Gambling Debts Research Articles

청소년의 비합리적 도박신념과 도박문제의 관계

The purpose of this study is to find out whether self-control plays a mediating role in the relationship between adolescents' irrational gambling beliefs and gambling problems. Online illegal gambling is a hot topic as a recent social problem. Variant gambling is permeating deeply in online illegal sites, and this variation induces young people to bet large amounts of money without recognizing that it is gambling by using cute characters they like. Not only adults but also teenagers access illegal gambling sites, fall into gambling, are unable to concentrate on schoolwork, have difficulties with friends, and even commit secondary crimes to pay off gambling debts caused by illegal gambling. In addition, there are cases in which an extreme choice is made after spending a debt through SNS and receiving a collection. As such, the recent increase in gambling problems among adolescents has emerged as a serious social problem. Therefore, in order to find out the seriousness of the youth gambling problem, this study asked 182 general high school and specialized high school students located in ㅇㅇ city, Gangwon-do, where the researcher resides, to ask for permission from the school in advance and allocate time that did not interfere with class time. A total of 59 questions were administered on the Irrational Belief Scale (16 items), the Gambling Problem Scale (9 items), and the Self-Control Scale (34 items). Mediating effects were verified through structural model verification and bootstrap. As a result of the study, there was a significant positive correlation between adolescents' irrational gambling beliefs and gambling problems. This means that the higher the level of irrational gambling belief, the higher the level of gambling problems. In addition, the relationship between self-control and gambling problems, which were set as mediating variables, showed a significant negative correlation. These results show that the lower the self-control, the more likely you are to fall into a gambling problem. Therefore, according to the correlation results of each variable set in this study, it can be predicted that the higher the level of irrational gambling belief, the lower the level of self-control and the higher the level of gambling problems. In addition, it can be predicted that the higher the level of self-control, the lower the level of gambling problems. Self-control was found to partially mediate the relationship between irrational gambling beliefs and gambling problems. These results suggest that when counseling adolescents suffering from gambling problems, it is necessary to lower irrational gambling beliefs and increase the level of self-control. This study is meaningful in revealing the relationship between adolescents' irrational gambling beliefs, self-control, and gambling problems, and recognizing the danger of adolescent illegal gambling problems and the necessity of continuous youth gambling prevention education in schools. Finally, the limitations of this study and suggestions for follow-up studies were made to enable future studies and preemptive responses.

Online 8-week cognitive therapy for problem gamblers: The moderating effects of depression symptoms and perceived financial control.

Background and aimsOnline interventions for problem gambling are increasingly popular, but not everyone benefits from them. We describe 12 years of real-world data from an online intervention for gambling problems and aim to find out the extent to which depression, alcohol use, and sense of financial control influence the effectiveness of the program.MethodsWe analyzed treatment effectiveness and moderators in the Finnish “Peli Poikki” program (2007–2018)—an 8-week cognitive behavioral therapy and follow-up program for problem gambling. Participants were Finnish-speaking adults over 18 years of age (N = 2011, 66.9% males). We measured the self-reported level of problem gambling, depression, alcohol use, and sense of financial control across four treatment phases (baseline, post-treatment, 6-month follow-up, and 12-month follow-up), as well as the presence of gambling debt, psychological and physiological health, years suffered from gambling problems, and demographic variables.ResultsParticipation grew across years with retention rates of 55%, 30%, and 19% for post-treatment and the two follow-ups, respectively. The average problem gambling scores declined significantly following treatment and remained low throughout the follow-ups. However, this decline (the beneficial treatment effect) was reversed after the follow-ups for those with high depression scores and those who felt they had no control over their finances.Discussion and ConclusionsThe Peli Poikki program is a well-functioning online intervention but less effective in the long term for participants with persisting symptoms of depression or without a sense of financial control. More attention is needed to screen and direct people with comorbidities to the appropriate services.

