GUEST OF HONOR: Missoni will be the guest designer at the next round of Tokyo fashion week and kick off six days of shows, running Oct. 14-Oct. 19.? Angela Missoni will make an appearance in the Japanese capital, according to fashion week organizers. There are currently 32 brands on the Tokyo calendar, including Facetasm, Johan Ku, Matohu, Ne-Net and Motonari Ono.
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Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer have moved closer to a first-ever US Open meeting with second-round triumphs, while women's top seeds Serena Williams and Victoria Azaranka also advanced.
Spanish second seed Nadal, a 12-time Grand Slam winner who has won nine titles since ending a seven-month injury layoff in February, beat Brazilian qualifier Rogerio Dutra Silva, 6-2, 6-1, 6-0 in 92 minutes at Arthur Ashe Stadium.
"I was solid with my serve," said Nadal, who hit 69 percent of his first serves. "I played well. I started a little slower but when the match was coming on I felt I played better and better. I am trying to play more aggressive."
Swiss 17-time Grand Slam champion Federer, who at the seventh seed is in his lowest spot at the US Open since 2002, fired 37 winners in beating Argentina's 48th-ranked Carlos Berlocq, 6-3, 6-2, 6-1 after 95 minutes.
"I was pretty comfortable out there, so that was a good sign," Federer said. "It's one of those matches I expect myself to win in straight sets and gain confidence in the process. All those things happened so I'm pleased about it."
Federer, who swept the New York hardcourt crowns from 2004-2008, and Nadal, whose 2010 US Open title completed a career Grand Slam, could meet for the first time at the US Open in the quarter-finals.
"I hope I'm going to be there," Federer said. "The biggest mistake I can do is focus on Rafa right now. Clearly I would love a match with Rafa."
On the women's side, defending champion Williams downed 77th-ranked Galina Voskoboeva 6-3, 6-0, and Belarus second seed Azarenka beat Canada's Aleksandra Wozniak 6-3, 6-1.
But Italian fourth seed Sara Errani made a tearful exit, the 2012 US Open semi-finalist and French Open runner-up falling to friend and compatriot Flavia Pennetta 6-3, 6-1.
"It was difficult," Errani said. "The worst thing was the 'fight.' Normally it's the best thing I do on the court and today it was not good. I don't know why. I think it's the pressure. Everything was very difficult for me."
After being eliminated in the second round last month at Wimbledon in his earliest Grand Slam exit since the 2003 French Open, Federer is going for more than a simple showdown with Nadal in the Flushing Meadows fortnight.
"One match against Rafa is not going to make my season or going to make me super confident. It needs to be more than that," Federer said.
"It might take a few matches and next thing you know you're playing really good tennis again and close to playing some really great tennis. That's where I am right now and that's why every match is really important to me now."
Eight-time French Open champion Nadal, 27, will next risk his career-best 17-match hardcourt win streak against Croatian Ivan Dodig, who is 1-1 all-time against Nadal and upset him in their most recent meeting in the second round at Montreal in 2011 by winning a third-set tie-breaker.
"I have not a very good memory of him in Montreal. I lost a very close match," Nadal said. "He's a dangerous player. I have to be playing very well and that's what I'm going to try."
Federer, 32, next faces Frenchman Adrian Mannarino, who defeated US 26th seed Sam Querrey, 7-6 (7/4), 7-6 (7/5), 6-7 (5/7), 6-4. Federer won both of their prior meetings, in the 2011 second round at Paris and Wimbledon.
Spanish fourth seed David Ferrer and French eighth seed Richard Gasquet kept rolling toward their own potential quarter-final by beating countrymen, Ferrer dispatching Roberto Bautista Agut 6-3, 6-7 (5/7), 6-1, 6-2 and Gasquet dumping Stephane Robert 6-3, 7-5, 7-5.
World number one Williams, who would become the oldest US Open women's champion at 31 if she repeats, advanced her quest for a 17th Grand Slam title and fifth Open crown with ease. She faces Russian-born Kazakh Yaroslava Shvedova next.
"Galina played very well in the first set. You can see how much she has improved," Williams said. "But I played pretty well myself."
Two-time Australian Open champion Azarenka, who beat Williams earlier this month in the final at Cincinnati, booked a match against French 26th seed Alize Cornet for a spot in the last 16.
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There's a new, chemical reason to think that the first life on Earth began elsewhere. It now seems that only on Mars were the right chemical elements ? specifically boron, molybdenum and oxygen ? all present at the right time to produce the RNA molecules widely thought to be the precursor to DNA and therefore life on Earth.
"The evidence seems to be building that we are actually all Martians; that life started on Mars and came to Earth on a rock," says Steve Benner a chemist at the Westheimer Institute of Science and Technology in Gainesville, Florida. He presented the idea at the Goldschmidt conference of geochemists in Florence, Italy, today. Perhaps even more surprisingly, the theory also provides a way for life to arise in a dry environment ? which in turn ups the odds that there is still life on Mars today.
Panspermia, the idea that life might be capable of surviving space to move between bodies in the universe, for example, lying dormant in meteorites is not new. But to date it has lacked a chemical cradle for life any more convincing than Earth.
Benner's proposal, however, comes from looking at early life's chemistry. According to the leading "RNA world" theory of the origin of life, RNA was the first genetic molecule to form, providing a template both to reproduce itself and make further molecules of life.
