the MTV Movie Awards, including one about prison bars and penises -- and TV cameras showed Paris visibly upset by the jabs. "I looked down and saw a man in her face with a camera ... I was there to be funny and I was, but that doesn't mean I can't feel bad about it."
Party Favors: Benicio Del Toro to Play Che ... Potter Finale Will Make for Crazy Scenes ... Felicity and Marcia Desperate for Bellinis at Nove Italiano
Benicio Del Toro (who else, really?) will don the beret and facial hair to play Che Guevara in Steven Soderbergh's upcoming biopic, reportedly to be called "Guerrilla." ... The last Harry Potter book will be rolling out of stores at midnight tonight, and TMZ spotted kids of all ages mobbing NYC bookstores in the wee hours just to wait to get their hands on the tomes. ... Just Emmy-nodded Felicity Huffman and Marcia Cross were spotted at Nove Italiano, the N9Ne Group's Italian spot at the Palms' new Fantasy Tower in Las Vegas.
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Online poker rooms currently reviewed:
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Online Poker Rooms: Ranking each poker room we have reviewed receives a rank based on the following criteria, bonuses, competition, software, Rake, game variation and customer service. Betwin-Poker.com also includes a ranked list of online poker rooms, US Poker Rooms, still accepting US players after the signing of the UIGEA.
Poker Games: There many different poker games that can be played at online poker rooms and Betwin-Poker.com sets out to introduce these games and also provide basic poker rules for each game. The poker games range from Texas Holdem, Omaha Poker and Seven Card Stud to mixed games such as HORSE.
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I am planning on posting daily things that I find interesting on the internet. I hope you enjoy these items as much as I do. Most topics posted on this page will be completely random. Just various stories and news tidbits I have discovered today.
My Favorite Featured Story
Brought to you by Yahoo
Harry Potter's life hangs in the balance. Millions of fans are holding their breath. Meanwhile, his creator is baking a cake — and keeping her secret.
On Saturday, readers around the globe will learn the schoolboy wizard's fate with the publication of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," the seventh and final book in J.K. Rowling's fantasy series. Will Harry defeat his evil nemesis, Lord Voldemort, and restore order to the wizarding world? Will he die in the attempt, as many fans fear — and as Rowling, an expert narrative tease, has hinted?
"Harry's story comes to a definite end in book seven," is all she will say a few days before publication, serving up tea and home-baked sponge cake in her comfortable Edinburgh house. Writing the final words of the saga felt "like a bereavement."
That sounds ominously final. So have we really seen the last of the staff and students of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry?
"Because the world is so big, there would be room to do other stuff," Rowling says carefully. "I am not planning to do that, but I'm not going to say I'm never going to do it."
Rowling (her name rhymes with bowling, rather than howling), looking relaxed in jeans and a sweater, shoulder-length blonde hair stylishly cut, has wildly mixed emotions at leaving behind the character she conjured up during a train journey across England in 1990: a neglected, bespectacled orphan who learns on his 11th birthday that he is a wizard.
She's enjoying the absence of pressure from publishers and fans clamoring for the next installment in Harry's adventures. And she's reveling in the chance to focus on normal life with her husband and three children.
But after finishing the last book, "I felt terrible for a week."
"The first two days in particular, it was like a bereavement, even though I was pleased with the book. And then after a week that cloud lifted and I felt quite lighthearted, quite liberated," she says.
"Finishing is emotional because the books have been so wrapped up with my life. It's almost impossible not to finish and look back to where I was when I started."
It has been an extraordinary journey. When Rowling created Harry Potter, she was a struggling single mother, writing in cafes to save on the heating bill at home. Now, at 41, she is the richest woman in Britain — worth $1 billion, according to Forbes magazine — with houses in Edinburgh, London and the Scottish countryside.
Her first book, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone," was published in 1997, with a print run of less than 1,000. Rowling's publisher suggested she use gender-neutral initials rather than her first name, Joanne, to give the book a better chance with boys. Lacking a middle name, she took the K from her paternal grandmother, Kathleen.
By the time the book appeared in the United States in 1998 — as "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" — Harry was on his way to becoming a publishing phenomenon.
The six Potter books have sold some 325 million copies in 64 languages, including Latin and Ancient Greek. "Deathly Hallows" has an initial print run of 12 million in the United States alone; more than 2 million copies have been ordered from Internet retailer Amazon.
The novels have produced five movies, mountains of toys, a riot of Internet fan sites and scores of companion books — from academic studies to parodies to pop psychology. A theme park, complete with Hogwarts castle and Forbidden Forest, is to open in Orlando, Fla., in 2009.
The launch of each new book is now accompanied by choreographed chaos and military-level security. No book is sold until a minute past midnight on Saturday.
The series' success has been "a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon," said Joel Rickett, news editor of trade magazine The Bookseller. "It has brought a new generation to reading — got kids absorbed in huge hefty hardbacks the way they wouldn't have been," he said.
While some critics have dismissed the books as lightweight kiddie fare, others have been impressed by their moral complexity and darkening tone. Death haunts Harry Potter, who was orphaned at the age of 1 when Voldemort killed his parents. He loses his godfather Sirius Black in the fifth book and his beloved headmaster Dumbledore in the sixth. No wonder fans fear for Harry's future.
Rowling was profoundly affected by the death of her own mother from multiple sclerosis in 1990 at the age of 45.
"My mum died six months into writing (the books), and I think that set the central theme — this boy dealing with loss," Rowling says.
And she makes no apologies for exposing children to death.
"I think children are very scared of this stuff even if they haven't experienced it, and I think the way to meet that is head-on," she says. "I absolutely believe, as a writer and as a parent, that the solution is not to pretend things don't happen but to examine them in a loving, safe way."
Rowling says her success has been "the experience of a lifetime." But it also has brought an intense level of pressure, scrutiny and criticism. In the United States, her book tours have attracted thousands of screaming children, but also death threats. Some Christians have called for the books to be banned, claiming they promote witchcraft.
But it's only now that she realizes just how intense the pressure has been at the center of the Harry Potter whirlwind.
"I was very lonely with it," she says. "It's not like being in a pop group, where at least there would be three or four other people who knew what it was like to be on the inside. Only I knew what it was like to be generating this world as it became bigger and bigger and bigger and more and more people were invested in it.
After producing a book a year between 1997 and 2000, Rowling took a break. There was a three-year gap between the fourth book, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," and "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," published in 2003. During the gap, Rowling met and married Neil Murray, a Scottish doctor. They live in Edinburgh with their children David, 4, and Mackenzie, 2, as well as Jessica, Rowling's daughter from her first marriage to a Portuguese journalist.
Rowling now seems reconciled to her success. She says she lives a normal life and is rarely recognized in the street, although her graystone town house on a tree-lined street is protected by an 8-foot stone wall and iron security gates. Like the neighborhood — a leafy literary enclave that's also home to crime novelist Ian Rankin and "No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" writer Alexander McCall Smith — the house exudes solid affluence, rather than extravagance.
The modestly sized lawn holds a soccer net and a colorful plastic jumble of children's toys. In the tidy family room, are crowded bookshelves, an aquarium, photo albums and board games — the trappings of any middle-class family's life.
Rowling predicts that some of Harry's fans will dislike "Deathly Hallows." But she is proud of it. "The final book is what it was always supposed to be, and so I feel very at peace with that fact," she says.
As for the future, she says she has no plans.
"I can never write anything as popular again," she said. "Lightning does not strike in the same place twice.
"I'll do exactly what I did with Harry — I'll write what I really want to write, and if it's something similar, that's OK, and if it's something very different, that's OK.
"I just really want to fall in love with an idea again, and go with that."
My Favorite Story Trash News Story
Brought to you by TMZ
Lindsay Lohan's next film just got the final 86 -- and one crew member claims it's because the funding dried up after LiLo was spotted playing in Las Vegas.
According to Page Six, the set designer on "Poor Things," starring Shirley MacLaine, sent an email around saying that the plug had been pulled, and explained, "Apparently, Ms. Lohan's antics in Las Vegas over the weekend have scared the bond companies and all of the funding has been pulled."
It didn't seem to make any difference that Lohan wasn't boozing during her trip to Sin City. A friend of Lohan responds to the Post: "She had nothing to do with that movie shutting down. It was a mess to begin with ... producers spent money like water."
Cruises Roll Out Welcome Wagon for British Invaders
In case Hollywood hadn't already figured out that David and Victoria Beckham had arrived, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes just wanted to do their part to welcome the aging soccer star and his wife to Tinseltown.
"Please join Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes and Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith in welcoming David and Victoria Beckham to Los Angeles," reads the "gold lettering" on the invite, says People, to the big event Sunday at the Museum of Contemporary Art. No word on whether recipes and muffin baskets will be exchanged. Oprah Winfrey and George Clooney are also expected to show up.
Silverman to Paris – My Bad for MTV Smackdown
Sarah Silverman, acid-tongued comedienne, says she actually feels "bad" about the vicious -- but funny -- jokes she made at Paris Hilton's expense the night she went to jail. You'll remember that Silverman made cracks about Hilton's jail time during the MTV Movie Awards, including one about prison bars and penises -- and TV cameras showed Paris visibly upset by the jabs. "I looked down and saw a man in her face with a camera ... I was there to be funny and I was, but that doesn't mean I can't feel bad about it."
