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Well, the internet probably does need more bandwidth to support Netflix.
And I'm not a fan of QoS to get better streaming video either. But is Cerf giving up on fixing the problems with streaming (and any realtime internet work) that we know about, bufferbloat? I heard about that from Jim Gettys (thanks to a tweet from John Carmack). Here's a two-page intro in IEEE magazine or a (more interesting IMHO) PDF slide presentation with nice graphs and there is other advice and documents and code on that bufferbloat website.
See, the problem with streaming isn't just bandwidth, it's latency, and the variability thereof. We always measure and marketers talk about bandwidth, but only rarely if ever about latency. Thus ISPs don't optimize for it as a rule. The result? You get these occassional 6-second lags and other phenomena and little economic incentive to track them or fix them. (And certain data ISPs are at least mildly incented to look the other way since it protects their VOIP/PSTN revenues).
How about ISPs actually implement ECN to deal with it? How about router manufacturers design for this (or we all switch to OpenWRT?) How about we techies develop tools to help consumers monitor line quality latency (ping times) over time? How about consumers actually learn to care about latency or we educate them? It's not "too complicated" for consumers to understand; consumers can differentiate between velocity ("what's your car's fastest speed?") and acceleration ("how quickly can it go from 0 to 60?") so I'm sure we could get them to understand bandwidth versus latency. It's just not well measured/monitored right now. (I think we need a better phrase/metric that captures the notion of latency like the "0 to 60" one for cars.)
If you want to help develop measures of latency, use Bismark (or vote for it in the FCC open apps competition) or come up with an open source ping-until-quit tool that logs timestamps for long time periods and displays the results graphically and/or competitively. Better yet, make a phone app that does this and hooks it to google/whoever's maps and shares the data so fellow consumers can see which areas of the phone company networks really suck. (I'm open to hearing about other tools. I used to use a freeware one but it went payware and the best tools I know of are DSLReports's SmokePing and their other tools.)
100x greater bandwidth may make recorded video faster, but it won't solve core problems with realtime (streaming or video conferencing) video faster, nor web conferencing, nor necessarily online gaming. I sure as hell don't want the internet's quality to become as lousy as cell phones and that's what'll happen over time if we don't keep ISPs we pay the big bucks to focused on fixing the problems.
(Another too-late post...)
The difference between US "Fair Use" and UK "Fair Dealing" is at least somewhat described at https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Fair_dealing#United_Kingdom and in greater detail by a McGill Law Review PDF paper linked there.
As I read it, broadly the UK system enumerates a (restricted, fixed) set of allowed exceptions, while the US system allows any use conceivably to be "fair" pursuant to a set of factors (that are in practice defined by the court as-needed.)
Apparently the UK system doesn't explicitly allow "parody" which is one reason this comes up (as sort of referenced in the BBC article).
But I suspect the UK copyright minister isn't really interested in promoting "parody"; it's more about trying not to strangle the next Google from being invented in the UK. Ask yourself the broader business/economic question like "Google has taken such liberties with copyright fair use in their business model... man that worked out well... why couldn't Google have been invented in the UK? Oh yeah, the copyright system is really picky about what is/isn't allowed and this is anti-innovation; maybe we should legislate by liberty-allowing priority/tests than explictly enumerating consumers' rights and let the courts sort it out".
I've now looked at the Microsoft patent. While I don't know the specifics of the SGI O2 implementation, I doubt they were "processing each of the copies of the frame in parallel, using a different channel of the multiple channels of the GPU" as described in Claim 1. However, IANAL (or should I say IANAPA...)
The claims seem to revolve around handling certain parts of video encoding in a GPU vs certain parts in the CPU but the site is slashdotted so I can't review it at the moment.
All that said, if I were looking for prior art, I would look at SGI patents for SGI's Indigo IMPACT and/or IMPACT Compression board hardware (e.g. see http://www.wordiq.com/definition/SGI_Indigo2) and even better, the slightly later "O2" workstation graphics they implemented in 1997 (see http://www.wordiq.com/definition/SGI_O2 ). The IMPACT graphics video handling was done all in hardware off the CPU as far as I know, but the O2 had a unified memory architecture and integrated graphics in such a way that some video texture operations were handled on the graphics chipset (the MJPEG compression?) and some in the CPU (texture storage in general purpose RAM). Whether this split of CPU/GPU operations matches the claims MS is patenting, I don't know and would welcome informed comment.
(More broadly, I would add that I thought PCs were doing video decoding on the GPU as far back as Nvidia's Riva TNT if not the slightly earlier Riva 128 (1998). Don't know any implementation specifics tho.)
(Sorry I'm posting so late on this topic...)
If cars drive themselves, google's blog claims this could reduce greenhouse emissions.
This seems wishful thinking at best or greenwashing at worst... autonomous cars will be a disaster that will increase greenhouse gasses substantially.
1) because now more people can afford, in terms of their time, to drive further for work. So they will. And
2) if transportation of raw materials is cheaper because drivers aren't needed, the volume of material transported will go up, assuming the demand for goods is somewhat elastic with the price. With the amount of material transported increasing, the gasoline required for that transport and thus the carbon emitted will increase.
Color me a pessimist. Autonomous cars will be great for human freedom, and for human safety, but reduced greenhouse emissions is one thing that will not be a benefit.
Now if Google could build us some nice carpool-sharing app hooked to Google directions, with a reputation engine for the fellow passengers (perhaps in conjunction with their autonomous car work) to avoid unpleasant passenger surprises, *that* I could see helping reduce greenhouse emissions.
The interrupts and NOPs interfered greatly with the network cards, causing the whole thing to come crashing down when more than a couple of the computers were running at a time. It took at least a couple of days for the sysadmin to sort it out.
RIP George, thanks for introducing me to the Internet and I'm sorry that you didn't get to stick around for Linux and
I have a parenthetical aside regarding the word "you".
To take a step back, and at the risk of over-rationalizing this poster's intent, the sloppy language might be due to sloppy thinking, and the sloppy thinking is likely a fruit of a sloppy language-- Modern English. Although it happened before I was born, I've become increasingly aware the decline of the English language in one specific case... we've lost the words to distinguish second-person-singular "you" from second-person-plural "you-as-a-group"/"you all". Currently "you" could mean "just you" or it could mean "you and your community"/"you all"/"all of you".
In older english (e.g. Shakespeare or the King James Bible), there is "thee" if it's directed at a single person, and "ye" if its directed at you-as-a-group (Nobody ever explained that to me as a kid! I thought they were the same!) (And thou/you are used for objects of sentences.) And unfortunately, none of the modern multi-word alternatives for a plural "you" slip off the tongue easily or have a neutral connotation, e.g. "you all" or "the lot of you" or "you people". (Although "y'all" and "youse guys" are the regional equivalents of the old "ye".)
For the English-speaking Christians out there, this means if Paul is telling his listeners that "you" should do something, it might (as seen in the Greek or the Spanish or the
I have no idea if this loss of a distinct second-person plural reflects Western individualism, helped caused it, or is a coincidence, but I don't think its a complete coincidence.
