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Gambling bill has better odds. Senate President Sylvia Larsen, a Concord Democrat, never supported expanded gambling - until now. "There have always been other options," Larsen said. "The state has not been so desperate for revenue."

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The Obama Administration has had trouble with some of their appointments to positions of power after Republicans have placed holds on the appointees. That has caused a ripple down effect that now stretches into the debate over online gambling.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner granted a delay to the implementation of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act last December. That decision caused Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl to place holds on a half dozen appointees.

The Washington Post is reporting, however, that a meeting took place between Kyl and Geithner last month in which Geithner promised to not delay the UIGEA again. In exchange, Kyl released the holds on the six appointees.

That places much pressure on Representative Barney Frank and the dozens of other US lawmakers that are pushing for the UIGEA to be overturned. Although Frank has already introduced legislation to overturn the UIGEA, the House Finance Committee that Frank chairs has not yet marked up the Bill.

The six-month extension was granted at the end of last year, and it is set to expire on June 1st. If Geithner is indeed serious about his promise to Senator Kyl, then that only leaves a couple of months for Frank to push through his proposed legislation.

Financial institutions are ultimately responsible for enforcing the UIGEA when it takes effect, and they have been outspoken about the strain that will put them under.

Frank believes that people in the US should be allowed to spend their entertainment money however they wish. He also understands the billions of dollars in tax revenue that the US is leaving on the table by not regulating Internet gambling.

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Bodog online casino joined the new games race this week with the announcement that it has added more than 20 new casino games to its already extensive offerings.

With new slots and video poker games like China MegaWild Slots and Face The Ace Video Poker, alongside a slew of specialty games like Jackpot7 and Bingo Scratch, Bodog-com has something for everyone, across all limits, high and low. :thumbsup


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A newly proposed law in New Jersey could allow the state's licensed casinos in Atlantic City to offer internet gambling to residents within state lines. New Jersey House Bill 2570, introduced into by Senator Raymond J. Lesniak this month, would enable New Jersey residents to place wagers on casino games, including poker, via the Internet.

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With many rumors abound, the likely result is that the UIGEA will be implemented on
June 1st, but it will be one of those laws that is seldom enforced. The US banking
industry will likely complain that they cannot police all of their transactions, and
the US government will be put into a position where they’ll need to change the law.

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Having legalised internet gambling this year, Estonia has now begun blocking online casino and poker websites without Estonian licenses from operating within their market, as part of a two tier strategy to implement the country’s new Gambling Act.

Estonia initially took the decision to legalise online gambling so as to help out its badly battered economy, which had fallen by 36% following the 2008 global economic crisis.

However, in order to protect its fledgling online gaming market, Estonian players are only able to gamble using locally licensed online gambling sites until 2011, when the whole of Estonia’s internet gambling market will be opened up to foreign investors.

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Manne wrote: Growing signs that Google is on the way out of the world's biggest Internet market have prompted a series of angry broadsides in the Chinese state media, accusing the U.S. Web giant of politicizing the censorship dispute.

Google.cn has about 35% of China's search market.


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Good for them; censorship to that extent should not be allowed
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A bill to allow expanded gambling in the state —- including video slot machines and table games at Rockingham Park in Salem —- passed in the Senate yesterday.

Senators voted 14-10 in favor of the legislation, which now heads to the House of Representatives. The bill calls for licenses for slots and table games to be made available to Rockingham Park, two dog tracks, and a golf resort in Hillsborough County. The bill also calls for video slots at two undetermined locations in the North Country, one in Coos County and the other in Grafton County.

(I think its chances in the House are as good as they have ever been) :thumbsup
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This morning I found a beautiful Husky. White with crystal colored eyes. He had a collar but no tags. I went to my complex office to see if another resident had reported a lost dog. He was such a sweet, well mannered dog that I knew someone was missing him 😔

I woke up my husband to "babysit" this dog while i ran to the store to get somethings we would need to care for it while we looked for his owners. $30 later I come home. I feed and water the dog, then take it out to potty.

Then I post an ad on craigslist and hubby calls the animal shelter. Then I get the idea to run to a vet and have him scanned for a microchip... no luck.

