...degree, but I am up to the challenge. This is a different approach to school but my first 5-weeks went rather well so I am looking forward to these 5-weeks. At first I was going for my degree in Business Administration, but I decided that I should go for my passion and that is helping people, because I know in the long run it will pay off tremendously and I will have helped so many children, teenagers, people in general and I will TRULY love that because it is my passion. In my spare time I love to spend time with my friends, family, hubby and twins. I love to go to movies, zumba, working out and just soaking in whatever spare time I can. Right now the little spare time I have is consumed with working full-time at WMS a manufacturer of slot machines, being a mom, wife, big sister, friend and student, but I love it. I wish you all well in our next 5...
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...Table of Contents Introduction………………………………….….…..…..Pg. 3 Broad Overview of the Gaming Industry…………....….Pg. 4 Trends……………………………………………..…….Pg. 5 Is My Business Fit for Gaming…………..…..................Pg. 6 Larry Katz of Dot’s Diner………………….……….…..Pg. 7 Lessons Learned……………….......................................Pg. 7 Conclusion…………………………………….….……..Pg. 8 Works Cited……………………………………………..Pg. 9 There are many industries that are out there providing jobs for many different people in this world. There is however, quite none like the Gaming Industry. The beginning of gambling can be traced to religious rituals in pre-historic societies. The rituals had a purpose of predicting the future. The procedure of the rituals was simple and consisted of “casting the lots” throwing small objects like pebbles, sticks, nuts, arrows etc. out of the palms of the hands or any container (Hoovers, 2012). The result was checked to see if the number of the objects on the ground was “odd” or “even”. “Even” number meant a positive outcome and “odd” stood for a negative one. With time that process became more complex and also involved interpreting the patterns of the objects lying on the ground. The next step in the evolution of these rituals integrated the sacrifices from the participants to encourage the fate of the Gods to deliver positive signs and help. The sacrifices were normally personal stakes which turned those involved from observers into active players of the process...
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...UNCC 100 Topic: Poker Machines: Hitting it big or a big hit? If an individual believes in a religion, any sort of Gambling is deemed wrong and illegal. However, in the realistic world we humans are never perfect, be it religion, values, personality and culture. This essay is regarding a sector of Gambling: Poker Machines and would look into 3 perspectives (Hotel Industry, State Government & Social Service Organizations) which discusses the approaches and reforms made by the perspectives that supports common good to the community. This leads to the questions, would the Poker Machines help the economy just because the State Government receives taxes from Industry and in turn funneled to run community projects and resources that benefit the community, Poker Machines help the Hotel industry in revenue and that justifies employment, or would the community suffer and social services are needed at the expense of tax. The term 'Pokies - Poker Machines' is part of the Australian culture, statics show Australia is ranked 10th in the world for 'number of people per gaming machine' and ranked 6th in the world for 'number of machines by country'. That is 1 poker machine to every 108 individuals, located in RSLs, Hotels and Casinos and the total sum is 200,000 poker machines (Gaming Technologies Association, 2010). There is a correlation between common good and social justice when assessing the perspectives approach and reforms suggested in regards to the hotel industry, state...
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...Topic Selection The topic that I have chosen to do my research is Gaming: Regulations and Addiction. I am not a gambler. I never have been a gambler nor do I intend to participate in gambling in the forseeable future. However, I have the need to discuss this particular topic in anyway possible because I have noticed that gaming as a whole, has been gaining ground more than ever, especially in the rural America. Gaming has an impact on our society in such a negative way and has affected many people nationally and globally, gaming has affected some of people that I have grown up with and have known most of my life, including my mother who's now addicted to computer slot machine gaming. I see and the understand the catastrophic impact that gaming has on the people from my community, let alone my own mother, which is why I came to choose this topic. Three Research Questions 1.) Does gaming have any positive contribution to our society? I strongly believe it is crucial that we determine if gaming has an actual positive effect in our society or it is just an absolute disruption to our ethical views in life. I truly think that it is the latter but it is important that we take a look on different aspects of gaming as a whole before we can conclude upon it. 2.) Is there an ethical need for new regulations in gaming as a whole? It is critically important to review all the regulations that were put on gaming to...
