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Canadian unions fight e-poker
Efforts by the Bay Mills lobbying on behalf of both
Unions representing croupiers and dealers at casinos in Montreal,
Indian Community and the sides in addition to insults
Lac-Leamy and Charlevoix have asked the High Court to order the
Tribe to about sham business
Régie des Alcools, des Courses et des Jeux - the body that regulates
Michigan
Sault Ste Marie
get permission to operate deals and spoiler tactics
gaming in Quebec - to rule on the complaints already made about
tribes fight
casinos in Michigan, while being exchanged.
electronic poker rooms in the venues. They believe that the
for casinos well supported in
PokerPro-equipped rooms in the three casinos are illegal and
Congress, are facing
threaten their jobs. The complaints were first made in early
tough opposition from
December and so far, say the unions, the Régie has not responded.
those opposed to
gambling as well as from
competitors, and the
Interior Department, the
WORLDNEWS
Washington Post has
reported. Vast sums, it
seems, are being spent in
Las Vegas has 13 years to live
Dealer’s
cancer
Climate change
could mean the end
‘caused
of Sin City, says a
by
study into the future
for water supply to
casino
Las Vegas. Already
smoke’
enduring a period of
drought, unless new
justcause
and effective ways to
UNITED STATES
conserve water can
be found, the city’s
A judge in Atlantic City
has ruled that a dealer
economy could also
who contracted lung
dry up.
cancer despite never
having smoked fell ill
Lake Mead is currently
because of working in a
only half full smoky casino
environment.
Kam Wong, 57, worked
driedup United States through an no mistake, this water in the Asian table gaming
There is a 10 per cent chance the lake
UNITED STATES unusually dry year or, worse,
could be totally dry in six years’ time
problem is not a scientific area at the Claridge
a drought. abstraction but rather one Casino Hotel, owned by
A shocking new study is They conclude that human that will impact each and Harrah’s, for ten years
claiming that there is a 50-50 demand, natural events like every one of us that lives in from 1990 dealing
chance that Las Vegas has only evaporation, plus human- the south west.” baccarat, mini-baccarat
13 years left because its prin- induced climate change are David Pierce added: “It’s and pai gow. In 1998, she
cipal source of water, Lake creating a net deficit of nearly likely to mean real changes to developed a persistent
Mead, is drying out so fast. 1m acre-feet (about 1,234bn how we live and do business cough, which doctors
The report by researchers litres) of water per year from in this region.” found was due to a large
from the Scripps Institution the Colorado River system, They estimate that there is tumour in her left lung.
of Oceanography at UC San which includes Lakes Mead a ten per cent chance that Half the lung was removed
Diego says that the reservoir and Powell. This amount of Lake Mead could be dry by and Wong eventually
formed by the Hoover Dam water can supply about 8m 2014 and a 50 per cent chance returned to work. Even
from Colorado River could be people. They believe that the that its level will be too low though she was assigned
dry by 2021, if climate change system could run dry even if to allow hydroelectric power to a nominally non-
follows its expected path and the mitigation measures cur- generation by 2017. smoking table, the bar
water usage is not curtailed. rently being proposed are city. Its remarkable success Mead, which supplies 90 per In their report, they said: was not enforced, leaving
The authors Tim Barnett, implemented. over 103 years of existence, cent of the city’s water, will, “Today we are at or beyond her often still wreathed in
a research marine physicist, Las Vegas is still one of the its unique place in the world undoubtedly, have seen how the sustainable limit of the smoke.
and climate scientist David fastest growing cities in the as a desert city offering enter- low it is - less than half its Colorado system. The alter- Her lawyer, Lawrence
Pierce say that without Lake United States with a popula- tainment and gambling, normal level. native to reasoned solutions Mintz, said: “She never in
Mead and the neighbouring tion of about 2m and annual depends on the water that is “We were stunned at the to this coming water crisis is her life was exposed to
Lake Powell, the river system visitors numbering nearly in ever-shorter supply. All the magnitude of the problem a major societal and eco- any tobacco products
has no buffer to sustain the 40m. There are more than visitors who have flown into and how fast it was coming at nomic disruption in the outside of work. She never
population of the south west 125,000 hotel rooms in the McCarran Airport over Lake us,” said Tim Barnett. “Make desert south west.” smoked; her husband of
many years never smoked;
her family never smoked.”
Judge Cosmo
First Millioni$er jackpot falls at LV Hilton
Giovinazzi, a state
workers’ compensation
judge, awarded Wong 60
per cent disability pay
madeamint Aristocrat said: “William property to have the new and $150,000 in lost pay
UNITED STATES had been playing for about Millioni$er multi-site for a six-month period
15 minutes and played progressive hit. It is nice to between her first and
The new multi-site only $59 (€40) when the see someone’s life change second bouts of surgery.
Millioni$er jackpot from lady next to him said, in an instant.” The operator’s insurance
Aristocrat Technologies ‘Excuse me, you’ve just The four-level multi-site company has also been
made its first millionaire won over a million progressive on Aristocrat’s ordered to pay for all her
winner on 12 February. dollars!’” Hyperlink platform was future medical treatment
A 38-year-old man from William C will use some launched across Nevada related to her time at
Lake Forest, California, of the money to pay off his last June. The jackpot is Claridge.
identified only as William debts. He said: “It hasn’t now reset to $1m. There may yet be an
C, played the penny slot sunk in. It’s still very appeal, so Harrah’s
game at the Las Vegas surreal.” Entertainment would not
Hilton, where he was Bob Stewart, SVP of
William C (centre) celebrates
comment. In April 2007,
staying for his birthday operations at the casino,
his win with Doug Fallon,
director of marketing for
Atlantic City passed a law
celebrations and won more said: “All of us at the Las
Aristocrat Technologies (right)
restricting smoking to no
than $1.7m (€1.16m). Vegas Hilton are really and Pete Fanara, slot shift more than a quarter of
A spokesman for excited to be the first manager at Las Vegas Hilton the gaming floor.
12 March 2008 worldnews
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