Tuesday, October 27, 2015

The Insider's Guide Instant Win Tickets Pulltabs

Genre

 The Insider’s Guide Instant Win Tickets is a non-fiction, how-to informative guidebook on all aspects of the instant win ticket industry.  It will cater to instant win ticket and lottery players, in addition, to all gamblers who are looking to beat the odds.  From how to sell, how to play and how to profit, the book will answer questions not covered from another single source.
Number of pages: 83
Word count: 15253
Description

  Instant win tickets are called different names in different areas.  Here are a few:  Pulltabs, break opens, bingo tickets, pickles, instant games, paper slot machines and rip offs. The author will use pulltabs as the reference for instant win tickets.

  Throughout the years of working as a department manager for pulltab operations, many questions were asked of the author on successful pulltab sales techniques.  The Insider’s Guide Instant Win Tickets gives pulltab player’s tips and techniques to winning more often and gives the entrepreneur a “How-to” guide for setting up and selling pulltabs.  The book helps curve the frustration of implementing new pulltab operations by giving a step-by-step guide through procedural processes.

  Pulltabs have preset payouts.  There is a definite payout amount and a definite profit amount.  A pulltab player should know the odds of winning. With the author’s formulas, pulltab odds of winning can easily be determined.  Games of skill like poker and blackjack require research to maintain odds in the player’s favor.  Pulltab players need research to keep odds in their favor.  A house’s edge is hard to decipher.  With The Insider’s Guide Instant Win Tickets, gamblers will calculate the odds of winning pulltabs.  With behind-the-scenes operations, the player will increase odds for a big win.

  Gambling has steadily increased over the years.  With the Native American casinos in the majority of U.S. states today, pulltabs have gained popularity.  Overall sales have increased for casinos when pulltabs were introduced.  The casino’s with a variety of gaming devices have succeeded in keeping their customer’s happy.  With this in mind, many lottery states have introduced a line of pulltabs to feed the public demand. 

  The most popular instant win ticket is the scratch off ticket.  Even though the prize concept is the same as a pulltab, the main difference is how the prize amount is revealed.  Scratching off a thin coat of wax, compared to pulling a cardboard paper window.  In The Insider’s Guide Instant Win Tickets, the author included a comparison chapter on scratch off tickets.

  Instant win tickets all have the same style of play.  They are a straightforward style of gambling.  In gambling establishments, pulltabs compete for play with other well-known forms of gambling devices like bingo, slots and blackjack in casinos worldwide.  U.S. lottery states have pulltab divisions to increase the overall profit margin.  With scratch-offs, lotto numbers and multi-state lotto’s, state lotteries do not have the advertising budget to promote pulltabs as a mass media event. 

  Pulltabs are a great fund raising tool for charities and organizations that need a profit.  Pulltabs were once restricted to bingo parlors and available for sale only at charity fund raising events.  Today, they are widely available at bingo halls, taverns, festivals and lottery outlets.  Pulltabs have general knowledge status in the gaming world. Moneymaking opportunities do not go unnoticed.  

  Native American casinos have introduced the pulltab to the high stakes gambler looking for an odds-in-my-favor device.  Changing the amount of winnings and adjusting to the customer’s demand has made pulltabs an odds edge game in knowledgeable players.  The key word is knowledgeable.  Many gamblers do not know the odds for pulltabs, so they play randomly and lose on a consist basis.  Selling pulltabs has made the author more aware of player’s needs.  Being on the for-profit side has created a “how to” dilemma in getting the knowledge out to players.


 The Insider’s Guide Instant Win Tickets will give the gambler the knowledge, whether novice or  professional, the know how to win more frequently when playing pulltabs.  In addition, the entrepreneur or new management personnel in gaming can utilize this book as a guide to implement a sales department.  The author included chapters on “security” and “inventory control” to keep the integrity of pulltab sales honest.  

Tuesday, September 01, 2015

Synopsis

  The Insider’s Guide Instant Win Tickets is divided into five chapters: “Description,” “Selling Pulltabs,” “Marketing/Promotions,” “Security and Verification Systems” and “Tips and Techniques.”  Each chapter is separated into sub-sections and organized with easy-to-understand applications.

Description of an instant win ticket: pulltab
  Pulltab tickets come in many different varieties.  The author describes how they are made and explains the front/back of the ticket.  With diagrams, a mock ticket describes the meaning of each symbol and word.  The majority of the consumers are not aware of what is on the face of a pulltab.  Some symbols are security and inventory control mechanisms to help track what is sold and paid out.  Other symbols help the knowledgeable purchaser to calculate their odds of winning.  I explain in depth each meaning.
¨      “Varieties of pulltabs.”  There are many different combinations of pulltab play.  The author utilizes a step-by-step guide how to play each style of ticket.
¨      “Exclusives.”  Throughout the United States there are different styles of pulltab play.  The names are different, but determining a winning ticket is not.