Party Favors: Benicio Del Toro to Play Che ... Potter Finale Will Make for Crazy Scenes ... Felicity and Marcia Desperate for Bellinis at Nove Italiano
Benicio Del Toro (who else, really?) will don the beret and facial hair to play Che Guevara in Steven Soderbergh's upcoming biopic, reportedly to be called "Guerrilla." ... The last Harry Potter book will be rolling out of stores at midnight tonight, and TMZ spotted kids of all ages mobbing NYC bookstores in the wee hours just to wait to get their hands on the tomes. ... Just Emmy-nodded Felicity Huffman and Marcia Cross were spotted at Nove Italiano, the N9Ne Group's Italian spot at the Palms' new Fantasy Tower in Las Vegas.
My Favorite Press Release Today
Brought to you The Open Press
BetWin-Poker.com is an independent online poker information website created by online poker players for people who are interested in online poker whether they are new players just starting to play poker or seasoned poker players.
Highlights of the site include:
Online Poker Room Reviews: The BetWin-Poker.com team have written unbiased and critical online poker room reviews aimed at providing all the information a player needs on a specific room.
Online poker rooms currently reviewed:
Paradise Poker
Titan Poker
VC Poker
Pacific Poker
Full Tilt Poker
Pokerstars
Online Poker Rooms: Ranking each poker room we have reviewed receives a rank based on the following criteria, bonuses, competition, software, Rake, game variation and customer service. Betwin-Poker.com also includes a ranked list of online poker rooms, US Poker Rooms, still accepting US players after the signing of the UIGEA.
Poker Games: There many different poker games that can be played at online poker rooms and Betwin-Poker.com sets out to introduce these games and also provide basic poker rules for each game. The poker games range from Texas Holdem, Omaha Poker and Seven Card Stud to mixed games such as HORSE.
Betwin-Poker.com aims to provide as much information as possible to the online poker player whether they are looking for a new room to play at or want to expand there poker playing resume by trying different poker game variants.
My Favorite Spam e-mail of the day
I don’t know about you but I am consistently getting spam e-mail. Some of these e-mails totally crack me up. I’ve decided to post my favorite spam e-mail daily.
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"The Sopranos," the mob series that went to its grave with a shockingly inconclusive finale, found a happy ending Thursday with 15 Emmy nominations including best drama. The made-for-TV movie "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" led all nominees with 17 bids.
James Gandolfini, who played the emotionally conflicted mob boss on HBO's "The Sopranos," and Edie Falco, who played his wife, both received top acting nominations.
Other best-drama series were "Boston Legal," "Grey's Anatomy," "House" and freshman sci-fi sensation "Heroes."
"The Sopranos" emerged with the most nominations for a series, followed by "Ugly Betty" with 11 and, with 10 each, sexy medical drama "Grey's Anatomy" and critical favorite "30 Rock."
"Grey's Anatomy," which came through a difficult year in which star Isaiah Washington was fired after twice using an anti-gay slur, wasn't hurt when it came to Emmy bids. Besides best drama series, there were nominations for four supporting cast members and two guest actors.
While Washington was overlooked, co-star T.R. Knight, who said that Washington had directed the slur at him, did receive a supporting actor nod.
The miniseries "The Starter Wife" also was a top nominee with 10 bids.
The freshman hit, "Ugly Betty," based on a Colombian telenovela, made it into the ranks of best comedy series nominees. It's joined by "Entourage," "30 Rock," "Two and a Half Men" and last year's winner in the category, "The Office."
"Ugly Betty" star America Ferrera was recognized with a nod for her starring role.
"Entourage," about the adventures of a young movie star and his loyal rat pack, was embraced despite mocking industry stereotypes.
"It may seem sometimes like we're making fun of Hollywood," said creator Doug Allen, "but really we're just trying to take a comedic look at how things are done here, because this is how it really is for people sometimes."
In the reality-competition categories, the leading nominee with eight bids was "Dancing With the Stars," followed by "American Idol" with seven.
Joining Gandolfini among lead drama series actor nominees were Hugh Laurie of "House," Denis Leary of "Rescue Me," James Spader of "Boston Legal" and last year's winner Kiefer Sutherland of "24." Last year's drama series winner was "24" but it was snubbed this time.
Falco will compete with Patricia Arquette of "Medium," Minnie Driver of "The Riches," Sally Field of "Brothers & Sisters," Kyra Sedgwick of "The Closer" and last year's winner, Mariska Hargitay of "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit."
Sedgwick got the news immediately. She and Jon Cryer helped announce bids for the 59th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards in a brief ceremony at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' Leonard H. Goldenson Theatre.
"She's all ruffled. She didn't know that was coming!" Cryer said of Sedgwick, who flubbed her lines after announcing her own nomination.
Cryer himself was nominated for comedy series supporting actor for "Two and a Half Men." He was unruffled, having had a nomination previously.
"Last year I was totally overwhelmed. I was in my underwear on the sofa at home," he said.
"Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee," adapted from Dee Brown's nonfiction best-seller, received nominations for best made-for-TV movie, writing and for support acting. The film chronicles the Sioux victory over Custer at Little Big Horn and events leading up to the assassination of Sitting Bull and the Sioux massacre at Wounded Knee Creek in 1890.
Executive producer Dick Wolf said its clutch of nominations was a validation of a very difficult project.
"Anybody who says it's not nice or it doesn't mean anything to get this many nominations, it's the ultimate sour grapes because it sure feels great," he said.
"Friday Night Lights," the critically acclaimed but low-rated high school football drama that needed an Emmy boost, failed to gain major nominations.
"The Sopranos," which premiered in January 1999 and had an on-and-off cable run, capped its final episode this year with an ambiguous ending that left fans in the dark about the fate of lead character Tony Soprano, last seen sitting in a diner with his wife and children. A suddenly black screen suggested sudden violence — or not.
The series' other nominees included Michael Imperioli, who received a bid for best supporting dramatic actor for his role as the ill-fated Christopher. Aida Turturro, who played Tony's tough sister Janice, and Lorraine Bracco, who co-starred as his uneasy psychiatrist Dr. Melfi, were nominated for supporting actress.
Along with Ferrera in the lead comedy actress category were Felicity Huffman of "Desperate Housewives," Tina Fey of "30 Rock," Mary-Louise Parker of "Weeds" and last year's winner, Julia Louis-Dreyfus of "The New Adventures of Old Christine."
Their actor counterparts included last year's winner, Tony Shalhoub of "Monk," Ricky Gervais of "Extras," Steve Carell of "The Office," Charlie Sheen of "Two and a Half Men" and Alec Baldwin of "30 Rock."
Like "Grey's" Washington, Baldwin drew unflattering attention this year, in his case because of a leaked recording of an angry telephone call to his daughter, who is caught in a legal dispute with ex-wife Kim Basinger
Some categories had six nominees this year rather than the usual five.
One six-nominee category was best supporting actress in a drama series, with Turturro and Bracco joined by Katherine Heigl, Chandra Wilson and Sandra Oh of "Grey's Anatomy" and Rachel Griffiths of "Brothers & Sisters."
Heigl has also broken out as a movie star with her role in the hit comedy "Knocked Up."
Altogether, 463 nominations were announced. HBO was the most recognized with 86 bids, followed by ABC with 70, NBC with 69, CBS with 44, Fox with 28, and PBS with 24
The three-hour Emmy Awards ceremony will be broadcast Sept. 16 by Fox from the Shrine Auditorium.
Other Emmy honors, including those for technical achievement and guest actors and actresses in series, will be given at the creative arts ceremony on Sept. 8.
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Paris Hilton may think she and Posh Spice could be "soul mates," but Posh definitely has other ideas.
Hilton, according to the British tabs, once told a "pal" that she and Posh could be close friends, but Posh isn't having it, and as she and Becks proved yesterday, they won't be as "flashy" as Paris: "Over my dead body!" she hissed to a friend. We couldn't be more different. You won't catch me falling out of nightclubs with no knickers on."
Sharpton to Imus – I'll Be Watching You
Al Sharpton says he's not going to raise a ho-ly stink if Don Imus gets back to being a radio DJ, as has been rumored. "He has a right to make a living," he tells the AP. But he made it clear he doesn't want the old Imus.
Sharpton says that he hasn't exactly gone soft on Imus, but says that if he wants to come back and work, he should. "We had never asked him to never work again," says Rev. Al. But Sharpton also added that he hoped any place that did take Imus would also take steps to insure that he wouldn't go back to the same kind of humor he traded in before.
Party Favors: Suge Knight Bites Kevin Connolly? ... Emmy Noms: "24," "Housewives" Dissed ...
Kevin Connolly and Suge Knight were wrestling at an ESPY Awards after-party, says Gatecrasher, and suddenly, Connolly found himself bleeding profusely -- because the rap mogul bit him! "Kevin didn't seem too upset," says a spy. ... Primetime Emmy nominations were announced, and the usual suspects got nods, though "24" -- last year's winner for best drama series -- didn't even get into its category this time around.
