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The plot of Bruce DeSilva's excellent A Scourge of Vipers involves the world of sports gambling. Here, DeSilva shares his thoughts on the subject.
Gambling on sports, the popular but mostly illegal pastime that forms the backdrop for my new novel, A Scourge of Vipers, is very much a part of the national conversation right now.
For one thing, the NCAA's Annual March Madness basketball tournament, which just drew to a close, generates more gambling, both in the number of bettors and the total dollars wagered, than any other sporting event including the Super Bowl.
For another thing, a number of governors, with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie leading the way, are seeking to legalize sports betting so they can ease their states' budget crises by taxing the revenue.
When Christie, a Republican who wants to be the next president of the United States, first broached the idea a couple of years ago, it struck me right off that the subject had the makings of a rip-roaring crime novel.
It also struck me that any governor who wants to legalize sports betting has a lot of obstacles to overcome.
For one thing, most states have vice laws prohibiting gambling on sporting events—although they gleefully rake in millions of dollars selling chump scratch tickets and lottery numbers games to the suckers. For another thing, federal law makes sports gambling illegal in every state but Nevada and three others that were grandfathered in. So to legalize it, governors would have to repeal their own state laws and then get a paralyzed U.S. Congress to overturn the federal law. Either that or successfully challenge the federal prohibition in the courts.
None of this is likely to be easy, because legalization has powerful enemies with very deep pockets.
The NCAA is dead-set against it, threatening to pull March Madness regionals from states that make sports gambling legal. The major professional sports leagues have been vehemently opposed for years (although the NBA commissioner softened his stance recently.) Las Vegas casinos are eager to maintain their near-monopoly on legal sports betting. And organized crime organizations are aghast at the prospect of having their bookmaking revenues dry up.
On the other side of the issue are a number of public-employee unions who view taxing sports gambling as a way to save their threatened pension systems. And some casino operators outside of Las Vegas are salivating at the chance to jump into the legal sports gambling business.
The amount of money at stake is enormous. About eighty-five percent of us bet on sports at least occasionally. And the total wagered, most of it illegally, is estimated at three hundred and eighty billion dollars a year.
To put it in perspective, that's six times greater than the annual budget of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
No wonder, then, that all hell breaks loose in A Scourge of Vipers when Rhode Island's fictional governor, a former religious sister known as Attila the Nun because of her take-no-prisoners style of politics, proposes legalizing sports gambling to ease her state's budget problems.
Forces with a lot to lose—or gain—if she gets her way immediately flood the state with millions of dollars to buy the votes of the state's politicians. Some of them do it with big campaign donations. Others aren't above slipping envelopes into politicians' pockets. All this in a little state where the average campaign for the state legislature costs just ten thousand dollars.
When a powerful state senator turns up dead, a mobbed-up bagman gets shot down, and his cash-stuffed briefcase goes missing, my protagonist Liam Mulligan, an investigative reporter for a dying Providence, R.I., newspaper, wants to dig into the story. But the bottom-feeding conglomerate that recently bought the once proud daily has no interest in serious public-interest reporting. So Mulligan, who's never been inclined to follow orders, goes rogue, investigating on his own. Soon, he finds himself the target of shadowy forces that seek to derail him by threatening his reputation, his career, and even his life.
This topic gave me the opportunity not only to write a suspenseful mystery but also to explore two subjects that have long interested me—the corrupting influence of big money on politics and the hypocrisy surrounding sports gambling.
The former—made immeasurably worse since the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United decision—is well understood; but the latter is a less-familiar subject to most of us.
Opponents of legalization have been spewing the same talking points for years:
Legalizing sports betting would irreparably harm the integrity of college and professional games, creating a climate of suspicion about controversial plays, officiating calls, and players' performances.
It would expand the amount of money wagered on sports, increasing the temptation to fix results.
It would infringe on the leagues' intellectual property, encouraging gambling operations to use proprietary information including statistics, injury reports, and team logos.
Much of that sounds reasonable unless you acknowledge the fact that billions are already wagered on sports. Gamblers don't need any more incentive than they already have to fix games.
In fact, legalization would be more likely to deter game-fixing than to encourage it because the amount wagered would be public knowledge. The Arizona State point-shaving scandal some years back was exposed because somebody bet an obscene amount of money legally in Las Vegas, and alarm bells went off.
