HISTORY OF THE GROWING CASINO INDUSTRY

Gambling-related activities have been in place for many years. The growth of the industry is sparked by a large number of people who are interested in it. They include investors and gamblers. While the future of placing wagers appears to be bright, history dictates that the trade has undergone various changes, as well as challenges.

A brief history of gambling

Gambling dates back to the year 1638 when the first center related to the activity was launched in Europe. Back then, the center referred to as the Risotto was not regarded as a casino despite meeting all the traits that the modern casinos such as casinos Canada portray. The Great Council of Venice was the body behind the creation of the house. Gambling can also be traced to countries such as China and Egypt. The activity continued to grow unpopularity in these nations, specifically among the locals. For instance, in China, people used to play the 'white pigeon ticket,' which was extremely popular back then.

Origins from Las Vegas

Despite being known to many as the home of gamblers, Las Vegas grew gradually from a small setting to achieve its present status. Initially, players used to meet in saloons to participate in their games and not casinos.

While other states outlawed such activities within their boundary, Nevada took a contrary route and legalized the trade in the year 1931, allowing for the birth of casinos within the region. It is for this reason that when other states continued to lag behind, Las Vegas casinos continued to grow, turning the area into the powerhouse that it is today. To date, the region continues to lead while others follow.

War years

The war years presented tough implications for many areas across the world. Many activities came to a halt since all the attention shifted towards an era of uncertainty that had gripped the globe. People were struggling to engage in different activities in an age where peace was non-existent. Gambling activities also suffered similar consequences of hardship.

Focus had shifted to address more pressing matters relating. However, during the war years, which ranged from 1939 to 1945, El Rancho was born in Nevada in an area that had grown to be the home of gambling. Its establishment sparked a positive period for casinos' popularity.

After the Second World War

The growth of Nevada after the end of the Second World War was purely due to the growing number of gamblers that were streaming into the area. People had enough money to spend and were beginning to accept the trade even more. Popular individuals, as well as high ranking personnel, also started to embrace the growth of the industry as evident from their desire to visit regularly. Tourism was also not left behind as the region began to receive many visitors from across the country and other nations following the end of the war. With casinos growing at an exceptional rate, workers also benefited since they were able to land jobs where they earned a lot of money.

Online casinos in the internet era

The internet has changed many aspects relating to human lives. Gambling has also undergone its share of transformations owing to the innovation brought about by technology. The period starting from the year 1990 saw gambling activities take to the internet. For instance, in the year 1996, over ten gaming websites had been launched.

The opportunity was unique since it allowed the developers to take their activities to the next level. In the same year, the Kahnawake Gaming Commission came into existence to act as a regulator for the industry. Since that period, many players started accessing their favorite games remotely without visiting a physical location, perhaps the reason why casinos grew so popular.

Mobile gambling

The existence of mobile devices has also served in favor of players and business owners. These devices are easy to carry around and can be accessed at any given time. The continued increase in the number of mobile phone users engaging in gambling has further contributed to the creation of more online sites by developers. These sites are designed specifically to meet the needs of the users and leave them with the urge to come back for more. To this end, companies have relied on the skills of top developers to improve user experience.

The future- Gambling on the blockchain

Many people are inclined to agree that the future of gambling appears to be uncertain with the existence of blockchain technology. Cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin, Ethereum, and many others, have transformed the manner in which people fund their online activities. They have made it possible to finance such issues anomalously. In addition to this, they have also reduced the cost of every single transaction that other funding means would demand.

Blockchain has also functioned to increase access to gambling since the technology does not have strict limitations.

While the gambling industry has undergone many changes to shape it into what it is today, it remains to be seen just how resilient the industry is to the changes that are likely to come in the future. It will be fascinating to witness how investors and players respond to what is expected to be a turbulent period.

YOUR KIDS LEARN MUSIC WITH BEGINNER GUITARS

Don’t you ever look at your kids and think: Back in my day, things were definitely a lot different. True enough, things really have changed since the previous generation. Children are becoming more and more detached to the outside world and more focused on the virtual world they have on screen. Like seriously, 5 year-olds of today have way better tech than I did when I was in university and it was only not too long ago (really) that I graduated. iPhones, tablets, iPads., I mean really?

