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The Perth Coroner's Court has been told people are effectively doing human drug trials on themselves by consuming unknown chemicals purchased over the internet.

The comments were made at the inquest into the death of mine worker Mark Dahlenburg, 41.

The court heard he purchased a stimulant powder referred to as DMAA online for $29.

He consumed half a teaspoon and suffered a cerebral haemorrhage.

It is understood fellow workers introduced him to the substance because they believed it would not be detected in routine drug testing.

Read More: Internet drug buyers gambling with life: inquest - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Reality-television shows are always trying to get a leg up on the competition and the folks at Dancing With The Stars are no different. They’ve brought out a cast of your favorite stars from previous seasons with six former winners.

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Season 5 champion Helio Castroneves, the charismatic IndyCar driver is the favorite according to Bovada Sportsbook odds makers at 9/2 and the three-time Indy 500 champ has shown that he has what it takes to win over the fans, who absolutely loved him during his stint on the show. But the odds are stacked heading into the 15th season of Dancing With The Stars as Olympic speedskater Apolo Anton Ohno (5/1), Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson (6/1), NFL Hall of Famer Emmitt Smith (6/1, and former boy-band members Joey Fatone (NSYNC, 7/1) and Drew Lachey (98 Degrees, 7/1) are all in the running. None of these celebrities finished lower than second in their season. In fact, Fatone was the only one to fail to win as he finished second to Ohno in Season 4.

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Helio Castroneves 9/2
Apolo Anton Ono 5/1
Shawn Johnson 6/1
Emmitt Smith 6/1
Joey Fatone 7/1
Drew Lachey 7/1
Kelly Monaco 15/2
Kirstie Alley 10/1
Giles Marini 10/1
Melissa Rycroft 12/1
Bristol Palin 15/1
Pamela Anderson 25/1
Kyle Massey/Sabrina Bryan/Carson Kressley20/1

Soap star and Season 1 winner Kelly Monaco (15/2), actress Kirstie Alley (10/1), actor Giles Marini (10/1), reality-television actresses Melissa Rycroft (12/1) and Bristol Palin (15/1), actress Pamela Anderson (25/1) are also on the cast while fans will pick one out of the trio of actor Kyle Massey, pop singer Sabrina Bryan and another reality-TV personality Carson Kressley (all at 20/1). All of the participants are familiar to the show’s fans, which will bring some familiarity to the table. Most of the contestants were well-liked as well as surprisingly talented. This could be the best season of Dancing With The Stars we’ve seen to date.

Internet gambling, which could bring casinos to every home, office or smartphone, has moved from the periphery of Maryland's debate over expanded gambling to center stage.

Speaker Michael E. Busch informed Democratic members of the House of Delegates on Wednesday that Internet gambling should be among the topics explored in next week's special legislative session. And Thursday, a spokeswoman for Gov. Martin O'Malley gave the proposal a little more momentum when she refused to rule out inclusion of Internet gambling in an overall casino expansion bill.

"There have been conversations about it," said Raquel Guillory, O'Malley's communications director. "Nothing is final yet on the bill. It's a work in progress."

Read More: Internet gambling takes its place at the table - baltimoresun-com

As more states legalize online gambling, game developers are considering the opportunity to reach a new market.

Brick-and-mortar casinos aren't going anywhere anytime soon, but states are starting to realize the potential of online gambling as a source of revenue. Nevada, Washington D.C., and Delaware already allow people within the state to gamble online and other states are considering loosening laws around online betting to bring in business.

Some critics initially dismissed the plans for online gambling as small potatoes in terms of revenue. Projected incomes from legalizing online poker were small compared to massive state deficits.

But poker is only the tip of iceberg for online gambling potential.

Video game developers are already considering moving into the online gambling field including, according to Business Week.

Famous Casinos are also cashing in on the web trend by making an internet counterpart to their casinos to attract new customers and keep existing ones coming back in the virtual space.

Read More: Legal Online Gambling = Money on the Table? | Reuters

Cash-hungry states have long tried to poach business from one another. Now many are stepping up their efforts to lure gamblers from their neighbors to their growing ranks of slot machines, leaving states like Delaware, which embraced gambling early, struggling to keep up in what has become a feverish one-armed-bandit arms race.

Gambling revenue accounts for more than 7 percent of Delaware’s general fund budget, making it the state’s fourth biggest revenue stream, ahead of its corporate income tax and gross receipts tax. But when new casinos in Maryland and Pennsylvania began to attract the gamblers who once fed quarters into Delaware’s machines, the state acted. First it legalized a form of sports betting. Then it allowed table games including blackjack, craps and roulette. But its gambling revenues have continued to fall.

Read More: www-nytimes-com/2012/08/03/us/gambling-boom-leaves-states-struggling-to-catch-up-html

In 2006 the United States of America shredded the online gambling industry by implementing the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. This act caused extreme economic damage to the small Caribbean island nation of Antigua and Barbuda. Now the government has approached Pascal Lamy the Director General of the World Trade Organization, in an effort to achieve a compromise with the United States on fair compensation for their actions.

