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B here at Eat, Love, Nurse! Welcome Welcome. Do you know that I have had the idea for this blog since the first night at the hospital when my son was born… BACK in February 🙂 Talk about busy life as a Mama of 2, Wife and Full Time Labor and Delivery Nurse. I remember the night as if it was yesterday! I realized, I spend so much time on other people's blogs, why not start my own! So I took my idea to pinterest of course and did some research and thought what I wanted to talk about. And then it hit me, I ll talk about my adventures in Breastfeeding ( I was nursing my brand new baby boy at the time). Then I realized well, I am not going to be breastfeeding forever, so what else can I talk about… Ahh my adventures as a Labor Nurse ( once again I had just delivered at work with about 15 of my co-workers at my delivery) After that epiphany I realized well hello what about the Eating and CRAFT BEER loving part of my life?? And that my fellow bloggers is how I came up with EAT, LOVE, NURSE.
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Brokers who have no connection with a cargo, .as brokers to 'sell same, collect the amounts due,Jand pay the freight,· are notperBonally liable for the freight., .," . , . DuTY. 0 .. 011' FREIGHT.' . .' It Is the duty of a master'who has signed, under the provision of acharter, bills . of la<lini!'; the ·freight on.which llmounte(lto a greater &D;lOUnt than. the .charter freight, to accept the freight due undtlr the charter-party, when tendered, and to authorise the &Kents of the charterer to collect the· freight on the bills of lading.
ClU,BTEIUIBS' AGENTB-!.UBILITY FOR FREIGHT.
In Adiniralty. Libel by Baldasare Damora, master of, the bark Cuomo Primo, against JohnF.Craigand James 'Craig, trading as John F. Oraig& Co. The vessel was chartered to proceedtoSt.'Johntl Antigua,and take in a cargo ofsugar;thevessel to be oonsignedto charterers' agents'at port of discharge, and, being loadeil.,.to proceed to Delaware breakwater for orders. Master to sign bills of lading at any rate of freight required without prejudice to this at not less certain rates mentioned.The vessel arrived at the Breakwater, and received orders from Watson & Farr, the' charterers' agents, to The respondents, John F.'Craig & effected a sale of the whole cargo, as sugar brokers, to Spreckels, & qq., by order of said Watson & F;trr, and of the other cOllsigneesj and, agents, paid to the niaster.'s agent, $1 ,000 on account of charter freight, ,which, with advancesma4etQ the master at Antigua, including insurance, left a balance due unller the charter of $298.87, for which a bill Was presented by the master's agent. Resp lnd.. ents were. directed to paY,the amount of charter freight 'appeitring by to. ·,&t.1!'arr tq collect this the bl1111fIadmg (relghts, whl,ch to 'fhecap.tain refused to do so. Watson & Farr found that consignees of the rest of the. cargp were willipg to settle th.ebill:qf laqing freights with them without suchauthorizatWn,· and directed. respondE;lP:ls tQ '. pay the balanqe of the freight, as per bill rendered, which said mas1er's',agent refused to accept, and this suit was brought for 'the full amOunt', of the bill ofladjllg stated that they were authorized aud directed by Mei>l?fs. 'Watson & Farrto tender the chartet'freight due toth,E!vessel. John Q. Lane, for libelant. . " , '. Morton P. Henry, for respondents.
BUTLER, J. It seems quite clear that the respondents are not Hable. The cargo was shipped under a charter, between the vessel and Bennett & Co. Watson & Farr, were the latter's agents; they assumed charge of the cargo on its arrival at the Delaware breakwater, and ordered its delivery to Mr. Spreckels, at Philadelphia, to whom the respondents
JReported by Mark Wilks Collet, Esq., of the Philadelphia bar.
THll:BAY OF NA:PLES.
had sold it, as brokers for Watson & Farr. The respondents had no connection with it except as such brokers. Watson & Farr authorized thEmito sell, and pay freight, on their account. The suit against them cannot,therefore, be sustained. In view of what has been submitted it is prdper to say that the master's position respecting the bills of lading and collection of freight under them-beyond the sum named in the charter-is erroneous. He should have'accepted the balanoodue under the charter, as tendered,and surrendered the bills. That Watson &, Farr were the charterers' agents, is clear, and the evidence justifies a conclusion that the master knew it. When he reached the breakwater he took their orders and acted upon them. His subsequent conduct is dif.. ficult to understand. A.s the respondents (for Watson & Farr) have tendered; and now offer to pay into court, the balance due under the charter-$298.87-and both parties desire the business closed with the diR-' this case, a decree may be entered for thiS sum-$298.87with costs,to the respondents.
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(CirCW£t Oourt of Appeals, Second Of,rcUit. Decemj)er 14, 1891.)
Although the amount of salvageJl'ests in tluidiscretion of the court awarding it, an appellate cour1;may the if in making it there was l\clear and palpable mistake, or violatlOn of just princlples,or a departure from the path of au·i thority. 8.. BAKE-ExoESSIVlll.AwARD-EVIDBNOB. A vessel at anllhor in New York harbor, laden with petroleum in wooden cases, took fire, and, j)ut for the prompt services of tugs which came to her assistl1nce,' would have been totally destroyed in a tew moments. Tb,e saVing to the owners was ascertained to be $81,400, and $20,000 was awarded the tugs as sa1vage. The vessel was of iron, and iron rigged. The salvorsencotintered no peril to person or prop.; arty, and the of the f!xe required no extraordinary exertion on their part. that the award of salvage was excessive, and sl:iou'ld be reduced to 44 Fed. Rep. 90, reversed.
Appeal from the circuit court of the t United States for the eastern district of New York. . In Admiralty. Libel by John Han and others against the ship Bay of Naples for salvage. Deoree for libelants for $20,000, which was affirmed pro forma, on appeal to the circuit court. From the decree of the circuit court the claimant appeals. Reversed. WilhelmU8 Mynde:rse, for appellant. Edward G. Benedict, for the tug Charm. De Lagnel Berier, for the steam-boat John Sylvester. Oharles 0. Burlingham, for the tugs Leader, Indian, and Talisman. Joseph F. Mosher, for the tugs Geo. t. Garlick, M. Moran, and John T. Pratt, libelants and appellees. ' v.48F.no.9-47

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how big of a boat can u fit in a 40ft canal
Asked by: amy | 3.25am, Wednesday 13 May
The structures of a particular waterway dictate the maximum dimensions of boats that can pass, and these are published by the navigation authority.
For the narrow canal system this was famously laid down by James Brindley as 7ft wide by 70ft long, and the narrow boat was born.
There are however instances where a boat is launched into a section of canal that is too big to pass through the locks; the best case of this practise was on the Wolverhampton level of the BCN where Hampton boats were used that were 8 or 9ft wide and about 80 to 90ft long.
