The first workplace bill to reach President Barack Obama’s desk is a pay-related law. Just days after the inauguration on Jan. 29, 2009, Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act into law, which is retroactively effective May 28, 2007. The swift enactment of the Ledbetter Act is not surprising since Lilly Ledbetter was a fixture in the Obama campaign.
Read about industry news and happenings here, with briefs such as TCSJOHNHUXLEY signs Aristocrat distribution agreement, First field inspection of gaming devices held in S. America, GLI Italy completes expansion, JCM hires sales director for Germany, Eclipse Compliance Testing expands, FutureLogic signs representation agreement with Modern Gaming, AGEM's seven new members and more!
On Feb. 23 and 24, some of the very best and most respected professionals in the gaming and racing industries gathered at the 5th Annual Pennsylvania Gaming Congress & Mid-Atlantic Racing Forum (PGC) to address current and hot-button issues. Held in Harrisburg, Pa., the event was organized and produced by the Spectrum Gaming Group and presented by Fox Rothschild.
See new Class III slots from major manufacturers in April 2009: Aristocrat's Big Ride, Konami's Wings of Liberty 2X, IGT's Good Times Pay Poker, IGT's Glitter & Gold REELdepth, Ainsworth's Jungle Monkeys, WMS' 3-Reel Mechanical Multi-Game, Bally's River Wild, Cadillac Jack's Tiger Magic, SPIELO's Treasures of Nottingham and ATRONIC’s Deal or No Deal—The Experience.
Stimulus. Spendulus. Depending on your political persuasion the name may change, but whatever the moniker, there is a new $800 billion gorilla in the United States following the enactment of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Tax Act of 2009. The act has plenty of new incentives designed specifically for Indian country.
In our earlier series of articles, we showed how market basket analysis can be used to produce a set of customer behavioral clusters. Once clustering is complete, the next step is the identification and analysis of the individual clusters. This article focuses on how clustering information can be incorporated into forecasting models to improve the forecasts (for variables such as revenue) for each cluster.
It’s no secret there is a great deal of confusion surrounding server-based gaming, networked gaming or whatever you want to call it in our industry. That’s why CEM developed a special guide to help create an open forum for discussion on all things server-based. The first edition of this special supplement sheds light on the confusion and mystery surrounding networked gaming, as our contributors share essays on their vision of networked gaming and what it holds for the industry.
By Glenn Light, Karl Rutledge and Quinton Singleton
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Glenn Light, Karl Rutledge and Quinton Singleton
Nevada’s gaming industry is in large part self-regulating. Gaming companies must take on the onerous task of drafting and submitting their compliance plans for approval. Once approved and implemented, the division regularly audits these compliance plans to ensure that companies are complying with their plans and to determine whether their company cultures embrace compliance.
In November, Maryland voters overwhelmingly approved up to 15,000 VLTs under five licenses in an effort to boost the state's flagging budget. High hopes, intertwined with inflated expectations, dominated the VLT discussions. But operators aren't biting. What's to blame?
With all the difficult times and bad economic news that has been assaulting our senses over the past year, it’s very refreshing to focus on a success story for a change, and the miracle of Indian gaming is just that. Just a little more than 20 years ago, the 1988 California Supreme Court case California v. Cabazon Band of Indians, 480 U.S. 202 paved the way for tribal governments to tap into a new economic engine—casinos.
