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United StatesWe are Aicosu! A male and female team; couple cosplayers! We attend American convention all over the states and we are also available for commissions. Email: email@example.com Website: http://www.aicosu.com Tumblr: http://www.aicosu.tumblr.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Aicosu You can also find us on Youtube and DeviantArt under Aicosu! 日本語もできます!
CanadaYo ! ^_^ My name's Suzie. I'm a cosplayer for 4 years now. I am from Québec (Canada). I'm mostly known for my Kakashi cosplays, but I cosplay several other characters. All my cosplays are made by me. Hope to see you guys in conventions ! (: Facebook cosplay page : http://www.facebook.com/cosplaysuki Deviantart also : http://suki2711.deviantart.com/ Instagram : suki_cosplay
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CanadaHi! I'm kinda new to the cosplay community. I'm from Montreal and speak both French and English. My only cosplay so far is Shikamaru Nara [shippuden] in witch I have put a lot of work and I still will be improving it. I plan on maybe cosplaying: -Frodo Baggins from The Lord of the Ring -Yoyo from Jet Set Radio Future -Wan from The Legend of Korra Stay tuned! :)
United StatesI'm a Jack Sparrow impersonator in the Midwest part of the United States. I frequently attend conventions in Chicago, but I also travel out to the Northeast part of the US for events and other conventions. I have been impersonating Jack Sparrow for 2 years and have been doing costuming work for 5. Contact me on Facebook if you need Jack Sparrow for an event, photoshoot, etc. https://www.facebook.com/sparrowstyleimpersonation
TaiwanZORINKA was here!! I;m from Taiwan nice to meet everyone in world cosplay cheers ^^ 世界のコスプレでみんなに会いできてうれしい ยินดีที่ได้พบทุกคนในโลกคอสเพลย์ Yo soy de Taiwán, nice to meet a todos en el mundo cosplay aplausos my blog: http://album.blog.yam.com/zorinka facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000193755429&ref=tn_tnmn facebook fan page ^^: http://www.facebook.com/pages/CMD-Cosplay-Movie-Dreamer/173270542705183
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anyone NOT have a scheduled induction?
My doc won't induce before 42 weeks, but has talked about stripping membranes at 40+3. I am hoping to avoid that and going with acupuncture, massage, and lots of walking instead. I am due this Saturday and keeping my fingers crossed for a natural birth by 41 weeks!
Ask me about my lashes! www.missfitmakeup.com
It would be awesome if he came before that though. We feel that he'd be a completely baked baby at 41w3d.
Me (31) and DH (35) married since Nov. 2008
Elijah born May 2013
Trying acupuncture this week and hoping she comes around the weekend.
Seize Hope for Jack (3/2009)
Maggie Rose (5/20/13)
Being induced for my PIH/high blood pressure steadily getting worse, he's worried it'll turn into pre-ecclampsia....I was really hoping to avoid it, but he's set me up for the day literally before my due date, so it's not as bad as I was worried when they first diagnosed me with light PIH.
I'd love to be in your shoes. The only reason I have a scheduled induction is because I've developed some hypertension. Would much rather just wait it out and go into labor naturally....whenever that is.
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Speaking of fasting...
Stillwater. Good work on taking off the pounds.
Speaking of fasting, this is a book that I ran across when I was in England last year. It looks pretty good. It is called The Fast Diet, or alternately in Wikipedia as the 5:2 diet, because it involves eating regularly for 5 days, and fasting for two.
On those two days of your choosing you reduce your calories down to 600 per day. You can do any two days of the week - say Monday and Thursday. It mimics the old days of food scarcity for humans, and that helps your body to regulate its fat storage.
600 calories means you can have a couple eggs for breakfast; some nuts and fruit for lunch, and a salad for dinner. It is not such a long period that you give up on it - anyone can make it through one day of a meal like that. There are also other benefits, like making one aware of one's body. Nothing does that like hunger pangs. And you become grateful, not only for food, but for the miracle that is your body.
In the book, the author says he lost so much weight that his wife started to get worried about him, and make him scale his fasting days down to one day a week!
Good luck stillwater. Happy New Year, and keep up the good work.
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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State police on drunk driving patrol this St. Patrick's Day weekend
The holiday is commonly associated with the consumption of alcohol so state police, as a reminder, issued a news release cautioning people to not drink and drive.
"Your judgment is the first thing to be altered after consuming alcohol; therefore, have a plan to arrive alive before you begin drinking," according to the news release issued by Lt. Nicole Armaganian.
State police urge celebrants to plan ahead, choose a designated driver before drinking any alcohol, sign up for the local "safe ride" program or take public transportation.
Troopers, they say, are committed to ensuring safe roads across the state and will continue their efforts to reduce crashes during the holiday weekend.
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text: >> Winter 2004/2005 Responsible Gambling Issues & Information A source of news, views and trends Moving forward in spite of uncertainty In 2003, the government of the Australian state of New South Wales commissioned a report "to assess the effectiveness of existing and proposed gambling harm minimization measures." They looked to the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (PART I) of New South Wales, A PRIL 17 TO 20, 2005 FEATURE ARTICLE an independent economic regulator, N IAGARA FALLS , ON to undertake this widespread review. See pg 16 for details S hould there be daily cash limits for ATM withdrawals in gaming facilities? Should there be a requirement for 'natural light' in gaming areas? Should the spin on In 2004, the Tribunal released Gambling: Promoting a Culture of Responsibility, a report that wrestles with many key issues in the delivery I N S I D E of responsible gambling programs From the CEO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 electronic gaming machines be slowed and problem gambling counselling. Guest Editorial – William Eadington . . . . . 2 down? Should there be minimum Although it received relatively little standards for gambling counsellors? media coverage outside New South Card-Based Play Coming to Canada . . . . . . 5 Regulators, policy makers and Wales, the report is a thorough and From The Field: A Treatment Provider's gaming providers have to find answers practical analysis of more than 40 issues Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 to questions like these every day. For facing gaming providers and policy Canadian Partnership for Responsible most public issues there is rarely clear makers around the world. It also Gambling creates national collaboration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 and unequivocal evidence. There is illustrates effectively the potential for a lot of opinion, often well articulated. thoughtful analysis even in the absence Cross-Canada Snapshot: Horseracing in Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 There are often contradictory expert of definitive answers. views. The research, if available, is At more than 200 pages in length, Norway's Redesigned Gaming Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 usually limited. So where do these the comprehensive report examines contradictions and conflicting opinions each issue from many sides. Among a Around the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 leave the decision makers – the ones range of consultation strategies, the Queensland Responsible Gambling who have to set policies even with Tribunal visited many gaming sites, Teaching Resource Kit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 imperfect data? listened to industry and community A View from the U.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Discovery 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Continued on page 15 From the Chief Executive Officer A t the beginning of each year most people tend to reflect back on the previous year with some assessment and to look ahead with some optimism. Since this issue players with feedback about time and money spent, frequent reminders and even features that end play under certain conditions. This experimenta- As I was thinking about this issue I came across the following article written by Bill Eadington for a newsletter published by the Nevada tion with card-based access and Council on Problem Gambling. of Newslink is the first in 2005, I have play is of great potential significance. Because this discussion is so well been thinking about what progress All of Canada will be watching and put by Professor Eadington, we have has been made in 2004 in reducing learning from Nova Scotia once again. decided to reprint it in its entirety. the risk of problem/compulsive On the other side of the coin are The Responsible Gambling Council gambling. On both the positive and the technologies that can, potentially, is very grateful to Bill Eadington and negative side, I believe that technology facilitate gambling problems. While Carol O'Hare of the Nevada Council plays a key role. we debate the presence of ATMs on on Problem Gambling for permitting On the positive side, the Nova the gaming floor, new products have us to use this guest editorial. Scotia Gaming Corporation has begun emerged that could render the ATM Jon E. Kelly to actively assess the potential use arguments as irrelevant as the eight CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER of smart cards as a means to help track. I am talking about portable gamblers maintain control of their play wireless