SHOULD CALIFORNIA'S PUBLIC POLICY ON JUDICIAL NON-JURISDICTION OVER GAMBLING DEBTS BE REVISITED? BREAKING DOWN THE KELLY AND POSTLE DECISIONS

SHOULD CALIFORNIA'S PUBLIC POLICY ON JUDICIAL NON-JURISDICTION OVER GAMBLING DEBTS BE REVISITED? BREAKING DOWN THE <i>KELLY</i> AND <i>POSTLE</i> DECISIONS

Debts of Honor, Narrative Authority, and Southern Manhood in “Knight’s Gambit”

Abstract: This essay considers how a particular trace of Faulkner’s 1942 short-story draft of “Knight’s Gambit,” which he failed to place in any mass-market magazine, clarifies the stakes of his final 1949 novella with the same title. In the draft, the key motive for Max Harriss’s attempted murder of Gualdes (Gualdres in the published version) involves the repayment of a gambling debt. In revising, Faulkner recognized the weakness of the original motive. But while the novella completely changes Max’s motive, it does not erase male gambling debts as much as it displaces them throughout the narrative. While chess is the central metaphor in “Knight’s Gambit,” poker is nevertheless a crucial element in Gavin Stevens’ mentoring of his nephew, Chick Mallison. Learning the complementary narrative structures of chess (gambits) and poker (gambling), Chick achieves something unusual in the Faulkner canon: a young white Southern male’s successful movement into manhood.

도박 부채, 금전동기 및 문제성 도박의 관계: 기질(BAS/BIS)의 조절된 매개효과

도박 부채, 금전동기 및 문제성 도박의 관계: 기질(BAS/BIS)의 조절된 매개효과

Finishing the Picture

Finishing the Picture

“Gambling Debt: Iceland's Rise and Fall in the Global Economy”

“Gambling Debt: Iceland's Rise and Fall in the Global Economy”

A Psychologial Analysis of the Main Character in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s the Gambler

The novel “The Gambler” tells about a young teacher named Alexei Ivanovich who works for a Russian general who was once a wealthy man. This novel is an image of the writer's addiction to roulette gambling. Dostoevsky finished the writing of this novel in a very short time in order to settle his gambling debts. The analysis shows that the main character can be said as a pathological gambler. This is because there are at least five of 10 characteristics of a pathological gambler in his character. They are preoccupation, tolerance, escape, chasing (always trying to win back what is lost), loss of self-control, and bailout (relying on money from others).&#x0D;

The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History by Anne C. Bailey

Reviewed by: The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History by Anne C. Bailey Randy J. Sparks (bio) The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History. By Anne C. Bailey. ( New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. 206. Cloth, $79.99; paper, $24.99.) In March 1859, 436 enslaved men, women, and children went on the auction block in Savannah, Georgia, the single largest slave auction in the [End Page 532] long, tragic history of slavery in the U.S. South. The event is tailor-made for the sort of microhistory that Anne Bailey, a historian of African American history at SUNY Binghamton, set out to write. That sale resulted from the financial difficulties of Pierce Mease Butler, who garnered over $300,000. The extensive Butler family papers are housed at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and historians including Malcolm Bell and William Dusinberre have demonstrated their historical value. Add to those records the diary of Fanny Kemble, the British actress who married Butler in 1834, whose diary of the time she spent on the Butler plantations is one of the most perceptive firsthand accounts of plantation life ever published. Some of the enslaved men and women Kemble met stood on that auction block in 1859. Bailey has organized her book into three parts: "The Breach," focused on the auction itself; "Linked Fates," which explores the intertwined histories of the Butlers and their chattel; and "Healing the Breach," which follows the efforts of descendants of the Butler slaves to trace their families' histories. A reporter for the New York Tribune, Mortimer Thomson, disguised himself as a buyer and mingled with the crowd during the auction, providing a detailed and chilling record of the proceedings as potential buyers shouted and joked among themselves, immune to the human tragedy playing out before their very eyes. Bailey identifies only a few of the individuals sold over the two-day auction, honing in on families divided by the sale. Butler's grandfather, Major Pierce Butler, a British army officer, acquired the plantations, located on isolated sea islands off the coast of Georgia, in 1774. Those plantations produced rice and Sea Island cotton, and the plantation communities established there remained remarkably stable until the 1859 auction. On the islands, the distinctive Gullah-Geechee culture flourished. Bailey does not explain what took the Butlers to Philadelphia, but the proceeds from their plantations allowed them to live there in high style. Smitten with Kemble when he saw her on stage, Pierce Mease Butler embarked on a whirlwind courtship, where he flouted his wealth in grand, romantic gestures that hid his growing gambling debts. Kemble was ignorant of those debts and of the plantations that formed the basis of the Butler fortune when the two wed. Butler and his brother inherited the plantations in 1836, and Fanny begged her husband to take her to visit them, a request he denied until 1838, when he agreed to a visit, a trip that deeply shocked Fanny and doomed their marriage. Bailey's discussion of rice and cotton cultivation is overly generalized and oddly divorced from the Butler plantations. Her descriptions of cotton culture, for example, are drawn from the Cotton South, where green-seed [End Page 533] cotton was king, a far different crop from Sea Island cotton. She claims that Eli Whitney's cotton gin enabled the Butlers to "make a healthy profit margin" (68), but the long, silky threads of Sea Island cotton could not be ginned with Whitney's machine. She focuses on music and religion as fixtures of the rich Gullah-Geechee culture on the islands, home to the strongest African retentions in the South, though her analysis of both lacks depth and overlooks important scholarship like Margaret Washington Creel's foundational work on Gullah religion and community. The Civil War brought dramatic change to the Sea Islands, and two of the enslaved men sold in 1859, Noble Walker and Thomas Baker, served in the United States Army. The Sea Islands fell to the United States early in the war, and the Federal government launched an experiment to transition former slaves to freedom, an effort historian Willie Lee...

