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From Coast To Coast with The Power Of The Sun
Weather permitting, a solar-power airplane will embark on a cross-country trip on Wednesday. Weekend Edition Sunday host Rachel Martin speaks with Bertrand Piccard, one of pilots and creators of Solar Impulse, which will make an American tour stopping in Phoenix, Dallas, Washington, D.C. and New York.
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Later this week, weather permitting, a solar-powered airplane will take off on a trip from the San Francisco Bay area all the way across the country to New York. The Solar Impulse can fly both day and night. But it will take two pilots to pull it off. Swiss aviator Bertrand Piccard is co-founder and chairman of Solar Impulse. He and his business partner, Andre Borschberg, will take turns flying the craft across the States. They will stop in Phoenix, Dallas and Washington D.C., spending about 10 days in each city, before arriving at their final destination, New York, later this summer. Bertrand Piccard joins us from Woodside, California. Welcome to the program.
BERTRAND PICCARD: Thank you very much.
MARTIN: Tell us about the airplane.
PICCARD: So, you have to imagine an airplane that has the wingspan of a jumbo jet and the weight of a small car. And this makes it so efficient that it can use the solar energy to fly day and night with absolutely no fuel.
MARTIN: And how big is the cockpit?
PICCARD: It is like small economic class seats, but we are building now a new airplane that could fly around the world in 2015. The second airplane will have a cockpit bigger. The pilot can lie down. It will be like a business class seat. Because the flights, for example, when we cross the Atlantic or the Pacific, will last for three to six days with one single pilot onboard. So, of course, the pilot will need to be able to stretch, to rest - they will be on autopilot. But on this first Solar Impulse airplane, it doesn't allow yet to cross oceans because it doesn't have an autopilot and the cockpit is very, very small.
MARTIN: You're only 40 miles per hour, so this isn't necessarily going to be the future of commercial flight. Your purpose is larger, to just draw awareness to the possibility and potential of solar power; is that right?
PICCARD: You are absolutely right, yes. Our goal is not to make a revolution in air transport. Our goal is to make the revolution in the mindset of the people. When they think about energy, you see that if the entire world was using these same technologies, like batteries, like lighting systems with LED, if we were massively using these technologies in our world, we could already divide by two our energy consumption and produce half of the rest with renewable sources.
MARTIN: Each leg of the journey is how many hours?
PICCARD: It will be between 20 and 24 hours.
MARTIN: So, how does that work? You said there is no autopilot. Do you just not sleep during that time?
PICCARD: No, no, you don't sleep. You know, when you prepare a project like that, once you sit in the cockpit, you are so happy that you are finally making the flight, the last of your wish is to sleep. You hope to enjoy every minute of it.
MARTIN: Bertrand Piccard is co-founder and chairman of Solar Impulse. He is also one of the pilots of the aircraft, which will soon be making its way across country. Thanks very much and bon voyage.
PICCARD: Thank you very much.
MARTIN: This is NPR News.
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Tiny satellites + cellphones = cheaper 'eyes in the sky' for NASA
NASA is exploring ways to send a flotilla of small satellites to a destination, rather than one large orbiter. In a first test, three tiny satellites are now on orbit and beeping back at Earth. Why the idea could be an aid to scientific research.
NASA's Phonesat aims to demonstrate the ability to launch one of the lowest-cost, easiest-to-build satellites ever flown in space ? capabilities enabled by using off-the-shelf consumer smart phones.
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Three satellites, to be exact, released into orbit on Sunday with the launch of Orbital Sciences Corp.'s new Antares rocket, the latest addition to NASA's stable of space-station resupply vehicles.
The tiny satellites, each occupying a cube four inches on a side, represent an experiment in using cheap but powerful off-the-shelf technology to run a new generation of small, affordable science satellites.
Two of these orbiters, which NASA has dubbed Phonesat 1.0, use the electronics and sensors packaged in a Google Nexus One smart phone to serve as on-board computers. Accelerometers that normally tell the phones which way you've oriented the screen now gather information on the satellites' orientation in space. And the cameras? Yep, snapshots of Earth from 156 miles up.
The third satellite, a prototype for Phonesat 2.0, uses a more powerful Nexus S, which also has a built-in gyroscope. Ultimately, engineers plan to use that extra capability to control solar panels and to control the spacecraft's orientation, instead of just recording it.
The notion of using a smart phone's innards to run a satellite grew out of informal hallway chatter, recalls James Cockrell, project manager for Phonesat at NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif.
The benchmark people often use as a point of comparison for the power of their favorite laptop or smart phone is the primitive computing power used in the Apollo program, which landed humans on the moon and brought them back safely in the late 1960s and early '70s.
Indeed, Mr. Cockrell describes a trip to the Internet that netted him the electronic-circuit diagram for the navigation and control computer used in Apollo's Lunar Excursion Module.
"Oh my goodness, you could build it in your basement" with a circuit board and a few transistors, he says.
A couple of years ago, he says, an engineer at NASA-Ames was drawing a similar comparison between his smart phone and today's satellites during an informal hallway chat. The engineer noted that a smart phone's processor is 10 to 15 times more powerful than the processors used in a conventional satellite's computer. A smart phone has much more memory. And it boasts a GPS receiver, gyroscopes, and accelerometers ? the sensors needed for navigation and to control a satellite's orientation.
"He said: 'I don't know why we couldn't make a satellite our of a smart phone,' " Cockrell recalls. Although it took a bit of additional salesmanship to convince folks higher up the organizational food chain, the Phonesat project was born.
The satellites cost about $3,500 each. The initial goals were modest: Survive the launch and beep at Earth.
So far, the satellites have successfully relayed their health ? operating temperatures, battery status, and other key indicators ? via small external transmitters.
"We call this our Sputnik moment," Cockrell says, referring to the simple "I'm alive" beeps that the world's first artificial satellite sent back to Earth in 1957.
As of Monday night, the two Phonesat 1 orbiters started taking pictures. Each satellite selected one image to beam back to Earth.
Before the beaming could begin, the image had to be cut into pieces. And yes, there's now an app for that.
