Heard of you through a Usenet post, and as a favor I'll now help alert the sweepstakes world of your existence through my sweeps site Powersweepstaking.com .

I wish you luck with this board, getting started is the hardest part, I know, I've only been dot com'g for 6 weeks. Starting a board is tough; a blog is what I opted for rather then a discussion board, I've opened everything up to comments on each post I make, but it's like pulling teeth from a visitor... a contest like you've proposed here is indeed a great idea, and should bring the visitors in... I'll do what I can to help through my site a post on a blog, and within the powersweepstaking app., good luck!

PS - I'll post a load of Vegas sweeps for you and your members down in the Vegas Contests section of your board.

Ron Miller
Announcing indispensable sweepstaking tools:the blogs @ powersweepstaking
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http://www.powersweepstaking.com/index.html?vegas

Ron,
Good luck with your http://www.powersweepstaking.com site. It looks like you are off to a good start with it. Thanks for the contest links and help getting things started on this board.

LVDirect

Im part of rons power sweepstaking (great site ). Tons of sweepstakes and contests to join. This is how I found this site. I have never been to vegas and I would love to go. Im not much of a gambler but I do occasionally. I would probably just go on a sightseeing tours and maybe visit some of the many buffets. I would also love to see some of the shows such as penn and teller and those two guys with the white tigers ? By the way ron knows me as dewman (I like mountain dew ) and I look forward to posting in the future and maybe(definitely) someday visiting vegas.

I hope you do get a chance to visit Las Vegas some day. Penn and Teller are around, but I'm afraid you are a little late for the "two guys with the white tigers" show (Siegfried and Roy). God willing, they may be back some day, but since Oct 2003, when Roy was bitten on the neck by a seven-year-old male tiger named Montecore, the Mirage show was permanently closed.

Below is an excerpt from Wikipedia:

"On October 3, 2003, Horn's 59th birthday, during a show at The Mirage, he was bitten on the neck by a seven-year-old male tiger named Montecore. Crew members separated Horn from the tiger and rushed him to a hospital. Horn was critically injured, sustaining severe blood loss. While being taken to the hospital, Horn said (according to sources) "Don't kill the cat." Horn was listed in critical condition for several weeks thereafter, and was said to have suffered a stroke and partial paralysis. Doctors removed one-quarter of his skull to relieve the pressure of his swelling brain during an operation known as a decompressive craniectomy. The portion of skull was placed in a pouch in Horn's abdomen in the hope of replacing it later. As of December 2003, Horn was conscious and able to communicate in writing. In a December 1, 2003 appearance on NBC's Today show, Fischbacher said Horn was making a "slow, steady recovery."

It is disputed whether or not the tiger attacked Horn. Montecore had been trained by Horn since he was a cub; he had performed with the act for six years. Fischbacher, appearing on the Larry King interview program, said Horn fell during the act and Montecore was attempting to drag him to safety, as a mother tigress would pull one of her cubs by the neck. Fischbacher said Montecore had no way of knowing that Horn, unlike a tiger cub, did not have fur and thick skin covering his neck and that his neck was vulnerable to injury. Fischbacher said if Montecore had wanted to injure Horn, the tiger would have snapped his neck and shaken him back and forth.

Former Mirage owner Steve Wynn (who hired the duo in 1990) told Las Vegas television station KLAS-TV the events were substantially as described by Fischbacher. (The Mirage denies the incident was videotaped, yet Wynn, who was in Idaho at the time, gave a detailed account.) According to Wynn, there was a woman with a "big hairdo" in the front row who, he says, "fascinated and distracted" Montecore. The woman reached out to attempt to pet the animal, and Horn jumped between the woman and the tiger. According to Wynn, the tiger gently grabbed Horn's right arm with his jaws, not scratching the arm or tearing Horn's costume. Horn said, "Release, release," attempting to persuade Montecore to let go of his arm, and eventually striking the tiger with his microphone. Horn tripped over the cat's paw and fell on his back; stagehands then rushed out and jumped on the cat. It was only then, said Wynn, that the confused tiger leaned over Horn and attempted to carry Horn off the stage to safety. Wynn said that although the tiger's teeth inflicted puncture wounds that caused Horn to lose blood, there was no damage to Horn's neck. Stagehands then sprayed Horn and Montecore with a fire extinguisher to separate the two.Some animal behaviorists were skeptical of Fischbacher's and Wynn's version of events. One described the injury as a "typical killing bite"; another said Fischbacher's story "just doesn't wash."

Montecore was put into quarantine for 10 days in order to ensure he was not rabid, and was then returned to his habitat at The Mirage. While Horn has requested that Montecore not be harmed, the incident may augur the end of exotic animal shows in which there are no barriers between tigers and audience members. Some animal rights activists, many of whom oppose the use of wild animals in live entertainment, sought to use the incident as a springboard for publicity—though few have ever accused the
Siegfried & Roy show of mistreating animals.

The injury to Horn prompted The Mirage to close the show indefinitely (after 5,750 performances in front of 10.5 million patrons) and to lay off 267 cast and crew members with one week's severance pay. While Fischbacher has said "the show will go on," a hotel spokesman told the production staff that they "should explore other career opportunities."

According to the Las Vegas Advisor, The Mirage will suffer financially, not just from the loss of $45 million in annual ticket sales, but from having to forgo untold millions in sales of food, beverages, and hotel rooms—not to mention the casino's gambling winnings. An MGM Mirage spokesman said losing Siegfried & Roy is a bigger hit to the Mirage brand than to its finances, because the entertainers are "practically the faces" of the hotel, and finding a new hotel brand or identity would be difficult."

Hello, its a shame what happened to seigfried and roy. I remember hearing about that incident. That was a while ago and I thought things might be better now and they continued with the shows. Shows how much I pay attention to the news. At least hes still alive. I remembered there names I was just trying to be funny (guess it wasnt ). What do you think is going to happen to the mirage and the entertainers and seigfried and roy? One place I forgot to mention that I would loveto visit is circus circus. What kind of place is that? Also I am a night person so I would be roaming around during the night. Oh well enough of my rambling.

hello how do I know if I am one of the 1000??

The closest I have gotten to Las Vegas is watching CSI ,so I would love to visit. Thanks for a great site. When i am ready to visit I will check out all the freebies in the area.

You can count the number of posts. You are definitely one of the first 1000 posts