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EXCESSIVE GAMBLING in Australia Good morning/ afternoon Pastor xxx and fellow classmates. Today I would like to talk to you about the topic- excessive gambling. During my talk, I will be covering the following areas: 1.What is gambling? 2.What is excessive gambling? 3.Reasons for excessive gambling + statistics on excessive gambling in Australia. 4.The problems of excessive gambling. 5.How to stop excessive gambling 6.Opinions on gambling from different point of views. To my first point

Gambling can be entertainment or a professional pursuit. There is government sponsored gambling and unlicensed gambling. It can be a group event at a casino, betting on your favorite horse, playing your lucky numbers in a lottery, or a chance to win on a scratch off. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed.; DSM-5; American Psychiatric Association, [APA], 2013) defines gambling as “risking something of value in the hopes of obtaining something of greater value”. For most

his money got together in the first place.” That is what Gamble Rogers used to say (Tallahassee Democrat). Sports betting and gambling started around the time horse racing started. In many states such as New York have ban sports betting from happening in the state. The attorney general of New York Eric T. Schneiderman says that fantasy sport websites constitute gambling and wats then banned from conducting business with New Yorkers (News Day). Not every Fantasy football website or app has betting

These companies can’t operate as brazenly with ads on national TV anymore, but Internet poker is just as readily available as it was before Black Friday. Although, the industry is no longer concentrated into three main companies. In fact, a report by the cyber security company, McAfee, estimated in 2015 that Internet gambling represents a $43 billion industry growing at 7.3% annually. In such an environment, the U.S. should get ahead of this trend and

by the World Trade Organization (WTO) and raised a lot of interesting questions about international trade and internet gaming (Steiner,

dimensions. Explain one of these dimensions and identify a form of gambling at each extreme point of this dimension. Delfabbro(2009) has mentioned that locational characteristics is also influences the nature of gambling activities such as whether they can play at home, alone, a groups, at casino, or can be on telephone and on internet. Besides, the locational characteristics of gambling play a significant role in people’s choice of gambling activity (Productivity Commission, 1999). Different venue

Is gambling an acceptable form of leisure? Nowadays, gambling industry is already become a huge global industry. Due to the rapid development of technology, people can place the bet in another country simply by using internet without travel, which make much easier for gambler. According to Roberts (2004, p168), gambling also become one of the leisure industries, such as visit a casino can be seen as a leisure activity. Also is different personal perspective with no doubt. Devereaux (1968) defined

SGMS has $8.1B of debt and $-1.7B of equity by 2016Q2, with a D/E ratio of -4.9x. The company recently named Kevin Sheehan, the former CEO and president of Norwegian Cruise Line (NCLH) as its new chief executive and president on Aug 5, 2016, the day of the quarterly conference call. Current CEO Gavin Isaacs will become vice chairman of the board. Kevin has a different background from the gaming industry but has experiences in dealing with high leverage. The big change of the management team shows

Economic Impacts of Legalized Gambling Class # & Title By Charles Conner Baltimore, Maryland December 6, 2005 Professor: Dr. Ira Sohn The Economic Impacts of Legalized Gambling Introduction The effect of gambling on the standard of living will be pronounced if the gambling activity is regressive, meaning that the rate of participation (as a percentage of income) declines as people earn higher incomes. In other words, if most gamblers are poor, then gambling is more likely to affect

Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) are online games where players build a lineup of athletes from a specific professional sport and earn points based on their in-game performance. Players are allotted a budget that they can spend on salaries for athletes to fill out their roster. Salaries for athletes vary based on factors such as skill level, quality of opponent, and injury concerns. The key to winning in DFS is to find players that outperform the value salary in order to help the team score more points