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NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. ? It may be only a matter of time before the ACC Tournament comes to Madison Square Garden ? and you can count Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski and North Carolina?s Roy Williams among those who?d like to see it happen.
?We have New York, we should use it,? Coach K told SNY.tv at the Peach Jam. ?If we don?t use it, we?re foolish. We use [Madison Square Garden] at Duke, we come there every year.?
Both Coach K and Williams said they would at least be in favor of rotating the ACC Tournament through the Garden ? if not having it there every year.
?It?s really, really hard for me to give up on Greensboro (N.C.), but boy having the ACC Tournament in New York would really be something special,? Williams told SNY.tv.
?And at the same time, I?m an old traditionalist and an ACC guy and I love the way Greensboro turns out for the tournament. It?s the most important thing going on in the city. So I?m one of those guys that sits on the fence and that?s not usually a stance that I like to take. I don?t think there?s anything wrong with moving the tournament and playing in two locations. But I will say this, I would be one of those guys that would be in favor of New York and Greensboro.?
The ACC?s deal with Greensboro runs for two more seasons, but sites have not been determined beginning in 2016.
In October, the Big East Conference and the Garden announced an extension through 2026.
Since then, Louisville has bolted for the ACC and the ?Catholic Seven? split from the old Big East and ultimately formed the new Big East with the additions of Butler, Creighton and Xavier.
Multiple sources told SNY.tv that the Garden has caveats that would allow them to get out of the contract if certain ticket sale thresholds and other standards are not met.
One ACC coach suggested that the league could also simply offer to buy out the Big East in order to move the ACC event there permanently.
Of course, it remains unclear what would happen to the Big East Tournament under such a scenario.
The Barclays Center in Brooklyn is committed to the Atlantic 10 Tournament for four more years.
By 2014, seven former Big East schools will be in the 15-team ACC: Syracuse, Pittsburgh, Notre Dame, Louisville, Boston College, Miami and Virginia Tech.
One factor to keep in mind is that Fox is now the official network of the Big East, and one ACC coach said that ESPN would like to wrest control of the Garden?s postseason tournament from Fox.
?I don?t think you can underestimate the power of ESPN wanting to have a league tournament back in the Garden and that certainly isn?t the case now given that Fox has the Garden and the Big East,? the ACC coach told SNY.tv.
?I think the perfect world would be just like the ACC has done. They?ve rotated to other cities, New York City being part of the rotation.?
Incoming ACC coaches Rick Pitino of Louisville,?Jim Boeheim of Syracuse, Jamie Dixon?of Pittsburgh and Mike Brey?of Notre Dame are all in favor of moving the event to the Garden.
?You ask any kid,? Brey told reporters July 1 when new schools officially joined the ACC, according to the Newport News. ?I don?t care if he?s playing at Miami, Clemson, Wake Forest,?Notre Dame, BC, Virginia Tech, they want to play in the Garden. They want to experience that. ? You talk to the kids in the Big East, some of their greatest memories are playing in New York City.?
?I?think it would be awesome,? BC coach Steve Donahue told SNY.tv of potentially moving the event to the Garden.
?It?s the best conference and you want to play it in the most exciting arena in the biggest city. And it would be great for everybody, not just the teams in the North. I think it it?s something our league would really benefit greatly from, the excitement.?
N.C. State coach Mark Gottfried agrees.
?Selfishly for our fans and for us, I like Greensboro but I also think playing in New York City brings a level of prestige to the league maybe that nowhere else can in the world,? he told SNY.tv.
?I think it?s something that our league really needs to evaluate and take a hard look at it and go from there.?
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Source: http://zagsblog.com/articles/coach-k-roy-williams-favor-having-acc-tournament-in-new-york/
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Marwa El Daly
Marwa El Daly is the founder and chairperson of the Waqfeyat al Maadi Community Foundation in Egypt. Updating the concept of waqf, a centuries old form of philanthropy in the Arabic and Islamic tradition, her foundation is a community led trust that shifts giving from charity to development.
City Press caught up with El Daly before the violent protests last week. Post revolution, her organisation plays an important role in Egypt around public accountability. In 2012 she received the African Grantmakers Network African Philanthropy Award. Social justice is her passion. She lives in Cairo.
Q: Since the 2011 revolution in Egypt, has it been harder or easier for your organisation to attract funds?
