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Travel opens our eyes and breaks our routine. It is often one of the most growing experiences we have in life. But it can be extremely stressful, especially if you don't know what to do, or where to go.
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If you are going to a place your friends have recently visited, ask them what to do. Chances are, they already made the mistakes of going to seedy restaurants so you don't have to. If you're really going off the beaten track, none of your friends may know about where to go and what to see. You can ask them on Facebook or Twitter, but don't be surprised if you don't get any responses. There are, however, other social media sites for travelers. Afar.com links to your Facebook page and allows you to ask questions to other travelers who may be more experienced. After they determine your traveling style, it's easy to get the answers you need. GoRobot.com and GTrot.com are other sites that allow you to secondhandedly research the best places to visit.
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If you still have questions the day before you get on the Europe airline, good. You will have to answer them yourself. It may take getting lost a couple of times, but you'll probably find something worthwhile in the end. And isn't jumping into the unknown part of the fun in traveling anyway?
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If a story sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Unfortunately, that looks to be the case with this week?s hilarious news that an Apple employee had allegedly lost another iPhone prototype, in a bar, no less.
According to SF Weekly, the San Francisco Police Department has no record of an investigation into a second lost pre-release iPhone. That should come as a surprise to CNet writers Greg Sandoval and Declan McCullagh, who reported Wednesday that SFPD, along with Apple?s private investigators, were looking into the whereabouts of a prototype iPhone, which is said to have been lost at Cava 22, a tequila bar in San Francisco?s trendy Mission district.
Apple reportedly ?electronically traced? the phone to the home of a ?man in his twenties,? in the Bernal Heights neighborhood, according to an anonymous source ?familiar with the investigation.?
?I talked to CNet,? said SFPD spokesman Officer Albie Esparza, to SF Weekly. ?I don?t know who his source is, but we don?t have any record of any such an investigation going on at this point.?
As SF Weekly reports, Esparza says there is no record of officers, from either the Mission or Ingleside police stations, visiting the Bernal Heights neighborhood, where they are said to have visited the evident location of the missing iPhone ??? and there should be, had they done so. Nor do police dispatchers have any records of any investigation taking place at that residence.
To the credit of Sandoval and McCullagh, they explicitly report that Apple has not filed a report with the SFPD about the lost phone. And the owner of Cava 22, where the phone is said to have gone missing, told them he has not been contacted by either SFPD or Apple about a missing phone, though he says someone did call repeatedly about a missing iPhone.
As we all surely know by now, this story ? true or not ? follows last year?s lost iPhone 4 debacle, which also involved an Apple employee losing a prototype at a bar. That device was eventually sold to Gizmodo for $5,000.
A serious investigation followed. Gizmodo editor Jason Chen, who purchased the phone, as well as Gizmodo?s parent company, Gawker Media, were eventually cleared of all charges. The two young men who sold the lost phone, Brian Hogan, 22, and Sage Wallower, 28, face misdemeanor charges. Today, they both pled not guilty.
Manufacturing method paves way for commercially viable quantum dot-based LEDsPublic release date: 31-Aug-2011 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Jiangeng Xue jxue@msc.ufl.edu 352-846-3775 University of Florida
GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- University of Florida researchers may help resolve the public debate over America's future light source of choice: Edison's incandescent bulb or the more energy efficient compact fluorescent lamp.
It could be neither.
Instead, America's future lighting needs may be supplied by a new breed of light emitting diode, or LED, that conjures light from the invisible world of quantum dots. According to an article in the current online issue of the journal Nature Photonics, moving a QD LED from the lab to market is a step closer to reality thanks to a new manufacturing process pioneered by two research teams in UF's department of materials science and engineering.
"Our work paves the way to manufacture efficient and stable quantum dot-based LEDs with really low cost, which is very important if we want to see wide-spread commercial use of these LEDs in large-area, full-color flat-panel displays or as solid-state lighting sources to replace the existing incandescent and fluorescent lights," said Jiangeng Xue, the research leader and an associate professor of material science and engineering "Manufacturing costs will be significantly reduced for these solution-processed devices, compared to the conventional way of making semiconductor LED devices."
