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    Bettie
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    Bettie: Miscellaneous Las Vegas Tidbits

    ? The Atomic Testing Museum celebrates its grand opening with free admission this Sunday, February 20th. The museum explores the role the Nevada Test Site played in local, national, and international history. General admission is $10, with discounts for seniors, students, and military personnel. The museum is located at 755 E Flamingo Rd (at Swenson, near UNLV campus) and hours are 9am to 5pm Monday through Saturday and 1 to 5pm on Sunday.

    ? The Las Vegas City Council on Wednesday first unanimously negated its September vote that yanked the liquor license from the strip club Treasures, then voted 3-2 to give the club a permanent license to serve alcohol. The club reopened Wednesday night, and it was business as usual for employees who had waited months to come back.

    ? MGM Mirage's $7.9 billion buyout of the Mandalay Resort Group was cleared by the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday, paving the way for Nevada's gaming regulators to consider the matter next week during two special meetings in Las Vegas. Completing the transaction by the end of March would create the world's largest casino company, with 28 properties in Nevada, Illinois, New Jersey, Michigan and Mississippi; 70,000 employees; and $6.5 billion in annual revenues. In letters to attorneys for both companies, the FTC said it found no reason to halt the merger because of any concerns that the proposed merger would give the new company too much market clout in Las Vegas or any other jurisdictions.

    ? The Las Vegas Monorail averaged a paltry 22,313 riders each day last month, falling well short of a projected daily ridership of 29,000 passengers for January. But monorail officials believe the system will gain ridership momentum as the glitch-plagued line demonstrates its reliability in the coming months. "We want to get two or three months behind us of consistent operation of the system. Then we'll begin a big push to significantly increase our ridership," Todd Walker, a spokesman for the monorail, said Wednesday. The monorail eventually needs more than 40,000 daily riders for the system to break even on its $650 million construction cost and annual operating costs of more than $14 million per year.

    ? Daily parking fees at McCarran's long-term parking garage will increase from $10 to $12 per day and reduce daily fees at the remote parking lot from $8 to $6 beginning March 29. "Our whole goal here is not to raise revenue. Our goal is to drive behavior," said County Aviation Director Randall Walker, who will early next year re-examine Tuesday's changes to ensure they've balanced parking demand and offset the cost of providing parking at one of the nation's busiest airports. Daily rates could raise long-term garage and remote lot fees to $20 and $10, respectively, if the problem continues.

    Bettie

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    methodman
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    methodman: If your fat your fired at casino

    >N.J. Casino to Fire Weightier Waitstaff
    By JOHN CURRAN
    ASSOCIATED PRESS

    ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) -

    The Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa has told cocktail servers if they pack on too many pounds, they'll get an unpaid suspension to lose the weight - or be fired.

    The policy will apply to anyone gaining more than 7 percent of their body weight; weight gain related to pregnancy or a medical condition will be exempt, casino officials said. The company will pay to put the offender through a weight-loss program during the up-to-90-day suspension.

    The policy was laid out in a letter to employees last week - and has infuriated some women's advocates.

    "Women should not have to starve themselves just to keep their jobs," said Diana Zuckerman, president of the National Research Center for Women & Families, a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group. "The policy places enormous stress on all the women and encourages eating disorders to reach a totally arbitrary goal."

    The casino, whose edgy marketing themes and sexy accents have helped bowl over the competition since opening in July 2003, contends there's nothing wrong with setting weight limits for its 210 costumed beverage servers - 160 servers dubbed Borgata Babes and 50 other male and female bartenders.

    A Borgata vice president, Cassie Fireman, said the policy clarifies existing appearance standards: that women servers should have "natural hourglass figures" and men "V-shaped torsos, broad shoulders and slim waists." No weight limits were ever set, however, she said.

    "Our costumed beverage servers are a huge part of our marketing and our branding image," she said. "We feel it's fair, we feel it's legal, we feel it's what our customers have come to expect at Borgata."

    Borgata Babes, who wear black, low-cut designer bustiers with crossing straps above the breasts, have appeared in pinup style photographs in the casino's calendar.

    Borgata officials refused to allow cocktail servers to be interviewed Thursday; one who was asked her opinion of the weight limits declined to comment.

    Local 54 of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees union has filed a grievance.

    Former Borgata Babe Lori Allen, 36, who resigned last month, said Borgata officials talked about weight limits long before they imposed them.

    "It's going to cause girls to binge, purge, whatever," she said. "It's already causing stress."

    Some gamblers don't think it's fair either.

    "So what if they gain a little weight? They're serving drinks, they're smiling. All people are interested in is gambling, anyway," said Karen DiCaprio, 41, of Philadelphia, who was sitting at a roulette table.

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    Bettie
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    Bettie: Hard Rock already does this

    Hard Rock has strict limits on their cocktail servers, to the point that they can't gain or lose more than 3 pounds from the weight at which they were hired (pregnancy is obviously excluded, but I don't know about medical conditions). Heck, their uniforms are so formfitting, they wouldn't be able to properly fit in them if they did gain/lose the weight.

    I don't know why the cocktail servers at Borgata are so up in arms over the whole thing; it should be expected. My female compatriots on the board may not care for what I'm about to say, but those cocktail servers were hired to look good, same as a model, and putting on weight means losing income to both professions.

    Bettie

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    Don Schlesinger
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    Don Schlesinger: I agree

    > My female
    > compatriots on the board may not care for
    > what I'm about to say, but those cocktail
    > servers were hired to look good, same as a
    > model, and putting on weight means losing
    > income to both professions.

    I have never, ever, been considered sexist by any of my friends or family, but Borgata has a right to set any standards it wishes. The Disney Companies do not permit any facial hair on any employees. You want to wear a beard or mustache, you don't work for Disney. The same is true for the New York Yankees. Has anyone seen Randy Johnson recently? He actually looks like a new man!

    Finally, can flat-chested women work for Hooters? I don't think so.

    Don

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    methodman
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    methodman: even worse in Asia

    >In Asia, they go steps beyond, by specifying
    weight limits for workers,height,and age.

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    Victoria
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    Victoria: Only if upfront (no pun intended)

    At the time of hire an agreement about weight or whatever should be signed. Then loosing your job because you have broken said agreement is fine with me. If this is not the case and these women have worked there and now the rules have changed but their job performance has been good and the job has not changed, I do not think they should be fired.
    Victoria

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    Norm Wattenberger
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    Norm Wattenberger: Disney

    used to bar men with long-hair from visiting Disneyland.

    http://www.snopes.com/disney/parks/longhair.htm

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    drumz1
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    drumz1: Re: Disney


    > used to bar men with long-hair from visiting
    > Disneyland.

    >

    It always amazed me that Walt Disney himself sported a moustache but the male cast employees were not allowed to do that at the time. From what I have read, it wasn't easy working at Disneyland, either. You can check it out by clicking the link below:

    http://www.findarticles.com/p/articl...93/ai_18527331

    Regards,
    drumz1



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