Gambling is one of the main reasons a lot of people follow sports. The NCAA and the professional sports leagues know this, and they profit handsomely from the filled arenas and the TV contracts all that interest generates. That's why they don't object when sports writers cite point spreads.
Gambling, like any vice, is harmful to individuals who engage in it to excess, but is sports gambling any more immoral than state lotteries and Indian casinos? And illegal or not, most Americans bet on sports anyway.
Keeping it illegal does little more than help mobbed-up bookies stay in business.
Bruce DeSilva's crime fiction has won the Edgar and Macavity Awards; has been listed as a finalist for the Shamus, Anthony, and Barry Awards; and has been published in ten foreign languages. His short stories have appeared in Akashic Press's award-winning noir anthologies. He has reviewed books for The New York Times Sunday Book Review, Publishers Weekly, and The Associated Press. Previously, he was a journalist for forty years, most recently as writing coach world-wide for the AP, editing stories that won every major journalism award including the Pulitzer. His fourth novel, A Scourge of Vipers, has just been published by Forge in hardcover and e-book editions.
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The plot of Bruce DeSilva's excellent A Scourge of Vipers involves the world of sports gambling. Here, DeSilva shares his thoughts on the subject.


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Yesterday I finished talking – Monday night we had a good time with Pastor Riaz and his church, Tuesday morning we had a pastors meeting for about 35 local pastors, and then in the afternoon Holy Shepherd Grammar School held their prize giving ceremony (though to the joy of all in attendance I only spoke for about two minutes at the latter).
Photos: Some of the children of HSGS, the roads outside the school, pastors at the meeting,
God has been amazingly good to me and all the people I have had the joy of working with through this month. We have travelled many mils on less than good roads, spoken for hours and hours, eaten great food, fellowshipped with wonderful people and known the goodness, peace and protection of the Lord through it all.
Photo: Johnson – hero of the hour, who has braved the Karachi traffic for countless hours in order to get me safely and without accident to the meetings. He has been a stalwart of the trip
Photo: Anser Javed (on the right in yellow), a man I am glad to call friend and co-worker for the Gospel of Jesus Christ. i am glad to walk with men such as him.
In twelve hours I shall be about to board a plane to go home to my wife and family in India – a great thought after two months away. But…The period of readjustment for all of us is often hard at such times, I have to reestablish a routine and get into work there, friendships and relationships have to be worked on again.
Your prayers as you have read and thought of the work have been invaluable, they have amazing God given power. Thank you so much.

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Volcker Rule Likely to Miss Deadline
The Volcker rule is still embroiled in legal tangling and may miss its October deadline. WSJ's Aaron Lucchetti explains why on the Markets Hub. (Photo: AP Photo.)
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 04:56, Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden> wrote: > Then I'm misunderstanding. IIRC you said, more or less: "we are a source > code shop and MS Windows is an exception because those users would have > a hard time getting an Emacs running on their machines". I fully > sympathize with the "we are a source code shop", but at the same time > I'll like to remark that the rest is no longer true. I don't know what causes your misunderstanding. I would prefer not to distribute binaries, can accept distributing our own because they are useful, dislike the idea of distributing other project's binaries unless they are *strictly* required to run our Emacs binary. > We are on emacs-devel, not on all-projects-devel. You were the one talking about "source-only worlds". > But now that you ask, yes, I'll appreciate that all projects would > include a system for notifying me that its software is putting my > machine at risk. If GnuTLS has a security issue, I wouldn't say that Emacs puts my machine at risk. GnuTLS does. > The key here is to determine what the Right Thing is. Have you > considered the possibility that some or most of those projects doesn't > have the automatic notification not because they think it is a bad idea, > but because some other reason? Why the second guessing? I was told that almost all software packages today did automatic upgrading, and I mentioned some that do not. I don't know why they don't offer it, and neither do you. > That's like saying that smoke detectors are unneeded because fires > rarely occur, if at all, on most housings. Nonsense. It's like saying that a smoke detector is not needed in this particular house because it is built with fireproof materials and the likelihood of a fire is almost zero. Do you have an smoke detector in your home? I don't. I don't have a fire extinguisher, either. > You are sidetracking from my question by going back to the GnuTLS dll. No, I'm not. > I'm genuinely interested in your reasoning for rejecting an > automatic notification system built into Emacs. That's what I've answered. > Something you can use to > warn users that a problem was found that would pose a risk to their data > (a security breach, data corruption, whatever). That's independent from > how the user obtained its binary package. There are zillions of ways their data could be lost. Are you going to add a program to Emacs to test the hard drive for bad spots? That kind of checks (updates, I mean, not the disk test tool ;-) instill false security. It's like the people who has an AV installed and thinks that it is protected because the AV software has not detected anything. Juanma
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The Podvig [ascetic feat] of the Apostles' Fast is less strict than during Great Lent: We abstain from eating meat and dairy products throughout the Fast. The Church ustav [rule] also provides that, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays during the Apostles' Fast, we abstain from consuming fish, wine and oil; on the other days of the week, Tuesday and Thursday, we abstain from eating fish. Eating fish is permitted on Saturdays and Sundays, on days commemorating certain great Saints, and on the Feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist (7 July).Even more succinct:
Apostles' FastI should add a few points of leniency. According to the Typikon, if on Monday, Tuesday, or Thursday a saint is celebrated with a Doxology service (or above), then fish is allowed. If such a saint is celebrated on Wednesday or Friday, then wine and oil are allowed. And if on Wednesday or Friday a saint is celebrated with an All-Night Vigil, fish is also allowed.