Selling
  This chapter gives in depth point of sales techniques and phrases to use when selling pulltabs.  Increase sales by getting a more one-on-one personal touch.  The pulltab sales training section has cash transaction scenarios to set-up for real life sales experience.  In addition, helpful hints on getting regular customers for repeat buying.
Sections included:
¨      “Pulltab carts.” How to utilize these mobile selling machines.
¨      “Pulltab booths.”  How to get the most out of a stationary outlet.  Including, how to setup displays and advertisements.
¨      “Pulltab machines.”  Dispensing machines increase overall profit.  The key is location.
¨      “Designing pulltabs.”  There is no better way to increase sales.  Design a pulltab that customers will purchase for years.


Marketing/Promotions
  This section goes over promotions that can increase profits.  From raffles to contests, the author gives, in detail, how to run a successful promotion campaign.  Sample survey questions are given to get demographics of pulltab players.
¨      “Pulltab Raffle.”  Raffles are well known and a great draw for the everyday player.
¨      “Pulltab Contests.”  Three contests to mix up the daily flow of operations.  They are a great attraction.
¨      “Pulltab Bingo.”  To create cross-selling between bingo players and pulltab players, this game is unlimited in potential prizes.
¨      “Promotional Pulltabs.”  A free pulltab that can be used as a direct mailer or a traffic flow guide to sale pulltabs.
¨      “Pulltab Complimentary.”  All guests like comp service.  Keep repeat guests happy.
   
Other sections: “Premium items,” “Theme nights” and “Emcee.”

Security and Verification Systems
  To keep the integrity of sales, security and verifications systems should be utilized.  From the manufacture down to the sales personnel, the author details every aspect of keeping everything secure.  Utilizing verifications codes to deter theft.  Scams and theft are a part of gambling that needs to be researched before it happens.  Also, security controls and procedures do not have to slow down sales.
¨      “Verifications codes.”  Protect your investment.  Spotting fakes and using the codes to the fullest.
¨      “Pulltab Fraud.”  How to detect. A check list is included to further detail what to look for.
¨      “Inventory Control.” Starting from the manufacture, pulltabs need to be accounted for and controlled at each step of the sales process. 
Other sections: “Video Surveillance and Pulltab Playbacks.”


Tips and Techniques
  This chapter is specifically for players.  The tips and techniques given are for increasing the player’s odds of winning.  The experience given, along with the formulas the author developed, will give the pulltab player the “edge.”
¨      “Formulas.”  The odds of winning each tier (prize level) can be figured by utilizing these formulas.  It will give the player the complete odds of play before starting to play.  The majority of instant win ticket payout percentage is unknown.  Calculate that percentage, then play the highest payout percentage.

¨      “Posted winners.” Depending on locality, posting all the top prizes will give the player increased odds.  As prizes are won they are crossed out on the winner’s board.  The player knows what prizes are won and what ones are still available.  In addition, all of the tickets in that particular deal are also displayed.  Common deduction determines how much money is available against what tickets are unsold.  Odds in the players favor!

Thursday, August 13, 2015

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Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Publicity and Promotional

Publicity and Promotional

  Gamblers will play any form of gambling if they know the basics playing odds.  This little known gaming ticket, if played right, can be the best chance of winning in a casino or bingo hall.  Vendors and/or distributors of gaming products are always looking for books on specialty items to sell to customers.

Working in the gaming industry for 10 years, the author has met many customers that are looking for a pulltab book.  In addition, distributors have asked the author “Why have you sold so many pulltabs?” or “What do you do to sell so many pulltabs?”  The Insider’s Guide Pulltabs will accomplish explaining what pulltab players needed.
  Pulltabs are sold in bingo halls around the country.  Targeting bingo halls around the country along with the bingo players who frequent them is a great outlet for distribution of the book. There are many gaming expositions held around the country that exclusively cater to gamblers. 
  In Washington and Minnesota states, pulltabs are sold in the majority of bars and gas stations.  In addition, Alaska has many pulltab outlet stores that sell pulltabs as an exclusive gaming device.

 Gaming experts from around the world are always looking for ways to increase their bottom line.  Bingo halls, churches and fund raising organizations are looking for other ways to raise money.  These organizations can use The Insider’s Guide Pulltabs for:

¨      Premium Giveaway-Gives players the knowledge and odds of winning at pulltabs, thus increasing the profit margin.  Will get the cost of book back with increased play.

¨      Create cross-selling between gaming devices-Bingo, slot, blackjack and poker players will play pulltabs if they know the odds of winning at pulltabs.  The huge customer base established by casino’s tracking spending habits can be used for a direct mailing of the book to create a cross-selling effect.

¨      Boost existing sales-Giving gamblers the knowledge of pulltab play will increase their likeliness of trying more pulltabs.  The marketing and contest’s in The Insider’s Guide Pulltabs will increase their profit.