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Popular online poker site Absolute Poker reports six Bad Beat Jackpot wins in less than four weeks, leading to increased traffic at its Texas Hold'em tables.
Miami, FL (PRWEB) July 19, 2007 -- It's been less than four weeks since Absolute Poker added Bad Beat Jackpot to its suite of games. But that hasn't stopped the popular online poker room from doling out hundreds of thousands of dollars in jackpot prize money.
"Since launching the game on June 22nd, the jackpot has been hit six times," stated David Clainer, senior vice president for Absolute Poker. "People are winning insane amounts of money playing Bad Beat Poker and they're doing it frequently."
Since launching the game on June 22nd, the jackpot has been hit six times
Two major wins happened within eight days of one another. On July 3rd, the jackpot climbed to just a few digits short of $300,000. Then, on July 11th, the poker jackpot reached a record high of $464,652.03. On both occasions, the bad beat victim collected well over $100,000 for losing their hand.
As of Wednesday afternoon, the current poker jackpot had reached over $175,000. Since $0.50 is collected from qualifying hands at Bad Beat Jackpot tables, the jackpot will continue to grow until someone hits a bad beat.
That could come sooner than later. Absolute Poker reports increased frequency at its Bad Beat Jackpot tables with every dollar added to the pot. Since the jackpot will soon be into multiple six figures, there's no telling how fast it will climb.
If a poker player loses a hand holding four 8s or anything better at a Bad Beat Jackpot table, they'll win a piece of the Bad Beat Jackpot. A percentage of the jackpot is shared amongst the players where the bad beat occurred and a fraction of the jackpot is placed back into the pot for the next jackpot.
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Emmy News
"The Sopranos," the mob series that went to its grave with a shockingly inconclusive finale, found a happy ending Thursday with 15 Emmy nominations including best drama. The made-for-TV movie "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" led all nominees with 17 bids.
James Gandolfini, who played the emotionally conflicted mob boss on HBO's "The Sopranos," and Edie Falco, who played his wife, both received top acting nominations.
Other best-drama series were "Boston Legal," "Grey's Anatomy," "House" and freshman sci-fi sensation "Heroes."
"The Sopranos" emerged with the most nominations for a series, followed by "Ugly Betty" with 11 and, with 10 each, sexy medical drama "Grey's Anatomy" and critical favorite "30 Rock."
"Grey's Anatomy," which came through a difficult year in which star Isaiah Washington was fired after twice using an anti-gay slur, wasn't hurt when it came to Emmy bids. Besides best drama series, there were nominations for four supporting cast members and two guest actors.
While Washington was overlooked, co-star T.R. Knight, who said that Washington had directed the slur at him, did receive a supporting actor nod.
The miniseries "The Starter Wife" also was a top nominee with 10 bids.
The freshman hit, "Ugly Betty," based on a Colombian telenovela, made it into the ranks of best comedy series nominees. It's joined by "Entourage," "30 Rock," "Two and a Half Men" and last year's winner in the category, "The Office."
"Ugly Betty" star America Ferrera was recognized with a nod for her starring role.
"Entourage," about the adventures of a young movie star and his loyal rat pack, was embraced despite mocking industry stereotypes.
"It may seem sometimes like we're making fun of Hollywood," said creator Doug Allen, "but really we're just trying to take a comedic look at how things are done here, because this is how it really is for people sometimes."
In the reality-competition categories, the leading nominee with eight bids was "Dancing With the Stars," followed by "American Idol" with seven.
Joining Gandolfini among lead drama series actor nominees were Hugh Laurie of "House," Denis Leary of "Rescue Me," James Spader of "Boston Legal" and last year's winner Kiefer Sutherland of "24." Last year's drama series winner was "24" but it was snubbed this time.
Falco will compete with Patricia Arquette of "Medium," Minnie Driver of "The Riches," Sally Field of "Brothers & Sisters," Kyra Sedgwick of "The Closer" and last year's winner, Mariska Hargitay of "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit."
Sedgwick got the news immediately. She and Jon Cryer helped announce bids for the 59th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards in a brief ceremony at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' Leonard H. Goldenson Theatre.
"She's all ruffled. She didn't know that was coming!" Cryer said of Sedgwick, who flubbed her lines after announcing her own nomination.
Cryer himself was nominated for comedy series supporting actor for "Two and a Half Men." He was unruffled, having had a nomination previously.
"Last year I was totally overwhelmed. I was in my underwear on the sofa at home," he said.
"Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee," adapted from Dee Brown's nonfiction best-seller, received nominations for best made-for-TV movie, writing and for support acting. The film chronicles the Sioux victory over Custer at Little Big Horn and events leading up to the assassination of Sitting Bull and the Sioux massacre at Wounded Knee Creek in 1890.
Executive producer Dick Wolf said its clutch of nominations was a validation of a very difficult project.
"Anybody who says it's not nice or it doesn't mean anything to get this many nominations, it's the ultimate sour grapes because it sure feels great," he said.
"Friday Night Lights," the critically acclaimed but low-rated high school football drama that needed an Emmy boost, failed to gain major nominations.
"The Sopranos," which premiered in January 1999 and had an on-and-off cable run, capped its final episode this year with an ambiguous ending that left fans in the dark about the fate of lead character Tony Soprano, last seen sitting in a diner with his wife and children. A suddenly black screen suggested sudden violence — or not.
The series' other nominees included Michael Imperioli, who received a bid for best supporting dramatic actor for his role as the ill-fated Christopher. Aida Turturro, who played Tony's tough sister Janice, and Lorraine Bracco, who co-starred as his uneasy psychiatrist Dr. Melfi, were nominated for supporting actress.
Along with Ferrera in the lead comedy actress category were Felicity Huffman of "Desperate Housewives," Tina Fey of "30 Rock," Mary-Louise Parker of "Weeds" and last year's winner, Julia Louis-Dreyfus of "The New Adventures of Old Christine."
Their actor counterparts included last year's winner, Tony Shalhoub of "Monk," Ricky Gervais of "Extras," Steve Carell of "The Office," Charlie Sheen of "Two and a Half Men" and Alec Baldwin of "30 Rock."
Like "Grey's" Washington, Baldwin drew unflattering attention this year, in his case because of a leaked recording of an angry telephone call to his daughter, who is caught in a legal dispute with ex-wife Kim Basinger
Some categories had six nominees this year rather than the usual five.
One six-nominee category was best supporting actress in a drama series, with Turturro and Bracco joined by Katherine Heigl, Chandra Wilson and Sandra Oh of "Grey's Anatomy" and Rachel Griffiths of "Brothers & Sisters."
Heigl has also broken out as a movie star with her role in the hit comedy "Knocked Up."
Altogether, 463 nominations were announced. HBO was the most recognized with 86 bids, followed by ABC with 70, NBC with 69, CBS with 44, Fox with 28, and PBS with 24
The three-hour Emmy Awards ceremony will be broadcast Sept. 16 by Fox from the Shrine Auditorium.
Other Emmy honors, including those for technical achievement and guest actors and actresses in series, will be given at the creative arts ceremony on Sept. 8.
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Paris Hilton may think she and Posh Spice could be "soul mates," but Posh definitely has other ideas.
Hilton, according to the British tabs, once told a "pal" that she and Posh could be close friends, but Posh isn't having it, and as she and Becks proved yesterday, they won't be as "flashy" as Paris: "Over my dead body!" she hissed to a friend. We couldn't be more different. You won't catch me falling out of nightclubs with no knickers on."
Sharpton to Imus – I'll Be Watching You
Al Sharpton says he's not going to raise a ho-ly stink if Don Imus gets back to being a radio DJ, as has been rumored. "He has a right to make a living," he tells the AP. But he made it clear he doesn't want the old Imus.
Sharpton says that he hasn't exactly gone soft on Imus, but says that if he wants to come back and work, he should. "We had never asked him to never work again," says Rev. Al. But Sharpton also added that he hoped any place that did take Imus would also take steps to insure that he wouldn't go back to the same kind of humor he traded in before.
Party Favors: Suge Knight Bites Kevin Connolly? ... Emmy Noms: "24," "Housewives" Dissed ...
Kevin Connolly and Suge Knight were wrestling at an ESPY Awards after-party, says Gatecrasher, and suddenly, Connolly found himself bleeding profusely -- because the rap mogul bit him! "Kevin didn't seem too upset," says a spy. ... Primetime Emmy nominations were announced, and the usual suspects got nods, though "24" -- last year's winner for best drama series -- didn't even get into its category this time around.
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Popular online poker site Absolute Poker reports six Bad Beat Jackpot wins in less than four weeks, leading to increased traffic at its Texas Hold'em tables.
Miami, FL (PRWEB) July 19, 2007 -- It's been less than four weeks since Absolute Poker added Bad Beat Jackpot to its suite of games. But that hasn't stopped the popular online poker room from doling out hundreds of thousands of dollars in jackpot prize money.
"Since launching the game on June 22nd, the jackpot has been hit six times," stated David Clainer, senior vice president for Absolute Poker. "People are winning insane amounts of money playing Bad Beat Poker and they're doing it frequently."
