Friday, August 2, 2013

Keller lawsuit vs. gamer EA Sports, NCAA clears major hurdle

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Thursday, August 1, 2013

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Senate in prolonged vote over Obama ATF pick

FILE - In this June 11, 2013 file photo, B. Todd Jones of Minnesota, President Barack Obama's nominee for director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Senate is ready for a showdown on President Barack Obama?s pick to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms, Tobacco and Explosives in a battle that carries echoes of this year?s gun control fight. Democrats were forcing a vote Wednesday on ending Republican stalling tactics against B. Todd Jones? nomination to head the agency, which enforces federal firearms laws. They are hoping for a different outcome this time for Obama and his allies, who were defeated in April when the Senate refused to expand background check requirements for gun buyers. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

FILE - In this June 11, 2013 file photo, B. Todd Jones of Minnesota, President Barack Obama's nominee for director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Senate is ready for a showdown on President Barack Obama?s pick to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms, Tobacco and Explosives in a battle that carries echoes of this year?s gun control fight. Democrats were forcing a vote Wednesday on ending Republican stalling tactics against B. Todd Jones? nomination to head the agency, which enforces federal firearms laws. They are hoping for a different outcome this time for Obama and his allies, who were defeated in April when the Senate refused to expand background check requirements for gun buyers. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. nominee Samantha Power testifies at her confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Washington, Wednesday, July 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

(AP) ? Unexpectedly short on a crucial showdown vote, Democrats struggled Wednesday to secure confirmation for a new director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Tobacco but succeeded in dramatic fashion in getting one Republican senator to switch her vote and help them.

Democrats had seemed about to lose an effort to clear President Barack Obama's nominee to head the agency, B. Todd Jones, for a vote on final passage.

But after Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, voted to support GOP delaying tactics aimed at derailing the nomination, she was swarmed by Democratic senators urging her to switch her vote.

In a prolonged spectacle played out largely in full view on the Senate floor, the scrum around Murkowski was quickly enlarged when Republican senators joined the group, trying to persuade her not to switch.

More than a dozen lawmakers spent nearly an hour imploring Murkowski, first on the Senate floor and then in a private cloakroom. After about 20 minutes of talks in the cloakroom, Murkowski emerged and switched her vote.

That still left Democrats one short of the 60 votes needed to end filibusters.

Democrats were waiting for one of their members, Sen. Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, to return to the Capitol and cast the decisive vote for Jones.

Heitkamp was on her way back to Washington from North Dakota, a Heitkamp aide said.

Another aide said Heitkamp was expected back around 6 p.m.

While most Senate roll calls take about 20 minutes, the Jones vote already had lasted more than two hours by late afternoon.

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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Giant mushroom found in China (+video)

Giant mushroom: This fungus has not yet been identified. But it's not big enough to dislodge Oregon's giant honey mushroom as the largest in the world.

By Marc Lallanilla,?LiveScience / July 30, 2013

China's Yunnan province is known as the "Kingdom of Mushrooms" for its rich diversity of more than 600 species of edible fungi.

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But even the hungriest of mushroom fans might find this monster mushroom, recently discovered in Yunnan, a little hard to swallow.

The mushroom, a species that has yet to be identified, measures 37 inches (93 centimeters) across the top and weighs about 33 pounds (15 kilograms), according to Science World Report. [Magnificent Microphotography: 50 Tiny Wonders]

Fungi, including mushrooms, are neither plants nor animals and instead form their own group of living organisms that generally reproduce by spores and contain nuclei with chromosomes. Perhaps surprisingly due to their plantlike appearance, fungi are more closely related to animals than to plants.

China's mushroom industry is a multimillion-dollar operation, with sales equivalent to $44 million in 2005, according to The Diplomat. And some of the finest and costliest specimens, such as the rare Tricholoma matsutake mushroom ? highly prized as a delicacy in Japan ? come from Yunnan.

The giant mushroom discovered in China might not be safe to eat; many mushrooms are poisonous. Two women in California were killed recently after eating a soup made of toxic mushrooms.

On the other hand, there may be some therapeutic benefits to certain mushrooms. Researchers from Johns Hopkins University believe the hallucinogen found in "magic mushrooms" might someday help treat a variety of psychiatric disorders, including depression, anxiety and addiction.

It remains to be seen whether the massive 'shroom discovered in China is a record-breaking fungus for its species, but it certainly won't be the world's largest mushroom: In 1998, a giant honey mushroom (Armillaria ostoyae) was discovered growing underground in Oregon. The specimen is estimated to be some 2,384 acres (965 hectares) in size, and at least 2,400 years old.

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Lawrence Livermore engineering team makes breakthrough in solar energy research

Lawrence Livermore engineering team makes breakthrough in solar energy research [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 30-Jul-2013
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LIVERMORE, Calif. The use of plasmonic black metals could someday provide a pathway to more efficient photovoltaics (PV) --- the use of solar panels containing photovoltaic solar cells --- to improve solar energy harvesting, according to researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL).

The LLNL Materials Engineering Division (MED) research team has made breakthroughs experimenting with black metals. These nanostructured metals are designed to have low reflectivity and high absorption of visible and infrared light. The MED research team recently published their black metals research results in a cover-page article in the May issue of Applied Physics Letters titled "Plasmonic Black Metals in Resonant Nanocavities."

Authored by MED physicist and research team member Mihail Bora, the article details the work of the Nanophotonics and Plasmonics research team led by LLNL Engineer Tiziana Bond.

