One of the oldest ocean races in the world began welcoming the first finishers to Hawaii waters Friday morning.
The 47th crossing of the Transpacific Yacht Race pitted 57 skippers in a seafaring challenge from Los Angeles to Honolulu.
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A man has been found guilty of the manslaughter of a church organist who was battered to death on Christmas Eve. Amid tumultuous scenes in court, he was cleared of murder.
The body of Alan Greaves was found collapsed on the pavement near his home in Sheffield by a pizza delivery driver. The 68-year-old grandfather had been on his way to play at midnight Mass.
Today Ashley Foster, 22, was found guilty of the killing, although there was confusion in court after the clerk asked the jury foreman only whether Foster was guilty of murder.
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Source: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/crime/article3819500.ece
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What a week. We've had exclusive leaks of Google and ASUS' new Nexus tablet. The still unreleased Android 4.3 leaked out on the Nexus 4. We got hands-on with the new HTC One Mini. And we've got the Moto X and a bunch of new Droids landing next week at events in New York City and San Francisco — and the latter could well bring a brand new version of Android, too. So there's a lot to talk about and a lot to look forward to, and we're going to tear through it all tonight on the Android Central podcast. Plus we'll even have a few more of your emails.
The action kicks off at 4 p.m. EDT (1 p.m. PDT, 9 p.m. BST), and you can watch at androidcentral.com/live or through the awesome Android Central app (make sure you're up-to-date on version 1.3). See you in a few hours!
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ALEC has a clear motive: to serve the interests of dirty fossil fuel power plants and block progress towards greater use of clean, homegrown energy.
I?m happy to announce that ALEC and the Heartland Institute?s efforts to roll-back individual state?s renewable energy goals decisively failed in legislatures spanning from West Virginia to Kansas. In total, 26 bills designed to remove renewable energy standards (RPS) for eight states were denied, according to a report from Colorado State University?s Center for the New Energy Economy.
Now, Kansas, Missouri, Ohio, North Carolina, Texas, West Virginia and Wisconsin will continue on the path towards a clean energy future. Even better, some states increased their energy guidelines, namely Colorado, Connecticut, Maryland and Minnesota.
This news comes as a resounding victory for the climate, consumers, and Americans who care to see the U.S. progress into the global $ 2 billion clean energy economy.
Renewable energy is not only a vital component of the national plan to address climate change, but also a bargain for consumers. For example, Texas? RPS, established in 1999, led the state to become an international powerhouse for wind energy. Texas has already reached its RPS goal, set for 2015, and now boasts more than 1,300 companies employing more than 100,000 workers in industries directly and indirectly related to renewable energy. On top of that, renewable energy is driving down the energy costs for consumers. A Public Utility Commission report to the 81st Legislature states that ?prices are lower [ERCOT]-wide when there are large amounts of wind energy being produced.?
Texas? experience with wind energy is no outlier. Colorado proclaims that the state?s RPS will save customers as much as $100 million over the next 25 years. Just last week, Xcel Energy, the state?s largest utility, moved to purchase another 700 megawatts of wind energy, saving its customers over $590 million in fuel costs over 20 years. Colorado will reap the benefits from a reduced reliance on foreign oil imports, stable prices and less harmful air pollution.
In a way, ALEC and the Heartland Institute?s failure to roadblock progress in these states is no surprise. Carbon-free sources, like renewable energy and energy efficiency, are the key to addressing climate change and lowering energy costs.
The American people understand these fundamental benefits?despite the propaganda ALEC and the Heartland Institute like to promote. A resounding 92 percent of voters, including 84 percent of Republicans, support an increase in renewable energy.
While this is a huge victory, we can?t rest our laurels just yet.? ALEC will be back for their attack on the clean energy, low carbon economy.? We must be just as vigilant if we are going to keep up the momentum to accelerate the transition into clean energy nation.
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Gas-powered weed eaters are burly enough to chop down the thickest underbrush, no doubt. But they're also noisy, smelly, and expensive to run. Instead, take the CGT400 Trimmer from CORE GasLess Power for a spin.
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June 30, 2013 ? Researchers at EPFL have built a matchbox-sized device that can test for the presence of bacteria in a couple of minutes, instead of up to several weeks. A nano-lever vibrates in the presence of bacterial activity, while a laser reads the vibration and translates it into an electrical signal that can be easily read -- the absence of a signal signifies the absence of bacteria. Thanks to this method, it is quick and easy to determine if a bacteria has been effectively treated by an antibiotic, a crucial medical tool especially for resistant strains. Easily used in clinics, it could also prove useful for testing chemotherapy treatment.
