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We demonstrate a single-ended colorless coherent receiver using symmetric 3x3 couplers for optical hybrids. We show that the receiver can achieve colorless reception of fifty-five 112-Gb/s polarization-division-multiplexed quadrature-phase-shift-keyed (PDM-QPSK) channels with less than 1-dB penalty in the back-to-back operation. The receiver also works well in a long-haul wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) transmission system over 2560-km TrueWave® REACH fiber.
1. Introduction
Colorless channel drop capabilities can significantly increase the flexibility and efficiency of reconfigurable optical networks. Colorless channel drop nodes can be realized using reconfigurable wavelength demultiplexers constructed of tunable optical filters or of wavelength selective switches (WSS). Alternatively, colorless receivers that do not require any optical filtering mechanisms to separate individual wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) channels can be used [1,2].
In recent years, research on high capacity optical communications has shifted to digital coherent detection due to its potential for high spectral efficiency and sensitivity [3,4]. Balanced coherent receivers with a high common-mode-rejection ratio (CMRR) and/or with a high power difference between signal and local oscillator (LO) can be used as colorless receivers without the need for demultiplexing filters, since they suppress the direct-detection terms of all incident WDM channels [5–7]. In contrast, using simpler single-ended receiver front-ends has been shown to yield a 4-dB penalty for colorless detection of 16 WDM channels [2].
In this paper, which extends the results of [8], we study the colorless detection performance of coherent receivers and explore ways to simplify the optical front-end while maintaining colorless operation. We do so by replacing the 90° optical hybrid with a simple 3x3 coupler. Optical couplers have been used in coherent optical communications for phase diversity receivers [9–14], and an asymmetric 1:2:2 coupler has been used recently as a 90° hybrid [14]. Here, we demonstrate the use of a simple symmetric 3x3 coupler in conjunction with three single-ended photo-detectors (instead of an optical hybrid with two pairs of balanced detectors). We show that this receiver structure can completely eliminate the direct-detection terms, providing a simple and potentially cost effective alternative to a balanced coherent receiver [12]. Our experimental results show that the receiver can achieve colorless detection of fifty-five 112-Gb/s polarization-division-multiplexed quadrature-phase-shift-keyed (PDM-QPSK) channels at less than 1-dB penalty. Almost no penalty is found for LO-to-signal-power-ratios (LOSPRs) as low as 0 dB. We also demonstrate transmission of sixteen 112-Gb/s PDM-QPSK WDM channels at 50-GHz channel spacing over 2560-km TrueWave® REACH fiber using this receiver.
2. Symmetric 3 x 3 couplers in optical hybrid operation
Optical 3 x 3 couplers were widely used as optical hybrids in coherent optical receivers in the 1980s [5,7,9–11]. As shown in Fig. 1 , with the optical signal and LO fields Es and EL at the input of the coupler, the three output fields can be expressed as [11]
Fig. 1
The three output currents after the photo-detectors areEq. (4) is the direct-detection term and the second term is the beat term, with a 2π/3 phase difference between its three components. In a WDM system of N channels, , where Esi is the optical signal field of channel i. The direct-detection signal term is and can become relatively large compared to the beat term, especially if there are many WDM channels incident to the receiver. In this case, since the direct detection term occupies the same spectral region as the information-bearing beat term, the direct-detection term must be suppressed. In a single-ended receiver this suppression is done by choosing a sufficiently large LOSPR. In a balanced receiver, suppression is further improved by a large CMRR of the opto-electronic front-end. In the receiver proposed here, inphase (I) and quadrature (Q) components are obtained from the three detected currents with the following simple operations,
Like in a conventional balanced receiver, the direct-detection signal term and the LO term (including the LO relative intensity noise (RIN)) are automatically eliminated by performing the above operations.
3. Coherent receiver architectures
Figure 2 shows two architectures of a polarization and phase diversity coherent receiver using single-ended photo-detectors based on symmetric 3x3 couplers. In the architecture shown in Fig. 2(a), the operations to obtain the I/Q components from the three photocurrents are performed with simple analog scaling and subtraction circuits followed by two analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), in analogy to a single-ended or balanced coherent receiver using a 90° hybrid. In the architecture shown in Fig. 2(b), three ADCs are used to individually convert the three detected signal components to digital signals, and the operations given in Eq. (5) are performed digitally. Compared to the architecture in Fig. 2(a), this requires two more ADCs, but offers the advantage of all-digital (and hence easy to calibrate) compensation using simple digital signal processing (DSP). As an additional benefit, the DSP in the right architecture has access to the direct-detection signal term ( after eliminating the LO with a direct-current (DC) blocker). This term contains the directly detected signals of all WDM channels and can be potentially used for cross-phase modulation (XPM) compensation [15].