And where NASA's flagship missions to the far reaches of the solar system use the agency's global Deep Space Network for communications, Phonesats are using what you could call NASA's cheap-and-not-so-deep space network ? ham-radio operators worldwide.
So far, some 100 hams have registered at www.phonesat.org, a site the program has set up to receive the packets. As of Tuesday evening, Cockrell estimated that the website had collected more than 300 packets, which computers on Earth must sort through to eliminate duplicates. Ultimately the mosaic will be assembled and displayed online.
The three Phonesats are expected to reenter the atmosphere and vaporize at the end of their 10- to 14-day romp on orbit.
The project already has Phonesats 3.0 and 4.0 on the drawing boards, an effort that eventually could pay dividends for space research, explains Bruce Yost, who heads the Edison Small Satellite Flight Demonstration Program at NASA-Ames.
NASA is exploring concepts for sending a flotilla of small satellites to a destination, rather than one large orbiter. The arrangement would allow sensors from several satellites to take measurements simultaneously around an entire planet to unravel the processes at work on the surface or in an atmosphere.
"If each one of those little pieces of the puzzle costs millions of dollars, then you're not really making any headway" toward getting such a mission approved, Mr. Yost explains. Given the private sector's heavy investment in phone R&D and the capabilities that have emerged, the argument goes, why keep satellite-control technology development in-house and reinvent the wheel?
Earth is likely to be an early target for such "swarm" exploration, Yost says. Scientists studying and forecasting space weather are interested in lofting a flotilla of satellites that could make simultaneous measurements of the solar wind or solar storms and their influence on various parts of the Earth's magnetic field.
Cockrell and his team also are working on an eight-spacecraft flotilla to test the feasibility of this idea of satellite swarms, Yost says.
Perhaps it's fitting that the first smart phones in space run on the Android operating system. There's no word on when or if iPhones will get a crack at serving as the seed around which a satellite grows. ?
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Sunday, April 28, 2013
AP PHOTOS: Survivors found in Bangladesh collapse
Working round-the-clock, rescuers have pulled more than two dozen survivors from the rubble of a Bangladesh garment factory that collapsed 4 days ago, killing some 350 people.
From within the wreckage, "We are still getting response from survivors though they are becoming weaker slowly," said Brig. Gen. Ali Ahmed Khan, the head of the fire services.
"The building is very vulnerable. Any time the floors could collapse. We are performing an impossible task, but we are glad that we are able to rescue so many survivors," he said.
The disaster is the worst ever for the country's booming and powerful garment industry, surpassing a fire five months ago that killed 112 people and brought widespread pledges to improve worker-safety standards.
Here are some images from the recovery scene.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ap-photos-survivors-found-bangladesh-collapse-163536116.html
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Mapping of cancer cell fuel pumps paves the way for new drugs
Apr. 28, 2013 ? For the first time, researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have managed to obtain detailed images of the way in which the transport protein GLUT transports sugars into cells. Since tumours are highly dependent on the transportation of nutrients in order to be able to grow rapidly, the researchers are hoping that the study published in the scientific magazine Nature Structural & Molecular Biology will form the basis for new strategies to fight cancer cells.
In order to be able to fuel their rapid growth, cancer tumours depend on transporter proteins to work at high speed to introduce sugars and other nutrients that are required for the cell's metabolism. One possible treatment strategy would therefore be to block some of the transporters in the cell membrane which operate as fuel pumps, thus starving out and killing the cancer cells.
One important group of membrane transporters is the GLUT family, which introduces glucose and other sugars into the cell. Glucose is one of the most important energy sources for cancer cells and GLUT transporters have been shown to play a key role in tumour growth in many different types of cancer.
In the current study, researchers from Karolinska Institutet have performed a detailed study of the way in which suger transport is executed by the protein XylE, from the Escherichia colibacterium, whose function and structure is very similar to GLUT transporters in humans. For the first time, the researchers have described the way in which the protein's structure changes between two different conformations when it binds and transports a sugar molecule.
"In showing details of the molecular structure of the region that bind the sugar, our study opens up the opportunities to more efficiently develop new substances that may inhibit GLUT transporters," says P?r Nordlund at the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, one of the researchers behind the study. "Information on the structure of the transport protein facilitates the development of better drugs in a shorter time. Such GLUT inhibitors could potentially be used to treat cancer in the future."
The study may be of significance not just to cancer research but also in the field of diabetes. GLUT plays a key role in diabetes since insulin works by activating the uptake of glucose from the blood by means of GLUT transporters in the cell membrane.
GLUT and the studied XylE transporter belong to the very large group of metabolite transporters called the Major Facilitator Superfamily (MFS), which is important in many diseases and for the uptake of medicines in cells.
"Many aspects concerning molecular mechanisms for the function of GLUT transporters are probably common to many members of the MFS family, which are involved in a broad spectrum of diseases in addition to cancer and diabetes," says P?r Nordlund.
As well as membrane transporters, which have undergone in-depth analysis in the current study, many different membrane proteins pass through the surface membrane of the cells. Their significance to the cell function and the development of drugs has been noted before, not least through the Nobel Prizes that were awarded to researchers who used mechanistic and structural studies to map the function of two other major membrane protein families, G-protein-coupled receptors and ion channels.
The current study has been financed by grants from the Swedish Research Council, the Swedish Cancer Society, the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) and The Danish Council for Independent Research.
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NCL ? National Cricket League | The Sports Life
Let?s be honest, many of you readers probably do not know what Cricket is, and if you do, you might be referring to the little insect. If you are one of those people who actually know the sport called cricket, you may skip the video below. However, if you have no idea what cricket is, follow the instructions.