Temporal Characteristics of EEG Microstates Mediate Trial-by-Trial Risk Taking.

People seem to have difficulties when perceiving events whose outcome has no influence on the outcome of future events. This illusion that patterns exist where there are none may lead to adverse consequences, such as escalating losses in financial trading or gambling debt. Despite the enormous social consequences of these cognitive biases, however, their neural underpinnings are poorly understood. Attempts to investigate them have so far relied on evoked neural activity, whereas spontaneous brain activity has been treated as noise to be averaged out. Here, we focus on the spontaneous electroencephalographic (EEG) activity during inter-trial-intervals (ITI) in a sequential risky decision-making task. Using multilevel mediation analyses, our results show that the percentage of time covered by two EEG microstates (i.e., functional brain-states of coherent activity) mediate the influence of outcomes of prior decisions on subsequent risk taking on a trial-by-trial basis. The devised multilevel mediation analysis of the temporal characteristics of EEG microstates during ITI provides a new window into the neurobiology of decision making by bringing the spontaneous brain activity to the forefront of the analysis.

Hitting the jackpot: the influence of monetary payout on gambling behaviour

Restrictions on monetary payout may promote player engagement in gambling as a form of entertainment rather than as a source of income. Our objective was to evaluate the effects of monetary prize magnitude upon gambling behaviour in a community sample, and the degree to which this association is moderated by gambling risk factors. One hundred and eighty-seven adults completed an online survey assessing motivation, impulsivity and affect. Participants were given a series of vignettes and asked to estimate how much they would gamble to win monetary prizes of increasing amounts with and without accrued gambling debt. Participants reported increased gambling in response to increased monetary payout. Debt moderated these outcomes, such that electronic gaming machine (EGM) and lottery expenditures and number of lottery games played decreased with increased debt; this effect was most pronounced at elevated monetary prizes. The association between duration of EGM play and monetary payout was moderated by gender only. Results suggest that self-reported gambling behaviours increased with monetary payout even across qualitatively different gambling products, and across gamblers with different motivations for gambling, levels of impulsivity, and negative affect. The restriction of monetary payouts warrants further research attention as a form of problem gambling prevention.