The standard picture has RNA condensing from a soup of simpler organic molecules. But cook up that soup in the water-rich conditions of the early Earth, and the result is distinctly unpalatable.
"RNA is too big, too complicated," says Benner. "Try to assemble it in water and it just falls apart."
To avoid making a tarry organic gloop more suited to covering roads than evolving life requires drier conditions, Benner reckons. "What you need is a desert," says Benner ? one with the right mineral ingredients.
Enter molybdenum and boron. In their naked form, these elements are poisonous to life. But Benner has shown that in the form of oxidised compounds, they become crucial catalysts that can guide the formation of RNA. Boron-based catalysts help form and stabilise five-carbon sugar molecules; molybdenum-based catalysts then rearrange these sugars to make ribose, the R in RNA, he says. "They grab stuff and stop it going to tar."
Trouble is, not only was the early Earth filled with water that would attack RNA as soon as it was formed, but it also lacked the oxygen that would have stabilised the boron and molybdenum catalysts ? oxygen did not make an appearance in Earth's atmosphere until around 2.5 billion years ago, as a metabolic exhaust plume from the first photosynthesising cyanobacteria.
By contrast, from what we know of Mars's chemistry 3 billion years ago, it had all it needed to make a dry cup-a-soup of life: abundant oxygen, and little surface water. If Benner's idea is right, Earth's first life started in the then more welcoming conditions of Mars and found its way to its final destination on the first outgoing meteorite.
Did it really happen that way? At the moment, Benner is just putting the idea out there. "Nothing I am saying should be interpreted as the problem of the origin of life has been solved," he says.
But he does think say that if you want an RNA world, you have to accept his chemistry ? which simply couldn't have happened on Earth. "You have to decide either to give up on RNA, or say it formed somewhere other than Earth," he says.
Robert Hazen, a geologist at the Carnegie Institute of Washington, is enthusiastic about the idea. "I love what Steve is doing," he says, though he's still not convinced the early Earth could not have supported Benner's chemical pathway ? he reckons there might have been dry patches on early Earth where the chemistry Benner proposes could have occurred. Other scientists contacted by New Scientist are reserving judgement until they can study the details.
If Benner's theory is right, it offers a mechanism for life ? or at least its precursors ? to evolve without water, which in turn means there may yet be life, or pre-life, on Mars today. "It could still be going on now, on Mars, I think," he says.
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It is never too late to fall back in love with your property. Whether you want to completely renovate your home or simply customize the design, you can easily transform your home into exactly what you want, if you do the right updates after planning and utilise the right professionals.
However, the majority of projects that are done just for the sake of home improvement do not add any significant value to the property. In fact, some home improvements can even lower the resell value of your home if you eventually decide to sell it. There are also things that can be done to increase the value of your home.
One of the biggest selling points in any home is the kitchen. The kitchen is the most valuable per square foot and will be major difference in whether your home is appealing to potential buyers or not. If your appliances are older than 5 years old then you should consider updating them to the comfortability of your wallet. A more recent model, a modernly designed finish and an array of new features will make home viewers notice your kitchen and view it as a real selling point.
With a growing concern for the environment, eco conscious home improvements will yield a large return on investment. From water saving plumbing additions, to adding proper insulation, investing in the green era can add a lot of value to your home.
The first thing that anyone will notice about your home is the exterior, so take time to repair any broken gutters, shutters, windows and any parts of your roof that needs work done. Also it will be beneficial to touch up the paint around the outside of your home.
Your windows are not only there for viewing and sourcing light, but they are also the source for conditioned air gain and loss. It is recommended that you consider upgrading to windows that have higher R values, this will stop cold and heat transfer from outside your home. Double paned windows, windows with integral window treatments and insulated varieties all equate to saving energy and therefore will add more value to your home.
Poor insulation in your home can cause your air conditioning and heating units to work overtime. This is one of the key reasons why you should consider investing in the appropriate insulation. Not only will this lower your monthly bills, but it will significantly boost the value of your home since you?ll be passing on the energy savings to the future homeowners.
Adding a fresh coat of paint to tired looking areas is one of the most cost effective home improvements that you can make. Painting your walls will completely transform your home and bring it right up to date.When selecting paint colors, keep in mind that neutrals appeal to the greatest amount of people, making your home more desirable. You should favor white ceilings and beige or off white walls with white baseboards. Not only do these colors make the room appear lighter but they also make it appear a lot larger than what it is.
One of the best ways to add value to your home is by adding a conservatory. Recent statistics say that the addition of a conservatory boosts the value of your property by up to 15%. Not only will you be able to enjoy extra living space that will make you the envy of your neighbor?s and friends but you will considerably increase the chances of selling your home.
A well maintained, landscaped garden is the sign of a real nice house. Mowing, watering and hedging your lawn are a few good ways to accomplish this. Weed killers and fertilizers are also effective ways to keep the lawn looking attractive and well maintained. To bring some beauty to the outside of your home, try planting some shrubs and a few flowers. Spreading pine straw or mulch around your flower beds and island areas will make your garden look even better.
This article was written by David, a home improvement enthusiast at Leekes Conservatories, Windows & Doors, an award winning family-business that supplies a variety of home improvement services to homeowners throughout South Wales and the South west of England.
Source: http://www.homeaholic.com/2013/08/8-home-improvements-to-increase-value.html
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Honda Motor Co. showed off its updated Odyssey minivan March 26, 2013 ahead of the New York International Auto Show. The 2014 Odyssey received a "good" rating in recent rigorous crash tests.
