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STICKNEY, Ill. (CBS) ? After three years of waiting, legalized video gambling in Illinois has finally begun going live at Illinois bars, restaurants, and other locations.

The Illinois Gaming Board has approved licenses for 341 various businesses, fraternal organizations, veterans? halls and other locations. A total of 65 of those saw their first legal video gambling take place on Tuesday.

CBS 2?s Marissa Bailey was with one of the first players to get lucky.

The machines at Crabby?s Pub in Stickney paid out a $40 jackpot to its first winner on Tuesday.

Owner Phyllis Accardo said, when video gambling went live at her bar, she immediately called one of her regulars, Karl Swiecionis.

?I called him at home, and said ?My machines are on,?? she said.

?She says, ?Karl, they?re on.? I says, ?Oh, no kidding???

Within 20 minutes, Swiecionis was sitting in front of one of the gambling machines, and he didn?t plan to leave anytime soon after that.

?I tell ya, I?m going to spend four or five [hours] here today,? he said.

For most of the 65 locations to turn on their video gambling machines on Tuesday, going live happened in an instant.

?They were off one minute and on the next,? said Jeff Glover, manager of Chino?s Pizzeria in Justice.

Glover said he didn?t believe the machines were finally working, so ?I threw in $12. ?I didn?t win.?

But there was a slight delay in turning on the machines at Davern?s Tavern in Justice.

Debbie Gordon said she had to wait about an hour and a half for the bar to get its machines turned on.

?We wanted to be the first ones to try these out this morning,? she said.

Like most new launches, there were some hiccups, and the Gordons left before trying their luck.

?They?re doing one at a time. You know, there?s nothing we can do,? said Jim Ruzicka, vice president of sales for Universal Gaming. ?Everybody just be patient. It?s been three years, what?s another couple of hours??

It cost about $80,000 to put five video gambling machines in just one location.

Illinois lawmakers and Gov. Pat Quinn approved video gambling in 2009, to help fund a $31 billion construction program to fix schools, roads and other transportation projects.

But it took until Tuesday for the machines to get turned on, while the Gaming Board reviewed license applications, set up a central computer system to monitor the machines, and took other steps to oversee the industry.

The state?s video gambling law allows the machines to be installed at bars, restaurants, truck stops, fraternal organizations and other establishments that hold a liquor license. A licensed location may have up to five machines.

There were about 2,200 applications still pending as of Tuesday.

In 2009, officials estimated video gambling would raise about $375 million in annual revenue for the state.

Before video gambling was legalized in Illinois, many businesses had video gaming machines that did not pay out any money. Other businesses paid out illegal winnings under the table, and state officials hope legalizing the industry will help eliminate that practice.

Source: http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/10/09/legal-video-gambling-finally-a-reality-in-illinois/

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From Vero Beach, Fla. tcpalm reports five manufactured homes have been donated for qualified veterans in need of housing. All of the homes are two-bedroom multi-section and ready for immediate occupancy. Home Depot is partnering with the Veterans Council to help repair the one home that needs work. MHProNews has learned the applicants must qualify with the specific community associations and show proof of their ability to pay site rent and utilities.

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The percentage of people who abuse prescription pain drugs on a regular basis is on the rise, a new study says.

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Between 2002 and 2010, the rate of “chronic” prescription drug abuse ? which means taking prescription drugs for a nonmedical reason on at least 200 days in the last year ? increased by 76 percent, the study found.

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The increase parallels the recent rise in deaths due to overdoses of opioid pain relievers, such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, according to the report. In 2009, more than 15,000 people died from overdoses involving these drugs, more than double the number of such deaths in 2002.

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“These findings underscore the need for concerted public health and public safety action to prevent nonmedical use of these drugs,” researcher Christopher Jones, of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, wrote in the June 25 issue of the journal Archives of Internal Medicine.

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Previous studies have suggested that the percentage of people who say they’ve abused prescription pain drugs in the last year has remained stable since 2002. But these studies have not specifically looked at changes in the rates of chronic abuse.

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Jones analyzed information from a national survey of Americans ages 12 years or older, conducted in 2002 to 2003 and again in 2009 to 2010.

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Participants were asked if they had used prescription pain relievers in the past year for a nonmedical reason (without a prescription, or for the feeling/experience the drug causes.) If they answered yes, they were asked how many days they used prescription pain relievers nonmedically in the last year.