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...stations attempting to access the channel at the same time. Suppose that time is divided into discrete slots, with each stations attempting to transmit with probability p during each slot. What fraction of slots are wasted due to multiple simultaneous transmission attempts? The fraction of slots wasted due to multiple transmission attempts is equal to the probability that there will be 2 or more transmission attempts in a slot. So: Probability[2 or more attempts] = 1 – Probability[no attempts] – Probablity[exactly 1 attempt] = 1 - (1-P)^N - N × (P × (1-P)^N-1) 3. A simple medium access control protocol would be to use a fixed assignment time division multiplexing (TDM) scheme. Each station is assigned one time slot per cycle for transmission. For the bus, the length of each slot is the time to transmit 100 bits plus the ene-to-end propagation delay. For the ring, assume a delay of 1 bit time per station, and assume that a round-robin assignment is used. Stations monitor all time slots for reception. Assume a propagation time of 2×10^8 m/s. For N stations, what is the throughput per station for a. A 1-Km, 10 Mbps baseband bus b. A 10-Mbps ring with a total length of 1Km a. Slot Time = Transmission Time and Propagation Time Transmission Time = (Number of bits / Rate) Propagation Rate = 200,000,000 m / Second Slot Rate = 1 / slot time = 100 bits per slot Propagation Time = (104 / 2)(108) = 50 µs...
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...HM 322 Entire Course For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com HM 322 Week 1 Individual Assignment United States Gaming Industry Worksheet HM 322 Week 1 DQ 1 HM 322 Week 1 DQ 2 HM 322 Week 2 Individual Assignment Effects of Gaming on Society Paper HM 322 Week 2 DQ 1 HM 322 Week 3 Individual Assignment Staffing a Casino HM 322 Week 3 Individual Assignment Economic Impact of Gaming Enterprises Presentation HM 322 Week 3 DQ 1 HM 322 Week 4 Individual Assignment Regulation and Ethical Issues in the Gaming Industry Paper HM 322 Week 4 DQ 1 HM 322 Week 5 Individual Assignment Baderman Island Casino Development Paper HM 322 Week 5 DQ 1 --------------------------------------------------------------- HM 322 Week 1 DQ 1 For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Class, In the article, "Two Studies show disparate triggers for gambling" argue that the closer you are to living by a casino the more likely you are to become a problem gambler. My first thought was that the article does not address the inner motivations and relying on a geographic location seems like an obvious answer. What are your thoughts? Do you think in general that proximity to things makes you do those activities. Could we make the same argument for someone who lives near the ocean would become a compulsive surfer? Is there a better way to identify triggers? How might one recognize a problem gambling...
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...more casino’s making more from the non-gaming side of the business than from the on-floor casino gambling. No longer is betting a requirement for a casino to earn money from visitors. While the gambler is still the profit king, casinos have begun to recognize customers who don’t gamble but enjoy the other amenities, thereby contributing to the resort’s revenue stream. Recently, a new trend that is spreading throughout casinos have developed methods to track those customers who aren’t players by issuing them players club cards that are recognized in all the non-gaming areas of the hotel. From rooms to restaurants, spas to pools, customers can now get the same kind of credit for buying products and services that gamblers do for playing slots or tables. Casinos today want to recognize the customer with every interaction to develop a continuing relationship with that customer. By creating these systems, casinos can attract new customers by capturing their data and understanding their needs and desires. The payoff is more frequent visits, a larger share of revenue and keeping the customer at the property longer for non-gaming activities. Calculating the potential spending habits of a customer...
