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Friday, December 2, 2011
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APHours after being released by the Vikings, quarterback Donovan McNabb appeared on ESPN?s SportsCenter to discuss the situation with Jay Harris.
?I thought it was best suited for Christian [Ponder] as well as Joe [Webb] to get an opportunity to develop and mature in the offense which they?ve had and I just wanted to be the guy to try to add that confidence and sort of that spiritual advice to provide for those guys to better them,? McNabb said.? ?But I just thought the best move for me at this particular point was to move on and clear my thoughts and clear my head and see what?s next.?
So what?s next?? Asked to explain what a new team would be getting, McNabb rattled off his attributes.? ?You?re bringing a veteran who can bring experience to your ball club, athletic ability, a guy who is not a locker room cancer, he works hard ? great work ethic and only wants to win,? McNabb said.? ?And you know I?m a winner and I?ve proven that, and a guy who will make the players around him better.?
Of course, McNabb apparently was able to make the players around him only so much better.? ?I think we began to lose focus of this being a team game,? McNabb said.? ?The teams in which I?ve played with, you know, a lot of great athletes, a lot of positive things, but nothing to really show for it.? Obviously, the quarterback is the one who receives a lot of the credit, and as well as too much criticism.? Being the leader of the team, you just want to prepare your team each and every weekend, while you?re being prepared as well.? The teams with which I?ve played with, unfortunately we weren?t able to accomplish the things that we wanted to in the winning department, but? still individually each and every person can move on, including myself, and possibly have a better life somewhere else.?
So what will that better life entail for McNabb?? ?Being surrounded by a great supporting cast,? McNabb said.? ?When you?re surrounded by experienced players and veteran players who know how to win, then that?s something that?s contagious.? And I think there are a lot of teams who are in desperate need of a quarterback at this particular point who are surrounded by veteran players, and teams that play well together.? So for myself it?s really an opportunity for me to at this particular point clear my head, concentrate on the goal and the task at hand and get back to thinking and getting out on the field and playing the way that I know I?m capable of playing.?
There actually aren?t ?a lot? of teams who are in ?desperate need? of a quarterback and ?who are surrounded by veteran players.?? There are, as playoff contenders go, two.? The Bears and the Texans.? And the Texans reportedly aren?t interested.
So that leaves the Bears.
Regardless of the destination, McNabb sounds ready to play.? ?Taking time is very important, although I?ve spent enough time resting so to speak in this last couple weeks, so I am pretty fresh,? McNabb said.? ?But you know what the thing about it [is] you have to refocus your mind on being the guy back out there again, and I look forward to that.?
McNabb, who described his last two seasons as ?exciting? (which is sort of like calling a visit to a funeral home ?scintillating?), seems to acknowledge the possibility that no one will want him.
?There?s always Plan B, but one that I?m not focused on at this particular point,? McNabb said.? ?Clearing the mind and getting the body back where it needs to be is the most important thing.? But if anything was to happen, I have a career that I can look back on and be very excited about.?
Exciting, but ultimately unfulfilling.? But not just because of McNabb?s ability.? Because of his supporting cast.
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Thursday, December 1, 2011
Spooky Quantum Entanglement Created in Everyday Objects
Quantum entanglement is one of those strange facets of quantum mechanics that produces baffling behaviors in objects at the quantum level, isn't easy to find in our everyday world that appears to be governed by good old-fashioned classical physics. Yet, according to quantum theory, even objects in our everyday macro-size world should have this property. And in a new study in today?s edition of the journal Science, researchers have shown that they could entangle diamond crystals, the first time entanglement has been shown in objects under real-life conditions.
Quantum entanglement happens when two particles, such as photons or electrons, interact and become linked. Even when the particles are moved miles apart, the molecules? mechanical states (such as their spin, momentum, and polarization) remain mysteriously coupled. If the state of one entangled particle is changed, its faraway twin will be instantaneously affected. It?s a bizarre property Einstein famously called "spooky action at a distance."
This spooky property of matter has a powerful effect on the outcome of events in the quantum world. "In the classical world, chance outcomes have no strange correlations?the events at one roulette wheel in a casino have no effect on events at the other tables," says physicist Luming Duan from the University of Michigan, in a separate article in Science. But "in a quantum casino, we could imagine that roulette wheels are entangled, so that if one ball dropped on a black number, the ball at the next table must drop on red." Another strange thing about entanglement: The information seems to travel faster than light between the two objects, breaking the universe's apparent speed limit.