¨      Give a “How to” guide to potential new players- How to win, sell and profit are very powerful words of encouragement to play pulltabs.  Gamblers are always looking for a “edge” in beating the house’s odds for profit.


The best targets for potential buyers of the book are newspapers like the Bingo Bugle, which is national newspaper for bingo players.  Magazines that cater to gamblers: International Gaming & Wagering Business (IGWB), Bingo Business, Indian Gaming and Casino Player

  With many contacts in the gaming industry, the author intends to seek out large group purchases for the book.  In addition, use as a staple premium item for department sales.


Tuesday, July 14, 2015

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Friday, July 10, 2015

Pulltab Market sample

The Market

  The United States gaming/casino industry has sales estimated at $7 billion dollars annually. (Target Marketing, March 1999)  Ninety two percent of U.S. adults say casino entertainment is acceptable for themselves or others.  In 1999, worldwide sales for instant tickets totaled twenty six billion dollars.  United States alone totaled fourteen billion dollars.  There are thirty states that have lotteries. Thirty-two states allow casino gambling in one form or another.  Lottery states are a great sales outlet for instant win tickets.

  Demographics of players or potential buyers of book:  All gamblers, whether novice or professional can utilize this book.  The book can be used as a quick reference guide for pulltab formula calculation.  The majority of pulltab players have to be eighteen in age. The National Research Council found that 80% of people gambled at least once in their lifetime.
 
Where to sell book besides bookstores: gas stations, bingo halls, casino’s, lottery outlets

  The Insider’s Guide for Pulltabs will give the gambler the knowledge to win playing pulltabs.  In addition, the entrepreneur or new management personnel in gaming can utilize this book as a guide to implement a sales department.


  Fund raising organizations and charities have included pulltab sales in their bingo sessions to increase their bottom line.  Pulltabs have gained popularity over the years and now included in the annual gaming conferences. This moneymaking opportunity is easy to implement and operate.  Selling pulltabs is very attractive to entrepreneurs, but some research is needed.  With the “marketing/promotion” chapter, the author gives numerous antidotes on lagging sales.  With many years of experience, the author details promotions for increasing revenue. 

Friday, July 03, 2015

Description sample of my book

Genre

 The Insider’s Guide Instant Win Tickets is a non-fiction, how-to informative guidebook on all aspects of the instant win ticket industry.  It will cater to instant win ticket and lottery players, in addition, to all gamblers who are looking to beat the odds.  From how to sell, how to play and how to profit, the book will answer questions not covered from another single source.
Number of pages: 83
Word count: 15253
Description

  Instant win tickets are called different names in different areas.  Here are a few:  Pulltabs, break opens, bingo tickets, pickles, instant games, paper slot machines and rip offs. The author will use pulltabs as the reference for instant win tickets.

  Throughout the years of working as a department manager for pulltab operations, many questions were asked of the author on successful pulltab sales techniques.  The Insider’s Guide Instant Win Tickets gives pulltab player’s tips and techniques to winning more often and gives the entrepreneur a “How-to” guide for setting up and selling pulltabs.  The book helps curve the frustration of implementing new pulltab operations by giving a step-by-step guide through procedural processes.

  Pulltabs have preset payouts.  There is a definite payout amount and a definite profit amount.  A pulltab player should know the odds of winning. With the author’s formulas, pulltab odds of winning can easily be determined.  Games of skill like poker and blackjack require research to maintain odds in the player’s favor.  Pulltab players need research to keep odds in their favor.  A house’s edge is hard to decipher.  With The Insider’s Guide Instant Win Tickets, gamblers will calculate the odds of winning pulltabs.  With behind-the-scenes operations, the player will increase odds for a big win.

  Gambling has steadily increased over the years.  With the Native American casinos in the majority of U.S. states today, pulltabs have gained popularity.  Overall sales have increased for casinos when pulltabs were introduced.  The casino’s with a variety of gaming devices have succeeded in keeping their customer’s happy.  With this in mind, many lottery states have introduced a line of pulltabs to feed the public demand. 

  The most popular instant win ticket is the scratch off ticket.  Even though the prize concept is the same as a pulltab, the main difference is how the prize amount is revealed.  Scratching off a thin coat of wax, compared to pulling a cardboard paper window.  In The Insider’s Guide Instant Win Tickets, the author included a comparison chapter on scratch off tickets.

  Instant win tickets all have the same style of play.  They are a straightforward style of gambling.  In gambling establishments, pulltabs compete for play with other well-known forms of gambling devices like bingo, slots and blackjack in casinos worldwide.  U.S. lottery states have pulltab divisions to increase the overall profit margin.  With scratch-offs, lotto numbers and multi-state lotto’s, state lotteries do not have the advertising budget to promote pulltabs as a mass media event. 