Step 1: Read about Cricket on Wikipedia (and for your convenience, I am going to post the link:?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket)
Step 2: Watch this video:
You?re probably thinking, ?Why on earth would you want Cricket in the United States of America when it already has the MLB???Now, if you have read some of my other articles, you probably know I like to divide every idea into three parts:
1. My personal experiences in the Cricket World
2. The facts about Cricket
3. My plans for the NCL ? if it were to exist
Many people probably don?t know I was born in Nepal, the small country cradled by China and India. I watched and played Cricket since I was a little kid. In Nepal, influenced by India and United Kingdom, cricket is one of the major sports, besides Futbol (or Soccer). I remember going to my cousins house and playing cricket with his friends. Of course, we did have the best equipment but we made the best of it. One time, we used tin barrels for wickets. Long story short, my cousin managed to fall on top of it and cut his forehead. Yes, he was ok afterwards. But, even with this horrific accident, we continued to play. In 2001, I moved to New Zealand. During the first couple of months, I usually just played soccer but after a ?while, I got into Cricket even more. ?Eventually, I played for the school (or community, I don?t remember), and I was dubbed the best bowler. It also helped me make more friends and I had a good time. I remember watching most of the games with my dad as we made bets on who would win(some matches took 3 days to complete). Soon, I moved out of New Zealand and I stopped playing Cricket and moved to other sports. I never really thought about cricket like I used to, but every once in a while, I would catch up on it. Lately, I really haven?t watched any cricket; I have forgotten many of the rules, but I still love the sport.
Now, on to the facts about cricket. According to many statistics, Cricket is the second most popular sport in the world coming behind none other than Football, or Soccer. If soccer is becoming bigger and bigger in the US, imagine how Cricket would be in ten or twenty years from now. If we compare the 3 major sports of the USA to Football (Soccer) and Cricket, we can see the following:
Courtesy of Google Trends. Note: Football could mean Australian Football League, NFL, Soccer?.
As for popularity, it as popular as NBA, NFL and MLB. Cricket is popular in countries such as United Kingdom, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, West Indies and many, many more. There are many leagues around the world, but none as great as the ICC, or the International Cricket Council. Similar to the FIFA for soccer, the ICC rules over international cricket plays. Similar to baseball, cricket is an interesting and fun sport once you learn the rules and even play a game. Having experienced both sports, in my opinion, Cricket is a much more demanding sport than baseball. I am a fan of baseball, but it is a slow sport. In Cricket, you have to be constantly moving and aware of your opposition. Cricket requires thinking while baseball, all you really need to do is swing and hit the ball. Not putting down baseball by any means, but cricket is much more complicated and takes more patient. That is the biggest reason Cricket is not as popular in North America than other parts of the world. As humans, we don?t have the greatest patience, which Cricket requires a lot of; Even though Cricket is a sport that requires constant motion, the sport can take hours and hours to finish. However, the best thing about Cricket is that anyone can play it. Most sports in North America are dominated by buff guys who are usually over six feet and 220 pounds. On the other hand, Cricket does not require a ton of muscle strength or being tall and buff. It might sound clich? but all you need is a field, a desire to play and know how to play.?Even though the USA has tried to implement a Cricket league and it was not very popular, there should be a bigger effort to expand it. After all, most of the world plays it anyway. If America wants to be a true melting pot of cultures, it should include a Cricket League. There should be an effort to have recreation Cricket leagues throughout North America, starting out in elementary schools, middle schools, high schools and even universities. As with every other major sports, it will be complicated and frustrating in the beginning, but if it were accessible to all, it would become a major sport in North America.
Lastly, if there were to be a NCL and I were the commissioner, this is what I would do (this is assuming that it gains popularity within the next couple of years):
First of all, as with all professional sports, you need to start out small. If you allow kids to grow into a cricket era, it will gain popularity, much like everything else in our society. So, my plan would be implementing cricket in high schools and community in?each town or city. Expand it to state-wide leagues and add tournaments as it gains popularity. ?Thus, in the cities with the most people, culturally diverse, make cricket leagues. For example, in New York City, make a city-wide league with 10 to 20 teams. Thus, as it gains popularity, it can be changed into a nationwide league. So, each city picks the best of the best and makes a team, similar to any other professional sports. So, I would take cities such as New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Antonio, San Diego, Dallas and San Jose (ten of the most populated US cities) and create a season with each team playing each other a certain amount of times. At the end of the season, there could be a tournament including all the cities. As the game gains more fans, more teams would be added, thus allowing the league to add more divisions and conferences. Overall, there would be 30 to 40 teams with 2 conferences and 4 divisions in each conference.
West | East | ||||||
Northwest | Pacific | Southwest | Midwest | Eastern | Southeast | Atlantic | Central |
| Seattle | Los Angeles | Phoenix | Oklahoma City | Charlotte (NC) | Miami | New York | Chicago |
| Portland | Las Vegas | San Antonio | Minneapolis (MN) | Baltimore | Orlando | Boston | Detroit |
| Denver | San Francisco | Dallas | Kansas City | Philadelphia | Atlanta | Washington DC | Indianapolis |
| Salt Lake City | San Diego | Houston | New Orleans | Pittsburgh | Nashville (TN) | New Jersey | Cleveland |
| Vancouver | Sacramento | Austin | St Louis | Toronto | Tampa Bay | Brooklyn | Cincinati |
After that is set up, the season could be similar to that of the MLB season. Each team would play each other at least once with teams in the same division and conference playing more games. The playing style would be similar to that of the test matches or ODI (one day international). Assuming cricket gains and maintains the popularity, it could become a huge source of income from tickets, merchandise, sponsorship on merchandise worn during games and such. The playoffs would be the two best teams from each division thus having a 16 team playoff similar to the NBA. The series in the playoffs would be one game elimination, with the loser going home and ultimately one champion.
And that, my friends, is where I leave it to you. What else would you add to the league? Do you have better ideas? Would you make a better commissioner??than me? Comment below your ideas!
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Rodney Allen Rippy, child star, bows out of Compton mayor race
Rodney Allen Rippy finished back in a pack of 12 candidates vying for mayor of Compton, Calif. Rodney Allen Rippy shot to fame as the kid in the Jack in the Box "Too bigga eat!" TV ads.
Former child actor Rodney Allen Rippy outside Compton City Hall in Compton, Calif. Rippy ran running for Mayor of Compton.
