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Gambling Awareness week is introduced for the first time in Connecticut. The new London County Citizens Task Force on addictions and state regulators from the southeastern area of the state will be host to this new event. The event will take place on May 13 to May 19. The first few days of the event will be held in Farmington and will deal with problem gambling. The remainder of the week will be allotted to raising the awareness of the rise in gambling addictions, and to explore the impact on individuals, families and the business sector, and to provide a clearing house of information and services to state residents. Andrea Stillman, a State Representative and Democrat for Waterford said, The fact is that problems {of gambling} have grown so dramatically since the development of the two casinos {in the state} the biggest state-sanctioned gaming is the lottery As much as we try and put some roadblocks in the way, in terms of underage purchases of lottery tickets, there's always a way to get them. A press conference held on Monday by Andrea Stillman and Colleagues Kevin Ryan {D-Montville}, Nancy DeMarinis {D-Groton}, Gary Orefice {D-East Lyme}, and State Senator Catherine W. Cook {R- Mystic}. Honoring Thomas Kirk, the commissioner of Connecticut's Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, for his efforts to recognize gambling as an addiction and to establish state gambling addiction services
As casino and gambling headlines sour around the world, Mexican legislators step up to end a 70-year-old ban on Casino Gambling in Mexico. A bill proposed by The Tourism Commission in the lower house of Congress, to legalize gambling, is in the works. In September legislators will convene for another round of discussions, and hopefully will start putting the final touches on the bill. Such a bill would help restore Mexico's Economy, which estimates that casinos could bring in $1.3 billion in revenue a year and $1 billion for the government in taxes and licensing fees. However, there are more issues involved in ensuring a successful base. Along side the bill, Mexico would have to implement a strong regulatory system that would be able to stop any foul play or money laundering in the casinos, and to ensure foreign investors of its trustworthy and reliable system. Frank Fahrenkopf, president of the American Gaming Association says that without a firm regulatory system, no American licensee is going to take a chance of jeopardizing their license in the States to open a casino in Mexico. As it stands today Mexico and Brazil are the only Latin countries that remain without resort casinos.
The rides proposed plan would drop riders down the Stratosphere Tower, across Las Vegas Boulevard and up a steel tower facing Paradise Road. Apparently, Stratosphere has conducted its own test already, showing no major impact to the area, but has not presented it yet to the city or neighboring locals. Towards the end of the week the Las Vegas Planning Commission will convene on the matter. However, those opposing the proposal feel that its to soon to make a decision since ample time is needed to review the evaluation results. Ben Contine, a local resident says, The Stratosphere has asked us to completely accept on faith that an over 600-foot roller coaster is going to make almost no noise and create no traffic problems. Alarmco, an established business near Stratosphere, fears that the noise and vibration would hinder its monitoring equipment's performance. The company's attorney explains that, vibrations associated with the structure of the roller coaster or the noise created by the roller coaster could create false alarms of Alarmcos equipment.
I remember all those times that I found myself hiding in my own nest, cocooning my way from the corner newsstand to the coffee shop next-door. That's about as far as I got. As an artist, writer, and individualist, trying every which way to mark my own world and to beat society's norms, somehow I got easily sucked in. As a non-conformist conforming to a technological device, philosophy, way of life, if you will, and as I visualize this barricade of the masses hopping on the train at eight in the morning with laptops in their hands, gulping down cups of coffee destined for Wall Street or the new hi-tech district, I cringe. Whatever happened to those nice leather briefcases your father used to go to work with? The subway's relaxing transportation service has turned into a cattle call of hypnotic computerized chips hopping on and off of trains in distress. Society has become filled with remote control operating devices with no time to at least let the woman in first. What have we come to?As a kid in Junior High, I remember the first time a computer class became part of the school curriculum. I tried every which way to get out of it. Gym class seemed better. I just couldn't relate to it. There was nothing connecting me to this damn square box sitting in front of my face. Back then I didn´t give two royal asses about what the future would hold, especially if it had anything to do with computers. Unfortunately, I never paid attention to Mrs. Ruder while she was explaining how to insert your floppy and how to take it out. By the time I graduated high school, my younger siblings were already carrying their laptops to grade school. The new generation had sneaked into this new technological era as I sat on the sidelines and mumbled, It´s not going to get me. By the time College came around, homework assignments were piling up and I still advocated for the pen and pencil device and managed to survive. My birthday arrived and my grandmother decided to introduce the