The Honda Odyssey, one of the most popular models built by the Japanese automaker, has become the first minivan to pass the most rigorous crash tests administered by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
The independent nonprofit organization designated the 2014 Odyssey a top safety pick after the minivan received a "good" rating in a series of crash tests?including the small overlap front crash test.
That test measures how well a vehicle protects passengers in a collision when some, but not all, of the front bumper hits another vehicle or object.
Small overlap collisions are among the most common and deadliest accidents.
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Insurance Institute president Adrian Lund said the Odyssey crash tests show the benefits of automakers making design changes to enable vehicles to perform better in accidents.
"Safety is high on the list for parents when it comes to shopping for a family vehicle," Lund said.
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Israeli President Shimon Peres said Thursday that Israel was not involved in the conflict in neighbouring Syria, but will respond with all its might if attacked.
This came amid expectations of a Western strike against the regime in Damascus in response to an alleged chemical attack last week.
"Israel was not, and is not, involved in the Syrian fighting but if anyone tries to harm us we will respond with all our might," Peres was quoted as saying in a statement from his office.
"Israel has a strong army, modern and powerful, and a more advanced defence system than ever before," Peres said.
The veteran Israeli president also said the situation in Syria, where a civil war that erupted in March 2011 has killed more than 100,000 people, "is not a local incident but a crime against humanity."
Israeli media and officials sought to calm the public on Thursday, as queues for gas masks lengthened. There are fears that it the United States and its allies launch military strikes on Syria, Damascus could retaliate against Israel, Washington's key ally in the region.
"Keep calm and carry on" was the title of a front-page analysis in the Jerusalem Post, echoing a slogan designed by the British government in World War II.
"With (Israeli) military intelligence keeping more eyes and ears open to enemy activity than ever before, the combination of Israel's firepower and accurate intelligence would spell very bad news for the Assad regime should it choose to target Israel in response to an attack on Syria by the United States," the Post wrote.
"Defence officials are quite confident he will not commence hostilities against Israel," it added. "Doing so would likely sign his regime's death certificate."
On Wednesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's security cabinet authorised a limited call-up of reservists, but the premier said in a statement that members of the public had "no reason to change their routines."
Haaretz daily said those to be called up numbered "a few hundred" personnel considered vital, including members of missile defence, air force, intelligence and civil defence units.
"We need to make preparations but also to go about our daily lives," Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon said on Wednesday.
News website Ynet reported on Thursday that "hundreds" of people were waiting outside a gas mask distribution centre in central Tel Aviv before it opened, and public radio said "thousands" were queueing at a distribution site in the northern city of Haifa.
Maariv said a centre in Jerusalem was forced to close on Wednesday after anxious residents grabbed all the mask kits on the premises, in a scene the paper described as a "battleground."
Nevertheless, Maariv reported, "security officials said that the situation assessment was that the likelihood of an attack on Israel was low."
The kits were first distributed to the Israeli public during the 1991 Gulf War over Kuwait when Saddam Hussein's Iraq fired 39 Scud missiles at Israel as the US-led coalition launched Operation Desert Storm.
In addition to gas masks they contain syringes of the anti-nerve gas agent atropine for self-injection.
Yediot Aharonot diplomatic writer Shimon Shiffer recalled the 1991 attacks, which did not deliver non-conventional warheads and caused few casualties.
"Yesterday, against the backdrop of pictures of panicked civilians crowding the distribution centres for gas mask kits, I remembered something I said back then: 'There are no chemical weapons and there will be no chemical weapon attack,'" Shiffer wrote in the top-selling daily.
"It seems to me that what was correct then, is correct today too. I dare to say that no chemical weapon attack is expected on Israeli targets. We can relax."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/keep-calm-carry-message-worried-israelis-113152576.html
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Yet it wasn?t really a dream come true. Because suddenly writing became a job. It was no longer a passion. And since I enjoyed the financial benefits, I would take on more than I probably should have. So then I was stressed trying to meet tight deadlines.
Suddenly working from home was a challenge because there was still dinner to cook, laundry to tackle, dust to remove. I couldn?t escape the reality of my personal life because it was intertwined with my work life.
And flexibility to work my life around writing? Somehow everything got turned around and pretty soon I was trying to fit life in around my work. Just ask my husband who wondered what happened to the days when he was off work and we could spend time together. Or my children who always felt like a bother whenever they had to ask me something.
After three years of writing for a living, I found myself wondering ?What am I going to do?? when the email arrived in my inbox. That so-called ?dream,? the one I knew deep down inside couldn?t possibly last forever?was no longer going to be. All that stood out to me was this: workload reduced.
Actually, the truth is my thoughts were more about the money. What I had been making for a living, would be cut in half (or even more). An offer was made to write a letter of recommendation. Well that?s all well and good but meanwhile?what am I going to do? How am I going to adjust to this decrease in pay?
Then this thought started niggling me in the back of my mind. Maybe this was my chance?to break out of the work of writing and bring back the passion. To write about things that I actually care about. But it was as if an inner war began to take place?sure that sounds great. But what about the money?
Here?s what I?ve discovered?writing just to make money saps the creativity and passion. It takes away from the real writer that is within. It?s not that there is anything wrong with making money from writing. But when it stops up the creative juices?when it hinders you from writing about things that inspire you?it?s become nothing more than a job.
