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If you’re over 21, you can now play slot machines based on two of your favorite shows, “American Idol” and “Sex and the City.”

Both slots were new releases at the 2009 Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas. In “American Idol,” slot players can trigger a bonus round that lets them become one of three judges — Simon Cowell, Kara DioGuardi or Randy Jackson — and then plays video clips of past contestants, good AND bad.

According to Sphere.com, Paula Abdul was the lone holdout participant even BEFORE she announced she was leaving the show. Innnteresting.

Meanwhile, the “Sex and the City” slot machines are subtitled “Change of a Dress.” Clever, no? They feature bonus rounds that include video clips of all four women plus Mr. Big.

International Game Technology spokeswoman Julie Brown told Sphere, “There’s shoes and purses and lots of bling and big bonuses and the music track, and it’s a very interactive game.”

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“Have you ever played Roulette?”

My significant other posed this question to me not long ago. At the time I said yes, thinking of one drunken incident on New Year’s Eve long ago (we won’t discuss details). But it occurs to me now, that for years I have been playing Roulette with my finances. Sometimes it’s been a total gamble from month to month and/or week to week, as to how I would get by and which bills would get paid.

Playing the wheel of fate

I would realize that only so much money was available (let’s say $900 for the sake of argument) and there would be a stack of bills overdue (perhaps totaling $1300 just to give it a number). At this point I could randomly draw from the deck and let fate decide which creditors got the cash and which ones got the “check’s in the mail” bluff for another month. And I am ashamed to say that for awhile I did exactly that.

It all adds up, your not buying yourself time your digging the hole deeper

Of course the late fees ($30 here or $45 there) would add up on the unpaid bills. I don’t know why I was clueless to this at the time except that I was living in a constant state of denial. This continued until I had to apply for a loan just to finish covering my monthly living expenses. In hindsight I’m surprised it didn’t happen sooner but its amazing how talented you can get at juggling (even without clown training).

Trying to make it right

Then I realized that I had to stop letting my decisions ride on fate’s spin of the wheel. No more stabs in the dark and hope the bet would end up going my way. I had to sit down with all the bills, prioritize them, organize due dates, and make phone calls on the ones that couldn’t be paid in order to negotiate better terms, perhaps a deferment for the month, or whatever I could manage.

Getting there

It hasn’t always been successful and I still ended up falling into the payday loan trap for awhile. But there is no way to get out of the deep hole of debt unless you start paying your way out, one bill at a time.

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By Patrick Lair (Missoula, MT United States)
I don’t want to take away from the impressive amount of work that had to have gone into this book, but reading The Gamble right on the heels of Fiasco, it kind of felt like the former was a hastily thrown together sequel.

First and foremost, the copy editing was terrible. There were typos galore. That aside, the second book didn’t appear to have the structure that the first one had. It read more like a series of addenda to the first. I also noticed lots of quotes, descriptions and phrasing that was cut and pasted right out of the first into the second.

This is all nitpicking on details. Overall, it got the job done and was a fascinating read. Mr. Ricks is obviously a first-class reporter. But while reading The Gamble, I couldn’t help thinking it must have been cranked out with less time for reflection.

 “This book has information people should know” 2009-10-04
By Israel Drazin (Boca Raton, Florida)
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winning author Thomas Ricks subtitled this superb description of the recent problems of the Iraq War “General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008.” Ricks had disclosed the earlier Iraq War troubles in his New York Times Bestseller Fiasco.

Ricks reveals how the United States fought against Iraqi insurgent forces with outdated counter-productive methods designed for large military engagements, such as World war II, resulting in thousands of American and many more Iraqi deaths, as well as an Iraqi civil war, until just a handful of active duty and retired generals were able to persuade President Bush and the military establishment to use instead counter-insurgency methods.

Everyone interested in knowing the inside information about what is only sketched out in newspapers and TV, who want to know what will happen in Iraq in the future, and when the United States can leave Iraq, must read this book.

The United States attacked Iraq in 2003 and President Bush announced that he had achieved a military victory within weeks after American forces began to fight. He, the Secretary of Defense, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and virtually the entire Pentagon establishment saw success continuing for the next three years despite several thousand American deaths, constant suicide bombings, deadly explosives left on roads, assassinations, and the apparent need for American soldiers to hide in fortified enclaves. Frustrated and confused American soldiers indiscriminately and brutally murdered twenty-four innocent Iraqis at Haditha in Iraq in 2005, including women and children and a wheelchair-bound old man, and this was not an isolated murder.

