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youth! arise awake and know your strength........Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work.
The moment you fear , you are nobody.
It is fear that the great cause of misery in the world.
It is fear that is the greatest of all superstitions.
It is fear that is the cause of our woes , and it is fearlessness that bring heaven even in a moment .
Therefore , Arise< awake,and stop not till the goal is reached............. Come up , O lions , and shake off the delusion that you are sheep ; you souls immortal , spirits free , blest and eternal ; ye are not bodies ; matter is your servant , not you the servant of matter................All power
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By Reuters
Published: 23:46 BST, 20 January 2016 | Updated: 23:46 BST, 20 January 2016
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By Matt Siegel and Colin Packham
SYDNEY, Jan 20 (Reuters) - The rise of mobile betting is transforming global sports wagering faster than regulators can react, flooding the industry with cash and potentially contributing to corruption scandals like the one roiling world tennis, experts and insiders say.
Allegations this week that tennis authorities failed to deal with widespread match-fixing has rocked the game, following similar allegations that have blighted cricket, football and other sports.
The ubiquity of mobile phones and tablets has helped transform bookmakers from operators of dingy, smoke-filled betting shops into multi-billion dollar de facto tech firms, pouring resources into developing apps and complex algorithms and marketing to younger and broader demographics.
"We're no longer restricted by geography or the limited choices of one betting company. And we have wall-to-wall sport every day of the week from across the globe beamed into our lounge rooms, on our smartphones," said Scott Ferguson, a wagering industry consultant.
"Technology is everything."
The greatest danger for mobile gambling to intersect with corruption lies in the ease of fixing a one-on-one sport like tennis, darts or snooker, according to experts and professional gamblers.
Mobile apps that allow in-game betting on individual points or games allow athletes to stealthily manipulate the results and may strike some of them as less unethical as throwing an entire match, said Sally Gainsbury, a senior lecturer at Southern Cross University who has written a book on the subject.
"A PERFECT COMBINATION"
Most major bookmakers operate from small offshore jurisdictions, making accurate predictions of industry worth extremely difficult, said Gainsbury.
"There's a large grey sort of offshore market ... in every country, where it's actually just not possible for the government to regulate these sites that are based in all these tiny remote jurisdictions," she told Reuters.
"So it's difficult to get a really accurate size of how much people are betting because a lot of it is actually illegal."
Patrick Jay, a betting consultant and former sports and football director at Ladbrokes, estimates the global sports betting market is likely worth about $1 trillion a year, having doubled in size in the last five years. He expects it to double again in the next five.
The Australian government, citing a 2015 United Nations conference at which Jay was a speaker, put that figure as high as $3 trillion, of which 90 percent was "illegal" or in contravention of laws regulating gambling in which the bet was placed.
That range of figures, which includes betting on sports from soccer, cricket and tennis to much less widely followed sports like snooker, darts and table tennis but excludes racing, illustrates the difficulty in accurately valuing the overall market.
"It has grown because of mobile technology. It allows people to place bets anywhere, anytime," Jay told Reuters. "People are also dealing in credit, and therefore accounts are being run all over the world. It has created a perfect combination."
Leading bookmakers including Betfair Group PLC, Ladbrokes PLC, Paddy Power PLC and William Hill PLC did not respond to requests for comment. There have not been any allegations of wrongdoing by the bookmakers in the World Tennis scandal.
Worried about the boom in sports betting and incidents of match fixing, countries like Australia and across the European Union are in the process of reviewing laws that experts like Gainsbury say are "hopelessly outdated".
In Australia, for example, 2001 laws regulating Internet sport betting bar anyone from placing a bet on a sporting event online once it has begun, despite allowing live betting over the phone or at retail bookmakers.
William Hill, an official partner of the Australian Open, has a new "Bet-in-Play" feature for its Australian customers that requires access to a smartphone's microphone while the bet is placed to comply with such laws.
"There's been a lot of stagnation where a lot of countries originally said, 'Well this is illegal, we won't let them do this', but of course with the internet you can't make things illegal and stop people going online," Gainsbury said. (Writing by Matt Siegel; Editing by Lincoln Feast) https://gamblerschoice (https://gamblerschoice.xyz/).xyz/ |
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"Exalt your self thus , that before every twist of fate God Himself asks you , " My creation , let me know your desire"
In Hindi
"khudi ko ka buland itna ,ke har tagdeer se pahle God bande se khud poochhe , bata teri raza kya hai"
Some points are collected by me .
1. The Winners is always part of the answer , the Loser is always part of the problem.
2. The Winner always has a program , the Loser always has an excuse .
3. The Winner say , " Let me do for you", The loser say, " That is not my job".
4. A Winner makes commitment, A Loser makes promises.
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Here are a few valuable pointers from our seniors
1. Don"t bee too casual about exams . Take our seniors" word for it-beginning your preparations early in gives you a definite head-start
2. Don"t depend too much on IMS for CAT-coaching . however, take the SIMCAT seriously , as it helps focus on time-management ,strategy-building , and identifying weak areas. Above all , it makes you regular .
3. Most successful aspirants from our college preferred finance over HR or marketing .
4. About there college of choice , most people agreed on the following order : IIMA>IIMB>IIMC>FMS,XLRI >IIML>IIMK
5. "One of the remarkable things about the behaviour of the world is how it seems to be
grounded in mathematics to a quite extraordinary degree of accuracy. The more we
understand about the physical world, and the deeper we probe into the laws of
nature, the more it seems as though the physical world almost evaporates and we are
left only with mathematics"
-- Roger Penrose.
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A Dream,
is where it starts.
A rush of blood to the head
and I dive in my colourful fantasy.
With the Red Fire in me,
I am what I want to be.
Like the Green in the wild,
I spread my roots,
or from behind the Blue skies,
watch all moves.
Amidst this fantasy,
all they say.....
"Its just a dream".
I wake up... and with
a rush of blood to the head,
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1. The thought that man may be the only form of intelligent life is scary , because , then it seems that .
2. Perhaps the best role models are those who have made all the mistakes we are going to make .
3. Nature screwed and set a pretty low bar for intelligence .
4. If you are planning to fall in love , wear a helmet.
5. Even dirt stands out in a goldmine .
6. Pardon my ignorance............... Your intellectual arrogance was mismeasured.........
7. If history repeats itself , then God made a very boring universe .
8. Only hot gals ought to be empowered .
9. You think you are really good?? and you are .......but the thing is ....... you are not as good as you think you are..........
10. what does IITG and my pen drive have in common ?? they both have 1 GB !
11. To love one's self is the beginning of a life
12. We could love to hear from you
13.. All work and no play
make Jack a dull boy
14.. I think Matriculation is the beginning of study
15. Learning the alphabet was probably not the most interesting part of our childhood education, yet, once this hurdle was cleared, fascinating vistas were opened before us.
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