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In the 2002 to 2003 period, about 2 out of every 1,000 people said they used prescription pain reliever for a nonmedical reason on at least 200 days in the last year. In the 2009 to 2010 period, that rate increased to 4 out of every 1,000 people, equivalent to almost a million more people in the United States, Jones wrote. There was a larger increase among men reporting this type of abuse, compared with women.

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However, the overall rate of prescription pain reliever abuse (the percentage of people who said they took prescription pain relievers for a nonmedical reason for any amount of time in the past year) did not change significantly between 2002 and 2010, the researchers said.

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Pass it on:? Along with the rise in overdose deaths from prescription pain medication, there has been a rise in the percentage of people who regularly abuse the drugs.

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Facebook has long betrayed you by forwarding your drunken wall ramblings in an email for posterity. Previously, though, the only way to limit further public shame was to try to delete the comment altogether. Now, it looks like the loose fingered have been given a reprieve, as the social giant is rolling out the ability to edit your ill-thought missives long after the fact. Even better, this seems to extend back to those written in the past. Don’t think you can be sneaky though, as an “edited” link will appear below, letting everyone see the thread history. So even if you change your opinion, that indecision remains for all to see.

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Irish singer and activist Bono and Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, left, pose for the media after attending a conference of the Oslo Forum at the Losby Gods resort, about 13 kilometers (8 miles) east of Oslo, Monday, June 18, 2012. The Oslo Forum is an international network of armed conflict mediation practitioners. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Irish singer and activist Bono and Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, left, pose for the media after attending a conference of the Oslo Forum at the Losby Gods resort, about 13 kilometers (8 miles) east of Oslo, Monday, June 18, 2012. The Oslo Forum is an international network of armed conflict mediation practitioners. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

From left, Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere, Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and Irish singer and activist Bono pose for the media after they attending a conference of the Oslo Forum at the Losby Gods resort, about 13 kilometers (8 miles) east of Oslo, Monday, June 18, 2012. The Oslo Forum is a n international network of armed conflict mediation practitioners. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, left, speaks during a news conference alongside Irish singer and activist Bono after attending a conference of the Oslo Forum at the Losby Gods resort, about 13 kilometers (8 miles) east of Oslo, Monday, June 18, 2012. The Oslo Forum is an international network of armed conflict mediation practitioners. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

DUBLIN (AP) ? Aung San Suu Kyi and Bono joined forces Monday as the Myanmar democracy activist’s European tour moved from the home of the Nobel Peace Prize to the land of U2.

The pair spent more than an hour answering questions at an Oslo conference of peace mediators at the end of Suu Kyi’s four-day visit to Norway. Then they jetted together to the Irish capital, Dublin, for an evening concert in her honor.

Irish Foreign Minister Eamon Gilmore and a trio of children, two of them Burmese nationals, offered Suu Kyi flowers as she arrived at Dublin Airport. Several thousands excited well-wishers, ranging from Irish glitterati to virtually Ireland’s entire Burmese community, awaited her arrival at a dockside Dublin theater.

Gilmore called the Dublin celebrations, involving actress Vanessa Redgrave and the Riverdance troupe, “a wonderful opportunity to demonstrate the warmth and affection in which this remarkable and courageous woman is rightly held by the Irish people.”

“I hope that the recent positive developments in Burma, including Ms. Suu Kyi’s election, herald the real beginning of a new era of peace, democracy and human rights,” Gilmore said.

Bono, who wrote the 2000 hit “Walk On” in praise of Suu Kyi’s long exile from her family and dedicated U2′s 2009 world tour to her, had never met her before. He admitted he found her a wee bit intimidating.

“I’m star-struck … but I’m managing to get over it,” said the 52-year-old Bono, who donned his trademark yellow-tinted wraparound glasses and high-heeled boots.

Suu Kyi, in turn, said Bono had hit the right note with “Walk On,” which was written from the point of view of her husband Michael Aris. Myanmar’s military rulers refused to let him see his wife from 1995 to his death from cancer in 1999.

“I like that song, because it’s very close to how I feel, that it’s up to you to carry on,” said Suu Kyi, who turns 67 on Tuesday. “It’s good if you have supporters, it’s good if you have people who are sympathetic and understanding. But in the end, it’s your own two legs that have to carry you on.”

