CHICAGO, IL — (MARKET WIRE) — 03/12/08 — Wells-Gardner Electronics Corporation (AMEX: WGA) announced that Zytronic Displays Ltd. of the United Kingdom has appointed American Gaming & Electronics (AG&E) as its distributor for gaming, casinos, lottery and amusement customers. AG&E or its affiliates will be manufacturing and supplying a new range of LCD touch monitors using Zytronic’s unique Projected Capacitive Touch (PCT(TM)) sensors.
“We are delighted to be partnering with Zytronic Displays Ltd.,” said Anthony Spier, Wells-Gardner’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. “They have very exciting technology that I believe our customers will find attractive. This is part of our strategy to be partnering with companies with proprietary technology that will improve our profile with our customers.”
“We are pleased to be working with a company of the reputation of American Gaming & Electronics and its parent Wells-Gardner,” said Mark Cambridge, Zytronic’s Chief Executive Officer. “The Wells-Gardner companies have an excellent reputation for high quality products and high ethical standards. They have the leading global market share in the gaming industry and we anticipate significant penetration of the gaming, lottery and amusement markets.”
Founded in 1925, Wells-Gardner Electronics Corporation is a distributor and manufacturer of color video monitors and other related distribution products for a variety of markets including, but not limited to, gaming machine manufacturers, casinos, coin-operated video game manufacturers and other display integrators. The Company has the majority of its LCDs and CRT monitors manufactured in Mainland China. In addition, the Company’s American Gaming & Electronics, Inc. subsidiary (”AGE”), a leading parts distributor to the gaming markets, sells parts and services to over 700 casinos in North America with offices in Las Vegas, Nevada, Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey, Miami, Florida and McCook, Illinois. AGE also sells refurbished gaming machines on a global basis as well as installs and services some brands of gaming machines in casinos in North America.
Zytronic designs and manufactures a range of technologies that optimize the performance of electronic display applications. The company’s principle products include award-winning touch sensor technologies, optical filters for enhanced performance and protection, and special filters to minimize electromagnetic emissions. In addition, the company can offer complex shaped glass composites for specialized applications.
Zytronic products are used in electronic displays for information kiosks, web phones, ATMs and gaming machines, as well as by military, computer, telecommunications, medical and lighting OEMs, and are available from its network of worldwide distributors.