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Valve will release a living room-friendly PC in 2013, according to the firm's boss and founder Gabe Newell.
Newell told Kotaku that the Steam-powered PC will be a plug and play device, designed to be quickly hooked up to an HDTV – but it seems it won't be a simple run-of-the-mill Windows PC with Steam running over the top. Valve is working on a Steam version of Linux that's currently in beta.
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Newell believes that other PC manufacturers will be releasing Steam-equipped living room-centric models in 2013, and that these models will be competing with the next generation of consoles from Sony and Microsoft. "I think in general that most customers and most developers are going to find that [the PC is] a better environment for them, because they won't have to split the world into thinking about, 'Why are my friends in the living room, why are my video sources in the living room different from everyone else?' So in a sense hopefully we are going to unify these environments."
Valve recently launched Steam Big Picture Mode, a version of the service designed with HDTVs and game controllers in mind, and it seems the next step will be a proper piece of hardware. We'll keep you posted on developments.
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Recieved this morning from the USA U19 manager, and I adore at least a couple of people on this staff - I recommend it far and wide to your young players!
U19 Women Junior Eagles Flight Camp
June 17-21, 2007
Blaine, Minnesota
Who: Female athletes age 13-19
What: The inaugural Under-19 USA Rugby player development camp.
Why: This camp is designed to instruct players from all levels of skill and experience, including beginners,
to play more effectively as an individual and as a member of a team.
* Interact with USA National team players and coaches
* Film study and individual analysis of play
* Individual player evaluation and feedback * Position-specific coaching
* Full on duty medical staff
When: June 17-21, 2007 (Athletes should arrive by 4 PM June 17 and
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Where: National Sports Complex Blaine, MN
Camp Staff: Head Coach: Bryn Chivers, Coaches: Sue Oldenburg, Tasha Bishop & Lance Connolly. Managers: Jeff Noe & Rachel Flynn
Fee: $399 covers all camp fees including instruction, housing and meals at the National Sports Center.
This is an open camp and any young female player aged 13 - 19 can attend. Space is limited to eighty players and registration has already started. U19 WNT Coach Bryn Chivers recently said "The goal of the camp is to provide the players with the best coaching possible, to introduce them to the U19 WNT Program and to give them access to players and coaches from all of our WNT Programs. I think this is going to be an incredible event and it's exciting to see how many players have already signed up"
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U19 Women Junior Eagles Flight Camp
Recieved this morning from the USA U19 manager, and I adore at least a couple of people on this staff - I recommend it far and wide to your young players!
Saturday, April 07, 2007
Role of the #8 on engagement
I had a great opportunity yesterday to see some of the NA4 preparation, and with that a conversation with one of the specialist coaches. We talked primarily about the role of the #8 as relates to power generation in the scrum.
I've seen and coached #8s to engage a variety of different ways:
Feet shoulder width or more apart, essentially even.
The "slingshot", as part of the total impact method
The "sprint start", with feet split legged like a sprinter, driving forward off the front foot.
What you'll see in the video here is yet another variation. The #8 sets up split legged, as he would for a sprint style start, but instead of driving forward, he actually drops his forward leg back. The resulting effect is that gravity immediately drops him low and forward, propelling the locks ahead of him.
Please forgive the poor quality, it's a cell phone video. Thoughts?
