Would Re-Criminalizing U.S. Gambling Pump-Prime the Economy and Could U.S. Gambling Facilities Be Transformed into Educational and High-Tech Facilities?: Will the Legal Discovery of Gambling Companies' Secrets Confirm Research Issues?

Economists and sociologists noted that the economic justifications for decriminalized gambling such as claims of new jobs, public revenues, and business development were the same types of arguments that Lincoln decried as being utilized to justify slavery in the 1800s, and which could still be utilized to justify decriminalizing illegal drugs in the present era. ... Thereafter, as pro-gambling interests returned to Nebraska, they were repeatedly rebuffed by the academic community, which was exemplified in one instance by 40 economists publicly rejecting new gambling proposals that would "cannibalize" the consumer economy. ... To conceptualize the socio-economic impacts of decriminalized gambling, it is beneficial to illustrate or visualize the gambling industry's identified "feeder markets" for a particular gambling facility, such as a casino. ... The secondary "feeder market" is typically a 100-mile radius around the casino and can include a quasi-tourist market -- although a gambling tourist should not be defined as a pre-existing tourist, but a new tourist from out-of-state who would not otherwise cross the state line if not for the gambling facility. ... If pro-gambling interests can focus the geographic scope of any study to within a mile or a few miles of the gambling activity, such as a casino, the limited scope generally influences the results to reflect favorably on economic and crime statistics. ... Contradicted and embarrassed by their own "feeder market" analyses, after the mid-1990s it became increasingly difficult to find gambling interests that publicly identified their feeder markets. ...published or submitted for publicationis peer reviewe

Follow the Money: Gambling, Ethics, and Subpoenas

Since the Watergate era, when investigative reporters were advised to "follow the money" to find the facts, this principle has been reaffirmed several times as the mechanism for the fourth estate to scourge crime and corruption from government, lobbying activities, and the political process (Bernstein and Woodward 1975, 35). ... In 1995 in Virginia, a state with only some charitable gambling and a recently enacted lottery, casino proponents hired 48 lobbyists who represented practically every lobbying firm in the state capital in an attempt to prohibit any antigambling lobbyists from competing. ... The unlimited amounts of money available to the gambling industry would also corrupt the governmental system according to Nat Helms, a former high-ranking member of the gambling industry's 1994 campaign that brought video gambling machines to Missouri. ... Under the dominant influence of legislation proposed and even drafted by the gambling interests, during the 1980s and 1990s states not only legalized gambling activities but also legislated special economic and liability protections for the gambling industry that were unavailable to other businesses. ... The AGA's chairman, Frank Fahrenkopf, in addressing gambling industry leaders, has constantly extolled the political clout of the "moral opponents" of gambling and linked the NCALG to the Christian Coalition in an effort to raise millions of dollars for the AGA (which has approximately a $4.6 million budget, compared to just over$ 100,000 for the NCALG). ... With Gambling Study on Table, Las Vegas Hedging Early.published or submitted for publicationis peer reviewe

Self-Imposed Violations of Privacy in Virtual Communities

Virtual communities have grown in recent years due to the accessibility and ease of setting up web pages on communal Internet sites. Organizations, including companies that seek to hire new employees, often scan these web sites as part of their background checking process. One of the most prominent sites is MySpace.com. This research investigates issues of privacy and self-violation of privacy in virtual communities. The results indicate that individuals willingly provide personal information that may actually violate their privacy.Virtual communities; privacy; violations of privacy; MySpace; Information Systems; online social networks.

USDA Forest Service mobile satellite communications applications

The airborne IR signal processing system being developed will require the use of mobile satellite communications to achieve its full capability and improvement in delivery timeliness of processed IR data to the Fire Staff. There are numerous other beneficial uses, both during wildland fire management operations or in daily routine tasks, which will also benefit from the availability of reliable communications from remote areas

A study of the correlation between reaction time, depth perception, visual span of apprehension, and a basketball skills test of high school male basketball players.

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Evaluating research - Peer review team assessment and journal-based bibliographic measures: New Zealand PBRF research output scores in 2006

This paper concerns the relationship between the assessment of the research of individual academics by peer or expert review teams with a variety of bibliometric schemes based on journal quality weights. Specifically, for a common group of economists from New Zealand departments of economics the relationship between Performance-Based Research Fund (PBRF) Research Output measures for those submitting new research portfolios in 2006 are compared with evaluations of journal based research over the 2000-2005 assessment period. This comparison identifies the journal weighting schemes that appear most similar to PBRF peer evaluations. The paper provides an indication of the ‘power or aggressiveness’ of PBRF evaluations in terms of the weighting given to quality. The implied views of PBRF peer review teams are also useful in assessing common assumptions made in evaluating journal based research

Regional geochemical studies in county Limerick, Ireland : with particular reference to selenium and molybdenum

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