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Because any solution, which sea water is, contains more than water only. Salt is the principle "contaminant' and the slight tendency of the little sodium (+) and chloride (-) ions to slow down the water molecules by electrical attraction at the molecular level, slightly more energy [higher temperature] is required to release the the water. FYI as you boil seawater down and the salt concentrates a higher and higher temperature will be required to "release" the water.
coz of the salt
The vapor pressure of the water is decreased because the water is effectively diluted by the salt. Because the vapor pressure is decreased, the water must get hotter in order for the vapor pressure to equal the atmospheric pressure and therefore boil.
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Beard, Mystics no longer in background
Thursday was just another ordinary night in the WNBA.
|While there's no mystery as to which four East teams will reach the playoffs, the West remains fairly wide open. Los Angeles looks to clinch the top spot, especially with Sacramento's recent three-game skid, which the Monarchs snapped Sunday.
The big debate might be whether the Monarchs can hold off the Comets for second place in the division. Through Sunday, the Monarchs' lead is just one game, and their matchup in Sacramento on Tuesday could be key, although Houston is already 3-0 vs. the defending champs this season.
Seattle, which sits two games back of Houston, remains the favorite for fourth in the West, despite a one-point loss to L.A. at home on Sunday -- the first day this season all 14 teams have played. The Storm are 1½ games ahead of San Antonio, but truly have no breathing room as the last few weeks have been marred with inconsistent play.
-- Nancy Lieberman
Chicago lost. Houston won. And, as usual, all eyes were on Diana Taurasi.
And for good reason. The Phoenix All-Star -- who's a fan favorite from coast to coast after winning three straight NCAA titles at Connecticut -- tied this season's single-game scoring high with a career-best 41 points. Though the Mercury ended up losing, the second straight defeat in what has become a four-game skid, Taurasi also became the first player to score more than 32 points against Houston in the franchise's storied 10-year history.
Several states away, meanwhile, Alana Beard was blowing it up, too. Just four days after a career-high 30 points, the Washington star notched 26 to lead the Mystics in a rout of the Sky.
And no one noticed. While it's fair to say a win over Chicago this season is nothing to brag about (the expansion Sky have won a woeful four games), it's also fair to note that Beard's efforts have long remained in the background.
No matter the game or the night, Beard continues to be one of the WNBA's best all-around players. But like Katie Smith (and through no fault of Taurasi's), the focus always seems to fall on Beard's peers. Perhaps it's because she went to a college in hopes of helping it build a dynasty rather than add another wing to its trophy case -- and then never did win that national championship at Duke. But more likely, Beard -- does anyone even remember she unseated Taurasi to win the 2004 Wade Trophy? -- remains out of the spotlight because the soft-spoken, two-time All-Star never seeks it.
Though that in itself is one of Beard's most revered traits, she has transformed into a fantastic pro who is respected by both players and coaches around the league. And if her personality isn't flamboyant, her stats are in this, her third season, which is easily the best of her pro career.
Through Sunday, Beard's averaging 18.0 points, four more per game than last summer, and shooting 49.7 percent from the field, which is about a 12 percent jump over 2005. She also averages 4.5 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 1.8 steals and shoots 76 percent at the foul line -- all while averaging almost three minutes less than last summer.
And though Beard followed Taurasi as the second overall pick in the 2004 WNBA draft, she also accomplished something Taurasi hasn't: Beard has led her team to the playoffs -- twice.
Despite Beard getting ejected in the second quarter after drawing two technical fouls for arguing a charging call, Washington clinched its second playoff berth in three seasons with a win over Charlotte Sunday. All four spots in the East are now spoken for. Though Washington -- which has six games left, including tough road games at Seattle and Sacramento and home dates with Los Angeles and Detroit -- will likely finish fourth and end up facing Connecticut in the first round of the playoffs, the Mystics are a team no one would choose to face in the postseason.
That, of course, is because of Beard, who continues to baffle defenses even though everybody's coming after her. She has helped Washington win six of its last nine games and rack up an 11-7 conference record. Beard is also the catalyst behind the Mystics' No. 1 ranking in field-goal percentage (.460) and No. 3 rankings in scoring (80.07 ppg) and steals per game (9.15).
Still, the best part about Beard's game is her versatility. She's hardly the best 3-point shooter in the league, but she can knock it down from downtown. She's a slasher who makes you pay at the free-throw line. As her field-goal percentage and solid assists-per-game average indicates, she doesn't force shots. And her abilities on the glass help give the Mystics a perimeter that can rebound.
"I think she's one of the new breed that's sweeping the WNBA, great athlete and smart," Sacramento coach John Whisenant said on the Mystics' Web site earlier this season. "I'd like to have her on my team because of her [ability] to cause havoc in the defensive end."
Though Beard's work ethic and athleticism sometimes make her job look easy on the court, the journey this season has been anything but. Some could argue that the Mystics started out at a disadvantage simply because they were adjusting to a new point guard -- even one as talented as D.C. native Nikki Teasley -- after trading away Temeka Johnson, last season's rookie of the year. At the very least, it put tremendous pressure on Beard early on to help carry the load as Teasley made the transition.
Still, the Mystics' season was promising from the start, after they jumped to a 7-3 record. But then they lost five of their next six, and have hovered around .500 since, falling below the mark as recently as July 25 before improving to 15-13 Sunday.
Part of the struggles can be traced to injuries to both DeLisha Milton-Jones and Beard. Milton-Jones, an eight-year veteran, was lost for 11 games after she suffered a sprained MCL on June 17. Beard, who increased her attempts per game and offensive aggressiveness during Milton-Jones' absence, then suffered an ankle injury on July 1, causing her to miss two games and play two more in obvious pain heading into the All-Star break.