Scientists have been able to entangle particles in the lab before, but only under special conditions, by isolating them and cooling them to ultra-low temperatures. "What we did was to demonstrate that you could make these wacky states in these everyday normal objects sitting in a regular laboratory under no particularly special conditions," study author Ian Walmsley says. To do this, his team used a laser to start the crystals of a millimeter-size diamond vibrating. The vibrations were reflected in the diamond?s entangled twin a few centimeters away. The researchers used ultra-fast optical technology to create and measure the entangled state before it broke up.
It was this fast detection that made the diamond entanglement experiment possible. Most physicists, Walmsley says, believe that quantum entanglement is a property present in all objects in our macro world; we just don?t see it happening. "In the everyday environment, objects are connected to other objects," he says. "They?re sitting on the floor, wafting in the wind, and those connections are ways in which information and energy can leak out of one system into another." So objects lose their entanglement quickly. By using super-speedy technology, this team caught the diamonds acting entangled before environmental interactions overcame the effect.
Walmsley says that future experiments will focus on getting the quantum interactions to hang on longer, and in bigger objects. The bigger the objects gets, the harder it is to home in on quantum interactions. But, he says, to put quantum entanglement to technological use, it has to be done.
One dream is to use quantum entanglement to create super-powerful quantum computers. Quantum computing would use a new fundamental design based on the properties of quantum mechanics, which would basically allow these computers to "explore a great number of options simultaneously in a very efficient way," Walmsley says. But because a computer is a hefty, macroscopic thing, to to build a practical quantum computer, scientists will have to create entanglement on a much bigger scale.
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Hope for new AIDS protection seen in mouse study (AP)
NEW YORK ? As scientists struggle to find a vaccine to prevent infection with the AIDS virus, a study in mice suggests hope for a new approach ? one that doctors now want to test in people.
The treated mice in the study appeared to have 100 percent protection against HIV. That doesn't mean the strategy will work in people. But several experts were impressed.
"This is a very important paper (about) a very creative idea," says the government's AIDS chief, Dr. Anthony Fauci. He didn't take part in the research.
The new study involved injecting mice with a protective gene, an idea that's been tested against HIV infection in animals for a decade.
In the nearly 30 years since HIV was identified, scientists haven't been able to find a vaccine that is broadly effective. One boost came in 2009, when a large study in Thailand showed that an experimental vaccine protected about a third of recipients against infection. That's not good enough for general use, but researchers are now trying to improve it.
Researchers reported the new results in mice online Wednesday in the journal Nature. They hope to test the approach in people in a couple of years. Another research team reported similar success in monkeys in 2009 and hopes to start human tests even sooner.
A traditional vaccine works by masquerading as a germ, training the body's immune system to build specific defenses in case the real germ shows up. Those defenses are generally antibodies, which are proteins in the blood that have just the right shape to grab onto parts of an invading virus. Once that happens, the virus can't establish a lasting infection and is cleared from the body.
Scientists have identified antibodies that neutralize a wide range of HIV strains, but they've had trouble getting people's immune systems to create those antibodies with a vaccine.
The gene-injection goal is straightforward. Rather than trying to train a person's immune system to devise effective antibodies, why not just give a person genes for those proteins? The genes can slip into cells in muscle or some other tissue and make them pump out lots of the antibodies.
The mouse work is reported by David Baltimore and colleagues at the California Institute of Technology.
Ordinary mice don't get infected with HIV, which attacks the immune system. So the research used mice that carried human immune system cells.
Baltimore's team used a harmless virus to carry an antibody gene and injected it once into a leg muscle. The researchers found that the mice made high levels of the antibody for more than a year. The results suggest lifetime protection for a mouse, Baltimore said, although "we simply don't know what will happen in people."
Even when the mice were injected with very high doses of HIV, they didn't show the loss of certain blood cells that results from HIV infection. Baltimore said researchers couldn't completely rule out the possibility of infection, but that their tests found no evidence of it. He said a few hundred mice appeared to be protected.
The work was funded by the federal government and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Baltimore said his lab has filed for patents.