Fig. 2
4. Experiments and results
4.1 Back-to-back experiment
The experimental setup for a back-to-back test of the receiver is shown in Fig. 3 . Sixteen odd channels (from 1574.13 nm to 1586.62 nm) and 39 even channels (from 1570.42 nm to 1603.17 nm) in the L-band were combined with a power combiner and WDM multiplexer, respectively, and modulated by two nested Mach-Zehnder modulators (MZMs) to generate 28-Gbaud (56-Gb/s) QPSK signals (as we only had one 100-GHz WDM multiplexer, only 16 odd channels were used with a power combiner). The channel under test was derived from an external cavity laser (ECL) and the other channels from distributed feedback (DFB) lasers. Each of the I/Q drive signals for the modulators was formed by electronically multiplexing four delay-decorrelated copies of a 7-Gb/s 215-1 pseudo-random bit-sequence (PRBS). The odd and even channels were combined with a 50/100-GHz interleaver (ITL). A polarization multiplexer (PolMux) with 290 symbols delay between the two polarization tributaries was used to generate the 112-Gb/s PDM-QPSK signals for both odd and even channels. After amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) noise loading, a wavelength and bandwidth tunable filter was used to select the number of incident channels going into the receiver. Signal and LO power were adjusted by variable optical attenuators (VOAs) and are combined with two symmetric 3x3 fiber couplers, whose parameters are given in Table 1 . The receiver structure was the same as that shown in Fig. 2(b) except that two polarization controllers (PCs) were used to align the polarizations of the signal and LO. The six signal components from the photo-detectors were captured by two 4-channel 40-GSamples/s real-time oscilloscopes with 16-GHz bandwidth. The captured signal was digitally processed offline, using the constant modulus algorithm (CMA) for polarization demultiplexing and inter-symbol interference mitigation. Carrier phase estimation was performed using the Viterbi-Viterbi algorithm, and the bit-error rate (BER) was evaluated with differential decoding.
Fig. 3
We first studied the impact of the number of incident channels on receiver performance. We fixed the LO power at 21 dBm and adjusted the bandwidth of the tunable filter to vary the number of channels going into the receiver (the filter was bypassed for 55 channels). The signal power was adjusted to keep the per channel power fixed at 1 dBm. The results are given in Fig. 4(a) . It shows that there is almost no penalty for colorlessly receiving 16 channels, and less than 1-dB penalty for colorlessly receiving 55 channels. Note that in the offline processing, we tried imbalance compensation, but little improvement was obtained. Therefore we believe that the impact of noticeable differences among the coupling ratios in the 3x3 couplers on the receiver performance is small and the penalty for receiving 55 channels is caused by the reduced effective number of bits (ENoB) of the ADCs for the beat term in the oscilloscopes, as the ENoB is shared by both the direct-detection term and the beat term in Eq. (4).
Fig. 4
We also tested the effect of LOSPR on receiver performance. In this test, the tunable filter selected one channel and the optical-signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR) was fixed at 16.5 dB. The signal power was adjusted to keep the sum of signal and LO powers (in dBm) constant for different LOSPR levels so that the power of the beat term remained the same (see Eq. (4). As shown in Fig. 4(b), the receiver showed no noticeable penalty with LOSPRs of down to 0 dB.
Figure 5 shows plots of captured I1 versus I2 signals without any signal processing for different cases. Plots of I1 versus I3 and I2 versus I3 are similar. As shown in Fig. 5(a), at a high LOSPR, the signal and LO beat term is much larger than the direct-detection term, and the 2π/3 phase difference between I1 and I2 is evident from the tilt of the elliptical signal cloud. When the LOSPR is small and there are many channels, the direct-detection term becomes larger, and one cannot see the 2π/3 phase difference between I1 and I2 in the captured clouds any more, as illustrated in Figs. 5(b) and 5(c).
Fig. 5
We next tested the impact of imbalance among the three ports on the performance of the receiver. In this test, we put additional 2-dB and 3-dB attenuators at output 1 of the symmetric couplers but before the photo-detectors for x and y polarizations, respectively. We used 16 channels, which all passed the tunable filter and went to the receiver. The LO power was kept at 21-dBm and we measured BER versus OSNR using two methods. In the first method we did not compensate for any imbalance in offline processing, while in the second method the imbalance was compensated using offline DSP by simply setting the mean square values of the three currents equal before further signal processing. The results are depicted in Fig. 6 . For comparison, the result without any additionally added imbalance among the three ports is also given in the figure. The figure shows that the large induced imbalance causes more than 5-dB penalty if left uncompensated, but after imbalance compensation using DSP, the penalty is reduced to about 0.5 dB. As discussed above, this penalty is due to reduced ENoB of the ADCs for the beat term of I1.