Rupert Smedley | 7.41PM, Wednesday 13 May
If you were referring to the 40ft drain which is part of the Middle Levels, the boat size is dictated by the bend at Whittlesey and Stanground Sluice; a wide boat 49ft long and 11.5 ft wide or a 70ft narrowboat.
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This particular stitch makes a really different fabric than most of the other washcloths I've done. It's a much flatter and tighter thing, kind of stiffer. I might do another one with this stitch for myself, I'm curious as to how the different texture affects it's scrubbiness.
The Stats...
Needles: 6's (4mm)
Yarn: Peaches & Creme - 165 Daisy Ombre (1.2 oz)
Pattern: Vogue Stitchionary v.1 #220 linen stitch, co 38, doesn't need selvage stitches
Sizing: 9" by 8.5"
Started: 12-7-2008
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Pilgrims' way
A pilgrim's way or pilgrim way is a standard route that pilgrims take when they go on a pilgrimage in order to reach their destination – usually a holy site or place of worship. These sites may be towns or cities of special significance such as Jerusalem, Rome, Santiago de Compostela, Lourdes or Einsiedeln, but may also be specific points in the countryside, such as a hill, spring, well, cave or shrine. On the route there are stations where pilgrims can stop and rest, where prayers may be said or religious services observed.
In the Middle Ages there were three main Christian pilgrimage sites: Jerusalem, Rome and Santiago de Compostela in Spain. The large pilgrimage sites were often the graves of important apostles. The most famous pilgrims' way today is the one to Santiago de Compostela in Spain, also known as the Way of St. James. Another very old pilgrim way, the Via Francigena, runs from Canterbury in England through France and Switzerland to Rome. These routes were also linked to Jerusalem via the Jerusalem Way. For example, individual sections may be viewed by as the Way of St. James, as well as a pilgrim way to another place. Together with the various approach paths, these main routes form a network of old pilgrim routes that cross the whole of Europe. Today there are St. James societies in almost all European countries that are dedicated to the research and maintenance of the Way of St. James. In Germany the historical pilgrim ways are researched by the German St. James Society (Deutsche St. Jakobus-Gesellschaft). In Switzerland this is carried out by the Union of the Friends of the Way of St. James (Vereinigung der Freunde des Jakobsweges).
Because Christians understand themselves to be always "on a journey", parish and diocesan development concepts are often described as pilgrimages or pilgrim ways. One well-known such example is the so-called Pilgrimage of Trust on Earth of the ecumenical Taizé Community. The Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Hanover has developed a project with the name "Loccum–Volkenroda Pilgrims' Way". In 1987 during the Olof Palme Peace March, on the instigation of the Action Reconciliation Service for Peace, a multi-day pilgrimage was made along a pilgrim way from Ravensbrück concentration camp to Sachsenhausen concentration camp. The route recalled the death marches of 1945.
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- Betz, Helmut; Waldau, Knut (2009), Der Erde nah – dem Himmel entgegen. Ein Pilgerführer für die Alpen (in German), München: Kösel-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-466-36849-5
- Kupčík, Ivan (1992), "Karten der Pilgerstrassen im Bereich der heutigen Schweiz und des angrenzenden Auslandes vom 13. bis zum 16. Jahrhundert", Cartographica Helvetica (in German), 6 (2), pp. 17–28
- Lienau, Detlef (2009), Sich fremd gehen. Warum Menschen pilgern (in German), Ostfildern: Matthias-Grünewald-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-7867-2757-6
- Störig, Mario, Ein sehr schön geschriebener Erfahrungsbericht von Mario Störig (in German)


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"I have a cataract developing in my right eye, and my ophthalmologist found a shadow during my eye exam," says Anne Burkart, who found out she had cancer in her left eye. "I was really fortunate that he sent me over to the UCLA Stein Eye Institute. It turned out I had a malignant tumor. I'm back for my three-and-a-half month checkup to see how effective (my radiation treatment) was. I commute from Orange County, and the traffic is pretty awful, so they do everything possible to get everything done in one day. I came in for my pre-operative consultation and saw the retinologist, the oncologist and the chemist who actually does the radioactive disc. They work really hard to make it easy for you. I would certainly recommend this place. The care is wonderful."
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What Is A Mommy Makeover?
After a woman gives birth her body changes shape, a Mommy Makeover in Chicago consists of a number of surgical procedures that reshape the body, bringing it back to its pre-pregnancy condition. A woman will often have deposits of fat on her waist and thighs; she may choose liposuction or an abdominoplasty to solve this. It is common for the new mother to lose volume in her breasts after breast feeding ceases; there are breast augmentation procedures that can restore the breast shape and size. A Mommy Makeover is a series of plastic surgeries that are designed to return a woman to her pre child birth appearance.
Liposuction is the treatment that is recommended for ridding the hips, waist and thighs of fat deposits. Liposuction is not a weight loss treatment and those with cellulite should not undergo this procedure as the skin may develop an irregularity post procedure. Liposuction for most women is an ideal procedure for improving certain parts of the body.
A tummy tuck or abdominoplasty is the procedure recommended for the restoration of abdominal muscles. During pregnancy the muscles can become separated, a tummy tuck is the procedure used during a typical Mommy Makeover in Chicago to tighten them. Due to fluctuations in weight a tummy tuck may have to be repeated if the woman becomes pregnant again. A tummy tuck is very successful in addressing problems with stretch marks in the abdominal region and loose, saggy skin above the pubic area.
A very common surgical procedure that is associated with a Mommy Makeover is breast augmentation. While a woman is pregnant the breasts enlarge, when the child is born and the breast mass decreases the tendency is for the breasts to sag. This can be quite noticeable in women who have elected to breast feed rather than bottle feed their baby. Breast augmentation, either a breast lift or a breast lift and breast implants will reshape the breasts, returning them to their original, youthful appearance.
Having breast implants does not stop a woman from nursing future children. Silicone implants rather than saline are considered the better choice; they are inserted under the pectoral muscles. The plastic surgeon has four choices where the implants can be inserted; through the navel, under the armpits, the crease under the breast or the nipple.
Once a woman is finished with her Mommy Makeover in Chicago she rapidly reestablishes the pride she once had in her body.
If you have had a child your body will not be the same as it was prior to your pregnancy. For a Mommy Makeover in Chicago you are invited to contact Chicagoland Aesthetics, Plastic Surgery and Medi Spa.


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Trade knowledge team can help merchants thrive
Published: 21 February, 2012
SURREY: Trade Chambers, the Esher-based firm, is billed as 'business consultancy without the guesswork'. It is a partnership of construction industry trade professionals who can offer merchants advice from bringing new products to market to training new directors; from creating and managing merchandising to offering advice on management buy-outs.