Since launching the game on June 22nd, the jackpot has been hit six times
Two major wins happened within eight days of one another. On July 3rd, the jackpot climbed to just a few digits short of $300,000. Then, on July 11th, the poker jackpot reached a record high of $464,652.03. On both occasions, the bad beat victim collected well over $100,000 for losing their hand.
As of Wednesday afternoon, the current poker jackpot had reached over $175,000. Since $0.50 is collected from qualifying hands at Bad Beat Jackpot tables, the jackpot will continue to grow until someone hits a bad beat.
That could come sooner than later. Absolute Poker reports increased frequency at its Bad Beat Jackpot tables with every dollar added to the pot. Since the jackpot will soon be into multiple six figures, there's no telling how fast it will climb.
If a poker player loses a hand holding four 8s or anything better at a Bad Beat Jackpot table, they'll win a piece of the Bad Beat Jackpot. A percentage of the jackpot is shared amongst the players where the bad beat occurred and a fraction of the jackpot is placed back into the pot for the next jackpot.
Absolute Poker is the only online poker room open to US players to feature Bad Beat Jackpot tables.
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Team Absolute is dedicated to providing players from around the world with the best online poker game experience that is second to none. Players worldwide can access Absolute Poker online 24 hours a day, seven days a week from any PC or Mac and experience the best multi-player game online poker has to offer. Absolute Poker is committed to remaining the most trusted and best online poker experience, created by poker players for poker players.
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Wednesday, July 18, 2007
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Jerry Yang, a 39-year-old psychologist who uses his professional training in his card-playing arsenal, won the $8.25 million top prize Wednesday at the World Series of Poker.
Yang vaulted quickly from eighth to the chip lead soon after play began Tuesday afternoon.
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He knocked out seven of the eight other players at the final table, reminiscent of last year when Jamie Gold ran over his opponents. The main difference, Yang did it from the back of the pack.
"The only way I would win this tournament is to be aggressive from the very beginning and that's exactly what I did," he said.
An ethnic Hmong who grew up poor in Laos, Yang said before the final table began that he would donate 10 percent of his winnings to charity, including the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Feed the Children, the Ronald McDonald House and his alma mater, Loma Linda University.
He won his way into the main event from a $225 satellite tournament at the Pechanga Resort & Casino in Temecula and only began playing poker two years ago.
Despite his 5-foot-3 stature -- often standing up from his seat to move chips or stare down opponents -- Yang was an intimidating force at the table from the beginning.
He aggressively raised pots and became the first player at the table to go all-in. On the ninth hand, he forced Lee Childs, a 35-year-old software engineer from Reston, Va., to fold pocket queens, face up, on a board with a seven, four and deuce.
Yang began heads up play with a giant chip lead against Tuan Lam, a 40-year-old professional online poker player from Mississauga, Ontario. Yang had 104.5 million in chips to Lam's 23.0 million.
On the last hand, with a huge mound of cash deposited on the felt, Lam moved all-in with an ace and queen of diamonds and Yang called with pocket eights.
When a queen, five and nine came on the flop, it looked like Lam, waving a Canadian flag, would be on the verge of a miracle comeback, making a pair of queens for the lead.
But a seven on the turn and a six on the river gave Yang a straight, sealing a win in which he dominated the final table from the moment the nine finalists sat down.
"I've seen the miracles of God with my own eyes," Yang said. "I did a lot of bluffing, also."
Lam, who earned $4,840,981 for his second place finish, was also a refugee who found his way to Canada from Vietnam. He said he'd be returning to his village, Bao Trinh, to help those who need it.
"I was patient and waited for the big hand, but the cards came out different," Lam said. "I have been through a hard life. And I will be going back to Vietnam and giving back."
Play at the final table began at noon in Las Vegas and didn't finish till nearly 4 a.m.
The finalists ranged in age from 22 to 62, and hailed from five nations: the U.S., Canada, Russia, England and South Africa. By birthplace, players also were from Laos, Vietnam and Denmark.
Each had their section of fans in the audience, and the arena took on the air of the Olympics as supporters broke out into national songs every time their player won a big hand.
"The final table says a lot about the globality of poker and the globality of our fans," said Jeffrey Pollack, World Series of Poker commissioner for event owner Harrah's Entertainment Inc.
Yang burst out of the blocks shortly after play began. But 31-year-old Dane Philip Hilm made a stand with a flush draw and a pair of fives on the flop, pushing all-in against Yang. Yang made the call holding an ace and king for a pair of kings and Hilm never improved, finishing ninth for $525,934.
Lee Watkinson, a 40-year-old poker pro from Cheney, Wash., pushed all-in before the flop with an ace and seven, but Yang read through the show of strength by calling with an ace and nine and Watkinson fell in eighth for a $585,699 payday.
"I was playing for the bracelet," Watkinson said. "I wasn't going for third, fourth or even second. I wanted to make a play and be a contender."
Childs, who quit his job a month ago to play poker for a living, finished seventh with $705,229 when he went all-in with a king and jack against Yang, with a jack and eight. Childs lost when an eight came on the turn.
"My goal when I came in to the tournament was to trust my instincts, make the right decision and hopefully not get unlucky," Childs said. "I was that close to doubling up."
Jon Kalmar, a 34-year-old poker pro from Chorley, England, was the only player to bust out against someone other than Yang. He lost a head-to-head bet against South African retiree Raymond Rahme when his ace and king failed to improve against Rahme's pocket jacks.
Kalmar proclaimed himself "thrilled" with his prize and said he intended to use his winnings to pay bills and perhaps buy a car back home.
Hevad Khan, an Internet poker pro from Poughkeepsie, N.Y., finished in sixth when his ace and queen of spades couldn't top a pair of jacks belonging to a surging Yang. Khan didn't seem disappointed with sixth place and his $956,243 payday as he celebrated with friends in the audience.
Alex Kravchenko, 36, was Yang's fifth victim, when he was all-in before the flop with an ace and king but Yang nailed three of a kind, holding a pocket pair of eights. Kravchenko finished in fourth with $1,852,721.
Finally, Rahme went down when he pushed all-in with pocket kings on a board with an ace. After several minutes of pacing and a staredown, Yang made the call holding an ace and a five, for two aces, and Rahme shook his head in resignation.
"That was the only mistake I made in the whole tournament," Rahme said.
Nine players who began the day were all that remained from a field of 6,358 players that began to play down in stages July 6. Everyone paid or won $10,000 to enter the main event, the biggest poker tournament of the year.
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The pilot of an airliner that burst into flames after trying to land on a short, rain-slicked runway apparently tried to take off again, barely clearing rush-hour traffic on a major highway. The death toll rose Wednesday to 189 and could climb higher.
The TAM airlines Airbus-320 flight that originated in Porto Alegre in southern Brazil on Tuesday cleared the airport fence at the end of the runway and the busy highway but slammed into a gas station and a TAM building, causing an inferno.
The 6,362-foot runway at Sao Paulo's Congonhas airport has been repeatedly criticized as dangerously short. Two planes slipped off it in rainy weather just a day earlier. Pilots call it the "aircraft carrier" — it's so short and surrounded by heavily populated neighborhoods that they're told to take off again and fly around if they overshoot the first 1,000 feet of runway.
By contrast, New York's LaGuardia Airport has a 7,003-foot runway that accommodates similar planes, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
"What appears to have happened is that he (the pilot) didn't manage to land and he tried to take off again," said Capt. Marcos, a fire department spokesman who would only identify himself by rank and first name in accordance with department guidelines.
Temperatures reached 1,830 degrees inside the plane, and officials said there was no way passengers could have survived.
"All of a sudden I heard a loud explosion, and the ground beneath my feet shook," said Elias Rodrigues Jesus, a TAM worker who was walking nearby when he saw the crash. "I looked up and I saw a huge ball of fire, and then I smelled the stench of kerosene and sulfur."
TAM Linhas Aereas SA said 186 were on the Airbus-320 — 162 passengers, 18 TAM employees and a crew of six — and officials said three bodies of people killed on the ground had been recovered. There were fears of more dead on the ground, with 14 others taken to hospitals, where their conditions were not known.
Ninety badly charred bodies, along with the flight data recorder, had been pulled from the wreckage by midmorning, firefighters said.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva declared three days of national mourning for Brazil's second major air disaster in less than a year. In September, a Gol Aerolinhas Inteligentes SA Boeing 737 and an executive jet collided over the Amazon rain forest, killing 154 people. Wednesday's crash now replaces that tragedy as Brazil's worst air disaster.
Silva's government is under increasing pressure to deal with Brazil's aviation woes. In September, a Gol Airlines Boeing 737 collided with an executive jet over the Amazon rainforest, causing the passenger jet to crash, killing 154 people.
Since then, congressional investigations have raised questions about the country's underfunded air traffic control systems, deficient radar system and the airlines' ability to cope with a surge in travelers. Controllers — concerned about being made scapegoats — have engaged in strikes and work slowdowns to raise safety concerns, causing lengthy delays and cancelations.
Presidential spokesman Marcelo Baumbach said it was premature to declare a cause, but critics have warned for years of the danger of such an accident when large planes land in rainy weather at Congonhas airport, Brazil's busiest.