  Pulltabs are a great fund raising tool for charities and organizations that need a profit.  Pulltabs were once restricted to bingo parlors and available for sale only at charity fund raising events.  Today, they are widely available at bingo halls, taverns, festivals and lottery outlets.  Pulltabs have general knowledge status in the gaming world. Moneymaking opportunities do not go unnoticed.  

  Native American casinos have introduced the pulltab to the high stakes gambler looking for an odds-in-my-favor device.  Changing the amount of winnings and adjusting to the customer’s demand has made pulltabs an odds edge game in knowledgeable players.  The key word is knowledgeable.  Many gamblers do not know the odds for pulltabs, so they play randomly and lose on a consist basis.  Selling pulltabs has made the author more aware of player’s needs.  Being on the for-profit side has created a “how to” dilemma in getting the knowledge out to players.

 The Insider’s Guide Instant Win Tickets will give the gambler the knowledge, whether novice or  professional, the know how to win more frequently when playing pulltabs.  In addition, the entrepreneur or new management personnel in gaming can utilize this book as a guide to implement a sales department.  The author included chapters on “security” and “inventory control” to keep the integrity of pulltab sales honest

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Sunday, June 28, 2015

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Thursday, May 07, 2015

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Description of an instant win ticket: pulltab

  Pulltab tickets come in many different varieties.  The author describes how they are made and explains the front/back of the ticket.  With diagrams, a mock ticket describes the meaning of each symbol and word.  The majority of the consumers are not aware of what is on the face of a pulltab.  Some symbols are security and inventory control mechanisms to help track what is sold and paid out.  Other symbols help the knowledgeable purchaser to calculate their odds of winning.  I explain in depth each meaning.

¨      “Varieties of pulltabs.”  There are many different combinations of pulltab play.  The author utilizes a step-by-step guide how to play each style of ticket.

¨      “Exclusives.”  Throughout the United States there are different styles of pulltab play.  The names are different, but determining a winning ticket is not.

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

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Tuesday, September 09, 2014

The Insider’s Guide Pulltabs


Gaming experts from around the world are always looking for ways to increase their bottom line. 
 
Bingo halls, churches and fund raising organizations are looking for other ways to raise money.  These organizations can use The Insider’s Guide Pulltabs for:

  • Premium Giveaway-Gives players the knowledge and odds of winning at pulltabs, thus increasing the profit margin.  Will get the cost of book back with increased play.

  • Create cross-selling between gaming devices-Bingo, slot, blackjack and poker players will play pulltabs if they know the odds of winning at pulltabs.  The huge customer base established by casino’s tracking spending habits can be used for a direct mailing of the book to create a cross-selling effect. 

  • Boost existing sales-Giving gamblers the knowledge of pulltab play will increase their likeliness of trying more pulltabs.  The marketing and contest’s in The Insider’s Guide Pulltabs will increase their profit.

  • Give a “How to” guide to potential new players- How to win, sell and profit are very powerful words of encouragement to play pulltabs.  Gamblers are always looking for a “edge” in beating the house’s odds for profit.

Monday, September 08, 2014

Pull-Tab Tips and Techniques sample

Tips and Techniques
  This chapter is specifically for players. The tips and techniques given are for increasing the player’s odds of winning. The experience given, along with the formulas the author developed, will give the pulltab player the “edge.”
“Formulas.” The odds of winning each tier (prize level) can be figured by utilizing these formulas. It will give the player the complete odds of play before starting to play. The majority of instant win ticket payout percentage is unknown. Calculate that percentage, then play the highest payout percentage.
“Posted winners.” Depending on locality, posting all the top prizes will give the player increased odds. As prizes are won they are crossed out on the winner’s board. The player knows what prizes are won and what ones are still available. In addition, all of the tickets in that particular deal are also displayed. Common deduction determines how much money is available against what tickets are unsold. Odds in the players favor!

Thursday, August 21, 2014

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Friday, April 22, 2011

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Legal and fiscal issues plague pitches for racino, e-pulltabs For those who followed his promises on the campaign trail, Gov. Mark Dayton's budget proposal held few surprises, save one. Candidate Dayton included a state-owned casino at the Mall of America or the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport in his campaign budget. At the time, he said such"

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Wednesday, September 22, 2010

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Friday, May 28, 2010

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Sunday, April 25, 2010

Hawking: Aliens may pose risks to Earth

Here is an interesting tidbit I found

"Astrophysicist says extraterrestrials likely exist, but could be dangerous

LONDON - British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking says aliens are out there, but it could be too dangerous for humans to interact with extraterrestrial life.

Hawking claims in a new documentary that intelligent alien lifeforms almost certainly exist, but warns that communicating with them could be "too risky."

The 68-year-old scientist says a visit by extraterrestrials to Earth would be like Christopher Columbus arriving in the Americas, "which didn't turn out very well for the Native Americans."