I would guess that there are other writers out there who have experienced the same thing. For me, this is my chance to dust off the ideas that have been sitting in the closet of my mind for some time now. It?s time to get back to the thing I love to do?it?s time to WRITE!
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In the search for clean, green sustainable energy sources to meet human needs for generations to come, perhaps no technology matches the ultimate potential of artificial photosynthesis. Bionic leaves that could produce energy-dense fuels from nothing more than sunlight, water and atmosphere-warming carbon dioxide, with no byproducts other than oxygen, represent an ideal alternative to fossil fuels but also pose numerous scientific challenges. A major step toward meeting at least one of these challenges has been achieved by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) working at the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP).
"We've developed a method by which molecular hydrogen-producing catalysts can be interfaced with a semiconductor that absorbs visible light," says Gary Moore, a chemist with Berkeley Lab's Physical Biosciences Division and principal investigator for JCAP. "Our experimental results indicate that the catalyst and the light-absorber are interfaced structurally as well as functionally."
Moore is the corresponding author, along with Junko Yano and Ian Sharp, who also hold joint appointments with Berkeley Lab and JCAP, of a paper describing this research in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS). The article is titled "Photofunctional Construct That Interfaces Molecular Cobalt-Based Catalysts for H2 Production to a Visible-Light-Absorbing Semiconductor." Co-authors are Alexandra Krawicz, Jinhui Yang and Eitan Anzenberg.
Earth receives more energy in one hour's worth of sunlight than all of humanity uses in an entire year. Through the process of photosynthesis, green plants harness solar energy to split molecules of water into oxygen, hydrogen ions (protons) and free electrons. The oxygen is released as waste and the protons and electrons are used to convert carbon dioxide into the carbohydrate sugars that plants use for energy. Scientists aim to mimic the concept but improve upon the actual process.
JCAP, which has a northern branch in Berkeley and a southern branch on the campus of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), was established in 2010 by DOE as an Energy Innovation Hub. Operated as a partnership between Caltech and Berkeley Lab, JCAP is the largest research program in the United States dedicated to developing an artificial solar-fuel technology. While artificial photosynthesis can be used to generate electricity, fuels can be a more effective means of storing and transporting energy. The goal is an artificial photosynthesis system that's at least 10 times more efficient than natural photosynthesis.
To this end, once photoanodes have used solar energy to split water molecules, JCAP scientists need high performance semiconductor photocathodes that can use solar energy to catalyze fuel production. In previous efforts to produce hydrogen fuel, catalysts have been immobilized on non-photoactive substrates. This approach requires the application of an external electrical potential to generate hydrogen. Moore and his colleagues have combined these steps into a single material.
"In coupling the absorption of visible light with the production of hydrogen in one material, we can generate a fuel simply by illuminating our photocathode," Moore says. "No external electrochemical forward biasing is required."
The new JCAP photocathode construct consists of the semiconductor gallium phosphide and a molecular cobalt-containing hydrogen production catalyst from the cobaloxime class of compounds. As an absorber of visible light, gallium phosphide can make use of a greater number of available solar photons than semiconductors that absorb ultraviolet light, which means it is capable of producing significantly higher photocurrents and rates of fuel production. However, gallium phosphide can be notoriously unstable during photoelectrochemical operations.
Moore and his colleagues found that coating the surface of gallium phosphide with a film of the polymer vinylpyridine alleviates the instability problem, and if the vinylpyridine is then chemically treated with the cobaloxime catalyst, hydrogen production is significantly boosted.
"The modular aspect of our method allows independent modification of the light-absorber, linking material and catalyst, which means it can be adapted for use with other catalysts tethered over structured photocathodes as new materials and discoveries emerge," Moore says. "This could allow us, for example, to replace the precious metal catalysts currently used in many solar-fuel generator prototypes with catalysts made from Earth-abundant elements."
Despite its promising electronic properties, gallium phosphide features a mid-sized optical band gap which ultimately limits the total fraction of solar photons available for absorption. Moore and his colleagues are now investigating semiconductors that cover a broader range of the solar spectrum, and catalysts that operate faster at lower electrical potentials. They also plan to investigate molecular catalysts for carbon dioxide reduction.
"We look forward to adapting our method to incorporate materials with improved properties for converting sunlight to fuel," Moore says. "We believe our method provides researchers at JCAP and elsewhere with an important tool for developing integrated photocathode materials that can be used in future solar-fuel generators as well as other technologies capable of reducing net carbon dioxide emissions."
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In the search for clean, green sustainable energy sources to meet human needs for generations to come, perhaps no technology matches the ultimate potential of artificial photosynthesis. Bionic leaves that could produce energy-dense fuels from nothing more than sunlight, water and atmosphere-warming carbon dioxide, with no byproducts other than oxygen, represent an ideal alternative to fossil fuels but also pose numerous scientific challenges. A major step toward meeting at least one of these challenges has been achieved by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) working at the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP).
"We've developed a method by which molecular hydrogen-producing catalysts can be interfaced with a semiconductor that absorbs visible light," says Gary Moore, a chemist with Berkeley Lab's Physical Biosciences Division and principal investigator for JCAP. "Our experimental results indicate that the catalyst and the light-absorber are interfaced structurally as well as functionally."