It certainly affects the nature of dialog between peoples, since the speaker, lacking a distinct multiple-person-second-person-familiar plural, typically will A) need to attach a label to the other party to (semi-)accurately describe them as a group, (rather than addressing them as "you all" in a more personal relational way), or B) just use "you" which can then lead to a situation as we all just witnessed where they are accused of an ad-hominem attack when that may not have actually been their intention. Their true intention was to lump you together with some unspecified other people, but that's a little different than attacking you personally. In any case, neither options A) nor B) lead to particularly friendly relationship-building outcomes among groups.
Actually none of my comments were meant to discuss re-using a one-time pad. I'm not sure which of my comments you're referring to, but perhaps you are thinking of my comment about splitting a 1TB one-time pad into 10 components, each for use with one of 10 different parties. That's not re-use. Otherwise, I completely agree with your comments that using a one-time pad multiple times is, by definition, no longer a one-time pad and has much different security properties.
I've been thinking this same thing (using USB keys for a OTP, and "why don't we do that?") for a couple years now, but 10 minutes after reading your post, the following problems/"considerations" with the USB OTP approach did start to enter my mind:
1) I can see that with a big 2TB pad, you'd also want/need to cycle through pads... the longer you keep the same pad without destroying it, the more data an attacker can get with rubber-hose cryptography if they recover your pad... by coming to your(or his/her) house with a gun and ripping the USB key off your neck. Or seizing it when you/they travel.
2) Also, the other trouble I can forsee with OTPs is that you need one of them for each person you need to communicate with securely. Typically if you are doing something needing this security, you are not doing it with just one other person... you also need to communicate with multiple parties. Once you have 5-10 parties to communicate securely with, the OTP can get a little cumbersome. Carrying around 5-10 USB keys and keeping them straight? And I can't envision it working with 200+ counterparties (a USB-OTP-for-the-web scenario). If you partition your 1TB USB into, say, 10 parts, one for each counterparty, you still have problems. You still need to get 1/10th of that USB key to each of the other parties without giving them the other 9/10ths of the key. (Or your whole gang could use a set of the same 1TB keys and you are trading off convenience versus chances of an informant/leaker, and if you're paranoid enough to be using 1TB OTP, why make that tradeoff?) And don't the counterparties need to communicate so they need their own web of keys?
3) There is the little problem of USB-PC security: wouldn't putting the USB key in a PC expose your whole OTP to the perhaps-infected PC? How does this actually work?
One can see that subversion-resistant secure random number generation, secure transport, and secure key usage, and secure key destruction are all required to make OTPs actually secure.
I predict someone will attempt to market USB one-time pads within 5 years as a sort of snake-oil bandaid, and I can see a distant future where they get used, but I don't see them becoming used widely/securely particularly soon. (Disclaimer: bank tokens that give you 5-digit codes for authenticating transactions do make a lot more sense to me however and might be one targetted use of this technology.)
P.S. I have not read the security literature on one-time pads. Forgive me if I'm stating the obvious.
P.P.S. I was kind of stunned last week though when getting a mini-SD card for my phone that I can, for $50, get something that is literally the width/length/thickness of my pinkie fingernail that contains 8GB.
In other words, the KDE team destroyed a perfectly functioning desktop environment to build a better Weatherbug.
This is a perfect summary of may reaction to KDE4. Mod parent up.
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How do logs stay afloat in water?
After trees are cut, logging companies often move these materials down a river to a sawmill where they can be shaped into building materials or other products. The logs float on the water because they are less dense than the water they are in. Knowledge of density is important in the characterization and separation of materials. Information about density allows us to make predictions about the behavior of matter.
A golf ball and a table tennis ball are about the same size. However, the golf ball is much heavier than the table tennis ball. Now imagine a similar size ball made out of lead. That would be very heavy indeed! What are we comparing? By comparing the mass of an object relative to its size, we are studying a property called density. Density is the ratio of the mass of an object to its volume.
Density is an intensive property, meaning that it does not depend on the amount of material present in the sample. Water has a density of 1.0 g/mL. That density is the same whether you have a small glass of water or a swimming pool full of water. Density is a property that is constant for the particular identity of the matter being studied.
The SI units of density are kilograms per cubic meter (kg/m3), since the kg and the m are the SI units for mass and length respectively. In everyday usage in a laboratory, this unit is awkwardly large. Most solids and liquids have densities that are conveniently expressed in grams per cubic centimeter (g/cm3). Since a cubic centimeter is equal to a milliliter, density units can also be expressed as g/mL. Gases are much less dense than solids and liquids, so their densities are often reported in g/L. Densities of some common substances at 20°C are listed in Table below.
Liquids and Solids | Density at 20°C (g/ml) | Gases | Density at 20°C (g/L) |
Ethanol | 0.79 | Hydrogen | 0.084 |
Ice (0°C) | 0.917 | Helium | 0.166 |
Corn oil | 0.922 | Air | 1.20 |
Water | 0.998 | Oxygen | 1.33 |
Water (4°C) | 1.000 | Carbon dioxide | 1.83 |
Corn syrup | 1.36 | Radon | 9.23 |
Aluminum | 2.70 | ||
Copper | 8.92 | ||
Lead | 11.35 | ||
Mercury | 13.6 | ||
Gold | 19.3 |
Since most materials expand as temperature increases, the density of a substance is temperature dependent and usually decreases as temperature increases.
You know that ice floats in water and it can be seen from the table that ice is less dense. Alternatively, corn syrup, being denser, would sink if placed into water.
Sample Problem: Density Calculations
An 18.2 g sample of zinc metal has a volume of 2.55 cm3. Calculate the density of zinc.
Step 1: List the known quantities and plan the problem.
- mass = 18.2 g
- volume = 2.55 cm3
- density = ? g/cm3
Use the equation for density,
Step 2: Calculate
Step 3: Think about your result.
If 1 cm3 of zinc has a mass of about 7 grams, then 2 and a half cm3 will have a mass about 2 and a half times as great. Metals are expected to have a density greater than that of water and zinc's density falls within the range of the other metals listed above
Since density values are known for many substances, density can be used to determine an unknown mass or an unknown volume. Dimensional analysis will be used to ensure that units cancel appropriately.
Sample Problem: Using Density to Determine Mass and Volume
- What is the mass of 2.49 cm3 of aluminum?
- What is the volume of 50.0 g of aluminum?
Step 1: List the known quantities and plan the problem.
- density = 2.70 g/cm3
- 1. volume = 2.49 cm3
- 2. mass = 50.0 g
- 1. mass = ? g
- 2. volume = ? cm3
Use the equation for density,
Step 2: Calculate
2.49 cm3×2.70 g1 cm3=6.72 g 50.0 g×1 cm32.70 g=18.5 cm3
In problem 1, the mass is equal to the density multiplied by the volume. In problem 2, the volume is equal to the mass divided by the density.
Step 3: Think about your results.
