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• How Can We Keep Kids Off Internet Gambling Sites? Age-Verification Expert Michael Bolcerek

WASHINGTON, July 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Michael Bolcerek is senior vice president of Aristotle's Integrity identity and age verification division. He is a recognized expert and frequent panelist in the areas of U.S. and E.U. legislation and compliance for global Fortune 1000 companies in the land-based and online gaming industries. Aristotle's Integrity is relied upon by seven of the top ten remote gaming companies in the world to mitigate risk and permit adult-only access and compliance. Since 2000, Aristotle has testified, advised on and contributed draft language utilized by legislators and regulators to facilitate commercially reasonable adult access while restricting underage access in the U.S., U.K. and E.U.

• U.S. Newswire
• July 27, 2010

• Casino Referendum's Provisions Add Spice to Fight ; Foes Say Things Such As a Lower Gambling Age Should Doom the Plan; Backers Say Problems Can Be Fixed.

The proponents of Question 2 - the ballot measure to allow a casino in Oxford County - admit that the legislation has flaws. Dean Harrold, the Las Vegas developer who has taken over the campaign for Olympia Gaming, said he disagrees with a provision that would lower the minimum legal age for playing slot machines.

• Portland Press Herald
• September 18, 2008

• Lawmakers Propose Raising State Gambling Age Threshold to 21

OLYMPIA -- Problem-gambling activists, concerned about teen gambling and a television-promoted poker craze, are pushing legislation to lift the gambling age from 18 to 21, to match the legal drinking age. Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles, D-Seattle, and Rep. Mary Helen Roberts, D-Edmonds, introduced legislation in both houses on Friday.

• The Columbian
• January 16, 2006

• Regulated Internet Gambling and Age-Verification Technologies Effective in Combating Underage Internet Gambling

To: FAMILY EDITORS Contact: Michael Waxman, +1-202-872-0010, +1-202-872-4860, info@safeandsecureig.org, for Safe and Secure Internet Gambling Initiative

• U.S. Newswire
• August 07, 2007

• Question 2

In three weeks, voters will decide at the polls whether to approve a $184 million casino for Oxford County, lower the state gambling age and skip the usual appointment process to seat Dean Harrold, a Las Vegas executive, on nearly two dozen government boards. Those last two points - what casino proponent Olympia Gaming says it will seek to change if the referendum passes - are some of the twists in the 2-year-old campaign. Some others: The campaign's founder is facing possible disbarment. Its spokeswoman, a former Green Party vice presidential candidate, quit and came back. And eight silent partners remain so.

• Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.
• October 12, 2008

• Gambling Resorts and Casinos

7011 7993 7999 INDUSTRY SNAPSHOT The United States is fast becoming a nation of high rollers. A total of 53 million Americans visited casino...

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• The Ultimate Longshots

Most of the families live just off the grounds in Elmont, the bleak Long Island town adjoining the track, sharingapartments with other couples, and cutting across the parking lots of small businesses like Tobacco Junction and the Triple Crown Bar while walkingto work. Because track attendance has declined in this age of Internet gambling, Indian casinos, and questionable marketing tactics by the horse-racing industry, a few have had to pick up work, parkingcars and workingelevators at Aqueduct during the winter.

• Village Voice, The
• August 26, 2009

• Don't Tempt Young People Into Risky Behavior

Many parents, grandparents, friends and family members feel that it is acceptable to buy lottery and scratch-off tickets for young people as a gift or a stocking stuffer. However, in New York State, it is illegal for anyone under the age of 18 to purchase and/or redeem any form of lottery ticket. Here is one of the reasons: Early exposure to gambling increases the likelihood of developing a gambling addiction. Research shows that compared to adults, kids are two to three times more likely to develop a gambling addiction if they have been exposed to gambling at a young age.

• Buffalo News
• December 27, 2010

• Voters Need to See Revised Casino Bill

Forget, for a moment, the rhetoric of the Oxford County casino campaign and focus upon where everyone agrees: The enacting legislation, as currently written, is an unmitigated disaster. The text consumes - in landscape format - three pages of 11- by 17-inch paper. The bill drops Maine's gambling age to 19 and places the casino president as a "voting member" on numerous state boards.

• Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.
• October 08, 2008

• Paradigm Shift in Twelver Shi'i Legal Theory (Usul Al-Fiqh): Ayatullah Yusef Saanei

[...] if it is the mother who is summoning the child, then the directive is that she should interrupt the recommended ritual prayer and respond to her mother.60 Ayatullah Saanei makes use of this new epistemology and hermeneutic strategies when dealing with other issues pertaining to present-day society as well, such as the legality or prohibition of interest (riba) and use of gambling (qumar) instruments, minority rights, religious pluralism, bio-medical ethics, right of a wife to unilaterally divorce her husband, permissibility of women to occupy the position of judges or the highest religious post, and the age at which a person would become religiously accountable (mukallaf) and able to transact a marriage.61 Conclusion In the works of Ayatullah Saanei, one observes a major epistemol...

• Muslim World, The
• Vol. 99 Nbr. 2, April 2009