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Isle of Man News, Articles and InformationGamebookers Launches New Poker Room on the Microgaming Poker NetworkGamebookers (www.gamebookers.com), one of the world's largest betting sites today, announced the launch of its new poker platform. The poker room is live on the Microgaming Poker Network. With access to non-stop 24-hour action, daily tournaments and satellites to the best land-based tournaments around the world, Gamebookers players will now be able to hone their skills at the poker tables, while still taking advantage of Gamebookers' state-of-the-art online sportsbook. "Poker is an exciting addition to the market-leading Gamebookers betting and gaming portfolio. Online gaming, for us, is no longer 'just' about having the best sports betting platform in the market," said Gamebookers CEO John O Malia. "We have to ensure that we are offering the best of all possible available services to our loyal customers, and poker is the product that our customers were clamouring for most loudly after we launched our massively successful casino platform." Already boasting more than 240,000 users worldwide, Gamebookers expects to add significant player numbers through this latest addition, as the world's appetite for poker shows little sign of slowing down.NZ restored car may fetch euro 700,000A New Zealand-restored 1922 Sunbeam racing car may fetch up to euro700,000 at Christies auction in Paris this weekend.Auto Restorations in Christchurch restored the Sunbeam for British owner Tom Wheatcroft in the 1990s. The Sunbeam Motor Car Company successfully raced its Sunbeams in the Tourist Trophy races and won the 1912 Coupe de l'Auto event, added a first in the 1923 French Grand Prix, set numerous world records and held the world land speed record on five occasions. One of the cars was shipped to New Zealand in about 1926 where it too was raced on the beaches here by Matthew Wills and Bill Hamilton. In the early 1990s two Sunbeams were restored side by side by the Auto Restorations of Christchurch. The cars were stripped and the as near-correct components were placed on each chassis.
Royal travel costs £5.5mAccounts revealed yesterday that Prince Andrew clocked up £11,555 flying 300 miles from the Isle of Man to St Andrews, Scotland, last September.Prince Charles took a private flight from Wick in Scotland to Saudi Arabia for a state funeral last August, leaving the taxpayer a bill of £85,935. Princess Anne went to China, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia in September at a cost of £153,000. The Queens chartered flight with Prince Philip to the Commonwealth Games in Australia in March, set us back £279,039. In total the Royals spent £2.2million on helicopters and £2.4million on fixed wing flights. The Royal Train cost £600,000. Royal aides insisted the increased cost was justified by the number of official visits last year.
Harbor Master: The Rebirth Of a Classic Racing YachtLA SPEZIA, Italy -- It's 4 a.m. and Dutchman Johan van den Bruele is wide awake. He's been looking forward to this day for five years, ever since he first saw Lulworth in a Ligurian boatyard looking like a decomposed whale, but one with great bones. On this clear April morning, the classic racing yacht from the 1920s is shimmering in the water, and Mr. van den Bruele is going sailing. "It's fantastic," he says. "Especially after four and a half years in a shipyard."Mr. van den Bruele built his first boat, a small dinghy, at age 10 with ... .Deb PetersonON BROADWAY: Philip Melcher of Edwardsville has a special reason this year to keep his fingers crossed during the Tony Awards. His brother, Danny Burstein, plays Aldolpho in the musical "The Drowsy Chaperone," and has been nominated for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical. Melcher, a retired Green Beret, and Burstein are both NYC natives. Melcher married an E-ville woman (Madeleine Raymond) and moved to the Illinois community a couple of years ago. His brother has long traipsed the boards at the Muny, most recently last summer in "The Sound of Music." The reason for the different last names is that Danny took their stepfather's name while Melcher kept their father's. The Tony Awards will be broadcast Sunday on CBS.THE "BILL" BASH: Yes, that was Aaron Eckhart ("Thank You for Smoking," "Erin Brockovich" and others) you saw walking around town over the weekend (sightings included Companion Bakery on Sunday and the ballgame on Monday). The island saviour of lost souls who imported 'slaves' to do up his houseGOD chose Pieter Van Rooyen to lead the broken, the depressed, the rejected and the confused and save their souls for Christ. Or so the balding 46-year-old South African, a former financial adviser at Barclays bank, says.But He is unlikely to approve of this self-appointed shepherd who puts himself on a par with Noah, Moses and Abraham importing illegal immigrants from his native country and putting them to work renovating his Isle of Man home for £1.36 an hour. Van Rooyen and his Life Church, the evangelical ministry he founded in Douglas, the islands capital, face ruin after he appeared in a Manx court to admit charges of faking documents that allowed five South African workers to enter the country illegally. He insisted that his intention was to coach them in spiritual matters, but in reality, the court was told, they were set to work as cheap labour doing up his family home in Onchan.
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At a Glance
Weber County officials respond to mock earthquake emergency
MARRIOTT-SLATERVILLE -- The city council and mayor convened an "emergency" meeting Tuesday morning to respond to a mock earthquake.
While city and county leaders discussed how to respond to a 7.3-magnitude earthquake in Weber County, dozens of volunteer victims were outside the city offices with everything from fake bruises to fake disembowelments.
Emergency responders used a Utah Transit Authority bus and several Army Humvees to take the wounded to the Army Reserve's 328th Combat Support Hospital, currently set up for training in Business Depot Ogden.
Heroes and Villains: Bruno the bear and the £37m WindsorsNB: we know that there are far more worthy heroes than those listed here - doctors, nurses, aid workers, Franck Sauzee, etc. Similarly, murderers, rapists and dictators are indisputably far greater villains. This column does not deal with them. It is designed to honour those who have caused surprise by their actions. Hero: Bruno the bearHe was hit by a car and it came off worse. He shunned honey-laden bear traps. He eluded skilled hunters. He out-toughed Norwegian elk hounds. He ate his prey on the steps of a police station. .BBC Philharmonic Adds Froth with Pub Operas as Part of Week Long VisitThe Manchester based BBC Philharmonic will be serenading drinkers at the Haven Pub, Port Erin on Friday 7 July at 8pm when a quartet of their players accompany an impromptu opera called Stags, Hens and Inflatable Sheep. The comic mini opera is part of the world-class orchestras programme of community events during their week long residency on the Isle of Man. Jazz sessions, school visits and a climactic performance of the Carl Orffs epic work Carmina Burana with vocal accompaniment provided by the Choirs of the Isle Of Man, are all taking place. The visit starts on Monday 3rd, and culminates in two full concert performances with full orchestral forces and international soloists at Villa Marina on Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 July. For the pub opera four players from the BBC Phil will accompany soprano Susan Bissat and Barry Russell (baritone), who has written the bawdy performances.The C-Type from EnduroJoining the ranks of high-quality re-creation cars, made in the spirit of the originals but with modern materials and finish, is the C-Type from British manufacturer Enduro. Its true to the original shape of Jaguars early 50s Le Mans-winner, but a brief test proves it to be a surprisingly user-friendly car that can be driven on a fun day out or even in mild competition.Built in Coventry, the home of Jaguar, the Enduro is an all-metal two-seater designed and manufactured by a company with a wealth of knowledge of modern motor racing and CAD-CAM construction, yet retaining (with a little tweaking, see below) the glorious lines of the earlier car. It has a fabricated steel tubular chassis in the spirit of the original (but much stiffer) and the aluminium body is made in the same fashion as the Morgan Aero 8 or the latest aluminium cars from Jaguar and Audi. |
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