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EnlargeBefore he suddenly surfaced in the race for mayor of this hardscrabble Los Angeles suburb, Rodney Allen Rippy's name was likely to evoke that question inspired by that class of former child stars who didn't die young, end up in jail or a celebrity rehab series: "Whatever happened to that guy?"
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Rippy was just 3 in 1972, when he became the toast of a generation as the pint-sized TV pitchman for the Jack In The Box fast-food chain. When he picked up a hamburger that looked as a big as a hubcap and tried to cram it into his mouth, America was entranced. When he finally said, "Too bigga eat!" a national catchphrase was born.
Soon the cute, chubby-cheeked youngster with the Afro as big as his head was hanging out in Hollywood with Michael Jackson. He made movie cameos and recorded a hit album called "Take Life a Little Easier."
Then the 1970s ended, and so did Rippy's career.
More than 30 years later, he resurfaced as a candidate for mayor in a city known variously over the years as the birthplace of gangsta rap, the murder capital of the country and the home of the drive-by shooting.
Although he got only 75 votes, finishing 10th among 12 candidates. The final results in the primary election, released Thursday, show that Aja Brown beat long-time Mayor Eric Perrodin, and will now compete in a run off with former Mayor Omar Bradley, who is currently facing corruption charges.
But Rippy's earnest but futile campaign raised the inevitable question of where he had been.
Rippy never strayed far from Hollywood, it turns out. He simply stepped away from the cameras.
When his Jack In The Box career ended about the time he was finishing high school, he went to college and earned a marketing degree.
"I wanted to continue to act, but at the time acting was a thing that unless you were really burning hot, you better have something on the back burner," he said recently over lunch at a Compton restaurant down the street from City Hall.
Seeing how the adults around him had turned a cute little kid from Long Beach into a national star, he decided marketing was the way to go.
He formed Ripped Marketing Group in 2000 and has promoted everything from smokeless cigarettes to leisure wear to country music. It gave him the idea, he says, that he could promote Compton too. He wanted to change the image of a city that, although financially troubled, has seen crime and gang violence drop precipitously in recent years.
He wasn't the first child star to remerge from anonymity to run for office. His contemporary, the late Gary Coleman, did the same when he launched his quixotic campaign for governor of California in 2003.
Unlike Coleman and many other former child stars, Rippy never got into a fistfight with an autograph seeker. He hasn't been caught in a crack house or drunkenly crashed his car.
"Don't get me wrong, I know the good, the bad, the ugly, but I have sense enough to stay away from it," he said. "My mom always said, 'Rodney, you need to understand this: It's very easy to get into trouble. It's very difficult to get out."
The Afro and the chubby cheeks are gone, but Rippy's appearance often has people scratching their heads, wondering where they've seen him before. Their reaction when they find out is sometimes like that of Saudia Pearsall's.
"THE RODNEY ALLEN RIPPY?" the waitress shouted with glee after she spotted him at a back table.
"Ahhhhh! I might vote for you just because I like you," she added, laughing. "That little Afro. 'This burger's too bigga eat!'"
A day later, she was having second thoughts, realizing she didn't know much about his campaign.
Her reaction ? delight at meeting a celebrity but wondering what the heck he's doing here ? is something Rippy says he sees often.
Rippy lost out on a marketing job once, when the person he was to work for started to believe he was being punked for a reality show: "He thought it was some kind of game, like I had some sort of hat-cam on."
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Saturday, April 27, 2013
Duncan leads Spurs' rout, pushing Lakers to brink
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? After 16 seasons, Tim Duncan knows the NBA postseason is no time for mercy. Particularly when an opponent is down and seemingly ready to go out.
In the opening minutes of Game 3, Duncan made three consecutive baskets and blocked Dwight Howard's shot, dominating with his usual ruthless grace.
He put the San Antonio Spurs ahead to stay, and they ended up handing the short-handed Los Angeles Lakers their biggest home playoff loss in franchise history.
After a 120-89 victory Friday night, all that's left is the finish ? something Duncan and the Spurs also know how to do pretty well.
Duncan had 26 points and nine rebounds, and Tony Parker had 20 points and seven assists in a largely silent Staples Center as San Antonio pushed the Lakers to the brink of first-round playoff elimination for the first time since 2007.
"We respect these guys, and we're not trying to give them any momentum whatsoever," Duncan said.
The short-handed Lakers played without their top four guards due to injury, and the Spurs posted their biggest win of a series thoroughly controlled by coach Gregg Popovich's playoff-tested club.
San Antonio led throughout the final 44 minutes, going up by 18 in the first half and 25 early in the fourth quarter with its smooth, flexible offense.
"I think we're playing fairly well," Popovich said. "Whether the team you're playing is whole, or banged up like the Lakers are ... we have to bring the energy and the professionalism to play."
They've had little trouble doing it so far, and the Spurs can close it out in Game 4 on Sunday night.
Tiago Splitter limped to the Spurs' locker room late in the third quarter with a sprained left ankle, but not much else went poorly for San Antonio while silencing the Lakers' enthusiastic crowd.
Howard had 25 points and 11 rebounds, and Pau Gasol added his first career playoff triple-double with 11 points, 13 rebounds and 10 assists, but the Spurs were far too much for a team without Kobe Bryant and Steve Nash.
Andrew Goudelock scored a career-high 20 points in his first playoff start, and fellow starter Darius Morris scored 12 of his 24 points in the blowout fourth quarter.
With Bryant and Nash joined by Jodie Meeks and Steve Blake on the injured list, the Lakers started Goudelock and Morris, using a starting five that had never started together for the second time in three games. The young guards didn't play poorly, but they weren't enough to overcome Duncan's dominance and Parker's continued move back to top form.
"It's been a very tough year, but we're not going to make any excuses, and we're not going to quit," Howard said.
The Lakers exceeded their 29-point home loss to Portland on May 22, 2000, the previous worst home defeat for the 16-time NBA champion franchise. Staples Center's lower bowl was half empty in the final minutes, an unfamiliar sight in an arena used to celebrating championships.