Because a mass of 1 cm3 of aluminum is 2.70 g, the mass of about 2.5 cm3 should be about 2.5 times larger. The 50 g of aluminum is substantially more than its density, so that amount should occupy a relatively large volume.
- Density is the ratio of the mass of an object to its volume.
- Gases are less dense that either solids or liquids
- Both liquid and solid materials can have a variety of densities
- For liquids and gases, the temperature will affect the density to some extent.
- Define "density."
- Are gases more or less dense that liquids or solids at room temperature?
- How does temperature affect the density of a material?
- A certain liquid sample has a volume of 14.7 mL and a mass of 22.8 grams. Calculate the density.
- A material with a density of 2.7 grams/mL occupies 35.6 mL. How many grams of the material are there?
- A certain material has a density of 19.3 g/mL. What is the material?


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This paper conducts the first analysis of the effect of armed conflict on progress in meeting the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals. We also examine the effect of conflict on economic growth. Conflict has clear detrimental effects on the reduction of poverty and hunger, on primary education, on the reduction of child mortality, and on access to potable water. A medium-sized conflict with 2500 battle deaths is estimated to increase undernourishment an additional 3.3%, reduce life expectancy by about 1 year, increases infant mortality by 10%, and deprives an additional 1.8% of the population from access to potable water.
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1) States are confronted with a number of daunting challenges—Medicaid, pensions, education. What can state leaders do to create a climate in which people focus on solutions for these problems?
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"We're in a special session. … It has been an example, in my opinion, of how you deal with very tough problems in unprecedented times. You all set aside everything else, realize you work for the people, work together and get the job done. We will have done reform on unemployment insurance, reform on worker's compensation, the biggest reform in a hundred years, reform on pensions, restructuring state government, making a more sustainable budget, not for one biennium but well into the future. In the end, I think the record will show it was one of the more successful legislative sessions ever and the reason for it is people said, 'Let's roll up our sleeves, let's work together.'"
2) Just agreeing to work together and get things done?
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"What we've done here is, we've said to ourselves, 'If we had a blank sheet of paper, what would state government look like now and into the future?' It was very insightful.
It showed how siloed we are, how we're driven by yesterday's way of doing business.
… So I think all states—it's not unique to us—all states are going to have to fundamentally change, just like every business that's going to survive this recession and frankly every family has to had to change their way of doing their own business at home in order to get out of this recession. And so I don't think we go back; I think we go forward. We learned a good lesson here."
4) Washington's Government Management Accountability and Performance program has set the standards for performance measurement. Why has it worked for Washington?
"I think anybody would say that it's a success. We use data. We have performance measures. We use it as an opportunity to train managers for succession purposes because it gets you at a table looking at real-time data and asking you to solve the problem. It sets some new standards. We have oral forums. They come before my senior team, to include myself, and there we have reports out. We build leadership when we do that. We celebrate our successes and then set higher standards. When things aren't working, we go after why not.
"A couple of examples: Child protective services responds to incidents of alleged child abuse or neglect. They need to do it within 24 hours when a child's life is at risk. When we started, we had 65 percent compliance with that. We're now at 99 percent.
Our traffic fatality rate; we review that constantly. We are now in the lowest ever in state's history. We set academic benchmarks for state's community and technical colleges, which increased student performance by 26 percent over a three-year period.
Those are examples where it works.
"People get engaged they get involved. Agency directors show up, not their seconds. It's a wonderful learning tool, but it's not done in a threatening way. We're here together, we're trying to solve some problems; we're going to work together to get the best results we can for the public. It just works for us."
5) What advice would you give to other states interested in replicating GMAP?
"I warn people, 'If you're going to do it, it's not for the faint.' It takes discipline. It takes a laser-like focus. It takes time and it takes continuity. We implemented it in June 2005 and I have not let up one bit. I still go to them myself. We celebrate our successes. And when things aren't good, we ask the tough questions and we hold people accountable.
It's been a growing experience and I would suggest it to anyone in terms of getting real results. It also grows real managers, real leaders who are problem-solvers in government."
6) And you have everyone at the table that might be involved in a particular issue.
We live in silos. … The panels are around subjects, not around agencies, so it gets them really working together. When things aren't working, it isn't one agency, it's all of them working together. "
7) What does your health care plan look like for Washingtonians?
"We've definitely evolved. Early on we had what we call the blue ribbon commission. We set up a five-point strategy—evidence-based medicine, chronic care management, health prevention and promotion, information technology and transparency. We've been successful, but not as successful as I think we can be. Our goal is more affordable health care through higher quality health care. We have an assessment program, a health care assessment program. We look at procedures and we ask do they work and should be we paying for them, should the private sector be paying for them? We're saving at least $30 million a year on that.
"Now we've started round two. We're implementing the Affordable Care Act. We're one of the first states on the exchanges. We've also said it isn't just about health care reform in the Affordable Care Act; it's about the fact that my state budget is getting eaten up by health care inflation. I can't spend as much money as I could on education because I'm spending it on health care inflation. We brought in the business community. We brought in providers. We brought in insurers. We brought everybody to the table. We set a goal of inflation of no more than 4 percent across the state (annually), with savings projected of $26 billion over 10 years for our state. Our part in it is a proposal we've given to Secretary (Kathleen) Sebelius in her innovations center to allow us to get away from fee-for-service and do some really more advanced things to allow us to have the kind of flexibility that we think will deliver better outcomes and not be focused on how do we pay and how much do we pay. We're taking it to a new level, but we're taking it statewide, not just in Medicaid in our state, but having everybody get engaged and involved."
8) How important is international trade to Washington?
"It's our bread and butter. We're the most trade-dependent state in the country. One in three jobs directly or indirectly is related to trade in my state. We export about $53 billion a year as of last year. Boeing is a big part of it, no question about it. But it's information technology. It's industrial machinery. It's wood. It's medical products, a big agriculture sector. We're the leading exporter on things like apples and cherries and pears and hops and frozen potatoes.
"Our total trade import/export was $145 billion in 2010. With a state population that ours is, you can see how important that is to our success. Our ports, our big ports and our small ports, had a record year last year. It's our ticket out of this recession, but it is our future."
9) Are there any particular protocols the U.S. should have with Canada to encourage trade and cooperation?
"We have a fantastic relationship with British Columbia.
We exchange our cabinets once a year. They have a new premier and one of the first things she did was come down and have lunch with me last week.
We have an unbelievably lot in common
We often say we may have more in common (with British Columbia) than we do with some of our fellow states and fellow provinces
At one meeting of joints session of our cabinets, we
started talking about getting British Columbia ready for Winter Games in 2010. Crossing our border, whether it was for tourism, commerce, whatever, was becoming a real nightmare.
They said they could not be successful if they couldn't get enough people across that border in a timely way with their Olympics.
We came up with the idea of enhanced driver's license.
Today it is a very popular item in my state
So you don't have to take your passport, you get across with this enhanced driver's license
10) What is it about Washington that is attractive to businesses?
