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The group behind a second Philadelphia casino set to open in 2020 is now making plans to build not one, but two new casino properties. Stadium Casino, LLCs $40 million bid to build a satellite casino in Westmoreland County in the Pittsburgh Metropolitan Statistical Area was the highest of four received by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board this week. The bid was a part of the second in a series of satellite casino project auctions. As a result, it won the auction. Stadium now has two business days to pay the $40,100,005 it bid. Additionally, it has another six months to submit an application for a Category 4 satellite casino slot machine license. Category 4 slot machine licenses permit the operation of between 300 and 750 slot machines. License holders can also apply for permission to operate up to 30 table games for an additional fee of $2.5 million. Additionally, after the first year of operation, ten more table games can be added. Penn National Gaming vs. Pennsylvania In the states first auction held on Jan. 10, a subsidiary of Penn National Gaming that operates Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course was the high bidder. Its $50 million bid is for a satellite casino in York County. York County is just south of the capital city of Harrisburg and north of the Mason-Dixon line. However, Penn National Gaming is also suing the state to have the buffer zones around existing casinos where satellite casinos cannot be built changed to better protect its Hollywood Casino. Stadium Casino, LLC is a joint venture between the Cordish Companies and Greenwood Gaming & Entertainment. Greenwood currently operates Parx Casino just outside Philadelphia. Additionally, Cordish Companies US casino projects include two Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casinos in Hollywood and Tampa, Florida and the Maryland Live! Hotel & Casino in Hanover, Maryland. Philadelphias second casino The joint venture already holds a Category 2 license for a major casino project in Philadelphia. Plans were to open in the first quarter of 2018. However, a legal battle and question regarding casino ownership laws in the state forced delays. Questions arose regarding whether Greenwood principal Watche Bob Manoukians ownership interest in Parx and the new Philadelphia casino project represented a breach of casino ownership laws in the state. However, the state eventually gave Manoukian the thumbs up. Additionally, Philadelphias only other casino, SugarHouse Casino, dropped an appeal of the projects gaming license after the new gambling law changed ownership standards. Ultimately, the company received the gaming license granted to it by the state and a building permit. Construction on the $600 million casino and entertainment complex will begin sometime this year. It will go up at the former Packer Avenue Holiday Inn property located in South Philadelphias sports stadium district. The complex will include a 200-plus room hotel, five restaurants, nightclubs, and a parking garage. Its casino will feature 2,000 slot machines and 125 table games. It will open in 2020. Opening beside the citys sports stadiums should make it a true destination for fans of gambling and sports. Owners claim it will be the first comprehensive gaming, resort, entertainment, and sports destination in the US. The Pittsburgh-area gaming market Satduimss satellite casino will obviously be much smaller in scale and scope. However, it does represent a move into the Pittsburgh-area gaming market. Pittsburgh is Pennsylvanias second-largest city. SugarHouse Casino owners Rush Street Gaming already have a stronghold on the intersection of sports and gambling there. In fact, its Rivers Casino Pittsburgh is in the citys North Shore neighborhood, just a short walk from Heinz Field. The 68,400-seat Heinz Field stadium is home to the Pittsburgh Steelers National Football League franchise. Photo by Joshua Haviv / Shutterstock.com
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Thanks To Sands Snafu, Parx Casino Nabs Fourth Mini-Casino License
It wasnt quite Buckner-esque, but it was close. This past Wednesday, Sands Casino won the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Boards (PGCB) fourth lottery for a satellite casino license or so they thought. The PGCB announced that Sands winning bid was invalid because the casinos proposed satellite site was too close to Mount Airys satellite casino near the Ohio border. The day following the error, the PGCB award the fourth license to Parx. The casinos victory came by default since they were the only other casino bidding on the license.. Their winning bid of $8.11 million was rather paltry considering the first three auctions earned the state $112 million. Parx will build near Penn Nationals Yoe County satellite As per the PGCBs regulations for the satellite auctions, Parx submitted their bid along with the coordinates of where they will build their satellite. Greenwood Gaming Entertainment, the group who owns Parx, selected South Newton Township (Cumberland County) as the site of their mini-casino. The location is about 50 miles due west of Yoe, where Penn National will build their satellite. The two casinos will capture, presumably, PA gambling traffic headed south across the Maryland border to gamble at Hollywood Casino Perryville and Hollywood Casino at Charles Town. South Newton lies near Interstate 81 while Yoe is on Interstate 83. Both casinos, therefore, will cover a lot of southern traffic headed in and out of Harrisburg. According to traffic volume figures from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (DOT), about 45,000 vehicles travel along the section of Interstate 81 that passes through South Newton. The department estimates that 51,000 vehicles pass by Yoe via Interstate 83 each day, with an additional 11,000 driving through on Route 74. Parx fortuitous win pushes auction revenue past $120 million The states first four lotteries have been a revenue success, netting $121 million. Penn National won the first license for $51 million. Stadium Gaming LLC, whose Philly Live! will be the fourth Philly-area casino, won the second license for $41 million. Then, Mount Airy snagged the third one for $21 million. The trend among these winning bids is noticeable, as the price for a satellite dropped significantly after each lottery. Even Sands original winning bid of $9.89 million was well below the first three but well within the downward trend. Sands win is considered a steal because the minimum bid amount for the licenses is $7.5 million. Six licenses are still available for Category 1 and 2 casinos. Should any of those remaining six licenses go unpurchased, the PGCB will open up a second round of auctions. That auction will include Category 3 casinos Valley Forge and Lady Luck Nemacolin. Wed expect SugarHouse Casino to make a bid for one of the licenses at some point. Parx owned 17.6 percent of the states gambling revenue in 2016. SugarHouse was second with 9.6 percent. While its not a guarantee that SugarHouse will make a play for a satellite license, theres a good chance they will. Harrahs is nipping at their heels with a 7.6-percent share. It will most likely want a satellite so they can keep pace with Parx and the forthcoming Philly Live!.