Fig. 6
We then compared the performance of this receiver with a balanced and with a single-ended coherent receiver using 90° hybrids. The results are given in Fig. 7 , which depicts the BER versus the number of incident channels for the three receivers at 16.5-dB OSNR. It shows that the single-ended receiver using a 3x3 coupler as a hybrid can achieve similar performance as the balanced receiver using a full 90° hybrid. For the single-ended receiver using a 90° hybrid, with 16 channels incident to the receiver, the Q2-factor penalty exceeds 6 dB.
Fig. 7
4.2 Transmission experiment
It has been shown that the impact of incident channels on the performance of a coherent receiver also depends on factors such as accumulated chromatic dispersion (CD) [2]. In order to study the effects of CD and nonlinearities on the colorless reception performance of the proposed receiver, we tested the receiver in a 112-Gb/s PDM-QPSK long-haul WDM transmission system. The transmission experiment was performed in a 4x80-km dispersion-managed all-Raman amplified TrueWave® REACH fiber span recirculating loop. The TrueWave® REACH fiber has the CD and CD slope coefficients of 8.8 ps/nm-km and 0.0417 ps/km-nm2 at 1580nm respectively. The loss coefficient and Aeff of fiber at 1580nm are 0.196 dB/km and 57 μm2, respectively. The experimental setup is illustrated in Fig. 8 . To emulate legacy transport systems, the dispersion of each span was compensated by dispersion compensation fiber (DCF) with a residual dispersion per span near 30 ps/nm, and a DCF with −300-ps/nm was used as dispersion pre-compensation. Both TureWave® REACH fiber and DCF were backward Raman pumped, with the launch power to the DCF about 2-dB lower than that to the spans. The signal spectrum was flattened by a dynamic grain equalizing filter (DGEF) after each loop and the losses of the loop and DGEF were compensated by an erbium-doped-fiber amplifier (EDFA). In this experiment, sixteen 112-Gb/s PDM-QPSK channels (1577.44 nm to 1583.69 nm) at 50-GHz channel spacing were used. The channel under test (a center channel) was derived from an ECL and the other channels from DFB lasers. Both the transmitter and receiver were the same as those in Fig. 3. A tunable filter at the receiver was tuned to choose one or all of the 16 channels going to the receiver.
Fig. 8
The BER of a center channel versus launch power after 2560-km transmission is shown in Fig. 9 , with the tunable filter passing 1 and 16 channels into the receiver. It shows that the receiver works well for colorless reception in the long haul system, and similar performance is obtained with 1 and 16 channels going into the receiver. At optimum launch power, a BER below the forward-error correction (FEC) threshold of 3.8x10−3 can be achieved after 2560-km dispersion-managed transmission.
Fig. 9
5. Conclusion
We have demonstrated a colorless coherent receiver using simple symmetric 3x3 couplers for optical hybrids and single-ended photo-detectors. We showed that the receiver can achieve colorless reception of fifty-five 112-Gb/s PDM-QPSK channels with less than 1-dB penalty. There is no noticeable penalty with LOSPRs as low as 0 dB. We further demonstrated long-haul transmission of 16x112-Gb/s PDM-QPSK WDM channels at 50-GHz channel spacing over 2560-km of TrueWave® REACH fiber using this receiver.
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Alfa Romeos have always been pretty sexy. The Giulietta is no exception. But is it as good as it looks?
This compact car, which replaced the "147" model, was unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show in the spring of 2010. Initially, the Italian automaker planned to call the Giulietta the 149. Later it scrapped that idea in favor of the name "Milan," but eventually the company decided to recycle an old name used for a model that was on the market from 1954 to 1963—when it was available in a variety of versions: as a sedan, coupe, and convertible.
Style is definitely among the Alfa's strengths. This is a car that will leave no one indifferent, even though there are dozens of compact cars on the market. Its looks suggest power combined with elegance and attention to detail. An Alfa with 18-inch alloy wheels and low-profile tires looks particularly attractive.
The interior comfortably seats five passengers. Getting in is no problem, either in the front or in the back. The rear doors open in the same way as in the earlier 147 and 156 models, with the handles mounted high in the door frame. This is one of the most distinct stylistic features of the brand. The car offers an easy-to-arrange 350-liter luggage compartment that is reasonably spacious for a compact car.
The dashboard is elegant and ergonomically laid out. The driver has no problem finding a comfortable position behind the wheel, and the seats are well profiled. The gauges are easy to read, especially at night, and the bi-xenon headlights illuminate the road well. The large air-conditioning knobs in the center panel are user-friendly. So much for the pluses. On the minus side, the audio system controls and the air ventilation knobs are too small for my taste. While driving, you have your field of vision limited by the navigation screen jutting out from the dashboard and the audio system as well as the large and low-positioned rear-view mirror. While this is not dangerous when driving, it did turn out to be a bit uncomfortable, at least for me.
