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Faith Hill Set For First Live Performances In FOUR Years; To Take Place At The Colosseum At Caesars Palace August 10-14
LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 17, 2004--After a four-year hiatus, multi-award winning superstar Faith Hill is set to return to the stage. The exclusive, four-show concert event, taking place at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace on August 10, 11, 13 and 14, will include all of the chart-topping singles from the Grammy Award-winning singer's career, ("Breathe," "This Kiss," "Let Me Let Go," "Piece Of My Heart," "The Way You Love Me" and "Cry," amongst others) which has seen the sale of more than 25 millions albums. The concerts are co-presented by Caesars Palace and AEG Live.
"We are delighted that Faith Hill, one of the most talented and popular entertainers of this generation, has chosen to perform at Caesars Palace," said Caesars Palace President, Mark Juliano. "From pop and rock to opera and country, The Colosseum at Caesars Palace has proved itself to be the best venue to the see the best entertainers in the world."


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The Department of the Interior has found a novel way to deal with its persistent conflict-of-interest problems - let a high official do only part of his job.
Just four months after being confirmed, assistant secretary David Anderson decided that he won't involve himself with some key policy issues - like Indian gambling - to avoid the appearance of conflict with past business interests.
That's good. We're old-fashioned enough to believe that public servants should serve the public, not former business pals.


The art of the deal
Matt Matros used to call it "a sucker's game." That was before he raked in $700,000 playing it. Last month, the 26-year-old Sarah Lawrence graduate student snagged third prize in the 2004 World Poker Tour Championship — "the biggest prize pool in poker history," he adds.
But don't expect any major displays of emotion from this self-contained young man. After all, the ability to maintain an enigmatic facial expression is one of the skills that helped him outplay 340 other contestants in the Las Vegas tournament.


ONE HERITAGE, TWO WORLDS
Barry E. Snyder Jr. and Melvin L. Gates Jr. have a few things in common besides being named for their fathers. Both are in their 40s. Neither considers himself poor. And they both are Seneca Indians.
In another time, they might have been equals, living in communal longhouses and sharing in the annual harvest.
Today, they share only their Seneca heritage.
Snyder is among a couple dozen Seneca merchants who, thanks to the tax-free sale of cigarettes and gasoline, earned an estimated $162 million last year. That's what Neiman Marcus, with 62 department stores in 24 states, earned in 2002.


Jumping the Shark
It refers to the time on "Happy Days" when Fonzie jumped a shark on water skis. This is thought to be, by many, the defining point in which the program started going downhill.
There is a website dedicated to this phenomenon. It is www.jumptheshark.com and you can look up just about any TV show and find out when the series "jumped the shark," or turned sour, so to speak. Everybody has their own opinions on when shows jump the shark ? visit this site and find out how many you agree with.


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Today the Grand Ronde Tribe is one of the most prosperous in the West due to its Spirit Mountain Casino, about 75 miles southwest of Vancouver, which has made a $350 million profit in the nine years since it opened. The tribe has poured the gambling money into schools and medical facilities on the reservation, set up Indian language classes and is fostering traditional skills such as weaving and canoe building. The primary aims, LaBonte said, are to rebuild their tribe and serve the larger community.
The tribe also has established the Spirit Mountain Community Fund, which has doled out $25 million in grants to 11 Oregon counties to support causes as diverse as opera and feeding hungry children.
The unknown Indian guide who showed the explorers Western Oregon's key river will be honored anonymously at a Lewis and Clark commemorative event called Nishaqwli: Encounter at Blue Lake Park, Aug. 5-7, 2005. The tribe will also use the event, named for the village that stood for centuries across the Columbia River from Camas, to tell the story of the Grand Ronde Indians who lived on the Columbia's south bank.


More Online Casinos Get eCOGRA Approval
UNITED KINGDOM – (PRESS RELEASE) -- Following the announcement of the first 23 ultra-safe eCOGRA seal casinos only weeks ago, the player protection organisation has published a list of a further 16 successful candidates.
The board of directors of eCommerce and Online Gaming Regulation and Assurance (eCOGRA) approved the new seal-holders after extensive independent testing and inspections by professional teams from international audit group PricewaterhouseCoopers to ensure that they met the stringent requirements of the organisation regarding operational efficiency, fair gaming and player protection.


Web Gambling Advertisers Sidestep Google Censors
Despite Google's ban on accepting online gambling ads, Web wagering outfits are evading the search king's sentries. In recent days, searches on Google for terms including "online gambling"--and, just in time for last weekend's Kentucky Derby, "horse racing"--resulted in Google AdWords ads for online gambling sites. Google last month said it would ban online gambling ads. Unauthorized sponsored links to gambling sites are also showing up on About.com through its partnership with Google.
Google and Yahoo! on April 2 announced decisions to eliminate online gambling ads. Industry insiders point to legal threats from the U.S. Department of Justice to other media companies as the impetus for the search firms' new restrictions. Both companies declined to comment on whether they have received specific legal notices regarding the issue.


Computer Q&A: Search engines act to thwart online gambling
A month ago, betting on the NCAA basketball tournament was top of mind for many of us as we participated in pools by wagering on who was going to win their brackets. Next month, the table turns as online gambling starts to disappear in the United States. Not that online gambling really happened here.
For the most part, it only looked like it was happening here. Most of the wagering was done using offshore gambling Web sites
Sure, you could place a bet from the comfort of your own home or office. But you'd be placing your wager with a foreign entity operated in some strategic locale, such as Costa Rica, where gambling is legal.
Those offshore locations were selected specifically because the operators would be able to offer their gambling services without the fear of getting busted.


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