Gov. Wolf Thinks New Online Games Will Turn Lotto Revenue Around
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf says online lottery sales should help turn around the fortunes of the states declining PA Lottery program. According to Department of Revenue financial statements, the PA lottery posted $1.04 billion in revenue in the last fiscal year. However, that number was down more than $75 million from the previous fiscal year. Now, in his budget for the 2018/19 fiscal year laid out earlier this month, Wolf claims new lottery games will bring in an additional $71 million. The new games include online lottery and Monitor Games games including Virtual Sports and Keno. Wolf announced a plan to launch Monitor Games at PA lottery retailers, bars, and taverns in October 2017. Later that month, state lawmakers also passed a comprehensive gambling expansion bill authorizing the launch of online lottery sales, online slots, online poker, and online table games. Improving the fiscal condition of the PA Lottery The Governors Budget in Brief document says the government is taking steps to improve the fiscal condition of the Lottery: The PA lottery plans to launch online lottery games this spring. Pennsylvania Lottery spokesperson Gary Miller told the Capitolwire news and information service (subscription) this week it is all a part of a plan to update an aging lottery program: PA Lottery proceeds go to elderly residents The Pennsylvania Lottery first launched 1972. All proceeds have gone to programs for elderly residents as mandated by the government since that time. This includes underwriting tax and rent rebates as well as prescription drug subsidies for eligible senior citizens. In January, PA Lottery spokesperson Jeffrey A. Johnson told TribLive.com online lottery sales will generate up to $250 million in new profits over the first five years. Other major initiatives in the Governors $33 billion budget for the 2018/19 fiscal year include increasing funding for public schools and raising the minimum wage. Plus, Wolf plans to place a new tax on natural gas drillers. The budget takes effect July 1 if approved by the state legislature. Photo by George Sheldon / Shutterstock.com
When It Comes To Skins, Parx Says The Fewer, The Better
A pair of Pennsylvania casinos is pushing for a limit on the number of online gambling websites licensees can launch. However, industry insiders say limits on skins also puts a limit on competition, innovation, and revenue. For both operators and the state. Pennsylvania lawmakers passed a comprehensive gambling expansion bill in October 2017. The new law authorizes the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board to issue licenses for online slots, online table games, and online poker operations. Existing casinos in the state will get the first crack at them. Casinos can purchase all three licenses at once for $10 million. Individual licenses for any of the three online gambling categories will then be available at $4 million each. Outside entities can apply for whats left of the 39 total licenses. If any of the states 12 casinos, or owners of the under-construction Stadium Casino project in Philadelphia, pass. The gaming control board is currently in the process of putting together regulations. This includes clarifying exactly what the licenses will allow and defining the application process. Parx Casino says one skin is enough Last week, gambling legislation watchdog GamblingCompliance (paywall) released a letter from Parx Casino to the board. The letter details Parx preferences for state regulations. It also includes the idea that skins be limited to just one: Parx also wants the board to ensure all online gambling operators and license holders share the same branding: Penn National Gaming, owner and operator of the Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course in Grantville, PA, has previously stated it wants the number of skins limited as well. Protecting its own interests Parx is the top-grossing brick-and-mortar casino in PA. Throughout the legislative process leading to the new online gambling laws, Parx executives expressed fear opening an online gambling market in PA would cannibalize the existing casino industry. Parx pushed for tax rate equity and in-person registration to try to protect its own interests. Parx effort to limit the number of skins appears to be part of a similar strategy. However, a gambling industry trade group says limiting skins is anti-competitive. Plus, its says allowing multiple skins will be good for the industry as a whole. The iDevelopment and Economic Association (iDEA) wrote a letter to the board pushing for no limit on the number of skins. Or, limiting the number to five skins per licensee like New Jersey does: Limiting skins limits competition The iDEA letter also says limiting operators to a single skin would act as a limit on competition. The organization claims smaller casino operations may not be able to afford to get in the market. Unless they can subsidize the expense through revenue sharing skin agreements: The letter also says PA lawmakers considered a skins limit in drafting the legislation. However, they chose not to insert one. Therefore, it was never their intention. Finally, iDEA points to the New Jersey online casino industry and the $20 million in monthly revenue it is generating. It says New Jersey is a successful model with a five skin per operator limit PA can easily follow:
Next Up For Gambling Expansion: VGT Application Process Underway
Video gaming terminals (VGTs) were on the ropes several times over the past two years of failed legislation among Pennsylvania lawmakers. VGTs, however, roared back from many legislative deaths and found its own nook among the states gambling expansion bill. The legislation allows the terminals to operate in truck stops that meet certain sales and size requirements. And, this past week, the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB) announced that applications are available for download on the PGCB site. According to a press release, applicants will have to fill out the necessary paperwork, provide fingerprints, and fix any errors. From there, the PGCB will conduct a background check. Applications will be accepted starting May 7. VGT history and current regulations VGTs have long been the bane of casinos because these gaming terminals represent a competitor that can show up in just about any truck stop that meets the requirements the PGCB lists:
Has diesel islands for commercial vehicles
Sells 50K gallons of diesel or biodiesel fuel in past 12 months or is projected to do so in the next 12 months
At least 20 parking spots for big rigs
Has a convenience store that sells PA lottery games
Property is at least 3 acres In other words, the state wants VGTs to appear in legitimate trucks stops with steady sales, trucker traffic, and an existing relationship with the PA Lottery. The new law was not intended to put VGTs in 7-11s and mom-and-pop gas stations across the state. What is perhaps most interesting about the new legislation is that it allows for up to five terminals to be placed in a truck stop. There was no explanation from lawmakers as to why such a small number of terminals will be allowed. Possible theories include an anticipation that hundreds of truck stops would participate and thus five terminals per station was enough or that five terminals are all anti-VGT lawmakers would accept. All 10 opt-out counties have casinos The law also gave counties an opt-out clause, which means they can decide if they want VGTs within their borders. The deadline for those opt-outs was Dec. 29. The PGCBs most recent list shows that 10 counties opted out, all 10 of which are home to casinos:
Bucks County: Parx Casino
Dauphin County: Penn National
Delaware County: Harrahs
Erie County: Presque Isle
Luzerne County: Mohegan Sun
Monroe County: Mount Airy
Montgomery County: Valley Forge
Northampton County: Sands
Philadelphia City/County: SugarHouse
Washington County: The Meadows Additional VGT facts, trucker reactions As for the actual VGT terminals, what we know so far is that they will be cash-only. Credit and debit cards cant be used. Max bets on these machines will be $5 and the max payouts will be $1,000. According to the PGCBs FAQ sheet about VGTs, payout percentages will be around 85 percent, just like they are in the states brick-and-mortar casinos. Reactions from truckers about VGTs has been mixed. Some have said they welcome the machines because it gives them something interesting to do during their mandated rest periods. Others, however, say that the terminals pose a safety risk because they will keep truckers awake when they should be sleeping.