So now I have this beautiful dog about 1 year old and "intact". reat of the morning and afternoon go by and darn it im in love with the doggy. Start thinking of names for him. Huskies are my breed of choice. Our sweet husky Alaska had to be put down back in November and didnt want another dog again right away. But he found me and i was falling in love 😔

Then... at about 9:30 tonight the phone rings. The owner of the dog had called the animal shelter and they gave them our number. It was his dog and I had to let my new found friend go.

The guy didnt have the $ to reimburse me but I still let him take everything I had bought.

Im gonna miss that little guy

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Manne wrote: When Rose Gruber first started talking to teens about gambling, she'd ask how many of them had gambled and get one or two hands.

That was 10 years ago. Today, it's an entirely different story.

"Now I go in and ask how many have played poker, and usually it's 85 percent if not more," said Gruber, executive director of the Wisconsin Council on Problem Gambling. "When I ask how many do it regularly, again that's a pretty high number — well over 50 percent usually."

The Council on Problem Gambling is holding its 12th annual conference at Blue Harbor Resort and Conference Center.

The conference, which started Thursday and runs until today, brings together state and national experts on problem gambling with treatment providers, recovering gambling addicts, family members, representatives from schools and the legal system for education about the variations of problem gambling, Gruber said.

In Wisconsin, between 5 and 7 percent of adults are considered problem gamblers, and an even higher number — possibly up to 20 percent — of teens fit that description, Gruber said.

That equates to about 330,000 people.

"Teens, we tend to see them sports betting, a lot of poker playing, Internet gambling," Gruber said. "Adults, they do all those things as well, but adults also do casino, lottery, sports betting."

Topics covered in the two-day conference include "Pathological Gambling is a Family Matter" and "Senior Gambling: Fantasizing About Magical Solutions."

Gruber said the point of the conference is education, and the hope that treatment providers and anyone else with an interest in problem gambling will look for ways to learn more. "It's really geared toward anyone who wants to learn more about the problem of gambling," Gruber said. "We're trying to do some teaching (for) therapists, how to deal with compulsive gamblers. I don't know that there is a solution."

The Council on Problem Gambling has been in existence since 1993, and its 24-hour help line was established in 1995. For more information, visit gamblers.org or call (920) 437-8888. The help line number is (800) GAMBLE-5 or (800)-426-2535.

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The "OpenDNS" link doesnt work manne, ty for this information though.
there are times we should all examine our motives for gambling..

'n even aside from that.
Take a good look at our gambling activity as a whole, on its own.
regardless of results, motives, justifications.

just the activity alone. and be aware, at the least, that there may be a problem.

Thats always the first step.
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After a vote of 14-10, the New Hampshire Senate yesterday passed a bill which would allow expanded gambling in the state and pave the way for slot machines and table gaming to be legal at harness racetrack Rockingham Park.

A report by The Eagle-Tribune states that bill, which will now head to the House of Representatives, allows slots and table gaming licenses to be made available for Rockingham Park, a pair of dog tracks, and a golf resort. The bill also calls for video slots at two undetermined North Country locations.

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Lawyers for an online gambling group filed a motion with the lower of Kentucky's two appellate courts to stop the state from seizing 141 gambling Web sites.

The lawyers for the Interactive Media Entertainment & Gaming Association in Washington filed the motion on behalf of Yatahay Ltd., which owns the rights to the domain name TruePoker.com, the association said. The filing with the state Court of Appeals came a week after the state's highest court found that two industry groups did not have a legal right to represent anonymous Web site owners in court.

But the Supreme Court ruling gave the owners an option of revealing their identities and confirming they're iMEGA members. Then the industry group could re-argue the case, The (Louisville, Ky.) Courier-Journal reported.

Yatahay's Web site says the company's "3D TruePoker software has been running real money online poker games continually since March 2001."

The site listed only an e-mail address for contacting the company late Thursday. The company did not immediately respond to a United Press International e-mail request for comment.

"We've overcome the technicalities that gave (Kentucky) their short-lived victory," iMEGA Chairman Joe Brennan said in a statement.

"The court can now make a decision based on Kentucky law," his statement said. "Based on the language of the decision last week, we know the court wants to do just that."

Association lawyers also moved to have the matter transferred back to the Supreme Court.

Kentucky filed suit to seize 141 gambling domain names, in part out of concern Internet wagering was hurting the state's horse industry, the Courier-Journal said.