In 1996, a TAM airlines Fokker-100 crashed shortly after taking off from the same airport, killing all 96 people on board and three on the ground. In February, a federal court briefly banned takeoffs and landings of three types of large jets because of safety concerns. An appeals court overruled that, saying the safety concerns weren't sufficient to outweigh the severe economic ramifications for Brazil.
A320s were not covered under the judge's ban, and the TAM jet that crashed was a relatively recent model, said William Voss, president and CEO of the Flight Safety Foundation in Alexandria, Va.
"So there are no red flags coming up, it sounds like a straightforward runway overrun," Voss said.
The single-aisle, twin-engine plane, delivered in 1998, had logged about 20,000 flight hours in some 9,300 flights, Airbus said.
Still, rainy conditions were a particular concern at the airport. Globo News television played tapes of conversations between flight controllers and pilots complaining about slick conditions on the runway days before the latest accident.
Tuesday's TAM flight was landing on Congonhas' main 6,362 feet-long runway, which was recently resurfaced but not grooved to provide better braking in rainy conditions. There were plans to regroove the surface by the end of July.
In France, Airbus said it was sending five specialists to Brazil to help investigate and would provide "full technical assistance" to France's bureau for accident investigations and to Brazilian authorities.
Emergency workers searching for bodies used a crane to maintain the structure of the destroyed TAM building.
The airline released a list of most of the people on the flight early Wednesday morning, but did not specify their nationalities. Opposition congressman Julio Redecker was among those on the flight.
"TAM expresses its most profound condolences to the relatives and friends of the passengers who were on Flight 3054," the company said.
Pope Benedict XVI, who visited Sao Paulo in May, also sent his condolences.
The airline flew 67 relatives of the victims from Porto Alegre to Sao Paulo Wednesday after they passed the night in a closed room. They arrived teary-eyed and unwilling to talk to the media.
But one man who spoke with the Associated Press earlier, Lamir Buzzanelli, said his 41-year-old son, Claudemir, an engineer, had called him from a business trip to Porto Alegre to say he was in the plane. "I've been calling him on his cell phone, and all I get is his voice mail," Buzzanelli said, his eyes tearing up.
Despite the crash, authorities reopened the airport Wednesday, using an auxiliary runway.
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It's dog days for Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick and others, after being indicted today on federal charges related to illegal dogfighting.
Vick was charged with illegal competitive dogfighting, which involves training pit bulls to fight against other dogs. When authorities searched Vick's property this month, they found 54 pit bulls and a host of brutal items including a "rape stand," used to hold dogs in place for mating; an electric treadmill modified for dogs and a bloodied piece of carpeting.
Graves of seven pit bulls were found inside "Bad Newz Kennels," a Virginia property owned by Vick. The dogs were allegedly killed after testing whether they would be good fighters. According to documents, dogfights would end when one dog died or backed down, and dogs were sometimes put to death by drowning, strangulation, hanging, gunshot, electrocution or some other method. The indictment alleges that Vick and his co-defendants began sponsoring dogfights in early 2001, the former Virginia Tech star's rookie year with the Falcons.
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Each Sunday at 14:30 GMT, the online poker room hosts a $100,000 guaranteed holdem poker tournament for its players. This week, 788 players from Europe and Asian joined in the poker action.
Montreal, QC (PRWEB) July 18, 2007 -- Everest Poker www.everestpoker.com today announced the winners of the latest $100,000 guaranteed holdem poker tournament held by the online poker room. Each week, players from around the world get the chance to compete for their share of $100,000, the largest regularly-held poker tournament offered by Everest Poker.
"This week saw over 780 of our players join in the action," said Jonathan May, Everest Poker property manager. "Our low-cost satellite tournaments help players at all levels get a fair shot at winning a lot of cash, guaranteed!"
We're always happy with the turnout at these events; we'd not be able to host them without the dedication of our players!
The top ten winners for the latest tournament are as follows: Rem 24 from Brazil ($22,000), fisholinho from France ($12,000), domramones from Brazil ($9,000), iceball12 from The Netherlands ($7,000), TxM@x from Germany ($5,000), Kristiban from Sweden ($4,000), moteru from Italy ($3,000), eudox from Germany ($1,750), A. Valverde from France ($1,500) and noodle15 from The Netherlands ($1,250)
"Despite the Bastille day holiday, France still brought 277 players to the tournament this week, with Germany bringing 161," May added. "We're always happy with the turnout at these events; we'd not be able to host them without the dedication of our players!"
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Jerry Yang, a 39-year-old psychologist who uses his professional training in his card-playing arsenal, won the $8.25 million top prize Wednesday at the World Series of Poker.
Yang vaulted quickly from eighth to the chip lead soon after play began Tuesday afternoon.
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He knocked out seven of the eight other players at the final table, reminiscent of last year when Jamie Gold ran over his opponents. The main difference, Yang did it from the back of the pack.
"The only way I would win this tournament is to be aggressive from the very beginning and that's exactly what I did," he said.
An ethnic Hmong who grew up poor in Laos, Yang said before the final table began that he would donate 10 percent of his winnings to charity, including the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Feed the Children, the Ronald McDonald House and his alma mater, Loma Linda University.
He won his way into the main event from a $225 satellite tournament at the Pechanga Resort & Casino in Temecula and only began playing poker two years ago.
Despite his 5-foot-3 stature -- often standing up from his seat to move chips or stare down opponents -- Yang was an intimidating force at the table from the beginning.
He aggressively raised pots and became the first player at the table to go all-in. On the ninth hand, he forced Lee Childs, a 35-year-old software engineer from Reston, Va., to fold pocket queens, face up, on a board with a seven, four and deuce.
Yang began heads up play with a giant chip lead against Tuan Lam, a 40-year-old professional online poker player from Mississauga, Ontario. Yang had 104.5 million in chips to Lam's 23.0 million.
On the last hand, with a huge mound of cash deposited on the felt, Lam moved all-in with an ace and queen of diamonds and Yang called with pocket eights.
When a queen, five and nine came on the flop, it looked like Lam, waving a Canadian flag, would be on the verge of a miracle comeback, making a pair of queens for the lead.
But a seven on the turn and a six on the river gave Yang a straight, sealing a win in which he dominated the final table from the moment the nine finalists sat down.
"I've seen the miracles of God with my own eyes," Yang said. "I did a lot of bluffing, also."
Lam, who earned $4,840,981 for his second place finish, was also a refugee who found his way to Canada from Vietnam. He said he'd be returning to his village, Bao Trinh, to help those who need it.
"I was patient and waited for the big hand, but the cards came out different," Lam said. "I have been through a hard life. And I will be going back to Vietnam and giving back."
Play at the final table began at noon in Las Vegas and didn't finish till nearly 4 a.m.
The finalists ranged in age from 22 to 62, and hailed from five nations: the U.S., Canada, Russia, England and South Africa. By birthplace, players also were from Laos, Vietnam and Denmark.
Each had their section of fans in the audience, and the arena took on the air of the Olympics as supporters broke out into national songs every time their player won a big hand.
"The final table says a lot about the globality of poker and the globality of our fans," said Jeffrey Pollack, World Series of Poker commissioner for event owner Harrah's Entertainment Inc.
Yang burst out of the blocks shortly after play began. But 31-year-old Dane Philip Hilm made a stand with a flush draw and a pair of fives on the flop, pushing all-in against Yang. Yang made the call holding an ace and king for a pair of kings and Hilm never improved, finishing ninth for $525,934.
Lee Watkinson, a 40-year-old poker pro from Cheney, Wash., pushed all-in before the flop with an ace and seven, but Yang read through the show of strength by calling with an ace and nine and Watkinson fell in eighth for a $585,699 payday.
"I was playing for the bracelet," Watkinson said. "I wasn't going for third, fourth or even second. I wanted to make a play and be a contender."
Childs, who quit his job a month ago to play poker for a living, finished seventh with $705,229 when he went all-in with a king and jack against Yang, with a jack and eight. Childs lost when an eight came on the turn.
"My goal when I came in to the tournament was to trust my instincts, make the right decision and hopefully not get unlucky," Childs said. "I was that close to doubling up."
Jon Kalmar, a 34-year-old poker pro from Chorley, England, was the only player to bust out against someone other than Yang. He lost a head-to-head bet against South African retiree Raymond Rahme when his ace and king failed to improve against Rahme's pocket jacks.
Kalmar proclaimed himself "thrilled" with his prize and said he intended to use his winnings to pay bills and perhaps buy a car back home.
Hevad Khan, an Internet poker pro from Poughkeepsie, N.Y., finished in sixth when his ace and queen of spades couldn't top a pair of jacks belonging to a surging Yang. Khan didn't seem disappointed with sixth place and his $956,243 payday as he celebrated with friends in the audience.
Alex Kravchenko, 36, was Yang's fifth victim, when he was all-in before the flop with an ace and king but Yang nailed three of a kind, holding a pocket pair of eights. Kravchenko finished in fourth with $1,852,721.
Finally, Rahme went down when he pushed all-in with pocket kings on a board with an ace. After several minutes of pacing and a staredown, Yang made the call holding an ace and a five, for two aces, and Rahme shook his head in resignation.
"That was the only mistake I made in the whole tournament," Rahme said.