In The City Of Brotherly Love, Theres About To Be A Casino War
Theres a war brewing in Philadelphia. Earlier this week, Stadium Casino LLC obtained the permit they need to begin demo on a lot in South Philadelphias sports district that is currently home to a Holiday Inn hotel. According to Philly.com, the development will clear the land and build a casino, making it the second casino within the city limits. SugarHouse is and was none too pleased about the plans. The existing Pennsylvania casino even launching an appeal to block the permit from being awarded to their new competitors. The permit was issued a little more than two months after the operator of a rival venue, SugarHouse Casino, dropped an appeal of the gaming license granted to Cordish and Greenwoods group following the enactment of a new state law that undercut the challenge, Philly.com reported. New casino will be name Live! Hotel & Casino Cordish Cos and Greenwood Gaming & Entertainment are the two firms which comprise Stadium Casino LLC. Earlier this week, Cordish released details about the project. The statement revealed both specifics on the property as well as conceptual drawings of the casino. According to the companys project page for the property, Live! is a $600 million development that will include:
A hotel
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Up to five restaurants and nightclubs. The project will create the first comprehensive gaming, resort, entertainment and sports destination in the United States, making it a true regional destination, the site said. The plans for Live! have been listed on the site for several months, but it wasnt until they obtained the permit that the project went from concept to concrete. Barring any setbacks over funding or permits, the project should be ready to open in 2020. SugarHouses reign over Philly coming to an end Philadelphia has been SugarHouse territory since casinos were first allowed in the state in 2006. In 2017, Sugarhouse held a solid third place in Pennsylvanias table games revenue. It was middle-of-the-pack in slots revenue. In both of those categories together, SugarHouse brought in more than $296 million in gross revenue. All this to say that SugarHouse is one of the states major players. It is certainly the reigning king of Philly. Exactly how much of that revenue will walk into the competing casino is yet to be seen. After all, predictions are tenuous, at best, but theres a good chance their numbers will drop. Hence, the appeal to block the license. As far as revenue predictions go, the states 12 casinos will be competing for the biggest portion from the dinner table. While Sands and Parx are the states biggest revenue-earners and SugarHouse has formidable numbers, the launch of a new flagship casino as well as the possibility of up to 10 satellite casinos could do some damage to their yearly gross revenue. That possibility became more of a reality when Stadium Gaming was the highest bidder for a satellite casino theyll build just 40 miles away from Pittsburgh in Westmoreland County. It remains to be seen if and when SugarHouse will make a move for one of the eight remaining satellite licenses.
Appeals Court Says PA Needs To Give Foxwoods Its $50 Million Back
The Mashantucket Pequot Indians were on top of the world less than 20 years ago. Today, theyre hurting. This past week the Connecticut Indian tribe and its partners when, according to New London (CT) newspaper The Day reported the consortium achieved a small victory when the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the decision of a bankruptcy court who said the tribes development group wasnt entitled to $50 million they invested in a failed plan to build a casino in Philadelphia. Should the development group win the appeal, it is unclear how the partners will divide the money. The Foxwoods-Philly saga started in 2006 The name of the tribes development group was Philadelphia Entertainment and Development Partners. The faction included Philadelphia businessmen who joined the tribe in their efforts to bring Philly its first casino. The development bought one of two available casino licenses for $50 million back in 2006. Over the next three years, numerous delays and mistakes tanked the casino development. The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB) revoked the groups license in Dec. 2010, ending four years of frustration. The failed casino venture compounded the Pequot tribes financial issues. Dissension among tribal leaders and a costly casino expansion with MGM dragged the tribe into dark days. A 2007 article from the New York Times talks about the tribes extensive wealth and how a group of less than 100 Native Americans created one of the most profitable casinos in the world and bring unprecedented wealth to its people. However, by 2014 the tribe was on the hook for $1.7 billion in debt. The tribe accrued much of that debt when it expanded its casino property. Not long after, competing casinos in the state and across state lines siphoned away gamblers. Downtown Phillys second casino is on its way When the Pequots development group won the bid for one of two Philly casino licenses in 2006, the City of Brotherly Love looked poised to burst onto the gambling scene. SugarHouse also won a license that year. Only one casino survived. Fast forward to 2018. Twelve years later, downtown Philly is getting its second casino. Stadium Casino LLC has plans to start development this year on Philly Live!, a property that will provide some serious competition for old-guard casino SugarHouse. In addition to securing the permits to start demo on the site of their future casino, Stadium Gaming upped the proverbial ante when it was announced this past month they won the second satellite casino license auction in Harrisburg. Both of these projects, however, arent scheduled to be completed anytime soon. Philly Live! has a 2020 target date and theres still no word on when the satellite casino is scheduled to start. Stadium Casinos play for the satellite was a significant one because the group will build just 40 miles east of Pittsburgh in Westmoreland County. What makes this move interesting is that Pittsburgh has been the home turf for Rivers Casino, whose owners, Rush Street Gaming, also own SugarHouse. Photo by Boston Globe / Getty Images