Aripiprazole, jeu pathologique et sexualité compulsive

IntroductionAripiprazole, an atypical or second-generation antipsychotic, is usually well tolerated. It is an approved treatment for schizophrenia and mania in bipolar disorder type 1. Unlike the other antipsychotics, it has high affinity agonist properties for dopamine D2 and D3 receptors. It has also 5-HT1A partial agonist and 5-HT2A antagonist properties. Aripiprazole is a first or second line treatment frequently used because it has reduced side effects such as weight gain, sleepiness, dyslipidemia, insulin resistance, hyperprolactinemia and extrapyramidal symptoms. Case-reportWe report the case of a 28-year-old male patient diagnosed with schizoid personality disorder. He was a moderate smoker with occasional social gambling habits. After several psychotic episodes, he was first treated with risperidone, but he experienced excessive sedation, decreased libido, erectile dysfunction and was switched to 15 mg aripiprazole. He developed an addiction habit for gambling at casino slot machines. Due to large gambling debts, he requested placement on a voluntary self-exclusion list. Thereafter, he turned his attention towards scratch card gambling. The patient described his experience of gambling as a “hypnotic state”. He got several personal loans to obtain money to continue gambling. He was then referred to an addiction unit. Before being treated with aripiprazole, he was an exclusive heterosexual with a poor sexual activity. Under treatment, he switched to a homosexual behavior with hypersexuality, unprotected sex and sadomasochistic practices. The craving for gambling and compulsive sexual behavior ceased two weeks after aripiprazole was discontinued and he was switched to amisulpride. Thereafter, he reported a return to a heterosexual orientation. DiscussionCompulsive behaviors such as gambling, hypersexuality and new sexual orientation are common in patients with Parkinson's disease treated with dopaminergic agonists. These behaviors involve the reward system, with an enhanced dopaminergic activity in the mesolimbic pathways and occur more frequently in young subjects, males with previous gambling habits and tobacco use. A few cases of aripiprazole-induced pathological gambling as well as aripiprazole-induced hypersexuality have been reported. To our knowledge, we are the first to report a case of gambling disorder associated with hypersexuality and change of sexuality orientation. Aripiprazole is the only antipsychotic with agonist properties for the D2 dopamine receptor. It may also act as an enhancer in the mesolimbic dopaminergic pathways. Aripiprazole also has 5-HT1A partial agonist and 5-HT2A antagonist properties that may promote sexual activity. ConclusionAripiprazole is an antipsychotic associated with reduced side effects compared to other antipsychotics. We report the case of a patient who experienced gambling disorder, hypersexuality and a new sexual orientation under treatment. These side effects are little known. They are usually difficult for patients to mention due to feelings of guilt. The consequences on social life, family and health may be serious. Clinicians and patients should be aware about the possible issue of these behavior disorders with aripiprazole.

Gambling disorder in financial markets: Clinical and treatment-related features.

Background and AimsTo date, few studies have examined the clinical manifestation of disordered gamblers in financial markets. This study examined the differences in the clinical and treatment-related features of gambling disorder between financial markets and horse races.MethodsSubjects who met the DSM-IV criteria for pathological gambling (PG) and who sought treatment were assessed by retrospective chart review. One hundred forty-four subjects were included in this sample, which consisted of the following groups: financial markets (n = 45; 28.6%) and horse races (n = 99; 71.4%).ResultsMultiple similar manifestations were found between the groups, including severity of PG, age of PG onset, amounts of gambling debts, drinking days per week, depressive mood, duration of seeking treatment after the onset of PG, and treatment follow-up duration. However, disordered gamblers who invested in the financial market were significantly more likely to be educated (p = 0.003), live with their spouses (p = 0.007), have full-time jobs (p = 0.006), and they were more likely to participate in the first type of gambling than the horse races group (p<0.001). Furthermore, the financial markets group received the anti-craving medication less often than the horse races group (p = 0.04). Discussion and Conclusions: These findings suggest that disordered gamblers in financial markets show different socio-demographic, clinical and treatment-related features compared with the horse race gamblers, despite a similar severity of gambling disorder. Understanding these differential manifestations may provide insight into prevention and treatment development for specific types of gambling.

The Impact of Disordered Gambling Among Older Adults.

The current study is a secondary analysis that describes the mental, social, and economic health impacts of disordered gambling in older adults recovering from pathological gambling. The study sought to answer the following research questions: (a) What are the problem behaviors in the mental, social, and economic health dimensions?; and (b) What is the association between mental, social, and economic health impact dimensions and the South Oaks Gambling Screen score? The study population comprised a convenience sample of 40 older adults recovering from pathological gambling in the Midwestern United States. Participants were originally recruited from Gamblers Anonymous(®) meetings and gambling treatment centers. Significant findings for the current study population were: gambling causing depression, being fired from a job due to gambling, and still paying off gambling debt. Nurses should evaluate effects of disordered gambling, assess for disordered gambling, and include a financial assessment in routine care of this patient population.