"The first half, we gave everything we had, and it obviously wasn't enough," Los Angeles coach Mike D'Antoni said. "I thought our guys played as hard as they can play."
After finishing the regular season with a loss at Staples Center among their seven defeats in their final 10 games, the Spurs took control of the series with two methodical wins in San Antonio.
Nash was largely ineffective after missing the final eight regular-season games, and the Spurs' veteran chemistry was more than enough to finish off the Lakers.
The first half of Game 3 had the same theme. San Antonio jumped to an 18-point lead late in the second quarter with steady offense from 10 scorers, while the Lakers had an understandable lack of chemistry.
The Lakers' tumultuous season appears to be drawing to a merciful end, since they're nearly out of healthy players after beginning the season with a star-studded roster and championship aspirations.
Nine of the Lakers' 15 players were on their injury report for Game 3, and Metta World Peace played despite getting fluid drained from a cyst behind his surgically repaired left knee. After the game, World Peace said he'll probably sit out Game 4.
Bryant attended the game, hobbling through the Lakers' locker room before the game with crutches and a large walking boot on his immobilized ankle, but didn't join Nash, Blake and Meeks watching in suits at courtside.
The Lakers were forced to rely on Goudelock, their second-round draft pick from two years ago who spent this season in the D-League until Los Angeles signed him 12 days ago, and Morris, another second-year pro who barely left the Lakers' bench for long stretches this season.
Goudelock, the MVP of the NBA's D-League this season, put up plenty of points with ample opportunity to shoot, but Parker largely matched him while Duncan thoroughly outplayed Howard and Gasol down low with his timeless game as the Spurs pulled away.
Goudelock started slowly, but scored 10 points in a 2:25 burst late in the second quarter to trim San Antonio's halftime lead to 55-44.
NOTES: Gasol is the seventh player to post a playoff triple-double in Lakers history. ... F Boris Diaw, the Spurs' only player with a significant injury, is running on a treadmill and shooting in his comeback from the removal of a cyst from his spine. He's likely to play 2-on-2 with contact next week. ... World Peace ran with obvious discomfort in his knee. Before the game, he considered sitting out, but didn't feel he could miss a game with the Lakers' injury woes. ... Ashton Kutcher, David Arquette, Jon Heder and "Mad Men" creator Matthew Weiner watched from courtside.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/duncan-leads-spurs-rout-pushing-lakers-brink-050635730.html
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Sea surface temperatures reach highest level in 150 years on Northeast continental shelf
Apr. 26, 2013 ? Sea surface temperatures in the Northeast Shelf Large Marine Ecosystem during 2012 were the highest recorded in 150 years, according to the latest Ecosystem Advisory issued by NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC). These high sea surface temperatures (SSTs) are the latest in a trend of above average temperature seen during the spring and summer seasons, and part of a pattern of elevated temperatures occurring in the Northwest Atlantic, but not seen elsewhere in the ocean basin over the past century.
The advisory reports on conditions in the second half of 2012.
Sea surface temperature for the Northeast Shelf Ecosystem reached a record high of 14 degrees Celsius (57.2?F) in 2012, exceeding the previous record high in 1951. Average SST has typically been lower than 12.4 C (54.3 F) over the past three decades.
Sea surface temperature in the region is based on both contemporary satellite remote-sensing data and long-term ship-board measurements, with historical SST conditions based on ship-board measurements dating back to 1854. The temperature increase in 2012 was the highest jump in temperature seen in the time series and one of only five times temperature has changed by more than 1 C (1.8 F).
The Northeast Shelf's warm water thermal habitat was also at a record high level during 2012, while cold water habitat was at a record low level. Early winter mixing of the water column went to extreme depths, which will impact the spring 2013 plankton bloom. Mixing redistributes nutrients and affects stratification of the water column as the bloom develops.
Temperature is also affecting distributions of fish and shellfish on the Northeast Shelf. The advisory provides data on changes in distribution, or shifts in the center of the population, of seven key fishery species over time. The four southern species -- black sea bass, summer flounder, longfin squid and butterfish -- all showed a northeastward or upshelf shift. American lobster has shifted upshelf over time but at a slower rate than the southern species. Atlantic cod and haddock have shifted downshelf."
"Many factors are involved in these shifts, including temperature, population size, and the distributions of both prey and predators," said Jon Hare, a scientist in the NEFSC's Oceanography Branch. A number of recent studies have documented changing distributions of fish and shellfish, further supporting NEFSC work reported in 2009 that found about half of the 36 fish stocks studied in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean, many of them commercially valuable species, have been shifting northward over the past four decades.
The Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf Large Marine Ecosystem (LME) extends from the Gulf of Maine to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. The NEFSC has monitored this ecosystem with comprehensive sampling programs since1977. Prior to 1977, this ecosystem was monitored by the NEFSC through a series of separate, coordinated programs dating back decades.
Warming conditions on the Northeast Shelf in the spring of 2012 continued into September, with the most consistent warming conditions seen in the Gulf of Maine and on Georges Bank. Temperatures cooled by October and were below average in the Middle Atlantic Bight in November, perhaps due to Superstorm Sandy, but had returned to above average conditions by December.
"Changes in ocean temperatures and the timing and strength of spring and fall plankton blooms could affect the biological clocks of many marine species, which spawn at specific times of the year based on environmental cues like water temperature," Kevin Friedland, a scientist in the NEFSC Ecosystem Assessment Program, said. He noted that the contrast between years with, and without, a fall bloom is emerging as an important driver of the shelf's ecology. "The size of the spring plankton bloom was so large that the annual chlorophyll concentration remained high in 2012 despite low fall activity. These changes will have a profound impact throughout the ecosystem."
Michael Fogarty, who heads the Ecosystem Assessment Program, says the abundance of fish and shellfish is controlled by a complex set of factors, and that increasing temperatures in the ecosystem make it essential to monitor the distribution of many species, some of them migratory and others not.
"It isn't always easy to understand the big picture when you are looking at one specific part of it at one specific point in time," Fogarty said, a comparison similar to not seeing the forest when looking at a single tree in it. "We now have information on the ecosystem from a variety of sources collected over a long period of time, and are adding more data to clarify specific details. The data clearly show a relationship between all of these factors."