It was not until 2006 that President Bush was forced to admit that the actions of the past three years were a dismal fiasco.

Ricks interviewed hundreds of people and relates their assessments. One expressed the view of many: “The truth is that many commands in Iraq (before 2007) are no longer focused on winning and instead are focused on CYA” – that is, covering your ass. Another highlighted the problem: “Part of this loss of focus is lack of clear guidance on exactly what winning means and how to achieve it.”

Ricks shows that the answer for what to do in Iraq would come in large part from General David Petraeus. Petraeus changed the war from conventional fighting to counterinsurgency. He taught that rather than focusing on killing insurgents, the primary objective of the American forces should be the Iraqi people “figure out how to win them.” The military should concentrate on providing security and opportunity for every Iraqi. The troops needed to get out of their enclaves and move among the Iraqis, live among them, protect them, stay with them, separate them from the insurgents, give them a sense of security, and they will begin to talk with the Americans. This would also bring over many dissatisfied insurgents to the American side.

Petraeus insisted that he could only spread out his forces among the Iraqi people if he had an increase in forces. The American government and most of the general population were against an increase; they were tired in 2006 of seeing the increases in deaths, no reason for staying Iraq and no plan to end the war.

President Bush increased the number of forces in 2007. General Petraeus was given command in Iraq. He led his soldiers in a “surge” that cleaned out many areas and began to place forces among the population. The psychological impact of the surge was huge. As predicted, the number of insurgent attacks decreased and some local Iraqis and some tribal chiefs began to work with the American forces. But the underlying festering problem in Iraq was not solved.

In 2008, President Bush announced that the surge was “doing what it was designed to do,” but, he admitted, it had not done what he hoped it would do – it did not lead to political reconciliation among the Iraqi people, among the Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds. These people could not get along with one another and there was a simmering civil war boiling underneath the surface of Iraq. It was only the presence of American forces that held the civil war at bay.

The Iraqi government was and is unable and unwilling to solve this basic problem. The Iraqi Prime Minister “Maliki government is very dysfunctional, and unwilling to reach out to his enemies…. He has a conspiratorial mind-set, and is fearful of a coup.”

While many Americans and their representatives in Congress saw the reduction in deaths, they still have “a hard time seeing the big picture and what constitutes success.”

What is the current American goal in Iraq?

One observer described it as a very limited hope: “We have given up on having a shinning beacon of democracy in Iraq. We want a nation that is relatively stable, not a threat to its neighbors, and can protect its borders. We have also largely given up on sectarian reconciliation; we now simply hope for some type of sectarian accommodation that will reduce the likelihood of widespread conflict when we leave…. We’ve planted the seeds and will know the time to leave when the seed blooms. Unfortunately, we cannot tell the American people how long this particular flower takes to bloom” (emphasis added). In the mean time, America needs to spend time, money and lives to try to keep Iraq stable.

How long, realistically speaking, will Americans need to stay in Iraq? Ricks points out that history has shown that states as divided and weak as Iraq rarely become stable; and experts predict that even the current minimal American goals cannot be achieved for over a decade.

But why should America care? Leaving aside the humanitarian answer, that to leave now would result in chaos and the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives in civil war; there is an important American, indeed world interest. Ricks makes it clear that the internal civil war in Iraq will spill over the Middle East, involve countries such as Iran, which is viciously hostile to the US and US interests, and cause the US to become involved in a much greater war.

Dr. Israel Drazin is the author of fifteen books, including a series of five volumes on the Aramaic translation of the Hebrew Bible and a series of four books on the twelfth century philosopher Moses Maimonides, the latest being Maimonides: Reason Above All, published by Gefen Publishing House, www.israelbooks.com.

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A good follow-up to Fiasco. Extremely readable and insightful. With these two books (Fiasco and Gamble), the author has firmly established his position as an expert on US military affairs, especially as they relate to the Middle East.