The key is that it is all from one single point of contact with the experience to sort 'the wheat from the chaff'," said Andrew Weiss, the company's managing director.
"Trade Chambers has gathered several lifetimes' experience in solving companies' problems into one easy-to-access service," Mr Weiss explained.
"We aim to offer specialist advice from established experts in your industry, all under one bannerso that it will be faster to find the right service. It easier to establish a brief, simpler to understand costs."
Trade Chambers offers business diagnostics, people development and mentoring, creative design, supply chain management, retail services, advertising and public relations, interim management and more, "all from people who have been there before," he said.
Andrew Weiss founded Weiss Marketing in 2010 following 35 years in the building products sector. His background has been in sales and marketing and he has held a number of senior management roles within the industry. He has successfully managed business in all three major elements of our sector, in manufacturing with Spur Shelving, in importing and distribution with Pan Products and in merchanting and retailing with Isaac Lord.
Mark Alexander has been in sales since 1983 when he joined Burton's Biscuits as a trainee. Following four years at Philip Morris (Marlboro), he joined Curver Consumer Products in 1991, moving from regional sales manager to general sales manager over five years, before becoming consumer division sales director at Yale Security Products in 1996.
In 1998, he moved to Ostendorf UK, supplier of B&Q's own label paint, launching B&Q Colours in 1998 and increasing turnover four-fold until leaving in 2001 to start his own retail services business.
Jamie Johnson has 35 years' width and depth of experience in sales management and account management. Mr Johnson's success in 'training' is due to combining a rigorous diagnostic with creative course design and an inclusive style of delivery. The focus is on the impact the 'training' has on improving individual, group and team performance, aligned to the business objectives.
Tim Hubbard has over 20 years of client-side experience with major multi-national manufacturers. He is experienced in building sales through major pan European retailers, UK-based builders' merchant groups and architectural ironmongers. He has 10 years of agency experience dealing with major global brands in all areas of the marketing mix from planning through to implementation.
Chris Pateman, former managing director of the Builders' Merchants Federation offers 30 years of experience serving the hardware and building materials industries as a journalist on Hardware Trade Journal and Builders' Merchants Journal. He was a business facilitator with United Merchants and advocate to government with the BMF. He has a special interest in branding, marketing, public relations and cost/incentive supply chain dynamics.


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Dodge Rose by Jack Cox
The circumstances around the publication of Dodge Rose, Jack Cox's début novel, have attracted considerable attention in Australian literary circles. A choice publicity tale as to how the novel was rescued from the slush pile by American publisher Dalkey Archive Press has contributed to this. So have claims advanced by Dalkey Archive that Dodge Rose is 'the most astonishing début of the decade', comparable with Samuel Beckett, William Gaddis, and Henry Green. Unusual too is the fact this high modernist 'anti-novel' by a young Australian author found a US publisher before an Australian one. Catriona Menzies-Pike, in the Sydney Review of Books, wrote a fascinating editorial on the pre-release buzz earlier this year.
But what of the book itself? Is it the most astonishing début of the decade? This depends on how much pleasure one derives from puzzling over difficult sentences, from marvelling at the beauty of certain arrangements of words, from the occasional startling image, and from the atmosphere all this creates. Ultimately, it rests on how much these features compensate for the loss in clarity and characterisation they entail.
There is certainly much fun to be had. Here is Maxine, the narrator of the first half of the novel, describing the phone ringing: 'The phone was ringing out the cankered traces of its own preterite neglect, its fast ablating corrugations as it were wavering over the derelict living room like the fading echo of an apocalypse that had not come to everybody after all.'
It is 1982. Dodge Rose has died, and Maxine remains in the flat in Potts Point, which she has shared with Dodge her whole life, as far as she can remember. Dodge's niece, Eliza, has arrived from her remote farm to execute her estate. The two of them, who know little of the reality of Dodge's affairs, embark on a concerted, unsentimental effort to sell everything they can. In what at times resembles a bureaucratic farce, they consult various government departments and lawyers to ascertain who in fact owns the flat, and haul a possibly valuable antique bookshelf across Sydney Harbour. This narrative thread, as relatively realistic as it may sound, is disrupted and undermined through various means. You are on shifting sands here: tense, register, and perspective are apt to change at any moment. One lawyer's litany on the subject of property law in the New South Wales since the establishment of the colony runs for fourteen pages. It is one unpunctuated paragraph of largely unintelligible legalese.
This lawyer's diatribe is a good example of both the experimental nature of this novel and the trouble it gets itself into as a result. Through an extended, increasingly incoherent tangle of legalese Cox effectively uses form to mirror content. But by giving language games precedence over making sense he also undermines what might have been a very interesting exploration of the convoluted history of property law in Australia. Being uninterested in narrative clarity is fine if what you replace it with is just as fascinating as your putative subject, but what is lost in Cox's enthusiasm for experimenting with language and form doesn't always feel worth it.
The second half of the novel brings a happy change, a stream-of-consciousness narrative written from the perspective of Dodge as a young woman in the interwar years. We follow her as she explores Sydney's department stores, the glittering palaces of consumption that they were then. These sections of fairly stable first-person narrative are full of rich sensual detail. Again Cox isn't interested in keeping it up. This time the narrative slips into incoherence gradually but much more radically. At first the occasional misplaced preposition or conjunction appears in otherwise coherent sentences before language dissolves completely into seemingly random arrangements of letters. What we are left with is four pages of constructions like this: 'osjlddp pmlms lj oooqoq.'
Fragmented prose, unreliable narrators, metafictional jokes, page-long lists, information dumps in specialist terminologies, the wedding of high and low registers, the use of photographs, the shedding of punctuation, paragraphs that run for several pages – all of these are familiar tropes of experimental fiction. Not that this matters, if we are being told a story we haven't heard before. In Dodge Rose, the story we haven't been told before is sacrificed to make room for the word play.
What you will remember of this novel is not the characters – there is not enough of Dodge, Max, or Eliza to make them memorable – but the language, the playfulness, the fourteen-page, single-paragraph litany on property law that is impossible to follow. There is fun to be had with this, but Dodge Rose is a flawed novel. The threads that are so promising – the story of these people, the themes of ownership, memory, and nationhood that it raises – are left undeveloped. They are buried under a mountain of verbiage.


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The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University invites applications for tenured or tenure track positions at the assistant, associate and full professor levels. Purdue University seeks to attract exceptional candidates with interests and expertise in machine learning, artificial intelligence, computer vision, robotics, natural language processing, computational neuroscience, learning for control, signal processing, and other data science-related methodologies. Successful candidates must hold a Ph.D. degree in computer science, electrical and computer engineering, statistics or a related discipline and demonstrate excellent potential to build an independent research program at the forefront of their field, as well as potential to educate and mentor students. The successful candidates will conduct original research, advise graduate students, teach undergraduate and graduate-level courses, and perform service both at the School and University levels. Candidates with experience working with diverse groups of students, faculty, and staff and the ability to contribute to an inclusive climate are particularly encouraged to apply.