The test-drive unit was fitted with a turbocharged 2.0-liter, 170 hp diesel engine with a maximum torque of 350 Nm at 1,750 rpm—enough to have some fun. The Giulietta accelerates from 0 to 100 kph in 7.9 seconds and can hit a top speed of 218 kph. If you go easy on the gas pedal, the engine proves economical. During the weeklong test-drive I covered exactly 1,002 km. Average total fuel consumption as shown by the on-board computer was 5.8 l/100km, and there was still enough reserve fuel left in the tank for at least a further 100 kilometers or so...
The Giulietta offers a combination of power and fuel economy, in addition to an attractive design and functional interior. And there's more. In the test-drive car, the front-wheel drive was combined with an automatic six-speed twin-clutch transmission (TCT). The transmission works smoothly, without any jerks or delays. Alternatively, the driver can go to manual using the gear stick or the shift buttons on the steering wheel.
The DNA electronic system used in the Alfa makes it possible to adjust the operating characteristics of the engine, transmission and the steering system to the driver's needs at a specific time. The driving mode selector has three settings – Dynamic, Natural and All-Weather. Take your pick and off you go. Enjoy.
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Home > Press > Stanford researchers' magnetic nanotags spot cancer in mice earlier than current methods
Improved magneto-nano sensor chips are up to 1,000 times more sensitive than current methods of cancer detection - can scan any bodily fluid with high accuracy and search for up to 64 different cancer-associated proteins simultaneously.
Searching for biomarkers that can warn of diseases such as cancer while they are still in their earliest stage is likely to become far easier thanks to an innovative biosensor chip developed by Stanford University researchers.
The sensor is up to 1,000 times more sensitive than any technology now in clinical use, is accurate regardless of which bodily fluid is being analyzed and can detect biomarker proteins over a range of concentrations three times broader than any existing method, the researchers say.
The nanosensor chip also can search for up to 64 different proteins simultaneously and has been shown to be effective in early detection of tumors in mice, suggesting that it may open the door to significantly earlier detection of even the most elusive cancers in humans. The sensor also can be used to detect markers of diseases other than cancer.
"In the early stage [of a cancer], the protein biomarker level in blood is very, very low, so you need ultra-sensitive technology to detect it," said Shan Wang, professor of materials science and engineering and of electrical engineering, and senior author of a paper describing the sensor, which was published online on Nature Medicine's website on Oct. 11. "If you can detect it early, you can have early intervention and you have a much better chance to cure that person."
Wang said the nanosensor technology also could allow doctors to rapidly determine whether a patient is responding to a particular course of chemotherapy. "We can know on day two or day three of treatment whether it is working or not, instead of a month or two later," he said.
The sensor Wang and his colleagues have created, which uses magnetic detection nanotechnology they had developed previously, can detect a given cancer-associated protein biomarker at a concentration as low as one part out of a hundred billion (or 30 molecules in a cubic millimeter of blood).
Although the basics of the magnetic detection technology used in the new biosensor were described last year in a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the new sensor is not only more sensitive than the previous one by several orders of magnitude, it also outperforms its predecessor - and detection methods now in use - in several other ways.
Early detection of tumors in mice
The most impressive performance gain detailed in the Nature Medicine paper is that the researchers have now demonstrated that the magneto-nano sensor can successfully detect cancerous tumors in mice when levels of cancer-associated proteins are still well below concentrations detectable using the current standard methodology, known by the acronym ELISA.
"That is a critical finding for us because it says that in a realistic biological application - that of tumor growth in mice - we can actually see tumors before anything else could have detected them," said Sam Gambhir, professor of radiology at Stanford.
"I would say that the PNAS paper is proof of concept of the technology, and the Nature Medicine paper is proof of concept of the technology working in a real-world application," he said. "It is one thing to have the technology show that it can work in principle; it is quite another to actually utilize it with real mouse blood samples from a real mouse growing a real tumor."
In the Nature Medicine paper, the researchers show that the new magneto-nano sensor has a broad range of sensitivity, from the minute quantity described earlier to concentrations six orders of magnitude, or a million times, greater. The best existing analysis methods, or assays, in clinical use are able to detect proteins over a range of concentrations of at most two orders of magnitude.
Most of the sensing platforms currently in use are also limited to performing a single analysis at a time, but because the magneto-nano sensors are attached to a microchip in an array of 64 sensors, each of which can be set up to detect a different protein, the researchers can search for up to 64 different proteins simultaneously during a single analysis, which typically takes one to two hours - far less than most existing assays.