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WHEELING — The city of Wheeling encompasses 14 square miles and has 29,330 residents. The city of Morgantown covers 10 square miles and has 28,654 residents, which doesn’t include the more than 25,000 college students who live there nine months each year.
Wheeling is located along a river, the Ohio; Morgantown also is situated along a river, the Monongahela.
These similarities aside, the one area where Wheeling and Morgantown appear to be very different is in their approach to city government. For fiscal 2008-09, the city of Wheeling has a proposed $27.77 million budget; Morgantown, $22.33 million.
Wheeling has 415 city employee positions budgeted for the coming year; Morgantown, 220.
A key difference in the employment figures is that Morgantown has privatized some non-essential city services such as sanitation and emergency medical services, while Wheeling continues to provide them as city functions. Wheeling’s sanitation department alone has 10 employees.
Former Wheeling City Manager Will Turani offered City Council a proposal to privatize the city’s sanitation department in the late 1990s. The proposal never gained traction with council, however.
Also, Morgantown does not provide emergency medical services through its fire department — Morgantown City Manager Dan Boroff said a local nonprofit agency handles that service — but Wheeling does, which leads to Wheeling budgeting 45 more fire department positions than Morgantown. Wheeling’s fire budget is $7.03 million while Morgantown’s is only $3.82 million, for a difference of about $3.21 million.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY “Not unlike Law and Order, he tears some stuff right out of the headlines.” Graham Sloan, director of the Arkansas Ethics Commission, on Jim Parsons Article, 1 A Looking ahead High School to College Transitions: A Regional Forum on Education, 5 p.m. Monday, Reynolds Room of the Smith-Pendergraft Campus Center, University of Arkansas at Fort Smith UAFS Film Series: Center Stage, 7: 30 p.m. Monday, Room 104, Math-Science Building, University of Arkansas at Fort Smith Northwest Medical Center-Bentonville Volunteer Auxiliary Book Sale, 8 a. m.-5 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, Classrooms A and B, 3000 Medical Center Parkway, Bentonville Artifact I. D., Show and Tell, 7 p.m. Thursday, Echols Conference Center, University of Arkansas at Fort Smith Health Education Alcoholics Anonymous, 1 p.m. today, Alano Club, 568 W. Sycamore St., Fayetteville Alcoholics Anonymous, 1 p.m. and 8 p.m. today, and noon, 5: 30 p.m. and 8 p.m. Monday-Tuesday, 218 Cherry St., Rogers Alcoholics Anonymous, 6 p.m. today-Saturday, 204 N. Thompson Ave., No. 4, Springdale Free Body Composition Analysis, 7 a. m.-7 p.m. Monday and Wednesday, Diet Center, 1137 N. Curtis Ave., Suite 103, Pea Ridge Weight Watchers, 11: 30 a.m. and 5: 30 p.m. Monday, St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Rogers Eating Disorders Anonymous Group, 5: 30 p.m. Monday, Alano Club, 568 W. Sycamore St., Fayetteville Women With Cancer, 5: 30 p.m. Monday, Washington Regional Cancer Support Home, Bentonville Take Off Pounds Sensibly, 6 p.m. Monday, 201 N. W. J St., Bentonville; John Powell Senior Center, Springdale; United Methodist Church, Elm Springs; Temple Baptist Church, Rogers Alcoholics Anonymous Campus Group, 7 p.m. Monday, Presbyterian and Disciples Center, 902 W. Maple St., Fayetteville Gamblers Anonymous of Northwest Arkansas, 6-7: 30 p.m. Monday, Harvey Jones Health Education Building, Springdale Dementia Caregivers ’ Support Group, 1-2: 30 p.m. Tuesday, Schmieding Center, Springdale Stroke Support Group of Benton County, 3-5 p.m. Tuesday, St. Mary’s Hospital, Rogers Codependents Anonymous, 7 p.m. Tuesday, United Methodist Church, 2535 W. New Hope Road, Rogers Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 p.m. Tuesday, and noon and 8 p.m. Friday, Community Church, 75 E. Lancaster Drive, Bella Vista Cook ’n Control: Make Your Diabetic Diet Work for You, 10 a. m.-noon Wednesday, Schmieding Center, Springdale Coping and Conversation, 11 a.m. Wednesday, Cancer Support Home, 1101 N. Woolsey Ave., Fayetteville What is Medicare ? What is Medicaid ? Am I Eligible for These Programs Or Not ?, 11 a.m. Wednesday, Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 1101 W. Hudson Road, Rogers HIV Prevention Outreach, free and confidential testing, 5-7 p.m. Wednesday, Washington County Drug Court Building, 205 Holcomb, Springdale Brown Bag Your Way to Medication Effectiveness, 10: 30-11: 30 a.m. Thursday, Schmieding Center, Springdale Dementia Caregivers ’ Support Group, 2 p.m. Thursday, Gardens at Osage Assisted Living, Bentonville Parkinson’s Support Group, 6-8 p.m. Thursday, First United Methodist Church, 325 E. Twin Springs Road, Siloam Springs Diabetes Support Group, 7 p.m. Thursday, Siloam Springs Memorial Hospital, 205 E. Jefferson St., Siloam Springs Northwest Arkansas Multiple Sclerosis Support Group, 7 p.m. Thursday, Central United Methodist Church, Rogers Missouri Lottery Lotto: 16-27-32-33-37-43. Jackpot estimated at $ 1. 6 million. Powerball: 17-29-31-34-49. PB: 16. Jackpot estimated at $ 200 million. Sound of Africa Banquet set April 12 The African Students Organization at the University of Arkansas will host its annual Sound of Africa Banquet at 6 p.m. April 12 at the Arkansas Union Ballroom. The banquet is intended to share African culture and to raise money for charity work in Africa, including HIV / AIDS relief. Tickets are free, but attendees are asked to donate money to support the organization’s work. More information is available by calling Nelson Sello at (479 ) 856-2855.

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For the quantity and quality of the NBA prospects on display, there has never been a Pac-10 tournament like this.
And my guess is there haven’t been many ACC, Big East or Big Ten tournaments like what we’re seeing in Staples Center.
The Pac-10 is packed with draft picks: 22-24 of them, by my count — although not all will be first rounders and not all are coming out this spring.
The record for first-rounders by one conference in one draft is eight, by the ACC. The Pac-10 could very well equal or surpass that total and will certainly shatter its own record for first rounders (five).
More than 40 scouts are expected to watch the action, and you know prospective agents will be, well, lurking. (OK, not all of them lurk. Bill Duffy: not a lurker. But some do because they have to.)
Anyhow, here’s a rundown of the future draft picks (in rough order of projected selection):
***Lottery Picks (this year or next)
Brook Lopez, Stanford: Expected to leave school and should be the first big man selected not from Kansas State.
Jerryd Bayless, Arizona: Expected to leave school and should go in the top five. A combo guard who can score against anyone, from anywhere.