A: The revolution was the greatest landmark in our history. It was the spark that brought all of us together and made us realise that we can make miracles together. Waqfeyat al Maadi Community Foundation?s job became easier in post-revolution Egypt because people found this body where they can make change happen. Mobilising people for talks, clean ups and fundraising for projects became easier because the sense of belonging and determination made people come to us in hundreds, not us going to them ? Waqfeya became the place that they trusted would give them a place to express their love for the community.
Q: You have been recognised as a ?social entrepreneur?. What is that?
A: Yes, I was recognised by Ashoka (a global organisation that invests in social entrepreneurs) in 2007 and in 2011, by Synergos (a New York based organisation addressing poverty and social injustice) as an Arab World Social Innovator. Ashoka recognised me for my philanthropic work in the region and for creating the first model of a community foundation that revives the waqf endowment model. This is a traditional form of giving that was the backbone of civil society until the 19th century that started to completely fade out in the 50s of the 20th century, when the government became the sole provider of services ? even for charity. Synergos selected me as a social entrepreneur for my effort in mobilising youth for change-driven philanthropy.
Q: If community philanthropy starts at home, where is home for you?
A: Home for me is ?us? wherever we are ? it is the strengths and resources that we have no matter what the challenges are. As a child at school I realised the importance of being responsible for the wellbeing of our family, community and all the people who are less fortunate. It was my mother who inspired me through good education that we cannot sleep well if our neighbour is hungry. It was not about giving our neighbour food, because she taught me that if giving them food undermines their dignity, then we do them more harm than good. So it was about creating an avenue for them to be able to get their own food with dignity and pride. It was about the bonds that allow us to find solutions together, the trust and belief in our strengths and the conviction that giving to empower each other empowers all of us.
Q: Is your interest in youth projects informed by your own relative youth?
A: It?s not that I?m interested in ?youth projects? but youth are integral partners of Waqfeyat al Maadi CF. They are not our target group, but our partners. In the Youth Engagement Project, youths decide our community projects, design them, fundraise for them and support their implementation.They support other social entrepreneurs and give them whatever psychological and financial support they can. The board comprises younger and older generations, female and male, different religions. As a young woman, although now in my 30s, I feel we are all young ? a young vibrant organisation where age plays no role but where there is a young spirit that believes in change.
Q: The Waqfeyat al Maadi Community Foundation uses art to bridge divides and bring diverse youth together. How does it do this?
A: The first project at Waqfeyat al Maadi CF was launched by Dr Fatma Abou Nawareg ? my mother. She is the former dean and current Professor of Art Appreciation at Helwan University, who inaugurated the Khan el Fenoun art education project as a tool to attract community members of all ages in a peaceful and beautiful environment. It was also an income-generating project endowed to allow the less fortunate to have the same opportunity to art education in a sustainable manner because of Dr Fatma?s belief that art is the tool that shapes appreciation of our environment, thinking, and the ability to change from an early age. Last but not least, the art workshop brings people from privileged and underprivileged communities together in collective art works that they exhibit together. This creates bonds and mutual respect and pride, but also creates individuals that are more sensitive to each other?s feelings and challenges.
Q: Are you an arts lover?
A: I do love the arts myself, yes ? Dr Fatma is both my mother and my inspiration. Appreciating arts provides the soul with sensitivity to nature, trees, vegetables, mountains, animals, insects and, of course, to human beings. I love drawing and photography and find them powerful tools to bring inner strengths and an eye to the environment around us.
Q: What kind of philanthropist would you describe yourself as?
A: I am a believer in social justice philanthropy, where giving in any form is directed to solve root causes of poverty, deprivation or any kind of injustice. My interest is to invest in change-driven philanthropy that brings people out of the vicious circle of poverty and dependence and helps them have equal access to opportunities and resources.
Q: You?re active on the digital social networks ? Facebook, Twitter etc. Does this help to spread the word and your work?
A: I am very active on social media ? and WMCF counts on Facebook and Twitter to mobilise people and we have more than 3000 active followers who participate in our community carnivals, events and fundraise for Waqfeya projects. For us social media is an integral part of our work ? it connects not only our communities but also connects us globally with other community foundations and youth groups. All our photo albums are on Facebook and this allows for visibility and engagement.
Q: What was your first philanthropy project and how did it make you feel?