Changes in the junket business in Macao after gaming liberalization

Before Macao's gaming liberalization, people from Macao and Hong Kong took the active lead as junket operators to entice high-betting gamblers from neighbouring places. With the People's Republic of China as the dominating source of visitors to Macao, there have been some changes in the junket business. The qualitative research interview was adopted due to the under-researched nature of the junket business. This study is based on the institutional theory to analyse human interactions and activities structured in terms of overt or implicit rules involved in the junket business in Macao. A review of the literature and interview findings indicates that the active role played by local people appears to have diminished. As junket activities like patron recruitment and gambling debt collection are primarily conducted in Mainland China, together with the business opportunities from gambling and junket operators' preference for working with ethnically homogeneous groups, the previous active role played by local people is gradually being replaced by the Mainland Chinese. The junket business in Macao has been under the increasing influence of the Mainland Chinese. Based upon this, Macao needs to consider how to better regulate these junket operators.

AMY MILNE-SMITH. London Clubland: A Cultural History of Gender and Class in Late Victorian Britain.

Amy Milne-Smith's book on gentlemen's clubs in late Victorian London is a useful addition to the literature on British elites. The governing class in Britain was not a narrowly aristocratic caste but a broader coalition of the well-educated and propertied, and it was in institutions like these clubs that aristocrats, leading professionals, and businessmen forged a sense of corporate identity as “gentlemen.” In this way, consciousness of class took on a particularly gendered form. In a series of thematic chapters Milne-Smith examines the efforts of club members to create a community of shared sensibility, starting with the processes by which clubs sought to exclude (“black ball”) those men whose status, character, manners, or politics did not pass scrutiny. Those accepted were “less defined by any formal sense of class than by a commonality of activities, lifestyle, and taste” (p. 37). Highlights of the book are the colorful accounts of the various transgressions of respectable masculinity that endangered club membership, ranging from Percy Douglas's public fistfight with his father to the member of the Savage Club who smuggled in his wife disguised as a man. Using bad language, treating servants poorly, drinking excessively, and incurring bad gambling debts were all deemed incompatible with gentlemanliness and merited disciplinary action. But the creation of a cohesive governing class rested on more than conforming to normative ideals, which leads Milne-Smith to an important argument. She claims that historians of men ought to be as sensitive to the importance of gossip as historians of women have been, because clubs were places where men shared rumors, stories, and jokes in a way that created and strengthened social networks. In order for these gossip networks to operate as mechanisms of social closure, however, their knowledge had to be kept secret, and so revealing to the public or the press what was heard in club conversation was considered a grave social offense. As a contribution to the history of privacy, this is timely.

Cross-Border Enforcement of Gambling Contracts: A Comparative Study

This article examines the challenge that gambling industry faces when it grows transnational in the past fifteen years. While many countries regulate instead of prohibit gambling, gambling is still considered illegal or against public policy in other countries. Transnational gambling activities face the conflict of different substantive laws and regulations in different countries. A typical is whether cross-border gambling contracts can be enforced in another country. Enforcing cross-border gambling contracts generates three private international law issues, namely which court hears the dispute, which law governs the substance of the claim, and whether a foreign judgment can be recognized and enforced in the debtor’s home. This article aims to answer these three classic conflict of laws questions faced by gambling industry. Cross-border enforcement of gambling contracts and gambling debts raises controversial legal, public policy, international comity, economic and ethic problems. The difficulty to enforce such debts is a challenge to the global gambling industry and may encourage irresponsible patrons to gamble overseas. It may open the gate for illegal enforcement and corresponding social problems. Enforcing such debts incurred abroad may confront public policy objection if gambling is treated illegal in domestic law. It is certainly unrealistic to suggest that every court should be ready to enforce foreign gambling contracts or countries should establish judicial cooperation in this matter. The specific characteristics of gambling industry determine that this issue is best to be left for each domestic court to decide by using its own discretion. However, three suggestions are provided to provide certainty to this specific issue. Firstly, a court must consider not only whether the concerned gambling contract is legal under its domestic law but also consider whether the detriment to culture and social morality by enforcing such contracts would indeed overweigh the social problems brought by not enforcing it and whether public policy should play a role to intervene contract freedom. Secondly, gambling industry should also consider its social responsibility, and re-assess whether it should act ethically to prevent irresponsible gambling. It may not be a legal requirement but would be a good practice for gambling operators to do so. By adopting internal code to prevent irresponsible patrons, an operator may prevent excessive gambling debts in the first place and may find any debts incurred may be easier to enforce in another jurisdiction. Thirdly, although gambling brings about revenue benefits to a society, it does not necessarily bring any benefits to foreign countries. From this perspective, law-makers in the home country of gambling operators may find it necessary to take the difference into consideration. It is traditionally held not the obligation of the lawmaker to enact a law to protect the interest of another state. However, there may be feasibility and practical soundness to treat domestic patrons and foreign patrons separately. More regulations and demands may be provided before a foreign patron is allowed to gamble on credit.