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

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The Bingo Cruise Tournament offers an 8 day cruise to the Caribbean on board the Carnival Valor. The ship will depart on 31st October and will visit Grand Cayman, Isla Roatan, Belize and Cozumel. Once on board the lucky winners will be able to take part in the World Championship Bingo Tournament which boasts £50,000 in cash and prizes!

To be in with a chance of winning players need to collect Crusie Miles in the Tournament which will run from 1st April to 31st August. You can collect Cruise Miles by playing bingo, slots, pull tabs or video poker.

The player with the most Cruise Miles at the end of the Tournament will get to go on this trip of a lifetime so you'll want to know exactly how you can collect those Cruise Miles! When you play bingo you will earn one Cruise Mile for every game you play and similarly in slot games every spin will earn you one Cruise Mile too. Every pull tab you buy will get you two Cruise Miles as will every ten hands you play at video poker.

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Police crack down on illegal slot machines

Owner of instant bingo games says they are legit
By SCOTT DAUGHERTY, Staff Writer
Published 03/22/10
County police have seized five instant bingo games from an Elks Lodge in Laurel as part of an investigation into what they said are illegal slot machines in the area

No charges have been filed in the March 9 raid, but the county has agreed to let an independent lab evaluate the five "New Fruit Bonus" machines and determine if they comply with state law, according to court documents.

A hearing is scheduled for April 7.

The owners of the machines filed court documents March 12 seeking the immediate return of the devices, vehemently arguing that they are legal.

Attorneys for Frank Moran of Acme Amusements in Baltimore said a District Court judge in Baltimore County ruled as recently as last month that identical games didn't violate any state laws.

"The machines in question are no different in operation than many skill cranes … marketed and placed widely within the state of Maryland," said Timothy F. Maloney, Moran's attorney. "The difference here is simply that the device's target market is adults instead of youths."

Police defended the warrantless seizure of the machines from the lodge at 8261 Brock Bridge Road, which has been licensed since 2001 to operate pull-tab games.

Lt. Francis Tewey, a spokesman for the department, said detectives seized the machines as "contraband" only after reading a 2008 opinion from the Maryland attorney general and consulting with the county Office of Law and the Department of Inspections and Permits.

"We have done this in the past," he said.

Tewey declined to say exactly why the county's vice unit believed the devices are illegal, noting that its investigation continues.

County Attorney Jonathan Hodgson also declined to comment about the seizures, citing the pending litigation.

The opinion Tewey cited to support the raid - a letter from Assistant Attorney General Kathryn M. Rowe to Maryland Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr., D-Calvert - indicates that instant-bingo machines are generally legal in Maryland.

Rowe said the devices are legal if the chance to win money is confined to the "pull tab" it dispenses to players. Some pull tabs - tickets consisting of two strips of paper sealed together to conceal symbols inside - do not offer any prize money.

Rowe said a machine may legally read the pull tabs and keep a running record of a player's winnings, as long as the machine vends the physical pull tabs as well. She said the machines must dispense the pull tabs off a roll, just as a cashier would dispense them from a counter.

Maloney did not mention the attorney general's opinion in court documents while seeking the return the machines. He relied heavily on a Feb. 22 decision by District Court Judge Philip N. Tirabassi of Baltimore County regarding a criminal case involving Frank Moran's son and the seizure of identical machines from an American Legion post in Parkton, Baltimore County.

Tirabassi acquitted Jeffrey Moran, 50, of Ellicott City, of six counts related to the seized devices, saying the pull-tab machines were not illegal slot machines.

Maloney described the games seized from the Elks Lodge as a "basic ticket-dispensing and skill game." He said the games require players to match symbols to earn points and, in time, pull tabs. The machines do not electronically read the pull tabs, do not alert a player to a winning or losing ticket and do not tabulate a player's winnings, he said.

The General Assembly voted in 2008 to ban the machines effective July 1, 2009, amid concerns they would cannibalize lottery and slot machine revenue.

The legislature decided last April to grant the machines a reprieve until July 2012, in light of the state's ongoing financial crisis. At the same time, the legislature levied an additional 5 percent tax on the machines to help struggling cultural arts organizations.

Tewey declined to say if county police have seized any other pull-tab machines. The Capital learned about the seizures after Maloney filed an injunction last week in county Circuit Court.

Employees of the county's three licensed bingo parlors - Bingo World in Brooklyn Park, Wayson's Bingo in Lothian and Delta Daily Double Bingo in Laurel - said county police had not seized any of their machines.

Man leads authorities on 2nd chase in four months

By Peter Cox - Stillwater Gazette
Published: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 1:17 PM CDT
Some habits are tough to break.

A week and a half ago, Damien Allen Anderson was sentenced to five years probation, a 17-month stayed prison sentence and 135 days in jail (of which he's already served 98 days), for stealing a pizza delivery vehicle from a Newport gas station, drinking, getting high on meth and marijuana, speeding in excess of 100 mph eastward on Highway 36 without lights on and fleeing police.