machines that allow you (see our related article on page 7). to tap into your bank accounts or Card-based access is more widely used credit right at the black jack table. and understood in Europe, especially It cannot be long before we see the Netherlands. The concepts, the technology enabling the slot pioneered by Mark Dickerson, can machine to accept your debit or have a range of benefits in providing credit card. GAMING DEVICES, ELECTRONIC MONEY, AND THE RISKS INVOLVED GUEST EDITORIAL using debit cards. This innocuous certainly changing its fundamental sounding change would have in effect character. In the first half of the 20th By William R. Eadington, PhD permitted every gaming device on century, a pay envelope was just that: the casino floor to be transformed into A worker would receive dollar bills I n May 2003, regulators in the State an ATM machine. Players would have and coins in his envelope on pay day, of Nevada were in the process been able to use their bank cards and it was up to him to disperse the of adopting changes to Regulation to directly access their checking money to the various outlets where he 14 dealing with "Manufacturers, accounts and transfer up to $1,000 would spend it. The balance – when Distributors, Operators of Inter-Casino per day from their accounts into the there was any – either went into his Linked Systems, Gaming Devices, gaming devices of their choosing. bank account, under the mattress, or New Games, Inter-Casino Linked The Gaming Commission decided to into the cookie jar. The supply of Systems, On-Line Slot Metering defer permitting this change until the money in those days was defined as Systems, Cashless Wagering Systems, ramifications are better understood. currency plus coin plus demand and Associated Equipment," when What can we say about this deposits – another term for checking it was pointed out that the draft proposed change? One mundane trend accounts. regulation would permit electronic we can all observe in our every-day However, currency and coins are funds transfers on gaming devices lives is that money is slowly but steadily being replaced by a wide 2 variety of new forms of electronic hand-paid jackpots, nor do money, such as credit cards, debit they have to soil their hands cards, smart cards, and electronic with the grime and grit that checks. Transactions are increasingly hours of coin play at a slot dominated by card swipes leading to machine would invariably debit or credit transactions, or by create. And soon to be gone computer-instructed electronic funds forever will be the plastic transfers for paycheck deposits, bill cups that players lug around paying, book buying, purchasing carrying their stakes or their airplane tickets, and the like. When winnings from one machine we do need cash, more often than to another. Furthermore, not we go to an ATM cash dispenser from the operations side, rather than to the bank teller to make these new systems mesh a withdrawal. well with player loyalty It is pretty obvious to see that we programs and data base management As a result of such public concerns, will never go back to the days of and analysis of player spending gaming regulators and casino compa- money clips and change purses, patterns. These bi-products have revo- nies have become increasingly aware not while these more convenient lutionized casino marketing strategies. of problem and pathological gambling alternatives are available. Now, almost Thus, the benefits of new technologies as both a social responsibility issue all the value we need for making related to slot machines and "new" and a public relations issue. There is desired purchases as we go about our money have been substantial. increasing consensus that addressing day-to-day business is contained in the However, because casinos are in this issue pro-actively is "the right and plastic cards we carry in our wallets the gaming business, and because ethical thing to do." It is also in the or purses, or in our bank accounts gaming is far more politically vulnerable industry's enlightened self-interest that can be accessed via computers than most other industries, the issue to be perceived as good corporate and the internet. of electronic money in casino citizens. Gaming industries are more This broad economic and social transactions cannot be treated in the likely to be treated with less respect trend has also occurred in the gaming same manner as it is elsewhere in than other industries over issues of industry in a variety of innovative and the economy, such as with buying taxation and regulation because many clever ways. Compared to the late groceries at the supermarket or for people – and many policy makers in 1980s, we initially saw a transition gasoline purchases. It is critically particular – view gaming either as away from old-fashioned "coin-in-the- important for the major actors around a vice or as a second-class industry. slot" machines to the next generation the gaming industry – casino companies, (Recent events regarding taxation of of gaming devices that relied primarily gaming machine manufacturers, and the casino industry in Illinois provide on bill acceptors. More recently, regulators – to understand what the an excellent illustration of this.) technologies have developed that risks might be of moving too quickly Furthermore, there is still not an utilize "ticket-in, ticket-out" systems on technologies that are becoming accumulation of good social science such as IGT's EZPay™ and Bally's increasingly common elsewhere research on the economic and social e-Ticket, or smart card systems such in the economy. benefits and costs of casino-style as the one offered by GRIPS GmbH. A primary concern regarding the gambling, so opponents to gambling These systems create clear cost spread of modern casino gaming is the can make outrageous claims and get efficiencies for the casino and a potential for negative and unintended away with them. Thus, if the industry number of conveniences for the player. consequences linked to problem and acts in a manner that appears to be Large amounts of coin no longer have pathological gambling. In recent years, overly predatory or exploitative with to be transported across the casino much of the political debate surround- respect to those customers who are floor to be fed through coin-counting ing the expansion of permitted gaming weak or vulnerable to problem machines. Change personnel no or liberalization of existing gaming gambling, then political backlash longer have to push around carts filled laws has centered on the question of with serious economic consequences with rolls of quarters or nickels or how such changes would affect the is not out of the question. dollar tokens. With the new technolo- incidence and severity of problem and This brings us back to the question gies, customers do not have to wait for pathological gambling. of electronic money and the gaming 3 industry. Certainly it would be a sales pitch that future convenience for players to be able to supporters of this transfer money from their checking technology might accounts into gaming devices with raise. First, there is their debit cards. A rational customer likely to be a differ- could eliminate having to go through ence in motivation more tedious processes, such as between developers cashing a check or visiting an ATM of such technologies machine, and then feeding bills into and the casinos a bill acceptor on the gaming device. where they would be Also, it would probably create some placed; there is much efficiencies for the casino because more to be gained by there would be less time lost related technology develop- to players making arrangements for ers than by casinos. Claims could be a result of public perceptions that they getting money into their machines. made by developers that having such – or the gaming devices they offer However, an immediate concern electronic fund transfer mechanisms to the general public – are creating from the problem gambling perspec- on gaming devices could actually significant problems related to excessive tive is that – because it would be so serve as a responsible gambling gambling behavior. In various jurisdic- easy for players to access their bank feature because they would limit ATM tions, ATM machines are prohibited accounts to add credits for play while withdrawals by individual players to from the casino floor because they in the heat of action – more players the prescribed limits, and thus serve allegedly make access to cash too easy might get themselves into trouble via as a loss limiting factor. Such claims for vulnerable customers. In Australia, excessive gambling. Players who are at best disingenuous, and at worst some states have restricted the size of might be prone to getting into trouble maliciously dishonest. If someone notes that are permitted to be inserted with their gambling could get even makes such claims, then policy makers into bill acceptors to no more than more deeply into trouble with this need to see them for what they are: $20. In Australia and Canada, there has feature. Though we do not know how attempts to hide what is possibly a been considerable discussion about severely this kind of technology would very dangerous feature under the re-engineering gaming devices to make affect problem gamblers, common guise of a benevolent claim. This them less prone to abuse by removing sense suggests it probably would have could very well be the gaming some of their attractive features. "Harm some – perhaps dramatic – negative industry's illustration of a wolf in minimization" strategies in general have consequences. sheep's clothing. suggested building safety features into For casinos, and for the gaming Defenders of this technology might gaming devices that purportedly would industry in general, the most important also say that this is merely another make them less harmful to vulnerable effect of introducing such new convenience for players. However, players. In South Africa in 2003, technology might be the damage it such a defense is going to be seen as Parliament