 “Outstanding Book” 2009-08-24
By Robert D. Bechill (Lodi, CA)
Another exceptional book by Ricks. Hopefully our current military is reading this and prepping for life in Afghanistan. We can be successful by truly winning the hearts and minds.

 “Not as much of a bombshell as “Fiasco” but still well worth reading” 2009-08-11
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Ricks writes of The Surge and its aftermath with insight, compassion, and intelligence. Should be read by any American wondering what has gone right and what has gone wrong in Iraq. Very highly recommended!

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Published: Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Updated: Wednesday, November 11, 2009

John Choi

Danny Demoraes’ brother died of pneumonia, a complication of the H1N1 virus. Demorae, a senior at UCF, received his H1N1 vaccine last Thursday.

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A month after he watched his 27-year-old brother die of complications caused by the H1N1 virus, UCF senior Danny Demoraes entered the second-floor conference room at Health Services to receive the flu vaccine.

David Demoraes was two weeks away from becoming a firefighter in August when he began complaining of a cough, vomiting and body aches. By the end of the month he had been admitted to a hospital suffering from pneumonia, a complication of H1N1.

On Oct. 3, after a month-long battle, a blood clot blocked one of his arteries, causing his blood pressure to drop to zero, Demoraes said.

“I felt his heart take its last couple beats,” Demoraes said. “My brother and I used to do everything together. Now everything has changed.”

Danny Demoraes received his vaccine Thursday — one of the 1,500 doses available to students, faculty and staff delivered to UCF Health Services, 24,000 had been requested.

“It’s worth getting the vaccine because you just don’t know who it’s going to hospitalize…who it’s going to kill,” Demoraes said. “If the school is offering free vaccines why not prevent it beforehand?”

Chad Binette of UCF News & Information said that there have been 35 cases of H1N1 confirmed at UCF. According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

in Atlanta, college-aged people are within a more at-risk category.

“For instance, between ages 5 and 24, the CDC estimates 2,196 cases per 100,000, but only 107 per 100,000 in the 65 and older age group,” Binette said. “UCF is one of the first Florida universities to receive vaccines and getting the vaccine is the best way to stay healthy and protect yourself from the H1N1 virus. The vaccine is safe and effective, and students can get it for free.”

Thomas Sutton, a UCF freshman micro & molecular biology major, agrees. Sutton said he gets his vaccine as a “force of habit” every year, but his grandmother nearly dying of the virus raised his awareness about H1N1.

Claudia Witcher, nursing director for UCF Health Services, began each session with a short presentation explaining to attendees the differences between the two vaccines. The shot is made of dead viral particles, whereas the attenuated nasal vaccine is a live virus that replicates only in the nostril, Witcher said.

“For homework, go out and tell your friends how easy it is, because we need all students to be immunized,” said Pharmacy Manager Sheryl Gamble.  

Anne Schuchat, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, reported Friday that 129 children have died from H1N1.

According to the CDC, Novel influenza A, H1N1, is a new flu virus of swine origin that first caused illness in Mexico and the United States in March and April 2009. It was determined that the virus was spreading from person to person with the infection causing a wide range of flu-like symptoms, including fever, cough, sore throat, body aches, headache, chills and fatigue. In addition, many people also have reported nausea, vomiting and/or diarrhea. On June 11, 2009, the World Health Organization raised the worldwide pandemic alert level to Phase 6 in response to H1N1.

As of Nov. 1, the WHO reported the pandemic has infected 199 countries and overseas territories and caused more than 6,000 deaths.

According to a health alert put out by the CDC on Nov. 6, most people who get H1N1 will have a mild illness and recover in fewer than two weeks. Others, however, are more likely to get flu complications that result in hospitalization and, occasionally, death. Complications can include pneumonia, bronchitis, sinus infections and ear infections, or worsen chronic health problems such as asthma or congestive heart failure. The CDC urges clinicians to begin antiviral treatment of suspected persons based on direct observation as opposed to relying on rapid influenza tests or laboratory confirmation.

It takes about two weeks for the vaccine to become effective in the system, Witcher said.

She recommends maintaining good hand washing practices, not sharing food or drink with others and employing good coughing and sneezing etiquette in the interim.

“My brother was all about helping people,” Demoraes said. “If anything, he would be happy that at least this message can get out there and help other people. That’s what he would have wanted.”