Beard -- who (no surprise here) fans passed over as an All-Star starter -- wasn't even sure she would play in the midseason classic. But after Connecticut's Nykesha Sales bowed out with an injury, Beard, who East All-Star coach Mike Thibault had selected as a reserve, was "promoted" to an All-Star starter and finished the July 12 game with six points on 3-for-6 shooting in 15 minutes.
Since the All-Star break, however, the Mystics are 5-3, and got another boost on July 19 when Milton-Jones returned. And when Beard's game was cut short Sunday by the ejection, Milton-Jones stepped up, scoring a career-high 26 points. She was one of three players in double-digits.
"We want to find our niche and jell even more into the playoffs," said center Chasity Melvin, who had 12 points in Sunday's win. "We're getting everybody back healthy. We're trying to find the same chemistry we had when we started the season."
And that's good news for Beard and the Mystics, whether the spotlight finds them or not.Nancy Lieberman, an ESPN analyst and Hall of Famer, is a regular contributor to ESPN.com's women's basketball coverage. Contact her at www.nancylieberman.com.
Nancy LiebermanBasketball analyst / Writer
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The creator of a fantastic fiction universe gets to set the rules for how the stock fictional creatures and peoples work. There are a bunch of mythological creatures that are, as a whole, vaguely defined, and even though their recognizable traits (blood-sucking, flying, fiery breath etc.) are widely known, they need to be cleared up and re-defined to be able to appear as actual characters in a particular work. However, the audience is going to want said creator to stick pretty close to the rules they pick. A writer uses this trope any time they want to use a famous critter or race without having to deal with the all of the various baggage said critter has accumulated in folklore and pop culture over the years, allowing them to leverage existing tropes and characteristics only as much as they want to. So in the end, when they use a term like "elf" or "vampire", we have a pretty good idea what to expect, but at the same time we know that there may be something off about it compared to somebody else's book. Fantasy RPG creators often engage in this while populating their worlds, rulebooks and monster manuals. As well as getting the various creatures to fit properly in their particular fantasy scenario and play nice with their game mechanic, they often want to produce as big and varied a bestiary as they can. So, for example, if two folkloric creatures are so similar as to be interchangeable, one or both may end up being altered just to make them distinct and justify separate entries. A similar thing can happen if a creature is known by more than one traditional name. In some cases, a single creature will be spun off into several varieties, often distinguished by colour or habitat. A violation of Genre Consistency, but (usually) not of Internal Consistency. For an index of all fictional creatures see the imaginatively named Index of Fictional Creatures. See also Stock Monster Symbolism.


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At the time of the Pearl Harbor attack, the U.S. Army did not have a standardized sniper rifle. Early in the war, the Army Ground Forces requested that a sniper version of the M1 Garand rifle equipped with a telescopic sight be developed. However, it was immediately apparent that the M1 rifle's action would require an entirely different approach than most bolt-action sniper rifles—which mounted a telescope directly over the receiver. Since the M1 had to be loaded from the top, a telescope mounted in such a location would not be feasible. The U.S. Army Ordnance Dept. tested several possible solutions—including a prismatic telescope with the eyepiece centered over the M1's rear sight but with the body of the scope offset to provide the necessary clearance for the action. While it and other M1 rifle-based sniper designs were evaluated, a slightly modified Remington Model 1903A3 bolt-action rifle was adopted in early 1943 as the "U.S. Rifle, Caliber .30, M1903A4, Snipers" as more or less an interim measure. Sizeable numbers of '03A4 sniper rifles were produced and widely issued during the war until a satisfactory Garand sniper rifle could be developed.
Testing of the several proposed designs for M1 sniper rifles concluded that the best solution would be to mount the telescope on the left side of the receiver so normal functioning of the rifle would be unaffected. Such an offset location required a leather cheek pad be attached to the stock to properly position the shooter's face, but that was not viewed as a serious detriment.
Two prototype Garand sniper rifles designed to mount a scope on the left side of the receiver were eventually selected and differed primarily in the configuration and placement of the scope base and mount. The first design, designated as the "M1E7," featured a bracket fastened to the left side of the receiver for a telescope mount. Both the bracket and mount were developed by the well-known civilian firm of Griffin & Howe. Five holes were drilled into the side of the M1C receiver for attachment of the mounting bracket. Three of the holes were threaded for screws and two were for taper pins to hold the bracket in alignment while it was assembled. Otherwise, the rifle's configuration remained unchanged. The rifle was eventually adopted on July 27, 1944, as the "U.S. Rifle, Cal. .30, M1C, Snipers."
The other design was the "M1E8," which featured a base permanently attached to the rear of the barrel. The barrel-mounted base was designed to accept a scope mount with a large knurled knob that permitted the scope to be quickly removed. The M1E8 base and mount were designed by John Garand. The design was eventually adopted as the "U.S. Rifle, Cal. .30, M1D, Snipers."
Although both designs were standardized, for several reasons it was decided by Ordnance to put the M1C into production rather than the M1D. As initial production began, the receivers were heat-treated with the mounting bracket installed. But it was eventually discovered that the different composition of metallurgy between the two components could cause the assembled unit to warp. When this defect was discovered, the procedure was changed and the receivers and brackets were heat-treated separately prior to assembly. Other production glitches that negatively affected the accuracy of the new Garand sniper rifles were encountered but most were eventually solved.