A: My first project was in my school years and it was a series of libraries that we helped establish in underprivileged areas and in children?s hospitals in Egypt, especially the cancer-treatment centers. We used books to get children to become philanthropists and give away their books. We gathered thousands from us ? teen philanthropists ? and created many libraries across Egypt and organised school trips to them. I was 12 years old, and the inspiration was my mother who always guided me with three secret words: love, commitment and justice for all.
? This series is developed in partnership with the Southern Africa Trust
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Councilman Leroy Comrie. (Photo: Facebook)
Councilman Leroy Comrie today announced an end to his bid for Queens borough president, citing ?personal matters? as his reason for leaving the race.
?After careful consideration, my family and I believe, due to personal matters, this is the best course of action,? Mr. Comrie said in a statement. ?I remain steadfast in my faith and belief in government and it is a true honor to continue to serve the people of Southeast Queens in my capacity as Councilman.?
Mr. Comrie surprised some in the political establishment when he decided to continue his campaign after the Queens Democratic Party in May endorsed a rival candidate, Melinda Katz. Despite mulling leaving the race, Mr. Comrie continued to score endorsements, including former Mayor David Dinkins, and held a campaign kickoff event last month on the steps of Queens Borough Hall.
Queens Democratic insiders weren?t sure about the legitimacy of Mr. Comrie?s campaign, however. Some had predicted, accurately ultimately, that he would eventually exit the race around the time when petitions were due to be handed in this week. He remains close to the county organization and would have complicated Ms. Katz?s path to victory against rivals like Councilman Peter Vallone Jr., a strong fund-raiser.
Mr. Comrie, who is term-limited, has been a rumored candidate for deputy borough president or even the sseat occupied by indicted State Senator Malcolm Smith. With his exit, only Ms. Katz, Mr. Vallone Jr. and State Senator Tony Avella remain in the Democratic primary.
?Queens is one of the greatest boroughs in ?our city, ?and I am thankful to everyone for the opportunity ?to showcase my ?platform for inclusion and empowerment and express my passion for the borough that was afforded me in this race,? Mr. Comrie said. ?I am looking forward to ?serving ?the people of Queens?in one capacity or another?for a long time to come.?
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Source: http://politicker.com/2013/07/leroy-comrie-drops-queens-borough-president-bid/
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DREAMers and the LGBT community gathered together in Washington D.C. yesterday to take part in two ceremonies -- the National DREAM Act Graduation and a marriage between a bi-national lesbian couple -- and show their support for equality for all.
?This year, especially because we are focusing on comprehensive immigration reform, they decided to include certain LGBT components and have a DREAM wedding,? says Ameesha Sampat, the media manager for Immigration Equality. The graduation has happened before, but from what I saw today, with the two different movements coming together, the wedding stole the show.?
NBC Latino reports that every year, the National Immigrant Youth Alliance partners with DREAM Activist to present the National DREAM Graduation at the Lutheran Church of the Reformation of Washington, D.C.
Almost 300 people RSVP'd to support the annual graduation and the marriage of an "undocuqueer" couple to highlight the intersectionality between immigration and LGBT rights.
Source: http://www.latina.com/lifestyle/news/dreamers-lgbt-support-undocuqueer-wedding
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Back in May, Google outlined improved notifications for the beta version of Chrome, and now the feature's finally ready for prime time, if you're a Windows user rocking the browser. The refresh brings a revamped interface to the pop-ups, featuring text and images. Actions can also occur inside the notifications, so users can do things like respond to e-mails without clicking out of the window. If you miss a bunch of notifications, you can open them all at once -- and if you get annoyed, you can just disable them. The Windows version is available now. Mac users will get the update "soon," as per the blog post below.
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NEW YORK (AP) ? New York City has taken control of the South Street Seaport Museum.
It continues to struggle with an estimated $22 million in damage from Superstorm Sandy.
The Museum of the City of New York said last month it could no longer operate the waterfront museum.
The Wall Street Journal (http://on.wsj.com/1aROPjV ) says three Bloomberg administration officials now make up a skeleton board of trustees. Meanwhile, the city is scrambling to find a new institutional partner.
The museum's waterfront director has been appointed as its interim president.