No less than five days before that sentencing, Anderson was apparently at it again.

On March 17, the 31-year-old allegedly stole a vehicle from a Newport gas station, drove over to Wisconsin and lead police on a high-speed chase into Minnesota, eventually crashing his vehicle in West Lakeland Township, according to that criminal complaint.

In the case Anderson was just sentenced for, he was arrested after leading police on a chase through Stillwater on Dec. 7, according to the criminal complaint.

Anderson was spotted driving eastward on 36 near I-694. An off-duty DEA agent was nearby and turned on the lights on his unmarked squad and began chasing him.

The Stillwater Police Department was called to assist, and also joined the chase.

The man ran over a stop sign at Washington Avenue and Curve Crest Boulevard, and continued on. A Stillwater officer finally used his squad car to make man's vehicle spin out.

Anderson was then arrested. He had 6.2 grams of marijuana and 12 pills of Oxycontin in the vehicle, and admitted to drinking and smoking both methamphetamine and marijuana.

The vehicle turned out to have been stolen Saturday night. A pizza delivery driver had gone inside a gas station in Newport, and the suspect jumped into the vehicle, which had four pizzas in it, and took off.

When an officer came in and said he'd seen a phone in the vehicle, but didn't know whose it was, Anderson responded, "I suppose the guy I stole the car from gets to keep the phone."

When police went back to the scene of the crash, they found that during the chase, he'd hit a stop sign at Washington Avenue and Curve Crest Boulevard. The vehicle had sheared the stop sign off.

He was convicted of one count of theft of a motor vehicle.

He originally faced charges of DWI, theft of a motor vehicle and fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle.

Thursday, January 07, 2010

2010

I hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Years! We don't know what is in store for 2010, but we can start planning our personnel resolutions. What resolutions did you make? Or did not?

The recession is in full force with a few lights at the end of the tunnel. That is for some folks. This will be an interesting year. The new federal administration is making its way around their decision making process.

We all will stay tuned!

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Green Bay Packers

The Green Bay Packers are now 7-4 after beating the Detroit Lions today. Its been a great Thanksgiving.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

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Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Green Bay Packer loss!

What a disappointing loss to the Vikings! I'm still feeling loss hangover! The good thing is there is still a lot of games to go. The Packers will get better and improve each week.
The next opponent is Tampa Bay Buccaneers! Go Packers!

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Green Bay Packers vs Cleveland Browns 10-25-09

I will taking a road trip to see the Packers take on the Cleveland Browns. And a stop at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame! This will be my first trip to Cleveland. I have only heard good things about this city. We will see how it goes with a sea of Green and Gold invading town.
I will post some pictures and videos on my blog.

I have recently post some new designs: Tribal Soldier at my DD Baz design page.

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Sunday, September 13, 2009

The 2009 Green Bay Packers

Anticipating a great start for the Packer 2009 season tonight! Bear meat for dinner!

Saturday, August 29, 2009

Changes to Texas gaming laws won’t come easy

By S.E. Ruckman, Today correspondent

Story Published: Aug 7, 2009

EL PASO, Texas – Any hopes that Indian tribes in Texas had to resurrect gaming in their state were laid to rest again after legislators voted down efforts to further a related bill in May.

Meanwhile, another tribe, the Fort Sill Apache of Oklahoma, are forging plans for its debated gaming site in New Mexico.

The efforts represent tribes tackling obstacles to sovereignty regarding gaming, officials for both tribes said.

“We’ve been unsuccessful, but we’ve been close,” said Tom Diamond, tribal counsel for the 1,400-member Tiguas.

On the Tigua end, the tribe has backed several bills that would help them receive state casino licenses. Their political involvement was spurred by the closing of its Speaking Rock Casino in 2002, by now Texas Sen. John Cornyn, once the Lone Star State’s attorney general.

Two other recognized tribes in Texas are the Alabama Coushatta and the Kickapoos of Texas. The Kickapoo currently have poker and bingo but also back the pro-Indian gaming moves in Texas. Opponents to Texas gaming said allowing tribal gaming will increase violent crime, raise bankruptcies and spawn gaming addictions.

The window on changing current restrictive gaming laws in Texas faces further resistance because Texas lawmakers meet every two years for a four-month session. That time frame hampers and helps the Tiguas develop a plan that would allow the tribe to reopen its casino, officials said.

“Texans don’t want to recognize that Indians have any rights at all,” Diamond said. “Their sovereignty policy amounts to annihilation.”

A reopened Speaking Rock Casino would mean an estimated $60 million annually for the small tribe that now relies mostly on federal grants to stay alive. The tribe has been forced to cut back on services due to the economic downturn.

“Can you imagine what a small tribe can do with that kind of money,” Diamond said.

Other developments have held the tribe back since the tribe paid former lobbyist Jack Abramoff $4.2 million to secure help in reopening the casino after siding with the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana to back its closing.