The researchers also demonstrated that the sensor is equally effective in every likely biological fluid, or matrix, that a doctor would want to analyze for cancer-associated proteins. Those fluids include urine, saliva, blood plasma (blood with the blood cells removed), serum (blood plasma with the factors that promote clotting removed) and cell lysates (the name applied to the cellular stew produced by dissolution of cells).
"The idea that you could essentially, on a single assay platform, measure a broad diversity of biomolecules that are at such a wide range of concentrations with such sensitivity is really, truly remarkable," said Charles Drescher, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Washington in Seattle, who was not involved with the research. "I think we'll all be very excited if this really does pan out."
The key to the versatility of the magneto-nano sensor and the broad range of concentrations it can detect lies in the use of magnetism.
How magnetic nanotags reveal the quarry
The basic mechanism of detection employed in the magneto-nano sensors is to capture antigens - deleterious compounds produced and shed by the cancer cells - using antibodies that naturally tend to bond with the antigens. The antibodies, dubbed "capture antibodies," are applied to a sensor, so that when the matrix of interest is placed onto the sensor chip, the appropriate antigens bind.
While the antigens are held fast, another dollop of the antibodies is applied. These antibodies are attracted to the antigens held on the sensors, and in bonding with them effectively seal the antigens inside an antibody sandwich. The researchers then apply a wash containing magnetic nanoparticle tags that have been tailored to fit specific antibodies. The magnetic nanotags attach themselves to the outer antibody on the sandwich, where they alter the ambient magnetic field in a small but distinct and detectable way that is sensed by the detector.
The protein-detection assays that are currently in use rely on a variety of mechanisms, such as measuring electrical charge, fluorescent signals or pH, all of which are prone to interference from the biological matrix in which the desired proteins reside. While a particular assay may be fine for assessing a protein's concentration in urine, for example, it may perform poorly when applied to a blood sample, as differences in the composition of the matrix affect properties such as pH or electrical charge.
"Our sensors are shown to be rather insensitive to matrix, so that is another key element from a scientific point of view," said Wang. As an example, he said, "We know that in saliva and blood, they have totally different pH values and different chemistry, but they are all nonmagnetic. Magnetically they are just like air. So it does not interfere with our mechanism [of detection]."
Most of the assays currently in use are only able to detect proteins over a narrow range of concentrations before interference of some kind degrades the sensitivity of the assay. That can require a series of assays to be performed on a sample diluted to different strengths, in order to assemble a complete picture of a protein's concentration in the matrix. But again, by using magnetic detection, Wang and his colleagues are able to sidestep such signal degradation.
"With the high sensitivity and the broad range we can look at a big panel of proteins over a wide range of concentrations, and with the matrix insensitivity, we can look at them in different fluids," said Richard Gaster, MD/PhD candidate in bioengineering and medicine, and first author on the Nature Medicine paper. "We don't have to tailor where we are looking; we can look at everything simultaneously." That produces savings in time, which, once the sensor comes into commercial use, will also translate into monetary savings.
Another virtue of the technology, Wang said, is that it uses existing technology already in use in the data storage and semiconductor industries and because of that, he added, "It can be made relatively cheaply."
"It is the same sensor you are using in a hard disk drive to read a hard disk back," he said. "Very similar to that."
One of the next steps in the research, Wang said, is to test the magneto-nano sensors on human blood samples taken from a long-term study in which researchers drew blood samples from subjects prior to any of them being diagnosed with cancer. To this end, the Stanford team will be collaborating with the Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center in Seattle and the Canary Foundation, a nonprofit organization that focuses on early diagnosis of cancer.
"We can actually use our technology to study all these samples and we may be able to tell a year before or half a year before or three months before the diagnosis," Wang said. "That work will be extremely interesting."
Funding for this research came from the National Cancer Institute, the National Science Foundation, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Canary Foundation and the National Semiconductor Corporation.
Other authors of the paper in Nature Medicine are Drew Hall, graduate student in electrical engineering; Carsten Nielsen, visiting scholar in the molecular imaging program; Sebastian Osterfeld and Heng Yu, both researchers at MagArray Inc.; Kathleen Mach, life science research assistant in urology; Robert Wilson, senior research scientist in materials science and engineering; Boris Murmann, assistant professor in electrical engineering; and Joseph Liao, assistant professor of urology.
Stanford University has licensed part of the magnetic bioassay chip technology used in this research to MagArray Inc., an early stage startup company in Silicon Valley. Shan Wang, Sanjiv "Sam" Gambhir, Heng Yu and Sebastian Osterfeld hold financial interests in MagArray in the form of stock or stock options.