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FRANKFORT, Ky. — Key House members said yesterday that Gov. Steve Beshear had overreached in proposing as many as 12 casinos in Kentucky but that a scaled-back version of the plan stands a better chance of passage.
“I think 12 is too many,” said Speaker Pro Tem Larry Clark, D-Louisville.
Beshear unveiled his long-awaited gambling plan Thursday, calling for a constitutional amendment to allow seven racetrack-operated casinos and five casinos at other locations along the state’s borders.
He estimated that his proposal would raise $600 million a year at a time when the state urgently needs additional revenue.
It received a cool initial reception, even among Beshear’s fellow Democrats, and faces serious opposition in the Republican-controlled Senate.
The amendment needs 60 votes in the 100-member House and 23 in the 38-member Senate to be submitted to the voters in November for final approval.
During debate yesterday, Senate President David Williams, R-Burkesville, asked members of the chamber who supported the amendment to stand.
Only three Democrats did — Denise Harper Angel and Tim Shaughnessy, both of Louisville, and David Boswell of Owensboro — though others have gone on record in support of casinos.
“Three out of 38,” Williams said. “There you are, governor. You’ve got a long way to go.”

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VANCOUVER, Feb. 12 /CNW/ - ESI Integrity Inc. (a wholly owned subsidiary of ESI Entertainment Systems Inc. (TSX:ESY) today announced that it has entered into an agreement with INTRALOT S.A. - a leading supplier of integrated gaming and transaction processing systems, innovative game content and sports betting management, to state-licensed gaming organizations worldwide - to supply its industry-leading Integrity Independent Control System (ICS) to the All-Russia State Lottery.The Integrity ICS license agreement plus related services are cumulatively valued at approximately $440,000 over a contract term of five (5) years. Under the terms of the agreement the Integrity ICS will continuously monitor the lottery’s wagering transactions, providing an independent, real-time audit of the wagers and prize calculations. In addition, ESI Integrity will administer product release updates and supply 24/7 technical support to the Lottery.The All-Russian State Lottery’s aim is to develop the Russian gaming industry utilizing advanced technological solutions, which will allow the provision of high quality, secure and reliable lottery games to the Russian players. The project is considered to be one of the most technologically advanced projects ever implemented in the global gaming industry. It involves the implementation of an integrated lottery system covering all regions of the Russian Federation located in eleven (11) time zones.”We are very pleased to support INTRALOT with our industry-leading Integrity ICS in this ambitious project,” said Alan Ahac, President of ESI Integrity. “The All-Russia State Lottery represents the second European lottery project we will undertake in partnership with INTRALOT and aligns with ESI Integrity’s goal to be a global provider of real-time transactional monitoring and auditing solutions for regulated gaming operators.”Currently, Integrity ICS monitors billions of dollars in annual wagering revenues for lottery and pari-mutuel organizations in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. The implementation of Integrity ICS for the Russian Lottery further extends ESI Integrity into the rapidly growing European and Asian markets. About INTRALOT INTRALOT, a public listed company, is the leading supplier of integrated gaming and transaction processing systems, innovative game content and sports betting management, to state-licensed gaming organizations worldwide. Its broad portfolio of products & services, its know-how of Lottery, Betting & Video Lottery operations and its leading-edge technology, give INTRALOT a competitive advantage which contributes directly to customers’ efficiency, profitability and growth. With presence in more than 40 countries, with 4,000 people and revenues of (euro)791.4 m. for 2006, INTRALOT has established its presence on all 5 continents. About ESI Integrity Inc. ESI Integrity Inc. is the leading supplier of independent software for Security and Risk Management in gaming. The ESI Integrity Continuous Monitoring System provides independent real-time monitoring of lottery and pari-mutuel gaming - auditing billions of dollars of gaming world-wide every year. ESI Integrity is currently licensed at lotteries and pari-mutuel wagering sites, spanning North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. About ESI Entertainment Systems Inc. ESI Entertainment Systems Inc. (”ESI”) (TSX: ESY) provides products and services to the international gaming and payment processing industries through its three principal subsidiaries, Citadel Commerce Corp., ESI Integrity Inc. and PlayLine Inc. ESI’s products and services, which primarily consist of payment processing, transaction monitoring and turnkey gaming platforms, are deployed in the on-line and land based gaming markets. %SEDAR: 00023260E

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