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In response to our study for the Seneca Nation, Dianne Bennett, a leader of the opposition to the Buffalo Creek Casino, said in Friday's News, "To my knowledge, there is not one economic study that hasn't been commissioned by the gambling industry or supported by gambling interests that says gambling is good for an economy.
A quick trip to the Web would expand her knowledge. She would find that a bipartisan commission, appointed by Congress and the president, assembled gambling proponents and opponents to look into the question. The National Gambling Impact Study Commission contracted two academic studies of casino impacts, and though they applied different methods, both studies linked casinos with economic vitality.
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This NPRM proposes to amend NHTSA's regulation regarding, ``Make Inoperative Exemptions, Vehicle Modifications to Accommodate People With Disabilities,'' to include a new exemption relating to the Federal motor vehicle safety standard for ejection mitigation. The regulation facilitates the mobility of physically disabled drivers and passengers. This document responds to a petition from Bruno Independent Living Aids.
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ORLANDO, Fla. -- Canon U.S.A., Inc., an award-winning provider of image capture solutions, will showcase the precision, speed and ease-of-use of its d...
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Community banks might well get an early return on their investment in document imaging systems. But before they compare the current costs with the potential savings of such a move, they must first detail exactly what they intend to accomplish, document imaging system providers say. To get the best bang for their technology buck, they should consider investing in document imaging solutions that are part of an enterprise content management system that creates and indexes electronic documents. Banks can potentially boost return on investment even further if they expand the use of such a system to virtually every department of the bank, system providers say. In figuring their potential document imaging system savings, community banks should also calculate the cost of losing paper files to n...
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Report shows knowledge of overcrowding, disease publicly denied by Cayman Turtle Farm for more than five months
NEW YORK, Jan. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In an Independent Veterinary Assessment document recently made available to the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) from July 2012, the popular island and cruise line attraction Cayman Turtle Farm, or CTF, has had knowledge of animal health and endangerment problems on their property for more than five months, despite denials to the contrary as recently as late December 2012. It wasn't until January 25, 2013 that the CTF publicly released a scientific report, which reaffirms the majority of WSPA findings.
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Senior service agencies that got shut out of United Way's new funding model that targets at-risk kids in poverty will continue to receive city/county funds aimed to support independent-living programs.
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EPA is announcing the peer review panel members assembled by an independent contractor to evaluate the draft document titled, ``An Assessment of Potential Mining Impacts on Salmon Ecosystems of Bristol Bay, Alaska'' (EPA-910-R-12-004a-c). EPA is also announcing a three week public comment period for the draft charge questions to be provided to the peer review panel. The assessment was prepared by the U.S. EPA's Region 10 Office (Pacific Northwest and Alaska), EPA's Office of Water, and EPA's Office of Research and Development. The U.S. EPA conducted this assessment to determine the significance of Bristol Bay's ecological resources and evaluate the potential impacts of large- scale mining on these resources.
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Document: Independent report on the "San Marino Incident
PASADENA - Lack of communication between commanders and sloppy search efforts were to blame for Pasadena Fire Department's failure to find a woman's body in a burned-out garage in July, according to a scathing report released Monday by City Manager Michael Beck.
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Company Named Leader in Structured Output for Solutions that Enable Organizations to Create, Format and Deliver Personalized and Interactive Customer ...
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By 2008, executives of the now-bankrupt Brown Publishing Co. presented a no-win situation. In a meeting that January, they acknowledged they had "inflated" and "fabricated" circulation numbers for newspapers in Troy, Piqua and Sidney, and major advertisers were pressing them to back up those numbers with an independent circulation audit.
In a document presented at the meeting, Becky Smith, advertising manager for the Sidney Daily News, laid out the problem succinctly. "If we decide to audit," she said, "the circulation totals will be far less than our claimed numbers, which will greatly affect overall preprint (advertising) revenues. If, however, we do not soon provide clients with verification, their threats to pull advertising could occur.