Mount Airy Beats Out Sands, Parx For Third Mini Casino
The state of Pennsylvania is $112 million richer, thanks to its third satellite casino auction. Mount Airy won the bigging for a license with a $21 million bid. The casino plans to build their satellite in Lawrence County. According to the Morning Call, Lawrence County leaders sent out letters to the states existing casino trying to convince them of the countys readiness to welcome a satellite to their area. County commissioner chairman Dan Vogler said he and his colleagues were waiting on the results of the lottery to find out who won and where the winner would build their property. We watched it here this morning, and we were very pleased with how it transpired, Vogler said. Mount Airy became the third casino in three auctions to win a license. Penn National scored the first one with a $51 million bid, while Stadium Gaming LLC snagged the second one for $41 million. Mount Airy beat out two other casinos Per the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Boards rules, the auctions take place at 10 a.m. Bidders provide the auction board with two envelopes one contains the casinos bid and one contains the coordinates of where the casino plans on building their satellite. After the auction was over, the board released the results: Sands and Parxs bids lagged behind Mount Airys offer. Satellite site just a few miles from 500,000 people What makes the satellite casino auctions so fascinating isnt just the bidding; its the strategy. For example, Penn National won the first satellite license. Its mini-casino will pop up in Yoe County, which gives it access to Maryland residents driving up the interstate to gamble in Pennsylvania. However, there arent any major cities near the Maryland-Pennsylvania border. Stadium Gaming LLC, the group who will soon break ground on Philadelphias second casino, won the second satellite license auction. Their site is just outside Pittsburgh, a move that will capture coming from the east of the metropolis and will, it seems, cut into Rivers revenue. Mount Airys Lawrence County location may be the most ingenious of all of them because their site will be a 30-minute drive from Youngstown, OH, a city whose urban and surrounding area is home to more than 500,000 people. The city does have a racino Hollywood Gaming at Mahoning Valley Racetrack but the property has no slot machines or table games, two things the satellite property will offer. A look into the future of the remaining seven satellite licenses There are two factors that stand at the forefront of the discussion about Pennsylvanias remaining seven satellite licenses. First, theres a good chance prices may decline as each new license comes up for auction. The first license went for around $50 million, the second for $41 and third for $21 million. The minimum bid is $7.5 million. The downward trend points to the next license selling for less than $20 million, but its no guarantee. Second, strategy may dictate who bids and when. For example, Stadium Gamings plans to build just a few miles east of Pittsburgh may push Rivers to make a move for a satellite and capture some of the revenue theyll inevitably lose from the Stadium property. SugarHouse, the original Philadelphia casino, may also feel pressure from Stadium Gamings satellite. While the satellite wont cut into SugarHouses revenue, the money Stadium earns from that second location could be leveraged to strengthen their soon-to-be-constructed Philadelphia location through better marketing, expanded entertainment venues, and other avenues of growth.
A Closer Look At The New And Improved Pennsylvania Lottery
The Pennsylvania Lottery was just as excited about the recent Pennsylvania gambling expansion bill as any casino. The new legislation pushed the states lottery system into another echelon of gambling accessibility when it allowed gamblers to play the lottery online. A lottery spokesperson spoke with TribLive earlier this month, noting that the PA lottery plans on launching at least some of its online games this spring In an interview with TribLive.com, Pennsylvania newsstand owner Al Lydic said he believes his lottery sales will skyrocket. How the new laws will affect the current setup For the past 45 years, Pennsylvanias lottery has offered, at one time or another a variety of games. The current lineup includes:
Instant win
Draw games
Virtual sports The thought of these games going live on mobile devices and on monitors is tantalizing but, unfortunately, TribLIves source didnt say which games would be available for purchase when the platform launches. However, theres a good chance that theyll offer a full slate of games. The more revenue for the state, the better. And you can certainly bet on the fact they want to boost their revenue last year after seeing a dip in 2017 after seven-straight years of growth. How Pennsylvania online lottery would compare to other states There are currently four states who have functional online lotteries operating in their state:
Kentucky Of those four, Michigan is the most similar to Pennsylvania because theyre running draw, instant win, and keno. In the second quarter of 2017, the state pulled in $20 million from online lottery sales. Michigan is well known for the vigor with which they push their online lottery sales, and theres nothing that would lead us to believe that Pennsylvania would be any different. The state is trying to overcome a considerable deficit, which is part of the reason the gambling bill went through. Tens of millions of dollars will flow into the state via taxes and licensing fees. While the state lottery doesnt pour its money into the same state coffers that casinos do, the states senior citizens benefit from lottery donations to rent rebates and prescription drug subsidies, among other benefits. Lottery will also oversee virtual sports, too While online gambling is the state lotterys biggest win, dont forget that it also won the right to oversee virtual sports betting. Virtual sports are fictional sporting events football games, horse races, etc. upon which gamblers bet on the outcome. This type of sports gambling doesnt offer quite the same thrill of live competitions but theyve proven in other states to scratch the itch of those looking for action during downtime in the U.S. professional sports calendar.