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You said no NEX but I just got the RX100 to perfectly compliment them as a grab and go, the 6 and 7 series aren't exactly pocket sized, bigger than the 5's and they're getting some amazing lens out now. Otherwise Fuji picture quality is outstanding, camera performances aren't up to par with NEX however...IMO.
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That was a really really funny movie.Seeing 2 dogs fighting, you won't see that every day.HEHE.
Really dumb but had pottential
Sometimes movies are so dumb they make you laugh and that's this one's case. But it's too short which, it having a sequel or not, shows you had no clue of what to do with your idea. If it had lasted a few minutes while keeping up it's innovation, it could have been a ten.
At least it was amusing to see two dogs fight(ever if it is not really true that the dogs fight in the movie.)
not so bad
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I thought Breaking Bad was the end all but GOT is amazing. TV has came so far, so many great shows now. HBO is definitely on another level, ..The Night Of is off to a damn good start as well,...
Last two maybe, Maia will never be champion IMO. Aldo probably has the best chance since he knows McGregor isn't this unstoppable killing machine now.
The decline of the Brazi fighters made it worse. They dropped like flys and what do they have one champ now who is a female?
This is my opinion as well, the guys who don't make good money can't be out for two years. It will eventually sort itself out.
All they have to do is follow the rules, I don't see why it is such a big deal trying to keep the playing field level.
People who run marathons aren't allowed to take shortcuts.
Chances are though when Chad comes back he won't be cheating. I love it, weed them out.
Talking politics with WWE fanboys, take 1.
Well, Clinton has proved her incompetence in a leadership role so are we supposed to vote for the proven fvck up (not to mention the cover up) or the wildcard? Some people let SNL and popular...
Rory needs a good top10 W, another loss wouldn't be good.
Love Jlo but Miller is my nukka. War Miller.
Well he is the complete opposite stylistically. If they start seeing him as a possible Spider in the making (I'm not saying he is), they will throw money at him for numerous reasons. The last thing...
MVP definitely deserves to be in the big show but I couldn't help but feel like he would be handled by a top-tier wrestler.
Kudos to MVP for recognizing that he was out and not following him to the ground because Jon paused long enough for Page to deal out some more damage.
Calm down Paul Hallmonitor
He is hoping she reads this and becomes so hot that she rubs her abnormally large roided out clit around his lips.
I was with you until the last 3 sentences. Love the Hilary comparison.
Well yeah, is it still up for debate? Only the most hardcore GSP fanboys try to justify that bad decision.
But that wasn't a cut and dry beatdown in my opinion. When you see Cain struggling for air in the 1st round he has more issues than just taking some strikes.
Was anyone expecting a college champ wrestler who was nearly 30 before he even picked up MMA to throw hands with a K1 champ? He impressed me personally, he had the deck stacked against him fighting...
I was kind of surprised at the backlash he got, no doubt he pulled a GSP but still surprised. I don't dislike him but it does seem like whoever beats the GOAT becomes the subject of much scrutiny.
Wow, he seriously makes a Cain thread to bait people into a Fedor bashing session. Anyway, I think Cain at 90% beats anyone in the HW division.
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The original Mad Butcher Sir Peter Leitch doesn't know anything about the sharemarket, but he's happy that mum and dad investors could soon be able to buy a share of his once-humble butchery chain.
NZX-listed shell company Veritas says it has signed an agreement to buy The Mad Butcher for $40 million in what will end up being a "back-door" sharemarket listing when Veritas undertakes a public capital raising in March next year.
"Veritas has been looking for acquisition opportunities throughout 2012. Having looked at a number of businesses, the Mad Butcher is a stand out, and we are delighted to bring this company to the market," Veritas chairman Mark Darrow said.
Under the terms of the deal, Veritas will acquire the Mad Butcher franchisor business for $40m from owner Michael Morton - $20m in cash and $20m in Veritas shares.
Morton bought the company from Leitch, who is his father-in-law, in 2007.
Leitch said he had been informed a deal might be imminent but was "not a financial guy" and was only employed as a brand ambassador for the company these days.
"It's great to know that the little business I started has grown to a point where mums and dads can invest in it," Leitch said.
After the sale Morton's stake in Veritas will be the largest of any shareholder between 40-50 per cent and he will remain as the CEO of the Mad Butcher business, as well as become a director of Veritas.
He said the new capital and board experience, including Darrow, Stefan Preston, Phil Newland and Tim Cook, would be beneficial to an expansion of the Mad Butcher business throughout New Zealand and possibly across the Tasman.