Nine players who began the day were all that remained from a field of 6,358 players that began to play down in stages July 6. Everyone paid or won $10,000 to enter the main event, the biggest poker tournament of the year.
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The pilot of an airliner that burst into flames after trying to land on a short, rain-slicked runway apparently tried to take off again, barely clearing rush-hour traffic on a major highway. The death toll rose Wednesday to 189 and could climb higher.
The TAM airlines Airbus-320 flight that originated in Porto Alegre in southern Brazil on Tuesday cleared the airport fence at the end of the runway and the busy highway but slammed into a gas station and a TAM building, causing an inferno.
The 6,362-foot runway at Sao Paulo's Congonhas airport has been repeatedly criticized as dangerously short. Two planes slipped off it in rainy weather just a day earlier. Pilots call it the "aircraft carrier" — it's so short and surrounded by heavily populated neighborhoods that they're told to take off again and fly around if they overshoot the first 1,000 feet of runway.
By contrast, New York's LaGuardia Airport has a 7,003-foot runway that accommodates similar planes, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
"What appears to have happened is that he (the pilot) didn't manage to land and he tried to take off again," said Capt. Marcos, a fire department spokesman who would only identify himself by rank and first name in accordance with department guidelines.
Temperatures reached 1,830 degrees inside the plane, and officials said there was no way passengers could have survived.
"All of a sudden I heard a loud explosion, and the ground beneath my feet shook," said Elias Rodrigues Jesus, a TAM worker who was walking nearby when he saw the crash. "I looked up and I saw a huge ball of fire, and then I smelled the stench of kerosene and sulfur."
TAM Linhas Aereas SA said 186 were on the Airbus-320 — 162 passengers, 18 TAM employees and a crew of six — and officials said three bodies of people killed on the ground had been recovered. There were fears of more dead on the ground, with 14 others taken to hospitals, where their conditions were not known.
Ninety badly charred bodies, along with the flight data recorder, had been pulled from the wreckage by midmorning, firefighters said.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva declared three days of national mourning for Brazil's second major air disaster in less than a year. In September, a Gol Aerolinhas Inteligentes SA Boeing 737 and an executive jet collided over the Amazon rain forest, killing 154 people. Wednesday's crash now replaces that tragedy as Brazil's worst air disaster.
Silva's government is under increasing pressure to deal with Brazil's aviation woes. In September, a Gol Airlines Boeing 737 collided with an executive jet over the Amazon rainforest, causing the passenger jet to crash, killing 154 people.
Since then, congressional investigations have raised questions about the country's underfunded air traffic control systems, deficient radar system and the airlines' ability to cope with a surge in travelers. Controllers — concerned about being made scapegoats — have engaged in strikes and work slowdowns to raise safety concerns, causing lengthy delays and cancelations.
Presidential spokesman Marcelo Baumbach said it was premature to declare a cause, but critics have warned for years of the danger of such an accident when large planes land in rainy weather at Congonhas airport, Brazil's busiest.
In 1996, a TAM airlines Fokker-100 crashed shortly after taking off from the same airport, killing all 96 people on board and three on the ground. In February, a federal court briefly banned takeoffs and landings of three types of large jets because of safety concerns. An appeals court overruled that, saying the safety concerns weren't sufficient to outweigh the severe economic ramifications for Brazil.
A320s were not covered under the judge's ban, and the TAM jet that crashed was a relatively recent model, said William Voss, president and CEO of the Flight Safety Foundation in Alexandria, Va.
"So there are no red flags coming up, it sounds like a straightforward runway overrun," Voss said.
The single-aisle, twin-engine plane, delivered in 1998, had logged about 20,000 flight hours in some 9,300 flights, Airbus said.
Still, rainy conditions were a particular concern at the airport. Globo News television played tapes of conversations between flight controllers and pilots complaining about slick conditions on the runway days before the latest accident.
Tuesday's TAM flight was landing on Congonhas' main 6,362 feet-long runway, which was recently resurfaced but not grooved to provide better braking in rainy conditions. There were plans to regroove the surface by the end of July.
In France, Airbus said it was sending five specialists to Brazil to help investigate and would provide "full technical assistance" to France's bureau for accident investigations and to Brazilian authorities.
Emergency workers searching for bodies used a crane to maintain the structure of the destroyed TAM building.
The airline released a list of most of the people on the flight early Wednesday morning, but did not specify their nationalities. Opposition congressman Julio Redecker was among those on the flight.
"TAM expresses its most profound condolences to the relatives and friends of the passengers who were on Flight 3054," the company said.
Pope Benedict XVI, who visited Sao Paulo in May, also sent his condolences.
The airline flew 67 relatives of the victims from Porto Alegre to Sao Paulo Wednesday after they passed the night in a closed room. They arrived teary-eyed and unwilling to talk to the media.
But one man who spoke with the Associated Press earlier, Lamir Buzzanelli, said his 41-year-old son, Claudemir, an engineer, had called him from a business trip to Porto Alegre to say he was in the plane. "I've been calling him on his cell phone, and all I get is his voice mail," Buzzanelli said, his eyes tearing up.
Despite the crash, authorities reopened the airport Wednesday, using an auxiliary runway.
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It's dog days for Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick and others, after being indicted today on federal charges related to illegal dogfighting.
Vick was charged with illegal competitive dogfighting, which involves training pit bulls to fight against other dogs. When authorities searched Vick's property this month, they found 54 pit bulls and a host of brutal items including a "rape stand," used to hold dogs in place for mating; an electric treadmill modified for dogs and a bloodied piece of carpeting.
Graves of seven pit bulls were found inside "Bad Newz Kennels," a Virginia property owned by Vick. The dogs were allegedly killed after testing whether they would be good fighters. According to documents, dogfights would end when one dog died or backed down, and dogs were sometimes put to death by drowning, strangulation, hanging, gunshot, electrocution or some other method. The indictment alleges that Vick and his co-defendants began sponsoring dogfights in early 2001, the former Virginia Tech star's rookie year with the Falcons.
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Each Sunday at 14:30 GMT, the online poker room hosts a $100,000 guaranteed holdem poker tournament for its players. This week, 788 players from Europe and Asian joined in the poker action.
Montreal, QC (PRWEB) July 18, 2007 -- Everest Poker www.everestpoker.com today announced the winners of the latest $100,000 guaranteed holdem poker tournament held by the online poker room. Each week, players from around the world get the chance to compete for their share of $100,000, the largest regularly-held poker tournament offered by Everest Poker.
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"Despite the Bastille day holiday, France still brought 277 players to the tournament this week, with Germany bringing 161," May added. "We're always happy with the turnout at these events; we'd not be able to host them without the dedication of our players!"
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Tuesday, July 17, 2007
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The United States faces an increased threat of attack from al Qaeda, which will likely try to use battle-hardened associates in Iraq to strike inside the United States, an intelligence report warned on Thursday.
The unclassified report, part of a classified intelligence estimate delivered to President George W. Bush and Congress, said al Qaeda's affiliation with al Qaeda in Iraq is helping Osama bin Laden's militant network recruit operatives.
"We assess that al Qaeda will probably seek to leverage the contacts and capabilities of al Qaeda in Iraq, its most visible and capable affiliate," said the two-page document of key intelligence judgments on threats facing the U.S. homeland over the next three years.
Released as the White House confronts mounting pressure in Congress to withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq, the document marked the first time that the 16-agency U.S. intelligence community has warned publicly that the Iraq war poses a near-term threat to the United States.
The White House said there was no credible information pointing to an imminent attack and the nation's alert status was unchanged at an elevated level.
Intelligence officials also said there was no evidence of al Qaeda cells operating inside the United States.
"But the warning is clear, and we are taking it seriously," said White House homeland security adviser Frances Townsend.
The threat from Al Qaeda has increased in recent years as the network behind the September 11 attacks has gained strength and become entrenched at sites in remote northwestern Pakistan, intelligence officials said.
The safe haven has enabled bin Laden and his second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahri, to regain some command abilities lost when U.S.-led forces drove them from Afghanistan in late 2001.
The report said al Qaeda remained the "the most serious terrorist threat" to the United States and its leadership continued to plan high-impact plots. It predicted that al Qaeda would try harder to put operatives inside the United States.
"As a result, we judge that the United States currently is in a heightened threat environment," it said.
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The Iraq war has long been seen by U.S. officials as an training ground for Islamist militants. But intelligence officials had previously said the threat was unlikely to spread to other countries until after the fighting stops and foreign militants return home.
Bush and other top administration officials have also argued that the war in Iraq is protecting Americans by preventing militants from attacking the United States.
Tuesday's report appeared to put the White House on the defensive, by echoing an earlier Senate report that Bush was warned in early 2003 that al Qaeda could exploit a U.S. invasion of Iraq.
"So we should leave then, and we should not disturb our enemies anywhere in the world because they may use it for propaganda value? I don't think so," Townsend said when pressed by reporters at a news conference.
"Every time you poke the hornet's nest, they are bound to come back and push back on you," she said.
(Additional reporting by Tabassum Zakaria)
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Abracadabra! Ageless titan Pamela Anderson has reupped for another stint in Vegas with Dutch illusionist (and her hair twin) Hans Klok's show, "The Beauty of Magic."
