Party poopers eye unhappy hour

By GARY BUISO New York Post Party poopers eye unhappy hour Last Updated: 7:15 AM, April 29, 2012 Posted: 12:24 AM, April 29, 2012 Happy hour in the city could end if Department of Health policy party-poopers go ahead with a proposal to outlaw beer and booze specials at bars and restaurants, sources told The [...]

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Poker Pros Network Announces Official Worldwide Launch

The next generation in online poker features multiple rooms, generous incentives, and one convenient cashier. SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — (April 30, 2012) CMK Interactive Systems S.A. announced the official launch of Poker Pros Network , a unique platform that offers online poker players multiple rooms and options, including free-play, subscription-base, exclusive micro-limit, real-money, and [...]

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Supreme Court won’t revisit ruling against banquet server OT pay

By Cy Ryan (contact) Wednesday, May 2, 2012 | 12:29 p.m. CARSON CITY —  The Nevada Supreme Court has refused to reconsider its ruling that banquet servers at a Las Vegas Strip resort were not entitled to overtime pay. Steven Csomos sued in 2009 on behalf of food servers at the Venetian and other facilities, [...]

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Las Vegas Sands seeks to shut down alleged counterfeit website

Las Vegas Sands Corp. moved Tuesday to shut down what it says is a counterfeit website impersonating Sands’ home page. Attorneys for the hotel-casino giant filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against the unknown operator of the site. The website copies elements of Sands’ genuine website, shows photos of Sands’ properties like the Venetian and the [...]

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Nevada, Arizona lawmakers tout Interstate 11

By Steve Tetreault Stephens Washington Bureau Posted: May 1, 2012 | 2:44 p.m. WASHINGTON – Nevada and Arizona lawmakers are pressing Congress to designate an interstate highway link between Las Vegas and Phoenix. The cities, which have been among the fastest growing over the past decade, are now the only major metropolitan areas not connected [...]

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Insufficient Sleep Affects 30% Of US Workers

Written by Catharine Paddock PhD Medical News Today The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that 30% of the nation’s workers are sleeping under 6 hours a day, which is less than the 7 to 9 hours that the National Sleep Foundation recommends for healthy adults. To assess the prevalence of insufficient [...]

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Tragedy, suffering and pain are the new way of travel: ‘Dark tourism’ getting popular: study

AFP RELAXNEWS Published: Thursday, April 26, 2012, 11:43 AM Why do people visit former concentration camps? Or the site of a terrorist attack? Or former prisons? None offer the relaxing, lighthearted experience many of us have come to expect on vacation, but all have become accepted tourist destinations — and such visits are only increasing [...]

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Top Ways Mobile Users Stay “Connected” on Vacation

Personal Email, GPS & Keeping in Touch, According to Latest Mobile Survey A recent mobile survey conducted by Prosper Mobile Insights™ included 346 smartphone and tablet users from the SSI Panel who completed the survey on their devices. The survey was collected from 3/26 – 4/2/12. 164 respondents were male while 182 were female, and [...]

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Card Player Media Owner Launches New Website

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA–(Marketwire – April 23, 2012) - Card Player Media owner Barry Shulman today launches a new website, BarryShulman.com, highlighting his career highs, poker achievements, travel adventures and philanthropic endeavors. Shulman, a former poker world champion and double World Series of Poker bracelet winner, has signed with renowned poker agency Poker Players International and [...]

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Coastal Cities Summit

Leaders From Coastal Cities Across The Globe To Meet In St. Petersburg, Fla For Coastal Cities Summit St. Petersburg, Fla. (April 6, 2012) –Political, business and academic leaders from cities across the globe will meet in St. Petersburg, Florida for the 2012 Coastal Cities Summit. The conference, May 1 to 3, titled “Coastal Cities Summit [...]

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March PA Slot Machine Revenue Hits All-Time Monthly High

HARRISBURG, PA: The $233,147,479 in gross slot machine revenue at Pennsylvania’s casinos marked a record high for any month since legalized gaming began in November of 2006. According to the monthly report posted today on the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board’s web site www.gamingcontrolboard.pa.gov, that amount eclipsed the high previous month in July 2011 when gross [...]

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Caesars Entertainment Group Launches Updated Brand Platform and Visual Identity for Total Rewards Program, Developed by Siegel+Gale

Total Rewards Offers “More of What Members Want” LOS ANGELES, April 2012 Global strategic branding firm Siegel+Gale (http://www.siegelgale.com/) today announced the launch of strategic brand development work for Caesars Entertainment Corporation, the world’s most diversified casino-entertainment company. Siegel+Gale worked with Caesars to re-define the brand platform and visual identity for Total Rewards, Caesars’ award-winning customer [...]

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Federal Jury Convicts California Man of Cheating Casinos out of $1 Million in Line of Credit Scheme

U.S. Attorney’s Office LAS VEGAS—Following a two-week jury trial, a southern California man has been convicted of defrauding several local casinos of about $1 million by using recruits to obtain casino credit markers that were not paid back, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada. De Rong Shang, aka Jason [...]