Moore is the corresponding author, along with Junko Yano and Ian Sharp, who also hold joint appointments with Berkeley Lab and JCAP, of a paper describing this research in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS). The article is titled "Photofunctional Construct That Interfaces Molecular Cobalt-Based Catalysts for H2 Production to a Visible-Light-Absorbing Semiconductor." Co-authors are Alexandra Krawicz, Jinhui Yang and Eitan Anzenberg.
Earth receives more energy in one hour's worth of sunlight than all of humanity uses in an entire year. Through the process of photosynthesis, green plants harness solar energy to split molecules of water into oxygen, hydrogen ions (protons) and free electrons. The oxygen is released as waste and the protons and electrons are used to convert carbon dioxide into the carbohydrate sugars that plants use for energy. Scientists aim to mimic the concept but improve upon the actual process.
JCAP, which has a northern branch in Berkeley and a southern branch on the campus of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), was established in 2010 by DOE as an Energy Innovation Hub. Operated as a partnership between Caltech and Berkeley Lab, JCAP is the largest research program in the United States dedicated to developing an artificial solar-fuel technology. While artificial photosynthesis can be used to generate electricity, fuels can be a more effective means of storing and transporting energy. The goal is an artificial photosynthesis system that's at least 10 times more efficient than natural photosynthesis.
To this end, once photoanodes have used solar energy to split water molecules, JCAP scientists need high performance semiconductor photocathodes that can use solar energy to catalyze fuel production. In previous efforts to produce hydrogen fuel, catalysts have been immobilized on non-photoactive substrates. This approach requires the application of an external electrical potential to generate hydrogen. Moore and his colleagues have combined these steps into a single material.
"In coupling the absorption of visible light with the production of hydrogen in one material, we can generate a fuel simply by illuminating our photocathode," Moore says. "No external electrochemical forward biasing is required."
The new JCAP photocathode construct consists of the semiconductor gallium phosphide and a molecular cobalt-containing hydrogen production catalyst from the cobaloxime class of compounds. As an absorber of visible light, gallium phosphide can make use of a greater number of available solar photons than semiconductors that absorb ultraviolet light, which means it is capable of producing significantly higher photocurrents and rates of fuel production. However, gallium phosphide can be notoriously unstable during photoelectrochemical operations.
Moore and his colleagues found that coating the surface of gallium phosphide with a film of the polymer vinylpyridine alleviates the instability problem, and if the vinylpyridine is then chemically treated with the cobaloxime catalyst, hydrogen production is significantly boosted.
"The modular aspect of our method allows independent modification of the light-absorber, linking material and catalyst, which means it can be adapted for use with other catalysts tethered over structured photocathodes as new materials and discoveries emerge," Moore says. "This could allow us, for example, to replace the precious metal catalysts currently used in many solar-fuel generator prototypes with catalysts made from Earth-abundant elements."
Despite its promising electronic properties, gallium phosphide features a mid-sized optical band gap which ultimately limits the total fraction of solar photons available for absorption. Moore and his colleagues are now investigating semiconductors that cover a broader range of the solar spectrum, and catalysts that operate faster at lower electrical potentials. They also plan to investigate molecular catalysts for carbon dioxide reduction.
"We look forward to adapting our method to incorporate materials with improved properties for converting sunlight to fuel," Moore says. "We believe our method provides researchers at JCAP and elsewhere with an important tool for developing integrated photocathode materials that can be used in future solar-fuel generators as well as other technologies capable of reducing net carbon dioxide emissions."
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Lately, China's TENAA telephone certification center has been an even bigger tattletale than the FCC, and it just leaked another unannounced handset: the HTC 301e. While likely not coming to the US, the dual-SIM device is another cog in CEO Peter Chou's plan to grow its mid-range end smartphone stable in China. It also has some One design touches, like the top speaker grill and two button design. Otherwise, it's scraping the bottom of the mid-range, with a 4.3-inch 480 x 800 screen, 1GHz dual-core CPUs, 512MB RAM, WCDMA 3G, 8GB of storage expandable to 64GB via microSD and a 5-megapixel camera. While that won't set anyone's hair on fire, it does show that HTC is serious about more than just flagships in China.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ? Mississippi coach Hugh Freeze may have a highly-rated crop of freshmen to coach. Senior Jeff Scott made sure his new teammates left their first college game as winners.
Jeff Scott ran 75 yards for a touchdown with 1:07 left, and Mississippi rallied twice Thursday night to beat Vanderbilt 39-35 in a wild season opener for both teams.
Vanderbilt went up 35-32 on a 34-yard TD pass from Austyn Carta-Samuels to Steven Scheu with 1:30 left. But Scott beat the Commodores for a TD and the fourth lead change.
"We stole one tonight," Ole Miss coach Hugh Freeze said. "We didn't necessarily play that well, particularly defensively in the second half. But one of the staples of our program since I've been here is that you play for 60 minutes and you do not blink and you play until the whistle blows at the end of the game."
Vanderbilt had a final chance to extend the Southeastern Conference's longest winning streak, but Cody Prewitt intercepted a pass off Jordan Matthews' hands with 26 seconds left. That allowed the Rebels to snap a three-game skid to Vanderbilt, the last a painful 27-26 loss in Oxford last year.
"I knew we had to make something happen," Scott said. "Last year, it was very painful. They came back. It was basically the same situation. We didn't want to go through that again and feel that pain. We can't. It is a long ride back home."
Bo Wallace keyed the Rebels' rally from 11 points down, running for two touchdowns and connecting with highly touted freshman Laquon Treadwell for the 2-point conversion.