Pam blogged on her site that her sons are proud of their hot mom, saying, "My kids want me to keep doing the coolest thing in the world." The boob-tat-stic former "Baywatch" babe will also be seen in "Blonde and Blonder," which is still awaiting a release date.
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Miami, FL (PRWEB) July 17, 2007 -- Just when legendary poker player Phil Hellmuth thought he'd put the embarrassment of his pre-WSOP racecar crash behind him, never-before-seen footage of the notorious accident has surfaced on the internet, generating a flurry of new questions.
"The new clip sets the record straight on what really happened behind the wheel," stated Phil Hellmuth after learning of the new video. "Hopefully, this will put all rumors and conspiracy theories to rest."
The new clip sets the record straight on what really happened behind the wheel
Minutes after the accident, a short video clip of Phil Hellmuth crashing his racecar into a cinderblock was posted on several popular poker forums and viewed by tens of thousands. Rumors ran rampant that the crash was staged.
Given that the car was branded with Phil Hellmuth's face and UltimateBet.net's signature poker chip logo, marketing experts immediately deemed the accident a publicity stunt by the popular online poker site. The latest clip shows what actually happened before, during and after the crash.
While many had questioned whether Phil Hellmuth was even behind the wheel of the 200mph racecar when it met the cinderblock head-on, another rumor might help prove that he was.
Hollywood insiders report that Phil Hellmuth is using millions of his career poker winnings to fund the film adaptation of TV's Knight Rider and that the 11-time WSOP bracelet winner was simply test-driving one of the cars between shots. It's not clear whether Hellmuth will remain behind the scenes or whether he'll take on the role that kicked off David Hasselhoff's career. This story has been neither confirmed nor denied by Phil Hellmuth.
The new footage is making waves across the poker world and has already surfaced on YouTube and other video sharing sites. Watch Phil Hellmuth's racecar accident video.
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The United States faces an increased threat of attack from al Qaeda, which will likely try to use battle-hardened associates in Iraq to strike inside the United States, an intelligence report warned on Thursday.
The unclassified report, part of a classified intelligence estimate delivered to President George W. Bush and Congress, said al Qaeda's affiliation with al Qaeda in Iraq is helping Osama bin Laden's militant network recruit operatives.
"We assess that al Qaeda will probably seek to leverage the contacts and capabilities of al Qaeda in Iraq, its most visible and capable affiliate," said the two-page document of key intelligence judgments on threats facing the U.S. homeland over the next three years.
Released as the White House confronts mounting pressure in Congress to withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq, the document marked the first time that the 16-agency U.S. intelligence community has warned publicly that the Iraq war poses a near-term threat to the United States.
The White House said there was no credible information pointing to an imminent attack and the nation's alert status was unchanged at an elevated level.
Intelligence officials also said there was no evidence of al Qaeda cells operating inside the United States.
"But the warning is clear, and we are taking it seriously," said White House homeland security adviser Frances Townsend.
The threat from Al Qaeda has increased in recent years as the network behind the September 11 attacks has gained strength and become entrenched at sites in remote northwestern Pakistan, intelligence officials said.
The safe haven has enabled bin Laden and his second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahri, to regain some command abilities lost when U.S.-led forces drove them from Afghanistan in late 2001.
The report said al Qaeda remained the "the most serious terrorist threat" to the United States and its leadership continued to plan high-impact plots. It predicted that al Qaeda would try harder to put operatives inside the United States.
"As a result, we judge that the United States currently is in a heightened threat environment," it said.
TRAINING GROUND
The Iraq war has long been seen by U.S. officials as an training ground for Islamist militants. But intelligence officials had previously said the threat was unlikely to spread to other countries until after the fighting stops and foreign militants return home.
Bush and other top administration officials have also argued that the war in Iraq is protecting Americans by preventing militants from attacking the United States.
Tuesday's report appeared to put the White House on the defensive, by echoing an earlier Senate report that Bush was warned in early 2003 that al Qaeda could exploit a U.S. invasion of Iraq.
"So we should leave then, and we should not disturb our enemies anywhere in the world because they may use it for propaganda value? I don't think so," Townsend said when pressed by reporters at a news conference.
"Every time you poke the hornet's nest, they are bound to come back and push back on you," she said.
(Additional reporting by Tabassum Zakaria)
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Miami, FL (PRWEB) July 17, 2007 -- Just when legendary poker player Phil Hellmuth thought he'd put the embarrassment of his pre-WSOP racecar crash behind him, never-before-seen footage of the notorious accident has surfaced on the internet, generating a flurry of new questions.
"The new clip sets the record straight on what really happened behind the wheel," stated Phil Hellmuth after learning of the new video. "Hopefully, this will put all rumors and conspiracy theories to rest."
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Minutes after the accident, a short video clip of Phil Hellmuth crashing his racecar into a cinderblock was posted on several popular poker forums and viewed by tens of thousands. Rumors ran rampant that the crash was staged.
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While many had questioned whether Phil Hellmuth was even behind the wheel of the 200mph racecar when it met the cinderblock head-on, another rumor might help prove that he was.
Hollywood insiders report that Phil Hellmuth is using millions of his career poker winnings to fund the film adaptation of TV's Knight Rider and that the 11-time WSOP bracelet winner was simply test-driving one of the cars between shots. It's not clear whether Hellmuth will remain behind the scenes or whether he'll take on the role that kicked off David Hasselhoff's career. This story has been neither confirmed nor denied by Phil Hellmuth.
The new footage is making waves across the poker world and has already surfaced on YouTube and other video sharing sites. Watch Phil Hellmuth's racecar accident video.
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Monday, July 16, 2007
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A strong earthquake struck northwestern Japan on Monday, causing a fire and radioactive water leak at the world's largest nuclear plant. At least eight people were killed and hundreds injured in the 6.8 magnitude quake that collapsed wooden houses, ripped apart roads and buckled seaside bridges.
Flames and billows of black smoke poured from the Kashiwazaki nuclear plant — the world's largest in terms of power output capacity. It took two hours to extinguish the fire in an electrical transformer, said Motoyasu Tamaki, a Tokyo Electric Power Co. official.
The plant leaked about 315 gallons of water, said Katsuya Uchino, another Tokyo Electric official. Uchino said the water contained a tiny amount of radioactive material and is believed to have flushed into the Sea of Japan.
"The radioactivity is one-billionth of the legal limit," Oshima said.
The quake, which left fissures 3 feet wide in the ground along the coast, hit shortly after 10 a.m. local time and was centered off Niigata state. Buildings swayed 160 miles away in Tokyo. Sirens wailed in Kashiwazaki, a city of about 90,000, which appeared to be hardest hit.
Japan's Meteorological Agency measured the quake at a 6.8 magnitude. Near midnight Monday, another 6.8-magnitude quake hit off Japan's west coast, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, which said the initial quake registered 6.7.
"I was so scared — the violent shaking went on for 20 seconds," Ritei Wakatsuki, who was on her job in a convenience store in Kashiwazaki. "I almost fainted by the fear of shaking."
Tokyo Electric said the water leak had stopped and that there had been no "significant change" in the seawater under surveillance and no effect on the environment, but the developments at Kashiwazaki triggered fresh concern about the earthquake resistance of Japan's nuclear power plants, which supply nearly a third of the country's electricity.
Aileen Mioko Smith, of the environmentalist group Green Action, said the fire showed that some facilities at nuclear power plants such as electrical transformers were built to lower quake-resistance levels than other equipment such as reactor cores.
"That's the Achilles heel of nuclear power plants," said Mioko Smith, who said it took the plant two hours to extinguish the fire. "Today's a good example of that... How prepared are they to put out fires when they happen?
The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant is the world's largest nuclear power facility with an output capacity of 8.21 million kilowatts. By comparison, the largest U.S. nuclear power facility, in Palo Verde, Ariz., has an output capacity of 3.88 million kilowatts, according to the Nuclear Energy Institute.
The quake hit on Marine Day, a national holiday in Japan, when most people would have been at home.
Four women and three men — all either in their 70s or 80s — were killed, according to the National Police Agency in Tokyo and NHK, which reported more than 800 people were hurt.
Nearly 300 homes in Kashiwazaki — a city known mainly for its fishing industry — were destroyed and some 2,000 people evacuated, officials said.
A ceiling collapsed in a gym in Kashiwazaki where about 200 people had gathered for a badminton tournament, and one person was hurt, Kyodo reported. The quake also knocked a train car off the rails while it was stopped at a station. No one was injured.
Several bullet train services linking Tokyo to northern and northwestern Japan were suspended.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe — whose ruling party is trailing in the polls — interrupted a campaign stop in southern Japan for upcoming parliamentary elections, rushed back to Tokyo and announced he would head to the damaged area. He later arrived in a blue uniform to survey the damage.
"Many people told me they want to return to their normal lives as quickly as possible," Abe told reporters in Kashiwazaki. "The government will make every effort to help with recovery."
Japan sits atop four tectonic plates and is one of the world's most earthquake-prone countries. The last major quake to hit the capital, Tokyo, killed some 142,000 people in 1923, and experts say the capital has a 90 percent chance of suffering a major quake in the next 50 years.