All I had when I was that age was a toy phone that said “How are you?” whenever you press the call button – in a really weird, squeaky voice at that.

But you know what? Despite my low-tech childhood, I can really say that I was able to savor the moments of growing up. These days, kids grow up without ever feeling like they were kids in the first place! They live in this grown-up world, with grown-up rules, and their only escape is by means of video games or social media.

Would you believe that 14-year-old girls have way more intelligence than me at my age? They know how to work it better too. Children are trying so hard to live in this world of adults when all they really have to do is act their age – and actually enjoy it. Read more about this phenomenon.

I think that one thing that really saved me back then was music. It was something I really enjoyed too. My cousins and I used to go camping during the summer holidays and sing merry songs round the bonfire. When I look back at it now, it was one of the most precious times of my childhood and the memory of it is so colorful and so vibrant that it literally makes me teary-eyed whenever I go down memory lane. Music made my younger years really, really fun indeed.

Why don’t you encourage your kids to take up music too? Maybe this way, they’d grow a deeper connection with the world outside. Maybe this way, they’d be able to live in the moment better. It’s not too hard or too expensive either. One of the very best ways to introduce children to music and actually get them to live it is by giving them a beginner’s guitar.

Introducing Your Child To Guitars For Beginners

A beginner’s guitar is really nothing too fancy. It’s often a simple guitar with a smaller frame (compared to professional ones) for better handling. They’re not too expensive either. In fact, you can get a perfectly nice model with just a couple hundreds – sometimes, even less than that. Just imagine that for a measly amount – it’s almost changed even – you can give your beloved a childhood so memorable he or she would revisit it, again and again, no matter how much time passes. I think that’s the most beautiful gift you can ever give a growing child. These Top 5 Reviewers can help you get started.

Those video games, Instagram photos, and YouTube videos they keep following will die out in their memory in time and all that will be left is a void in their childhood that they’ll find so hard to fill.

Fill it up with music

As a parent, you have to make it your responsibility to help your kids make the most out of their time as children. Let them be children for it is the most precious and impactful time of one’s life. You have to nurture each and every piece of their childhood memories with fun, laughter and wonder. I personally think that’s what makes great adults in the future. Rather than exposing them to social media all the time, where all they learn is compare and contrast their lives with others, getting them into a more productive activity will definitely be a hundred times better!

Check out this interesting article:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/10/babies-everywhere/502757/

How To Get Your Kid Started On This New Hobby

Buy A Beginner’s Guitar

If you’re going to introduce your kid to this new activity soon, it’s best that you prepare the most important equipment in advance – the guitar! It would be harder to convince him to get into it otherwise. If you just talk to your child about it, he or she may not get the reason for the whole thing entirely. But if you show it to them, the mere instrument may spark enough interest in them already and that’s what’s going to encourage them to start.

Remove Other Distractions

Your main goal here is to actually reduce unproductive activities (e.g. excessively long hours of playing computer games, watching YouTube videos for hours at a time, too much scrolling on social media) and start replacing it with more productive, involved, and engaging ones. In order to let your child actually invest time and attention to learning a new instrument, you have to remove the factors or elements that might be preventing them from fully immersing themselves in the said activity. Limit their hours online or establish a “game curfew.” They might hate it at first but no good change comes without sacrifice. Check this out, for instance.

Hire A Good Mentor

I could suggest letting them learn from YouTube but it would be sort of counterproductive from what you’re trying to achieve here, right? So instead of risking reinforcing the negative behavior, even more, I think hiring a good music teacher is a better idea. It helps promote their social interaction too.

I could suggest letting them learn from YouTube but it would be sort of counterproductive from what you’re trying to achieve here, right? So instead of risking reinforcing the negative behaviour even more, I think hiring a good music teacher is a better idea. It helps promote their social interaction too.

WATCH THE VIRTUAL MOB MUSEUM TOUR ON GANGSTERS INC

I love Gangsters Inc and am a long time subscriber. Today they shared this cool virtual tour of The Mob Museum in Las Vegas! Cool!!