The M1C serial numbers were in the approximate 3,100,000 to 3,800,000 range. While the M1 receivers used to fabricate M1C rifles were regular Springfield Armory production, they were selected in distinct "batches" or "blocks."
The "M73" telescopic sight was standardized for use with M1C rifle in October 1944. This scope, made by the Lyman Co., was the military's designation for the company's "Alaskan" all-weather scope. The scope was later modified by the addition of a sliding rain/sun shade on the objective end, and the modified scope was re-designated "M81." The magnification was 2.2X, and the scope had a crosshair reticle. The M81 was soon superseded by the M82 which differed mainly in the substitution of a tapered post for the crosshair reticle.
In order to help conceal a sniper's position and reduce the possibility of muzzle flash from temporarily blinding the shooter when firing in low-light conditions, such as dawn or dusk, a conical flash hider was adopted on January 25, 1945, as the "Hider, Flash, M2." The M2 flash hider slipped over the muzzle and was secured in place by clamping onto the rifle's bayonet lug. It was eventually superseded after the war by the "T37" flash hider. It was not uncommon for the flash hiders to be removed as they were of only marginal use and could negatively affect the accuracy of the rifle.
The initial M1C contract during World War II called for the manufacture of 21,158 rifles. Various problems were encountered, though, including the lack of telescopes and accuracy problems that had to be addressed. This resulted in production falling woefully short of projections, only 7,971 complete M1C rifles were manufactured during World War II. The manufacturing problems and shortage of telescopes severely hampered delivery of the rifles and it was not until, literally, the closing days of the war in the Pacific that M1Cs began to see service. At the conclusion of the war, the M1C was the standardized U.S. military sniping rifle and the M1D was designated "Substitute Standard."
As hostilities heated up on the Korean peninsula in 1950, demands were soon coming in from the using services for sniper rifles. Other than the relative handful of M1C rifles fielded very late in the conflict, the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps fought World War II with bolt-action sniper rifles. In order to meet the sudden demand, plans were formulated in early 1951 to put the M1C sniper rifle back into production.
Springfield Armory records indicate that a total of 4,796 M1C rifles were manufactured in the 1951-1953 period. Many, if not all, of these post-World War II M1C rifles were fabricated using some of an estimated 18,000 to 19,000 M1C receivers remaining in storage at the Armory since 1945. These receivers had the five holes drilled in the side, but were never assembled into complete rifles during World War II. It is doubtful if any meaningful number of these newly minted early 1950s assembled Garand sniper rifles made it to Korea prior to the cessation of hostilities. Thus, the M1Cs used in that conflict were likely World War II production rifles.
Since the M1C rifles fabricated in the early 1950s apparently utilized World War II receivers previously drilled and tapped by Griffin & Howe during that war, those receivers were serially numbered in the original M1C range. After attaching the bracket to the receiver, the rifles would be essentially the same as the World War II-assembled M1Cs except for the barrel dates and several other minor details. While functionally identical, there were three distinct types of M1C rifles in U.S. service that can be categorized by the following characteristics:
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The reason for the season?
Just who the heck am I talking about here?
- Keeps track of who is being good and bad
- Rewards according to the list
- Knows what you are doing at all times
- Is aware of your requests for gifts and such
- Parents teach their children about him
- Has helpers of lesser abilities than himself
- Has supernatural powers
- Is known as loving and kind
- No one ever sees him
- Gets credit for things he doesn't actually do
- Lots of songs about him
- Immortal
- May have origins in some historical character
- His example may inspire generosity in some people
- Does some rather weird miraculous things
Happy holidays whilst you figure on that. :D
Why can't you just respect my beliefs?
Isn't that a terribly common cry to hear from those who still believe? You try to engage them in some sort of dialogue about your doubts, they give some pat answers, you shoot those down easily, and then they act like you're attacking their faith, they get defensive, and they cry, "Why can't you just respect my beliefs?"
I have to admit that my first thought in response to this accords with a quote I found by Bertrand Russell. "There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. Almost inevitably some part of him is aware that they are myths and that he believes them only because they are comforting. But he dare not face this thought! Moreover, since he is aware, however dimly, that his opinions are not rational, he becomes furious when they are disputed."
How perceptive of Mr. Russell. The real problem with believers, and the real reason they are so easily upset, is a deep-seated insecurity. As I brought up in a previous post, God is really a surrogate parent. So believers who have their faith challenged are afraid of losing their parent, and by extension, their whole "faith family". The cry, "Why can't you just respect my beliefs?" can be translated more realistically to "Don't take away my comfort and security! You're scaring me!"
For me this realization brings me to wonder, "How do I get past this blockage? How do I help someone to set aside their insecurities and face their fears? How do I help them to grow up enough to face the world as an independent adult when they've been leaning on a parental figure for so long?"
From the experiences of just about everyone on this forum, I think it must be concluded that this process happens in a stepwise fashion, not all at once. These steps of course can differ for everyone, but there are some common elements.
- Doubts have to lodge in the mind of a believer and grow there.
- The believer needs to have some idea of life apart from his/her known faith.
- The believer has to develop some firm idea that something is true apart from what he/she has held heretofore.
- The believer has to be able to figure out how to deal with the cost of deconversion. After all he/she stands to lose friends, family, and more.
Of course there are probably more elements to add, but these are ones I can readily think of. The upshot of all of them is that respecting someone's beliefs, or if you will not exacerbating someone's fears, can be complicated. Still and all we do need to take the trouble to try to awaken people from their errors.
Why that last statement? Quite simply because religious beliefs aren't just benign and powerless. They're not like Easter Bunny myths. No, religious beliefs are constantly being thrust into politics, laws, school systems, and into the next generation of vulnerable, young brains.
