Rockledge audio/video firm wires China hotel - 2004-02-02
Rockledge-based Island Systems & Design, a home-theater, audio/video and automation company, was employed by the Venetian Resort Hotel and Casino to manage the audio and video installation at the Sands Hotel & Casino in Macau, China.

The company also will look after the audio/video design for the casino's live performance theater, which will offer Las Vegas-style acts.
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Gambling Foes Speak Out Against Proposed Casino - 2004-02-02
Gambling opponents testified before a House panel Friday decrying the crime, congestion and costs they claim a planned casino would bring to a West Warwick community and its school. "Gambling is not economic development. A casino is anti-economic development. It sucks money from the people of Rhode Island, it will suck money out of the economy," said Joseph Larisa, the legal counsel for gambling foe Gov. Lincoln Almond. "You don't go to a casino to win, you go to lose." The Narragansett Indians want to build a casino in West Warwick that could cost up to $500 million.
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