considered passage of would do to the industry's reputation. very lame. It is also difficult to make legislation that would have placed Outside observers who do not have the case that players are demanding a variety of severe restrictions on the strong opinions about casinos one such a change. A reasonable predic- casino industry because of an increas- way or the other would perceive this tion is that, if such electronic fund ing belief that the industry – which to be a very predatory feature, one transfers were to be permitted, they was just legalized in 1996 – had whose primary purpose appears to be would create a public relations become a major contributor to the to exploit impulse play. There is one nightmare for the casino industry, as incidence of problem and pathological observation that can be made about well as a field day to opponents of gambling in that country. the perceived legitimacy of gaming the gaming industry. Of course, there is virtually no industries: The closer the player's It is important to watch what is research to support whether or not bank account is to the game offered, occurring in other jurisdictions around the less legitimate the industry will the world to gain an appreciation appear to be. of the precariousness that gaming Continued on page 13 It is useful to anticipate the kind of industries might find themselves in as 4 Card-based play soon to be a reality in Canada By Carol Gravelle positive influence on players' attitudes a Player's Card could also be pro- and awareness. The mandatory grammed using biometrics according R esponsible gambling programs are a priority for many gam- bling operators. However, by navigating through a diverse selection of responsible gambling measures, cashout had a neutral impact. From the recommendations on that project and as a result of research on additional features came the suggestions that the to Techlink. Although this technology may not be incorporated in Nova Scotia, the card could be used in conjunction with a player's biometric Province develop a way to assist finger scan to make a biometric many operators are finding it difficult players manage the amount of money signature. The signature could then to know which measures are likely they spend (i.e. focus on money be assigned to a Player's Card and be to be effective. The latest measure to spent rather than time spent). issued to the player to use only hold promise is card-based play: a new With this information in hand, in the jurisdiction providing access and innovative way to help players the NSGC signed an agreement with to gambling devices to responsible manage their play. For the first time in Techlink Entertainment, a technology gambling features. Canada, card-based play may soon be company located in Sydney, Nova For now, the NSGC is in the testing a reality. The Nova Scotia Gaming Scotia, to field test a unique and phase of having a card work in Corporation (NSGC) is set to launch a innovative responsible gaming device connection with the responsible pilot program in the Spring of 2005 to (RGD). With a focus on the commer- gaming device's features, contained in test and obtain further information cialization of the technology, Nova a separate console. The console would about the effectiveness of a card-based Scotia Business Inc. also joined the be attached to an electronic gambling system in a Video Lottery Terminal agreement and is providing Techlink machine, like a VLT. NSGC is looking (VLT) environment. with $2 million to adapt and refine to assess player attitudes and behaviour In May 2001 the NSGC began the device technology through impacts as a result of using these types to equip its new VLT's with four further testing. The device prototype of features. Based on the findings, responsible gaming features (RGFs). incorporates the use of a card to NSGC will evaluate how best to The features on the new terminals provide players with responsible proceed in the long term. The card included: gambling features including: and device are expected to be ready 4 Permanent clock to remind players for a field test in March/April 2005. 4 Cash Limits. Through this feature, of the actual time of day. The responsible gaming device was players set their own spending unveiled in November by Techlink. 4 Cash vs. credits on terminal displays limits for specified time periods The two agreements are expected to to indicate amounts wagered in help Techlink further develop and 4 Account Summary. The responsible dollars instead of in credits. commercialize its responsible gaming gaming device can provide players with their historical spending by technology and also help NSGC in 4 Pop-up reminders on terminal providing details on total money obtaining solid research upon which displays after 60, 90 and 120 wagered, money won and lost to to base future decisions. minutes to advise players how long serve as a reality check for players. This card-based program by the they have been playing and to ask NSGC is unique because it would if they wish to continue playing. 4 Self-exclusion. This feature can introduce the first known concept of 4 Mandatory cash out is a VLT feature enable players to specify when he/ a player card into a video lottery that forces players to cash out their she would like to be limited from environment in Canada. The world winnings after 150 minutes of gambling. This feature can be set by is watching. continuous play. the player for a specific period such as certain days, entire months, etc. Carol Gravelle is a Project Coordinator, Research completed on the effec- Communications, with the Responsible tiveness of these features indicated Interestingly, such an innovative Gambling Council. all, except mandatory cash out, had a card, dubbed the 'smart' card or even 5 From The Field: A Treatment Provider's Perspective Ready or Not, Give Us a Call By Bonnie Orvidas, BA, RSW, CGC bus, our 100 interior bus ads and our rotating billboards. The faces of F or the past two years, Problem people with a cross section of age, Gambling Services of Addiction gender and ethnicity added appeal Services of Thames Valley to the bus. We avoided gambling in London, Ontario has been taking symbols because we wanted to innovative approaches to raise the do no harm. profile of our service and deliver On June 8, 2004, we launched important prevention messages. our campaign with guest volunteers, First we developed our purpose: clients, friends and colleagues outreach, awareness and prevention. from across Southwestern Ontario. Our target audience was just about We were honoured that so many being presented to youth in grades everybody from all walks of life agencies attended, as well as repre- 5 and 10. Gambling awareness, signs and all ages, and whose interest in sentatives from the Responsible and symptoms, and how to get help problem gambling might be personal Gambling Council and the Ontario for oneself, friends or family are the or societal. We decided on two tag Lottery and Gaming Corporation. focus. Younger kids play simulated lines: Ready or Not, Give Us a Call We gathered at our office where we scratch tickets with prevention/ and Wherever You're At, We Can cut a yellow caution tape ribbon awareness messages while secondary Work With That. They were a perfect that had been tied around the bus. school students completing their fit with our agency's Stages of Then we all hopped on and, with required volunteer hours create Change approach. We are thankful well known gambling tunes blasting and act in prevention/ awareness to Dr. James Prochaska whose from a boom box, we rode to the videos played daily during school lectures inspired us. market square where more well announcements. Our goal is to Our initial project was the creation wishers joined us for speeches, establish a presence in the schools of ads at the Rainbow Cinemas. For displays and a giant cake replica of where we will offer counselling to the past two years, this twelve-screen the bus. Passers-by were happy to problem gamblers and their families movie theatre in downtown London accept a piece of cake and a fridge on-site. As of January, 2005 we have has been running education and magnet with an outreach message presented to 1,986 students, and prevention messages every ten minutes on it, as well as our cardboard by the end of May, we project between movies, seven days a week. mini-buses, which contained eight a total of 4,425 young people will Trivia and true and false games create tools and tips promoting responsible have learned a little more about audience involvement. gambling. problem gambling. Our next project was a city bus and By January, 2005, we had received We are grateful to our corporate billboard campaign. We focused on 25 new clients as a result of seeing partners with a social conscience: specific outreach messages: Gambling our bus, bus ads or billboards. Many Rainbow Cinemas, Listoe Bell Can Cause Problems; Problem more new clients have mentioned Productions, Pattison Outdoor and Gambling Affects the Whole Family; these ads as a factor is calling us. OBIE Media, who gave us great You may be worried about gambling; Current and past clients tell us that non-profit rates and good advice. You may need information; and If seeing the ads out there supports As well we are grateful to the Ministry gambling is no longer fun…Our their own recovery. for allowing us to use surplus prevention messages were: Accept loss In August, 2004 we launched funding for this purpose. as part of the game; Gamble for fun, our most recent initiative, a Youth not for money; Set money and time Outreach Campaign. Designed in Bonnie Orvidas is Program Coordinator, limits; and Gamble sober. consultation with young people, Problem Gambling Services with We decided on bright and happy interactive presentations correspon- Addiction Services of Thames Valley colours for our fully wrapped city ding to the school curriculum are in London, Ontario. 