I admit that I'm not the sort of fellow who likes to upset my religious friends and acquaintances by yanking away their security blankets and setting them into crying fits. But I also don't want to live under Sharia law, or Old Testament law, or under some interpretation of New Testament law.
And I must hasten to add this point. At the end of the day, religious people aren't usually very respectful of unbelief are they? Not really. Not often. Do unto others and so forth is supposed to be a prinicple they live by though isn't it? (I not the one who make that rule up ya know.)
So here's the conclusion that I get pulled to: I can't respect your belief if that means letting you go on disrespecting mine, or demanding that your beliefs dictate how I should live, or allowing fantasies and poor performance to substitute for education. None of that deserves respect. In the end that's really the final answer to the question isn't it?
"Why can't you just respect my beliefs?" …… "Because your beliefs don't earn respect." :(
Built in irrationality
Once again I am lifting verbiage directly from someone who has been absolutely brilliant. In this case the poster on another site is know only as Dr. X. I know nothing more of him. Only that this post of his is wonderful in it's insight. No one theory is likely to cover everyone and this one surely leaves out some people, but I find it highly resonant with me and surely with many others on this site. I think it provides insight into the inner motivations of so many people who are reluctant to change and may even may even strengthen belief in the face of conflicting evidence (the backfire effect).
There is abundant evidence from psychological research that irrationality is built into us, and that pre-rational heuristics govern our beliefs far more than rationality. Ideologies, social bonds and group identifications, not training, determine the ability of most of us to process evidence in dealing with matters related to our sense of social alliances. It's easy to see how this powerful tendency was selected in human beings and no reason to assume that vulnerability to bias is trained into people or that we can be trained out of bias in some general sense during childhood. My mother loved me when I was born, not because of any inherent quality in me that made me more worthy of love. She regularly acted with disregard for her own interests to protect me. So much of our survival is based on pre-rational, preconscious tendencies and heuristics, while reason is a rather lowly step-child in social relations, and that would generally hold true for group identity.
Reasoning is only a shaky overlay on non-conscious, pre-rational processes. One problem is that reasoning can actually be used quite effectively to support pre-determined views. In people who are more intelligent, the tendency is all the more pronounced. Smart people can talk themselves into a lot of things that aren't true and sound very thoughtful and rational while they do it. A less intelligent person will be more comfortable with blunt denial. A brighter person will erect complex intellectual systems of justification without awareness that their opinion was already formed. It isn't that those systems and reasons are necessarily wrong; quite often they're right. The point is that the intellectual wouldn't have gotten there if a strong tribal identification was standing in the way. Quite often, smart people who can earn an A+ in a Logic 101, go into false territory and cannot be talked out of it because of an existing group identification and the perception that the enemy holds an opposing position.
I think wingnuts are especially crazy at this time because of the power of their group identity and the perception of a serious threat to the group. The evolved adaptive response to this situation is to become nuts in support of the tribe and nuts in contempt for the opposition.
I also think that the history of the American South in relation to race and to Washington, the capital of the n-loving conqueror, is at the core of the wingnut identity. Republicans have ruthlessly and successfully exploited a fusion between downtrodden (read threatened) Southern, white group identity and an assortment of geographical, educational and religious markers, as well as a variety of cultural tics and habits that extend the identity well beyond the American South. In each of these areas, the idea has been promoted that white people, especially non-urban white men, are members of a unified tribe that is in a fight for its life, under attack from outside enemies. A person who identifies with that group and takes on that sense of life or death threat will not join the discussion as a reasoning, evidence-processing participant. They're at war with the mental equivalent of Hitler or Stalin or pick your historical enemy who was beyond a reasoning and good-faith discussion.
Why do some of us decouple from our early group identities and change our beliefs? I think there are many circumstantial and internal reasons that it can happen. I used to think I reasoned my way out of my early tribal alliances, but I'm now convinced that reason was only introduced to the extent that my tribal bonds were fraying for other reasons.
Religion, rather than poisoning everything, is IMO usually a group identity not unlike any other group identity. It's impact become poisonous when that identity feels threatened, but that's not because religious people aren't taught to reason. It's because of group identification and evolved responses to group threat.
Huge thanks to Dr. X
The concept of God as a surrogate parent
This explanation of the concept of God is something that really took hold in my mind once I heard it. The idea simply encompasses so much and explains it so well.
Up front admission: I am borrowing wording heavily from others in putting this together.
This quote popped out at me powerfully from one of the videos in the series I linked in my last post. "The primary psychological function of the concept of a personal god is to give the believer a surrogate parent. Some minds are able to become independent of parental figures; others cannot or fall into self-destructive behaviors without them. Minds in this category rely on religion. The God concept is useful for motivating and pacifying them."
As soon as I heard this I knew that I'd come upon something profoundly true and began looking into it further. I did find some scholarly papers on the topic and a presentation or two. (I much enjoy the work presented by Professor J. Anderson Thomson who hits on several excellent points besides this one.) But I must credit someone who goes by the handle Copernicus on 'The Secular Cafe' for his brilliant summary of this whole God(s)-as-parent concept. Following are his words:
–One thing that is common to all humans is the fact that we start out with absolute trust in the judgment of adults–usually our parents. We learn morality–the difference between good and bad behavior–from them. Adults are mysterious beings that are omniscient, omnipotent, and omnibenevolent. They provided all nourishment and protection.
Most people seem wedded to the intuition that morality is "objective". That is, it comes from a single authoritative source that cannot be questioned. (I prefer the term "authoritative morality" over "objective morality".) Why is that? It is a consequence of how we learned morality in the first place. It wasn't based on the consequences of actions, but on what we were told to do by authority figures.