"Kind of a mantra in my state is innovation. We find ourselves to be a very innovative state. We lead the nation in patents per capita, for example. We've got a huge number of startup companies. … We have wireless technology to software to renewable energy to aerospace. Global health is a new burgeoning field for us. We have all of those things going for us. We have a highly educated workforce; 30 percent of our workforce has at least a bachelor's degree. We've got great research institutions. We're very diverse people, which helps us in trade and all of that. We have a tax structure that's very appealing to business. We have low-cost renewable energy that's important for new sectors like composites and at the end of the day, what always ranks in the top tiers of companies that are here or want to come here is our quality of life. It rains, but it's absolutely gorgeous. We've got arts and sports and any recreational activity you could think of.
"It's a full, rounded appeal that we have for businesses, whether it's our fast way of processing permits at state level, whether it's our quality of life, whether (it's our) innovative culture. And the business community is pretty united in our state. … It's more like a family of businesses here in our state."
11) How does the state help the University of Washington cultivate its strength as a top-tier research university?
"Every time I go on a trade mission, I bring the university with me. We have exchanges of students and faculty. We sign agreements. We meet alums in every country we go to at large receptions, typically at the ambassador's home. I created the life sciences discovery fund. It's a partnership between our two research institutions, University of Washington and Washington State University, and the private sector. We have a star researcher program where we try to attract and retain innovative faculty and we have a new emphasis on commercialization of the research. UW ranks as the 16th best research institution in the world. It is (the) largest public university in terms of grants. You could see why it is so important. It's an economic engine in my state."
12) The nexus between federal and state government has never been more charged with challenges. How does state government navigate these challenges?
"The public doesn't see federal government and state government. It's all government to them. We've taken the attitude (of) we all have to work together, so I have not, in the last several years, had this attitude of, 'We'll just send it off to local government.' We've been a real partnership. We have done everything we can to help them and they've partnered with us. I've been trying to set that same relationship with our partners at federal government.
"I'm currently chair of the National Governors Association. We have 29 new members. The first thing I said when they came in was, 'Set your partisanship behind you, now it's time to govern. You can be partisan in the Republican Governors Association or the Democratic Governors Association, but here at the National Governors Association, we're charged with the responsibility to solve problems and to govern and we do that together.' The Western Governors are really close on natural resource-related issues; we partner all the time. We bring in our colleagues from Canada to work with us. We bring in local government. … It's about working together as governors. Nobody knows what it's like to be governor other than another governor. We share, we trade ideas, we work together. That's how we really have got to see how to work our way through this time."
13) What have you learned in your six years in office that might be helpful for those new governors?
"We had an orientation retreat after they were elected, before they were sworn in. We really shared with them. This is probably the most difficult time to be governor since the Depression, so we're all in it together. And whatever they do, listen, keep in focus, understand whom they represent. It isn't a stakeholder; it's all the people. Whatever decision they make, however they go about their business, keep in touch, keep in tune, listen, educate, be a partner with the public that they serve. So at the end, the public understands
they've got their best interest at heart."
14) What are your goals for the next few years in office?
"As a governor, you set your goals and then circumstances take over, so my number one priority now is get us through the recession and that means I've got to put people back to work. I've got to make it affordable for state and families and businesses to provide health care and I've got to make sure we've got an eye on the future, which means we have to have a highly skilled, highly educated workforce—so education has got to be paramount. They're all connected."
15) What message would you have for those state policymakers attending CSG's National Conference and North American Summit?
"Now is the time for us to stand taller than politics and divisiveness and start reaching out and listening to the public. Find a way to step up to their problems and concerns and solve those problems. This nation is the greatest nation on earth. Don't take it for granted. We've got to continue to work together to maintain that. We're the greatest place to live; we're the greatest place to work; we're the greatest place to raise our families."


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A system for testing the safety of new drugs should be introduced with low-risk substances sold with labels detailing their risks, like cigarette packaging, members of the all-party parliamentary group for drug policy reform said.
While the supply of the most dangerous substances should remain banned, users caught with a small quantity of any drug should not be penalised, the inquiry found.
The controversial proposals are likely to irk the Prime Minister, who recently rejected calls by MPs to set up a royal commission to consider the decriminalisation of illegal drugs.
A panel of nine Conservative, Liberal Democrat, Labour and Crossbench peers from the all-party group conducted a parliamentary inquiry into new psychoactive substances. Presenting the inquiry findings, chair Baroness Meacher, who is also a chair of an NHS trust, said: "The Misuse of Drugs Act is counter-productive in attempting to reduce drug addiction and other drug harms to young people."
The Act, which has been in force for 40 years, is in desperate need of reform, the group said. The remaining sections of the act in use are causing "serious risks to the many young people who are determined to experiment with drugs", the group said.
The Act has forced thousands of young people into unemployment, homelessness and broken relationships, it added. In support of decriminalising the use of all drugs, the report alluded to the model in Portugal, where the numbers of young addicts has fallen under decriminalisation. And the proposals for regulating low-risk drugs echo those planned for New Zealand.
The group said strict regulatory controls could be introduced with an enhanced role for Trading Standards Services in the UK.
"Under these controls suppliers would, as is planned in New Zealand, be limited to certain outlets and required to label their product with a clear description of its contents, its risks and the maximum advisable dose," the group said. The licensed supplier would also be responsible for assuring that the product causes an "agreed level of limited harm".
Prevention programmes should also be promoted much more widely within schools and the community, the group said. It also recommended that that a minimum of £1.5 million be made available for a targeted pilot of Club Drug Clinics in 10 major hot spots across the UK with a duty to train front line accident and emergency and general practitioner staff.
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Echoplanar Imaging Thrombolysis Evaluation Trial (EPITHET)
This study has been completed.
Melbourne Health
Boehringer Ingelheim
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First received: October 11, 2005
Last updated: May 28, 2013
Last verified: May 2009
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To determine whether the extent of the ischemic penumbra apparent on perfusion-diffusion MRI can be used to identify patients who would respond positively and safely to tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) beyond 3 hours post-stroke.
Condition | Intervention | Phase |
Stroke |
Drug: Alteplase t-PA |
Phase 2 |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Randomized Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Double-Blind Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Official Title: | Echoplanar Imaging Thrombolysis Evaluation Trial (EPITHET) in Acute Stroke |
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Further study details as provided by Melbourne Health:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Primary Hypothesis - lesion growth
- In patients with penumbra, there will be attenuation of lesion growth (outcome T2 lesion volume - acute DWI volume ) with tPA.
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Secondary Hypotheses
- In the non-penumbral group, lesion growth will be lower and will not be attenuated by tPA.
- Favourable functional outcome (mRS 0-2) will be more likely in patients with penumbra receiving tPA.
- That the proportion of patients achieving good neurological outcome (an 8 point improvement in NIH-SS or outcome NIH-SS of 0, 1) will be greater in those patients with a penumbra receiving tPA.
- Symptomatic hemorrhagic transformation (sICH) will be predicted by the size of the baseline DWI volume in those patients receiving tPA.
- Reperfusion (greater than 90% PWI lesion reduction, or recanalisation on MRA, between the acute and sub-acute interval), will be increased (in patients with penumbra) receiving tPA.