The Coronavirus is keeping all of us locked up in our homes. Realizing we can’t come to them, the nice people at The Mob Museum in Las Vegas are offering a new virtual tour of their wonderful place. This tour is a three-part series of all four floors of the Museum's highlighted exhibitions and artifacts that take you on a journey through the underworld. Full story here.

Watch Mob Museum Tour on Gangsters Inc

REOPENED ATLANTA CHILD MURDERS CASE: THE LOST CHILDREN 4-5 ON HBO

Between 1979 to 1981, at least 30 African-American children and young adults disappeared or were murdered in Atlanta. Although 23-year-old Wayne Williams was prosecuted for two crimes, the rest of the cases were ultimately closed following his conviction in 1982.

Forty years later, with the official re-opening of the case by Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, this five-part docuseries tells the inside story of the shocking tragedy, shedding new light on the horrific killings through exclusive archival footage, unseen court documents and interviews with those closest to the children and investigation.

KIANA LEDÉ REVEALS HIGHLY ANTICIPATED DEBUT ALBUM KIKI

NEW YORK, NY (April 3, 2020) – Affirming herself as the boldest and brightest breakthrough R&B songstress of 2020, gold-selling Phoenix-raised and Los Angeles-based artist KIANA LEDÉ reveals her highly anticipated full-length debut, KIKI, today. The album was Executive Produced by longtime collaborator Mike Woods (Rice N' Peas) and Kiana co-wrote the entire project as well.

KIKI [Explicit]

She initially introduced the project with “Mad At. Me,” which has over 13 million global streams. The Guardian stated, “At only a smidge over two minutes, it repurposes the chorus melody from OutKast’s ‘So Fresh, So Clean’ in such persuasive fashion that, once it is over, the only logical recourse is to play it again.” Meanwhile, the follow-up “Forfeit” [feat. Lucky Daye] landed on Noisey’s “18 R&B Songs That Make Up for This Unbearable Year” and posted up 3.5 million global streams thus far. To date, music from KIKI has tallied 17 million total streams and counting.

Continuing the momentum, Kiana releases the visuals to her new track "Chocolate" [feat. Ari Lenox]. It's the first official music video shot entirely on Facetime, during this self-isolation period. Watch it HERE.

In recognition of the world’s struggle with the global COVID-19 pandemic, she commented, “Music is therapy. It will always be therapy for me. I hope Kiki gives you a little entertainment while you’re stuck inside. Maybe it offers some comfort. Donate, do what you can do in your community, and stay home! Jessie J once told me, ‘Be the soundtrack for the good things you do in life, especially during the bad times’. I tried to do that by telling a true story.”

Long before all of this, the songstress “from South Phoenix with Black, Mexican, Native American, and White ancestry” grew up between divorced parents. She played classical instruments and competed in pageants—but popped wheelies on dirt bikes and got under the hood to fix a car or two. Eventually, an adventurous spirit carried her from Arizona to Los Angeles where she began a journey that comes full circle in 2020.

RUTHIE COLLINS NEW RELEASE: COLD COMFORT

April 3, 2020 - Rising Nashville singer/songwriter Ruthie Collins released today her anticipated sophomore album Cold Comfort via Sidewalk Records, a division of Curb|Word Entertainment. A captivating blend of cinematic roots, intimate folk, and old-school country, the album foregoes the pop shine of Collins' earlier work in favor of a rawer, more honest sound. Cold Comfort is available for stream or purchase HERE.

Tune in to her Facebook page tonight at 7pm CT as she performs Cold Comfort live from beginning to end.

Earlier this week, Ruthie shared the video for her latest single "Bad Woman," which debuted on Wide Open Country. She recently spoke with Taste of Country about the song and stated, "Sometimes to find balance in life, I have to swing the pendulum all the way to the other side of the spectrum to find the middle ground. 'Bad Woman' was an exercise in that."