As we matured, we gradually broke down our dependence on parental authority. This break with authority becomes especially pronounced in the teen years. However, gods (or God, for monotheists) fill in the gap that we leave when we abandon our reliance on the experience, wisdom, and authority of adults. Gods stand in loco parentis for maturing humans.
One thing that we can say about all human beings is that we are all raised by adults, and we first learn moral behavior by fiat from adults. Given that we need to be weaned away from dependence on those adults in order to survive in adulthood, belief in a god can fill in the gap left by the loss of parental authority. Hence, people are very comfortable with the idea that morality is grounded in the authority of a judgmental being–a parent–rather than some abstract utilitarian principle. –
Brilliant Mssr. Copernicus. From all this we can now readily understand why theistic believers become so upset when challenged about their beliefs. Just think of how a child reacts if you impugn the character of his/her parents. In like manner, a biologically adult human who believes in a god or gods is attached to a parent still and will, like a child, bristle because you challeng their source of security, nourishment, and all things good.
Remember how anguished most of us were when we first deconverted? We experienced "leaving home" and for the first time in our lives and we stood alone as true adults without a parent. That is apparently not something most humans want.
Deconversion Videos
Been a looooonnnngggggg time. Found these and just wanted to put them up here for anyone to enjoy.
Actually wanted to link the home page of the guy who created the series but couldn't. So here is the best video to start with. You can click on the YouTube icon near the bottom of the video and get to the rest of the vids in the series.
An Opinion on Atheism Plus
It is not an ideological position that should be the primary goal of those hoping to make the world a better place, but rather the practiced exercise of rationality. Atheism Plus is merely a position that hides the primacy of rationality behind a tag that represents a position that may have been arrived at irrationally. If rationality is maintained as our primary goal, our various positions such as those on the god question, social justice, and humanist ideals will inevitably migrate towards a convergence on maximal rationality. Our commitment to rationality will also serve as the foundation for dialog between positions.


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Macbook Air: The downside
The Macbook Air is only a couple of hours old (to you and me, at least), and only a handful of people have even seen one, so let's pick apart its flaws! Just kidding. This post is meant to point out certain aspects of the little machine that may not be immediately obvious.
- No user-replacable battery. Not the end of the world, for sure, but a nuisance, especially as your battery's life drops to four hours, then three, then ... (but that's a few years away, right?). Shades of the user-inaccessible iPhone battery commotion here.
- Recessed USB slot will hinder certain peripherals. Prepare for a cottage industry of adapters to appear (much like those for the iPhone's headphone jack). Plus, there's only one -- expect small, streamlined & white USB hubs to appear soon.
- No Firewire port. Forget uploading digital video from a camera, or using those spiffy Firewire external hard drives.
Source: http://www.apple.com/macbookair/
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Sachin Tendulkar, in his first press conference post his retirement, revealed how he planned a surprise for his mother so that she could watch her son play for the first and final time. Tendulkar's mother, Rajni Tendulkar, had revealed in an interview to a newspaper close to 10 years ago that she could not bear to watch his son bat live because she would be tensed and she has never been at the grounds to watch the 200-Test, 463-ODI veteran strut his stuff. But her son wanted his final Test to be a special one with his mother in attendance. Speaking at the press conference in Mumbai, Sachin said he had asked the BCCI to host the farewell game in Mumbai so that he could get his mother to watch him play. The Test at Mumbai was Tendulkar's 200th and the final game for India. "I had requested BCCI to keep my farewell match in Mumbai so that my mother can see me playing. I wanted it to be a surprise, she came to know from you (the media)," said Tendulkar. The 40-year old, who ended his cricket career with a sublime 74 against the West Indies, also dedicated the Bharat Ratna award that is to be bestowed to him to his mother for all the sacrifices she's had to make. He added that his mother was extremely happy to see him play. "My mother was extremely happy to see me play. Had requested the MCA to keep a room for me at the guesthouse but my mother preferred to sit and watch every ball. When I went to meet her in the president's box, I could see it in her eyes." Speaking about his brother Ajit Tendulkar, who was instrumental in shaping Tendulkar's career, he said his elder brother was relieved and relaxed after the roller-coaster of emotions yesterday. "My brother Ajit and I shared this dream, both of us used to represent India. Ajit seemed relieved and relaxed yesterday. The emotions that I felt yesterday were shared by Ajit as well. I was in tears yesterday and I didn't want anyone to see me like that." Tendulkar added that his family never lost balance when it came to how he performed and that helped him become better. "The beauty about my family is they never lost balance. Whether I got 100 or 15-20, my father - mother had encouraging words for me. Even yesterday, my mother told me I've kept sweets in front of god. That tradition continues and will never stop. My parents reaction to me when I got back from any tour was not related to how I performed." Tendulkar also requested the media not to hound his son Arjun Tendulkar and to let him 'enjoy the game'. He said if he would have had the same sort of pressure Arjun was being subjected to, he would have most likely been working in the field of literature instead. "I would say, leave Arjun alone and let him enjoy the game. If I had that pressure, I would have a pen in my hand and not a cricket bat as my father was in the field of literature. He is madly in love with cricket and that is what matters - I don't want to put pressure on him," Tendulkar summed up.
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Installed ispconfig3 on centos5.2, seems to work quite well! Was puzzling over the client templates however; when editing client limits, the tabs "Add additional template", and "delete additional template" do not seem to function. Also, I'm probably doing something wrong somewhere, but Addon templates seem to have no effect on the limits.