- In patients with malignant mismatch (Definition DWI 100ml or more and / or PWI 100ml or more) there will be unfavourable clinical outcome (even if there is attenuation of growth).
Estimated Enrollment: | 100 |
Study Start Date: | August 2001 |
Estimated Study Completion Date: | April 2007 |
Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Senior) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients who present:
- with acute hemispheric stroke within 3-6 hours of onset,
- have at least moderate limb weakness,
- a National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score > 4,
- had a pre-stroke modified Rankin Scale (MRS) score of 0 - 2
- and who are able to undergo CT and MRI, are eligible for this study.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Females who are pregnant or breast-feeding,
- persons who have CT-verified hemorrhagic stroke, major ischemia ( > 33% of the middle cerebral artery (MCA) territory infarcted), subarachnoid hemorrhage, arteriovenous malformation, aneurysm, intracranial neoplasm that is terminal or poses a risk of hemorrhage ,
- are comatose or severely obtunded with fixed eye deviation and complete hemiplegia,
- have had another stroke within the past 6 weeks,
- have had a seizure prior to the administration of the study drug,
- have active peptic ulceration, bleeding diatheses, previous intracerebral hemorrhage,
- blood pressure > 185/110,
- major surgery or trauma within the past 30 days, or any other contraindications to tPA
- have a presumed septic embolus or a myocardial infarction within the past 30 days
- blood glucose values are < 2.8 or > 22.0 mmol/L,
- pacemakers, aneurysm clips, implanted devices, claustrophobia, or any other contraindications to MRI,
- decreased consciousness,
- rapid clinical improvement,
- confounding neurological condition (e.g. dementia),
- any other life-threatening illness, or who are participating in another clinical trial, will be excluded from this study.
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00238537
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00238537
Australia, New South Wales | |
Hunter New England Area Health Service | |
Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 2310 | |
Australia, Queensland | |
Royal Brisbane Hospital | |
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 4072 | |
Australia, South Australia | |
Royal Adelaide Hospital | |
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, 5000 | |
Flinders Medical Center | |
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, 5042 | |
Australia, Victoria | |
Royal Melbourne Hospital | |
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3050 | |
St Vincents Hospital | |
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3065 | |
Austin Hospital | |
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3081 | |
Box Hill Hospital | |
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3128 | |
Alfred Hospital | |
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3144 | |
Australia, Western Australia | |
Royal Perth Hospital | |
Perth, Western Australia, Australia, 6001 | |
Belgium | |
Cliniques Universitaires St Luc | |
Brussels, Belgium, B-1200 | |
New Zealand | |
Auckland City Hospital | |
Auckland, New Zealand, 92024 | |
Christchurch Hospital | |
Christchurch, New Zealand, 4710 | |
United Kingdom | |
Southern General Hospital | |
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom |
Sponsors and Collaborators
Melbourne Health
Boehringer Ingelheim
Study Chair: | Stephen M Davis, MD FRCP FRACP | Melbourne Health |
Study Chair: | Geoffrey Donnan, MD FRACP | National Stroke Research Institute, Australia |
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ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on March 29, 2017
Additional Information:
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00238537 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
145671 TGA Trial Number: 1999/271 Enterprise ID: 15314 |
Study First Received: | October 11, 2005 |
Last Updated: | May 28, 2013 |
Keywords provided by Melbourne Health:
Stroke Thrombolysis MRI Echoplanar Penumbra |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Stroke Cerebrovascular Disorders Brain Diseases Central Nervous System Diseases Nervous System Diseases Vascular Diseases |
Cardiovascular Diseases Tissue Plasminogen Activator Fibrinolytic Agents Fibrin Modulating Agents Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action |
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'Teen Titans' To End With April's Issue #30
Another of the teen hero team books launched when The New 52 started back in late 2011 is ending. In a column on Comicvine, Teen Titans writer Scott Lobdell announced that the current incarnation of the series is coming to an end with April's issue #30.
The series follows in the footsteps of two Legion of Super-Heroes books, Demon Knights, Hawk & Dove, and The Ravagers, all of which showcased teen heroes in team settings.
Here's what Lobdell said about the series' end:
I'm thrilled the DC is letting me wrap up the story on a high note as the TEEN TITANS square off against the N.O.W.H.E.R.E. in a final battle — bringing to conclusion the conflict that began in the first issue!
DC hasn't offered a concrete reason as to why the series is ending or whether it will relaunch with a new coat of paint sometime in the near future.
Lobdell himself has earned some bad press of late. When cartoonist Mari Naomi said in an online column that she had been sexually harassed during a convention, Lobdell came forward and named himself as the culprit. He issued an open apology on The Beat, in which he called his comments on the panel a "failed attempted a humor." Quite a few observers found the apology unsatisfactory.
Lobdell's work at DC hasn't officially come to an end, though. He's still the writer of the ongoing Superman title, at least through issue #29, the last one that has been solicited.
Even if Teen Titans doesn't return to The New 52 in some fashion, DC will continue publishing Teen Titans Go!, its digital-first comic based on the successful Cartoon Network series of the same name.
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I was looking at the "From Russia" posts/vids and was saw a Russian girl doing triple/triple/triples. I was impressed. My question is this: What trends do you see in figure skating in terms of each discipline for 2018? I am not looking for specific skaters but which country might dominate in a particular discipline. Or is it too soon to tell?
If a girl wanted to do a 3-3-3, wouldn't it potentially wind up a SEQ instead of a combo? I mean, if you have the tech ability to do a 3-3-3, you obviously have the ability to do a 3-3. And there's no way I can think of to have a 3-3 and a 3-3-3 in the same program without one being a SEQ. /OT...back to the question. I see Russia maintaining its ladies' dominance through 2018 but losing it sometime before 2022. Canada will fall into a slump in all disciplines. Japan and the US will maintain their strong traditions in men's and dance, respectively.
BTW, Gracie Gold can do a 3-3-3 Example #1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjWrN5LHG9A Example #2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrnyABvzdiM
Wouldn't a 3-3-3 be scored in the same way as Plushenko's 4-3-2s that he did around 2006? They counted as combos.. If both a 3-3 and 3-3-3 wouldn't count as combos, the girls should just skip the 3-3s and do the 3-3-3s if possible.
Depends what jumps you did. The second and third jumps have to come off the landing edge of the preceding jump for it to be a combo. The only ones you can do which would make it a combo are the loop and toe loop.
Ladies: Russia and the USA, with Canada, China, and S. Korea sneaking in here and there. And France. Men: USA, China, Japan, Russia Dance: Russia, USA, Canada maybe, France Pairs: Russia and Canada
A lady could certainly include a 3-3-3 in her LP and have it count as a combo- I'm not sure what scenario you are envisioning that it would be credited as a SEQ? The benefit of doing a 3-3-3, instead of a 3-3, would be that it would open up two additional jumping passes, instead of one. She could use that extra pass for a triple axel, if part of her arsenal, or something like a Tano 2z, which may not seem to add much, but we've seen medals decided by less. It's also possible to have a 3-3-3, 3-3 and 3-3 in the same program. 3z-3t-3t 3f-3l 3s-3l 2a 2a 2a 2z Would be just fine: 7 triples, toe and loop repeated. 2a is limited to 3 per program, correct? Otherwise, replace with a 2f or whatever you so desire.