Pennsylvania Takes First Small Step Towards Licensing Online Casinos
The regulatory and licensing process for online gambling in Pennsylvania is finally beginning. However, potential operators are still waiting for word regarding when the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB) will begin accepting applications for iGaming operator licenses. This week, the board announced it will begin accepting license applications for manufacturers and suppliers to iGaming operators on April. Additionally, the board will start accepting applications from truck stop Video Gaming Terminal (VGTs) manufacturers and suppliers on the same day. Truck stops wanting to offer VGTs can start turning applications in on May 7. The board also says the acceptance date for applications for iGaming operators or platform providers will be announced later. Internet gambling in PA The state passed new gaming expansion laws in October 2017 that legalized three categories of online gambling. These categories include:
Non-banking table games, like poker
Banking games which simulate casino table games
Games which simulate slot machines PGCB is developing the regulations and licensing process for internet gaming. However, a frequently asked questions document on the boards website claims it is still in the first phases of a roll-out of internet gaming. There is no specific date when internet gambling will launch yet.. In fact, this announcement regarding license applications from internet gambling manufacturers and suppliers is the first sign the regulatory and licensing process is moving forward. The applications have been made available on the PGCB website at gamingcontrolboard.pa.gov. The application is nearly 60 pages. Additionally, there are supporting documents some applicants must fill out. Manufacturers currently licensed by PGCB are able to submit an abbreviated application. The new gambling expansion legislation clearly states Pennsylvanias existing casinos will get the first crack at applying for iGaming operator licenses. There are 13 licenses available. In fact, PA casinos will have 90 days following the acceptance date for applications to apply for a discounted license to operate all three categories of online gambling. The discounted price is $10 million. After the 90 days is up the price will increase to $4 million per license. Entities from outside the local casino industry can apply for any licenses that are available after the existing PA casinos get their shot. Online gambling tax In addition to the upfront licensing fees, the state is in line to collect a percentage of online gambling revenue once the market gets up and running. The law specifies the following taxes on internet gambling operators and distribution of those funds:
14 percent of internet table game revenues will go to the Pennsylvania General Fund.
34 percent of internet slot machine revenues will go the Property Tax Relief Fund.
13 percent of internet slot machine revenues will go the to the Commonwealth Finance Agency for county grants.
5 percent of internet slot machine revenues will go to counties that see a decrease in local share assessment funds.
A local share tax of 1 percent of all internet gambling revenue will go to the license holders host county.
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As I passed my counselor's door I noticed it was open, which was unusual as all the counselors kept their doors closed. She spotted me passing and called out for me to go see Kim. Uh-oh, I thought. By the time the nurse at the medication window gave me the same message I was sure -- there had been a mistake.
When I walked into their office the two women were waiting. Any shred of hope I had was dashed when I saw their eyes. Kim looked at me and she seemed lost for words. I suddenly felt bad for her. It's horrible enough to tell someone they have HIV but to tell them they don't and then oops, sorry, we're wrong, you actually are going to die, jeez, that must really suck. 'It's okay I know,' I told the two women as I sat down.
Kim proceeded to tell me that the tests go out in batches and the batch that mine was in came back with no positive results, so they assumed mine was negative. But my test actually took longer and came back after the others. I was HIV positive. In hearing the words I cried, which completely shocked me. Even though it was barely 1995, before the days of HAART, when HIV actually did mean you had a good chance of dying, living with and loving someone with HIV had made me convince myself that it was no big deal. That just because he had HIV it didn't mean he'd progress to AIDS or ever get sick. I had decided that if I ever tested positive that it was no huge thing and I'd be able to deal with it no problem. I was wrong.
As I started to cry, so did Kim. We had gotten to know each other a bit and each testing session consisted of personal updates and a lot of laughter. Even so, the fact that this woman could care enough to cry for me really touched me. It made me cry even harder.
Even though I was on methadone, I was a hard-core heroin addict. I had not stopped with treatment and was unsure if I could stop or more importantly, if I really wanted to. I knew I could be so much more and do so much more with my life but the motivation to change, to fight to overcome my addiction, simply was not there. It really was a case of 'what for?' My boyfriend and I spent our days running back and forth to East New York, copping, getting high, copping, getting high. That was our life.
I was miserable. I knew I was pathetic and hated myself for what I had become. Eight months before meeting my then boyfriend, I had lost my partner of 4 years to hep C. He had died in my arms and my life had lost any meaning. Then, even more than ever, drugs were all I had.
Fast forward 5 years to July of 2000. I was one amongst thousands on the streets of Durban, South Africa. It was the opening day march at the 13th International AIDS Conference (IAC). The power and elation I felt as I marched and chanted alongside countless other people with HIV and AIDS, activists, advocates and others, was intense. The strength we had together, the raw, unfettered emotion that bubbled from the crowd was like nothing I had ever felt before. Whereas HAART had begun to create complacency in the U.S., here in sub-Saharan Africa, the heart of the pandemic, the world had turned its back on the dying. Africa was burning. We were saying 'enough'.
The tears flooded my eyes and blurred the words 'HIV positive' on the t-shirts around me. In that part of the world people were very often banished from their families and villages if they were found to be HIV positive. It was not uncommon to be severely beaten or stoned to death. Murdered for having the virus -- killed for dying. Wearing those t-shirts that proclaimed they had HIV meant that these people, that stood next to me, shoulder to shoulder, holding my hand in defiance, faced such a future for what they were doing at that very moment. They were putting their lives on the line and some of them would lose.
The 13th IAC was where it all began to change, when the world began to hear what I and so many like me had been screaming for years. That the AIDS crisis in the developing world was raging and we had to do something. People in sub-Saharan Africa, India, Latin America etc., had no access to the medications that was saving the lives of people with HIV in wealthier countries. It was at that conference when the world began to listen, and to act.