In Norway, Suu Kyi gave two acceptance speeches for awards she received long ago ? the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 and the Rafto Prize in 1990 ? and was to embrace more time-delayed honors in Dublin.

At the Dublin concert, called “Electric Burma,” Bono is scheduled to unveil Amnesty International’s top prize, the Ambassador of Conscience, an award for Suu Kyi that the singer announced at a Dublin U2 concert in 2009. Suu Kyi was finally released from house arrest the following year.

Also at the Dublin concert, Suu Kyi is to receive an honorary doctorate from Trinity College Dublin. Afterward at an outdoor ceremony, she’s to sign the roll of honor proclaiming her a Freewoman of the City of Dublin, an honorific title bestowed in her absence in 1999.

Amnesty officials also plan to give her a birthday cake and lead the crowd in a chorus of “Harry Birthday.”

Bono said Suu Kyi was exceptionally philosophical and spiritual for a politician. And he expressed admiration over how she had stuck to a position of nonviolence throughout her 15 years in detention.

“It’s really her nonviolent position that I find so impressive, because perhaps I find it hard to fathom,” he said, adding: “I think she will be remembered for that kind of spiritual insight really, as much as the sort of nitty-gritty of her politics, because she’s a tough customer, too.”

Suu Kyi spent much of her final hours in Oslo focused on that nitty-gritty: the challenge of coaxing Myanmar’s military-controlled government toward democracy without alienating militants from warring ethnic groups who demand immediate change.

Her party, the National League for Democracy, won elections in 1990 only to see the result annulled. It boycotted the next elections in 2010, and today has just entered Myanmar’s legislature as a small opposition force, with Suu Kyi having won a seat in Parliament.

Changing the country’s laws of government requires more than 75 percent support in the legislature ? and army members represent a blocking 25 percent of votes.

“We will need at least one army representative to vote for amendments. So we have to work with the army. … We don’t want to be in conflict with them, we want to achieve a consensus,” Suu Kyi said in response to a question from The Associated Press.

Earlier, she told the audience of international conflict mediators that building unity among Myanmar’s many warring ethnic groups meant she must remain open to talking with those still committed to violence.

Suu Kyi said she wouldn’t “disinherit or disown” militant groups based along Myanmar’s borders in Thailand and Bangladesh “because we share the same goals” of creating a proper democracy that respects minority rights in Myanmar. Nor, she said, could she promise them that such goals could be achieved without violent rebellion ? but they had both a moral and practical obligation to try.

She said her National League for Democracy could “not let go of our conviction that change could be brought about through peaceful means, and in the long run that would be better.

“The wounds that are opened up by violent conflict take a long time to heal,” she said. “And while the peaceful way might take longer, in the end there are fewer wounds to be healed.”

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Associated Press writer David MacDougall in Oslo, Norway, contributed to this report.

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(CNET) A Chinese court will delay ruling on Apple’s appeal in the iPad trademark case brought by a company in China as long as the two parties are working toward an agreement, Bloomberg reported today.

Apple appealed in February after an earlier ruling said the iPad maker did not own the trademark in China. The lawsuit was filed by Proview Technology. The Chinese company has filed suit against Apple in the U.S. as well.

Proview argues that it owns the iPad trademark and should be compensated for Apple’s use of the name, or Apple should change the tablet’s name in China. Apple said it acquired the rights to the trademark from the company in 2009.

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Proview’s attorney told Bloomberg that the court would normally rule on an appeal within three months of the filing, but the court-sponsored mediation is delaying the action.

China is a profitable market for Apple, which has found fame and demand among the large population.

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One day, donning a T-shirt could mean you’re also sporting a smart device charger. Engineers have successfully transformed cotton into a flexible, highly conductive component, which means it could charge devices.

“In the future, you can imagine our cell phones will be just like a piece of paper you can roll up. But we need to have a flexible energy device to integrate with flexible, stretchable motherboards,” said Xiaodong Li, a mechanical engineering professor at the University of South Carolina who led the development with postdoc Lihong Bao. Their article was just published in the journal Advanced Materials ( abstract ).

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Li knows how to be creative with cotton T-shirts. In 2010, he and his colleagues converted one into lightweight body armor by converting the fabric into boron carbide nanowires. So when he began looking for a backbone to make a flexible energy storage device, he turned to a $5 cotton tee from Wal-Mart.