"What these latest findings mean for the Northeast Shelf ecosystem and its marine life is unknown," Fogarty said. "What is known is that the ecosystem is changing, and we need to continue monitoring and adapting to these changes."
Ecosystem advisories have been issued twice a year by the NEFSC's Ecosystem Assessment Program since 2006 as a way to routinely summarize overall conditions in the region. The reports show the effects of changing coastal and ocean temperatures on fisheries from Cape Hatteras to the Canadian border. The advisories provide a snapshot of the ecosystem for the fishery management councils and also a broad range of stakeholders from fishermen to researchers.
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Feature phones more popular than tablets for browsing
A recent survey from goo Research, reported on by japan.internet.com, looked at web site viewing, the seventh time this regular survey has been performed, and found that tablets were surprisingly (to me at least) less popular than feature phones when it came to selecting a main surfing device.
Demographics
Between the 9th and 11th of April 2013 1,090 mobile phone- (including smartphone-) using members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 57.6% of the sample were female, 3.1% in their teens, 23.1% in their twenties, 37.1% in their thirties, 25.5% in their forties, and 11.2% aged fifty or older.
I?m beginning to seriously consider using a tablet as my main tool for home, replacing my netbook, although I do need to find a decent text editor with macros in order to produce all the tables I use. If anyone has any good recommendations, I?m all ears. And no, Emacs for Android is most certainly not a good recommendation!
In Q1SQ1, I?d like to know more about why about half the smartphone users choose it as their primary surfing device, but only one in five tablet users do so. I suspect it is something to do with the smartphone being more portable thus usable on the train when commuting, and perhaps a lot of tablets are wifi only, so have less connectivity.
Research results
Read more on: goo researchQ1: Do you also have a computer (PC, Mac, etc)? (Sample size=1,090)
Q1SQ1: Which device do you mainly browse the web from? (Sample size=1,032)
Computer 71.5% Smartphone 20.8% Legacy feature phone 4.7% Tablet 2.8% Note that in a separate survey conducted at the start of March 2013, smartphone ownership was at 42.8% and tablets at 14.6%.
Q1SQ2: Do you plan to buy a computer in the future? (Sample size=58)
Plan to buy 20.7% Want one, but no plan to buy yet 65.5% Don?t want one 13.8%
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Friday, April 26, 2013
Cost-effectiveness of helicopter transport of trauma victims examined
Apr. 25, 2013 ? Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have for the first time determined how often emergency medical helicopters need to help save the lives of seriously injured people to be considered cost-effective compared with ground ambulances.
The researchers found that if an additional 1.6 percent of seriously injured patients survive after being transported by helicopter from the scene of injury to a level-1 or level-2 trauma center, then such transport should be considered cost-effective. In other words, if 90 percent of seriously injured trauma victims survive with the help of ground transport, 91.6 need to survive with the help of helicopter transport for it to be considered cost-effective.
The study, published online this month in the Annals of Emergency Medicine, does not address whether most helicopter transport actually meets the additional 1.6 percent survivorship threshold.
"What we aimed to do is reduce the uncertainty about the factors that drive the cost-effective use of this important critical care resource," said the study's lead author, M. Kit Delgado, MD, MS, an instructor in the Division of Emergency Medicine. "The goal is to continue to save the lives of those who need air transport, but spare flight personnel the additional risks of flying -- and patients with minor injuries the additional cost -- when helicopter transport is not likely to be cost-effective." (Helicopter medical services generally bill patients' insurance providers directly, but patients may have to pay some of the bill out of pocket, or, if they're uninsured, possibly all of it.)
The study comes at a time when finding ways to cut medical costs has become a national priority, and the overuse of helicopter transport has come under scrutiny. Previous studies have shown that, on average, over half of patients transported by helicopter have only minor, non-life threatening injuries. For these patients, transport by helicopter instead of ground ambulance is not likely to make a difference in outcomes, and the additional risk and cost of helicopter transport outweighs the benefit, Delgado said.
In 2010, there were an estimated 44,700 U.S. helicopter transports from injury scenes to level-1 and level-2 trauma centers, with an average cost of about $6,500 per transport. The total annual cost is around $290 million. (Level-1 and -2 trauma centers are hospitals equipped and staffed to provide the highest levels of surgical care to trauma patients; level-1 centers offer a broader array of readily available specialty care, and also are committed to research and teaching efforts.)
Yet emergency helicopter transport sits in a cost-efficiency conundrum: It is most needed in remote, rural areas where transport by ground can take far longer than by air. These areas also tend to have sparser populations and therefore fewer calls for aid, making it difficult to recoup the overhead costs of maintaining helicopter services, Delgado said.
In some areas of the country, however, helicopters are automatically launched based on the 911 call. "Once ground responders and the helicopter arrive, sometimes they may find patients who are awake, talking and have stable vital signs," Delgado said. "The challenge is getting helicopters to patients who need them in a rapid fashion so the flight team can intervene and make a difference, but also know based on certain criteria who isn't sick enough to require air transport."
Most health economists consider medical interventions that yield a year of healthy life -- a measure known as a quality-adjusted life-year -- at a cost of between $50,000 and $100,000 to be cost-effective in high-income countries, such as the United States, Delgado said. If society is willing to pay as much as $100,000 toward helicopter transport for each QALY gained by the seriously injured patients, then helicopter transport needs to reduce the mortality rate of these patients by a modest 1.6 percent compared with ground transport to meet this threshold, the study says. Or it needs to improve long-term disability outcomes, the study says.
"If future studies find helicopter transport leads to improved long-term quality of life and disability outcomes, then helicopter transport would be considered cost-effective, even if no additional lives were saved," Delgado said. "Only a handful of studies have examined outcomes other than death, without definitive results."