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The CEO of the American Gaming Association (AGA) has revealed that he AGA is now "open to the concept of legalized internet gambling."

The association's president Frank Farhenkopf told Card Player magazine" we now believe that internet gaming can be properly regulated so long as there is a tough regulatory framework that is put in place."

“We would be open to looking at legislation that’s out there to see whether or not it provides the consumer protections that we think are so important.”

The AGA, which as recently as just over a decade ago opposed all forms of internet gambling has some of the most powerful casino companies in the world amongst its members — including Harrah’s Entertainment, MGM Mirage, and Las Vegas Sands Corp. It was formed in 1995 to give commercial casino industry a voice in Washington, D.C.

When Senator Jon Kyl first introduced a bill in 1997 that would’ve outlawed internet gambling the American Gaming Association initially came out against all forms of online gambling, citing a lack of available technology to properly regulate the industry.

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SycoSteve wrote: [FONT=Franklin Gothic Medium]Wonder if there is some connection between these stats, the (un)employment situation here in the US and the extension(s) of unemployment benefits. . . :confused:[/FONT]
[FONT=Franklin Gothic Medium]Wonder if there is some connection between these stats, the (un)employment situation here in the US and the extension(s) of unemployment benefits. . . :confused:[/FONT]

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Manne wrote: The CEO of the American Gaming Association (AGA) has revealed that he AGA is now "open to the concept of legalized internet gambling."

The association's president Frank Farhenkopf told Card Player magazine" we now believe that internet gaming can be properly regulated so long as there is a tough regulatory framework that is put in place."

“We would be open to looking at legislation that’s out there to see whether or not it provides the consumer protections that we think are so important.”

The AGA, which as recently as just over a decade ago opposed all forms of internet gambling has some of the most powerful casino companies in the world amongst its members — including Harrah’s Entertainment, MGM Mirage, and Las Vegas Sands Corp. It was formed in 1995 to give commercial casino industry a voice in Washington, D.C.

When Senator Jon Kyl first introduced a bill in 1997 that would’ve outlawed internet gambling the American Gaming Association initially came out against all forms of online gambling, citing a lack of available technology to properly regulate the industry.

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nice, a turn for the better. It really is too difficult to shut it down all together anyways in the usa.
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MyNemesis wrote: This morning I found a beautiful Husky. White with crystal colored eyes. He had a collar but no tags. I went to my complex office to see if another resident had reported a lost dog. He was such a sweet, well mannered dog that I knew someone was missing him 😔

I woke up my husband to "babysit" this dog while i ran to the store to get somethings we would need to care for it while we looked for his owners. $30 later I come home. I feed and water the dog, then take it out to potty.

Then I post an ad on craigslist and hubby calls the animal shelter. Then I get the idea to run to a vet and have him scanned for a microchip... no luck.

So now I have this beautiful dog about 1 year old and "intact". reat of the morning and afternoon go by and darn it im in love with the doggy. Start thinking of names for him. Huskies are my breed of choice. Our sweet husky Alaska had to be put down back in November and didnt want another dog again right away. But he found me and i was falling in love 😔

Then... at about 9:30 tonight the phone rings. The owner of the dog had called the animal shelter and they gave them our number. It was his dog and I had to let my new found friend go.

The guy didnt have the $ to reimburse me but I still let him take everything I had bought.

Im gonna miss that little guy

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Thats pretty cool. Hopefully you can get a dog like that in the furture.
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The European Union will soon make its customary rotation of the presidency. The current
President has done little to address the online gambling laws of the European Union. In
July, an official from Belgium will be the next President of the European Union and it is
likely that Belgium will work to clarify the existing laws with regard to online gambling.

(Belgium, Italy, and France have liberalized their gambling laws in order to allow operators
to offer online gambling to their citizens.)

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Today Party Gaming announced that it has agreed to provide online poker to PMU, the state controlled French bookmaker. PMU is in fact one of the largest betting operations in Europe. The deal is a multi-year agreement and is a major coup for the company.

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In sad news today, it is being reported that actor, filmmaker and artist Dennis Hopper is too frail to undergo chemotherapy treatment for his prostate cancer. To make matters wrose, 73-year-old Hopper filed for divorce in January and is in the middle of nasty divorce negotiations with his fifth wife of fourteen years, Victoria Hopper.

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