In 2004, the WTO agreed that United States laws regarding online gambling among other laws were in violation of USA’s international treaty obligations. In all that time the government of Antigua and Barbuda has not received any compensation and said that "it has been unable, despite sustained efforts, to either get the United States to comply with the WTO ruling or negotiate any reasonable compromise to settle the dispute".

Read More: Antigua Appeals to WTO to Resolve Online Gambling Dispute

She was a candle in the wind, and yet 50 years after her death, interest in Marilyn Monroe has never burned brighter.

She's the subject of new books that probe her short life and mysterious death; a Broadway musical about her forms the plot of NBC's drama Smash; Michelle Williams starred as her in last year's My Week With Marilyn and a documentary titled Love, Marilyn will debut at this year's Toronto International Film Festival.

She continues to influence fashion, femininity and sex, and while Lindsay Lohan still hasn't found someone who will let her play Marilyn in a movie, she did channel the starlet in a pictorial for Playboy -- the same magazine that featured a nude Marilyn in its first-ever issue.

With Sunday marking the 50th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe's death, we look at some of the landmarks in her life.

Read More: Marilyn Monroe's life landmarks | Celebrities | Entertainment | London Free Press

Key senators on the committee that handles casino-related matters rejected the notion of taking up the issue of Internet gambling during next week's special session, saying there isn't enough time to weigh the implications of a step that could, in effect, put slot machines in Maryland homes.

Four Democratic members of the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee, each a supporter of other forms of gambling expansion, said Friday that they are not prepared to sort through the complex issues surrounding online gambling in a session that is expected to last less than a week.

House Speaker Michael E. Buschtold House Democrats in an email Wednesday that they can expect to see Internet gambling on the table in the special session called by Gov.Martin O'Malley to consider allowing a Prince George's casino and table games.

Read More: Internet gambling: Senators reluctant to take up online games - baltimoresun-com

Charlie Barrett, President of DHS Holding Company (pinksheets😄HSM), proudly announces that DHS Belize Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of DHS Holding Co, has received its Online Gaming License. On August 1, 2012, the Government of Belize certified that DHS Belize Limited has been approved to operate an Online Gaming business.

Mr. Barrett stated, "This is a major accomplishment for our company, and solidifies everything DHS Holding Co has worked so hard to achieve."

Mr. Barrett went on to say, "This license approval sends a clear message to the investment community that there are good companies still trading in the penny stock market with great growth potential. These are very exciting times."

CEO Michael Rohling will be in Nevada this month, meeting with key executives in Las Vegas to discuss assembling a management team for the Cenote Falls Online Casino.

Mr. Rohling stated, "Experienced management and key personnel are crucial for the future success of the online gaming division of our company."

Read More: DHS Holding Co Is Granted Online Gaming License - MarketWatch

When Rhode Islanders go to the polls in November, they’ll be asked for the second time in six years whether to allow casino gambling in the state. Surveys indicate they’re likely to say yes, clearing the way for Twin River and Newport Grand to become full-fledged casinos.

The New York Times’ Michael Cooper has an interesting article examining the gambling landscape up and down the East Coast, and raising questions about whether there’s enough demand to merit the industry’s continued expansion:

The rapid expansion of gambling, as recession-wracked states have searched for new sources of money, has transformed the industry. States that once enjoyed near-monopolies on gambling … have been suffering the most in the new casino-dotted national landscape. …

Read More: Are casinos nearing saturation? And is online gambling next? | WPRI-com Blogs

The U.S. is losing billions of dollars in gaming revenue and taxes due to restrictions on unregulated online gambling hosted offshore. As the Great Depression lead the way for legal gambling in Nevada in 1930, the Great Recession has seen many financially challenged governments relax restrictions on land casinos, as well as online and mobile gambling.

In addition, according the Juniper Research, social gaming, driven by the popularity of smartphones and tablet devices is projected to generate $100 Billion in revenue by 2017. Following the clarification by the U.S. Justice Department that the UIEGA online gambling ban only applies to sports betting, a state-by-state race to regulate online gambling in the U.S. has begun.

Geo-fencing via smartphones is the key technology to ensure regulatory compliance. Land casinos, social gaming networks, racetracks, and gaming device suppliers are scrambling to gain market share in the emerging world of global gaming convergence.

Read More: The Golden Age Of Gaming - Seeking Alpha

Pounding out the details of his personal life on a Broadway stage doesn't seem to faze Mike Tyson. The former heavyweight champ says that's what he's used to doing, "and at least now I don't have to go to hospital every time."

The 46-year-old Tyson is appearing in the one-man show, "Mike Tyson Undisputed Truth." Directed by Spike Lee, the nearly two-hour show chronicles Tyson's life from childhood and his early boxing career to his public divorce from Robin Givens and his time spent in prison. He even talks about an incident with Brad Pitt.

