Among the most popular bets that can be made in any sportsbook, is the “Moneyline” bet. While the name of this type of wager might sound a bit confusing, it is the easiest wager ever made. If you’ve ever chosen a team or a competitor and have put money on them “for a win,” then you’ve essentially made a Moneyline bet. Regardless of whether the event is held in a competition with teams or individual players, if you’ve decided to bet on a winner, you’ve made your straight bet. Make sure to remember that betting on “draw” or “to lose” is not considered to be this type of wager. While it’s that simple, there are some things about this type of wager which might interest you.

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Usually, if a team or a competitor has a better chance of winning, they will be determined to be a “favourite.” The other participating part will be referred to as the “underdog.” Although the general trend is to make a moneyline bet on the favourite, punters often place a wager on the underdog participant, as the potential rewards outweigh the risk.

Gambling becomes a problem when it starts to affect other aspects of your life. This includes things such as relationships with family and friends, physical, social and mental health, employment, and finances.

What are some signs that a person may have a gambling problem?

Gambling for longer periods of time.

· Constant thinking about and preparing for gambling.

· Gambling to win back lost money.

· Unexplained absences from home or work.

· Secrecy.

· Gambling to escape from daily pressures.

· Lying or engaging in criminal activity to finance gambling.

· Neglecting family/personal needs – e.g. eating, sleeping, schooling, etc.

· Restlessness or irritability when attempting to stop.

· Family or friends complaining about the gambling.

· Pawning personal property or borrowing money to finance gambling as the gambling activity.

How can I gamble without going overboard?

· Gamble for entertainment, not as a way to make money.

· Balance gambling with other leisure activities.

· Only use discretionary income, not money for everyday expenses.

· Set a budget and stick to it.

· Don't borrow money to gamble.

· Set a time limit of how long you will gamble.

· Take frequent breaks.

Where can I go if I have a problem with gambling?

· family/friends

· gamblers anonymous

· elder/priest

· AADAC

· crisis hotline

· treatment centre

· counselling

Why do people gamble?

There are likely many individual reasons why people gamble and continue even after it is a problem. Here are some examples:

· boredom (nothing else to do but go to bingo);

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· unhappiness or loneliness;

· loss or grief;

· income (hoping to make a quick buck);

· more acceptable than drinking;

· substituting one addiction for another (quit drinking and start gambling);

· excitement or the 'rush' of winning.

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NEIGHBOURS IN THE SKY

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Reflected Heat Reveals Hiding Planets

Two independent teams of astronomers – one headed by Drake Deming of the Goddard Space Flight Center, the other – by David Charbonneau of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics – have for the first time detected the heat glow of platens circling distant stars.

Both teams used the data provided by the infrared Spitzer Space Telescope and the same methods to measure the heat glow of the planets. First, the astronomers acquired a picture of both the star and the planet, then discerned the heat glow of the star (at the moment when the planet was behind it), thus calculating the portion of heat radiated by the planet only.

Deming's team focused on the planet designated as HD 209458b, which circles a star about 153 light-years away from Earth, while Char-bonneau's team observed the heat glow of a planet called TrES-i, the distance to which is more than three times larger. Both stars resemb­le the Sun by their parame­ters.

The two planets were dis­covered in 1999 and 2004 in an indirect way – their exis­tence was inferred from slight fluctuations of star shine in the visible range of radiation. Having now de­tected infrared radiation of the planets, the scientists cal­culated their temperatures – 857 and 788 degrees Celsius (HD 209458b and TrES-i,

respectively). Considering the giant size of the planets, the astronomers described them as 'hot Jupiters'.

Both gas giants move rela­tively close to their parent stars. Thus, TrES-i is only 6.4 million km away from its star (for comparison, the dis­tance between the Sun and Earth is more than 23 times larger). By the way, TrES-i reflects 31 percent of light that falls on it; no wonder that it is so hot;

As for HD 269458b, it is interesting in another way. It actually posed a theoretical puzzle before scientists. Taking the weight of this gas giant into account, the planet is too large, 'overblown'. Astronomers suspect this to be a result of the influence of some other, closely lying planet that hasn't been dis­covered yet.

It should be explained why the infrared frequencies of the spectrum have drawn such close attention of two scientific teams. The reason is that giant planets that cir­cle closely to their parent stars are only 400-fold dim­mer (in the infrared range) than the stars themselves, while in the visible range, the stars, are 10,000 times brighter. The planets literal­ly get lost in the glitter of their parent stars.

Astronomers already know 130 stars with planets or even planet systems discov­ered around them that resemble ours in some way or other.

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An Almost Sci-Fi Story

The harvest season was in full swing, everyone was busy with the earth, not with the sky. But the sky, as ill or good luck would have it, was bright blue, clear and empty, so that when a sizeable object appeared in it all raised their heads.