"I think it's great," said Dr. Philip R. Johnson of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, who reported similar results in monkeys in 2009. "It provides additional evidence this is a concept that's worth moving forward."
Johnson said he has discussed doing a human trial with federal regulators and is preparing an application for permission to go ahead. If all goes well, a preliminary experiment to test the safety of the approach might begin in about a year, he said. Baltimore said his group is also planning human experiments that he hopes will start in the next couple years.
Fauci, who is director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, cautioned that mouse results don't always pan out in human studies. He also said both the gene approach and standard vaccines should be pursued because it's not clear which will work better.
"We're still in the discovery stage of both of them," he said.
Dr. Harris Goldstein, director of the Einstein-Montefiore Center for AIDS Research in New York, who has done similar research in mice, called Baltimore's result a significant advance if it works in humans because it shows a single injection produces high levels of antibodies for a long time.
It might lead not only to preventing infection, but also a treatment for infected people, he said. If it allowed people with HIV to stop or reduce their medications even for temporary periods, they could avoid the inconvenience and side effects of the drugs, he said.
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Online:
Nature: http://www.nature.com/nature
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Malcolm Ritter can be followed at http://twitter.com/malcolmritter.
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New arrest made in News Corp phone-hacking probe (Reuters)
LONDON (Reuters) ? London police investigating the scandal of illegal telephone hacking centered on the British arm of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp empire said they had made another arrest Wednesday.
Police said a 31-year-old woman had been detained on suspicion of conspiracy to intercept voicemail messages and was being questioned in northeast England.
Newspaper industry sources said the woman was Bethany Usher, who worked as a reporter based in Manchester for the News of the World - the now-defunct News Corp Sunday tabloid at the heart of the hacking scandal - between January 2006 and October 2007.
She is now a senior lecturer in media and journalism studies at Teesside University where a spokesman said: "It would be inappropriate to comment on any ongoing police investigation."
Detectives launched an investigation in January into whether journalists and private investigators, seeking gossip for stories, illegally intercepted voicemail messages on mobile phones of people ranging from celebrities and politicians to murder victims and the families of dead soldiers.
They are also looking at whether reporters paid police for information.
The probe is focused on the News of the World, closed down by News Corp's British arm News International in July after revelations its reporters had hacked the phone of a missing schoolgirl who was later found dead.
LIST OF SUSPECTS
The woman held Wednesday is the 18th person to be arrested, joining a list of suspects which includes senior News International figures and Prime Minister David Cameron's former media chief, Andy Coulson, an ex-editor of News of the World.
The scandal has embarrassed and damaged Murdoch and his son James, News International's chairman, and engulfed much of the British establishment, including senior police officers and Cameron himself.
It also led to Cameron ordering an inquiry into the British press which began hearings this month, delivering more damaging allegations about the behavior of newspapers, and suggestions editors were fully aware of the criminal activities.
Wednesday, Alastair Campbell, who was a powerful communications chief under former Prime Minister Tony Blair, told the inquiry the press had become "barely worth defending" and "quite frankly putrid in many of its elements."
In a written statement, Campbell said he had been threatened after doing TV interviews in 2009 in which he talked about "systematic criminal activity" at the News of the World.
"I received a series of what can only be termed mildly threatening text and phone messages from senior journalists and executives at News International," he wrote.
Campbell, a former political editor at the left-leaning Daily Mirror newspaper and a suspected hacking victim himself, said he could not rule out that illegal methods went beyond the News of the World to other newspapers, although he said he had no evidence of this.
"I have also never understood how the Daily Mirror learned of Cherie's (Tony Blair's wife) pregnancy," he said in his written statement. "As I recall it, at the time only a tiny number of people in Downing Street knew that she was pregnant."
(Additional reporting by Georgina Prodhan; Editing by Peter Graff)
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Diveboard Aims To Make Logging Scuba Dives Fun And Educational
When I earned my PADI open water diver certification, I had every intention of making scuba diving a regular hobby. Then I got a baby and everything changed. I haven't been able to dive since, but I still have my logbook and keep looking for opportunities to get back into a wetsuit. The next time I do, I'll be sure to log my dive at Diveboard, a new online dive logbook.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/8F6m5aPbO-s/
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