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PokerStars Qualifiers For Caribbean Adventure
Qualifying tournaments are underway at PokerStars.com for poker players to win their way into the PokerStars.com Caribbean Adventure. The Caribbean Adventure is an official World Poker Tour (WPT) Season 5 event that will award one player with more than $1 million.The Caribbean Adventure will take place at the Atlantis Resort and Casino in the Bahamas Jan. 4-11. The buy-in is $7,800 + $200, or for as little as $2 players can win their way into this WPT Season 5 event through satellite tournaments at PokerStars.com.
There will also be some free satellites that players can enter using player points as well as special VIP tournaments to win prize packages to the Caribbean Adventure.
The prize package will include the buy-in for the event plus $3,000 for accommodations and meals, and $1,000 credited to the player's PokerStars.com account.
Records document priest's high-rolling lifestyle
DELRAY BEACH — The Rev. Francis Guinan took his girlfriend to Las Vegas nearly a dozen times, often staying at the Monte Carlo Resort Hotel & Casino where he would receive special room rates because he was a "high roller," documents show.They traveled together quite a bit - relaxing at a spa in Athens, Ga., taking her son to Ireland and staying at the swanky Atlantis Hotel in the Bahamas in November 2004 with the Rev. John Skehan, his cohort who already has been charged with stealing more than $100,000 from the church both led.
.Darden Restaurants Reports October Same-Restaurant Sales Results
ORLANDO, Fla., Nov. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Darden Restaurants, Inc., (NYSE: DRI) today reported U.S. same-restaurant sales results for the four- week October fiscal month ended October 29, 2006. This period is the second month of Darden's fiscal 2007 second quarter.Same-restaurant sales at Olive Garden increased 1% to 2% for fiscal October, which reflected a 1% to 2% increase in check average and no change in guest counts. The check average increase was a result of an approximate 2% increase in pricing and a 0% to 1% decrease from menu mix changes. Last year, Olive Garden had an 8% to 9% increase in same-restaurant sales.
Same-restaurant sales at Red Lobster decreased 0% to 1% for fiscal October, which reflected an approximate 2% decrease in guest counts and a 1% to 2% increase in check average.
'My Caribbean' — Essay awards ceremony highlights third day of ...
A special segment of the Caribbean Tourism Confer-ence (CTC) was held yesterday when focus was placed on the creative achievements of its more youthful delegates, who participated in the 14th annual 'My Caribbean' essay awards ceremony.The ceremony kicked off activities for day three of the conference being held at the Our Lucaya Convention Centre in Freeport.
The competition sponsored by Conde Nest Traveler magazine was entitled, "Imagine that you are a travelling journalist" and the young competitors were encouraged
to creatively describe their home land in a fictitious article filled with fun facts about their country.
Editor-in- Chief of Conde Nest Traveler Klara Glowc-zewska explained that this year, students from 26 Caribbean countries participated in the competition, 25 of whom attended the awards ceremony.
CTO conference to examine web sites` marketing potential
Maximizing the potential of a web site so it delivers real, tangible value to the right audience will be the focus of a much-anticipated workshop during the Caribbean Tourism Organization's (CTO) 29th Annual Caribbean Tourism Conference (CTC-29) taking place Oct. 22-25, 2006 on Grand Bahama Island.Leading the workshop, titled "Is Your Web Site Delivering Real Value?" will be Gerry McGovern, president of Gerry McGovern Co, who for years has been helping companies strategically manage their web site so that it contributes to the success of their organization.
During his presentation, McGovern will concentrate on various topics including: avoiding the most common mistakes in managing a web site; identifying a company's key customers and the principal tasks they wish to perform on the web site; making a web site task-centric and customer-centric; using the right words to make the sale, deliver the service and build the brand; and best practices in web content management.