I thought that the repeated jump had to be done in a combo once and individually once, but the same triple in two combos makes one a sequence? Or is it the same triple done out of a combo twice makes it a sequence?
Skaters are allowed to do, for example, 3Lz+2T twice in the same long program and it counts as 2 combinations. ETA: http://www.usfsa.org/content/First Aid Singles.pdf
Thanks, Proustable. I couldn't remember if it was 2 or 3. VH, your second scenario is correct. If a skater plans a 3z and 3z+2t in a program, for instance, but ends up falling on the second lutz and misses the 2t, it will be marked as +SEQ and reduced accordingly. In the early years of COP, it would be marked as a combination and receive full credit, aside from the loss of points from the potential second jump. There's no rule against doing a jump in two different combinations, though; Yu-Na Kim performed a 2a+3t and 3z+3t in her Olympic free skate. Was it Sotnikova who was doing two 2a+3t in her free skates last year? Not the most inspiring choice compositionally, but well within the rules.
Thank you: I'm a little surprised that there isn't a young Chinese pairs team on the rise. About the 3/3/3's---if this is a sure precursor to back injury I'd rather not see it in competition. I'm not a Plushy fan but I felt badly for him--that determined look that was always with him was not there in the short. His eyes looked clouded over in pain.
I'm thinking that the short program elements will delete the double axel and replace it with a required triple jump with an edge or pick take off. Further to that, the combination may have the option of a double and a triple jump, two triple jumps, a quadruple and a double or triple jump, or a THREE jump combination of at least a triple jump and two double jumps.
After doing the math here's what I came up with. A program with the following: 2A 2lz Chsq Stsq4 3 level 4 spins ---- Halfway point 2A 3lz+3t+3l 3f+3l 3lz + 2l 3s Even with 5 jumps (the hardest ones too) in the second half, the base technical is only 6 points higher than what Gracie put out at Nationals (66.49 compared to 60.31, using her as a base point because she had the highest base technical at nationals) Another option would be to do 2a 2lz spins, spirals, footwork, halfway point 3f 3l 3lz 1l 3s 3lz 3t 3f 2A That equals out to a 65.16 base technical, worth a point less than the first option. The solo flip and the sal in the three jump can easily be exchanged for each other at no cost (it's actually worth .16 more to put the flip in the combo instead). If a jumper could only do a toe combination (which is quite realistic, most cannot do both triple combos, although some can), then you can change out the flip loop to a loop toe for a -1.32 cost. A third thing to do, would be 3 triple triple combinations, 2A 2lz 3 spins, ch sq, stsq 3lz 3t 3f 3l 3lz 3l 2l 3s 2A Such program would total 66.48 base technical. Pretty much the same as the first program. Any skater to do either of these layouts would obviously have to be well trained so they could do such difficult jumps past the half way point. Even with poor components, such a program; skated cleanly should put one on the podium at worlds. Gracie earned nearly 11 points in GOE at Nationals, if someone were to do a 66 point technical program and earn 77 total technical points, she would earn a higher technical score than 7th at worlds in MEN last year. Such score would be 14 points higher than the winning technical score in ladies last year ! (Note, whoops accidentally posted this somewhere else first)
Well first the Russian ladies will need to ATTAIN dominance before they MAINTAIN it. Oh yeah they got depth out the wazoo just like US ladies based on the kick butt Nats we just saw. Until they start winning world champs... I think we're going to see an awesome balance in quality ladies in the next cycle. North America is going to rise up again to match the deep Russian and Asian entries. Ladies are going to be super exciting. I'm actually envisioning one possible scenario where YuNa-Mao becomes Gracie-Kaetlyn. The Blonde Ice Maiden vs the Pony-Tailed aw-shucks Canadian. The ISU would pee themselves over a poster like this for one world champ after another. These girls are beautiful! Gracie is holding all the cards. If she gets programs that aren't so God-awfully sanitized and learns to control her nerves, no one will touch her. She is what the ISU hoped Kiira Korpi would have become. So, no, Canada will not fall into a slump. We're about to enter the best ladies era we've ever had and by next year Kaetlyn will be the best lady we've ever had. Dance is seriously deep and there's a good chance we keep all of our pairs after Sochi. I don't expect Patrick to win Sochi so he may stick around. Lots of great talent coming up, too (Firus, Gordon, Nam, Sadovsky). There won't be any slumps. As for elements, I'm seeing 3-4 different quads appearing for the guys. About five ladies will add a 3A. Pairs will be attempting throw 3A and maybe quad but I'm not convinced. Overall some minor upgrades. I'm looking for ISU to add level 5 in dance. All top teams hit level 4s now so winners almost totally determined by subjective PCS.
No more Ladiezzzzz! I too think that the ladies event will be the most exciting one to watch after 2014.


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The universe was born with the Big Bang as an unimaginably hot, dense point. When the universe was just 10-34 of a second or so old — that is, a hundredth of a billionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second in age — it experienced an incredible burst of expansion known as inflation, in which space itself expanded faster than the speed of light. During this period, the universe doubled in size at least 90 times, going from subatomic-sized to golf-ball-sized almost instantaneously.
According to NASA, after inflation the growth of the universe continued, but at a slower rate. As space expanded, the universe cooled and matter formed. One second after the Big Bang, the universe was filled with neutrons, protons, electrons, anti-electrons, photons and neutrinos.
During the first three minutes of the universe, the light elements were born during a process known as Big Bang nucleosynthesis. Temperatures cooled from 100 nonillion (1032) Kelvin to 1 billion (109) Kelvin, and protons and neutrons collided to make deuterium, an isotope of hydrogen. Most of the deuterium combined to make helium, and trace amounts of lithium were also generated.
For the first 380,000 years or so, the universe was essentially too hot for light to shine, according to France's National Center of Space Research (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales,or CNES). The heat of creation smashed atoms together with enough force to break them up into a dense plasma, an opaque soup of protons, neutrons and electrons that scattered light like fog.
Roughly 380,000 years after the Big Bang, matter cooled enough for atoms to form during the era of recombination, resulting in a transparent, electrically neutral gas, according to NASA. This set loose the initial flash of light created during the Big Bang, which is detectable today as cosmic microwave background radiation. However, after this point, the universe was plunged into darkness, since no stars or any other bright objects had formed yet.
About 400 million years after the Big Bang, the universe began to emerge from the cosmic dark ages during the epoch of reionization. During this time, which lasted more than a half-billion years, clumps of gas collapsed enough to form the first stars and galaxies, whose energetic ultraviolet light ionized and destroyed most of the neutral hydrogen.
Although the expansion of the universe gradually slowed down as the matter in the universe pulled on itself via gravity, about 5 or 6 billion years after the Big Bang, according to NASA, a mysterious force now called dark energy began speeding up the expansion of the universe again, a phenomenon that continues today.