After the march, I stood talking with my friends. I felt a tap on my shoulder. I turned to see a familiar face though I could not place it. 'Jeannie?' this woman I knew I knew from somewhere said. She looked extremely shocked to see me, completely floored. 'Jeannie, that can't be you?!' I said yes, it's me, laughing as I asked her where I knew her from. She hesitated, unsure of what to say. Her reaction to me was so intense that my friends had stopped talking and we all stood waiting for her answer. It was obvious that she was afraid to break confidentiality. After I assured her that she could speak in front of my friends she said 'It's me, Kim. I gave you your HIV results. I can't believe it's you,' she continued. 'How are you here, what are you doing here in South Africa?!'
Kim told me that she had thought of me often over the years. That, that day, she and the other women had thought for sure that I would not survive the year, that her words to me were the beginning of my end. I explained to her that my HIV diagnosis had changed me. It made me look at my life and the person I had become. My boyfriend and I stopped getting high together. I started living the best way I could. I began writing and copy writing poems and song lyrics. Got them published where I could. I bought a bike and started riding a lot and working out. Eventually my relationship ended as we quickly found we had nothing other than our addiction in common.
I decided to get a job. A counselor on another methadone program I was on recommended me for a job as a peer educator at an AIDS service organization. There I met an amazing person who would become my mentor and introduce me to the world of AIDS activism -- another side of life where I could be a part of something important, something bigger than me and my addiction. I began attending meetings, learning the science of HIV, going to HIV conferences and demonstrations. I became an AIDS treatment activist. I learned what it meant to fight for my own life and the lives of others with HIV.
I ran into Kim once more the last day of the conference. She told me she was there covering the conference for a radio show. The show was about activism and the work activists do. Kim, the woman who had cried for me all those years before, told me that she closed her final piece by telling my story. She said she told her listeners of the girl I was, a hard-core dope fiend. Of how she was so sure that Valentine's Day she was telling me my life was over. She told them that when she asked how it was, how it could be that 5 years later the same girl was standing on the streets of South Africa, alive, thriving and fighting that I told her simply: 'I became an activist'.


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Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Ancestor Approved Award
I am very humbled to receive this award from my fellow geneabloggers, Karen at Ancestor Soup, Carol at Reflections From the Fence and Hummer at Branching Out Through the Years. You guys are all wonderful and give me such inspiration to continue to share my ancestor's stories!
Now as I understand it, I am to list 10 things I have learned about my ancestors that have surprised, humbled or enlightened me and then pass the award on to 10 other genealogy bloggers who I feel are doing their ancestors proud.
1. Humbled by my ancestors who left all that they knew to seek a better life for themselves and their children. Many of them knew they might never again see the ones they left behind.
2. Surprised to find that I have an ancestor who was accused, convicted and hanged for being a witch during the Salem Witch Trials. Her name was Margaret Stephenson Scott and she was my 10th-great grandmother.
3. Surprised to learn that my grandfather Ross Hannan was the valedictorian of his 8th grade class. Unfortunately, he was unable to get transportation to continue his schooling.
4. Enlightened to learn more about my loyalist ancestors, those very ancestors that my grandmother Elsie Robinson McKiel was so very proud of.
5. Surprised by the stories of my ancestors who hung in there in the Maine wilderness through unsettled times with the Indians.
6. Humbled by the many ancestors who served (and continue to serve) our country in the armed forces.
7. Humbled by my 3rd great-grandparents, Moses and Aurilla Gowen's, tragedy of 1861. Four of their seven children, Dorcas, Moses, Sarah and Sylvia, died in three short months.
8. Enlightened by the many countries from which my ancestors originated. Given that almost all of them lived in Maine or Massachusetts in this country, it is amazing how wide spread their home countries are.
9. Enlightened by the longevity of my ancestors. I always thought most early New Englanders lived much shorter lives than present day but I am surprised how many of my ancestors lived to their 80s and 90s.
10. Humbled by my ancestors who left all that they knew to seek a better life ... oh wait, I said that. However, I think I am most impressed by this fact. Living most of my life in the same town and being a bit of a homebody, I am most suprised, enlightened, humbled and proud of my ancestors who took on the unknown (and persevered) to make their way to this country and improve life for the generations to come.
I am passing this on to the following bloggers:
Lynn at The Armchair Genealogist
Mavis at Georgia Black Crackers
Renate at Into the Light
Wendy at New England Genealogy
Nuccia at Growing Up in an Italian Family
Midge from Granite in My Blood
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- AnonymousApril 7, 2010 at 5:57 AM
Aw, thanks and congratulations!ReplyDelete
Oh, wow. I have ancestors who went through the same thing as your Gowens as well. My Griswold 4th great-grandparents from Nova Scotia had 7 of their children die (also in 1861!) of some sort of epidemic. So sad.
Very nice!ReplyDelete
May you keep sharing your ancestor stories!
Bill ;-)
Author of "Back to the Homeplace"
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Disclaimer, drops and jumps on your mountain bike can be dangerous, make sure you are wearing the appropriate safety gear and have the basic skills I mention below wired before practicing them. Always practice with a friend in case you do get hurt!
A common email and/or phone call we get starts off like this, "Hey guys, I'm a really skilled mountain biker, I don't need your whole curriculum, I just need to learn how to do bigger drops and hit jumps better." So, since that is a common question I will give you a detailed answer so you can got out and hit those big drops and jump better!
Drops and jumps on your mountain bike are not really hard so I have to ask this question to those emailing us claiming to be experts who simply can't do drops, "If you are a really skilled rider, why can't you hit big drops and jump better?" I mean isn't that what skilled riders do? Could it be that you are not as skilled as you think you are? Maybe your ego is getting in your way? I mean you basically said, "I can ride really easy trails well but I struggle with more difficult trails" but at the same time you called yourself a skilled rider! I'm confused! Seriously, not trying to be a jerk, just being realistic. Maybe you feel drops and jumps are separate skills from "riding skills" as most/all of the trails you ride don't have jumps are bigger drops. You may be saying, "Gene how can I become good at drops and jumps if I never encounter them on trail?" The simple answer is to become a better rider (on the ground).