The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University is proud of its leading research groups in computer architecture, dependable computing, haptics, internet systems, machine learning, planning and reasoning, programming languages, computer vision, robotics, control, signal processing, communications and networking. The School hosts several nationally leading research centers including the Center for Brain-Inspired Computing (C-BRIC) and the Center for Programming Principles and Software Systems (PURPL).
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From the fine folks at the Philly.net User Group:
Philly.net is planning three Code Camp events in 2008. They will be spaced four months apart with the first on January 12. We have a new venue at DeVry University and hope to get 400 attendees. We are looking for speakers to fill 48 sessions. You are encouraged to submit one or two talks on any .NET related topic (this includes SQL, SharePoint, BizTalk and other servers). There will be 8 concurrent tracks with 6 eighty minute talks. Here is a tentative schedule:
If you would like to speak on January 12, please send an email to Bill Wolff with a session title, topic description, and bio. We will add these to the web site and the email announcement that goes out to 3,000+. If you prefer a specific session time, let me know. We will try and accommodate as the schedule permits.
Since there are only 48 sessions, we would like to limit each speaker to one really good talk. We have events planned every four months so you can do different talks at each Code Camp to keep things interesting. We would also like to see one novice/beginners level session in each track. Here are the tracks and track leaders:
Tools (includes VS, languages) - Travis LaBorde, Mark Magliocco
Clients (web, smart client, silverlight, wpf) - Andy Schwam, Bill Wolff
Framework (wcf, wf, linq) - Marc Ziss, Steve Andrews
Alt.net - Brian Donahue
Architecture - Mitch Ruebush
SharePoint/OBA - David Mann
SQL Admin - Sharon Dooley, Chuck Urwiler
SQL Dev/BI - Vince Napoli, Dan Hartshorn
Remember, this is a CODE CAMP. You don't need polished slides, just some interesting code or applications that developers might enjoy and learn from!
Bill's promised to send me the attendee link soon...I will post it as soon as I have it.


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text: Share: Comments Print December 22, 2008 at 5:10 PM Schmetzer named top assistant Posted by Jose Romero Coach Sigi Schmid has brought former USL Sounders coach Brian Schmetzer on board as his top assistant, Schmid announced in a statement from the team today. Brief details here. Here's the announcement: RENTON, WASH. – Brian Schmetzer has been named the top assistant coach for the Seattle Sounders FC staff, head coach Sigi Schmid announced today. Schmetzer, 46, joins Sounders FC following seven seasons as the head coach of the Sounders' United Soccer Leagues First Division club. He guided Seattle to USL-1 championships in 2005 and 2007, and U.S. Open Cup semifinal advancements in 2007 and 2008. "I'm excited to work with Brian," said Schmid, who became head coach Dec. 16. "He brings great knowledge of the Seattle area, the history of the USL-1 Sounders, and a wealth of coaching experience. That, coupled with his past playing experience, makes him the ideal assistant coach." Schmetzer has nine years of experience coaching and 15 years of playing at the professional level. He was a member of six championship teams during that span. "Having been born and raised in Seattle, and having lived most of my life here, I love this city and I couldn't have scripted a more perfect career path," said Schmetzer. "I feel lucky, first to have been chosen to coach the USL Sounders, then to be considered along with Sigi and some other outstanding candidates for the MLS head coaching job. Now, I'm working with a great coach in Sigi, in my home city for what is rapidly becoming the best club in the business. It seems everything is falling into place." As coach of the USL-1 Sounders from 2002-08, Schmetzer's teams also twice won the Commissioner's Cup for the league's best record and qualified for the playoffs six of seven years. He was chosen USL-1 Coach of the Year in 2002 after going 23-1-4. The Sounders were league runners-up in 2004. His overall regular season record was 100-54-44. Previously, he had served two seasons (1996-97) as an assistant coach for the Seattle SeaDogs, winning the Continental Indoor Soccer League title with Seattle in 1997. "Having worked with Brian for seven years, I can't imagine a better representative of what Sounders soccer means," said general manager Adrian Hanauer. "He has a combination of passion, competitiveness, experience and a mind for the game. I have never met anyone who hates losing as much as Brian, and that mentality has consistently driven his teams to succeed. I couldn't be happier that he's going to continue having a key role for Sounders FC." A Seattle native, Schmetzer signed with the Sounders' North American Soccer League franchise following his graduation from Nathan Hale High School in 1980. He played three seasons as a midfielder for Seattle before going to Tulsa for the final NASL season in 1984. Schmetzer signed with the San Diego Sockers in 1984 and played seven seasons in the Major Indoor Soccer League with San Diego (1984-88), Tacoma (1988-90) and St. Louis (1990-91). He was a member of the Sockers' MISL championship teams in 1985, 1986 and 1988. He returned to Seattle for the Sounders' inaugural A-League season in 1994 before completing his playing career with the SeaDogs from 1995-96. In 1985, Schmetzer played on loan to FC Seattle, scoring twice in a 2-1 friendly win over Brazil's Santos. While with Tacoma and FC Seattle, Schmetzer's teammates included younger brothers Andy and Walter. Sounders FC will open training camp January 21. The Major League Soccer season opener is March 19 against the New York Red Bulls at Qwest Field. Schmetzer's Head Coaching Career: Year Record Reg. Seas. Playoffs U.S. Open Cup 2002 Seattle Sounders USL 23-1-4 1st Div. 2nd rnd. 3rd rnd. 2003 Seattle Sounders USL 16-7-5 1st Div. 2nd rnd. Quarterfinal 2004 Seattle Sounders USL 13-11-4 4th Div. Runners-up DNQ 2005 Seattle Sounders USL 11-6-11 4th Div. Champions 3rd rnd. 2006 Seattle Sounders USL 11-13-4 7th Div. 3rd rnd. 2007 Seattle Sounders USL 16-6-6 1st Div. Champions Semifinal 2008 Seattle Sounders USL 10-10-10 6th Div. 1st rnd. Semifinal Totals 100-54-44 Comments


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Haunted places have now become a sensation for all. People visit Scariest places for fun, irrespective of the fact that they would return or not! Whenever someone gets an eerie feeling about a place, it is named as a haunted place. So based upon these ideas, there are various terrifying places still present on the planet.
So in this article, I an going to list some terrifying places present where maybe you shouldn't visit it come across. Not at all! Last time it was about India and this time, some bigger!
