Professor Alastair Gillespie, chairman of the Scottish Mathematical Council,believes that by introducing simple gambling games into Maths lessons,children will become more engaged and will likely to improve theirmathematical skills. Gillespie claims that young children have problems withmathematical problems such as probability, a concept at the heart ofgambling. “Things like tossing coins and cutting cards are […]
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An increase in gaming revenues resulted in more money for the WashingtonCounty Volunteer Fire & Rescue Association, the Washington County GamingCommission announced. In a press release Wednesday, Washington County publicinformation officer Norman Bassett said the gaming association distributed$664,790.05 to the fire and rescue association. The money represents half ofthe gaming fund revenues from July 1 […]
Along California’s rugged northwest coast, a freshly paved highway exitmarked “Bald Hills Road” is for most nothing more than the entrance to LadyBird Johnson Grove and Redwood National Park. For the Yurok, the state’slargest and perhaps poorest American Indian tribe, it’s where the road home,and the Yuroks’ struggles, begin. Past the park, Bald Hills quickly […]
Re “This time, let’s get state pension reform done right,” commentary byGov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dec.. 28: The reason state pension and healthbenefits are better than the private sector’s is that state salaries arebelow the private sector, significantly so at upper levels. For decades,legislators and governors of both parties have saved money in yearly budgetsby not […]
Customers at the Island Resort Casino now have access to a larger gamblingarea with more slot machines and a new gambling pit. The renovations arepart of a $43 million expansion for the Harris casino, located in the UpperPeninsula. It includes a 211-room hotel tower, 1,300 seat showroom,restaurant and bar, lounge and 18-hole golf course. Eventually, […]
We may not admit it but we are all, no matter how pious we maybe, once in awhile fascinated by riches and the rich. Given a choice most of us wouldrather be another billionaire Bill Gates than another the late MotherTheresa of Calcutta. While we easily express anger when for instancecertain sections of our nation […]
For the second time in less than a year, state lawmakers have let the clockrun out on simulcasting rights for the state’s four racetracks. At least oneof the tracks – Suffolk Downs – planned to close today because the off-trackbetting rights expired at the end of the day yesterday, and other tracks maygo dark as […]
Police have crushed the biggest gambling syndicate of 2006 in Penang, whichraked in more than RM1 million in bets a month, and detained six people,four of them women. The six were detained in a raid at the syndicate’s baselocated at a flat in Taman Seri Hijau in Jalan Perak here at about 6 pm onDec […]
Our report about the astounding amount of money put through poker machinesin the region alarmed many. ‘Scary’ was one word used by readers of thisnewspaper. Considering that Jupiters Casino, the largest gambling venue inNorth Queensland, isn’t included in the figures ‘scary’ might seem anunderstatement. As we reported on Friday, $66 million was put through theregion’s […]
Online Gambling Insider is proud to announce that it will continue to giveaway an Apple Ipod each monthly in association with Casino Rewards, aleading Micerogaming online casino and poker operator…During 2006, OnlineGambling Insider and the Casino Rewards Group gave away an Apple Ipod eachmonth. For the second month running, a UK player won the Ipod.Congratulations […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a bill into law December 30 thatwill close casinos and slot-machine halls across most of the country in afew years, forcing the establishments that have become a garish feature ofthe new Russian landscape into four legal gambling zones. The law alsooutlaws online gambling and online poker, and sets the minimum […]
Along California’s rugged northwest coast, a freshly paved highway exitmarked “Bald Hills Road” is for most nothing more than the entrance to LadyBird Johnson Grove and Redwood National Park. For the Yurok, the state’slargest and perhaps poorest American Indian tribe, it’s where the road home,and the Yuroks’ struggles, begin. Past the park, Bald Hills quickly […]
The sun is setting fast and early over Yarbeshe, a hillside neighborhood ofcrumbling brick houses, dark alleys and a creaky wooden drawbridge thatsways uneasily over a stream in this fabled gateway city that links farwestern China to the recesses of central Asia. Winter is arriving. You wouldknow it instantly by looking at the director Marc […]
The hypocrisy of government institutions that support general forms ofgambling, but ban Internet gambling on moral grounds has at last beenexamined by the international magazine Newsweek in it’s upcoming January 8issue. And the story has been picked up and distributed widely by otheronline and offline media.Titled “Morality vs. Money – nations say they attack Internet […]