"I'm just joking and stuff. I'm not mad at anyone. I hope he gives me a damn job," Tyson said when asked about the incident. The boxer spoke to The Associated Press Thursday, the same day as the show's opening. Lee chimed in: "He asked for a job."

Read More: People & Entertainment Ex-boxer Mike Tyson gets very personal in his one-man show | The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram

THE continuing difficulties of UK bookmaker Ladbrokes with its digital arm show just how difficult it is to get online betting right.

Last Thursday, Ladbrokes announced it was parting company with Richard Ames, the head of its digital operations following a halving in first-half profits from online and mobile phone gambling to just £15m.

A mere one-seventh of Ladbrokes' total first-half operating (pre-interest) profits of £107m came from online. This compares with the more than four-fifths of Paddy Power's profits that come from online and telephone betting.

With an ever-increasing proportion of gambling being conducted online rather than in traditional bookies' shops, Ladbrokes' very existence depends upon it cracking digital. The axing of Mr Ames means Ladbrokes is effectively conceding its efforts to develop its own online technology in-house, on which it has spent an estimated £50m, have failed.

Read More: Ladbrokes desperate for an online deal - Technology, Business - Independent.ie

Fearing they may get left behind in the rush to expand legalized gambling to the Internet, more U.S. Indian tribes are lining up to back online poker and are angling for new ways to cash in.

Consider the Tulalip Tribes in Washington state: Eight months ago, tribal Secretary Glen Gobin told Congress the tribe opposed any kind of Internet gambling, regarding it as a threat to its two casinos. But on July 26, he told a Senate panel that tribes "must have equal footing to participate" and that Congress should consult with them before junking a 2006 ban on online gambling.

"Glen is a realist," said W. Ron Allen, the chairman of the Washington Indian Gaming Association, which represents 27 federally recognized tribes.

John Pappas, the executive director of the Poker Players Alliance, a lobbying group that represents 1.2 million members across the country, said it was "definitely safe to say that the tribes' position is evolving on a federal solution."

Read more here: More Indian tribes ready to back Internet gambling - Wire Politics - The Sacramento Bee

The United Kingdom is home to many bookies that situate themselves on the corners of cities all over the nation with hopes of attracting the bettors who prefer to go down to the shop and place their wagers personally. With the advent of internet wagering the personal touch is being replaced by the touch of a button making bets just a click away.

The more iconic bookies in the U.K. such as Ladbrokes which has been a favourite for ages are trying their level best to get the online ball rolling some with limited success. William Hill Online has broken through as well as Ireland’s Paddy Power which now claims that four fifths of its wagering income is now derived from internet and telephone betting.


Read More: www-online-casinos-com/news/news0511547-asp

International rap superstar Flo Rida and his management have been ordered to pay more than $400,000 to the organisers of Newcastle's Fat As Butter festival over his notorious no-show at the event last October.

The 32-year-old singer, whose real name is Tramar Dillard, infuriated 11,000 fans at the $110-a-ticket event when he told organisers, minutes after he was due to go on, that he would not be performing.

"Flo Rida has slept in and will not be able to make the concert," organisers told the waiting crowd.

Read more: Flo Rida ordered to pay $400,000 for no-show

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Facebook is venturing into the world of online gambling with the launch of its first application where punters can stake real money.

Starting on Tuesday, Facebook will offer users in the UK aged 18 and over the opportunity to play online bingo for cash prizes. Slot machine games will be added in the coming weeks.

State lawmakers are expected back in Annapolis by the end of the week for a special session to deal with expanded gambling legislation.

Governor Martin O'Malley called for the session to start on Thursday.

Members of the Senate will convene that day. Members of the House of Delegates will return on Friday.

Legislative aides believe the session will continue into next week.

Any gambling expansion must also be approved by voters.

If the bill is to be on the ballot in November, lawmakers have to approve a bill so that the state elections board can finalize ballot language by an August 20 deadline.

Read More: No Gambling Bill Yet As Special Session Nears | Baltimore News | WBAL Radio 1090 AM

MAKE no mistake: that thing you call smartphone that you carry in your pocket or purse wherever you go is less mobile phone and more portable computer. Sure, it can still perform the basic tasks that you’ve come to expect from a mobile phone since it achieved ubiquity over the last decade—such as making calls, sending text messages, setting an appointment with your life coach—but the smartphone has become many things to many people beyond these.

Surveys show that consumers have taken to Internet browsing, social networking, watching movies and videos and listening to music on their smartphones. In addition, they increasingly take their own photos and videos and share these with friends and family through these mini-computers that are connected to their social network of choice (Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and so on). The mobile phone has definitely become more than just a tool for keeping in touch but a versatile companion for mobile entertainment.

Read More: Taking mobile entertainment to a new level