The museum is housed in a commercial building on Fulton Street that served the seaport starting in 1811. It also maintains a fleet of historic vessels.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nyc-takes-control-south-street-seaport-museum-121715416.html
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By Matt Norlander | College Basketball Writer
Less than 70 hours removed from the official announcement that Brad Stevens was leaving for the Boston Celtics, Butler has named his successor.
Brandon Miller, a former point guard at the university and 2003 alumnus, will take over for Stevens. The 34-year-old Miller returned to Butler in April to be an assistant after spending last season as an assistant coach to John Groce at Illinois. Prior to that he was on Thad Matta's staff for six years at Ohio State. Matta, a Butler alum, spent one year as coach of the Bulldogs, in 2000-01.
"I am confident that Brandon will carry on the Butler University basketball tradition of excellence, especially as we make the transition to the Big East Athletic Conference," Butler athletic director Barry Collier said in a statement. "As a player, assistant coach, and person, Brandon has exemplified the Butler Way and brings a blend of energy, talent and integrity to this role. With Brandon's leadership, Butler is well-positioned to expand upon the success of the last few years."
Miller hails froms New Castle, Ind., and went 77-20 during his playing career, winning three Horizon League titles and becoming one of eight players in program history to score 1,000 points in three seasons. In 2003, he helped get the Bulldogs to the Sweet 16.
The hire comes just as the July recruiting period is about to get underway. Considered a critical month in the coaching calendar, it's when programs across the country travel to see hordes of talent in multiple cities and build on recruiting classes for the next two or three years.
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Here?s the trailer for ?Coffee Town,? which College Humor will release Tuesday as its first feature-length movie. The online comedy site has done Web series before, but it is largely known for its short videos.
The film about a coffee house and its odd customers will debut on Apple iTunes, Amazon and other online outlets, and will be marketed via social means by the IAC-owned College Humor. It?s yet another in the list of more ambitious content efforts that are made for the Web.
And, while aimed at young dudes, it does look pretty funny from the trailer:
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Welcome to The After Math, where we attempt to summarize this week's tech news through numbers, decimal places and percentages.
During this Independence Day-tinged week, the Engadget team has been peering into the past, present and future of manufacturing in the US. We touched on the implausible costs of a real-life Death Star, how to educate kids in code and the finer points on bringing more tech manufacturing to America. Europe also gets a brief nod, as the EU announced the first wave of substantial roaming cost-cutting across the continent, making several of our often in-transit UK editors very happy indeed. We've got a list of notable numbers right after the break.
Source: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/-anBRipGqYY/
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This past week, Apple released beta 2 of iOS 7. Now, it's never fair to nitpick anything that's still in beta, so we're not going to do that. But we are going to have a lively discussion of any and every bug we've collectively found in iOS 7 thus far.
I'll start with one that nearly made me go deaf yesterday:
- With my headphones plugged in and using MOG, the volume inexplicably shot up when I received a text message. It happened twice in the span of 10 minutes.
What about you?
Source: http://gizmodo.com/what-ios-7-bugs-have-you-noticed-597693898
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Today's the day, and now's the time. The Google Play edition — that's the official name, by the way — Samsung Galaxy Galaxy S4 and HTC One are now on sale directly from Google Play.
These are full-price devices, each upwards of $600, running "stock"-ish Android 4.2.2, which is the latest version of Android released. We say "stock"-ish because, well, "stock" Android means all sorts of things. Anyhoo. You get the Android experience in the purest sense of the word with these devices, and with a couple extra thrown in. (Namely, Beats Audio on the HTC One, and the Samsung flip cover clock on the Galaxy S4.)
The 32-gigabyte HTC One costs $599, and the 16-gigabyte Samsung Galaxy S4 runs $649. You can order both from the devices section at Google Play. And it's worth mentioning that Google Play has a pretty horrible track record when it comes to up-time during major device launches. So if your order starts to hiccup, hang tight, and be patient. It's also worth a reminder that these are U.S.-only for now.
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VIENNA (AP) ? VIENNA ? The U.N. drug control agency on Wednesday sounded the alarm on the spread of designer drugs, which are sold openly and legally and sometimes result in deadly highs, while reporting that global drug use generally remains stable.
Such substances "can be far more dangerous than traditional drugs," the agency said in a statement accompanying its annual report. "Street names, such as 'spice,' 'meow-meow' and 'bath salts' mislead young people into believing that they are indulging in low-risk fun."