The Commodores gave up 29 points in the second half, their most since allowing 20 to Florida in their last loss Oct. 13. The loss snapped a seven-game winning streak for Vanderbilt before its first sellout in a home season opener since 1996 against Notre Dame.
"The game is never won, just like it was never won last year when we were down at their place and came back and won," Vanderbilt coach James Franklin said. "They did the same thing to us. We got a taste of our own medicine."
Freeze came in with possibly the best recruiting class in Ole Miss history, and he put nine on the field in their first game. Treadwell started and caught a team-high nine passes for 82 yards, and freshman tight end Evan Engram had five catches for 61 yards.
Defensive end Robert Nkemdiche, the consensus No. 1 player coming out of high school, started and also ran for 11 yards on a fake punt on fourth-and-1 late in the first half.
But it was Scott, a senior, who provided the biggest play of the game. He took a handoff and beat a defensive lineman to the edge, then outraced the Commodores to the end zone. Andre Hal had one last chance to trip him up at the 20 but couldn't bring Scott down. Scott finished with 138 yards on 12 carries.
"I knew that it would be a good run play," Freeze said. "Obviously, I didn't know it would go all the way to the house. But I thought it would be a good run play."
Vanderbilt had set its defense for a pass.
"They blocked us in space and (Scott) is fast," Franklin said.
Wallace tied his career-high, completing 31 passes out of 47 for 283 yards, and he also ran 18 times for 48 yards on plays that helped set up Scott's TD run. Backup quarterback Barry Brunetti ran for two TDs, and Ole Miss used its spread, hurry-up offense to out-gain Vanderbilt 489-426.
Carta-Samuels threw for 300, and Matthews finished with 10 catches for 178 yards. Junior Kyle Woestmann had two of Vanderbilt's four sacks by halftime, but the Commodores didn't get to Wallace in the second half.
Ole Miss took advantage of the Commodores' early mistakes and led 10-0. Vanderbilt answered with 21 straight points.
Freeze even went for it on fourth-and-1 late in the first half, with Nkemdiche taking the snap as the up back. The consensus No. 1 recruit coming out of high school ran 11 yards for the first down. The Rebels ran out of time, and Andrew Ritter's 55-yard field goal attempt was short and right.
The finish overshadowed a gutsy performance by Matthews. He went into the locker room for intravenous fluids early in the third quarter, and he took a hard hit from Prewitt on a catch late in the game. But Matthews caught a 42-yard pass on fourth-and-18 to set up Scheu's TD, giving Vandy its last lead.
"I'll be honest with you, I put a lot into that tackle," Prewitt said. "For him to get back up and come in there, that shows a lot of leadership. He is a great player."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/scotts-75-yard-td-ole-miss-beats-vandy-050908202--spt.html
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"Manhattan Transfer," a novel I first read as a 16- or 17-year-old in the 1960s, is a magnificent piece of fiction, probably DoS Passos finest book, mainly because of the risks DoS Passos takes with language. As we emerge today from one of the most devastating recessions the country has faced since the Great Depression back before even the oldest of us now still living was alive, this book will resonate with modern readers. D. H. Lawrence called it "the best modern book about New York," and it's quite possible that that assessment still holds true. ...
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Russia's Foreign Ministry spokesman said that the reports are an effort to derail a planned peace conference led by Russia and the US.
A girl, with cheeks painted in the colors of Syria's flag, shouts slogans while taking part in a protest in front of the United Nations building in New York Wednesday.
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EnlargeBoth Russian officials and independent experts in Moscow heaped doubts today on the veracity of reports that Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad killed more than 1,000 people using poison gas?in an attack on rebels in a Damascus suburb Wednesday.
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"Russia isn't persuaded by any of these reports. Nobody in Moscow believes Assad would use chemical weapons, especially now that he's winning without them, and he'd be crazy to do so on the very day that UN inspectors are visiting Damascus to look into reports of chemical weapon use," says Sergei Markov, a frequent adviser to President Vladimir Putin.
"It's obvious to us that we're looking at a well-prepared provocation, possibly staged by Qatar or Saudi Arabian intelligence, aimed at whipping up emotions in the West and triggering an armed intervention to aid the rebels. It's clear the rebels can't hope to win without such assistance from outside, so they are the only ones who have any stake in creating an example like this. Russia is not going to support any moves in that direction," he adds.
Public opinion has been deeply shocked by videos?that allegedly show the victims of the attack, including rows of bodies with no signs of physical violence upon them as well as survivors gasping for air and staring with vacant eyes.
Experts say that Moscow is alarmed by what it perceives as a changed tone of conversation in the West in the wake of the reports, including French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius' remark that, if proven, the attacks would warrant a "reaction of force."
Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Alexander Lukashevich told journalists Wednesday that Moscow believes the reports are a sophisticated effort to derail the planned Geneva-2 peace conference, which Russia and the US have been trying, so far with fading success, to organize.
The rebels and their Persian Gulf sponsors want to "create a pretext at any cost for demanding that the UN Security Council stand on the side of the opponents of the regime, and in this way undermine the chances of convening the Geneva conference," Mr. Lukashevich said.
In a press briefing Monday,?before the poison gas reports, State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki insisted plans to hold the conference were still on track.
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As Syrian rebels? losses mount, teenagers begin filling ranks
MAFRAQ, Jordan ? Just 16 years old, Mohammed Hamad was heading to war.