A significant part of the research carried out by Xue's team focused on improving existing organic LEDs. These semiconductors are multilayered structures made up of paper thin organic materials, such as polymer plastics, used to light up display systems in computer monitors, television screens, as well as smaller devices such as MP3 players, mobile phones, watches, and other handheld electronic devices. OLEDs are also becoming more popular with manufacturers because they use less power and generate crisper, brighter images than those produced by conventional LCDs (liquid crystal displays). Ultra-thin OLED panels are also used as replacements for traditional light bulbs and may be the next big thing in 3-D imaging.
Complementing Xue's team is another headed by Paul Holloway, distinguished professor of materials science and engineering at UF, which delved into quantum dots, or QDs. These nano-particles are tiny crystals just a few nanometers (billionths of a meter) wide, comprised of a combination of sulfur, zinc, selenium and cadmium atoms. When excited by electricity, QDs emit an array of colored light. The individual colors vary depending on the size of the dots. Tuning, or "adjusting," the colors is achieved by controlling the size of the QDs during the synthetic process.
By integrating the work of both teams, researchers created a high-performance hybrid LED, comprised of both organic and QD-based layers. Until recently, however, engineers at UF and elsewhere have been vexed by a manufacturing problem that hindered commercial development. An industrial process known as vacuum deposition is the common way to put the necessary organic molecules in place to carry electricity into the QDs. However, a different manufacturing process called spin-coating, is used to create a very thin layer of QDs. Having to use two separate processes slows down production and drives up manufacturing costs.
According to the Nature Photonics article, UF researchers overcame this obstacle with a patented device structure that allows for depositing all the particles and molecules needed onto the LED entirely with spin-coating. Such a device structure also yields significantly improved device efficiency and lifetime compared to previously reported QD-based LED devices.
Spin-coating may not be the final manufacturing solution, however.
"In terms of actual product manufacturing, there are many other high through-put, continuous "roll-to-roll" printing or coating processes that we could use to fabricate large area displays or lighting devices," Xue said. "That will remain as a future research and development topic for the university and a start-up company, NanoPhotonica, that has licensed the technology and is in the midst of a technology development program to capitalize on the manufacturing breakthrough."
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Other co-authors of this article are Lei Qian and Ying Zheng, two postdoctoral fellows who worked with the professors on this research. The UF research teams received funding from the Army Research Office, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the Florida Energy Systems Consortium.
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Manufacturing method paves way for commercially viable quantum dot-based LEDsPublic release date: 31-Aug-2011 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Jiangeng Xue jxue@msc.ufl.edu 352-846-3775 University of Florida
GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- University of Florida researchers may help resolve the public debate over America's future light source of choice: Edison's incandescent bulb or the more energy efficient compact fluorescent lamp.
It could be neither.
Instead, America's future lighting needs may be supplied by a new breed of light emitting diode, or LED, that conjures light from the invisible world of quantum dots. According to an article in the current online issue of the journal Nature Photonics, moving a QD LED from the lab to market is a step closer to reality thanks to a new manufacturing process pioneered by two research teams in UF's department of materials science and engineering.
"Our work paves the way to manufacture efficient and stable quantum dot-based LEDs with really low cost, which is very important if we want to see wide-spread commercial use of these LEDs in large-area, full-color flat-panel displays or as solid-state lighting sources to replace the existing incandescent and fluorescent lights," said Jiangeng Xue, the research leader and an associate professor of material science and engineering "Manufacturing costs will be significantly reduced for these solution-processed devices, compared to the conventional way of making semiconductor LED devices."
A significant part of the research carried out by Xue's team focused on improving existing organic LEDs. These semiconductors are multilayered structures made up of paper thin organic materials, such as polymer plastics, used to light up display systems in computer monitors, television screens, as well as smaller devices such as MP3 players, mobile phones, watches, and other handheld electronic devices. OLEDs are also becoming more popular with manufacturers because they use less power and generate crisper, brighter images than those produced by conventional LCDs (liquid crystal displays). Ultra-thin OLED panels are also used as replacements for traditional light bulbs and may be the next big thing in 3-D imaging.