A little after 9 billion years after the Big Bang, our solar system was born.
The Big Bang
The Big Bang did not occur as an explosion in the usual way one think about such things, despite one might gather from its name. The universe did not expand into space, as space did not exist before the universe, according to NASA Instead, it is better to think of the Big Bang as the simultaneous appearance of space everywhere in the universe. The universe has not expanded from any one spot since the Big Bang — rather, space itself has been stretching, and carrying matter with it.
Since the universe by its definition encompasses all of space and time as we know it, NASA says it is beyond the model of the Big Bang to say what the universe is expanding into or what gave rise to the Big Bang. Although there are models that speculate about these questions, none of them have made realistically testable predictions as of yet.
In 2014, scientists from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announced that they had found a faint signal in the cosmic microwave background that could be the first direct evidence of gravitational waves, themselves considered a "smoking gun" for the Big Bang. The findings were hotly debated, but the search for these mysterious ripples continues.
The universe is currently estimated at roughly 13.8 billion years old, give or take 130 million years. In comparison, the solar system is only about 4.6 billion years old.
This estimate came from measuring the composition of matter and energy density in the universe. This allowed researchers to compute how fast the universe expanded in the past. With that knowledge, they could turn the clock back and extrapolate when the Big Bang happened. The time between then and now is the age of the universe.
Scientists think that in the earliest moments of the universe, there was no structure to it to speak of, with matter and energy distributed nearly uniformly throughout. According to NASA, the gravitational pull of small fluctuations in the density of matter back then gave rise to the vast web-like structure of stars and emptiness seen today. Dense regions pulled in more and more matter through gravity, and the more massive they became, the more matter they could pull in through gravity, forming stars, galaxiesand larger structures known as clusters, superclusters, filaments and walls, with "great walls" of thousands of galaxies reaching more than a billion light years in length. Less dense regions did not grow, evolving into area of seemingly empty space called voids.
Until about 30 years ago, astronomers thought that the universe was composed almost entirely of ordinary atoms, or "baryonic matter," According to NASA. However, recently there has been ever more evidence that suggests most of the ingredients making up the universe come in forms that we cannot see.
It turns out that atoms only make up 4.6 percent of the universe. Of the remainder, 23 percent is made up of dark matter, which is likely composed of one or more species of subatomic particles that interact very weakly with ordinary matter, and 72 percent is made of dark energy, which apparently is driving the accelerating expansion of the universe.
When it comes to the atoms we are familiar with, hydrogen makes up about 75 percent, while helium makes up about 25 percent, with heavier elements making up only a tiny fraction of the universe's atoms, according to NASA.
The shape of the universe and whether or not it is finite or infinite in extent depends on the struggle between the rate of its expansion and the pull of gravity. The strength of the pull in question depends in part on the density of the matter in the universe.
If the density of the universe exceeds a specific critical value, then the universe is "closed" and "positive curved" like the surface of a sphere. This means light beams that are initially parallel will converge slowly, eventually cross and return back to their starting point, if the universe lasts long enough. If so, according to NASA, the universe is not infinite but has no end, just as the area on the surface of a sphere is not infinite but has no beginning or end to speak of. The universe will eventually stop expanding and start collapsing in on itself, the so-called "Big Crunch."
If the density of the universe is less than this critical density, then the geometry of space is "open" and "negatively curved" like the surface of a saddle. If so, the universe has no bounds, and will expand forever.
If the density of the universe exactly equals the critical density, then the geometry of the universe is "flat" with zero curvature like a sheet of paper, according to NASA. If so, the universe has no bounds and will expand forever, but the rate of expansion will gradually approach zero after an infinite amount of time. Recent measurements suggest that the universe is flat with only a 2 percent margin of error.
It is possible that the universe has a more complicated shape overall while seeming to possess a different curvature. For instance, the universe could have the shape of a torus, or doughnut.
Expanding universe
In the 1920s, astronomer Edwin Hubble discovered the universe was not static. Rather, it was expanding, a find that revealed the universe was apparently born in a Big Bang.
After that, it was long thought the gravity of matter in the universe was certain to slow the expansion of the universe. Then, in 1998, the Hubble Space Telescope's observations of very distant supernovae revealed that a long time ago, the universe was expanding more slowly than it is today. In other words, the expansion of the universe was not slowing due to gravity, but instead inexplicably was accelerating. The name for the unknown force driving this accelerating expansion is dark energy, and it remains one of the greatest mysteries in science.
Additional reporting by Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com Contributor.


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Interest-free baseball? Not if Angels win
ANAHEIM – Before the game Saturday, Mike Scioscia was asked about the playoffs, the National League playoffs.
The subject was Ron Roenicke, his former bench coach who will be taking the NL's Milwaukee Brewers into the postseason.
The topic of the Angels advancing wasn't specifically addressed, but it was understood to be on everyone's mind.
A few hours later, the Angels proved the AL's last available playoff spot was back on their radar, too.
After consecutive losses to teams playing for squat, the Angels rejoined the breathing, beating the A's, 4-2, and closing to 2 1/2 games back of the Red Sox, who weren't idle, just idling.
The bad news was Tampa Bay won, as well, meaning the Rays remain the meat in this wild-card sandwich. In this instance, bologna.
The AL's mild-card race lately has been classic tortoise vs. the other tortoise vs. still the other tortoise. The only way these three teams could have appeared less interested in securing a playoff spot was if they had traded their gloves for oven mitts.
But then something happened here. Torii Hunter happened here.
"The adrenaline is unbelievable," he said after homering Saturday to help revive the Halos. "I mean, it's like you see the ball. Your eyes get bigger. The ball slows down. You run harder. You do everything harder. I can't explain it. I don't know. It's great. It's a great feeling, I promise you. It's like taking 17 cups of coffee in 10 seconds."
The Red Sox seemingly had this thing clinched a few weeks ago, but then Boston clenched. Given a remarkably unexpected opportunity, the Angels and Rays have closed to within an arm's reach.
Unfortunately, the arm in question still belongs to 7-foot Andrew Bynum.
Fellas, this is a postseason berth waiting to be claimed, not $8.5 million (USD) from the Chief Lieutenant, Central Bank of Nigeria. Yes, even junk emails are treated with more regard than this.
Over the past 10 games, none of the three teams has a winning record. The Red Sox were rained out Friday night ... and pulled away from the Angels and Rays. Is it really a race if the best way to gain ground is to not even participate?
"We still smell it," Hunter insisted. "We still have a chance."
Understand, please, that it's vital for the Angels to win now because the alternative is brutal. Even with only four games remaining, the hope here is every inning counts between now and season's end.
You see, baseball isn't a sport that does garbage time well.
This is mostly because the game — and not to sound too harsh here — can be as enthralling as debating dental floss: waxed vs. unwaxed.
When the ball isn't in play, watching baseball is often like watching the line at the DMV. There's little chance of something of interest happening unless two grown men get into a spittle-exchanging argument.