The engineers had to make the cotton highly conductive so they tried several “recipes,” Li said. He compared their experiments with trying to replicate a restaurant meal at home without having seen the chef’s preparations. First they dipped the cotton in a sodium fluoride solution for an hour, took the wet material and dried it in a preheated oven for three hours. Then they heated it in a hotter furnace for an hour.

By the time it was done, the cotton had changed into activated carbon. Despite being baked, the charred-looking material could still be folded. From there, the engineers coated it with a nano-layer of the conductive metal manganese oxide for the last stage of building their energy storage device.

??Lead researcher Xiaodong Li said his team knew that future body armor would need a flexible power source. And because the scientists work in South Carolina, which used to have a big cotton industry, they thought, ‘Why not use a cotton T-shirt as the energy device?’?

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Although others have used cotton in devices, Li said that to the best of his knowledge his research group is the first to activate a cotton T-shirt and build it into a super capacitor. Their device’s performance is on par with other carbon-based super capacitors, according to their testing. After 1,000 cycles it had 97.3 percent retention.

“This is a very simple, low-cost process, and it’s green,” Li said. In addition to starting with a renewable plant-based material, he and his research group estimate that using cotton directly from textile mills could be as much as 10 times cheaper than chemically processing coal or petroleum into activated carbon.

To take his concept to market, the process needs to be scaled up. Li said that for this next phase, he’s looking for a potential industry partner. He’s also reaching out to state government leaders about using this process to help revive local textile production.

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Reza Shahbazian-Yassar is an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Michigan Technological University who specializes in the application of nanomaterials for different forms of energy storage. He’s familiar with the recent Advanced Materials journal article.

“The novelty of this work is that they have converted the fabric using simple heat treatment processes and a little bit of a chemical process,” he said. Shahbazian-Yassar sees an advantage in clothing that contains convenient energy storage. Soldiers on the battlefield could use it in military applications, he added.

“The challenge of course is to improve the amount of energy that these fibers can store,” he said. The material also has to be able to keep performing well after regular folding and stretching.

Li, who was recently in Beijing to give a presentation, said he envisions a time when academic conference attendees use roll-up electronic posters that include flexible power sources.

“I like to think about the big picture,” he said. “Down the road, we will see such cotton-enabled energy devices in the market. We won’t need to rely on oil any more.”?

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BELGRADE (Reuters) – Opposition leader Tomislav Nikolic, last in power when Slobodan Milosevic‘s Serbia was bombed by NATO in 1999, was elected president on Sunday and pledged to keep the former Yugoslav republic moving towards the European Union.

In a major upset, rightist Nikolic narrowly defeated liberal leader Boris Tadic, ending his eight years as head of state in a tense run-off election in which fewer than half of Serbia’s eligible voters turned out.

“There is divine justice,” Nikolic told jubilant supporters in the capital, Belgrade. “Serbia will not stray from its European path,” he said, directly addressing concern in the West and the region over his hardline nationalist past during the bloody collapse of Yugoslavia.

“This was not a referendum for or against the EU, but to resolve internal problems that were created by Tadic and the Democratic Party.”

Tracing the Balkan country’s gradual progress from pariah state under Milosevic to EU membership candidate in March, Nikolic has tried to reinvent himself as a modern, pro-European conservative since splitting in 2008 from his firebrand mentor Vojislav Seselj.

The jury is still out; diplomats say the West is encouraged by his apparent conversion to the ultimate aim of taking Serbia into the EU, but they concede uncertainty over the actual substance of his policy or whether he can continue Tadic’s work in fostering reconciliation in the region.

Serbia’s neighbors in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo — where over 125,000 people died as Yugoslavia collapsed — were unlikely to welcome Nikolic’s victory.

They still firmly associate him with Seselj, who is standing trial for war crimes in The Hague. Nikolic, 60, and Seselj were in government with Milosevic in 1999 when NATO bombed Serbia for 11 weeks to halt the massacre and expulsion of ethnic Albanians by Serb forces.

Like Tadic and most major parties in Serbia, Nikolic says he will never recognize Serbia’s former Kosovo province as independent.

Tadic conceded defeat, and challenged Nikolic to prove his commitment to Serbia’s EU goal.