With hints of Americana legends like Patty Griffin and Emmylou Harris, Cold Comfort pairs rich, orchestral strings and sweeping pedal steel with hypnotizing harmonies and indelible hooks. The songs span the last five years of Collins' life, charting her sometimes-harrowing emotional evolution with boldly vulnerable lyrics and unflinching self-examination, and her delivery is both heartrending and soul-bearing to match.

Along with producer/guitarist Wes Harllee and Grammy-winner Ryan Freeland, the result is an album that learns to make peace with pain, a lush, moving record that finds strength in sadness, gratitude in hardship, and growth in the most unlikely of places.

Upon its release, album single "Cold Comfort" was picked by Consequence of Sound for their Songs You Need To Know list while The Boot called it "a song that's all about the small, yet devastating, realizations that come as a person heals from a breakup."

Lead track "Joshua Tree" and it's accompanying video portrays a "heartbreaking" (CMT) modern-day setting inspired by the tragic story of Gram Parson's death at the Joshua Tree Inn. The song was praised by Billboard for its "ethereal vocals alongside soaring strings features, minimal piano parts, and delicate percussion."

Since joining Curb Records in 2011, Collins immediately began turning heads with a series of critically acclaimed releases and show-stopping festival performances everywhere from Stagecoach to FarmBorough. Rolling Stone stated "Collins' voice has the fluttery nuances more common in Seventies Laurel Canyon than in the modern country," while the Los Angeles Times praised her "sunny demeanor." CMT also named her to their prestigious "Next Women Of Country" series.

Cold Comfort [Explicit]



Track List:
01) Joshua Tree
02) Cheater
03) Dang Dallas
04) Hey Little Girl
05) Untold
06) Bad Woman
07) Change
08) Cold Comfort
09) Wish You Were Here
10) You Can't Remember
11) Beg Steal Borrow

PINK SUPER MOON: FIRST FULL MOON OF SPRING APRIL 7 2020

"Pink Moon" is a name for the Full Moon around the time of April, when the moss pink, or wild ground phlox, is in blossom. The name was used by the Algonquin tribe, as well as by colonial Americans.

Venture outside on the night of Tuesday, April 7, to catch a glimpse of April’s Full Pink Moon. This full moon will be visible after sunset and reach peak illumination at 10:35 P.M. EDT

The next full moon will be:
Tuesday * 7 April 2020 * 10:35:05 pm (EDT)
Moon sign: Libra 18° 43'

In other time zones:
WELLINGTON = Wednesday * 8 April 2020 * 2:35:05 pm (NZST)
SYDNEY = Wednesday * 8 April 2020 * 12:35:05 pm (AEST)
TOKYO = Wednesday * 8 April 2020 * 11:35:05 am (JST)
BEIJING = Wednesday * 8 April 2020 * 10:35:05 am (CST)
BANGKOK = Wednesday * 8 April 2020 * 9:35:05 am (ICT)
DELHI = Wednesday * 8 April 2020 * 8:05:05 am (IST)
DUBAI = Wednesday * 8 April 2020 * 6:35:05 am (GST)
MOSCOW = Wednesday * 8 April 2020 * 5:35:05 am (MSK)
BERLIN = Wednesday * 8 April 2020 * 4:35:05 am (CEST)
LAGOS = Wednesday * 8 April 2020 * 3:35:05 am (WAT)
LONDON = Wednesday * 8 April 2020 * 3:35:05 am (BST)
RIO = Tuesday * 7 April 2020 * 11:35:05 pm (BRT)
SANTIAGO = Tuesday * 7 April 2020 * 10:35:05 pm (CLT)
NEW YORK = Tuesday * 7 April 2020 * 10:35:05 pm (EDT)
MEXICO CITY = Tuesday * 7 April 2020 * 9:35:05 pm (CDT)
CALGARY = Tuesday * 7 April 2020 * 8:35:05 pm (MDT)
LOS ANGELES = Tuesday * 7 April 2020 * 7:35:52 pm (PDT)
ANCHORAGE = Tuesday * 7 April 2020 * 6:35:05 pm (AKDT)
HONOLULU = Tuesday * 7 April 2020 * 4:35:05 pm (HAST)