The object had the shape of a flat disc and seemed to be transparent in the middle; it bore some resem­blance to a jellyfish, if anyone had ever looked up at a jellyfish from under the water; or else it could have been best compared to the seed-head of a dandelion, somewhat flattened. Imagine picking a dandelion and blowing at it to make all the fluff scatter, but it doesn't and the dandelion just flies up high and there, at a great height, grows to an enormous size and then be­gins to descend again – that would provide exactly the same picture.

The object continued to grow in size and the alarm of those looking up at it grew correspondingly: what if it covered the whole field or the whole neighbor­hood, or the whole hemisphere? But their alarm was so vague that they could not decide whether or not to seek safety in running away.

The team leader, Filipp Semyonovich, his arms akimbo, looked up together with everyone else, then, his head still raised skyward, he beckoned with a masterly gesture to his assistant and commanded curtly as a surgeon: 'Volodya, off to the village at a run. Bring back bread, salt and a towel... Double-quick!'

Volodya disappeared, and when he materialized again the object had announced its presence not only to the eyes but also to the ears by high-pitched sound; the local accordionist maintained later that it was the melody of a popular song, Felt Boots.

In the meantime the object descended so low that one could make out a pattern on its underbelly. Later it became clear that that was no idle decoration but a network of tubes. Then the music died down and the apparatus, which turned out to be the size of a pedi­gree bull, settled onto the plowed field.

The team leader, Filipp Semyonovich, took the towel, bread and salt from Volodya and command­ed:

'Follow me, everybody. In proper order! No push­ing!' Upon which he moved toward the fluff-retain­ing dandelion, or jellyfish, the size of a pedigree bull.

In the meantime two creatures emerged from the belly of the jellyfish. Needless to say, they were wear­ing spacesuits. They were of medium height, but of infant-like proportions – a huge head under the glass dome, the body laced into a corset made of some­thing like a boa-constrictor, and short, but it seemed, jointed legs which allowed the creatures to make fast, mincing steps over the soft plowed soil. The crea­tures waved their upper limbs which had fingers grow­ing apparently from the elbows, each digit about half a meter in length; It was with these limbs that the unexpected arrivals were waving.

'They've got grabbing hands for sure!' Filipp Se­myonovich muttered to himself, while the bread in his hands shook slightly and a bit of salt spilt out of the saltcellar; but Filipp Semyonovich did not notice it

In the meantime the creatures had spread out a sort of map and were gesticulating in evident vexa­tion, that is if their emotions were in any degree sim­ilar to ours.

Finally they quietened down and stared at the approaching crowd headed by the team leader. Some­thing like hope showed in their disappointed faces. And when Filipp Semyonovich, pale but full of dig­nity, opened his mouth to shout in a strained voice: 'Welcome to you, dear guests!' he was stopped by the comprehensible gesture of an outstretched wav­ing cosmic palm.

The creature who had waved pressed a button on his suit, switching on a portable microphone from which issued in impeccable accents of the local dia­lect:

'You didn't come across a spade somewhere here­abouts by any chance?'

The reporter's microphone was then pushed un­der Filipp Semyonovich's nose.

'What spade?' the bewildered team leader mum­bled.

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'You see, 700 million years, 11 months, 4 days, 5 hours, and 48 minutes ago our people visited this planet with the aim of replenishing our Andromeda menagerie with diplodoci. Mission accomplished, it was noticed before the takeoff — exactly from this spot — that one of the apparatus wheels had got stuck in the mud. The wheel was eventually extricated by means of a spade, but when they returned home the auditing commission established that some scatter-brain had left the spade behind, on your' planet They failed to identify the culprit because during the time of the flight eighty generations had succeeded one other. Anyway it was necessary to return here ur­gently to retrieve the public property. Thanks to our ancestors, eighty generations removed, this honor­able task fell to our lot. So you haven't chanced upon a spade?'

'A spade?' Filipp Semyonovich asked once again in a horrified voice. 'But we have plenty of spades... Volodya,' he addressed his assistant, 'run to the ware­house and bring a couple of the newest.'

'Certainly not!' a hurried voice sounded from the microphone. 'Wouldn't hear of it. We need that par­ticular spade. It bears a stamp. It's an inventory item. It all happened precisely here, the calculations are exact, yet there is no spade... Bad luck.'

Filipp Semyonovich looked at the visitors with a fatherly concern. 'Let Volodya bring you the spades, they're just as good to dig with as any, it's no more than half an hour from here to the warehouse at a trot.'

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'Oh no, that will never do,' the microphone re­plied sadly. 'It's either that particular spade or none at all. We have a single-task program. Have to make an empty run back now. Well... what chance did we have of finding it?'

'And what will they do about it now?' Filipp Se­myonovich asked compassionately. - 'A court trial,' the microphone said. 'Not that it is our worry. We've done our duty. It's our descen­dants, eighty generations removed, who'll have to answer for it...'

The creature switched off, and together with his male (or female) companion climbed back into the belly of the jellyfish.

Both of them waved hands again in farewell and smoothly took off.

There was more music, but not so cheerful as at their landing. The local accordionist maintained later that it was the popular song Lost Among the
Tall Wheat.