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"Our main story tonight — and I can't even believe I'm saying this — is Donald Trump," said John Oliver on Sunday's Last Week Tonight. Oliver said he has avoided covering Trump as much as possible, but with his string of victories and likely nomination, "at this point, Donald Trump is America's back mole — it may have seemed harmless a year ago, but now that it has gotten frighteningly bigger, it is no longer wise to ignore it." Still, Oliver noted, Trump is genuinely funny and entertaining. "There is a part of me that even likes this guy," he said. "It's a part I hate, but it is a part of me."
But Trump's appeal doesn't last if you dig a little deeper. For the next 15 minutes, Oliver looked at Trump's favorable attributes, as named by supporters, and shredded each one. Truth-teller? Independent and self-financing? Tough? Oliver even took on Trump's biggest selling point, and biggest potential liability — his business success and wealth. "Trump's lack of sound financial instincts is perhaps best exemplified by the business he put his name on back in 2006, just before the entire housing market collapsed," Oliver said of the short-lived Trump Mortgage. "In fact, starting a mortgage company in 2006 was one of the worst decisions you could possibly make."
But Trump seems magic, even charmed. "Even when you can demonstrably prove Trump to be wrong, it somehow never seems to matter," Oliver said "You can hold his feet to the fire, but he'll just stand there on the stumps, bragging about his fireproof foot skin." It has to do with Trump's years of brand-building, using himself as his mascot. To separate the man from the success-dripping legend, Oliver traced Trump's family name back to Drumpf. And he ran with it, big time.
"So if you are thinking of voting for Donald Trump, the charismatic guy promising to make America great again, stop and take a moment to imagine how you would feel if you just met a guy named Donald Drumpf, a litigious serial liar with a string of broken business ventures and the support of a former Klan leader who he can't decide whether or not to condemn," Oliver said. "Would you think he would make a great president, or is the spell somewhat broken?" He wasn't done. You can now click on the hashtag #MakeDonaldDrumpfAgain, or download a Chrome extension and buy a hat at DonaldJDrumpf.com. Oliver even ended with a new Donald Drumpf campaign anthem — and a nod to Trump's coming lawsuit. Watch below. Peter Weber
Seven swimmers, three rowers, and five canoeists have joined the growing list of Russian athletes banned from the upcoming Rio Games because of doping allegations. Among those banned are 2012 Olympic canoeing champion Alexander Dyachenko, canoeist and Olympic bronze medalist Alexey Korovashkov, and swimmer and Olympic bronze medalist Yulia Efimova.
The decisions were announced by the three sports' respective governing bodies Monday, following the International Olympic Committee's decision Sunday not to issue a blanket ban on Russian athletes over the state-sponsored doping scandal. Instead, each sport's federation has been tasked with investigating its athletes to determine who was implicated in the World Anti-Doping Agency's investigation, which revealed Russian officials tampered with urine samples at the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
The latest announcements bring the total number of Russian athletes banned since the IOC's announcement Sunday up to 18, BBC reported, and investigations are ongoing. The Rio Games begin Aug. 5. Becca Stanek
French President François Hollande said Tuesday that the attackers of a Normandy church had claimed allegiance to the Islamic State.
Two armed men stormed the church in the city of Rouen and took several hostages early Tuesday morning, including the priest and two nuns, then slit the priest's throat before being killed by police, according to The Associated Press. Jeva Lange
Four billion years ago, sometime around Earth's 560 millionth birthday, Luca was born.
Luca is your great-to-an-infinite-degree grandmother and grandfather, as it is your dog's and your goldfish's and your ficus'. Every living thing on Earth owes it existence to Luca, whose very name stands for "Last Universal Common Ancestor." It is the origin of life on Earth, from which the rest of us evolved. And now scientists believe they have mapped a genetic picture of the qualities that would have belonged to Luca, giving us a startling look at how life on Earth might have begun:
...By comparing their sequence of DNA letters, genes can be arranged in evolutionary family trees, a property that enabled [Dr. William F.] Martin and his colleagues to assign the six million genes to a much smaller number of gene families. Of these, only 355 met their criteria for having probably originated in Luca, the joint ancestor of bacteria and archaea.
Genes are adapted to an organism's environment. So Dr. Martin hoped that by pinpointing the genes likely to have been present in Luca, he would also get a glimpse of where and how Luca lived. "I was flabbergasted at the result, I couldn't believe it," he said.
The 355 genes pointed quite precisely to an organism that lived in the conditions found in deep sea vents, the gassy, metal-laden, intensely hot plumes caused by seawater interacting with magma erupting through the ocean floor. [The New York Times]
Chemist John Sutherland, of the University of Cambridge, has a rival theory that life formed in shallow pools, not the ocean. Others say that Dr. Martin's version of Luca is actually the sophisticated descendent of some other original Luca.