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
Blowouts, mismatches, a/bs, and the meaning of "development"
We've all been there - you show up on match day, thinking you are playing a B side, or a developmental team, a friendly match, whatever, and low-and-behold, staring across the pitch from you is a player that just last week was wearing a USA jersey. Or a Territorial select side jersey, or a National 7s jersey, or just played in a national championship game.
More and more teams are moving away from the A side/B side designations and going to "Senior and Developmental" or "D1 and D2". The reason? Well, the promising new rookie just flat out learns faster playing next to stronger players. Let's say we've got young #9 we're trying to develop. Play her with your least experienced pack and a brand new #8, and she's doomed to failure. She will develop at a snails pace and your backline is unlikely to see the ball at all, which hinders EVERYONE's development.
But, play her with your champion of the world #8, and an experienced #10, and suddenly she's got clean ball, she can make decisions, and she's operating at a higher work rate than she ever would in the "b side" game. NOW, she has to step up. Let's face it though ... your champion of the world # 8 is still going to run picks, she's still going to make monster tackles, she's still going to poach the ball. And if she's playing against a team that is not quite as fit, big, or well trained, she's going to break tackles, evade defenders, and get into space.
Is this fair? Where is the line?
The reason I bring this up today is that my team and I ran into an awkward situation this weekend. Expectations clearly weren't communicated between match secs and coaches, and we put out a stronger team than our opposition coach thought we should have. Bottom line, for me, there is a real difference between a B side game and a developmental or "mixed side" game.
We were a D1 team playing two separate matches against two local D2 teams, and in an effort to best develop all our players, we decided to split our 38 person roster right down the middle and play "mixed sides". We had a couple of senior select side players who played in each of the matches, not more than 20 minutes each .... and a couple of very high level U23 players who played most of the match. Two of our select side players sat out completely. Our coaching staff and selection committee did what we though was our due diligence, and were obsessive about how we selected - we wanted enough A players to keep the work rate high, provide leadership, and get good ball to our developmental players, while still giving them the bulk of the game time. When selections for each match shook out, it was right down the middle - 1/2 and 1/2 for both games.
This plan backfired horribly. Or maybe it didn't. It's an ethical dilemma, I guess. We won both of the matches, the first, vs what we perceived to be a slightly stronger team) by 40ish points, the second by 27 points. Not huge blowouts, but decisive wins.
I thought our competition - both teams - performed impressively, and was delighted that only one or two of our tries were the result of solo efforts. I thought everyone was happy. I thought the rugby was good, clean, fast, and physical. There were no yellow or red cards, scrums were safe, the ref didn't give any warnings and it seemed like people were having fun. There was one unfortunate injury to one of our first opponents, the result of a BRUTAL small-woman on small-woman level 3 tackle. I was in my little coaching world, pleased we were attacking space like we practiced, and making mental notes about turnovers, ball retention in contact, and lineouts.
Well as it turned out, we (I, the president, the match sec AND the captain) were vehemently chastised for playing ANY select side players at all. It was, apparently, an issue of "sportsmanship". A good sportsman or woman, the theory was proposed, would not let Select Side players play at all against a D2 team.
So - what does the general public think? Is it OK for an Eagle, or a TU select side player, to play in a D2 game, or should D1 A side players be limited to D1 games, and D1 B side players to D2 games? If it's OK to play your top players in a mixed roster match, how much is too much? How strong is to strong? What score is indicative of a blowout? What's the line between fair and competitive? Is it possible for an individual player or players to be TOO GOOD to step on the field against a particular opponent? Is it possible for an individual player to be TOO BIG (one of the assertions) to play against a team that doesn't match up to her size?
To be fair, the games were won not through the efforts of these handful of players, who barely had time to get warm, but through teamwork and an elevated level of play by all the players on the pitch ... but i digress.
For those of you who are with clubs that have two rosters, how to you develop players? A/B games, mixed squads, what?
I realize it's risky to write about a specific event like this, but its been bothering me, and I want to know what ya'll think. No disrespect intended to anyone, but its a valuable, if sensitive topic, so POST AWAY. Please, productive posts only.


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Sun reveals SSD partner, claims better durability
Sun yesterday identfied Samsung as its SSD supplier, solving at least part of the mystery around the source for its Flash drives. But Sun's systems group senior director Graham Lovell says that Samsung will be one of several partners, not a sole source. The other partners remain unnamed.