In October 2004, a magnitude-6.8 earthquake hit Niigata, killing 40 people and damaging more than 6,000 homes. It was the deadliest to hit Japan since 1995, when a magnitude-7.2 quake killed 6,433 people in the western city of Kobe.
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When your dad is the internationally loathed terrorist Osama bin Laden, most anything you do is going to make news. But for some reason, Omar bin Laden was shocked at the media coverage of his marriage to a woman nearly twice his age. Death to the infidel media!
Little O told Saudi newspaper al-Watan that he was "stunned and outraged" by publicity surrounding his wedding to a 51-year-old grandmother. Jane Felix-Browne, who herself has been married and divorced five times, is actually bin Laden's second wife -- in addition to his first wife! Polygamy isn't just for HBO anymore.
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Two natural royal flushes in a lifetime is a pipe dream, but Catherine B. of France hit two on her way to millions in winnings from Casino Classic.
(PRWEB) July 14, 2007 -- Hailing from the country of 'Les Bleus,' Catherine B, a first time online casinos player, took a modest deposit of 20€ at Casino Classic and turned in a profit of over forty thousand Euros. On her way to fortune, Catherine hit two natural royal flushes playing a single video poker title, Joker Poker.
"I think it's a bit of beginner's luck," professes a humble Catherine to www.casinoclassic.com, "but also my tenacity."
I think it's a bit of beginner's luck
Beginner's luck does not seem to have left Catherine's system as she has gone on to only deposit 600€, but earn over two million Euros of chips to wager at the online casino. Stories like Catherine's are not unheard of as first-time players appear frequently and manage to garner small fortunes from online casinos. It appears that winning spirits are prevalent in the industry than usually anticipated.
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Today: Sunshine and clouds mixed. High 93F. Winds S at 10 to 15 mph.
Tonight: Partly cloudy with isolated thunderstorms possible. Low 73F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30%.
Tomorrow: Isolated thunderstorms in the morning. Lots of sunshine late. High 94F. Winds SW at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 30%.
Tomorrow night: A mostly clear sky. Low 74F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.
Wednesday: Abundant sunshine. Highs in the low 90s and lows in the mid 70s.
Thursday: Scattered thunderstorms possible. Highs in the low 90s and lows in the upper 60s.
Friday: Mix of sun and clouds. Highs in the low 80s and lows in the low 60s.
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The fuse of your temper is shorter than usual, but that passionate response means you're also quicker to do other things, too -- such as laugh, jump for joy and yell with delight. Everything has a silver lining!
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A strong earthquake struck northwestern Japan on Monday, causing a fire and radioactive water leak at the world's largest nuclear plant. At least eight people were killed and hundreds injured in the 6.8 magnitude quake that collapsed wooden houses, ripped apart roads and buckled seaside bridges.
Flames and billows of black smoke poured from the Kashiwazaki nuclear plant — the world's largest in terms of power output capacity. It took two hours to extinguish the fire in an electrical transformer, said Motoyasu Tamaki, a Tokyo Electric Power Co. official.
The plant leaked about 315 gallons of water, said Katsuya Uchino, another Tokyo Electric official. Uchino said the water contained a tiny amount of radioactive material and is believed to have flushed into the Sea of Japan.
"The radioactivity is one-billionth of the legal limit," Oshima said.
The quake, which left fissures 3 feet wide in the ground along the coast, hit shortly after 10 a.m. local time and was centered off Niigata state. Buildings swayed 160 miles away in Tokyo. Sirens wailed in Kashiwazaki, a city of about 90,000, which appeared to be hardest hit.
Japan's Meteorological Agency measured the quake at a 6.8 magnitude. Near midnight Monday, another 6.8-magnitude quake hit off Japan's west coast, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, which said the initial quake registered 6.7.
"I was so scared — the violent shaking went on for 20 seconds," Ritei Wakatsuki, who was on her job in a convenience store in Kashiwazaki. "I almost fainted by the fear of shaking."
Tokyo Electric said the water leak had stopped and that there had been no "significant change" in the seawater under surveillance and no effect on the environment, but the developments at Kashiwazaki triggered fresh concern about the earthquake resistance of Japan's nuclear power plants, which supply nearly a third of the country's electricity.
Aileen Mioko Smith, of the environmentalist group Green Action, said the fire showed that some facilities at nuclear power plants such as electrical transformers were built to lower quake-resistance levels than other equipment such as reactor cores.
"That's the Achilles heel of nuclear power plants," said Mioko Smith, who said it took the plant two hours to extinguish the fire. "Today's a good example of that... How prepared are they to put out fires when they happen?
The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant is the world's largest nuclear power facility with an output capacity of 8.21 million kilowatts. By comparison, the largest U.S. nuclear power facility, in Palo Verde, Ariz., has an output capacity of 3.88 million kilowatts, according to the Nuclear Energy Institute.
The quake hit on Marine Day, a national holiday in Japan, when most people would have been at home.
Four women and three men — all either in their 70s or 80s — were killed, according to the National Police Agency in Tokyo and NHK, which reported more than 800 people were hurt.
Nearly 300 homes in Kashiwazaki — a city known mainly for its fishing industry — were destroyed and some 2,000 people evacuated, officials said.
A ceiling collapsed in a gym in Kashiwazaki where about 200 people had gathered for a badminton tournament, and one person was hurt, Kyodo reported. The quake also knocked a train car off the rails while it was stopped at a station. No one was injured.
Several bullet train services linking Tokyo to northern and northwestern Japan were suspended.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe — whose ruling party is trailing in the polls — interrupted a campaign stop in southern Japan for upcoming parliamentary elections, rushed back to Tokyo and announced he would head to the damaged area. He later arrived in a blue uniform to survey the damage.
"Many people told me they want to return to their normal lives as quickly as possible," Abe told reporters in Kashiwazaki. "The government will make every effort to help with recovery."
Japan sits atop four tectonic plates and is one of the world's most earthquake-prone countries. The last major quake to hit the capital, Tokyo, killed some 142,000 people in 1923, and experts say the capital has a 90 percent chance of suffering a major quake in the next 50 years.
In October 2004, a magnitude-6.8 earthquake hit Niigata, killing 40 people and damaging more than 6,000 homes. It was the deadliest to hit Japan since 1995, when a magnitude-7.2 quake killed 6,433 people in the western city of Kobe.
My Favorite Story Trash News Story
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When your dad is the internationally loathed terrorist Osama bin Laden, most anything you do is going to make news. But for some reason, Omar bin Laden was shocked at the media coverage of his marriage to a woman nearly twice his age. Death to the infidel media!
Little O told Saudi newspaper al-Watan that he was "stunned and outraged" by publicity surrounding his wedding to a 51-year-old grandmother. Jane Felix-Browne, who herself has been married and divorced five times, is actually bin Laden's second wife -- in addition to his first wife! Polygamy isn't just for HBO anymore.
My Favorite Press Release Today
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Two natural royal flushes in a lifetime is a pipe dream, but Catherine B. of France hit two on her way to millions in winnings from Casino Classic.
(PRWEB) July 14, 2007 -- Hailing from the country of 'Les Bleus,' Catherine B, a first time online casinos player, took a modest deposit of 20€ at Casino Classic and turned in a profit of over forty thousand Euros. On her way to fortune, Catherine hit two natural royal flushes playing a single video poker title, Joker Poker.
"I think it's a bit of beginner's luck," professes a humble Catherine to www.casinoclassic.com, "but also my tenacity."
I think it's a bit of beginner's luck
Beginner's luck does not seem to have left Catherine's system as she has gone on to only deposit 600€, but earn over two million Euros of chips to wager at the online casino. Stories like Catherine's are not unheard of as first-time players appear frequently and manage to garner small fortunes from online casinos. It appears that winning spirits are prevalent in the industry than usually anticipated.
"I don't know how to explain this 'phenomenon'," says Catherine, "but maybe the wheel is finally turning in my favour!"
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My Weather: Kansas City
Brought to you by the NOAA
Today: Sunshine and clouds mixed. High 93F. Winds S at 10 to 15 mph.
Tonight: Partly cloudy with isolated thunderstorms possible. Low 73F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30%.
Tomorrow: Isolated thunderstorms in the morning. Lots of sunshine late. High 94F. Winds SW at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 30%.
Tomorrow night: A mostly clear sky. Low 74F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.
Wednesday: Abundant sunshine. Highs in the low 90s and lows in the mid 70s.
Thursday: Scattered thunderstorms possible. Highs in the low 90s and lows in the upper 60s.
Friday: Mix of sun and clouds. Highs in the low 80s and lows in the low 60s.
My Daily Horoscope (Virgo)
Brought to you by Yahoo Astrology
Quickie:
Today, you'll stay in rhythm with all the people around you just by being flexible.
Overview:
The fuse of your temper is shorter than usual, but that passionate response means you're also quicker to do other things, too -- such as laugh, jump for joy and yell with delight. Everything has a silver lining!
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• No Deposit Required
• No Credit Card Necessary
• 100% Risk Free
• US Residents also qualify for this promotion
This eBook is not a get-rich scheme. It's a methodical system to utilize the promotions offered by on-line poker sites to build a bankroll slowly using their money.
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