“I am appealing to all political factors to preserve Serbia’s strategic orientation towards the EU,” he told reporters. “It would be a tragic mistake if Serbia were to return to the nineties.”

“ELECTION EARTHQUAKE”

The result – 50.2 percent versus 46.8 – ushers in a period of political uncertainty. Serbia is without a government after a parliamentary election on May 6, which Nikolic’s Serbian Progressive Party narrowly won.

Tadic’s second-placed Democratic Party had been poised to renew a governing alliance with the third-placed Socialist Party formerly led by Milosevic but now by his wartime spokesman Ivica Dacic.

But as president, Nikolic has the right to give the mandate to the largest party – his own.

Dacic said on Sunday the result of the election would not effect his coalition deal with Tadic’s Democrats, but negotiations have yet to begin in earnest.

“An election earthquake has struck Serbia,” said Vladimir Todoric, head of the New Policy Centre think-tank. “Now the horsetrading will begin, and it’s unlikely that the new government will be created before July or August,” he told Reuters.

Under the Serbian constitution, the prime minister is more powerful than the president, but the head of state can hold up legislation.

A division of power between Nikolic as president and the Democrats in government could slow reforms needed to revive the stagnating economy and clinch EU accession talks next year.

Like his party in the parliamentary election, Tadic, 54, was punished by voters for an economic slowdown that has seen unemployment reach 24 percent. The Serbian economy is forecast to grow just 0.5 percent this year, pummeled by the crisis in the euro zone, the Balkans’ main source of trade and investment.

Tadic was part of the reformist bloc that ousted Milosevic in 2000, but after 12 years in power, many Serbs accuse the Democrats of presiding over a creeping culture of cronyism and deepening government control over the media.

“After all the unfulfilled promises and corruption under Tadic, I believe Serbia needs to be refreshed and that’s why I voted for Nikolic,” said Miodrag Petrovic, 38.

Nikolic’s straight-talking, man-of-the-people manner appeals to rural Serbs and ordinary voters struggling with an average net wage of 380 euros ($480) per month.

Tadic began the day as the frontrunner, but analysts had said a low turnout might favor Nikolic, whose supporters are considered more disciplined voters.

“This is the first time in 25 years that I’ve decided not to vote,” said 44-year-old Belgrade engineer Zoran Momirov. “I’m deeply unhappy with Tadic’s policies and the nepotism and corruption of the Democrats and their clique, but I’m equally unhappy with whatever Nikolic has to offer.

(Editing by Diana Abdallah)

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Delhi is well known for being the heart of the English Riviera. It has several small family run businesses that cater to tourists, all visiting the area to explore, experience and enjoy all that this seaside resort has to offer. These businesses need to be run efficiently, and this process is made easier by hiring top notch accountants in Delhi. The tourism economy is quite fragile, and thus businesses need accountants that they can count on to ensure that their business will succeed and grow.
The main key to ensure that businesses grow and become more successful is proper management and ensuring that all business aspects are given proper attention. Accounting is a vital aspect in any business. Accounting departments such as payroll processing, tax payments, benefits for employees, payable remittances and bookkeeping are needed for every business. In addition, there are many other aspects that accountants can help with.
Choosing the right accountant for your business is no easy task, and should not be taken lightly. Businesses should verify that the accountant is credible and legitimate by getting details such as the accountants? license, accreditations, certifications and affiliations. These factors say a lot about the accountants? professionalism. Businesses should read client testimonials and feedback ratings to get an idea about how the accountants perform. Factoring in qualifications is also important, as well as taking into consideration about the accountants area of specialization. Another important consideration is whether to hire someone who works in an established accounting firm, or those that work alone. Hiring an accounting firm means that several accountants will be available to work on your case load, thus speeding up work completion. However, having one specific accountant to work for you means that you will be provided with undivided attention and dedication.
Another factor to consider when choosing the right accountant for your business is the fees that they will charge. An accountant who charges a higher hourly rate may not necessarily be the better hire. However, businesses should understand that someone who has trained and worked for years will ask for a higher fee than someone who is new in the field. Another aspect is to consider the business accounting needs. If the business requires complex accounting needs, then hiring an experienced accountant is imperative. However, if the business only requires a lighter accounting load, such as financial statements to be worked on, then hiring an accountant with lesser credentials will suffice.
For more information about chartered accountant Delhi and ca firm in Delhi. Visit ashok & associates.

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