Also, a Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling said Texas laws against casino gambling stands for all Texas tribes. A more recent setback for gaming came when Texas was able to leverage stimulus funds that allowed them to dismiss tribal gaming as an answer to a revenue shortfall. Texas gaming proponents estimate $4.5 billion a year could come from casino gaming.

Meanwhile, the Fort Sill Apaches are
visualizing their Apache Homelands Casino near Deming, N.M. as there to stay, said tribal chairman, Jeff Houser. The 600-member tribe operates one casino in Lawton, Okla. less than one mile from the Comanche Nation facility. Houser said the 30-acre site could be a boon to an area that has little industry.

“It’s a desire (for the tribe) to return to our homelands.”

The tribe raised the ire of New Mexico officials when it opened a second casino outside its current tribal jurisdiction in southwest Oklahoma. The issue here is one of successfully realizing a post-1988 trust land acquisition, Houser said.

Historical shuffling also plays a part in this debate as the tribe says it’s the successor to the Chiricahua Apaches which claimed a homeland of 16 million acres on land located in New Mexico and Arizona. The tribe is reclaiming its land base and asserting its sovereignty, tribal officials said.

After opening the Apache Homelands casino, the tribe pulled down gaming machines at the site it had bought from the Citizen Potawatomi Nation in Oklahoma. State officials said the casino is illegal because the tribe didn’t have a Class III gaming compact with them.

But Houser says plans are moving forward and the tribe runs a steady paper bingo and pull tabs operation on its purchased property. Class II gaming is allowed by federal statute without state compacts, according to the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988.

Houser and other casino officials said the plan is to maintain an operative presence in New Mexico until it secures a meeting with state officials.

A Freedom of Information Act request was submitted to the National Indian Gaming Commission on the Tigua and Fort Sill Apache decisions and is pending.

Woman banned from Conroe bingo hall

05:43 PM CDT on Friday, August 7, 2009

By Jeff McShan / 11 News

CONROE, Texas – A Huntsville woman says she was banned from a bingo hall in Conroe after she said she noticed something fishy and started asking questions.

Huntsville woman banned from playing bingo
Veronica Smith received a letter that consisted of only one sentence: “'You are no longer eligible to play bingo in this hall or be on the premises per Commander Kenny' -- whatever his last name is,” Smith said, reading the letter aloud.

The letter was from Commander Kenny Shelsteder, who runs the VFW Post 4709 in Conroe.

The VFW Post is where bingo is played Tuesday, Thursday and twice on Friday.

“I love bingo. I have been playing for over 30 years,” said Smith.

Now Smith isn't even allowed in the parking lot of the Conroe bingo hall. In fact, while she was doing the interview with 11 News across the street from the bingo hall, the VFW Post called the police.

“I feel terrible. It makes me mad. It makes me real mad because they have a lot of my money,” said Smith.

Smith says she was kicked out of the bingo hall after she called the Bingo Commission and filed a complaint. She told them the VFW Post was cheating.

One of her allegations is that bingo hall employees get to play and then mysteriously win a lot of money.

“On the pull tabs one night, she (an employee) won seven times. That is just unreal,” Smith said.

11 New has confirmed that the bingo hall is under investigation by the state. We also found two other patrons who believe cheating is taking place there.

But Commander Shelsteder says that's not happening and claims Smith was banned not because she filed a complaint, but for other reasons.

“She can’t keep her mouth shut. People around her can't play their bingo right. She accuses all my workers of stealing, lying and cheating,” Commander Kenny Shelsteder said.

“He's lying. He's lying, and anybody will tell you that,” Smith said.

Regardless of who is right in this case, Shelsteder says he can ban anyone from the hall.

In the meantime, Smith has called the Bingo Commission again, hoping they might do something because her life without bingo just isn't the same.

Proposal revamps how bingo is run

August 22, 2009

Ky. wants centralized purchasing, computerized record keeping

By Gregory A. Hall
ghall@courier-journal.com

RANKFORT, Ky. — Bingo halls and charities face an accounting nightmare — keeping records by hand — that results in lost supplies and revenues as they work with more than 20 distributors and manufacturers lining up supplies to put on fundraising games.

The state Department of Charitable Gaming wants to centralize purchasing for bingo and pull-tab supplies and computerize the charities' record keeping. The agency believes the steps will reduce prices, improve accountability and leave charities with more money to support their causes.

What exists now is very archaic and a burden, said Henry Lackey, the state commissioner of charitable gaming.

Based on audits of some of its charities, the department estimates that $100 million a year –— about a fifth of the total amount accounted for in charity games — goes unreported because of theft and clerical errors.

The state also estimates charities lose $600,000 a year from accepting bad checks and have to pay $300,000 for bookkeeping to deal with the current paperwork.

The proposed system would verify that checks are good, state bingo officers said.