I tested it on Firefox 3 and it works for me. Which browser do you use?
Firefox 3 as well, have tried on both ubuntu and windows
I'd guess in case of FF it's helpful to have a list of addons / plugins esp. such stuff like noscript etc. that might break any functionality.
No FF extensions are installed. Just gave it a try on Safari as well, same behaviour. So at least it's consistent ;) I'm on the latest svn revision as well (867 I believe).
For reference, this problem went away when switching from CentOS to Debian (lenny)
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Yes, but was it good for you, too, dear Reader? In this highly readable slice of hothouse-flower-life that is the brown man in an icy-white country, you may have been left wanting more. From the excellent title, cover design and opening sentence, you are primed to sample another world, not so far removed that you cannot see how it permeates all our worlds today, but halfway through you're grappling with a sense of dissatisfaction. There's a great deal of titillation, to be sure, but the expected fireworks? Not so much.
It's the story about two products of the subcontinent (really, Pakistan, India, what's the difference?) sharing a flat with a Muslim man, messing about with the local girls, drinking, pontificating, and doing something desultory in the area of education; one his PhD, the other teaching English. Sounds like any college dorm but this, the narrator hints, is something more. The man they are rooming with is a likely terrorist and what they learn about love from the local girls tells them something about themselves.
When it's a question of tackling prejudice, everyone is guilty. You'd think only Westerners see terrorists in anyone with a beard, dark skin or, god help the Sikhs, a turban. But our two brown boys end up judging their Muslim landlord with as much alacrity as any buzz-cut right-winger (as clichéd as turban terrorists). As for their lessons in love, we learn there really is such a thing as being too perfect, which of course is good to know. (This may stem from the fact that we come from a region that has a disorderly charm all its own; are we prejudiced against perfection?)
You have to like the character of Ravi who invokes Plato, Gandhi and Marx when categorising women, thinks that "anyone who invests in relationships is heading for bankruptcy", that the term 'bastard' by which the two friends affectionately address each other is apt because they went to a missionary school and there is "no greater term of honour" in a place that reveres immaculate conception.
Ravi should be writing a dissertation on relationships, actually. He patiently explains how if the Muslim Mr Eng Lit would only present himself as fighting a losing battle with his Faith, racked with "confusion" and anger", he would be more likely to score. Ravi instinctively understands that lovers thrive on drama. Unfortunately, it's that same penchant in himself that proves to be his undoing. Laughably, Mr Eng Lit terms Ravi's insatiable curiosity "the aunts in Ravi", and although his 'wisdom of the ages' can sound juvenile, the reader certainly doesn't expect him to be perfect.
When Ravi falls in love with Lena, who's a bit, er, retentive, he soon begins to doubt his feelings because she's beautiful, loving, respectful, interested — but, alas, too controlled. She very possibly likes the missionary position.
Too-literal dream sequences
Mr Eng Lit, on the other hand, doesn't want to be madly in love, opting instead for "sane attraction". He sounds like a shark, ruthless in mating methods along with everything else, but it's a 'lesson' he learns along the way.
Sometimes the way is superfluous. The dream sequences in the book are too literal, and you're tempted to skip them: A restaurant seating symbolising the segregation of white and black; an airport as a crossroads where you're left wondering which direction to take.
I also saw the denouement between the neighbour Claus and his wife coming almost from the minute they are introduced. Although I did not see the resounding words, which pounced and caught me by the throat: Last line, page 91.
But soon after I was gasping for more. I wanted to hear the dialogues that denoted the passing of that first flush of love/lust to the point where Ravi searches for (and where you search, you will find) faults to use as a lever and extricate himself from Lena. He's the sort of man all women meet at some point; the kind who cannot accept his good fortune and who is at heart emotionally bone-lazy.
I wanted more scenes where the boys meet Danish girls, what an opportunity to see and hear and feel the differences between them, but even where a drunken fight is poised to break out, we are left with a fizzling of passion. I wanted to experience the meetings between Karim Bhai and his Muslim brothers and sisters, where I could understand, or not, their well of angst.
With the little red flags that Khair strews around, wondering for instance if Ravi, wherever he is now, can even ride his beloved bike, I was expecting someone to either be beating their heads against prison bars or at the very least die in a spectacularly senseless fashion.
None of these expectations are met. Not even the 'terrorist' suffers at the hands of an uncomprehending police force. Not one of the lovers stabs the other. Ravi tamely returns to the subcontinent after all his big talk. Mr Eng Lit surrenders to a love life that is as exciting as shopping for groceries.
The last line of the book packs more of a punch. We have too little of worth within us, it prophecies. But the survival of the human species has hinged on the fact that we often transcend what is within us.
This is a well-written, clever, insightful novel, but some of us are much more demanding than either Ravi or Mr Eng Lit could handle.
How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position; Tabish Khair, Fourth Estate, Rs.450.
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Swami, Viren and Steadman, Laura and Tovee, Martin J. (2009) A comparison of body size ideals, body dissatisfaction, and media influence between female track athletes, martial artists, and non-athletes. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 10 (6). pp. 609-614. ISSN 1469-0292


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Great for a dinner on a hot summer evening when you don't feel like cooking over a hot stove, or a great picnic or barbecuedish.
servings4 servings
Ingredients8 oz. package chicken Rice a Roni
2 onion,1/2 green pepper,2 6 oz jars of marinated artichoke hearts (reserve marinade), 1/3 cup (possibly more) mayonaise, 3/4 tsp.curry powder
PreparationCook the Rice a Roni as per instructions on box. Cool. Finely chop onion and green pepper. Add mayonaise and curry powder to the marinade. Mix well.Mix ingredients together. Quarter the artichoke hearts. Refrigerate. A good make ahead dish.