The Song of Synth and Absinth

60 World Literature Today reviews Sébastien Doubinsky. The Song of Synth and Absinth. Hornsea, England. PS Publishing. 2012. isbn 9781848634541 Synth is a drug, able to induce full sensory hallucinations indistinguishable from reality. But Synth is new, of uncertain provenance, its long-term side effects unknown. For Markus Olsen, hacker protagonist of The Song of Synth, Sébastien Doubinsky ’s novel of poetry and politics, Synth offers “easy escape. Mind in the clouds, a pure blue sky, low music humming in the background. Illusions to fight other illusions. The ghost of freedom against the ghost of oppression.” Markus needs Synth. Ten years ago, to avoid imprisonment for treason , he sold out and agreed to track hackers for the government’s Security Center. Now, friendless and awash in guilt and self-loathing, he works in Viborg City, a corporate-controlled nightmare of commerce and conformity where “Everybody is blond and everything is clean. Trademark.” Gradually Markus begins to experience “hallucination leakages,” “angst attacks,” and worse. Sensing that he’s losing control of Synth, he stops taking the drug. But it remains active. Increasingly paranoid, unsure of his identity, and unable to trust memories or real-time experience, Markus escapes to the ancient city of Samarqand. There, governmental machineries of power are challenged by a public passionately devoted to poetry, and the assassination just prior to Markus’s arrival of their national poet, whom Markus knew ten years earlier, has raised passions to a potentially violent pitch. Both parts of TheSongofSynth— the first set in Viborg City and its virtual environs, the second in Samarqand and the Dreaming Chambers in the mountains beyond—feature conspiracy, mystery, and murder. But these are MacGuffins. What draws us into the novel is Markus’s quest, amid massive Synth-induced ontological uncertainty, to find self-absolution , purpose, and identity. What ensnares us are Doubinsky’s mastery of narrative, subtly poetic prose, and passion for the themes of politics and literature, with which he challenges us at every turn. Synth is absent from the other novel in this book, as are Markus and the cities, real and virtual, of The Song of Synth. In Absinth, reality is not so much uncertain as under siege. In one of three interwoven plots, Zeus sends Hermes on a globegirdling road trip. His mission: to visit Odin, Legba, Baiame, and a host of other “retired gods” to solicit their views on portents the Delphic priestess Pythia has detected, faint signs of an impending change in “the Rules of the Universe,” a change that may herald their return. Meanwhile, Sid Saperstein, the financially strapped, ethically challenged owner of Vinland Press (“I publish porn and pulp fiction”), is facing fatal blowback from a gambling debt he cannot repay. At this moment of crisis, who should show up in Sid’s office but the archangel Gabriel (“You can call me Gabe”). Gabe offers Sid a deal. In return for a million dollars plus change, Sid will publish and distribute The Gospel According to Jesus. Sid is skeptical; one of the chapters is entitled “Destroy all churches.” Gabe is reassuring: “Jesus actually wrote this. He finished it yesterday . The New Testament is pure Jove propaganda. Bullshit. This is the real McCoy.” Meanwhile, catastrophe is breaking out all over. Major political figures die in freak accidents. Immigrants by the score return home from America and Europe, causing Western economies to collapse. Celebrities spontaneously combust. Doubinsky keeps us abreast of breaking developments through hilarious, deadpan pastiches of news bulletins, which he intersperses, Dos Passos– like, throughout Absinth. What makes this most improbable mélange work are Doubinsky’s intelligence, mastery of tone, and unerring rendering of character. Take Iris, prime mover of the third narrative . A young cleaning woman and aspiring pop singer, Iris discovers that smoking reefers induces visions of scenes from the Bible, though not as we know them. In Doubinsky’s hands, this character, who could easily topple into cliché, comes to life so vividly that we care about her as we do about Marcello Fois Memory of the Abyss Patrick Creagh, tr. MacLehose Press The tale of the legendary Sardinian hero Samuele Stocchino is brought to vivid life in this artful blend...

Enforcement of Foreign Gambling Debts in Singapore: Is it Contrary to Public Policy?

