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Caesar’s Casino Glory of Rome

Glory of Rome is a riverboat casino operated by Harrah’s Entertainment. Opened in 1998, it is located outside the community of Elizabeth Indiana, across the Ohio River from Louisville, Kentucky. Glory of Rome, a four-story boat that is the largest riverboat in North America. It is also the largest riverboat casino on the planet earth. It cost $50 million dollars to construct. It is 452 feet (138 m) long, 100 feet (30 m) wide, with a total area of 173,200 square feet (16,090 m²). It has four 1,000 horsepower (750 kW) Z-Drives. The smokestacks rise 100 feet (30 m) from the waterline, with eight feet below the waterline. The 93,000-square-foot (8,600 m²) casino with in The Glory of Rome can hold 5,223 passengers and a crew of 101, with 3,600 gaming positions, 2,800 slot machines, and over 140 gaming tables.

The Louisville Courier – Journal is reporting that one of the dealers is suffering serious compilations from flea bites as a result of her work aboard the boat.

Here’s an excerpt:

The lawyers representing Tina Conder say the stakes are huge because the case could rewrite how American gambling boats are regulated and determine whether their workers are covered under the federal Jones Act. The 88-year-old law provides substantially higher benefits to injured maritime workers than they could expect to get under state workman’s compensation laws.

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First we witnessed trouble for the Hawaii Superferry (which is back in service) now Hawaii’s largest source of jobs for US mariners, Norwegian Cruise Lines, is pulling another ship out of the state. The Mercury News tells us;

Last week, NCL announced it will pull the Pride of Aloha, the ship that launched its Hawaii itinerary in 2004, effective May 11.

Earlier this month, NCL’s Pride of Hawaii made its final sailing before being deployed to Europe, a move announced last April. It will be renamed Norwegian Jade.

NCL officials insist they remain committed to the Hawaiian market - Pride of America sailings were recently put on sale through 2010 - but filling three ships consistently for seven-day sailings was too difficult in a competitive field.

Andy Stuart, the line’s executive vice president of marketing, called the move “an extremely difficult but necessary commercial decision.” He also acknowledged that NCL’s costs were considerably higher because its U.S.-flagged ships must be filled by a U.S. workforce. Foreign-flagged ships typically pay their crews lower wages. Continue Reading…

The law of general average is a legal principle of maritime law according to which all parties in a sea venture proportionally share any losses resulting from a voluntary sacrifice of part of the ship or cargo to save the whole in an emergency.In the exigencies of hazards faced at sea, crewmembers often have precious little time in which to determine precisely whose cargo they are jettisoning. Thus, to avoid quarrelling that could waste valuable time, there arose the equitable practice whereby all the merchants whose cargo was on board would be called on to contribute a portion, based upon a share or percentage, to the merchant or merchants whose goods had been tossed overboard to avert imminent peril.

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Looks the Hawaii Superferry is running into even more trouble with environmental opposition. The New York Times tells us: [Continue Reading →]