It describes the team's concept of black metals, which are not classic metals but can be thought of as an extension of the black silicon concept. When silicon is treated in a certain way, such as being roughened at the nanoscale level, it traps light by multiple reflections, increasing its solar absorption. This gives the silicon a black surface that's able to better trap the full sun's wavelength spectrum.

Similarly, black metals are produced by some sort of random nanostructuring -- either in gold or silver -- without guaranteeing a full, reliable and repeatable full solar absorption. However, Bond's team developed a method to improve and control the absorption efficiency and basically turn the metals as black as they want, allowing them to increase, on demand, the absorption of a higher quantity of solar wavelengths. Her team built nanopillar structures that are trapping and absorbing all the relevant wavelengths of the entire solar spectrum.

"Our article was picked for the cover story of Applied Physics Letters because it represents cutting-edge work in the area of plasmonics, the broadband operation obtained with a clear design and its implication for the photovoltaic (PV) yield," Bond said.

This new LLNL technology could one day be used in the energy harvesting industry such as PV. By incorporating metallic nanostructures with strong coupling of incident light, broad spectral and angular coverage, the LLNL team is providing a path for more efficient photovoltaics and thermovoltaics (a form of energy collection) by means of plasmon-exciton conversion, according to Bond and Bora.

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The article can be view at this link: http://apl.aip.org/resource/1/applab/v102/i25/p251105_s1

The teams' black metal research will also be featured in the September issue of Nature Photonics.

Founded in 1952, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory provides solutions to our nation's most important national security challenges through innovative science, engineering and technology. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is managed by Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration.

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Lawrence Livermore engineering team makes breakthrough in solar energy research [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 30-Jul-2013
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Contact: Ken Ma
ma28@llnl.gov
925-423-7602
DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

LIVERMORE, Calif. The use of plasmonic black metals could someday provide a pathway to more efficient photovoltaics (PV) --- the use of solar panels containing photovoltaic solar cells --- to improve solar energy harvesting, according to researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL).

The LLNL Materials Engineering Division (MED) research team has made breakthroughs experimenting with black metals. These nanostructured metals are designed to have low reflectivity and high absorption of visible and infrared light. The MED research team recently published their black metals research results in a cover-page article in the May issue of Applied Physics Letters titled "Plasmonic Black Metals in Resonant Nanocavities."

Authored by MED physicist and research team member Mihail Bora, the article details the work of the Nanophotonics and Plasmonics research team led by LLNL Engineer Tiziana Bond.

It describes the team's concept of black metals, which are not classic metals but can be thought of as an extension of the black silicon concept. When silicon is treated in a certain way, such as being roughened at the nanoscale level, it traps light by multiple reflections, increasing its solar absorption. This gives the silicon a black surface that's able to better trap the full sun's wavelength spectrum.

Similarly, black metals are produced by some sort of random nanostructuring -- either in gold or silver -- without guaranteeing a full, reliable and repeatable full solar absorption. However, Bond's team developed a method to improve and control the absorption efficiency and basically turn the metals as black as they want, allowing them to increase, on demand, the absorption of a higher quantity of solar wavelengths. Her team built nanopillar structures that are trapping and absorbing all the relevant wavelengths of the entire solar spectrum.

"Our article was picked for the cover story of Applied Physics Letters because it represents cutting-edge work in the area of plasmonics, the broadband operation obtained with a clear design and its implication for the photovoltaic (PV) yield," Bond said.

This new LLNL technology could one day be used in the energy harvesting industry such as PV. By incorporating metallic nanostructures with strong coupling of incident light, broad spectral and angular coverage, the LLNL team is providing a path for more efficient photovoltaics and thermovoltaics (a form of energy collection) by means of plasmon-exciton conversion, according to Bond and Bora.

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The article can be view at this link: http://apl.aip.org/resource/1/applab/v102/i25/p251105_s1

The teams' black metal research will also be featured in the September issue of Nature Photonics.

Founded in 1952, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory provides solutions to our nation's most important national security challenges through innovative science, engineering and technology. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is managed by Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration.

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Grand Prix India 2014 kemungkinan batal

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India menjadi tuan rumah GP pertama kali pada 2011.

Grand Prix India kemungkinan akan dihapus dari kalendar Formula Satu tahun depan, kata bos F1 Bernie Ecclestone.

"Apakah India akan dilaksanakan? Mungkin tidak," kata Bernie di Grand Prix Hongaria, seperti dikutip kantor berita Reuters.

Saat ditanya apakah ada masalah dengan ajang balap di Greater Noida, dekat New Delhi, Ecclestone menjawab, "Sangat politis."

Ecclestone, yang memimpin Formula Satu selama puluhan tahun, menyusun kalendar dan biasanya mempresentasikannya di hadapan Federasi Otomotif Internasional untuk meminta persetujuan mereka setiap bulan September.

Ia saat ini harus memilih maksimum 20 dari 22 balap untuk dimasukkan ke kalender.

Rusia, akan memulai debut mereka di Sochi, Laut Hitam, menjelang akhir tahun dan sebuah GP lain di New Jersey adalah dua even baru yang direncanakan untuk 2014.

GP Austria juga direncanakan kembali diadakan setelah absen selama 11 tahun.

India pertama kali menjadi tuan rumah GP pada 2011 dan mendapat ulasan positif dari komunitas Formula Satu.

Tahun ini GP India sebenarnya dijadwalkan untuk diadakan pada 27 Oktober tetapi setelah pernyataan Ecclestone, dunia balap masih harus menunggu kepastian.

Source: http://www.tribunnews.com/sport/2013/07/29/grand-prix-india-2014-kemungkinan-batal

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