6 Canadian Partnership for Responsible Gambling creates national collaboration By Carol Gravelle in their pursuit of better understanding responsible gambling: no one stake- and implementation of responsible holder can do it alone," says Cynthia L aunched in mid-September, the Canadian Partnership for Responsible Gambling is the first nationwide initiative mandated by its members to find ways of reducing gambling programs through joint research, issue analysis and information sharing. "The lack of a national approach on Goodwin, Director, Public Affairs and Responsible Gaming, ALC. All of the members share four principles that unify and strengthen gambling issues across Canada and the their participation in the Partnership: the risks of problem gambling. reality of some jurisdictions individually 3 Shared responsibility "The Partnership is unique because undertaking their own activities were it brings together the expertise of two of the main reasons why the 3 Adding value non-profit organizations, gaming Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming 3 Leadership providers, research centres and Authority [SLGA] decided to join to 3 Collaboration regulators across Canada to better the Partnership," says Jim Engel, understand strategies and programs SLGA's Executive Director, Policy "The SLGA looks forward to having to reduce problem gambling," says and Planning. better access and more input into Dr. Jon Kelly, Partnership Co-Chair A priority-setting forum for project evaluations and research – and CEO of the Responsible all current members took place two activities that can be very Gambling Council. in February 2005. The first concrete expensive and time consuming on While the operational scope and product of the Partnership – the an individual level," says Engel. regulatory regime in each province Canadian Gambling Digest – has "Overall, I think the partnership is distinct, issues related to social already been produced. will provide more opportunities responsibility and problem gambling "The Atlantic Lottery Corporation to work in collaboration with other are shared by all members. The [ALC] joined the Partnership because organizations and will help to identify primary objective of the Partnership is we believe it is paramount to work common agendas and common to support the member organizations with other stakeholders on issues of needs." Chart 3: Percentage of Government Gaming Revenue28 The Digest covers a range of topics, Spent on Problem Gambling First Canadian Gambling such as what types of gambling are Digest provides easy access available throughout Canada, the Distributions to problem gambling include money for treatment, prevention and research. Across Canada, to gambling-related facts amount of revenue generated, where the average percent of government gaming revenue it goes, how many people have spent on problem gambling is .85%. Saskatchewan spends the greatest portion of its gaming revenue on The Canadian Gambling Digest, gambling problems and how many problem gambling (1.53%). produced recently for the Canadian people are calling a helpline and/or Partnership for Responsible Gambling, going to treatment. It will reduce 2.0 addresses the need for basic gambling- the research time required for those related facts to be available in one seeking basic information to develop 1.53 location. It brings together a collection policy decisions, new programs and 1.5 of information gathered from annual government briefing notes, as well 1.2 1.25 1.22 reports and other government as for media writing gambling- documents, gambling and problem related stories. 1.0 gambling prevalence studies, web Using charts and written summaries 0.71 pages, and extensive, direct one-to-one broken down into five sections – 0.59 0.63 requests from various organizations industry information, gaming revenue, 0.48 0.52 0.5 0.38 and agencies. Reliable and accurate, revenue distributions, participation easy to read and reference, it will rates and problem gambling preva- tell an evolving story about gambling lence and assistance – readers can in Canada as the information is visually synthesize data comparing 0.0 BC AB SK MB ON QC NB NS PE NL updated each year. provinces at a glance. 7 Cross-Canada Snapshot: Part Fo This is the final instalment of a four-part series looking at NOTE: Teletheatres are buildings in which horseraces are how gambling is organized across Canada. In this issue, televised and off-track bets are placed. Gross is in millions we look at horseracing. The following table provides an and refers to wagers minus prize payouts. Net is in millions overview of the number of racetracks and teletheatres in each of the provinces, the revenues they generate, and and refers to the amount received by the province in the the parties involved in their operation and regulation. form of a tax/levy on amount wagered. Neither gross nor PROVINCE RACETRACKS TELETHEATRES GROSS NET BRITISH COLUMBIA 5 16 46.2 14.5 ALBERTA 5 48 36.2 8.2 SASKATCHEWAN 3 6 2.9 1.1 MANITOBA 10 10 8.6 3.6 ONTARIO 30 73 288.1 39.3 QUEBEC 18 17 47.5 14.3 NEW BRUNSWICK 3 1 2.2 0.9 NOVA SCOTIA 3 7 3.4 1.5 PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND 2 0 2.0 0.9 NEWFOUNDLAND 1 0 0.3 0.1 DID YOU KNOW? YOU DON'T SAY… • There are 9,832 electronic gaming machines (EGMs) at 22 Horse sense is the thing a horse racetracks across Canada. As of March 31, 2003: has which keeps it from betting - Manitoba has 140 at 1 racetrack, on people. - Quebec has 405 at 4 racetracks, – W. C. Fields (1880-1946) - Alberta has 599 at 2 racetracks, and - Ontario has 8,688 at 15 racetracks. 8 ur – HORSERACING IN CANADA net revenues include income from EGMs in those provinces are those responsible for enforcing legislation. Non-profit that permit such devices at their racetrack facilities, nor do organizations may include agricultural societies, exhibition the revenues include ancillary income (e.g., from food, etc.). boards, and other volunteer associations. All values are for Operators are those involved either directly or indirectly in the calendar year 2002. the management of horserace gambling, while regulators OPERATION REGULATION British Columbia Lottery Corporation Canadian Pari-Mutuel Agency Non-Profit Organizations Gaming Policy and Enforcement Branch Private Operating Corporations Horse Racing Alberta Canadian Pari-Mutuel Agency Non-profit Organizations Horse Racing Alberta Canadian Pari-Mutuel Agency Non-profit Organizations Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Authority Canadian Pari-Mutuel Agency Non-profit Organizations Manitoba Horse Racing Commission Canadian Pari-Mutuel Agency Private Operating Corporations Ontario Racing Commission Non-Profit Organizations Canadian Pari-Mutuel Agency Private Operating Corporations Régie des alcools, des courses et des jeux Société nationale du cheval de course Canadian Pari-Mutuel Agency Non-profit Organizations Maritime Provinces Harness Racing Commission Non-profit Organizations Canadian Pari-Mutuel Agency Private Operating Corporations Maritime Provinces Harness Racing Commission Canadian Pari-Mutuel Agency Non-profit Organizations Maritime Provinces Harness Racing Commission Canadian Pari-Mutuel Agency Private Operating Corporations Standardbred Canada DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS The RGC would like to correct errors it made in its Summer 2004 issue of Newslink. In the report, Lotteries in Canada, on pages 8 and 9, the values reported were as of March 31, 2003, not 2004, as stated. In addition, the Nova Scotia Gaming Corporation, not the Atlantic Lottery Corporation, sets ticket lottery policy in Nova Scotia, and the Alcohol and Gaming Authority, not the Nova Scotia Gaming Corporation, regulates ticket lotteries in the province. 9 REDESIGNED NORWEGIAN GAMING MACHINES AIM TO CHANGE "MADNESS FOR THE FEW INTO JOY FOR THE MANY" R esponding to recent govern- ment legislation, Norway's exclusive gaming machine provider is undertaking an ambitious project to completely reconfigure change the focus from gambling to entertainment. One of the more unique aspects of the machines is that they will all be hooked into a central network and the nation's machines, in an effort controlled from servers at Norsk to "reduce the risk of thousands of Tipping. The games on the new Norwegians becoming addicted to "Multix" machines will be downloaded excessive play." from these servers, which will make it Norsk Tipping, Norway's state- easy to customize games for various owned games company, has purposes, upgrade games and replace established a separate division, them. Although the games will appear Norsk Tipping Multispill (meaning to be running locally on the individual "multi-games"), to implement the machine, the central system will sweeping changes to the Act relating control and log all game sequences, to games for cash prizes announced time spent per player and money flow. in June 2003. Under the new legisla- Measures will be put into place to halt tion, all current gaming machines are games or discourage excessive play being removed from the marketplace when necessary, including forced and replaced by less aggressive stoppages or time-breaks when the "Interactive Video Terminals" or IVTs. maximum prize (reduced from NOK The number of terminals will be 2,000/CDN $380 to NOK 1,500/CDN reduced from 18,500 to 10,000 and $285) has been won or after one new restrictions have been placed hour of continuous play. to ensure they have a thorough on machine locations and how Additional features that have been knowledge of playing rules, regulations prizes are cashed. As part of the built into the machines to discourage and other legal requirements. changes, the government awarded excessive or compulsive play include Given the magnitude of the Norsk Tipping the exclusive rights longer game sequences (in some changes required, the new machines to operate gaming machines in cases, up to 25 seconds); reduction will be phased in over time. The first Norway, beginning in January 2006. of light and sound (falling coins have 70 Multix machines were introduced Multispill is planning a varied been replaced by a "value coupon" in September 2004 at 26 locations, games offering, including wheel, that must be exchanged for money with a larger rollout beginning in table, card and odds games, which by the site operator and requires January 2005. Existing concessions it expects will appeal to new groups identification proving the player is over operated by other gaming machine of players. While the company says age 18); and the introduction of a large providers will expire at the end of it has been criticized for stating its "History" button, which displays the 2005, and all 10,000 Norsk Tipping intent to recruit new players, its player's time on the machine, amount machines are scheduled to be in desire is to recruit more players spent and total winnings or losses. operation by June 30, 2006. that play for less money, and to Site operators will receive one Until the recent changes, Norway of 2,500 master machines that can had among the most liberal gaming provide an overview of individual machine laws in Europe. Between terminal activity at any time. This will 2001 and 2003, revenues from enable electronic communication gaming machines in Norway between the store owner and Norsk increased from approximately NOK Tipping. Operators will be required 8.5 billion (CDN $1.6 billion) to to undergo a certification process NOK 22 billion (CDN $4.2 billion). 