typewriter to me. I figured she knew I wasn't going to become as educated and skilled, and with a degree from Harvard that she was hoping for, but she tried. My paranoia set in, and I could only think about what her motive was implying. I won t mention the little story that went with it, and that during the depression secretarial school was society's tool for surviving into the future. As rebellious as I was I felt disjointed when it came to typing, and couldn't get my fingers to move that fast or to stay on the keyboard. Sometimes I think I got it from my mother, who wouldn't even attempt to sit down and type (hence the popularity of pen and paper I've been crowned to). She would always say that patience was not part of her personality and that her fingers were discombobulated. The gene was apparently passed on!I find myself hibernating in my mini-studio apartment, my social-life becoming unnoteworthy.It seems that people aren't out anymore hanging around street corners trying to pick-up some cute chick. Where has everyone disappeared to? As anti-social as I was, I was on a quest to find out where everyone was hiding.And then it happened, my parents got a computer and my younger sister started to use computer language in every conversation we had. And slowly the whole e-mail phenomenon entered into our daily life talk. An overheard conversation at Starbucks always seemed to end with, E-mail me, or I got your E-mail and so on and so on. The whole idea of keeping in-touch with people I didn't really want to see made me think about this ingenious idea that I was always trying to get around somehow. Many contacts I made in the past and the whole I'll keep in touch talk was just talk. In a way, this new concept was to my liking. Where as others feared the lack of communication and human contact that may perhaps affect society's relationships with people, finally my time came to become an online socialite as others around were becoming anti-social. Go figure!The new online Internet power tool to the future finally found its way into my world.The idea was haunting me, that I, an artist, a non-conformist fell for it.Technology created a new infinite world. In a way I was intrigued by the idea of being connected to the world. Talking to people from different cultures became less expensive then hopping on a plane for a few days when you just had enough and longed to hear and connect with other cultures. My idea of skipping town became settling in front of the computer until my eyes were ready to see the day of light again.Just when I thought men were injected with some kind of drug because they weren't standing on the corner picking up a babe anymore, I realized that the whole new online phenomenon became an industry in itself. Men no longer needed to wait on corners and put the charm on. Today they could be wearing hospital clothes and going farther with a woman then they would have if they were still hanging around the corner. The injection became a painless booster shot of chips taking you for a virtual ride. Today your fix is a click! And, the addiction became substantially cheaper.The new online world has made way to a robust diversity of industries online. The Entertainment and Gaming Online Industry has become one of the most popular sites today. I find myself always reaching some casino or gaming site. After a while my curiosity kicks in, and the pop-up banners succeed to wheel me in big time. My past tag-along trips to Atlantic City with friends I didn't really like, ended. The girl always staring at the psychedelic carpets and pretending to look busy at the slot machine has become an avid online gambler. What a headline, Artist turned avid gambler paves way for other artists. Who would have thought I would be playing blackjack or craps instead of watching Letterman. Well, to be fair to Letterman, he was always in the background as I was rolling the dice. So Dave, if you're reading this, you may have been my good luck charm. But, I think I deserve some credit, whether it was just because I crossed my fingers hard or prayed to god. All in all, I have created my own world amid this new virtual thriving industry. The icing on the cake is the virtual coins I managed to win. Take it from me, life's a gamble and anything is possible.Sometimes there may be something out there waiting for you even if it means dealing with a square box in front of you, or, as we know it, a computer.
On May 31, The Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort in Atlantic City will be host to The Howard Stern syndicated radio show. Howard Stern has planned a celebrity-boxing match featuring "Stuttering " John Melendez against "Crazy Cabbie". The event will be from 6a.m. to 10:30 a.m. during the show's regular hours and will be aired on the Entertainment channel later in the day. The Taj Mark Etess Arena holds around 5,000 seating places and expects to fill up very quickly. The show is taking the trip up to Atlantic City, due to the lobbying of Donald Trump himself." The owner of WJSE-FM 102.7, who broadcasts the radio show in southern New Jersey, said that, Howard and Donald are friends and that Donald called him a few times on the air and explained to him that the Taj is the premiere facility for fights on the East Coast". Males from the ages of 21 to 34 years of age in southern New Jersey listen heavily to Howard's show. Therefore, Atlantic City may be just the right venue for promoting the show, not that the show needs more promoting. Howard is more popular than ever. The Taj will also feature a comedy show by "Stuttering" John and Artie Lange, regulars on the show. At this point no ticket information has been posted yet, so stay tuned.