Here they are –
This enormous and famous hotel situated at Estes Park, Colorado, USA makes to the list. It is so paranormal that a Hollywood film has been made on it, The Shining in 1980. People living in the second floor reportedly claim seeing two twin children playing in the hallway and warning people not to come near them. But the most intensifying incident in the ballroom, when a person entered into the room and saw a grand party organized there with a lot if purple, but the hotel manager ultimately told him that the room had been empty for years! Weird, isn't it? Reports also bison people hearing the piano in the bell room even when none was there.
The castle present in Edinburgh, Scotland is one if the famous but most haunted places in Scotland. People have claimed to have seen spirits of the dead prisoners from the American Revolutionary War and French war. But the most rumored ghost is the spirit of a Piper who is seen going to explore the underground tunnels and then never come back. The sound of music playing can also be heard from inside the castle too.
If you want to start research on ghosts and paranormal activities, then this is the best place to start. The catacombs are full of, or should I say made up of the bones if nearly 6 million people. Visitors have claimed of seeing a woman running with a Mashal of fire in her hand. With that much deaths and creepiness, hire cab a place not is haunted?
A RMS Queen Mary was once a prominent ocean liner in the North Atlantic Ocean, is now said to be a place of disturbed souls and spirits since it WS docked permanently in California following an accident. There are three most haunted places, first being the Engine Room that is haunted by a sailor who died trying to escape a fire accident, and second being a sailor room haunted by a murder victim but the most horrifying being the spirit of a small girl in the pool area who died due to drowning. Isn't it enough? For more details, watch the Hollywood film Most Haunted (2002).
USA and California have a lot of them, right? This one is called the Ghost Island by many. There are numerous sightings of three ghosts in the utility area, who were killed during a failed escape. One of the most haunted places is Cell No. 14 D, where a prisoner once shouted that he was being killed by a mysterious creature having glowing eyes, but no one listened. Next day he was found dead. A risk of three films have been made on this Prison, Ghost Lab (2009), California's Most Haunted (2003) and Escape from Alcatraz (1979). Go watch these!
The village of Borley in Essex, England is not a place to be considered as haunted, but The Rectory present there is considered to be the most haunted house in the whole of England. Reportedly a monk and a nun we liked brutally in the rectory after their affair was leaked. It is said that the spirit of the nun haunts the place, with visitors hearing ringing of bells, windows breaking and furniture being smashed at night when no one was there. Watch Britain's Greatest Haunts (2011) for more details.
Yeah, one more from the USA. This plantation is said to be built on a former Indian burial ground and is rumored to be the home of 12 ghosts, with the most notorious being Lowy, a former slave. She was killed and thrown in the Mississippi River when she killed her owner and his wife by poisoning them. Since then, her ghost is said to be haunting the place. And she can show up anytime, anywhere and to anybody. So loving!
Yes, USA once more. This sanatorium was built in the early 90s to treat patients but soon became a murder house without anyone's knowledge. It is rumored that over 60 thousand people were killed in the hospital, with most of them being thrown into a secret tunnel to prevent other patients and people from knowing. Reportedly Room No. 502 is the most haunted place, where the spirit of a nurse is present who committed suicide because of some unknown reasons.
Really, USA has got a lot of them. This prison was once a home of some of the most notorious gangs of that time, and it was open for consecutively 142 years. But, the prisoners are said to be going insane because of the extreme conditions of the prison and the isolation. Reports claim of a shadow being seen in Cell No. 12 and spirits of inmates running here and there more often in cell block 4. The most rumored ghost is of a prisoner in charge who was murdered and thrown down a tower by some prisoners.
If there is a place that should be called HAUNTED, then this is it. The place which has been a house of numerous murders and executions for over a thousand years can be haunted for sure. It is said to be the house of hundreds of ghosts, with the most famous being the ghost of Anne Boleyn, who was beheaded on Tower Green in 1536 on orders from her husband Henry VIII after giving birth to a stillborn son. Visitors claim of seeing her ghost roaming everywhere caring her own head in her hand, scaring people out of their hell. Visit yourself for the personal experience!
So these were some of the best ghostly places in the world. In my following articles, I will be listing some really horrifying places in the USA. Till then, stay tuned!
Must Read: TOP 7 SCARIEST HAUNTED PLACES In India You Should Avoid ( OR VISIT! )


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Legislating for game integrity as U.S. states legalize sports betting
Published 06 September 2019 By: Jodi Balsam
With its May 2018 decision in Murphy v. NCAA,1 the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the federal Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) that prohibited states from allowing sports betting.2 The ruling did not legalize sports gambling, but allowed states to do so within their own borders, if they comply with other existing federal laws.
In Murphy's aftermath, the 50 states began considering whether to permit sports betting and if so, how to regulate it. From the date of the Murphy decision through August 2019, thirteen states have enacted legal sports betting, seven more jurisdictions have passed legislation that is pending launch, and over 20 more have introduced sports gambling bills.3 One thing these legislative efforts have in common is that they do not adequately address the game integrity concerns flagged by the sports leagues and other entities that create the contests on which bets are being placed.4 Rather, the legislative texts have largely sidestepped the increased risk of match-fixing and in-play manipulation associated with expanded sports betting. This article explores the budding threat to the honesty of U.S. athletic competitions and possible approaches to addressing it.