10 Canada Tribune, November 4, 2004; Las Vegas would not support the Bill and he hoped F or the first time in North America, a major professional sports league has signed a deal with a betting company. Sun, November 4, 2004; Thoroughbred Times, December 11, 2004.) the Lords would amend it. (Source: Scotsman.com, January 24, 2005) United Kingdom New Zealand On October 12, 2004, the Canadian Football League (CFL) announced a two-year sponsorship deal with the T he Government's controversial Gambling Bill cleared the Commons despite a Labour backbench rebellion. I n October 2004, a problem gambling levy aimed at preventing and minimiz- British-based online sports book and ing the harm associated with problem In a vote forced by disgruntled Labour gambling went into effect in New casino, Bowman International Sports MPs, the Bill was given a third reading Zealand. The levy is set at different rates Ltd. The company is placing advertising by 236 votes to 38, Government majority for different types of gambling to reflect signs at all CFL stadiums at next season's 198, and next goes to the Lords. the amount of money lost and the playoffs, and is also offering a free online contest whereby fans can win degree of harm associated with each money or a trip to the 2005 Grey Cup gambling activity. The rates, GST as the grand prize. Bowman already has exclusive, range from 0.14% of operator a promotional arrangement with the gross profits for the New Zealand Toronto Argonauts football team Lotteries Commission to 1.11% for that includes a free weekly online gaming machines in pubs and parlay game for a chance to clubs. The levy is the first of win up to $5,000. The deal its kind set under New is believed to be worth Zealand's Gambling Act nearly $500,000 annually and will cover the cost to the League. It is of the Ministry of very unlikely that the Health's $54.5 million National Football League (CDN $46.2 million) (NFL) would follow integrated problem suit, according to a gambling strategy. In spokesperson for addition to the levy, the U.S. league. regulations aimed at (Source: Bowmans.com, preventing and mini- October 12, 2004; MSN mizing gambling harm News, October 13, 2004). will also be introduced for gaming machines in United States pubs and clubs, non-club O n the ballots of last year's U.S. Presidential election there were a number of TABs, and casinos. (Source: New Zealand Government [http://www.beehive.govt.nz], proposals for expanded gambling. September 2, 2004). So, who came out ahead – the gaming industry or its foes? The answer Russia seems to depend on who you ask. Rev. Tom Grey, executive director of the National Coalition Against Legalized M egaFon, Russia's third largest cell network operator, announced in early October 2004 its launch of the first Gambling (NCALG), believes the Backbench unrest centred on moves to mobile casino game in Russia. The game election results were a victory for the set up a series of super-casinos and combines Java game technology with real anti-gambling side and a sure sign reserve powers which could be used in casino gaming to deliver the service to that the tides have turned in the fight future to stop youngsters playing seaside anyone with a mobile phone, anywhere against gambling – a sentiment shared slot machines. The Government has their phones work. The first game offered by many church group leaders and already backed down over the number is essentially a slot machine on a mobile other grassroots organizations. Deutsche of regional super-casinos in the face of phone. Players can place bets ranging Bank gaming analyst Marc Falcone, opposition from Labour MPs and churches, from 1 to 1,500 rubles (about 4 cents to however, disagrees. He believes the cutting them to eight. Opening third CDN $63) and win up to approximately election results were due more to state reading debate, Culture Secretary Tessa 4.5 million rubles (CDN $190,000). political issues than a national trend: Jowell said the Bill would give Britain Developers of the product say benefits "A lot of voters tend to view gaming "the toughest, most comprehensive of the game include mobility, security, as a business that's still corrupted regulatory framework in the world, to availability, and a good chance of with crime, particularly… in protect the public interest, to prevent winning (supposedly ranging from conservative states." (Source: BP the exploitation of children." But Labour 25% to 95%). (Source: Mosnews, News, November 3, 2004; Knight-Ridder MP Win Griffiths (Bridgend) said he October 5, 2004.) 11 COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAM EDUCATES QUEENSLAND I n February 2002, Australia's and knowledge that will allow them to media and technology can play Queensland Government released make informed decisions. Once they in changing games. As part The Queensland Responsible are able to gamble legally they can of a research activity, students Gambling Strategy. The measures make choices about their gambling investigate how games have contained in the Strategy aim to that supports them to be responsible changed across generations minimise the likelihood of social gamblers, or, should they encounter and discover other recreational problems arising, raise awareness problems, they have the knowledge to opportunities available for youth amongst the community and provide recognise warning signs and seek help. in their local area. Students then support for those who encounter The underpinning philosophy of the develop a business case to create problems with gambling. Kit is to present the issue of gambling a youth recreational project that As part of the Strategy, Queensland based on the premise of balance. has value to the local community. Deputy Premier, Treasurer, and Minister The Kit has been developed to for Sport, the Honourable Terry promote an approach that allows the As Time Goes By – provides students Mackenroth, launched the Queensland introduction of responsible gambling with information to look at gam- Responsible Gambling Teaching education across a range of subject bling through the ages and the Resource Kit in October 2004. The Kit areas and year levels. It provides unit history of gambling in Queensland. provides a collection of education ideas that can be integrated into exist- Within this context they are support materials that specifically target ing courses of study, rather than asking provided with activities that ask young people from ages 9 to 17. schools to include another topic into them to research policies associated Primary and secondary schools in an already overcrowded calendar. Each with gambling and develop an Queensland ordered more than 1,300 syllabus in Years 1-10 and the senior understanding of research into kits and by November 2004, every school curriculum has been investigated gambling consumers in Queensland. school in the State had received a to determine the most appropriate The research findings will allow copy of the resource. curriculum units and assessment tasks students to develop resources to support this approach. designed to communicate a message Flexible units written about responsible gambling. for the Kit allow teachers to introduce the material into Bully Bookies – allows students to a vast array of existing investigate gambling within the curriculum pathways, such context of health and linked with as the Social Sciences, the issue of bullying and peer Visual and Performing Arts, pressure. Students are provided English, Hospitality studies with opportunities to analyse as well as pastoral care conflict situations and develop programs. They also resolution strategies. Students provide opportunities engage in primary research to for teachers to use local inform the development of a project examples to support the to educate young people about the activities undertaken by risks associated with gambling and The Responsible Gambling students, thus making the course of strategies to cope with peer pressure. Teaching Resource Kit is based on a study more relevant. Youth Media Campaign – provides preventative approach, similar to the The units are structured in the suggestions for learning activities approach adopted by other health- following way: that give students opportunities to related education programs such as deconstruct and decode media drug and sex education. The intended The Games We Play – asks students messages that promote gambling. outcome is to provide young people to consider the meaning of In order to prepare them for with opportunities to develop the skills gambling and the impact that 12 STUDENTS ON GAMBLING RISKS designing their own youth-focused myths and misconceptions intention is for students to develop media campaign, they are given surrounding electronic gaming a greater understanding of the the opportunity to review