So, how does a 47 year old rider like me (who doesn't have near the "nerve" he used to have) hit 10-30 foot drops and 48 foot gap jumps? Through coaching and lots of deliberate practice I am very good at the basic skills of body position and vision, not near the most skilled rider in the world but good enough at the basics to hit this 48 foot gap when I was 43. Not saying that to impress you but to impress upon you the value of core skills as it doesn't take "balls" to do a jump like this, it takes confidence in your core, basic skills. We teach how to do drops and jumps in our camps without doing them (we do do small drops). Which often leads to this question, "How can you teach me to jump with no with no jump?". Which I fully understand it would seem at first thought that, "you need a jump to teach someone to jump. duh!" On further thought you might realize that that is like teaching someone Karate while they are fighting! Remember "wax on, wax off"?, you first need to not only understand the basic skills required to do a drop or jump but also be really good at doing them!
Drops and jumps are pretty easy actually, you just ride off them, in balance and in control. This is something any "skilled rider" can do! The 15-25 foot drop below is no harder than going off a curb correctly. It was a lot scarier as the penalty for failure is pretty massive but it really didn't take much skill. Here is how to do a big drop like "Mushroom Rock".
First learn to ride in control, in balance and in a neutral position why looking ahead 100% of the time (and get so good at it that you do this all the time, even on the steepest, scariest mountain bike trail, drills are the best way to do this). See this video tutorial on body position for help with being in balance, in control and in a neutral position: http://wp.me/p49ApH-aT . This is something any "skilled rider" should already being doing but if you go to a place like Whistler you will realize that 75-95% of the riders are not doing this. Those riders are easy to spot as they just look a little off balance, they aren't smooth, they are stiff, their head is moving a lot (the head of rider in balance and neutral almost never moves), herky-jerky is a great description of the majority of mountain bikers. If your view keeps changing, your head is moving or you are getting "eyeball jiggle" you are not in balance nor in control.
Once you can ride in balance and in control baby step your way up by using the drop techniques we teach (As a matter of fact they are barely techniques, we teach them on the first day of our skills progression and 8 to 78 year old students have an excellent grasp of them by the third day) on smaller drops (such as a curb) and working your way up to bigger drops. What are these techniques? Well, at speed, above 12-15 miles an hour you simply ride off the drop in balance (all your weight on your pedals). Going below 12 miles an hour you will have to do a little baby manual or coaster wheelie off the edge of the drop. I say little because you aren't actually trying to lift the front wheel, your goal is to simply keep the front from dropping quickly. On drops with a flat landing your goal is too decrease the angle of incident that you hit the ground at (and land in a centered, neutral position looking ahead, ready for the next thing the trail throws at you). This means slightly front wheel first or both wheels landing at the same time is best.
Once you are consistently landing both wheels at the same time, in balance, in control and looking ahead off a curb find small drops with a steep downhill landing (you can often find these in the local elementary school playground or if you are fortunate enough to have a bike park near by at the bike park) so you get used to landing on a "transition" (which will ease you back to earth, much less jarring than a flat landing). A big focus should be looking past the landing! Must crashes on drops don't actually happen on the drop, they happen after the drop! On a drop with a downhill landing your are going to being going much faster when you land than when you take off so knowing what the trail looks like after the drop and looking where you want to go after the drop (not at your landing) is very important. Also, as you work you way to bigger drops that will have a blind landing (where you can't see the landing before you take off) make sure your thoroughly inspect the landing and make a plan of where you want to go after the landing before you do the drop!
What "technique/s" or skills am I using in the photo above? None, I am simply rode off the edge in control, in balance and in a neutral position. Then I stayed in control and in balance throughout.
Jumps are pretty similar, at least the jumps you will be learning on, steep "dirt jumps" are not the best place to learn. Find table top jumps (no gap to clear) without steep take offs to practice on. Once you have found a safe jump to practice on (safe is a tricky word as any jump can be dangerous, wear your helmet and safety gear) set your bike up for jumping by stiffing your suspension a bit and slowing the rebound (so it doesn't "buck" you on the take off or landing). Then simply ride off that jump slowly in balance, in control and in a neutral position. Pretend there is a clear piece of plexiglass under you and you aren't actually leaving the ground, just riding over an arc. Focus on how would stay centered and neutral as you ride over that arc and look past the landing (where you want to go) once you take off. Once you are comfortable slowly increase your speed until you are landing both wheels at the same time or slightly front wheel first on the "backside". That is really all there is to it but many people get hurt jumping as they aren't doing those seemingly simple skills. Mountain bikers get hurt jumping when they ride off balance, ride off the back of their bike, try to do something as they leave the jump (like yank up on the bars or pedals), ride stiff and let their suspension buck them, aren't looking where they should be and don't "baby-step" their way up to bigger jumps. There are advanced jumping skills that I didn't mention because you need to master these basic skills first!
Hitting bigger drops and jumps on your mountain bike isn't hard, you just need to have a few core skills wired. Once you are consistently riding in control, in balance, in a neutral position and looking ahead you are ready to practice small drops (start with a curb and baby step your way up to bigger drops as you feel comfortable). Jumping is a little more dangerous but if you find the right table top jump and start slow you figure it out.
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Dorset, My Dorset
The Yetties grew up, and still live, in Dorset. Their roots are in the villages of Yetminster and Thornford and they came from the last generation of youngsters who automatically turned out at harvest time to help the farmers stook the corn, load the trailers and build the ricks before combine harvesters appeared and 'sociable jobs' on the farms disappeared.
This recording is unashamedly biased towards Dorset and life in the countryside. Every track has either Dorset or rural connections. Thats doesn't mean that every song is of the cow pat variety though. You will find a wide variety of material on 'Dorset, My Dorset'.