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The Next Frontier

For 25 years, the Pioneer 10 spacecraft has been exploring the solar system. But now it has come to the end of its useful life. That won’t be the end of the spacecraft, though. In fact, it’s likely it will still be travelling through space long after the earth has disappeared.

If Pioneer 10 is ever seen again, it won't be by human eyes. Since its launch in 1972, the craft has been following a course which will eventually take it into interstellar space, making it one of the first man-made objects ever to leave the Solar System.

But that event lies some way in the future. At present, Pioneer 10 is still safely within the Solar System, despite the fact that it passed the orbit of Pluto — the solar system's outermost planet — over 13 years ago. It is now 10 billion kilometres from the Sun. At this vast distance, its signals, which travel at 300.000km per second — the speed of light — take over nine hours to reach Earth.

For years, astronomers have been waiting for Pioneer 10 to reach interstellar space. At first, it was thought that the Solar System ended just beyond the orbit of Pluto. But, as Pioneer 10 has traveled away from the Sun, it has been sending back messages which reveal that the solar wind — a stream of charged particles that emanate from the Sun — extends way beyond the outermost planet. After each message from the distant craft, astronomers have had to revise their estimates of the size of the solar system, which is proving to be far bigger than anyone imagined. Only when the 'solar wind' can no longer be detected will Pioneer 10 have truly reached interstellar space.

Pioneer, as its name implies, heralded the beginning of mankind’s exploration of the solar system. It was the first spaceship to travel beyond the orbit of Mars, and the first to cross the Asteroid Belt – the vast collection of rocks and debris that orbit the Sun between Mars and Jupiter.

Before Pioneer 10, no spacecraft had attempted to go be­yond Mars. One reason was the Asteroid Belt (which was) much feared because, besides the large asteroids, there’s also dust and debris. And with a spacecraft travelling at 30,000 kilometres per hour, a small piece of dust can do a lot of damage.

Once passed the Asteroid Belt, Pioneer's next encounter was with Jupiter, the largest planet in the Solar System. It arrived in November 1973, the first time any man-made craft had ever gone near any of the outer planets.

Jupiter was the last place Pioneer 10 visited. Since then, it has been travelling through interplanetary space, exploring the solar wind. Originally, scientists thought that the solar wind ended close to Jupiter, which is nearly 300 million kilometres from the Sun. But the Sun emits a million tons of material a second into interplanetary space and this becomes the solar wind (which) blows away at a speed of .about 400 kilometres per second. Now, as it expands, it actually takes with it the solar magnetic field, and creates a structure called the heliosphere. And this is what Pioneer has been exploring for the past 20 years.

The heliosphere is believed to ex­tend 18 billion. kilometres into space. This means that Pioneer is only just over halfway to the edge of the solar system. Moreover, be­cause its power will run out within a year, Pioneer will not even be able to tell us when it reaches the edge of the solar system. It's a sad irony that when one of humanity's greatest accomplishments is achieved, it will be by a silent spacecraft, which 'died' two decades earlier.

Dead it may be, but Pioneer 10's 'corpse' will be around for aeons yet. It may even outlast the Earth, which will be destroyed in about five billion years, when the Sun runs out of hydrogen fuel and expands, enveloping the solar system’s inner planets. In the meantime, Pioneer 10 will continue to drift through interstellar space. But the chances of it ever being detected by another life-form are so remote as to be incalculable. Nevertheless, it does carry some information about its senders. Attached to it is a goldplated plaque, de­signed by the late American astronomer, Carl Sagan. It shows a naked man and woman, atomic hydrogen, and the solar system. Information, Sagan said, that shows 'where we are, when we are, and who we are'.

After Pioneer.The Pioneer 10 spacecraft may have been put into retire­ment, but two other craft, Voyagers 1 and 2, are still functioning well and should continue to do so well into the next century.

Like Pioneer 10, the Voyagers are now far beyond the orbit of Pluto. They were launched later than Pioneer 10 and its sister craft Pioneer 11, which astronomers lose con­tact with over two years ago.

The Voyagers have been among the most successful craft in the history of solar system exploration. They discovered that Jupiter has a ring around it, which cannot be seen from Earth; they found active volcanoes, ice-oceans on its moon Europa; and they discovered three new Jovian moons— the tiny satellites of Adrastea, Metis and Thebes.

Voyagers 1 and 2 are now ten and eight billion kilometres from the Sun respectively. And astronomers believe they may be about to make their most impressive discovery yet. Evi­dence suggests that, when Voyager 1 reaches the edge of the Solar Sys­tem, it may hit a giant shock wave, which is thought to occur where the solar wind meets interstellar space. This shock wave occurs when par­ticles from the solar wind — trav­elling at up to 800 kilometres per second — collide with the much less dense interstellar medium, where particles travel at speeds of 'only' 20 kilometres per second.

But, if it exists, the shock wave lies eight billion kilometres further away than Voyager 1’s current position. Astronomers predict that the Voyagers have enough power to take them just beyond the shock wave. After that they, like the Pio­neers, will fall silent. But the bigger part of their journey will still stretch before them for millions of years.

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