{"id":457,"date":"2008-02-28T05:20:19","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T10:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nesson\/2008\/02\/28\/re-casinos-and-games-in-education\/"},"modified":"2008-02-28T05:52:45","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T10:52:45","slug":"re-casinos-and-games-in-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/2008\/02\/28\/re-casinos-and-games-in-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: Casinos and games in education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>thank you pablo. i will forward you <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nesson\/2008\/02\/28\/patrick-online-gambling-ban-ill-fated\/\">an interesting story<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 6:02 PM, Pablo Baques  wrote:<\/p>\n<p>    Hello Charlie.<\/p>\n<p>    My name is Pablo Baqu\u00e9s and I shared with you lunch at Berkman today.<\/p>\n<p>    I am interested in the CASINO bill from several angles.<\/p>\n<p>    One. I live in Newport, RI, where we have a vociferous group that makes opposition to casinos about 60% of their daily activities.<\/p>\n<p>    Two.Like you, I see many possible favorable outcomes from the study of games. I have authored myself a program called The Necklaces (read about it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastbayri.com\/story\/284530464256049.php\">here<\/a>), which, although not strictly an &#8220;outcome&#8221; game does rely on imagination and creativity to &#8220;win&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>    Three, I am a history buff in my scarce spare time, and this struggle in Newport falls within my interest ( I love Newport, and would like to see it turn a little more liberal and less stuffy). And yes, I also want to learn more about these &#8220;earmarks&#8221;!<\/p>\n<p>    If I can find it, I would like to share with you a past edition (UNavailable on line, sorry&#8230;) of our very own Newport Daily News (www.newportdailynews.com) relating to a town meeting where the casiNO group expressed loudly their views&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>    Also, I wanted to thank you for making what seemed to have turned into a blank Tuesday at Berkman one of the most interesting and lively.<\/p>\n<p>    take care.<br \/>\n    pablo<\/p>\n<p>    &#8212;<br \/>\n    Pablo Baqu\u00e9s<br \/>\n    Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology, BOSTON<br \/>\n    Blog:  <a href=\"http:\/\/ben.bfit.edu\/blogs\/\">http:\/\/ben.bfit.edu\/blogs\/<\/a><br \/>\n    Skype name: pbaques<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\nwhen appropriate (in my judgment) to an open project and not sensitive (in my judgment) in terms of privacy, i may post email to my blog. all privacy requests respected. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>thank you pablo. i will forward you an interesting story On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 6:02 PM, Pablo Baques wrote: Hello Charlie. My name is Pablo Baqu\u00e9s and I shared with you lunch at Berkman today. I am interested in the CASINO bill from several angles. One. I live in Newport, RI, where we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2179,853],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-berkmania","category-lessig","p1","y2008","m02","d28","h00"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}