For severely injured patients, helicopter evacuation to a trauma center is preferable if it is faster than ground transport. However, helicopter transport is more expensive and poses rare, but often fatal, safety risks -- specifically, the risk of crashing. Plus, it is often difficult for emergency responders to discern which patients would actually benefit from being flown in a helicopter rather than driven in an ambulance to a high-level trauma center. Until this study, the survival benefit needed to offset these potential drawbacks hasn't been clear.
"More accurately determining which patients have serious injuries and need to be flown is the most promising way to ensure you are getting a good value by using helicopter transport," Delgado said. "To do this, we should promote diligent use of the Centers for Disease Control's field triage guidelines among EMS responders. This would help ensure that injured victims who are transported by helicopter to a trauma center actually require trauma care. Secondly, we need to figure out whether the practice of autolaunching helicopters based on a 911 call makes sense. If the benefit of the faster response time outweighs the expenditure of resources on those patients who may not actually need helicopter transport, then autolaunching makes sense. If not, the practice should be reconsidered."
There is mixed evidence in the literature about the degree to which helicopter transport reduces mortality. It is therefore uncertain whether the routine use of helicopter transport is cost-effective for most patients in the United States when ground transport is also feasible. The study found that the cost-effectiveness also depends on regional variation in the costs of air and ground transport and the percentage of patients who are flown that have minor injuries.
"Of course, this study only applies to situations in which both ground and helicopter transport to a trauma center are feasible," Delgado added. "In situations where the only alternative is being taken by ground to a local nontrauma-center hospital or being flown to a trauma center, then clearly we want any patient with a suspicion of a serious injury flown to that trauma center."
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Mobile, Alabama: Fuel explosions rattle windows, open doors
Four explosions struck fuel barges carrying natural gas in the Mobile River in Alabama on Wednesday. Officials planned to let the barges burn because of the instability of the situation.?
Tug boats maneuver around the Carnival cruise ship Triumph on the east side of the Mobile River earlier this month. On Wednesday two fuel barges on the river exploded, rattling windows and blowing open doors in communities nearby.
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Officials were responding to two explosions and a fire at natural gas barges when a third explosion occurred, Mobile Fire and Rescue spokesman Steve Huffman said. It was not immediately clear if the third explosion was on one of the barges that were already engulfed in flames.
A fourth explosion was reported just before 10 p.m. CDT.
Three people were hospitalized with burns and information on their conditions was not immediately available.
Fire officials said they planned to let the barges burn into the night because the situation was too unstable.
The explosions happened in an area of the river east of downtown Mobile, Huffman said. U.S. Coast Guard Petty Ofc. Carlos Vega said the blast happened in a ship channel near the George C. Wallace Tunnel ? which carries traffic from Interstate 10 under the Mobile River.
The explosions rattled the windows of houses in downtown, blew doors open in the Spanish Fort area and aftershocks were reported in Bay Minette and Fort Morgan, according to the Mobile Press-Register. Video from WALA-TV (http://bit.ly/15NEYJl) shows flames engulfing a large section of the barge.
Coast Guard officials were on their way to the scene Wednesday night and the cause of the explosion was not immediately clear, Vega said.
The explosion comes two months after a Carnival cruise ship was towed to Mobile after becoming disabled during a February cruise by an engine room fire, leaving thousands of passengers to endure cold food, unsanitary conditions and power outages. The ship is still undergoing repairs there and was sheltering in place late Wednesday.
Two shipyard workers fell into Mobile Bay on April 3 during a windstorm that dislodged the disabled Carnival Triumph cruise ship from its mooring. While one worker was rescued, the other's body was pulled from the water more than a week later.
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Roundworm quells obesity and related metabolic disorders
Apr. 25, 2013 ? Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, have shown in a mouse model that infection with nematodes (also known as roundworms) can not only combat obesity but ameliorate related metabolic disorders. Their research is published ahead of print online in the journal Infection and Immunity.
Gastrointestinal nematodes infect approximately 2 billion people worldwide, and some researchers believe up until the 20th century almost everyone had worms. In developed countries there is a decreasing incidence of nematode infection but a rising prevalence of certain types of autoimmunity, suggesting a relationship between the two. Nematode infection has been purported to have therapeutic effects and currently clinical trials are underway to examine worms as a treatment for diseases associated with the relevant cytokines, including inflammatory bowel disease, multiple sclerosis, and allergies.
In the study researchers tested the effect of nematode infection on mice fed a high-fat diet. Infected mice of normal girth gained 15 percent less weight than those that were not infected. Mice that were already obese when infected lost roughly 13 percent of their body weight within 10 days. Infection also drastically lowered fasting blood glucose, a risk factor for diabetes, and reduced fatty liver disease, decreasing liver fat by ~25 percent, and the weight of the liver by 30 percent.
The levels of insulin and leptin also dropped, "indicating that the mice restored their sensitivities to both hormones," says corresponding author Aiping Zhao of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore. Leptin moderates appetite. As with too much insulin, too high a level of leptin results in insensitivity, thus contributing to obesity and metabolic syndrome, Zhao explains.
The mechanism of the moderation of these hormones "was associated with a parasite-induced reduction in glucose absorption in the intestine, reduced liver triglycerides, and an increase in the population of cells called "alternatively activated macrophages," which regulate glucose metabolism and inflammation," says coauthor Joe Urban of the United States Department of Agriculture. Some of these changes involved "a protein called interleukin-13 and related intracellular signaling mechanisms," he says. "This suggests that there are immune related shifts in metabolism that can alter expression of obesity and related metabolic syndrome."
The incidence of obesity has been climbing dramatically, worldwide. It is a key risk factor for many metabolic diseases, including diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease. Recent studies indicate that it is accompanied by chronic low-grade inflammation in adipose tissues, causing the release of proinflammatory cytokines and chemokines that contribute to the development of cardiovascular disease and metabolic syndrome.
Parasitic nematode infection induces a marked elevation in host immune Th2-cells and related type 2 cytokines which, besides combating the infection, also have potent anti-inflammatory activity, according to the report.