some machines. Students are given Melbourne Cup and its place in messages from a youth-oriented opportunities to investigate Australia's cultural identity. responsible gambling campaign gambling and its effects, both The Responsible Gambling available in Canada. positive and negative, on commu- Teaching Resource Kit is designed nities and individuals/families. to be a living resource. Additional Dial a Debt – gives students the modules for maths studies will opportunity to investigate the ease Voices – explores perspectives both be available in 2005 and in 2006 with which people can lose track of for and against gambling with the modules for English studies are to their spending through easy access intention of allowing students be released. to credit and a lack of understand- to understand both sides of the ing about charges associated with issue and to develop their own Direct links to more information: mobile phones and messaging. opinions. By deconstructing responsiblegambling.org/newslink Students develop skills that will emotive viewpoints students are More information regarding the allow them to critically evaluate provided with skills that should Teaching Resource Kit and The their spending habits and attitudes enable them to become informed Queensland Responsible Gambling to credit, with a view to building and active citizens. Strategy can be found on the Queensland protective factors that may prevent Responsible Gambling Web site them from seeing gambling as an Responsible Gambling Melbourne (www.responsiblegambling.qld.gov.au). easy way to make money. Cup Style – provides a range of subject area activities that can be Gaming Machines are Big Business – undertaken around the time of explores some of the common the Spring Race Carnival. The Continued from page 4 any of the above restrictions would will continue to develop in the gaming may prove to be much riskier than have the desired effect of mitigating industry, as they are doing in society they may at first seem. social costs associated with problem at large. Indeed, such evolution is And not all the risk lies with the and pathological gambling. However, inevitable. However, this is clearly problem gambler. In these cases, politicians and policy makers act when a situation where the gaming industry the gaming industries may be risking they believe their actions will gain and gaming device manufacturers do their reputations among the general support of the voters. If the gaming not want to be providing the "cutting public as well. industry – especially technology edge" of new technologies. It will be developers and manufacturers of much better, for their own perceived William Eadington is Professor of gaming devices – introduce new legitimacy, if gaming industries wait Economics and Director of the Institute technologies that appear to be until new technologies become for the Study of Gambling and predatory, whatever their actual well established elsewhere, and then Commercial Gaming at the University of effects are, then the entire industry develop them for the casino floor. Nevada, Reno. He is an internationally will be put at risk for serious backlash. Gaming industry leaders, recognized authority on the legalization In its own enlightened self-interest, manufacturers and regulators need and regulation of commercial gambling, this may not be where the gaming to be sensitive to both the business and has written extensively on issues industry wants to be. dimensions and social impact relating to the economic and social That said, it is still likely that implications of new technologies impacts of commercial gaming. electronic monies in a variety of forms that are considered. Some of them 13 A View From the U.S.: The Continued Expansion of Gambling By Keith Whyte In California, both Proposition 68, of the vote. The compacts will provide calling for 30,000 slots at card rooms and a consistent set of regulations for L ooking back at 2004, nominees racetracks, and Proposition 70, which existing tribal EGDs and also author- for the biggest U.S. gaming story pushed unlimited Indian gaming, failed ize non-house banked card games, would probably be the wave convincingly at the polls. Proposition such as poker. Once four tribes enter of mergers among the large, publicly- 68 received only 16 percent support, into compacts, racetracks in the state held commercial casino companies or while Proposition 70 did slightly better, will be able to install EGDs as well. perhaps the media-hyped explosion garnering 23 percent in favor of the Voters in Washington State rejected of interest in Texas Hold'Em poker. initiative. Initiative 892, which called for the While these are indeed noteworthy, Meanwhile, Florida's Amendment establishment of 18,000 new electronic perhaps one of the biggest issues is 4 was approved. Amendment 4 would gaming devices in mini-casinos, bars, the continued expansion of gambling allow residents in only two south restaurants and bowling alleys, with in the states, albeit in a somewhat Florida counties (Broward and Miami- the tax revenue dedicated to property different form. Dade) to decide in the next election tax relief. Significantly, this expansion Traditionally, gaming expansion whether to permit slot machines at would have ended the tribal monopoly meant flashy, state-wide drives organ- seven horse and dog tracks and jai alai on EGDs in the state. Fifty six percent ized around a state ballot referendum frontons. State revenue from the of Washingtonians opposed the or constitutional amendment to bring machines would be allocated to measure. a new, distinct type of gambling to a schools state-wide. Florida voters Wisconsin held a non-binding state. In the 70's it was state lotteries; have previously rejected a number advisory referendum on the construc- in the 90's, riverboat casinos. of state-wide casino proposals. tion of a tribal casino at an existing But the typical gambling expansion Voters in three counties in Iowa greyhound track. While voters measure today is quite a bit different. rejected local-option questions supported the proposed development, Forty eight of 50 U.S. states (and to approve a proposal for a new state and federal approval must still approximately 225 of 561 federally- riverboat casino. be obtained. recognized tribes) have some form of Proposition 1, calling for state-wide I suspect that in coming elections legalized gambling. In many of the and local voter approval of gambling we will continue to see two trends. states, the 2004 ballot didn't ask voters expansion plans, was narrowly The first is a pattern of expansion of to approve a new form of gambling, approved by Michigan voters, placing adding higher stakes and faster but rather an expansion of the existing a significant restriction on any future gambling, usually EGDs, to existing form. Successful expansion today is gambling expansion. gaming locations. The second is a generally taking place at the local level, Two expansion proposals in move to more local-option initiatives often through regulatory or court Nebraska were soundly defeated. and referenda tailored to specific decisions that may go unnoticed by Sixty four percent of voters opposed counties or locations, rather than the general public and press. Amendment 3, which proposed to state-wide campaigns. It seems clear On November 2, residents in eight legalize two casinos in the state. that gambling proponents feel U.S. states cast votes on gaming Initiative 420, which sought to legalize the U.S. market is still unsaturated. initiatives. While the results were two casinos in Omaha and 4,900 slot mixed, what was striking is that only and video poker machines, received Keith Whyte is Executive Director of the two states (Nebraska and Oklahoma) similar support. National Council on Problem Gambling had a proposal to legalize a new form In Oklahoma three proposals in the U.S., the national advocate for of gambling. The other six referenda concerning the establishment of a programs and services to assist problem were either proposals to limit state lottery and tribal gaming were gamblers and their families. expansion (Michigan) or to expand passed. State Questions 705 and 706, existing forms of gaming (California, establishing a state lottery, passed by Florida, Iowa, Wisconsin and a 60-40 margin. Question 712, to create Washington) that already exist state-tribal gaming compacts and elsewhere in the state. racinos, also passed with 59 percent 14 Continued from page 1 are generally aimed at making people fashion, preferably on the front of aware of the "risks and foreseeable forms and tickets. stakeholders and reviewed the consequences" of gambling. Protective measures involve "imposing require- Display of clocks in gaming venues available research. It produced and • Citing research undertaken in Nova released issue papers for public scrutiny. ments on a product or service, or the environment in which that product or Scotia and elsewhere, the Tribunal The report is a very useful example believes it is more valuable to place of how program improvements could service is purchased or used, to make it safer." Counselling measures refer to clocks in the screens of machines be made in uncertain conditions. than in venues more generally. This is not the first time, of course, the treatment of problem gambling. that Australians have contributed The report called for a compre- Information on individual practical research and analysis to the hensive responsible gambling policy gaming sessions making of gaming policy. There are framework that would: "promote • Interestingly, while the Tribunal many examples. The analysis by Clive responsible gambling; protect gamblers endorses such features as pop-up, Alcock regarding the issues of identi- to discourage risky behaviours and display of the monetary value fication of problem gamblers on the and reduce the prevalence and of credits, it does not recommend gaming floor and Self-Exclusion – negative consequences associated providing information about individ- A Gateway to Treatment produced by with problem