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...Brown Week 2 Assignment Analyzing Casino Money- Handling Processes 1. Drop Process How long should it take to empty 300 silver dollar slot machines? 15 min + 10 min (300 slot machines) + (300 slot machines/ 20 buckets per cart)(30 minutes delivery per cart)= 15 + 3000+450 = 3465 min / 60mins = 57 hrs and 45 mins 2. Hard Count Process How long should this process take to complete for 300 silver dollar slot machines? Assume that each slot machine has an average of 750 silver dollars when its emptied 10min weight scales + 7min per bucket(300 machines) +[ (750 per bucket * 300 machines)/25 per roll] / 10 rolls per min + (9000 rolls/40roll per can)(5min to fill and stack) + 5 min to record on report + (9000 rolls/40roll per can)(2 min per can verification) = 10+2100+900+1125+450+5 = 4590mins / 60 = 76.50 hours 3. Purchasing a second coin wrapping machine would enhance the hard count process. They would be able to complete twice as many rolls per minute and you can complete the process in half the time. With a new machine the process would have to be revised so you don’t have jams in the conveyer belt. I am not sure that purchasing this machine would be the most desirable because technology is advancing and developing and such a rapid rate that casino’s may want to look into upgrading the actual slot machines. 4. Electric slot machines that do not use cash would have a huge impact on the process because now the process would have to change completely. New procedures...
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...Intel Processor Transistor Count Processor Model Year Transistor Count 4004 1971 2300 8080 1974 6000 8086 1978 29000 80286 1982 134000 386 DX Processor 1985 275000 386 SL Processor 1990 855000 Pentium Pro Processor 1995 5.5 million Pentium 3 Xeon Processor 2000 28 million Celeron M Processor 383-333 2004 140 Million Core i7 940 2008 731 Million Quad core itanium Tukwila 2010 2 billion Core I7-3930K 2011 2.27 billion The first processor that contained two billion transistors is the Intel Quad core Itanium Tukwila processing chip. The chip was first announced in 2008 but was delayed. In February 2010 the processor was released to the public. Looking at the growth of transistors and using Dr Gordan Moore’s law, which states that “every 18 to 24 months the growth the processing power will double” has over all remained true with some exceptions. From my sources the transistor count roughly stayed the same from 1974 to 1976 as well as from 1985 to 1988. Looking at the rate of transistor growth, for me, besides some periods of slow development namely from 1993 to 1998, as a whole it seems surprisingly fast as the years have passed. To use some examples in 1997 Intel released the 8088 chip which contained 29000 transistors, 1 year later they released the 80286 chip that has 134000 transistors, that’s quadruple the amount of transistors in 1 year. Another example is from April 2007 to march 2008 the count went from 167million...
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...buildings are inspired from Ancient Rome. The Palace comprises of more than 3,000 rooms and suites, 25 unique restaurants and about 50,000 sq. ft. of Qua Baths and Spa. The Wynn Macau, China Hop on a low-cost flight to Macau and head to The Wynn. The casino features more than 200,000 sq. ft. of gaming area; about 1,000 luxurious rooms, 1,000 slot machines and 500 table games. The Wynn also entices shoppers with a shopping...
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...Scruffy duck slots NetEnt is known for delivering some of the most exotic and enthralling slot games that the world has ever seen. BitStarz has played host to many of this game providers best offerings over the years, but it’s safe to say that its latest offering is a release of an entirely different persuasion. Scruffy Duck sends players to the local pond for some rather unorthodox real money slots action. Featuring 5 reels, 25 paylines, and a somewhat innocent theme, you could be forgiven in thinking that Scruffy Duck would be a low-variance offering. Oh, how wrong you would be, as this game is high volatility and isn’t afraid to present players with a big-time challenge. If you’re up for the hunt, Scruffy Duck is a game that’ll test your luck, patience, and skill! Gameplay The 25 paylines in Scruffy Duck are fixed, so players needn’t have to worry about grasping...
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...Crimson Shadow Laura Jones English 102-92 12 June 2010 Loving the Untamed Artist Norman Maclean was a well-established English professor at the University of Chicago for many years before writing an account of his life in the western Rocky Mountains during the early 1900’s titled A River Runs Through It. Maclean focuses much of this account on the experiences of his brother, Paul, and himself. These experiences further centralize around the brothers’ primitive pastime, fly fishing. The plot twists through childhood memories and growing pains to unveil his life’s disappointments, risks, and losses. A few habitual values surface from within these pages. Through the relationship of two brothers, Norman Maclean’s A River Runs Through It depicts the values of unconditional love, self-control, and appreciation for art. Expressed with acute emotional detail, A River Runs Through It combines positive and negative experiences to give a clear meaning to unconditional love. Maclean does not waste many pages before giving himself a conscientious loving-brother image. The first negative circumstance which would hinder Norman’s perception of his younger brother, Paul, occurs early in the story. Norman reacts to this situation by “[standing] still until [he can] again see the woman in bib overalls marveling at his shadow casting” (Maclean 37). He thinks back to a positive memory of his brother before approaching his holding cell to take him home. Norman reinforces his character with honesty...