Sun and Samsung also claim that the Flash devices they've collaborated on will have five times the durability of other single-level cell (SLC) enterprise Flash drives, such as the ones manufactured by STEC for EMC. Like other SSDs, the NAND devices still have a finite number of write-erase cycles, and single-layered memory cells exacerbate that problem. Lovell said that wear-leveling algorithms will be built into the Flash memory controller on the Samsung SSDs. A certain proportion of memory cells will also be kept in reserve by the drives for wear leveling.
According to Samsung, these developments mean that the lifespan of its SSDs will up to five times longer than that of other SLC Flash devices. Unfortunately, Lovell was not able to provide details about what testing Samsung has done to substantiate that claim. He also says that Sun won't "preannounce" the availability of the drives from Samsung. Samsung's PR rep told me he'd have to forward those questions to Samsung headquarters in Korea. . .which means the drives might be available before I hear the answers.
There's been a lot of talk about SSDs lately. It seems this past month has started an inevitable "trough of disillusionment" with the technology, as excitement over its advantages has been balanced by industry observers pointing out the disadvantages of first-generation products (such as their durability).
IDC's Jeff Janukowicz doesn't see a problem with that. "This is the kind of improvement and innovations IDC predicts you'll be seeing as this technology comes of age," he said. Those predictions were written up in a recent report based on lab testing of SSD performance in PCs.
Storage managers for the most part are holding back on deploying SSDs, which to me is understandable. If I'd rushed out and bought a drive from EMC only to hear that another vendor had a much-improved model, I might be kicking myself. And I'd certainly be wondering what was coming next.


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Unexperimental Shooter RoundUp
July 13th, 2009
For the month of July, we were supposed to make games on the theme "Unexperimental Shooter". Here's what we came up with:
Proto Shooter, Allan Blomquist
Egg Worm Generator, Kyle Gabler
Frobot, Kyle Gray
Post IT Shooter, Petri Purho
Bunny Blaster, Shalin Shodhan
To anyone else participating over the vast, vast internets – please be sure to send us the links to your games or post them in the comments section and we'll do a "best of the net" feature – can't wait to see what you lot come up with!
I sent in a link via email to the contact email address. But I will post it here too.
Slimes : http://shiware.com/?q=node/3
Try to destroy the slimes for points, but beware, bullets bounce off walls and will lower your score if you get hit. Internet based high score table included.
I wanted to participate in the compo but I didnt know how to do so
So I didnt send anything :)
Since you say to post it in the comment so I will put a shooter game I made for another compo when I failed to know how to submit.
I know i cant now participate but I want you to take a shot of the game
Hope u enjoy it :)
I loved the new theme of the site and I love u all guys :)
Here's the game I made :D I sent a link to the contact adress, but here's tthe link again.
Hope you guys will like it :D
I did a little round up of the games (all except IT Shooter, that came out too late :p ) on The Reticule.
You have done some great work so far guys, looking forward to what you create in the next month :)
Balls bouncing off walls is definitely not experimental; but it can be rather soothing:
Simple concept I threw together. Enjoy!
I did a little something today, but I have been thinking about the game since a couple days now. Pretty happy by the result. In a couple of words, its a vertical shooter like normal, but to get updates, you will have to shoot at the right tempo. Be the faster to reach 1000 points. I did 263 sec.
http://softhope.blogspot.com/2009/07/unexperimental-shooter-metro-shooter.html (need Microsoft Framework 3.0 to work).
Probably going to make a version for the XBOX360 on the community.
J Tremblay, Enjoy and listen tight !!!
I though the competition ended by posting this :) sorry :) consider CrytorYan as a part of the competition if it needs a logo for expermental or anything just tell me :)
I wish I had heard about this before now. I guess my game http://socratic.manateegames.co.uk could count.
When do we find out the next topic?
We should be announcing the next theme around August 1st – the format for this last one was a little wonky, but we're hoping to get into something a little more regular. :)
Kosmosis: a communist space shooter
It's a classic Space Invaders meets Katamary meets Lenin kind of thing.
Read the notes for all the info and the brainy pretentious details.
sweet ( :
im in it for next month ( =
I dissagree. A game doesn't need hi quality to be good. A great example would be cave story. It can be a couple hours to a couple days. Depends on your skillz and how you play. Of course, Tron 2.0 is awesome and has high quality and lots of game time. Also has a great backstory, same as Cave Story.
Oh well, looking forward to your next game!
Woops! Look at the post after this one. Might make more sence.