A six-page summary of the report by the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime warned that "the international drug control system is foundering, for the first time, under the speed and creativity" of their proliferation.
It said countries worldwide reported 251 such substances by mid-2012, compared with 166 at the end of 2009. The problem, said the report, is "hydra-headed" in that as fast as governments ban the drugs, manufacturers produce new variants.
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In the United States, 158 kinds of synthetic drugs were circulating during 2012, more than twice as many as in the EU, and use was growing in East and Southeast Asia, including China, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.
Gil Kerlikowske, director of the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy, said the United States faces "continuing challenges with prescription drug abuse and new synthetic drugs." But he also noted successes, telling participants meeting in Vienna for the report's launch that U.S. cocaine use has decreased by 50 percent since 2006.
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? heroin and opium use remains steady at around 16.4 million people, or 0.4 percent of the world's adult population.
?heroin use appears to be declining in Europe, with users aging and because of more efficient drug seizures.
?cocaine use, although still rare, appears to be growing in China and Hong Kong as shown by seizures of the drug, apparently reflecting the growth of a more affluent society.
?U.S. cocaine use fell by 40 percent between 2006 and 2011, due in part to less production in Colombia, more efficient law enforcement and disruptive turf wars among drug cartels.
?seizures of "amphetamine-type" drugs rose by 66 percent in 2011 compared with the year before, to 123 tons.
?the use of "ecstasy," one such drug, is declining globally but appears to be growing in Europe.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/un-sounds-alarm-widespread-designer-drug-093259636.html
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June 26, 2013 ? For most terrestrial life on Earth, oxygen is necessary for survival. But the planet's atmosphere did not always contain this life-sustaining substance, and one of science's greatest mysteries is how and when oxygenic photosynthesis -- the process responsible for producing oxygen on Earth through the splitting of water molecules -- first began. Now, a team led by geobiologists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has found evidence of a precursor photosystem involving manganese that predates cyanobacteria, the first group of organisms to release oxygen into the environment via photosynthesis.
The findings, outlined in the June 24 early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), strongly support the idea that manganese oxidation -- which, despite the name, is a chemical reaction that does not have to involve oxygen -- provided an evolutionary stepping-stone for the development of water-oxidizing photosynthesis in cyanobacteria.
"Water-oxidizing or water-splitting photosynthesis was invented by cyanobacteria approximately 2.4 billion years ago and then borrowed by other groups of organisms thereafter," explains Woodward Fischer, assistant professor of geobiology at Caltech and a coauthor of the study. "Algae borrowed this photosynthetic system from cyanobacteria, and plants are just a group of algae that took photosynthesis on land, so we think with this finding we're looking at the inception of the molecular machinery that would give rise to oxygen."
Photosynthesis is the process by which energy from the sun is used by plants and other organisms to split water and carbon dioxide molecules to make carbohydrates and oxygen. Manganese is required for water splitting to work, so when scientists began to wonder what evolutionary steps may have led up to an oxygenated atmosphere on Earth, they started to look for evidence of manganese-oxidizing photosynthesis prior to cyanobacteria. Since oxidation simply involves the transfer of electrons to increase the charge on an atom -- and this can be accomplished using light or O2 -- it could have occurred before the rise of oxygen on this planet.
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To test the hypothesis that manganese-based photosynthesis occurred prior to the evolution of oxygenic cyanobacteria, the researchers examined drill cores (newly obtained by the Agouron Institute) from 2.415 billion-year-old South African marine sedimentary rocks with large deposits of manganese.
Manganese is soluble in seawater. Indeed, if there are no strong oxidants around to accept electrons from the manganese, it will remain aqueous, Fischer explains, but the second it is oxidized, or loses electrons, manganese precipitates, forming a solid that can become concentrated within seafloor sediments.
"Just the observation of these large enrichments -- 16 percent manganese in some samples -- provided a strong implication that the manganese had been oxidized, but this required confirmation," he says.
To prove that the manganese was originally part of the South African rock and not deposited there later by hydrothermal fluids or some other phenomena, Johnson and colleagues developed and employed techniques that allowed the team to assess the abundance and oxidation state of manganese-bearing minerals at a very tiny scale of 2 microns.