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...the commissioners organized resident events around the country to collect views from every section of society (McGowan, 2007). Does the harmful side effect of legalized gambling far out weight any positive aspects? Over the last decade, including the launch of the National Lottery as well as admission to internet casino, the development associated with betting has become remarkable. Because of this phenomenal progress certain critical issues has been presented. Such as even though, gambling do not exactly employ a great track record. Most often experts view it as an addiction. Furthermore, the betting activities done inside gambling places, for instance poker, live dealer online roulette, dice, black jack, and wagering devices like the slots are regard as genuine and lawful types of gambling in the majority of countries. Betting at the any kind of competitions is also one lawful form of gambling in some places. Whole towns as far back anyone can think have been created on this pastime; providing thousands of people a way of life, leisure time, and others a negative outlook on the future. The harmful side effect of legalized gambling far out weight any positive aspects. This is a point that can be argued. Some might say that the positive aspect of legalized gambling far out weight the harmful side effects that occur. According to an article “Gambling Problem”, The most basic consequence of excessive gambling is financial. To deal with...
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...can teach those more comfortable with slots how to put down at least $5 a hand at a card table. The casino bar band has conga drums and roaming cocktail waitresses offering shots of top-shelf tequilas. "It feels comfortable here, like we're welcome and we belong," said Pascual Campos, 45, who came from Palmdale, Calif., with his mother, his cousin, his wife and their two children. "I don't pay for rooms, I don't pay for meals, I don't pay for concerts. I just pay to play 21. They treat me like a king for that. Of course I want to come back." Many of the guests coming in for the weekend were something of regulars. Like its counterparts in Las Vegas, the hotel tries to cultivate a kind of loyalty among gamblers by offering free meals, rooms and other perks to those who spend the most money. Here, someone who spends $1,000 in a weekend is seen as a high roller. In Las Vegas, that kind of spending would not even catch a pit boss's eye. Clearly, one of the main goals of the marketing is getting people through the casino doors who might not otherwise be there, or at least not as often. While the casino has put considerable effort into the Spanish-speaking tables, the slots are the game of choice here. There are scores of penny slots. "You don't need to spend a lot of money to win," said Lourdes Pena, 26, sounding like a commercial for the casino as she instructed her friend Maria Ramirez, 24 and a gambling rookie, to stick with two slot machines at a...
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...In 2001, my husband and I traveled to Las Vegas, Nevada, to celebrate our honeymoon. We stayed there for 2 weeks. Las Vegas is a beautiful place. We visited lots of Casinos and even went out into the desert to hike. The Casinos were some of the most beautiful places ever seen. The carpet in most casinos, have a floral type design with lots of colors. There are slot machines and video poker machines everywhere in the casino. Most Casinos have an enormous arcade with every game you can think of. One Casino had virtual rides; they were miniature theaters with about ten seats. The one I rode on was a virtual roller coaster, we sat down and these huge fans that you can’t see turn on and on the screen you see the roller coaster like you are sitting in the front car, as the movie is playing the seats move and jerk around like you were really on a roller coaster. It’s a pretty wild ride. At the end you run into a wall, it scares the hell out of you. There were two other rides like that, one was a train ride that goes crazy and ends up falling off a cliff, and the other is a super-fast sports car that goes on a wild ride and gets a flat tire at the end. We visited about 8 casinos. One of them had two huge white tigers. Another had a pool with dolphins. The MGM grand had a volcano that really spit out fire. We watched a duck get toasted that was swimming in the water when the volcano...
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