The Growing Threat of Game Manipulation and Existing U.S. Mechanisms to Detect and Deter It
What has prompted the collective shrug at U.S. statehouses? Not a dearth of confirmed incidents of betting-related corruption of athletic competitions.5 Especially where sports betting has long been legal—namely most of Europe and Australia—corruption in sports appears to be accelerating.6 FederBet, the international non-profit organization that advocates for operators and consumers in the gaming sector, estimates that match-fixing in European sports "now exceeds 1,000 matches per year."7 Match-fixing has been described as "a pandemic that is truly transnational in scope, being driven by advances in technology and sports betting, and attracts the attention of high-level sophisticated organised global crime networks that affect not just sport but society at large."8 The Interpol-International Olympic Committee's Handbook on Protecting Sport from Competition Manipulation pointedly observes, "the threats that undermine the integrity of sport and athletes do not stop at national borders."9
Legalization of sports betting in America will inevitably attract the attention of the world's largest wagering markets and the opportunists seeking to manipulate athletic contests for betting purposes.10 Authorities on sports betting and integrity conclude that "the North American environment is ripe for would-be match-fixers."11
Statehouse complacency about game integrity risks seems to reflect a misguided belief that the relative rarity of match-fixing scandals in the U.S. means our games are generally honest and will stay that way. Especially in professional sports, player salaries are thought to be sufficiently rich to remove any incentive to cheat for financial gain. However, by the same logic, vulnerability to corruption exists among less elite players, lower levels of a sport, and unpaid college athletes, a uniquely American and hugely popular sports phenomenon.12
On the plus side, legalized and regulated sports gambling will provide access to data that offer U.S. sports a new opportunity to detect, deter, and punish game integrity violations.13 But this requires a robust legal regime. At the moment, with the invalidation of PASPA, the only federal law the criminalizes game manipulation is federal Sports Bribery Act, which makes it a felony to "influence … by bribery any sporting contest."14 However, that statute does not cover non-bribery situations where other means are used to corrupt athletic contests, such as extortion, blackmail, and duress.15 Nor does the federal statute address tipping of confidential information or "lone-wolf" betting on games by a sports participant who has the ability to affect outcomes.16
The tactics and patterns of betting-related game manipulation are well-known. Fixers engage in a cost-benefit analysis that prioritizes avoiding detection. They groom vulnerable targets or exploit some existing or created trouble.17 A recurring opening for fixers is the U.S. has been the discovery that an athlete or game official is violating a league prohibition on betting on sports. Risk of exposure is sufficient to coerce the target into greater corrupt conduct.18 In college athletics, the student bookie who accepts such forbidden bets becomes a "valuable asset" to the gambling syndicate that financially backs the campus sportsbook, because that student can approach his athlete classmates about a fix without spooking them.19 Once a target is on board, the fixer will start small, with a first manipulation that requires merely tipping confidential information or a minor alteration of the athlete's performance. After the target has agreed to and performed even a single corrupt act, he or she is trapped and enslaved to the fixer.20
These patterns are discernable in the ten reported prosecutions of gambling-related point-shaving in U.S. college basketball. All significantly implicating student athletes at (in reverse chronological order): Auburn University,21 University of San Diego (USD),22 University of Toledo,23 Northwestern University,24 Arizona State University (ASU),25 Tulane University,26 Boston College,27 the Molinas scheme involving 27 schools,28 a New York-based scheme involving seven schools,29 and Brooklyn College.30
Case in point: the ASU point-shaving episode had its origins in the sports betting losses of its star player Stevin Smith. Smith's bookie, a fellow student, exploited this self-inflicted wound by extending Smith credit until he was thousands of dollars in debt. The bookie then offered to wipe out the debt if Smith agreed to shave points in games.31 In the Boston College scandal, two small-time gamblers cultivated high school friend Rick Kuhn who was nearing the end of his college playing career with no other prospect of monetizing his basketball talent. At their urging, Kuhn attempted to recruit two reluctant teammates to a point-shaving scheme. After a meeting with the mobsters who threatened physical violence, the teammates accepted small amounts of cash to escape the encounter (and later claimed they never actually shaved points).32
Brandon Johnson, on the other hand, was a stand-out player at the University of San Diego with a professional career in his sights, when his girlfriend gave birth to his son and he suffered a season-ending injury. He found a sympathetic ear in T.J. Brown, a former USD assistant coach with a gambling problem, who was betting over $5,000 a week on college basketball. Johnson's anxiety about supporting his son led him first to accept a cash "gift" from Brown for tipping inside information about the team. The next season when Johnson returned to play for USD, he agreed to point shave in return for a cut of Brown's winning bets. After leaving college to play for a National Basketball Association developmental team, Johnson even attempted to recruit a current USD player to continue the scheme.33
Notable is how little money it took to induce college athletes to fix games. USD's Johnson reaped about $1,000 for each game he manipulated.34 In the University of Toledo affair, affecting the 2004-06 football and basketball seasons, players received as little as $500 to shave points.35 Two Northwestern basketball players collected a total of $4,000 to fix the outcomes of three games during the 1994-95 season.36 ASU's Smith acknowledged that "I'd ruined my future for less cash than I would have made my first week in the NBA."37
The federal law enforcement response to college basketball point-shaving, as well as to episodes of illegal sports gambling, has largely been reactive. In most cases law enforcement agencies were not seeking out sports gambling corruption. Rather, they happened upon it while investigating organized crime,38 were tipped by Las Vegas oddsmakers,39 or received information that athletes were betting on games.40 To this point, it has been reported that the FBI "stopped actively creating leads for [match-fixing] investigations in the mid-1980s."41
All told, in over 55 years, the U.S. Sports Bribery Act has generated only 17 publicized prosecutions: seven involving college athletics, two involving professional boxing, seven involving horse-racing, and one involving ice dancing at the 2002 Winter Olympics.42 Only six other reported decisions discuss the Act in any substantive way. No U.S. prosecution under the Act has uncovered corruption of a major professional team sports league game.43 The prosecution of Tim Donaghy, the NBA referee who gambled on basketball games, including ones he officiated, could not rely on the Act because he was not bribed. Donaghy was convicted of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and to transmit wagering information based on using his access to inside information to collude with gamblers to "pick winners" in point-spread betting.44
Sports Governing Bodies and Gambling-Relating Corruption
Of course, athletes and other sports participants have always faced private law sanctions for misconduct, including explicit league bans on wagering on their sport, cheating at or manipulating an athletic contest, and engaging in any criminal activity, including illegal gambling. All the major U.S. sports leagues ban betting on their own sports and related conduct detrimental to the game.45 Major League Baseball's Rule 21 imposes a one-year ban on players and other personnel who bet on a baseball game where they have "no duty to perform," and a lifetime ban for betting on a game where they do have "a duty to perform."46 The National Basketball Association Constitution empowers the Commissioner to fine, suspend, or expel any player or employee who bets on the outcome of any game in any league that the NBA operates.47
The National Football League's Gambling Policy for all league personnel prohibits betting on any NFL game or event, as well as on any other professional, college, or amateur sports competition worldwide, with penalties up to and including lifetime banishment.48 In both the National Hockey League and Major League Soccer, the ban on betting on league games is inferred from the Commissioner's authority to discipline players and other personnel for conduct that is detrimental to the league.49