But regardless of which theory you believe, as James O. McInerney wrote in a commentary about Dr. Martin's research, Luca is "a very intriguing insight into life four billion years ago." Read all about it at The New York Times. Jeva Lange
A priest was killed after being taken hostage by two armed men in northern France on Tuesday morning, police say. The attackers stormed a church during mass in the Normandy city of Rouen and took several hostages, including the priest and two nuns, then slit the priest's throat before being killed by police, according to The Associated Press. One other hostage is in critical condition, the BBC reports.
The attack comes not even two weeks after an attacker killed 84 people in Nice with a truck, for which the Islamic State claimed responsibility. France is still on high alert following the Nice attack, and last year's terrorist attack in Paris that left 130 people dead. Police say a motive for the Rouen hostage-takers isn't apparent, but anti-terrorism teams have been called to investigate.
Update 7:54 a.m.: French President François Hollande said the attackers claimed allegiance to the Islamic State. Jessica Hullinger
The first day of the Democratic National Convention on Monday had its ups and downs, Stephen Colbert said in his live post-convention Late Show monologue. "Bernie Sanders heartily endorsed Hillary Clinton," he said. "It was an impassioned speech, but disappointed some of his supporters. I have not seen that many crying women since Bernie opened for the Beatles." But Day 1 of the Democratic convention was "also known as Hillary Clinton and the terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day," Colbert said, mostly due to Friday's leak of 19,000 hacked Democratic National Committee emails, showing the DNC favoring Clinton over Sanders.
"In an unprecedented show of bias, the Democrats threw their weight behind the registered Democrat," Colbert said. "That's not farr. That's like Sam's Club refusing to take your Blockbuster card." But if the day started out rocky on Monday, "by early evening, things had calmed down," he said. "But then Bernie supporter Sarah Silverman and Hillary supporter Al Franken took the stage, and Sarah got a little tired of the crowd," telling the "Bernie or Bust" crowd they are being "ridiculous." "Wow, it is rare when the comedian heckles the audience," Colbert said.
"There were a lot of great speeches tonight, but leave it to Michelle Obama to truly unify the Democrats," Colbert said. "With tonight's moving speech, she convinced everyone in that arena that it was finally time to elect as president of the United States former first lady Michelle Obama. She crushed it." Colbert ended with a joke so obvious he would be negligent in not making it: "Anyway, Michelle's speech was so good, I want to hear it again. When is Melania doing it?" Watch below. Peter Weber
As the Democrats kicked off their own chaotic national convention on Monday, Samantha Bee took a last, profanity-tinged look at last week's Republican National Convention. The theme of the GOP convention was that the world is scary and Hillary Clinton's Democrats are trying to divide the nation, a leitmotif Bee found both puzzling and ironic. "It takes a lot of balls to call your opponents divisive when your party is tearing itself in half because you nominated a sociopathic 70-year-old toddler," she said on Monday's Full Frontal.
If you watched last week's Republican convention, you might remember that Donald Trump was merely the last person on stage to portray a dark, broken, dystopian America — but it sounds much scarier when Rudy Giuliani, Florida Gov. Rick Scott, and other speakers are talking terror over the dramatic strains of "Dies Irae" from Mozart's Requiem. Forget "Morning in America," Bee said. "It's the middle of the night in America and someone's kicking in your door — oh, and also, Hillary took your guns away."
After playing some of Trump's speech, Bee said, "Oh, my god, is Donald Trump running for Batman?" But then she reconsidered, arguing that he's re-running Richard Nixon's 1968 campaign. "Now I'm pissed that people are picking on Melania — at least she plagiarized someone good," Bee said. "Like Trump, Nixon courted old, white middle Americans made anxious by civil unrest," a group Nixon called the "silent majority." But Trump won't be just like Nixon, she added. "Nixon got 15 percent of the black vote." There is some mildly NSFW language, but if that doesn't bother you, watch the rest of Bee's Trump-Nixon comparison below. Peter Weber
At the beginning of Monday's post-Democratic convention Late Show, Stephen Colbert took a bite of a Philly cheesecake he pretended to have found on the street of Philadelphia, and then things got strange. Colbert, dressed in hippy-faux tribal-rainbow pants attire, popped up behind what appeared to be the cast of a Hair revival to sing a raga-trance song called "Death, Taxes, and Hillary." A sample: "It's a cheesesteak jamboree, where your mind can be set free / And this power girl will change the world, if her donors all agree." The costumes mix late '60s and early 1970s counterculture and disco, the music is highly reminiscent of the Beatles' Maharishi period, and the animation is Yellow Submarine mixed with your most psychedelic screen saver. Watch below, and even if you're completely sober, you might feel a bit trippy by the end. Peter Weber