Roulette "Incident" at the Rio that never happened.

Yeppers!!

As expected, The Rio finally issued a press release admitting that no such incident of seven hits of the number 19 in a row took place. They claim the table was open and no repairman was working on the display panel. The Rio glossed over any obligation on its part that if it provides a display it must provide an accurate one. The Rio press release made no mention of deferred maintenance in this or in other areas and made no mention of the credit crunch CET (nee Harrah's) is facing. I'm sure that such deferred maintenance will continue until either "The Miracle" takes place or "The Default" takes place. In the meantime the company will keep their press releases and their whitewash handy. Undoubtedly they will also keep trying to sell off assets even at rock bottom prices in an attempt to stave off a credit crisis.

The poker player who snapped the photo of the display and tweeted it into internet immortality was simply wandering by and noticed it, he was not actually playing and he should have known that any such sequence would have resulted in a frenzied table.

More Amelia Earhart nonsense.

Rozella Lorenzi of Discovery News reports that dozens of radio signals that were picked up and previously declared spurious should be considered credible even though it would have required Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan to have ditched n the immediately vicinity of Gardner Island prior to fuel exhaustion, successfully beached the aircraft on the tiny atoll, sustained no damage to the starboard engine or electrical system, restarted the starboard engine which would have required both sufficient fuel and sufficient strength from dry batteries and a dry, undamaged electrical system and then the signal would have been propagated from an underbelly antenna. Is any of this reasonable? The plane was valuable. The Japanese wanted it. The Japanese got it. No Mystery.