The lanky Syrian teenager was joining what United Nations officials warn might be the start of a flood of underage fighters enlisting in rebel ranks. About half of the 200 new recruits who board buses each week to Syria from Jordan?s sprawling Zaatari refu*gee camp are under 18, U.N. officials at the camp estimate.
Hamad said it was his duty to ?fight in the name of God to take back the country?? from government forces.
?If my generation doesn?t take up arms, the revolution will be lost,?? he said, shortly before boarding a bus for the border on a three-day journey to join rebel forces on the outskirts of his home village in southern Syria.
The flow of fresh troops has helped the U.S.-backed Free Syrian Army replenish ranks rapidly diminished by a series of recent losses.
But it also has prompted unease from U.N. officials, who in an internal report this month warned of growing ?recruitment by armed groups, including of under-aged refugees? in Zaatari and across the region, indicating that the rebels may no longer be honoring a pledge to bar fighters younger than 17.
?We are concerned by reports that some groups may be attempting to use Zaatari as a recruitment center, and we are doing everything in our power to make sure it stays a refugee camp and not a military camp,? Andrew Harper, the U.N. refugee agency?s representative in Jordan, said in an interview.
After more than two years of conflict that has already claimed more than 100,000 lives, some rebel commanders defend the use of teenage fighters as inevitable.
?Many of these young men?s fathers and older brothers have died before them,? said Abu Diyaa al-Hourani, commander of a Free Syrian Army battalion outside the Syrian border town of Sheikh al-Maskin. He said that Syrians as young as 15 serve in his 800-man unit, whose average age has plunged to 19, down from 25 not long ago.
?It is only natural for the next generation to carry on the fight,? he said.
Conscription in the Syrian army is compulsory for all males once they reach the age of 18, according to the military.
At the camp, rebel officials say that theirs remains an all-volunteer force and that prospective recruits are carefully vetted. But the officials acknowledged that verifying birth dates may be all but impossible in camps where few refugees have access to birth documents.
?At the end of the day, if they can carry a gun and are willing to fight, who are we to say they can?t?? said Ayman al-Hariri, a member of the Syrian National Council, an umbrella opposition group, who coordinates repatriation from Zaatari, home to more than 100,000 Syrians.
The families of the young fighters receive monthly benefits from the Free Syrian Army, including salaries and even priority in the distribution of food aid and cash assistance within the camp, refugee officials said. In interviews, several parents ? some of whom arrived in Zaatari with little more than the clothes on their backs ? said those incentives had influenced their family?s decision.
Um Majed al-Homsawi, 45, said she allowed her 17-year-old son, Ahmed, to return to Syria to fight only after recruiters agreed to provide her family with a fully furnished trailer complete with air conditioning, an upgrade from their standard-issue U.N. canvas tent.
?My daughter has asthma and my husband has had three heart operations ? we couldn?t survive in a tent in the desert,? Homsawi said as she placed a kettle atop a propane stove in her recently delivered trailer. ?My son decided to join the Free Syrian Army not only to save his country, but to save his family.?
Rebel officials say Zaatari?s proximity to major fighting in southern Syria has transformed the camp into the major supplier of fighters for rebel battalions suffering an average loss of 50 fighters per week.
In the camp, rebel officials said, the Foreign Syrian Army carries out background checks, physical examinations, agility tests and ?mental and emotional? evaluations of potential recruits.
On a recent day, Syrian National Coalition and Free Syrian Army representatives in a pair of unmarked prefabricated trailers received a long line of teenage camp residents seeking to enlist with rebel forces.
A group of young men whom the recruiters had rejected for being too young, too weak or otherwise unfit for battle gathered outside. But the young men said they remained determined to join the fight.
?I am going to wait here every day until the Free Syrian Army accepts me, or until Sept. 10,? said Ahmed Saeed, a resident of the city of Daraa whose 17-year-old brother left to fight alongside the Free Syrian Army last week.
?Then I will turn 15.?
As Syrian rebels’ losses mount, teenagers begin filling ranks - The Washington Post
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Terrorists are losing badly... they use child soldiers, and when those child soldiers get killed they use them for propaganda and lies... they are nothing but terrorists, and what is sick that the so called SNC and F$A or Foreign Army as Washington Post claimed has backers from government who always cry about human rights and such....
and their lame excuse is that their family got killed, thus they F$A terrorists allows child soldiers... he is just a child who doesn't know any better... that child should be in school learning not beheading people and killing other children...
F$A is competing with the devil himself, heck the devil have already lost against the evilness of F$A terrorists and their supporters.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) ? One of Indonesia's most influential Islamic groups is urging the government to cancel the Miss World pageant scheduled for next month, saying the exposure of skin by women in a competition violates Muslim teachings, an official said Monday.
A top-level meeting of clerics was held earlier this month by the Indonesian Ulema Council to respond to protests from some groups over Indonesia's hosting of the event, even after organizers agreed to cut the bikini competition and instead outfit contestants in more conservative sarongs, council chairman Amidan Shaberah said.
"Our position is clear, we reject Indonesia being the host of Miss World," Shaberah said. "Because exposing their bodies in a contest is against Islamic teachings."
The council is an influential Islamic body that often issues fatwas, or edicts, including controversial rulings against smoking and yoga. Though not legally binding, many devoted Muslims follow such decrees because ignoring them is considered a sin.