"And it's warranted -- these rocks are complicated at a micron scale!" Fischer says. "And yet, the rocks occupy hundreds of meters of stratigraphy across hundreds of square kilometers of ocean basin, so you need to be able to work between many scales -- very detailed ones, but also across the whole deposit to understand the ancient environmental processes at work."
Using these multiscale approaches, Johnson and colleagues demonstrated that the manganese was original to the rocks and first deposited in sediments as manganese oxides, and that manganese oxidation occurred over a broad swath of the ancient marine basin during the entire timescale captured by the drill cores.
"It's really amazing to be able to use X-ray techniques to look back into the rock record and use the chemical observations on the microscale to shed light on some of the fundamental processes and mechanisms that occurred billions of years ago," says Samuel Webb, coauthor on the paper and beam line scientist at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University, where many of the study's experiments took place. "Questions regarding the evolution of the photosynthetic pathway and the subsequent rise of oxygen in the atmosphere are critical for understanding not only the history of our own planet, but also the basics of how biology has perfected the process of photosynthesis."
Once the team confirmed that the manganese had been deposited as an oxide phase when the rock was first forming, they checked to see if these manganese oxides were actually formed before water-splitting photosynthesis or if they formed after as a result of reactions with oxygen. They used two different techniques to check whether oxygen was present. It was not -- proving that water-splitting photosynthesis had not yet evolved at that point in time. The manganese in the deposits had indeed been oxidized and deposited before the appearance of water-splitting cyanobacteria. This implies, the researchers say, that manganese-oxidizing photosynthesis was a stepping-stone for oxygen-producing, water-splitting photosynthesis.
"I think that there will be a number of additional experiments that people will now attempt to try and reverse engineer a manganese photosynthetic photosystem or cell," Fischer says. "Once you know that this happened, it all of a sudden gives you reason to take more seriously an experimental program aimed at asking, 'Can we make a photosystem that's able to oxidize manganese but doesn't then go on to split water? How does it behave, and what is its chemistry?' Even though we know what modern water splitting is and what it looks like, we still don't know exactly how it works. There is a still a major discovery to be made to find out exactly how the catalysis works, and now knowing where this machinery comes from may open new perspectives into its function -- an understanding that could help target technologies for energy production from artificial photosynthesis. "
Next up in Fischer's lab, Johnson plans to work with others to try and mutate a cyanobacteria to "go backwards" and perform manganese-oxidizing photosynthesis. The team also plans to investigate a set of rocks from western Australia that are similar in age to the samples used in the current study and may also contain beds of manganese. If their current study results are truly an indication of manganese-oxidizing photosynthesis, they say, there should be evidence of the same processes in other parts of the world.
"Oxygen is the backdrop on which this story is playing out on, but really, this is a tale of the evolution of this very intense metabolism that happened once -- an evolutionary singularity that transformed the planet," Fischer says. "We've provided insight into how the evolution of one of these remarkable molecular machines led up to the oxidation of our planet's atmosphere, and now we're going to follow up on all angles of our findings."
Funding for the research outlined in the PNAS paper, titled "Manganese-oxidizing photosynthesis before the rise of cyanobacteria," was provided by the Agouron Institute, NASA's Exobiology Branch, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship program. Joseph Kirschvink, Nico and Marilyn Van Wingen Professor of Geobiology at Caltech, also contributed to the study along with Katherine Thomas and Shuhei Ono from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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NEW YORK (AP) ? America is slowly moving toward cleaner sources of energy and using less of it overall. President Barack Obama's plan to fight climate change will accelerate those trends.
The measures aim to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide from power plants, increase America's reliance on renewable energy sources and make trucks, homes and businesses more efficient.
Some parts of the plan will take months to work out and years to go into full effect. The most ambitious part of the plan seeks to rein in one of the biggest sources of carbon dioxide: coal-fired power plants.
Obama will direct the Environmental Protection Agency to develop standards that limit power-plant emissions of carbon dioxide. States would then be able to create rules to comply with the standards.
Obama also seeks to increase funding for clean energy research by 30 percent to $7.9 billion and make $8 billion in federal loan guarantees available to projects that could help capture and bury the carbon dioxide produced at power plants.
Here's how the plan will likely affect companies and consumers:
? UTILITIES AND COAL PRODUCERS
Power plants account for 40 percent of the nation's carbon dioxide emissions, and most of those emissions come from burning coal. To reduce these emissions, power companies will have to run coal plants less often, install equipment that captures carbon dioxide and in some cases shut down plants that become too expensive to operate.