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- Z. Yang, V. Grinchuk, A. Smith, B. Qin, J. A. Bohl, R. Sun, L. Notari, Z. Zhang, H. Sesaki, J. F. Urban, T. Shea-Donohue, A. Zhao. Parasitic Nematode-Induced Modulation of Body Weight and Associated Metabolic Dysfunction in Mouse Models of Obesity. Infection and Immunity, 2013; DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00053-13
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Monday, April 22, 2013
Half of Guantanamo prisoners on hunger strike
MIAMI (AP) ? The U.S. military says just over half of the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay are on hunger strike.
A military spokesman says 84 prisoners have been classified as hunger strikers at the U.S. military base in Cuba. The prison's population is 166.
Army Lt. Col. Samuel House says 16 of the 84 prisoners are being force-fed and five have been hospitalized. He says none of the hospitalized men have life-threatening conditions.
About a week after a clash between guards and prisoners, the hunger strike is steadily growing. On Tuesday, the number of hunger strikers was 45. By Friday, 63 prisoners had joined.
Prisoners have been on a hunger strike since early February to protest conditions and their indefinite confinement. The U.S. holds 166 men at the prison, most without charge.
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Midwestern river cities brace for floodwaters
CLARKSVILLE, Mo. (AP) ? Artists, farmers, National Guardsmen ? even prison inmates ? pitched in Saturday to help a small Missouri river town hold back the bulging Mississippi River.
Clarksville, Mo., was among many towns under siege across the Midwest after days of heavy rain sent river levels surging and caused flash flooding that's blamed in at least two deaths and possibly a third.
By Saturday, the sudden floods had stopped, but river flooding was getting worse, both on the Mississippi and on dozens of smaller rivers in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan and Missouri. Levees were threatened, and hundreds of people had been evacuated from their homes.
The National Weather Service predicted what it characterizes as "major" flooding on the Mississippi from the Quad Cities through just north of St. Louis by this weekend, with similar projections further south into early next week.
By midmorning in Clarksville ? nestled beneath majestic bluffs about 75 miles upriver from St. Louis ? filled sandbags were stacked between the river and downtown, an area filled with antique shops and artist stores. Volunteers, including nearly three dozen prisoners from Algoa Correctional Center in Jefferson City, were reinforcing the makeshift levee to protect against seepage.
Roger Dowell has twice lost mobile homes to flooding, and his latest one is again surrounded by water.
On Saturday morning, he needed a front-end loader to get to and from his home.
"It came up fast ? faster than normal," Dowell, a city maintenance worker, said. His wife was inside with the family dog, packing up family photos and other keepsakes.
"She's paranoid. I'm not worried about it," Dowell said, smiling.
Mississippi River levels vary greatly but are typically highest in the spring, so minor flooding is not uncommon. When river levels exceed flood stage by several feet, serious problems can occur.
High water forced the closure Friday of one of two bridges at Quincy, Ill., and the Mississippi River crossing at Louisiana, Mo., was scheduled to close Saturday. That leaves just one bridge ? at Hannibal, Mo. ? open between Quincy and the St. Louis area.
River traffic, including barges, is at a standstill because the fast-flowing Mississippi is too dangerous for travel. Nearly all of the locks between the Quad Cities and mid-Missouri have been closed by the Army Corps of Engineers.
The Mississippi, normally slow to rise, jumped nearly 10 feet in a 36-hour period late in the week, and continuing inching up as the weekend began.
Smaller rivers were rising, too. In the Chicago suburbs, the Des Plaines River was causing flooding worries, while the northern Illinois town of Marseilles remained on edge after seven barges broke free on the Illinois River late Thursday and struck a dam.
Waterways in central Indiana were increasingly swollen after record rainfall Thursday night into Friday, and more than 200 people were forced from their homes. State officials were closely monitoring the Wabash River in Tippecanoe County, expected to crest more than 14 feet above flood stage on Saturday, the highest level since 1958.
"Flood stage" is a somewhat arbitrary term that the NWS defines as the point when "water surface level begins to create a hazard to lives, property or commerce."
Two people have died due to flooding. One happened Friday night north of Indianapolis, when a 64-year-old man's car was swept away and submerged after he tried to cross a flooded road. Authorities are also searching for a second motorist in the same area.
On Thursday, a De Soto, Mo., woman died while trying to cross a flooded road. A decomposed body was found in a flooded Oak Brook, Ill., creek on Thursday, but it wasn't clear if that death was flood-related.
After the devastating Mississippi River floods of 1993, the government bought out thousands of homes, tore them down and banned development there. New and larger levees have been built, and flood walls reinforced.
A few places have opted against flood protection, including Clarksville, where many people simply don't want a wall or levee.
"We kind of like the view," alderwoman Sue Lindemann said.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/midwestern-river-cities-brace-floodwaters-073507838.html
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Sunday, April 21, 2013
Chad Mendes and Myles Jury among the six UFC on Fox 7 fighters scoring knockouts on prelims
UFC on Fox 7 started out with a knockout, followed by a knockout and then a knockout. Before fans at the fights in San Jose had eaten lunch, the competition was already fierce for the Knockout of the Night.
It started with Yoel Romero, an Olympic wrestler who knocked out Clifford Starks with a flying knee 1:32 in the first round.
Anthony Njokuani followed Romero's knockout with a pasting of Roger Bowling. Njokuani ruined Bowling's UFC debut with a second-round KO.
T.J. Dillashaw kept the KO-party going with a knockout of Hugo Viana at 4:22 of the first round. Jorge Masvidal won a bloody technical decision over Tim Means and then the knockout fun started all over again.
Joseph Benavidez dominated Darren Uyenoyama for two rounds, then finished up with a TKO with just 10 seconds left in the second round.
Myles Jury stayed undefeated with a knockout of Ramsey Nijem at 1:02 in the second round. Francis Carmont and Lorenz Larkin broke the KO streak with a decision. The judges saw it 29-28 on all three cards for Carmont, thought Larkin controlled the bout and had stellar takedown defense.
Chad Mendes finished off the knockout-filled preliminary card with a KO of Darren Elkins in 1:08. It's his third straight win since losing to Jose Aldo in his first title shot. After the fight, he asked for another one.
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