Shaberah said the council will not officially demand that the government cancel the event, but will instead recommend that it be stopped. The pageant is scheduled to be held partly on the resort island of Bali, with the final round on Sept. 28 near the capital, Jakarta.
"We are not Sharia police, we are not law enforcers," Shaberah said, referring to authorities who enforce Islamic law. "But we suggest the government cancel it."
Adjie S. Soeratmadjie of RCTI, the official broadcaster and local organizer of the event, said the concerns were being heard and that some adjustments were being made to make the pageant more appropriate for Indonesian culture and more like other beauty contests held in the country.
"We understand the position" of the council, Soeratmadjie said. "But the show must go on ... we call on the protesters to avoid anarchy and we are sure authorities can maintain security."
He added that Miss Israel had dropped out of the competition, but declined to give the reason. Indonesia and Israel do not have diplomatic relations.
Last week, the hard-line Islamic Defenders Front pledged to stage protests across the country to prevent Indonesia from hosting the competition.
"The Miss World pageant is only an excuse to exhibit women's body parts," said its leader, Riziek Shihab. "We are obliged to disband it if the government allows it to be held in any region of Indonesia."
The front has a long record of vandalizing nightspots, hurling stones at Western embassies and attacking rival religious groups. Lady Gaga was forced to cancel her sold-out Indonesia show last year after threats from the group, which branded her a "devil worshipper."
The chairwoman of the Miss World Organization, Julia Morley, earlier confirmed that none of the contestants would wear a bikini.
The pageant began in the 1950s, and the first winner was crowned in a two-piece bathing suit.
Most Muslims in Indonesia, a secular country of 240 million people and the world's most populous Islamic country, are moderate, but a small extremist fringe has become more vocal in recent years.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/indonesian-clerics-call-ban-miss-world-121817936.html
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Power Players
The Rev. Bernice King says that 50 years after her father, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., delivered his famous ?I Have a Dream? speech at the March on Washington, his dream is still a work in progress.
?When he framed the speech he said ?100 years later the Negro is still not free,?? King tells ?Power Players.? ?I would argue that 150 years later the Negro is still not free, African-Americans are still not free.?
King, who describes her late father as a prophet, says he foresaw many of the problems that society is confronting today ? as well as the progress that has been made.
?He knew that if we did not deal with the pressing economic issues, if we did not finish rounding out civil rights issues, the black community, a lot of these things that are visiting us now, would be visiting us,? King says. ?He also predicted that we would have an African-American president ? 25 years from I think it was 1966 or ?67, so that would have been in the ?90s. So 10 years later it actually happens.?
King says what her father would be most ?troubled? by in today?s society is the ?great disparities? that still exist, pointing to education and the criminal justice system as specific areas in need of improvement.
?We still have this great divide, because yes now the signs are gone, and yes we have greater relationships across different communities, but we haven't dealt with the institutionalized racism that still exists," she says.
At the time of her father?s ?I Have a Dream? speech, Bernice King was only 5 months old, but she came to learn of the importance of that moment in her father?s life through her mother, who told her ?it was as if the kingdom of God had come to earth that day.?
?I think what inspired people the most was the fact that they saw that they were not alone in the black community, Negro community we called it back then,? King says. ?And to see the sea of white people in the audience gave them a sense of great hope.?
For more of the interview with King, including how she says the recent Trayvon Martin verdict has been a ?defining moment? in the realization of her father?s dream, check out this episode of ?Power Players.?
ABC?s Alexandra Dukakis, Laura Ramirez, Jim Martin, Wayne Boyd, and Bob McHenry contributed to this episode.
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Washington Times Editorial: Mrs. Huguenin?s attorney, Jordan Lorence with the Alliance Defending Freedom, found the court?s reasoning to be dangerous. ?The idea that free people can be compelled by law to compromise the very religious beliefs that inspire their lives as the ?price of citizenship? is a chilling and unprecedented attack on freedom,? he said after the verdict. ?Americans are now on notice that the price of doing business is their freedom.?
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's ANA Holdings Inc will buy a 49 percent stake in Myanmar carrier Asian Wings Airways as part of a strategy to expand overseas by investing in airline related businesses, an industry source familiar with the agreement said.
ANA, will pay 3 billion yen ($30.45 million) for the stake, the Nikkei business daily reported earlier. The two carriers may announce the deal later Tuesday, the source said on condition he was not identified.
Yangon-based Asian Wings, which began flying in 2011, operates three turboprop ATR 72 regional aircraft and one Airbus A321 on domestic flights in Myanmar. The airline plans to begin international service in October with a flight between Yangon and Chiang Mai, Thailand, the Nikkei said.
A spokesman for the Japanese carrier declined to comment on the reports, saying it had not announced the acquisition. ANA resumed flights between Tokyo and Yangon last October after a 12-year hiatus.
ANA last year raised $1.6 billion in a share offering to fund purchases in airline related businesses focused in Asia. The company this year established an investment firm in Singapore to coordinate its acquisitions.
ANA acquired Pan Am Holdings from fund American Capital Ltd for $139 million in July, giving it ownership of Pan Am International Flight Academy, a pilot training school.
In addition to leasing aircraft to Asian Wings, ANA may also provide training to its pilots, the Nikkei said.
($1 = 98.5350 Japanese yen)
(Reporting by Tim Kelly and Edmund Klamann; Editing by Stephen Coates)
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