Kentucky regulators want to seek proposals for suppliers of record-keeping software bingo equipment and pull tabs.

The state also wants to take bids to distribute the supplies purchased at the state-contracted prices.

Assuming the bids show the system would save money, state officials would seek legislation in January granting authority to implement the new system by fall 2010.

Some in the charitable gambling industry –— which in Kentucky saw $509million wagered in 2007, more than the $470million bet in the state on horse racing — question whether the proposed system would achieve those goals.

State charitable gambling officials expect a fight from distributors and manufacturers, some of whom stand to lose out if purchasing is centralized.

“I think this is a train wreck for the department to get involved in free trade,” said Kaven Rumpel, president of the Kentucky Charitable Gaming Association and owner of the Highview bingo hall, who said that the changes could result in less competition and higher prices for supplies — even though he likes some of the computerized record keeping that is proposed.

Charitable gambling officials declined to provide any financial estimates, which they say would tip off potential bidders and hurt the process.

The savings is expected to be sufficient to pay for the new system, in addition to allowing more money for the charities.

“We feel pretty confident in our number crunching or we wouldn't do this,” said Leah Cooper Boggs, director of the Division of Licensing and Compliance in the Department of Charitable Gaming.

Boggs said that competition among manufacturers largely would remain the same, and that manufacturers selected by the state could still subcontract with other manufacturers for certain games, if desired.

“We're not taking away the competitive process,” she said. Manufacturers are “still going to want to compete with each other because one manufacturer is still going to want to outsell another manufacturer. The only way they can do that is by putting the games in the market and taking out the games that they don't sell anymore just like they do now. That is not going to change.”

Boggs said competition would be removed from the distribution system.

Lackey said “ideally” there would be two distributors in the state, compared with 23 now.

“I think we need more information,” said Robert Castagna, executive director of the Catholic Conference of Kentucky, the public policy arm for the four Roman Catholic dioceses in Kentucky.

He said a meeting is set for this week between the department and the finance officers of the dioceses.

Castagna said his first reaction was positive, but “I think we need more details.”

Catholic groups, he said, are the single biggest group of licensees in the state.

The other two major entities in the charitable gambling world are volunteer fire departments and veterans groups, Lackey said.

Oliver Barber, an attorney who represents the Catholic Conference, the Kentucky Soccer Association and the Louisville Soccer Association, asked during a meeting of the Charitable Gaming Department's advisory board last week whether the changes could be made without legislative approval. He later said he fears other changes that could be made in the charitable gambling law if it's revisited by legislators.

“I think it's two-thirds great if they can figure out how to do it,” he said after that meeting. He said the plan would be easier to see if the state provided its estimates, but he said he agrees with its estimates of the cost of bad checks and accounting.

Others affiliated with the industry question whether it will work at all. “This sounds too good to be true,” said John Wilson, who represents the Kentucky Charitable Gaming Association on the department's advisory board, which unanimously endorsed the proposal last week.

Kevin Mills, leader of the St. Gabriel Catholic Church bingo, which is conducted in Jeffersontown, said that he also questions whether the plan will work because he believes manufacturers will be able to get a better price through the bidding than they would by ongoing competition in the current system.

“What they're basically doing is ruining all the competition, and … there's nothing anybody can do about it,” Mills said.

Reporter Gregory A. Hall can be reached at (502) 582-4087.

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Friday, July 17, 2009

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

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Saturday, June 06, 2009

Bingo

Bingo is a game that will maintain attendance numbers even during a recession. Bingo has a time element to play. The price of admission can bring a few hours of enjoyment. Social Bingo.

Sunday, May 10, 2009

Native American Wisdom

It was supposed that lost spirits were roving about everywhere in the invisible air, waiting for children to find them if they searched long and patiently enough...(The Spirit) sang its spiritual song for the child to memorize and use when calling upon the spirit guardian as an adult.

Mourning Dove (1888-1936)
Salish

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

MinnPost - Gambling expansion as part of Minnesota budget fix? Don't bet against it, some legislators say

MinnPost - Gambling expansion as part of Minnesota budget fix? Don't bet against it, some legislators say: "Gambling expansion as part of Minnesota budget fix? Don't bet against it, some legislators say
Analysis by Doug Grow Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Electronic pull tab machines might be part of the elusive end game that helps bring the legislative session to a close.

The possibility that the slot machine-like games might be part of a compromise between struggling DFLers and a governor committed to no new taxes was raised by two Republican representatives Monday afternoon. Those machines, which could be installed in bars across the state, could raise as much as $800 million to $1 billion a biennium, according to Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Delano, and Rep. Kurt Zellers, R-Maple Grove, assistant minority leader.

Emmer and Zellers appropriately sit in the back row of the House chamber.

'Back benchers,' said Zellers.

'It's good to be in a spot where nobody can sneak in behind us,' said Emmer."