Gaming Law Review and EconomicsVol. 16, No. 9 ArticlesEnforcement of Foreign Gambling Debts in Singapore: Is it Contrary to Public Policy?Yap Wai Ming and Kenneth ChuaYap Wai MingSearch for more papers by this author and Kenneth ChuaSearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:17 Sep 2012https://doi.org/10.1089/glre.2012.1697AboutSectionsPDF/EPUB ToolsPermissionsDownload CitationsTrack CitationsAdd to favorites Back To Publication ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Volume 16Issue 9Sep 2012 InformationCopyright 2012, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.To cite this article:Yap Wai Ming and Kenneth Chua.Enforcement of Foreign Gambling Debts in Singapore: Is it Contrary to Public Policy?.Gaming Law Review and Economics.Sep 2012.514-521.http://doi.org/10.1089/glre.2012.1697Published in Volume: 16 Issue 9: September 17, 2012PDF download

Don’t Give Me No Lip: The Cultural and Religious Roots of Leo Durocher’s Competitiveness

I come to play! I come to beat you! I come to kill you! Leo Durocher, Nice Guys Finish Last All stories of steroids and scandals aside, American cultural imagination retains its faith in the church of Narratives of religiosity pervade scholarship surrounding baseball. For example, sport's preference for tradition and ritual, faith sport and its teams inspire in fans, and green cathedrals of ballparks themselves. Baseball possesses its own cognoscenti, an intellectual elite who appraise game's more nuanced aspects. This tension between being an insider and an outsider within baseball recalls Ludwig Wittgenstein's argument that religious language resembles a kind of game. With both endeavors one learns by playing game (or practicing religion). Only later does intellectual affirmation provide new levels of deeper meaning. But what about dark side? Almost all religions possess some notion of evil; dualistic Other serves several purposes: temptation, damnation, and an instructive place in narrative lessons about what not to do. Joseph Price writes, Classically, dualistic, cosmic conflict pits forces of good against forces of evil, light against darkness, creation against chaos, or it presents Gnostic tension between flesh and spirit. (1) Baseball is no different; 1919 Black Sox, Pete Rose, and now perhaps Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire stand as instructive examples of harm baseball suffers when its practitioners sacrifice ultimate reward and salvation for short-term monetary gain and glory. Then there's Leo Durocher (1905-91), many times married and divorced manager of Dodgers and Giants who coined phrase nice guys finish last. Durocher's infamy in baseball enjoys many sources--and just as many scriptural accounts. Rumors swirled about his rookie-year pilfering of Babe Ruth's watch (untrue stories Ruth himself fueled out of dislike for Durocher). (2) In every city Durocher played (New York, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Brooklyn), he rang up eye-popping gambling debts and often bounced checks when paying them off or buying fancy clothing. When not playing shortstop with grace and speed (albeit with a weak .247 batting average), Durocher ran around with a shady group of gangsters, Hollywood grafters, and pool hustlers. More than once he ended a ball game fighting with fans. These troubles followed Durocher throughout his baseball career. In 1947 things grew so bad that Brooklyn Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) protested by withdrawing its numerous members from Dodgers' Knothole Gang. Frank Murphy, a US Supreme Court justice, and Westbrook Pegler, a widely-read columnist, also joined rush to squelch Durocher's style. Decades later, he was still at it, grinding away at his players and chasing women. What really set Durocher apart, though, was his mouth. He stands as one of greatest examples of a baseball bench jockey. His nickname the Lip came from Babe Ruth, frustrated with younger Durocher's inability to refrain from back talk. Baseball always held a role for verbal harassment of other team, but Durocher took role to unknown heights. Durocher yapped at everybody--off field as well as on it. Jonathan Eig writes, If Durocher spoke a sentence without curses, it was probably an accident, soon to be corrected. ... Nowhere did he stay out of trouble, and nowhere did he shut up. (3) As a player, Durocher spouted off to everyone, including game's greats like Ty Cobb. When Detroit's Bob Fatty Fothergill came to bat against Yankees, rookie Durocher brazenly called time from his shortstop position. Durocher ran in to umpire protesting that Detroit was batting out of order. When informed that Fothergill was indeed correct batter, Durocher responded flippantly that he had mistaken Fothergill's girth for two players. Infuriated, Fothergill promptly grounded out on next pitch. …