I know, I am a little late in placing the results, but things got busy around here.  Anyway I hope everyone saw it in live or on tv. Their where definately some suprising turns in the events.

* But if you have anything to say, please send me a comment below, and I’ll post it.

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You may have heard of multiple intelligences. No, I’m not trying to tell you how smart I am. (Though I am smart. Just ask me.) What I mean is that when I become interested in a subject I thirst for knowledge on that subject. I want to know exactly what I don’t know. I fully exhaust it. Once that topic has run its course, I move on to the next and learn all I can about that subject. One of my first passions was horse racing.
When I was introduced to the world of Thoroughbred horse racing in 1987, I was hooked. I learned the different classes of races, how the purse money was divided, and how to manage a stable. Of course, I learned how to read a racing form and bet – when I was too young to do so legally! I studied blood lines. Then held jobs at Woodbine racetrack and Kinghaven’s breeding farm. I mucked my twentythousand stalls. For years I filled my brain with Thoroughbred facts. The owners, trainers, jockeys and “big” horses were celebrities to me.

I haven’t seen a live Thouroughbred horse race in years, but get me on the subject or invite me to a day at the races and I will become as absorbed as I ever was.

I also learned about Standardbred racing in detail. On November1st,  2009 I had the pleasure of joining an old friend from Alberta, a standardbred horse trainer, in the winner’s circle at Rideau Carleton raceway in Ottawa. The excitement, sights and scents brought me back and flooded my mind and heart with memories. The old passion rekindled!

This appreciation of this sport has given me great pleasure over the years and continues to do so. When friends learn of this part of my life, I am often asked to teach them how to bet and understand the myriad information a racing program can provide. My pleasure. I’ll do it for you too. Look for the information on www.Chuckittv.com.

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By Michael MacLeod

A MAN who made up an entire family and claimed to be fighting for custody of his kids to con a workmate out of £30,000 has been jailed for 15 months.

Former Scottish Water employee Alexander Shields looked for pity from his “naïve” workmate Lynn McFarlane by pretending he was embroiled in a custody battle and asked her for cash.

She fell for his elaborate domestic nightmare – before it was revealed he had made up having a wife and kids simply to dupe her.

The 26 year-old Bathgate man then recklessly gambled the lot without making a penny back.

Today (Thurs) at Edinburgh Sheriff Court he blamed a gambling addiction and said he “always intended to give the money back.”

But Sheriff Neil MacKinnon branded him “dishonest, calculated and callous.”

The office temps met while working at Scottish Water’s Buckstone Terrace building in Edinburgh in January last year.

Desperate for cash, Shields targeted Miss McFarlane over three months, feeding her lies to get the money he craved.

He told Miss McFarlane he wanted to leave his wife to be with her, but needed money to pay for lawyers and to pay back loan sharks he claimed were threatening him.

Living a lie

Duped into thinking Shields was in trouble, Miss McFarlane forked out all of her money for him, took out loans and even plunged £6,000 into the red.

It was only after three months that Miss McFarlane realised Shields was living a lie, as his made-up family madness went beyond belief.

She reported him to police, and in court Shields admitted using a fraudulent scheme to get money between January 15 and March 31, in 2008.

His defence agent Peter O’Neill said: “As the friendship grew he felt comfortable enough to ask her for money.

“He didn’t always expect to get it, but as an addict does, he kept on going back to the source of money.

“He says he always intended to give it back but was constantly chasing his losses.

“He thought that if he got another £500 everything would be forgotten about, but that never happened.”

“None of this was true”

His imaginary second-life got so out of control that Shields had no idea how much money he owed his gullible colleague.

Fiscal depute Ruth Ross-Davie said previously: “He told her he had separated from his wife and that she was threatening to divorce him and remove his daughter from the UK and that he required lawyer’s fees.

“Then he told her he owed money to so-called loan sharks who were threatening him and sending text messages threatening her.

“None of this was true, as he well knew.

“Whenever she expressed any doubt he would reassure her that he wasn’t lying and that he wanted to be with her as soon as the matrimonial problems were resolved.

“It seems Miss McFarlane was rather naive and inexperienced with relationships and this made her a target for his scheme.”

And court heard yesterday that he went into depression and continued gambling to “cheer himself up.”