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Bally Technologies And Aristocrat Technologies Team Up To Strengthen Business-To-Business Online Solutions

Leading gaming technology companies announce plans to combine online poker liquidity and share online slot content for the U.S. market LAS VEGAS, March 2012 — Two of the leading suppliers of slot games and casino- management systems in the United States, Bally Technologies (NYSE: BYI) and Aristocrat Technologies Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Aristocrat Technologies [...]

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Bally Technologies Hosts 550 Customer Users at 9th Annual Systems User Conference

Attendance Up 30 Percent at Pechanga Resort & Casino; Company showcases iVIEW Display Manager™ (DM), DM Tournaments™, and iGaming Strategies LAS VEGAS,  Bally Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BYI), a leader in slots, video machines, casino-management, interactive applications, and networked and server-based systems for the global gaming industry, hosted its three-day Systems User Conference 9 at Pechanga [...]

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Bally Technologies Introduces New Beach Boys Video Slots At Indian Gaming 2012

Company to showcase Bally Interactive solutions for mobile and online, along with host of Systems solutions designed to increase the guest experience LAS VEGAS, March 27, 2012 — Bally Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BYI), a leader in slots, video machines, casino-management, interactive applications, and networked and server-based systems for the global gaming industry, will have a [...]

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Solicitation of a Concession Contract Prospectus for Lake Mead

Solicitation of a Concession Contract Prospectus to Operate Guided, Interpretive Raft Tours in the Black Canyon and Marina Services at Willow Beach within Lake Mead National Recreation Area The National Park Service (NPS) has issued a prospectus soliciting for proposals in response to a business opportunity to operate Guided, Interpretive Raft Tours in Black Canyon [...]

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CBP Announces Proposal to Expand Filing of Joint Customs Declarations

WASHINGTON— U.S. Customs and Border Protection ( CBP ) will publish tomorrow a notice of proposed rulemaking proposing to revise its regulations concerning when members of a family residing in one household and traveling together on their return to the United States may make a joint declaration for all members of the family. CBP is [...]

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Secretary Salazar Announces $47 million in Historic Preservation Grants to States

WASHINGTON — Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar yesterday announced $46.9 million in historic preservation grants to the 50 States, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Territories, and three affiliated Pacific island states. The grants will enable the states to preserve and protect our nation’s historic sites without expending tax dollars. “National Preservation Grants invest [...]

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Women-only hotel floors tap boom in female business travel

(CNN) — Walk into a room on the 17th floor of Copenhagen’s Bella Sky Hotel and you’ll be greeted by soft rose and burgundy toned colors, fresh flowers, fruit smoothies, fashion magazines, and a bathroom stocked with exclusive products, including day and night moisturizers. This might not sound all that appealing to Joe in accounting [...]

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Lake Mead National Recreation Area = Visitors, Money And Jobs For Arizona And Nevada

Boulder City, Nevada – A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 7,080,750 visitors in 2010 spent $254,878,000 at Lake Mead National Recreation Area and communities in Nevada and Arizona near the park. That spending supported 2,452 jobs in the local areas. “The people and the business owners in communities near national parks have [...]

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Slot Technology and the Remaking of the Casino Industry

Containment and Virtualization Slot Technology and the Remaking of the Casino Industry Kah-Wee Lee. “Containment and Virtualization: Slot Technology and the Remaking of the Casino Industry,” Occasional Paper Series 14. Las Vegas: Center for Gaming Research, University Libraries, University of Nevada Las Vegas, 2012. ABSTRACT: This paper examines how the casino industry was transformed by [...]

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A New “ Golden Age of Travel ” Will Create Jobs Worldwide and Boost the Global Economy

Exclusive Study of Global Opinion Leaders Reveals that Travel Breaks Down Cultural Barriers and Promotes Soft Diplomacy. DAVOS-KLOSTERS, SWITZERLAND – In a global study released today at the World Economic Forum, it was revealed that international travel is considered even more important than the Internet, TV/movies, or political diplomacy at stimulating the economy and breaking [...]

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Sally M. Bixby Elected President Of 2013 Tournament Of Roses

Announces “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!™” as Theme for 2013 Rose Parade® presented by Honda          PASADENA, Calif. (Jan. 20, 2012) – In a ceremony yesterday, the Pasadena Tournament of Roses® Association’s Board of Directors confirmed Sally M. Bixby as President for the 2012-2013 Tournament year. Bixby will provide leadership for the 124th Rose Parade® presented [...]

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President Supports Bipartisan Plan in U.S. House to Help Increase Tourism

While speaking at Disney World today, President Obama expressed his support for bipartisan legislation introduced by U.S. Representative Joe Heck (NV-3) to help attract more international business travelers and tourists to America.  The Welcoming Business Travelers and Tourists to America Act (H.R. 3039) was introduced September, 2011 and currently has 35 cosponsors including 12 Democrats. [...]

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