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type: Quick & Easy
main ingredients: Pepper, Rice
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Talk:664: Academia vs. Business
I'm not convinced the problem solved in the comic panels is the fast inverse square root in the title text, as the academia panel implies that it impacts queuing theory, and I'm not sure what fast inv sqrt has to do with queuing theory. 22.214.171.124 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
- Agreed. Fast inv sqrt is clearly referenced in the title text, but the problem in the comic is something else. Alpha (talk) 01:18, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
- I think the example of fast inverse square is more about the bizarrely elegant simplicity of the solution, rather than something related to the solved problem in the comic. (If the above comments are about text that has since been changed, my apologies.)Tryc (talk) 20:57, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
If this ever happened to me, I would quietly release the solution under the GNU license. My getting fired (possibly) is totally worth the public technological progress highly into the future. Greyson (talk) 13:29, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
The explanation is an interesting contrast to my interpretation. The meaning I got was that in academia, this discovery, like any new discovery, is interesting; but in business, this discovery has little practical application (apart from finishing what he was doing) so his boss didn't think twice about it. Maybe I'm too cynical.--18.104.22.168 01:23, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
Derailing the topic entirely, the old woman in the "Academia" panel seems to be a somewhat recurring character, complete with a semi-consistent personality. I propose "Bunhead" for future references. Anonymous17:39, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
- I counter-propose 'MsBun'. 126.96.36.199 00:49, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
Oh, my goodness, "TruthInTelevision"? This isn't TvTropes!22.214.171.124 20:53, 19 January 2014 (UTC)


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Vista Gold Corp. Announces Closing Of Private Placement Financing
DENVER, July 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Vista Gold Corp. (TSX & NYSE MKT Exchanges: VGZ) ("Vista" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has closed its previously announced private placement of units (the "Units"). The Company completed the sale of 5,000,000 Units for gross proceeds of US$15,000,000 (the "Offering"). Each Unit consists of one common share in the capital of the Company (a "Common Share") and one-half of one Common Share purchase warrant (each full warrant, a "Warrant"). Each Warrant entitles the holder thereof to purchase one Common Share at a price of US$3.60 until July 27, 2014.
In connection with the Offering, the Company paid cash commissions in the aggregate of $500,000 and issued a total of 166,667 compensation warrants ("Compensation Warrants") to finders that provided services in respect of subscriptions for 3,333,334 Units. Each Compensation Warrant entitles the holder thereof to purchase one Common Share at a price of US$3.18 until July 27, 2014.
The net proceeds from the Offering will be used for ongoing technical evaluations and engineering studies, exploration/resource conversion drilling and water treatment at the Mt. Todd gold project in Northern Territory, Australia and for general corporate purposes.
The above-described securities have not been registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, (the "U.S. Securities Act") or any state securities laws of any state of the United States, and may not be offered or sold in the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of, a U.S. person (as defined in Regulation S under the U.S. Securities Act) or a person in the United States absent registration under the U.S. Securities Act or an applicable exemption from such registration requirements and in accordance with all applicable state securities laws of any state of the United States. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or solicitation of an offer to buy nor shall there be any sale of the above described securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful.About Vista Gold Vista is focused on the development of the Mt. Todd gold project in Northern Territory, Australia, to achieve its goal of becoming a gold producer. Vista is advancing exploration on its Guadalupe de los Reyes gold/silver project in Mexico and has granted Invecture Group, S.A. de C.V. a right to earn a 62.5% interest in the Concordia gold project in Mexico. Vista's other holdings include the Awak Mas gold project in Indonesia and the Long Valley gold project in California. This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and forward-looking information within the meaning of Canadian securities laws. All statements, other than statements of historical facts, included in this press release that address activities, events or developments that Vista expects or anticipates will or may occur in the future, including such things as, the use of proceeds from the private placement and other such matters are forward-looking statements and forward-looking information. The material factors and assumptions used to develop the forward-looking statements and forward-looking information contained in this press release include the following: our approved business plans, exploration and assay results, mineral resource and reserve estimates and results of preliminary economic assessments, pre-feasibility studies and feasibility studies on our projects, if any. When used in this press release, the words "may", "will", "intends", "goal", "anticipate", and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements and forward-looking information. These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of Vista to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such statements. Such factors include, among others, uncertainty of resource estimates and estimates of results based on such resource estimates; risks relating to cost increases for capital and operating costs; risks relating to delays in the completion of the drilling program; risks related to the adequacy of the design of the drilling program; risks related to the ability to obtain the necessary permits; risks of shortages and fluctuating costs of equipment or supplies; risks relating to fluctuations in the price of gold; the inherently hazardous nature of mining-related activities; potential effects on Vista's operations of environmental regulations in the countries in which it operates; risks due to legal proceedings; risks relating to political and economic instability in certain countries in which it operates; as well as those factors discussed under the headings "Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements" and "Risk Factors" in Vista's latest Annual Report on Form 10-K as filed on March 14, 2012 and Vista's Amendment 1 to its Annual Report filed on April 5, 2012 and other documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Canadian securities regulatory authorities. Although Vista has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in forward-looking statements and forward-looking information, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. Except as required by law, Vista assumes no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements or forward-looking information; whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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Jack Stallard ponders Peyton Manning's future
Jack Stallard is the Sports Editor of the Longview News-Journal.
KETK Sports Director Danny Elzner asked for Jack's opinion on Peyton Manning's future.