gambling; and provide ual sessions on gaming machines Blaszczynski, Ladouceur and Nower counselling services to 'at risk' and due to questions raised in a report are two significant examples, as is the problem gamblers and their families by Nova Scotia's Focal Research landmark report of the Productivity and friends to reduce the negative regarding the potential for Commission – Australia's Gambling impacts of their gambling behaviour." encouraging chasing losses. Industries. The IPART report is more While the report underlines the along the lines of a broad review and importance of evidence-based policy, • On the other hand, the report looks analysis in Productivity Commission it acknowledges that "tests for scientific favourably on further research into tradition. evidence are currently not achievable pre-commitment options through In laying the groundwork for its for many measures. In practice, respon- which "players are encouraged recommendations, the IPART Tribunal sible gambling is a relatively new to use pre-commitment cards on a noted: "public debate of gambling policy and research area – the research voluntary basis…" has tended to be polarized – often currently available is not broad or deep depicting problem gambling as enough to support such an approach. predominantly the responsibility of In principle, scientific 'proof' may not either the gambling industry, with be a realistic goal for this area, given problem gamblers being the victims it has human behaviour as its primary of 'addictive gambling products,' focus of study." or gamblers themselves, who fail To overcome these limitations, the to control their behaviour and Tribunal encourages more research of erroneously think they will win." a higher quality that "makes a practical The Tribunal found that neither of contribution to the development of these perspectives "reflects the com- responsible gambling policy…" plexity of problem gambling, and so Following is a summary of some both are inadequate for framing public of the Tribunal's considerations and policy." Rather, the authors believe findings. Self-exclusion schemes policy should recognize a range of • The Tribunal devotes several pages Display of probability of shareholders who have responsibility to discussion of self-exclusion. It winning prizes for reducing the prevalence of problem recommends "offence provisions" for • The Tribunal endorses the concept gambling and promoting "a broad gaming venues which fail to establish of "easily accessed and clear culture of responsibility". This includes and publicize a self-exclusion information" and stresses the government, the gambling industry, scheme. The report goes on to importance of ease of interpretation. gamblers themselves, problem make several other recommendations gambling counsellors and the general Information printed on designed to enhance self-exclusion community. gambling products and bring it closer to treatment. This analysis led the Tribunal to • The Tribunal supports the printing recommend a series of measures cover- of responsible gambling information ing informed choice, protection and for gambling products with the counselling. Informed choice measures proviso that the information be would target the whole community and presented in a visible and consistent Continued on page 16 15 S HERATON FALLSVIEW H OTEL & Upcoming Events C ONFERENCE C ENTRE , NIAGARA FALLS, ONTARIO, CANADA 4th Annual Alberta Conference on Gambling Research A PRIL 17 – 20, 2005 The Public Policy Implications of Gambling Research Edmonton, Alberta, Canada March 31 and April 1, 2005 http://www.abgaminginstitute.ualberta.ca/ 2005_conference.cfm Discovery 2005 Conference Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada April 17 - 20, 2005 http://www.responsiblegambling.org/events_ rgc_upcoming_events.cfm?discovery=1 Professional Addictions RGC is delighted to be Dr. Sam Goldstein, a notable Conference (PAC) 2005 Presented by Alberta Alcohol and Drug hosting the Discovery 2005 author and educator in the Abuse Commission (AADAC) Conference at the Sheraton areas of resiliency and ADHD. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada June 1 - 3, 2005 Fallsview Hotel and Conference We will also feature emerging http://corp.aadac.com/pac/index.asp Centre in Niagara Falls, Ontario research, treatment and industry 19th Annual Conference on April 17th – 20th. trends from around the globe Prevention, Research and Treatment of Problem Gambling Blending the most popular as well as panelists that include Organized by the National Council on Problem elements of past Discovery Dr. Barry McLellan, Chief Coroner Gambling Hosted by the Louisiana Association on Conferences with the interactive for Ontario. Compulsive Gambling panel focus from the 2004 We hope to see you in Niagara New Orleans, Louisiana June 23 - 25, 2005 Symposium, we are pleased to Falls in April! http://www.ncpgambling.org/media/doc/2005 bring you a number of engaging conference_savethedate.doc topics and expert perspectives PLEASE VISIT 6th European Conference on Gambling Studies and Policy Issues in the field of problem gambling www.responsiblegambling.org Malmo, Sweden and its prevention. for Discovery 2005 program and June 29 - July 2, 2005 http://www.easg.org/malmo_2005.htm. Our keynote presentation registration information. will be delivered this year by The Responsible Gambling Council gratefully acknowledges the support of The Mental Health and Addictions Branch (Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care) Write for Do you have any new ideas, programs, research results, Continued from page 15 suggestions or comments you would like to share? We would love to hear from you. Newslink is distributed internationally to more than 4,000 readers, including care providers, politicians, researchers and Multi-modal treatment The Independent Pricing and the gaming industry. It is also published online at responsiblegambling.org. • The Tribunal reviewed the many Regulatory Tribunal has completed approaches to gambling treatment some groundbreaking work. One and strongly endorses what it refers might agree or disagree with each to as "multi modal" treatment – of the individual recommendations. matching specific techniques or But the Tribunal's approach to Published three times yearly by the interventions to the needs of the moving forward in spite of Responsible Gambling Council 3080 Yonge Street, Suite 4070, Box 90 clients. uncertainty is useful and educational Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4N 3N1 for many jurisdictions facing the Phone: 416-499-9800 or 1-888-391-1111 A strong client-counsellor same policy issues. 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…Greets guests with a smile, receives orders, processes payments, and responds appropriately to customer issues Operates cash register or...
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Pharmacy Technician Trainee / Pharmacy Service Associate
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Distribution Center Department Supervisor
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Pharmacy Technician Trainee / Pharmacy Service Associate
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AVON Independent Sales Representative
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Friday, 08 February 2013 00:00
We finally received the last piece of information we were waiting for from New York State in order to finalize the 2013 -14 East Williston School District calendar! The 2013-14 school calendar was approved by the Board of Education at their Jan. 22 monthly business meeting and is now posted on our website at www.ewsdonline.org on the homepage (click on the calendar tab or news box item to view the calendar). Due to the Regents exam calendar, school will end later next year, June 26. Students will also start later next year. While staff will be back on Tuesday (Sep. 3) and Wednesday (Sept. 4) for two Superintendent's Conference Days, and schools will be closed for both staff and students on Sept. 5 and 6 for Rosh Hashana, students will return on the first day of school, Sept. 9. A third Superintendent's Conference Day is planned for Nov. 5, Election Day, when school will be closed for students. Superintendent's Conference Days are used for staff training. We are certainly hopeful that in 2013-14 we will not experience weather conditions like we did this year with Hurricane Sandy and the follow-up snowstorm. However, if we were to experience more than five days of closings next year, we would need to "take back" some vacation days from the calendar, as we did this year. In order to help you with your planning, we have identified the days to be used as make-ups, in the order we would use them. The order of the make-up days are as follows: Dec. 23, 2013, Feb. 21, 2014, Feb. 20, 2014, Feb. 19, 2014, Feb. 18, 2014, April 22, 2014 and April 21, 2014. These dates are also posted with the 2013-14 calendar on the website.
At the upcoming Feb. 6 work session, Mary Harrison, Director of Guidance, will share information and analysis of Wheatley college admissions over the past three years. Dave Casamento, director of science and technology, along with middle school staff, will also provide an update on the implementation of this year's 6th grade iPad Initiative. The Work Session will be held at Wheatley in Room 450.
Mark your calendars. The first budget workshop will take place on Wednesday, Feb. 27 at 7:30 p.m. at Wheatley in Room 450. It is important for everyone to understand that due to the second year of the implementation of the property tax cap levy and increases in mandated requirements and costs, we face additional financial challenges this year. With the goals of maintaining a wide array of opportunities for students and sustaining and growing academic excellence, the budget process will certainly require us to look at the budget through an integrated lens, drawing on creative and flexible thinking, as we work with more limited resources to support our programs. Your input and participation in the budget process is important.