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In this question it was asked what relation, if any, exists between the notions of a monomorphism in a general category $\mathcal C$ and an injective map. Of course the question only makes sense if $\mathcal C$ is a concretizable category. If $\pi:\mathcal C\to Set$ is a faithful functor, we may regard a morphism $f:X\to Y$ of objects of $\mathcal C$ as an injection (relative to $\pi$) if $\pi(f)$ is injective in $Set$.
One then notices that this notion depends very much on the choice of concretization, and thus that this notion is not an intrinsic property of the category itself.
However, Emil Jerabek noticed that it is natural to ask the following: given a concretizable category, does it admit a concretization which preserves monomorphisms?
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text: 2-BERTHA Bertha, from the series Akna Akna is a series of portraits of tree stumps, which explores the theme of regeneration. I made the work in 2006 with an 8x10 camera in a nature reserve in the central Chiapas mountain range. The Mayan word for "mother," Akna is also the indigenous culture's goddess of birth and fertility.The tree stumps in the images are covered with epiphytes — such as ferns, mosses, bromeliads, and orchids — which are not parasitic, but rather they feed off of the air and rain and simply need a supportive base from which to grow. As a nurturing source for new life, the stumps, despite being truncated, experience a metaphorical rebirth. I anthropomorphized them through photography ascribing gender and age and naming them after people who played a similar role in my life as the stumps do to the epiphytes. This project was made possible by a generous 8x10 film grant from Kodak.


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Free Film Screening: "What's Organic About Organic?"
Come watch What's Organic About Organic - a thought-provoking documentary about the organic food debate - and then stick around to discuss what we can do to promote good, healthy, sustainable food in our community. Join us!
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Seattle, WA 98119
Call the Q Cafe at 206.352.2525 for directions. Parking is available in the lot on the north side of the cafe. Additional parking is available in the Quest Church lot, north of the cafe. This lot is accessible from the drive that connects to W. Bertona St.
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My mom and dad have been visiting for the last week, its been great having them around. My dad is Mr. Fix-it, so we have been finishing the downstairs bathroom ( it was just a toilet in a room, no sink or lights, etc). It is going to look great when its finished. I will share a photo when its done :)
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When I have my table at the market there are always other vendors that are willing to do trades and I got a big bag of rhubarb! I left it in the fridge for a few days trying to figure out what I wanted to do with it, and I finally decided to make a marmalade with it. I have little experience with canning, but my mom was here and she encouraged the no pectin. So I went for it. It turned out perfect, not to sweet and with a little tang.
Rhubarb Citrus Marmalade
2 pounds of rhubarb
3 cups organic sugar
1 cup strawberries- sliced1/2 grapefruit
1/2 orange
1 tbsp ginger
- In a food processor chop the rhubarb until almost minced.
- Place in a large heavy bottom sauce pan along with the sugar and strawberries.
- Next add grapefruit, orange and ginger into the food processor (peel and all) and whiz until finely minced
- Add to rhubarb mixture.
- Bring to a boil and simmer for an hour or until resembles a jam like consistency.


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Today, our shareholders' lifestyles vary widely. Some live a traditional subsistence lifestyle, while others are skilled craftspeople, college graduates or business professionals. They all share at least one trait, however: a dedication to their common heritage. With the support of our shareholders, Chugach Alaska Corporation's cultural resources department is actively working to identify and preserve the archeological resources of our region through site visits and careful documentation. Chugach Alaska Corporation works with Native tribes of the Chugach region to implement the provisions of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. We support the repatriation of our ancestors and Native cultural heritage.
Origin of the Name
Oral tradition records describe how the Native name "Chugach" came to be. This story was passed down Vice President of Cultural Resources John F.C. Johnson by the late John Klashinoff, who was born in the village of Nuchek, in Prince William Sound, in 1906.
John Klashinoff learned many stories from Johnson's grandmother's uncle, Chief Makari (Makarka) Chimovitski, who adopted and raised him and 10 other orphans at a new settlement called Makarka Point. In the early 1900s, an epidemic that swept across Alaska claimed Klashinoff's parents and many others.
As he smoked his pipe and scratched his chin, Klashinoff was proud to share old stories so that the traditions and beliefs of the Chugach would not die, but would live on as it was meant to be. The story is told as follows.
For ages and ages Prince William Sound, as it was named by Captain James Cook, was covered by a solid sheet of glacier ice that extended over nearly all of the bays and mountains. One day Native hunters were kayaking along the outer shores of the Pacific Ocean, when a man cried out:
"Chu-ga, chu-ga" — "Hurry, hurry."
"Let's go see what that black thing is sticking out of the ice."
So the hunters paddled closer and closer to see what it was. Within a short distance, the hunters could see mountaintops emerging out of the retreating ice. Thus these ocean travelers settled along the ice-free shores of the Sound.
As the seasons changed from year to year, the ice melted rapidly, exposing deep fjords and lagoons that were rich in sea life and provided good beaches to settle on. It was known that life thrived in the areas where the salt and fresh water met.
When the ice retreated, so did the animals. The Chugach people followed the ice and animals deep into the heart of Prince William Sound, where they remain to this very day.


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Maxwell Van Hoven
Class of 2016
Major/Minor: Major: Biology Minors: Hispanic Studies and Chemistry
Campus Involvement
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-Cater Society of Junior Fellows
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Hometown: Reisterstown, MD
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My favorite show during high school was "House." I was fascinated by the process of unraveling medical mysteries and discovered that I also want to help others by solving their ailments. I then flipped a coin between Biology and Chemistry to see which one I would major in before I apply to medical school (Biology won out).
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I like to take a quick nap after practice and sometimes watch something on Netflix. Around 9:00 PM I realize that I should probably get started on my work. I then grab a coffee and crack open the books.