The cost to make these changes are likely so great that utilities would instead generate more power with natural gas, nuclear, wind and solar power, which will become comparatively less expensive and more profitable.
As a result, very few, if any, new coal-fired plants will be built.
The stock prices of the nation's biggest coal miners, including Peabody Energy Corp., Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. and Arch Coal, Inc., have fallen more than 10 percent over the past two days as details of Obama's plan trickled out.
The financial effect on utilities that rely heavily on coal, such as NRG Energy and First Energy, is unclear. While coal-fired power will become more costly, that will be offset by higher electricity prices.
The plan offers clear benefits to natural gas producers such as Exxon Mobil and Chesapeake Energy and to utilities such as Exelon, Entergy and Calpine, which generate large amounts of electricity using low-carbon sources like nuclear power and natural gas.
? RENEWABLE ENERGY COMPANIES
By directing the Department of Interior to accelerate permits to clean energy developers who want to use public land, Obama will make it less expensive for companies to build wind, solar and geothermal energy projects.
This will help companies that provide equipment for, build and finance large wind and solar farms, such as First Solar, SunPower, General Electric and Siemens.
? ENERGY EFFICIENCY
Companies that install windows, insulation and heating and cooling systems stand to benefit from Obama's plan, which will give homeowners and businesses incentives to invest in energy-efficiency improvements. While the upfront costs can be high, the long-term savings can be significant.
Obama also wants the EPA to develop new fuel efficiency standards for heavy trucks, which are the second-largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the transportation sector after cars. Obama implemented new fuel economy standards for cars through 2025.
These new standards for trucks would go into effect for trucks made in 2018 and beyond. Engine-makers and parts suppliers that succeed in developing fuel-efficient technologies could benefit. While trucking companies may face higher equipment costs at first, their fuel bills will decline.
? ELECTRIC CUSTOMERS
Homeowners and businesses will likely pay more for electricity because the nation will be relying less on coal, which has historically been the cheapest way to produce electricity.
But more efficient homes and appliances are helping reduce energy consumption, which will likely offset at least some of the higher electricity cost.
Hugh Wynne, an analyst at Bernstein Research, estimates that a 20 percent nationwide reduction in carbon dioxide emissions would increase retail power prices by about 1 cent per kilowatt hour, or 9 percent. At current rates of electricity use, that would add $9 or so to an average American's monthly bill. Obama's plan seeks to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 17 percent from their 2005 level by 2020.
Nick Akins, CEO of American Electric Power, one of the nation's largest utilities, said in an interview Tuesday that as long as utilities like his are given enough time to transition to a cleaner fleet of power plants, Obama's plan can be carried out "without a major impact to customers or the economy."
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obamas-climate-plan-takes-aim-coal-plants-012546705.html
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FILE - This June 6, 2007 file photo shows singer Wayne Newton at the premiere of "Ocean's Thirteen" at the Palms Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas. A federal bankruptcy judge is poised to sign off Friday June 21, 2013, on a legal settlement will result in Newton moving from his sprawling ?Casa de Shenandoah? property after 45 years. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
FILE - This June 6, 2007 file photo shows singer Wayne Newton at the premiere of "Ocean's Thirteen" at the Palms Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas. A federal bankruptcy judge is poised to sign off Friday June 21, 2013, on a legal settlement will result in Newton moving from his sprawling ?Casa de Shenandoah? property after 45 years. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
LAS VEGAS (AP) ? A federal bankruptcy judge is poised to sign off on a legal settlement that resulted in "Mr. Las Vegas" Wayne Newton moving from his sprawling "Casa de Shenandoah" property after 45 years.
Lawyers for Newton and property owner CSD LLC are to appear Friday before U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Bruce Markell in Las Vegas.
CSD bought the more than 40-acre estate in June 2010 for $19.5 million with plans to develop the opulent mansion and surrounding grounds into a "Graceland West" attraction commemorating the "Danke Schoen" crooner's show biz career.
That plan stalled last year amid legal wrangling.
The fight resulted in the 71-year-old Newton, his family and their menagerie of exotic animals moving this month to another nearby mansion and several adjacent properties totaling about 20 acres.
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