Elaine Kanas
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Saturday, 22 November 2014 00:00
Winthrop University Hospital employee Jeffrey Brenner, a hyperbaric technician with the Life Support Technologies group in Mineola, recently received the American Heart Association's prestigious Louis J. Acampora Heart Saver Award at a dinner at the Crest Hollow Country Club. The award is named for a Long Island teenager who succumbed to a sporting injury that is understood to have been preventable if a cardiac medical device had been immediately on-scene and applied.
"I hope that I have made a real difference in my town and the world around me to help prevent death and improve the quality of people's lives" said Brenner.
Friday, 21 November 2014 00:00
The Wheatley School recently hosted an Item Writing Workshop for more than 100 language teachers representing districts across New York State. The workshop was sponsored by the Foreign Language Association of Chairpersons and Supervisors (FLACS), the professional organization that has assumed responsibility for the creation and administration of the FLACS
Checkpoint A and B Exams (formerly the NYS Second Language Proficiency and Regents Exams).
Thursday, 20 November 2014 00:00
After consecutive seasons of finishing runner-up in the men's golf Player of the Year for the Skyline Conference, Christian Bleck of St. Joseph's took home first place in a rather unlikely turn of events.
After a herniated disc caused the Chaminade High School alum to miss every event after the first week of the season until the conference tournament, Bleck returned—without even having the luxury of practicing a full 18 holes—and competed with the best players the conference has to offer.
Thursday, 06 November 2014 00:00
The Mineola Mustang boys cross-country team won the division 4A championship recently at Bethpage State Park. This is the first championship for the program since 1974, ending a 40-year championship drought.
Mineola defeated Seaford, who also entered the undefeated in division competition, 38-20. Overcoming rain and high winds throughout the race, many Mustangs ran personal records for the 5K in route to the victory.
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Will Hoskins is set to make his Oxford United home debut against Dagenham & Redbridge tomorrow, but head coach Michael Appleton has not yet decided whether the striker will start.
The 28-year-old made an instant impact in his first appearance for the club on Tuesday night, coming off the bench to set up Danny Hylton's equaliser against West Brom.
He was also influential in extra time, before tucking away a penalty in the Capital One Cup shoot-out, which the U's eventually lost.
It was Hoskins's first game for 18 months due to a serious knee injury and although there was no reaction to playing 40 minutes at the Hawthorns, Appleton knows he is not ready to play a whole game.
He said: "It was slightly more than we anticipated, although we can't argue with the result of what happened.
"He's come through it fine.
"The one thing for sure is I don't think he can finish a game, so I have to make that decision whether it's too much of a risk to start him, or it's an opportunity for him to start and then come off.
"I'm sure he will be desperate to start the game, but I have to think long-term and make the right decision."
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From left, Chase Martell and Brendon Jalbert of Fidelity Investments speak with students on Wednesday at Mastricola Upper Elementary School in Merrimack as part of the Union Leader's Smart Market program. (Kimberly Houghton/Union Leader)
MERRIMACK -- Handing over $100,0000 to a group of sixth-graders might seem a bit risky, but for those youngsters holding the cash, it has been a valuable lesson in economics and luck.
Students at James Mastricola Upper Elementary School, along with 20 other schools throughout the state, have been trying to make their imaginary cash pool grow with simulated investments.
The project, which enables students to buy imaginary stocks and monitor their investments throughout a 10-week period before cashing in on their returns, is part of the Smart Market program presented by the New Hampshire Union Leader and sponsored by Fidelity Investments.
"Stocks can be tricky," said Ryan Carey, a sixth-grader at the local school.
Carey researched stocks and picked Nike as a team choice, which had been going up initially but is now on the decline.
It is never too early to start learning about the stock market and making wise investments, said teacher Dennis Pymm, who uses The Gateway enrichment program. His students, he said, were eager to participate in the Smart Market competition to see which schools in New Hampshire can create the biggest profit.
On Wednesday, representatives from Fidelity Investments in Merrimack visited the school to discuss how recent events may have hit certain stocks.
Several stocks plummeted after Hurricane Sandy ravaged the East Coast recently, while others are doing well because of the Christmas season, said Brendon Jalbert, a manager at Fidelity Investments.
"Big global events like hurricanes can significantly impact the market," Jalbert told the students.
During the month of December, when people are buying gifts and toys for Christmas, stocks like Mattel can generate strong profits, said Chase Martell, another Fidelity Investments manager. Some of the stocks that were popular among the sixth-grade class included Coke, Home Depot, Exxon Mobil, Generac, MasterCard and Amazon. In the real world, stocks that are busy now include Apple, Google, Walmart and McDonalds, Martell said.
Another student, Alli O'Hara, said she was having fun researching the different companies, explaining she chose to invest in Johnson & Johnson.
"I made about $400 in the beginning, but I have lost some of my returns since then," said O'Hara. "I think there is definitely some luck involved."
Each week, students received a print copy of the New Hampshire Union Leader to review current events and monitor the stock market, according to Shannon Sullivan, community relations manager for the newspaper.
The Smart Market program is part of the paper's Newspapers in Education Initiative; about 50 teams from an estimated 20 schools are participating.
Winners from the program will be be notified on Dec. 21 and are invited to tour Fidelity Investments and celebrate with an awards ceremony and pizza party on Jan. 15.
"Financial education and financial literacy, which are really two different things, are important to teach and pass on to the next generation and our customers," said Joe Murray, senior director of public affairs for Fidelity Investments. "Saving for the long haul is always a goal that we try to pass on."
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Despite a wealth of talent and drive (see her last DJBooth-approved feature Fallin), Memphis crooner K. Michelle has struggled to move forward with her debut album Pain Medicine. But now that none other than R. Kelly has signed on to executive produce the album, nothing but bright skies should lie ahead. The first proof of Michelle and Kelly's collaborative efforts comes in the form of the new single I Just Can't Do This, a deeply soulful cut built around lush, classic R&B production from Kelly, who also wrote the track. Thankfully, Michelle is far from outshined by The Pied Piper's contributions as she delivers a dynamic, captivating vocal performance that should draw immediate comparisons to Keyshia Cole; not because they sound alike, but because they both are capable of injecting passionate emotion into their voices. I don't know what to tell you. If you're not feeling this, you might not have a soul - and if K. Michelle keeps putting out tracks like Can't Do This, it's only a matter of time before we have some Pain Medicine to ease what ails us.
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It's looking as though my 2013 retail forecast was on point, as London-based fast fashion retailer Topshop could soon disrupt the San Francisco retail scene.
While the much sought-after brand — known for its edgy fashion and fresh design — hasn't signed a lease for a stand-alone location in the city yet, the retailer's newest 30,000-sqaure-foot shop in Los Angeles proves that it's forging ahead with West Coast expansion plans. And plans for the rest of country seem to be moving fast.
During Topshop's Los Angeles opening last week, founder Philip Green told Women's Wear Daily that the retailer has the potential to open up to 50 stores on this side of the pond in the near future — a statement that should strike fear into some specialty retailers, according to industry observers.
SW Retail Advisors analyst Stacey Widlitz said local retailers that should be the most afraid include Gap Inc. (NYSE: GPS), Urban Outfitters Inc. (NASDAQ: URBN) and Abercrombie & Fitch Co. These retailers shouldn't undermine the new entrant, she added, as it could be just as disruptive as Sweden's fast-fashion retailer Hennes & Mauritz.
So what is so threatening about Tophop?
"Simply put, the retailer is everything the consumer is looking for — value and newness," Widlitz wrote on her website. "And if that is not enough you can get a manicure, hair extensions and a tattoo. I can tell you in London, the flagship traffic trends leave the competition in the dust."
Topshop already has three U.S. flagship stores in New York, Chicago and Las Vegas, and is testing the waters in other markets with a number of shop-in-shops at Nordstrom stores nationwide — San Francisco included. Eventually, it plans to open up to 20 flagships across the country.
Since Green has previously said that he likes "big cities, big corners and big billboard shop frontage," San Francisco's Union Square is likely the next logical choice.
Renée Frojo covers hospitality, restaurants, retail and nonprofits for the San Francisco Business Times.
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