Mr O’Neill added: “Of course £30,000 is a huge amount of money and gambling is his one and only vice.

“He didn’t face up to the problem and thought it was nearly half the amount he owed.

“He could not believe he let it get to this stage. His depression has never been properly diagnosed and big wins can cheer someone up.

“His family are supportive but deeply ashamed.”

Unemployed and on benefits

After leaving Scottish Water, Shields began an IT course at college but packed it in after his first court appearance in September when he realised jail was looming.

His lawyer admitted there was “little chance” of Shields, who was getting £65 per-week via a Job Seeker’s Allowance, getting a job in the current climate.

Sheriff MacKinnon told Shields: “Your behaviour on this occasion was not only dishonest, it was calculated and callous.

“You took advantage of the trust placed in you by the complainer.

“To protect the public from serious harm I impose a supervised release order of six months.

“After you are released you must report to a supervising officer, and if you breach the order you are liable to return to prison.”

A Scottish Water spokesman said previously: “This was a personal matter between to former agency staff who are no longer working with us.

“No Scottish Water money was lost.”

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The penny sat benignly in the middle of the sidewalk.

He wasn’t sure why he felt compelled to pick it up, but he did. Turning the small disk in his hands, watching the afternoon sun glint off of its copper facade, he felt that it was hot – almost uncomfortably so.

On one side of the coin was a depiction of a grand building; one the other, the face of a man who had been father to many in his time.

Flip a coin.

He thought back to his own father. “Make your own luck,” the man had been fond of saying, but he had been the one to squander the household funds on a series of gambles.

Heads… or tails?

Even with a fifty-fifty chance, any decision was a gamble. And outside of recreational gambling, his father had held true to his motto and shied away from all choices. He had been a tiny man in a husky shell, one who could cause fear in others, but feared the simplest of life’s challenges when he lay awake in the quiet of night.

Heads… or tails?

He thought about how his father, coward though he was, made the most final decision of his life.

Or, rather, he had helped someone else make the decision. Because after all, nobody likes a cheater.

Flip a coin.

Even in a friendly game – even in a small gamble – loaded dice can cause the competition to react violently.

But even as his father had been given the decision, he himself was given a decision. Not everyone is their father. And maybe, just maybe, not every decision is a gamble.

Heads… or tails?

He looked, again, at the coin nestled in his sweaty palm.

Call it.

And, with a minute shake of his head, he tossed the penny up to the heavens.

THE Sydney Morning Herald debates the pros and cons of gambling in Australia and suggests a way of curbing the losses.

The article talks about the use of smart cards in Norway which limit the amount a gambler can lose in a day.

It also makes a valid point on implementing clocks in Casinos to give a ‘more reality, less fantasy’ feel.

Very interesting, read more…

A fun little quiz to test your knowledge of casinos, on games, famous players, events movies etc. Try these 6 to see how good you really are.

The answers to the quiz will be revealed on Nov. 15th. So sharpen your ‘pencils’ and let the fun begin. Come back later to see new question coming up on famous peoples and locations connected to casinos.

i don’t want to feel this entertained

We didn’t come to Vegas to gamble.

We didn’t come to watch a volcano explode or listen to singing gondoliers.

Sure, we did all those things and more, but…

We came to Vegas to get (re)married by Elvis.

Everything else was mere icing on the cake—neon, blinking icing on a gold lame’ cake.

This was my first visit to Vegas, and I wasn’t disappointed.

True, Sinatra’s Vegas now belongs to the ages, and gambling is about as exciting as watching golf on TV, but that didn’t matter.

When you enter a world to which you have but only one true expectation, and it’s met in spades, the rest is a bonus.

When time stands still, you can stop and smell the roses, and for as much as Vegas has to offer, I never once felt rushed.

It’s because she lives up to her reputation as the city that never sleeps—no point in hurrying when it’ll all be there waiting for you, regardless of when you arrive.

I didn’t hit any jackpots. I never went up big at any tables. I experienced neither the thrill of victory nor the agony of defeat.

But…

As I danced with my wife while a young, gold lame’ Elvis serenaded us, vows freshly renewed and sealed with a kiss, I realized something:

You don’t have to beat the house to walk away a winner in Vegas.

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