Japanese customers show off their new iPhone 4 in Tokyo earlier this year. But while the media focus on smartphones, 'dumbphones' are far more popular. Photograph: Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty Images I've just discovered that the ancient Egyptians worshipped a beetle - a scarab. Quaint, isn't it?

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As of this writing, the 2010 Relay For Life of Marion County is one month from the official close of the year. Thus far, $116,000 have been raised due to the efforts of so many. The support of the Marion community, local businesses, the countless number of volunteers and participants made it possible for the event to surpass the established goal of $110,000.

Full Tilt Poker's newest deposit method 'Quick Deposit'. This is of particular importance to US poker players that may be experiencing some difficulty depositing at Full Tilt Poker since UIGEA legislation went into effect on June 1, 2010. Full Tilt press release, eChecks have simply been rebranded by Full Tilt Poker, and are now known as "Quick Deposit".

The activity inside a bank of austere offices on the North Side belies the assumption that our early and anemic Feb. 2 primary gave way to a needed campaign respite. It's a window on a political and legal drama challenging the Democratic Party establishment, a drama that could easily wind up in the United States Supreme Court A young man named Matt Muir walked in with eight sheets of paper, each featuring a list of signatures and home addresses, and sat quietly as a colleague, Tom Bowen, inspected each, notarized and placed a date stamp on them.

Hungarian poker player that started playing poker at the age of 16. He won a big tournament early that started his bankroll. He played mostly No Limit Hold'em tournaments online. About three or four years ago he started playing the limit games like Seven-card Stud and Seven-card Stud Hi-Lo and doing well.

German Police to completely solve the EPT Berlin robbery back at March 6th. This weekend, a man - who also participated on the poker event named Mahomet Abu Si was arrested in Berlin in his car. Abu Si was named by the other robbers as the "brain" behind the robbery but was unable to leave the country as the German authorities had at their disposal the face and the profile of the man blocking all country's exits.

Harrah's announced via conference call on Tuesday one of the biggest non-surprises of the year: Phil Ivey currently leads the voting for the 2010 World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions. With five weeks left until the polls close, approximately 300,000 ballots have been cast for the 20 players who will fill the open seats in the "all-star" event.

The Pennsylvania poker player piled up a five-figure rakeback payout in April and took down an exclusive $60,000 rake race that's only open to members of the Play Poker Network group. Check out his interview with PocketFives.com. Murphy is a member of PocketFives.com and banked $5,000 for taking down the exclusive $60,000 rake race in April.

Version 3.06, which added commercial support for the alternative computing system. For the time being, however, only Intel-powered Mac computers are supported. Text found on the official website of PokerTracker praised the new arrival to the software's family: "We've released our much anticipated Mac release.

One of the oldest and well respected gambling operations and poker rooms in the United Kingdom Ladbrokes has joined the Microgaming poker network. Microgaming one of the leading online gaming software companies, has consolidated other poker rooms Betway, BetOnBet, Eurolinx, GNUF, and Unibet to name a few, into it's stable of poker operations.

On Thursday, ABC News reported that Elizabeth Edwards is now threatening to sue her recently-seperated-from-husband's former campaign aid for "alienation of affection" -- a type of lawsuit so rare that only 7 states even allow it. Her argument for the suit is that Young's role in covering up Edward's affair with mistress Rielle Hunter (who Edwards allegedly proposed to this week) was in part responsible for the failure of the Edwards' marriage.

Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), right, is working on legislation that would legalize and regulate poker, mah-jongg and other online wagering. Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-Ala.), left, vows to oppose such efforts. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/associated Press) Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site.

Playing successful online poker these days is harder than it has ever been. Players are constantly improving their games, so a great player is now just an average player. Critical to success nowadays is bankroll management. With the game being much harder, our risk of ruin is much higher than it would have been a few years back.

Viva la vida, canzone tratta dall'album omonimo dei Coldplay . Continuando con un ritmo sostenuto potremmo rispolverare When love taks over, hit estiva del re di Ibiza David Guetta , che in questo pezzo si Parliamo ovviamente di Beyonc , che quest'anno ha fatto centro con almeno due singoli riempipista: la romantica Halo e l'ammiccante Single Ladies (il cui video, nella parodia di Justin Timberlake , Vale la pena ricordare almeno un'altra accoppiata di successi anche per Lady Gaga , la rivelazione trash dell'anno: le sue Poker face e Paparazzi forse non faranno la storia del pop ma di sicuro hanno fatto ballare tutta l'Italia.