The National Collegiate Athletic Association, recognizing its unpaid student-athletes' special vulnerability, bans all wagering and acknowledges gambling as "the most serious threat facing intercollegiate athletics."50 The organization has conducted periodic studies of trends in student-athlete gambling to assess the threat.51 According to the most recent study, conducted in 2016, 55 percent of male athletes report that they have gambled for money, and 24 percent report that they specifically gambled on sports.52 Significantly, this study concludes, "[i]t is difficult, if not impossible, to get a true gauge of illegal match fixing/point shaving behavior among student-athletes from these surveys," and that "contest fairness" is at risk "given the deepening normative nature of gambling and sports wagering in our society."53
Some question whether legal sports betting will increase the likelihood of sports participants defying the league bans described above. However, any expansion in legal betting is likely to increase the number of athletes who gamble, to the extent their leagues no longer ban that activity (most leagues don't ban betting on other sports). And that is likely to increase the number of athletes who struggle with problem gambling—a vulnerability that corrupt actors may seek to exploit. A survey of gambling among 350 U.K. footballers and cricketers found that 6% satisfied the criteria to be labeled "problem gamblers"—more than three times the rate in the general population.54 A 2015 ESPN survey of pro athletes found that 37% believe a current or former teammate has a gambling problem, and 41% believe that legal sports betting would challenge their sports' integrity.55
As legal sports betting unfolds across the U.S., the sports leagues are revisiting and strengthening their gambling policies, and expanding their monitoring and enforcement apparatus. But despite their firm stance against participant wagering and cheating, none of these private parties is fully equipped to protect the games, as all lack governmental powers to investigate, and compel the production of evidence and testimony.56 Note that as organized crime becomes increasingly sophisticated in manipulating sports results, "sports betting investigations can be complex and resource intensive," requiring multi-layered and often international law enforcement collaboration.57
Furthermore, whether these private betting bans on sports insiders and the risk of league discipline adequately deter gambling-related fraud is debatable.58 While sports league bans function to educate and raise awareness among their personnel, the enforcement rate is "extremely low" and the bans do not cover non-league personnel or criminal organizations.59 Enforcement against covered individuals is hampered by the fact that sportsbooks are best situated to detect when a sports insider violates a betting ban, but only a public agency can compel the operator to report that non-compliance. Even where sports betting is legal, a sportsbook that reports a violation of a betting ban risks regulatory consequences.60 The path of least resistance may be for the sportsbook to simply refuse payment of winnings or cancel the insider's bet, as that individual is unlikely to complain. In any event, sports league betting bans can easily be bypassed by proxy wagers placed by a relative or friend.61
Nor can we expect that leagues will be chastened by their prior sports gambling crises to actively enforce betting bans.62 Anita Moorman describes the three phases of the "common evolution" of professional sports leagues who have endured gambling scandals: (1) a scandal awakens the league to the integrity threat that gambling poses; (2) the league prohibits everything related to gambling for a period of time; and (3) the league capitulates to societal acceptance of gambling and partners with gambling enterprises.63 This final phase has arrived for most American sports leagues as more states enact legal sports gambling and the leagues feel the pressure to pursue new revenue streams. Their expanding commercial partnerships with casinos and sportsbooks will undermine their credibility in insisting on wagering purity from their players and other personnel.64
Furthermore, leagues are inherently conflicted when confronted with integrity threats and "may want to cover up or downplay incidents of corruption or cheating for fear that transparency may bring fan rebuke."65 That impulse may explain why most people have never heard of the NBA's precursor to the Tim Donaghy scandal. Art Manteris, Las Vegas sportsbook operator and NBA consultant, describes in his memoir how in the 1970s bookmakers tracked an unusually successful bettor on NBA games, ultimately linking the wagers to a specific referee. After reporting their findings to the NBA, the referee was let go, but nothing further was announced; no formal league discipline or government investigation ensued.66 Declan Hill reports that European match-fixing investigations are 20 times more likely to be initiated by law enforcement than sports governing bodies, which typically have resisted cooperating with investigations and "closed ranks" to avoid publicly admitting that the corruption exists.67
The NFL's "Deflategate" controversy similarly illustrates how sports leagues might hedge in dealing with corrupt actors. For cheating in a 2015 NFL game (by tampering with footballs), the New England Patriots lost two draft picks, paid $1 million in fines, and saw their star quarterback Tom Brady suspended for four games. But Brady returned to play along with his $20 million/year salary, and the team went on to win two more championships with him at the helm.68 In other words, cheaters continue to play and succeed if they are talented enough. Thus, even the players unions for the five major professional sports leagues are lobbying states to incorporate game integrity protections in their sports gambling legislation.69 As observed in the NFL's testimony to Congress on the issue of sports betting after PASPA: "sports leagues and state governments alone will not be able to fully protect the integrity of sporting contests."70
Post-PASPA State Legislation Legalizing Sports Gambling
Against this backdrop, one would expect some attention to the integrity of athletic competitions in the new state laws enabling sports gambling. Of course, the risk of gambling-related corruption is present whether sports wagering is legal or not. Indeed, many argue that legalized and regulated sports gambling offers advantages in protecting game integrity because it brings transparency and oversight.71 Especially in the digital era, taking gambling out of the black market provides access to data to track customers' activity and identify betting anomalies that suggest possible corruption. However, legal betting means expanded betting and increasingly globalized betting markets in a digital world where geographic distance is no longer an impediment to corrupt influence on athletic contests. Legalization of sports betting in America will inevitably attract the attention of opportunists seeking to manipulate athletic contests for betting purposes.72
The new state laws appear to discount the game integrity risk, and primarily focus on the integrity of betting, with detailed licensure and reporting requirements.73 Most states are following the Nevada model and empowering existing regulatory bodies to oversee sports gambling rather than creating oversight boards specific to this one category of wagers. None, for example, has defined new criminal offenses specific to game manipulation.74
Instead, the principal way that some of the 20 legal-sports-gambling jurisdictions acknowledge game integrity issues is by requiring sportsbook operators to monitor and report suspicious activities and betting anomalies that suggest match-fixing or a bettor's access to inside information with competitive significance.75 Beyond that, the risk of sports corruption is implicitly acknowledged in the statutes' attempts to narrow opportunities for corruption by restricting who may bet, on what type of contests, and in what amounts.
The most common of these restrictions bars the usual sports insiders from betting on games in their sport.76 For example, New Jersey prohibits wagering by "[a]ny person who is an athlete, coach, referee, or director of a sports governing body or any of its member teams . . . in or on any sports event overseen by that person's sports governing body," and also prohibits betting on behalf of another.77 This provision aims to reduce the corruption risk from a range of scenarios including insider trading on confidential information, lone-wolf and multi-party game manipulation, and proxy betting.
