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High Hopes!!Reply
A text editor like WordPad or Notepad which come free with Windows can search a 200,000 words text document in seconds and will high light and stop each time it finds the string of characters you're looking for. I use WordPad all the time when I'm updating my old basic programs to find a strings of characters or code that I want to change and some of those programs have over 200 lines of code.If you're going to contract someone to write the program for you, give some thought to all the features
Nov 8, 2005, 12:40 pm - RJOh - Lottery Systems Forum

Scientific Games wrote parts of N.C. lottery lawNews Story
A company that hopes to land the multimillion-dollar contract to run North Carolina's gambling operation used a link to House Speaker Jim Black to have the new lottery law written to its liking.Alan Middleton, vice president of Scientific Games, wrote to Black's office, saying he wanted to write a law that excluded other companies. Middleton had an inside connection to the speaker's office, according to hundreds of pages of e-mail messages, memos and other documents released by Black's office Th
Oct 14, 2005, 9:57 am - Todd - Lottery News

GTECH may enter supreme court hearingsNews Story
A former Texas lottery official, who claimed that then-Gov. George W. Bush's desire to cover up his National Guard record helped steer decisions about a key lottery contract, said he wants to talk to senators about Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers' possible role in that effort. If I were to be subpoenaed to come to the thing, I would come, said Lawrence Littwin, who filed a lawsuit after he was fired as the lottery's executive director in 1997. I would say the committee, I think, would be i
Oct 5, 2005, 11:57 am - Todd - Lottery News

GTECH makes political donation days after gambling contract awardedReply
Ahh I love to hear about my home state making such headlines! Taking donations is NOT against any law that I see on the political books. Taking bribes to get a contract is! I doubt real highly that the donations *hurt* GTECh in getting the contract. But to assume that one hand washes the other is simply not in the scheme of PA politics. I mean afterall this is the same state that recently spent over 400k to send our PA Dept of ED people to California for an *offsite* conference!(that included g
Sep 22, 2005, 6:56 pm - TheGameGrl - Lottery News

Schwarzenegger to replace Calif. lottery directorReply
If Arnold calls me, I will decline. I wouldn't be able to play the lottery!!! I worked for 8 years for a company that had the security contract with the California State Lottery and I had to sign an agreement stating that I would not play the lottery while I worked for them!! I didn't even service the Lottery contract, but it didn't matter. The agreement listed a long list of family members that also could not play the lottery. It did not include in-laws, so my father-in-law played the lott
Jul 28, 2005, 2:40 pm - CalifDude - Lottery News

Wisconsin lawmakers vote down plan to privatize state LotteryReply
Quote: Originally posted by whodeani on April 21, 2005Its a good thing this got voted down. If it didn't, the govenor might have enterd into a no-bid contract for some outrageous amount to some big donor to his campaign to overtake lottery operations. Wouldn't be the first time this has happened. The state paid $700,000 to have a website designed for information about the reconstruction of the Marquette Interchange in Milwaukee. That too was a no-bid contract and only one bid was accepted. Todd
Apr 21, 2005, 7:59 pm - Badger - Lottery News

Wisconsin lawmakers vote down plan to privatize state LotteryReply
Its a good thing this got voted down. If it didn't, the govenor might have enterd into a no-bid contract for some outrageous amount to some big donor to his campaign to overtake lottery operations. Wouldn't be the first time this has happened. The state paid $700,000 to have a website designed for information about the reconstruction of the Marquette Interchange in Milwaukee. That too was a no-bid contract and only one bid was accepted. Todd would have done a great job of building that website
Apr 21, 2005, 3:15 pm - whodeani - Lottery News

Ohio lottery pool lawsuit focuses on time of purchaseReply
I used to do pool, but it was very informal. It was only when the jackpot got over a certain amount. Nothing ever happened, but something sure could have. The number of people in the pool would change from drawing to drawing. I can see from this story, that is a really stupid way to go. I remember reading on this site somewhere about a group of guys from Florida who had something like that happen, and the case is STILL not settled. The only way to do a pool is if it is the same people ever
Jan 17, 2005, 5:04 pm - iwillwin - Lottery News

Mass. lottery winner, 94, sues to get lump-sum paymentReply
I disagree,even if the property is hers she has entered into an agreement with all the appertaining terms and conditions. The lottery offered winnings by annuity, by her actions she accepted.If your landlord suddenly wanted a lump sum instead of monthly payments you would tell him where to go regardless of ownership. Neither could he seize back his property without breaching an agreement. The contract is paramount.Contract law will apply. Any ruling in her favour will also apply to other winners
Dec 30, 2004, 5:10 am - jazam - Lottery News

BBC to lose exclusive rights to show UK National Lottery drawsNews Story
The BBC is to lose exclusive television rights to the UK National Lottery because Camelot believes its games would be better promoted on rivals such as ITV and Channel Five.The lottery operator, which is believed to be negotiating with several commercial broadcasters, wants to overhaul television coverage in 2006 when the BBC's existing contract to show the draw comes up for renewal.The company would now prefer an arrangement whereby the draws of its seven games are shown across different channe
Nov 15, 2004, 9:13 am - Todd - Lottery News