Complementing Xue's team is another headed by Paul Holloway, distinguished professor of materials science and engineering at UF, which delved into quantum dots, or QDs. These nano-particles are tiny crystals just a few nanometers (billionths of a meter) wide, comprised of a combination of sulfur, zinc, selenium and cadmium atoms. When excited by electricity, QDs emit an array of colored light. The individual colors vary depending on the size of the dots. Tuning, or "adjusting," the colors is achieved by controlling the size of the QDs during the synthetic process.
By integrating the work of both teams, researchers created a high-performance hybrid LED, comprised of both organic and QD-based layers. Until recently, however, engineers at UF and elsewhere have been vexed by a manufacturing problem that hindered commercial development. An industrial process known as vacuum deposition is the common way to put the necessary organic molecules in place to carry electricity into the QDs. However, a different manufacturing process called spin-coating, is used to create a very thin layer of QDs. Having to use two separate processes slows down production and drives up manufacturing costs.
According to the Nature Photonics article, UF researchers overcame this obstacle with a patented device structure that allows for depositing all the particles and molecules needed onto the LED entirely with spin-coating. Such a device structure also yields significantly improved device efficiency and lifetime compared to previously reported QD-based LED devices.
Spin-coating may not be the final manufacturing solution, however.
"In terms of actual product manufacturing, there are many other high through-put, continuous "roll-to-roll" printing or coating processes that we could use to fabricate large area displays or lighting devices," Xue said. "That will remain as a future research and development topic for the university and a start-up company, NanoPhotonica, that has licensed the technology and is in the midst of a technology development program to capitalize on the manufacturing breakthrough."
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Other co-authors of this article are Lei Qian and Ying Zheng, two postdoctoral fellows who worked with the professors on this research. The UF research teams received funding from the Army Research Office, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the Florida Energy Systems Consortium.
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The Houston Police Department said damage to a window at Rep. Gene Green?s office appears to be criminal mischief, not gun shots.
The Houston Chronicle reported that there were shots fired near the 17-year Democratic veteran?s office, but Victor Senties, a police department spokesman, said that nobody reported shots fired and an officer on the scene thinks it could be the product of a pellet gun or BB gun. There was just one window damaged, Senties said.
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A spokesman for the Capitol Police department did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment, and a spokesperson for Green was not available. The Chronicle reported that no one was injured.
Security for members of Congress has been under the microscope since earlier this year, when Arizona Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot in a parking lot of a supermarket in Tucson, Ariz.
?USCP is aware of the incident and is currently working with other law enforcement agencies,? said Sgt. Kim Schneider of the Capitol Police.
SEATTLE - Two elements have been fairly consistent in Felix Hernandez's starts over the past couple seasons: He doesn't give up many runs and the Seattle Mariners don't score many for him.
Hernandez (13-11) got an unexpected reprieve Wednesday night as Mike Carp hit a two-run double with two outs in the eighth inning to present the Mariners ace with a 2-1 victory over the Los Angeles Angels.
The loss prevented the Angels from gaining ground on first-place Texas in the AL West. The Rangers, who earlier lost to Tampa Bay 5-1, maintained a 3?-game lead.
Hernandez, who allowed five hits, issued one walk and struck out nine, held the one-run lead with a 1-2-3 ninth for his fifth complete game of the season and the 18th of his career.
Hernandez won last year's Cy Young Award with a record-low 13 wins. He has received one run of support or fewer in 23 of his 62 starts dating to the beginning of the 2010 season, despite the seventh-lowest ERA (3.54) among AL starters.
"I was real excited about sending Felix out there in the ninth," Mariners manager Eric Wedge said. "He's had some tough losses in low-scoring games in his career and this year, too.
"It's a big deal. He's our guy, a true ace, not just a No. 1, a true ace. When he's out there he gives us a very good chance to win the ball game. Having said that, you've got to score some runs. Our guys stepped up and that means a great deal."