The research is published in the latest issue of Nature Nanotechnology.
"This method is fast and accurate. And it can be a precious tool for both doctors looking for the right dosage of antibiotics and for researchers to determine which treatments are the most effective," explains Giovanni Dietler.
Laser and nanotechnology read the bacteria's metabolic activity
It currently takes a long time to measure a bacterial infection's response to antibiotic treatment. Clinicians must culture the bacteria and then observe its growth, sometimes for almost a month, as is the case with tuberculosis, in order to determine if the treatment has been effective.
Thanks to advances in laser and optical technology, the EPFL team of physicists has reduced this time to a couple of minutes. To do so, Giovanni Dietler, Sandor Kasas and Giovanni Longo have exploited the microscopic movements of a bacterium's metabolism.
These vital signs are almost unperceivable. In order to test for them, the researchers place the bacteria on an extremely sensitive measuring device that vibrates a small lever -- only slightly thicker than a strand of hair -- in the presence of certain activity. The lever then vibrates under the metabolic activity of the germs. These infinitely small oscillations, on the order of one millionth of a millimeter, determine the presence or absence of the bacteria.
To measure these vibrations, the researchers project a laser onto the lever. The light is then reflected back and the signal is converted into an electrical current to be interpreted by the clinician or researcher. When the electrical current is a flat line, one knows that the bacteria are all dead; it is as easy to read as an electrocardiogram.
A promising method for cancer treatment
The researchers have miniaturized the tool -- it is currently the size of a matchbox. "By joining our tool with a piezoelectric device instead of a laser, we could further reduce its size to the size of a microchip," says Giovanni Dietler. They could then be combined together to test a series of antibiotics on one strain in only a couple of minutes.
The researchers are currently evaluating the tool's potential in other fields, notably oncology. They are looking into measuring the metabolism of tumor cells that have been exposed to cancer treatment to evaluate the efficiency of the treatment. "If our method also works in this field, we really have a precious tool on our hands that can allow us to develop new treatments and also test both quickly and simply how the patient is reacting to the cancer treatment," says Sandor Kasas.
Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/~3/1zTXeSe2UBI/130630145006.htm
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DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AP) ? President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush are planning to be in the same city a world away from home, but the question is whether they will get together.
The Democratic president was to fly Monday into Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, the last stop on a weeklong tour of Africa that wraps up Tuesday. His Republican predecessor coincidentally also plans to be there for a conference on African women organized by the George W. Bush Institute.
Their wives plan to team up at the conference Tuesday for a joint discussion on promoting women's education, health and economic empowerment. President Bush plans to be in attendance, before delivering his own speech there the following day, after the Obamas will have left.
Initially aides said the men had no plans to meet, but Obama foreign policy adviser Ben Rhodes indicated Sunday that could change. "There may be something," Rhodes said.
Having both presidents in town "sends a very positive message that both political parties in the United States share a commitment to this continent," Rhodes said.
During his African visit, Obama has credited Bush with helping save millions of lives by creating the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
"The United States has really done wonderful work through the PEPFAR program, started under my predecessor, President Bush, and continued through our administration," Obama said Sunday during a visit to the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation Youth Center in Cape Town.
Bush's accomplishment in fighting AIDS was one of his signature foreign policy successes, while Obama has not been so focused on Africa despite his roots there and only now is making a major presidential trip to sub-Saharan Africa. Obama's only previous visit as president was a brief visit to Ghana his first summer in office, although he traveled to Africa several times previously and has vowed to come back.
Obama told reporters earlier in the trip that finances and politics play a role in preventing him from doing more.
"Given the budget constraints, for us to try to get the kind of money that President Bush was able to get out of the Republican House for massively scaled new foreign aid programs is very difficult," Obama said. "We could do even more with more resources. But if we're working smarter, the amount of good that we can bring about over the next decade is tremendous."
Any visit with Bush would have to fit into a busy schedule for Obama.
He arrives in Tanzania Monday afternoon and heads for a meeting with President Jakaya Kikwete. Obama plans to meet later with business leaders from the U.S. and Africa to talk about increasing trade in east Africa, before ending the evening with a dinner hosted by Kikwete.
On Tuesday, Obama plans a private greeting at the U.S. embassy, and then a quick stop at the memorial on the grounds of the former embassy that was bombed nearly 15 years ago, killing 11 people. The president then delivers a final speech focused on bringing more electric power to Africa and heads back toward Washington by noon.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-bush-heading-same-african-city-071301892.html
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