If the limited action in baseball is then robbed of its meaning, well, what follows can be as stark as the reality that rules at this point of the season. And mathematical elimination is a cold visitor. One day, you're relevant. The next day, you're the Houston Astros.
"I just have extra adrenaline, extra motivation to get there because I know it's still a possibility," Hunter said. "When there's a possibility, you have that energy. When it's gone, that energy goes down."
Basketball teams play out the string. Football teams play for pride. Hockey teams play for the simple fact that the sport is inside the players' blood as deeply as the color red is.
But lame-duck baseball teams play a game that suddenly feels hollow and sad. The only thing in this sport that carries less weight than a meaningless inning in September is a meaningless inning in March.
No season dies quite as pathetically as a baseball season does because death creeps up day to day.
The schedule doesn't allow for enough downtime to forget that you're witnessing a slow but certain passing.
Summer is over, daylight is shrinking and, worst of all, an ominous specter reappears on the horizon — yes, we're talking about another postseason of Tim McCarver.
For at least one more night, though, with a desperately necessary victory, the Angels clung to the glorious fringe of significance.
The final Sunday of the regular season is here, and the Angels still matter.
The impossible remains possible.
We already can picture the commemorative video of this team's enchanted, wildly unforeseen final week comeback:
The 2011 Angels: Boys Gone Mild.
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BOSTON — Another emotional video tribute. Another stirring performance of the national anthem by a packed arena. Another hockey game in Boston.
The sport returned to the city Saturday, a day after a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings was captured, and the fans welcomed their Bruins back with cheers and greeted the Pittsburgh Penguins with jeers.
The Penguins clinched home-ice advantage throughout the Eastern Conference playoffs with a 3-2 win in the Bruins' second game since the bombings. It had been postponed from Friday night because of the manhunt. The mood was more somber Wednesday night in another 3-2 loss at home in a shootout to the Buffalo Sabres.
"It was a little more of a celebration with everyone here, more of an opportunity for us to thank (police) and give our respects for the amazing job they did," Boston's Brad Marchand said. "It just seems like there's a whole different aura around the building. … Everyone was a little more safe and excited that it's over."
One suspect was shot to death early Friday and the other was captured Friday night hiding under a tarp in a boat in a backyard in nearby Watertown.
A pregame slideshow on the video board above center ice showed pictures of smiling policemen after the second suspect was taken into custody. Also shown were individual photos of Lu Lingzi, Krystle Campbell and Martin Richard, who were killed in Monday's bombings, and Sean Collier, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer shot to death by the suspects.
"Any human being would find some type of emotion in that pregame video and the memory when they're showing the victims," Pittsburgh's Brooks Orpik said.
Before the game, Penguins coach Dan Bylsma wore a black T-shirt with the words "BOSTON STRONG" over his shirt and tie. Penguins players also wore them before the game.
"Everyone was proud to wear them," Orpik said.
During warmups, Bruins players wore baseball caps of the state police and Boston and Watertown police departments. The black cap for Watertown, where the suspect was taken into custody, had the Bruins "Spiked B" logo on the front and the word "STRONG" on the back.
The Penguins took a nine-point lead in the Eastern Conference over Montreal, which could get only eight more points in its remaining four games. The Bruins remained in fourth place with 57 points, 11 behind the Penguins, with five games to go.
Pittsburgh won its sixth straight game despite the continued absence of some top offensive players. NHL scoring leader Sidney Crosby missed his eighth game with a broken jaw, James Neal sat out his fifth because of a concussion and last season's NHL MVP Evgeni Malkin was sidelined for his third with a shoulder injury.
With the score 1-1 on goals by Marchand in the first period and Pittsburgh's Jussi Jokinen in the second, the Penguins got two power-play goals in 4 minutes. Tyler Seguin scored the final goal for the Bruins with 2.6 seconds remaining.
Iginla, nearly traded to Boston three weeks ago, played his first game against the Bruins since he was dealt by Calgary to Pittsburgh on March 28.
He was booed every time he touched the puck during a third-period power play. The jeers grew louder after he scored on a 50-foot shot from the center of the blue line as Chris Kunitz screened goalie Tuukka Rask.
"I guess I'd be prepared for that. I can understand that the fans wouldn't be too happy" that he decided to go to Pittsburgh instead of Boston, Iginla said.
Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli had been upset when his deal for Iginla fell through. The player had a no-trade clause and waived it to go to Pittsburgh instead of Boston.
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LOS ANGELES A man dressed in a bulletproof vest and fire-resistant pants was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport after a smoke grenade, gas mask, leg irons and weapons were discovered in his luggage, federal authorities said Tuesday.
Boston-bound Yongda Huang Harris, 28, was arrested Friday on suspicion of transporting hazardous materials on a flight from Japan, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said.
Harris was not cooperating with federal officials attempting to interview him, according to a U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity. The official said Harris is not believed to be linked to a terrorist organization, but his motive has not been determined.
Harris, a U.S. citizen whose permanent residence is in Boston, and who was recently living and working in Japan, has been charged with one count of transporting hazardous materials, an offense that carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison. Harris made a brief court appearance Tuesday, and his detention hearing was postponed until Friday.
Harris' retained attorney, Steven Seiden, was unavailable to comment, said Chris Williams, a spokesman for the lawyer.
It's unclear what Harris had on his body and what he had checked in baggage, said Williams, who declined to comment on why Harris had any of the weapons.
"It raises a lot of questions, and those questions will need to be answered. Right now the case is very early," Williams said.
The defense attorney's spokesman described Harris as "very intelligent," earning A's in high school and college calculus. Williams declined to elaborate on his background.
Seiden also represents Mark Basseley Youssef, the man behind the anti-Islam video that recently sparked violence in the Middle East.
Harris drew suspicion when U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the airport noticed he was wearing the bulletproof vest and fire-resistant pants under his trench coat.
A search of Harris' checked luggage by Homeland Security agents uncovered knives, body bags, a hatchet, a collapsible baton, a biohazard suit, a full-face respirator, billy clubs, handcuffs, leg irons and a device to repel dogs, authorities said.
The smoke grenade was X-rayed by the Los Angeles Police Department's bomb squad. Officers said it fell into a category that is prohibited on passenger planes.
"Depending on the conditions when it is ignited, the smoke grenade, made by Commando Manufacturers, could potentially fill the cabin of a commercial airplane with smoke or cause a fire," federal officials said in a news release.
Many of the other items in Harris' luggage – including the hatchet and knives – wouldn't violate Transportation Security Administration guidelines for checked luggage. However, customs officers Kenny Frick and Brandon Parker believed in their initial investigation that the lead-filled, leather-coated billy clubs and a collapsible baton may be prohibited by California law, according to an affidavit filed in U.S. District Court.
Harris traveled from Kansai, Japan, to Inchon, Korea, before landing in Los Angeles.
Kansai airport police said they were not investigating and have not been asked to do so. It was unclear if any Japanese laws may have been broken. Attempts to reach Harris' family in Boston and his associates were unsuccessful.
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