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The estate of belated billionaire Kirk Kerkorian is remaining real to the businessman and philanthropist’s vow to bring the disputed Armenian genocide to the big screen.

Kerkorian, perhaps one of the most crucial figures in developing Las Vegas because it’s known today, passed away in 2015 at the age of 98 with an estimated net worth of $4 billion. But before he passed, the former majority owner of MGM Resorts pledged $100 million to create a movie that highlighted the horrific events that happened between 1915 and 1923 in Armenia.

The Ottoman government systematically exterminated some 1.5 million Armenians over a span of roughly eight years. But its successor, the Republic of Turkey, denies genocide ever occurred.

Funded by Kerkorian, ‚The Promise‘ is a movie that is new sets out to bring the Armenian conflict to theaters across the nation. It informs the fictional story of a love triangle taking spot in 1915 Armenia.

The movie is directed by Terry George, whose credits include ‚Hotel Rwanda,‘ the 2004 drama that handled the Rwanda genocide, and movie stars Christian Bale, Oscar Isaac, and Charlotte LeBon.

‚The film is a love tale set in the first World War in Turkey at the start of and through the Armenian genocide,‘ George recen (mehr …)

New Hampshire’s casino bill faced a grilling in the State House, which has always proved a graveyard of casino bills past tuesday. And there have been a couple of.

This is Senator Lou D’Allesandro’s (D-Manchester) nineteenth effort to legalize casino gaming in the state, and each successive bill’s annual defeat inside your home has become something of a brand New Hampshire tradition, a bit like Rochester Fair but less fun.

Still, the good senator is nothing if maybe not dogged, and D’Allesandro believes, just as he has each year, nearly for the past 2 decades, that this is the year to get the company done.

Bad Start

Things did not begin auspiciously for the bill’s hearing at a meeting associated with House Ways and Means Committee, as evidenced by the Casino Free New Hampshire group hosting a pre-hearing anti-gambling news meeting in the lobby. We suspect, incidentally, that this really is how a term ‚lobbyist‘ originated.

From there it was primarily downhill.

‚ Debating another casino bill is nothing but a waste of time,‘ declared Patricia Lovejoy (D-Stratham), a known person in the House Finance Committee and demonstrably not a fan of D’Allesandro’s work.

‚The numbers that have been presented are really numbers that are pie-in-the-sky‘ she reported, citing (mehr …)

Experts have actually called the NFL the ‚No Fun League,‘ nevertheless the organization’s policy on gambling just isn’t as restrictive to players as people are led to trust.

The assumption is that a competitor can’t enjoy a session wagering on craps, blackjack, craps, roulette, video poker and slot devices. As long they can enjoy that activity like any other citizen as they are on their own time. They are also permitted to place money straight down on a horse or dog race. Sports betting, but, continues to be off limits.

The problem arises when a relationship is had by the professional with those facilities and exploits his celebrity. The argument that it is their own time and they should be allowed to do what they want, but the NFL has made the distinction very clear in several cases and vigorously enforces the regulation from them is.

Promoting Players Prohibited

The league forbids players using their name to publicize any form of association by having a casino. The concern is that it blurs the line between sports gambling and soccer.

The appearance that is recent more than 30 of them at a ‚Pro Football Arm Wrestling Championship‘ at the MGM Grand over the weekend was at breach of the NFL’s rules.

The function was co-hosted by Pittsburg (mehr …)