Hernandez dueled with Angels starter Dan Haren (13-8), who gave up five hits in his 7 2-3 innings. He walked one and struck out seven.
At one point, Haren retired 15 consecutive batters. After a one-out double by Kyle Seager in the second, he didn't allow another baserunner until Franklin Gutierrez's one-out single in the seventh.
For eight-plus innings, it was a typical Hernandez-Haren matchup. The right-handers had opposed each other three times previously. Coming in, Hernandez was 1-0 with a 0.82 ERA and 26 strikeouts in his three starts. Haren was 1-1 with a 0.83 ERA and 18 strikeouts.
"I go out there and do what I can. I haven't had the best of luck lately but it was a tough loss for the team," Haren said. "He's (Hernandez) got so many different pitches and different looks. He's young ... he's terrific."
Haren could not escape the eighth. With the Angels leading 1-0, the Mariners rallied with two outs. Gutierrez and Dustin Ackley singled, chasing Haren.
Left-hander Scott Downs entered and on a 2-1 pitch, Carp drilled his double to the base of the wall in left-center. That gave him 25 RBIs in August, tying Danny Tartabull for the most by a rookie in any month.
Carp, a left-handed hitter, is hitting .349 with five home runs and 15 RBIs against lefties this season.
"They still got to throw it over plate," Carp said. "I got a pitch I could hit. I had to do my job and get at least one run in. I got two."
Carp had a game-winning two-run homer Monday to beat the Angels 5-3.
Downs entered the game with 20 straight holds.
"He just got behind in the count and missed with a 2-1 sinker," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. "He left it up and more in the middle.
"Both of those (starters) threw terrific ball games," he added. "We didn't get much going offensively. We got one run. Against any lineup, you have to keep making pitches and Danny did for the most part. I think those guys battled, pitch by pitch. Hernandez came out on top with a heck of a pitcher's duel."
The Angels' run came in the third. Mike Trout opened with a single to center. Expecting a low-scoring game, Scioscia chose to manufacture a run. He had Jeff Mathis sacrifice Trout to second with a bunt.
Erick Aybar struck out, giving Hernandez 1,240 career strikeouts. That moved him ahead of Jamie Moyer for second place on the franchise strikeout list. Randy Johnson leads with 2,162.
Howie Kendrick followed with a two-out single through the left side. Trout scored without a throw.
Hernandez retired 16 of the last 17 batters.
"After that run, I kept putting zeros on the board to give us a chance late in the game," Hernandez said. "That's what we did."
When the Mariners took the lead, Hernandez especially wanted to close it out in the ninth. He struck out the first two batters then Mark Trumbo ended it with a flyball to the warning track in right.
"He's (Trumbo) got big-time power," he said. "I thought, 'No way, no way.' Finally, it ended."
Aybar had a bunt single in the eighth ? the team's major league-leading 34th ? to extend his hitting streak to 11 games.
Ichiro Suzuki went hitless in his four at-bats to end his 13-game hitting streak.
Notes: NASCAR driver Kurt Busch threw out the first pitch. ... Scioscia said that RHP Jerome Williams, who has had two strong starts, "definitely has pitched well enough to continue to start." He said the club will adjust the rotation over the final months to rest or move up starters. ... The Mariners will bring up two and possibly three players Thursday when rosters expand. All three are likely to be pitchers. Wedge said two more players will be promoted when the minor league seasons end. ... RHP Ervin Santana (10-9, 3.24 ERA) takes the mound in the final game of the four-game series Thursday. He has worked at least seven innings in his last eight starts, going 6-1. He is 10-5 with a 3.68 ERA in 24 career starts against Seattle. ... Seattle will start LHP Charlie Furbush, who is 2-3 with a 6.48 ERA in his six appearances since arriving in a July 30 trade with Detroit. In his first major league start on July 4, when he was with the Tigers, he lost to the Angels 5-1.
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Jacoby Ellsbury hit a tie-breaking two-run homer in the sixth inning, Josh Beckett improved to 4-0 against the Yankees and the Boston Red Sox came from behind for a 9-5 win over New York on Wednesday night.
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