Online Gambling On The Rise

     Atlantic City - Hours before a five-day test period is scheduled to begin.  A New Jersey state lawmaker unveiled a proposal to lure foreign online gambling companies to New Jersey, possible making online gambling a world-wide enterprise.  The five-day test period starts at 6:00 p.m. Thursday, November 21.  The trial run will test sophisticated software, that is designed to ensure all gamblers are New Jersey residents and are over the age of 21.  If all goes well, online gambling will be available to gamblers in New Jersey, starting Tuesday, November 26.  The only other states to offer online gambling are Nevada and Delaware.  Online gambling will be the biggest expansion of gambling in New Jersey since casino gambling began in New Jersey in 1978.  "With the dawn of Internet gaming, we are on the cusp of perhaps the biggest change -and challenge- since the first casino opened here," Alisa Cooper, a commissioner with the New Jersey Casino Control Commission said.  See also,  www.onlinegambling.com.