Some states also restrict types of wagers, ostensibly to protect athletic competitions that might be more vulnerable to game manipulation. Thus, New York does not allow betting on any event involving an in-state college team, wherever the game is played, acknowledging that unpaid college players are more likely to be tempted to cheat.78 New Jersey has a similar ban that extends to high school sports events, electronic sports, and competitive video games. Pennsylvania, on the other hand, allows betting on college athletic contests.79 So you can place a bet in Pennsylvania on the Penn State-Syracuse football game, but not in New York. Nevada, the gambling industry standard bearer, prohibits wagering on high school athletic contests, but permits wagering on Olympic and collegiate events.80 Statehouses have rejected any attempt to limit wagering on professional sports like that proposed in the MLB-NBA "Model Sports Wagering Act," which would have entitled the leagues to unilaterally veto certain types of wagers, such as in-game betting and betting on minor league games.81
Another measure that tangentially protects game integrity is capping wager amounts or requiring special registration to wager over a certain amount.82 For example, Mississippi requires bettor registration and identifying information for wagers over $10,000.83 Such regulation can deter fixers looking to minimize detection and maximize the returns on organizing a fix. Similar deterrent value can be found in barring online wagers. Delaware, New York, and Rhode Island are among those states that require bettors to be present in authorized betting location.84 This permits surveillance and identification of bettors, to facilitate detection of corrupt activity. But online wagering is likely to prevail in the long run, given that this modality attracts more bettors and correspondingly greater tax revenues. In its first year of legal sports betting, New Jersey collected more than three times as much tax revenue from online wagers than in-person bets.85
One sports league proposal that has thus far failed to gain any traction in statehouses is an "integrity fee" to compensate sports leagues for the investment they will need to make in additional monitoring of and protection against gambling-related corruption.86 The MBL-NBA "Model Sports Wagering Act" empowers sports governing bodies to collect from sportsbooks a fee of one percent of the amount wagered on its sporting events.87 Although incorporated into a handful of bills that have been introduced, an integrity fee has not survived to enactment in any state. Given this lobbying failure, league officials increasingly and more candidly refer to the fee as a royalty, justified by the provision of official scoring data or use of league intellectual property.88
The current landscape of legal sports gambling thus appears preoccupied with getting sportsbooks up and running and generating tax revenue, with desultory attention to protecting the source of that revenue—the underlying athletic competitions.
What the U.S. Can Learn from the European Sports Betting Experience
Fortunately, the U.S. does not have to reinvent the wheel here. The European experience with sports betting and the accompanying corruption threat offers a range of best practices to emulate. Initially, national governments should provide a framework that compels both public agencies and private entities to work together, including:
Conditioning sports book licensure on operators' sharing information and intelligence on suspicious betting patterns.89
Incentivizing similar transparency from sports governing bodies, and coordinating investigative efforts between those bodies and criminal law enforcement.90
Establishing an integrity unit within an appropriate law enforcement agency to analyze sports betting data.
Defining criminal offenses to include game manipulation.91
Designing clear processes for determining whether there is evidence of criminal activity.92
Offering whistleblower protections and other incentives for those with information to come forward.93
Some in Congress have already started down this path, proposing sports protection legislation incorporating many of these elements.94 But no progress has been made on the federal level and, as noted, the states have been inattentive.
Regardless of government inaction, private stakeholders must keep pace with the risk through clarifying and enhancing their sports-gambling rules and disciplinary procedures, voluntarily sharing and monitoring data, and educating and training all personnel about the warning signs and risks of sports corruption. Best practices require developing internal expertise, including staffing up with investigative and compliance personnel. Leagues must strengthen their gatekeeping function with heightened scrutiny of employees through background checks at hiring, and initial and ongoing disclosure requirements. Leagues too should establish mechanisms, including anonymous hotlines, that incentivize those with information to come forward, with some degree of immunity for those who do, and penalty for those who don't. Leagues also have the ability to combine detailed reports on betting patterns with analysis of archival proprietary game footage and statistics. The historical data can allow for more productive scrutiny of individual teams, players, and officials involved in potentially suspicious games.
Transparency is an especially important value in sports league efforts to counter any increased integrity threat. Leagues should establish action-ready, crisis communications teams that proactively keep players and the public informed of integrity issues through electronic and social media. Information should be promptly disseminated about sanctions imposed for integrity breaches, including description of the bases for disciplinary action, and appropriate supplemental education on betting and corruption. And the safety and well-being of players and other game-day personnel should be prioritized as legal sports betting potentially expands the online and other abuse coming from disappointed bettors. More than ever, leagues and their players must operate as partners to protect game participants and the honesty of athletic competitions.
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It's a remarkable statistic that on his 51st Championship appearance for Dublin, Bernard Brogan finally scored outside of Croke Park
That was in the Leinster championship win over Carlow at O'Moore Park earlier this month, though, in truth, it was a watershed moment for Brogan for a more negative reason.
The veteran forward didn't start the game, mirroring boss Jim Gavin's decision to leave him on the bench for last year's All-Ireland final replay, and the message that he's now seen as an impact substitute was clearly made.
As things panned out, the unexpected 12-week suspension picked up by Diarmuid Connolly, allied to Brogan's strong form when introduced against Carlow, may have changed that plan.
It is a fact though that, at 33, Brogan is not viewed as the invincible force he once was and the 2010 footballer of the year has accepted that he's not a guaranteed starter any longer.
That point was hammered home to the four-time All-Ireland medallist before that replay against Mayo last year.
"Jim Gavin pulled me aside before the replay and said: 'Yourself and Michael Darragh Macauley are starting from the bench. It's something different that we want to do for this game,'" said Brogan. "I was massively disappointed. It was an All-Ireland. But I grabbed Michael Darragh, who was equally upset, and said to him: 'The team's going to be named now in five minutes, just step up high. When they look at you, because we would be two senior members of the group, just show no sign of weakness.' That was just something I wanted to do.
"I just felt that if that decision was going to happen, then try to add as much positivity to the group in that situation. Did it do anything for the team? Maybe not, but I thought, for me, it gave me a boost. We were around in a circle when the team was named and you know yourself, lads look up for a reaction, but we agreed it was just a smile back at them and say: 'We're ready for this.'"
Brogan is a level-headed character, but he admitted he didn't take such a mature approach to being dropped earlier in his career.
"I probably would have reacted a lot differently. In 2008 or 2009, calls were made that I would have been very annoyed about. I never go over the top, I'm not that type of individual, but there is that ego, when you're younger and when you believe you're the best in the business and you've every right to play."
Brogan holds no grudges against Gavin, who has been nothing if not consistent with his, at times, ruthless team selections. Cormac Costello, Kevin McManaman, Paul Mannion, and Paddy Andrews have all, like Brogan, delivered at different times for Dublin over the years, yet can't hold onto a starting place either.
"It's just about getting the mindset right," said Brogan. "There will be times you have to take a different role and that will be my biggest challenge after starting for so many years. It's a different role this summer. I have to make sure I have the head space right for it, that I come in with the right attitude. I want to start, that is still my goal, and I was disappointed not to start against Carlow, but I'm long enough around the place to understand what's needed and that me throwing my toys out of the pram isn't going to help."
Brogan made a strong impact against Carlow and kicked two points, so he could very well return to the starting lineup against Offaly or Westmeath in the Leinster semi-finals. If he does, it will be a victory for self-improvement and dedication, having redoubled his efforts in recent months.
"I feel in training that I'm much better able to get around the park now," said Brogan. "I've shipped two or three kilos, just to make it a bit easier. The game 10 years ago was about strength and power, but now it's about mileage. The middle eight players are doing 10 or 12km in 70 minutes now. So the game has evolved and you have to evolve with it and come up with something new. So I've given myself a new challenge this year."
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