Where will Manning play now that the Colts have cut him.
Stallard said, "He wants to go to a good team with a chance to win. Miami is a possibility. But I would pick Arizona. They've got the best wide receiver in Larry Fitzgerald. He's a good guy in the community like Peyton Manning is. They play indoors. They would be my favorite. But you also have to look at Washington because Daniel Snyder is not afraid to spend money."


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As for the third snippet? Well, the six second clip doesn't give away too much but it does help you piece together the song a little. Calvin's latest sounds like another massive electro-house anthem with nostalgic lyrics about summer lovin'. It's probably the closest you're going to get to Ibiza this year without a passport! Listen to the hitmaker's third preview after the jump.
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Today show host Savannah Guthrie isn't one to give up easily!
Yesterday she asked guest Kristen Stewart to confirm whether she's currently in a relationship with Robert Pattinson. As expected, the notoriously private actress gave a pretty vague answer. "I'm just going to let people watch whatever little movie they would like to think our lives are and go for it," she told Guthrie. "Keep 'em guessing, I always say."
But that didn't stop Guthrie from asking Pattinson the very same question on Thursday morning.
"Yesterday, I had asked Kristen if you and she had gotten back together. She said, 'Keep them guessing.' So I'm going to ask you," she said.
Pattinson responded with a laugh, "I want to ask, because we get asked it all the time. It's funny because everyone's always asked for four years. It's like, who is actually asking? Is it in your contract?"
Well, Rob, when your your dirty laundry is aired for the whole world to see, it's hard for people not to be curious!
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The trials of the Phoenix Coyotes, the least popular hockey team in the NHL, offer a lesson in public debt and defeat
In June, the city council of Glendale, Arizona, decided to spend $324 million on the Phoenix Coyotes, an ice hockey team that plays in Glendale's Jobing.com Arena.
The team has been owned by the league itself since its former owner, Jerry Moyes, declared bankruptcy in 2009. For each of the past two seasons, Glendale has paid $25 million to the league to manage the Coyotes, even as the city faced millions of dollars in budget deficits. Now, Greg Jamison, who is also part of the organization that owns the NHL's San Jose Sharks, is making a bid for the team, and would therefore be the beneficiary of the subsidies.
"Take whatever number the sports promoter says and move the decimal one place to the left. Divide it by ten. That's a pretty good estimate of the actual economic impact."
To put the deal in perspective, Glendale's budget gap for 2012 is about $35 million. As the city voted to give a future Coyotes owner hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars, it laid off 49 public workers, and even considered putting its city hall and police station up as collateral to obtain a loan, according to the Arizona Republic. (The latter plan was ultimately scrapped.)
Overall, Glendale is not only on the hook for $15 million per year over two decades to a potential Coyotes owner, but also a $12 million annual debt payment for construction of its arena. In return, according to the Republic, the city receives a measly "$2.2 million in annual rent payments, ticket surcharges, sales taxes and other fees." Even if the Coyotes were to dominate the league like no other in recent memory and return to the Stanley Cup Finals year after year, the city would still lose $9 million annually.
This is an altogether too common problem in professional sports. Across the country, franchises are able to extract taxpayer funding to build and maintain private facilities, promising huge returns for the public in the form of economic development.
For instance, just three of the NFL's 31 stadiums were originally built without public funds. In two of those cases, public funding was later used to upgrade the stadium or surrounding facilities, even as all 32 of the NFL's teams ranked among Forbes' 50 most valuable sporting franchises in the world in 2012. (Only MetLife Stadium, shared by the New York Jets and New York Giants, received no public funding.)
Time after time, politicians wary of letting a local franchise relocate -- as the NBA's Seattle Supersonics did, to Oklahoma City before the 2008-2009 season -- approve public funds, selling the stadiums as public works projects that will boost the local economy and provide a windfall of growth.
However, according to leading sports economists, stadiums and arenas rarely bring about the promised prosperity, and instead leave cities and states mired in debt that they can't pay back before the franchise comes calling for more.
"The basic idea is that sports stadiums typically aren't a good tool for economic development," said Victor Matheson, an economist at Holy Cross who has studied the economic impact of stadium construction for decades. When cities cite studies (often produced by parties with an interest in building the stadium) touting the impact of such projects, there is a simple rule for determining the actual return on investment, Matheson said: "Take whatever number the sports promoter says, take it and move the decimal one place to the left. Divide it by ten, and that's a pretty good estimate of the actual economic impact."
Others agree. While "it is inarguable that within a few blocks you'll have an effect," the results are questionable for metro areas as a whole, Stefan Szymanski, a sports economist at the University of Michigan, said.
There are numerous reasons for the muted economic effects. The biggest is that arenas often sit empty for a significant portion of the year. Jobing.com Arena is guaranteed 41 hockey games annually. The other 324 nights, it must find concerts, conventions or other events to fill the schedule, and in Glendale, where the arena competes with facilities in nearby Phoenix, that can be tough to do.
"We've looked at tons of these things, and the one that we found that seemed to make sense is the Staples Center in Los Angeles," Matheson said. "But they use it 250 dates a year. They don't make sense when you're using it 41 times a year and competing with another venue down the street."
Another reason the projects rarely make sense is because of the way they are structured. Stadiums and arenas are financed with long-term bonds, meaning cities and states will be stuck with the debt for long periods of time (often 30 years). And while cities make 30-year commitments to finance stadiums, their commitments to government workers and other local investments are often made on a year-to-year basis, meaning that, just as in Glendale, it becomes easier to eliminate public sector jobs and programs than to default on debt incurred from arenas.
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