The jackpot mania boom has ripped through society's veins becoming an hysteria battlefield. As the expression goes. "money makes the world go round", and money can also make you spiral into a black whole of quick sand waiting to bury you under the ground. But ,we still dream about that one ticket that will make sure your life is good. Money seems to be the by-product we always seem to get at in the end. All aspects in life end up with a sum subconsciously dreaming its way into your piggy bank. Today's jackpot range pushes its way above a grasping imaginative point that is unlikely any one can deal with calmly, hence society's craze. Society's "the bigger the better" idea has sexually aroused people into believing that simply, the bigger the better, is better. And so a million dollars becomes a hold on a ticket until the jackpot reaches thirty million dollars. I am sure many of us have waited to buy a ticket, saying, "I'll wait until it's really worth my while to play. Like a million dollars won't do it for you. People are deceived into thinking that the "bigger the better" idea can also be applied here, which is not true at all. The bigger the jackpot the less chance you have of winning. It is a logical probable theory that the more money in the jackpot the odds of winning are slim. Many sites and pop up banners are on an advertising and promotive mission to sway you in with huge number tactics. Our naivety seduces us to click on the huge number, however we never seem to see the big bucks rolling in. My advise to you is to stay away from big jackpots and play for a little bit less. Anyway, it is more than what you started out with. From here on all you need is a little faith and a little luck and you won't be dreaming anymore. Remember you may find that good luck charm the ticket to your big win.
At a news conference in Biloxi, Mississippi on Wednesday, Casino World, Inc., affiliated with Europa Cruises, unmasked its new design plans for a new luxury casino project. The planned site is located in Hancock County's Diamondhead area and is about 404-acres. Steve Norton, the advisory board president, says that, "this is the kind of property everybody dreams about. It is a premier site for ease of access." The preliminary plans for the luxury resort will have a "Frenchesque " colonial casino motif, a marina, and an 18-hole golf course. Further design plans include an RV park, restaurants, an outlet mall, four non-gaming hotels, condominiums and a regional convention center. However, no definite construction dates have been decided on yet. . Deborah A. Vitale, the Casino World president, said that the recent arguing wouldn't hinder funding issues for the company. "We are light years ahead of where we were. All of our resources are now dedicated to proceeding full-speed ahead with this project". It seems that casinos are changing their ways and are going for a more entertainment-oriented atmosphere.
In a gambling expansion plan approved by the State of New York last year, a few more Indian casinos in the Catskills will join in on this new expansion development. Last week, a new deal approved by the state gave the Seneca Indian Nation a green light to start building casinos in Buffalo and Niagara Falls. Due to lost revenue after September 11, the state's gambling expansion plan may be just the ticket to boost up the state's economy. Mike Memmo, a supporter of the plan says, I think it will create jobs not only for us but for non-Indians. It will boost money and trade in the area for everyone." Cyrus Schindler, the Seneca President, says that the project will generate a $2billion to $3billion profit for the tribe, the state will enjoy an 18% to 25% profit from slot machines, and local metropolis will expect a 6.25% profit from the state's share. With the new expansion project at hand, six new casinos, video-betting terminals and along with joining the multi-state Power ball lottery, the state hopes to collect $1 billion dollars annually within three years.
Last week Tracey Ann Henderson, a 32 year old with a past history in gambling debt, found herself facing the law. Miss Henderson pleaded guilty to fraud charges in the county court, admitting to having stolen $374,000 from her employer AFL after owing The Crown Casino in Australia a large sum of money. She told investigators that after she had joined the Crown's big spenders' club she concocted false invoices for non-existent services to the AFL membership department where she worked as a manager. Henderson said, "It wasn't until I hit the Mahogany Room that my $800 from a friend became playing with $50,000 in front of me." The prosecutor presented hard evidence to Judge Elizabeth Curtain. It showed a pattern of frauds by using bogus E-mails suggesting to be from a client who was owed money, after being stripped of assets in the beginning of 2001. The plea hearing is currently continuing.
As Wednesday's government deadline approaches to halt doing business with indicated auditor Arthur Anderson LLP, two casino companies have already changed accounting firms and two other casinos will follow suit. In a government securities filing, MGM Mirage revealed that they already made the switch from Anderson to Deloitte & Touche. Harrah's Entertainment Inc. said they did the same a few weeks ago. Frederick Kraus, Sands Casino general counsel, said that GB Holdings Inc., the owners of Sands Casino Hotel, are already in the process of hiring a new auditor. This was stated last week at a board meeting. Along with Sands Casino, Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts Inc. plan to employ a new auditor by mid-June. This was disclosed in a federal securities report last week. Due to the ongoing investigations of Anderson's firms obstruction of justice charge in the Enron Corp., the Casino Control Commission decided to banish Anderson from the present arena, declaring a May 15 deadline to "stop doing business" with Anderson. The firm is now waiting trial in Houston, and no definite disclosures expect to be reached any time soon.
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