Macao - has not only overtaken Las Vegas as the world's top gambling market, but its casinos are rebounding smartly even as gambling "remains stuck in America's recessionary mud," as Moody's Senior Vice President Keith Foley puts it. In October, Macau gambling revenue hit an all-time high of $1.59 billion after setting a record just two months earlier.

PARIS HILTON will ring in the New Year in style - her boyfriend DOUG REINHARDT has showered her with custom-made diamond jewellery. The socialite spent the festive season surrounded by family and friends in Los Angeles after ditching her traditional plans for a Christmas vacation. And she was stunned when Reinhardt joined her at home with a horde of lavish gifts - including sparkling gems from exclusive boutique The 14 Karats in Berkeley, California.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 23(Bernama) -- The signboard says it is an Internet cafe, but the premises is actually a guise for a gambling den. Ten such premises that are actually gambling dens posing as cybercafes have been operating at a public spot in the city for the past one year. A Bernama journalist, posing as a patron, who managed to gain access into four of the gambling dens in the past five months, found that the gambling dens have been operating freely and show disregard to the law.

With a baby named Carlos in tow and a tiger in the bathroom, good-timing "The Hangover" is one of those Vegas best-bet films, though not for an Oscar, just for an amusing couple of hours. "The Hangover" is the classic bachelor movie done right, complete with baby Carloses, stolen tigers, Mike Tyson, naked and angry Chinese men, and stripper marrying (a Vegas film wouldn't be complete without stripper marrying).

"Online gambling: is a controlled opening of the market still possible?" This question was discussed recently at length at the Maison de la Chimie in Paris. "The House of Chemistry" is an international conference center located near the National Assembly. The conference tackled other topics that related to internet gambling at casinos and in poker rooms in France.

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The deal was put on hold pending stockholder approval and in the interim another offer was made. SEC guidelines required the company to consider the new offer and in late August, the WPT announced it had accepted it. This time the buyer was a subsidiary of PartyGaming, which also owns the online poker site PartyPoker The deal was similar to the Gamynia offer, except the subsidiary, Peerless Media Ltd., had agreed to pay $12.3 million for the company's assets and 5% of future gaming and other revenues.

FTOPS XIV. The 14th edition of the FTOPS (Full Tilt Online Poker Series) gets underway later today (November 4th). The series will kick off at 21:00 ET with a $200+$16 NLHE 6-Max event with a $1,000,000 guarantee. This tournament will be hosted by Allen Cunningham. There will be a total of 25 events and over $16 million dollars in guaranteed prize money in the series.

Newcastle United striker Marlon Harewood rivalled owner Mike Ashley for the title of least popular man at St James' Park on Saturday. The home fans were The Geordie fans have put up with a lot in recent months. They took it on the chin when their team were relegated from the Premier League and Ashley failed to sell the club or reinstate Alan Shearer as boss.

This week on The Poker Star the mantra of the show was "Composure" as players had to focus on maintaining their composure and avoiding the dreaded "Tilt". The Poker Star host Joe Hachem talked to the contestants about how he battled with tilt for many years, and that when he learnt to maintain his composure it made him a better poker player and a better person. The challenge involved the two teams building a "house of cards" our of oversized playing cards.

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Gospel singing Abundant Grace Ministries Church, 9239 E. Holmes Road, hosts the Almost Famous Gospel Singing Jubilee at 7 tonight featuring the Almost Famous Crains and the Justified Jug Band. Call (901) 299-8831 or (662) 349-3822. St. Mark's United Methodist Church, 8255 Winchester Road, will have a gospel singing Saturday at 4 p.m.

The event is set to take place on Sunday, October 11th and run until Thursday, October 15th in Mayfair, London at the Palm Beach Casino. There are a few major changes in this year's event starting with a new location. Players will start out with three times more chips then last year and now there will be eight seats in the heats and only seven players at the final table.

Leading online poker site FullTiltPoker.com is giving players the chance to win $50 in cash alongside double points all this month courtesy of its special Take 2 promotion. Beginning today and running until September 30, players competing daily on at least two real-money ring game tables at FullTiltPoker.com will earn bonus cash based on the number of days that they have participated.

The online poker site's official blog denoted over a dozen new additions to Party's poker client ranging from updates to the lobby to new features when a player is disconnected. Here is a rundown of some of the most noteworthy changes: There are two major changes regarding situations in which a player does not act in time.