Beyonce "Standing on the Sun" Single Leaks: First Listen!

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Obama says carbon limits needed for power plants

WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama says carbon pollution limits need to be set on U.S. power plants in order to curb global warming.

Obama says rules are already in place to limit pollution from arsenic, mercury, lead and other substances, but no federal limits exist on how much carbon pollution that power plants ? including many that are fired by coal ? can dump into the air.

Obama says "that's not right, it's not fair, and it needs to stop."

Obama made his remarks Tuesday in a speech at Georgetown University, where he announced measures he intends to take to limit pollution that is trapping gases in the atmosphere.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-says-carbon-limits-needed-power-plants-181724776.html

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IRS official refuses to testify before Congress

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An Internal Revenue Service official on Wednesday invoked his right not to answer questions at a congressional hearing, a day after a Republican report accused the official of inappropriately awarding federal contracts worth millions of dollars.

At a U.S. House of Representatives Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing, Gregory Roseman, an IRS official involved in awarding IRS contracts, repeated four times that he would not answer questions. He was then excused from the hearing.

"I respectfully decline to answer any questions and invoke my Fifth Amendment privilege to remain silent," Roseman said, referring the Constitution's protection against self-incrimination.

Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, a California Republican, released the report on Tuesday that detailed personal ties between Roseman and the president of a Virginia-based government contracting business Strong Castle Inc.

The report also said the company made false statements to beat rivals for the work. Strong Castle, formerly known as Signet Computers, has denied any wrongdoing.

Roseman has been reassigned within the IRS because of his role in awarding the contracts.

IRS deputy commissioner Beth Tucker told the House panel the new information revealed by the committee is "deeply troubling," and that the IRS is taking steps to end its ties to Strong Castle.

The alleged misconduct by Strong Castle and Roseman shows "shockingly inappropriate" behavior and highlights how the company was able to "successfully manipulate the system to acquire contracts," Issa said on Wednesday.

The controversy is the latest in a series suffered by the IRS in recent weeks, most notably an inspector general report that last month said the agency inappropriately gave added scrutiny to conservative Tea Party-linked groups seeking tax-exempt status.

It was the second time in two months that an IRS official refused to answer questions at a congressional hearing.

Last month, Lois Lerner, the former head of the IRS tax-exempt division at the center of the Tea Party groups controversy, angered lawmakers by reading a statement before refusing to testify.

Issa's panel will vote on Friday on whether Lerner waived her Fifth Amendment right by giving a brief opening statement.

(Reporting By Patrick Temple-West; Editing by Kim Dixon and Vicki Allen)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/irs-official-refuses-testify-congress-140619025.html

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Ed Oxenbould to star in 'Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day'

By Jeff Sneider

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Disney has cast young actor Ed Oxenbould to play the title character in "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day."

Steve Carell and Jennifer Garner star in the film, which is based on the award-winning children's book by Judith Viorst.

Miguel Arteta is directing, while The Jim Henson Company is producing with 21 Laps.

Story follows young Alexander through the mishaps of a terrible day for his family after he wishes they all would experience the same troubles he does.

Disney is hoping that October 10, 2014 will be a very good day for "Alexander" to hit theaters.

Oxenbould is repped by Industry Entertainment and Sophie Jermyn Management in Australia.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ed-oxenbould-star-alexander-terrible-horrible-no-good-201818922.html

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10 Favorite Family Recipes - Easy & {Mostly!} Healthy

1. ?Rice & Beans?- super easy, and a kid favorite




2. Quinoa & Berry Salad?- this is perfect for summer parties and potlucks, my husband and I love this salad




3. ?Muffins - I've never met a muffin I didn't love. ?They are {usually} so simple to make, easy to eat, easy to customize and my kids love them too. ?Quinana Muffins are healthy and good, and Pumpkin Cranberry Muffins are heavenly!

4. ?Leftover Soup?- easy and frugal, one of my very favorites. ?Can be served with a muffin, of course!




5. ?Granola - I love granola. I don't make it that often because when I make it I don't stop eating it until its all gone! ?I have two recipes that I like, one is just a plain version, the other is Cranberry Orange. ?Try them both and see which you prefer, I think they are both sublime.




6. ?Mexican Rice?- makes plenty for leftovers - great recipe!?

7. ?Creamy Blueberry Pie?- I've got to figure out a way to veganize and lower the sugar - it's a great pie!! ?Blueberries are one of our very favorite fruits.

8. ?Swiss Oats?- This really is a fast, easy, and healthy breakfast. ?A great make ahead breakfast for busy mornings.




9. ?Shakeology - Okay so this isn't a recipe per se, but this is my breakfast staple and it has been for over a year. ?I love it! {My husband and kids do too!}




10. ?Macaroni & Cheese - I can't remember the last time I made this recipe, but my kids really do love it! {Even we we ate meat I never added the bacon}

What is your favorite family recipe?

I have many more recipes on my Pinterest boards! Dinner, Lunch, Breakfast, Salads, and Snacks?- recently I've started making comments on some of the items I have tried.

Linking up with iHN and Many Little Blessings this week.

Source: http://www.foreverforalwaysnomatterwhat.com/2013/06/10-favorite-family-recipes-easy-mostly.html

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STOCKS NEWS MIDEAST-Qatar leadership transition seen as positive

0530 GMT - News of Qatar's leadership transition is seen as modestly positive for its stock market, signalling political stability and a continuation of current economic policies.

Late on Sunday the Qatari-owed al Jazeera television channel said the emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, 61, would meet ruling family members and decision makers on Monday "amid reports that he intends to hand over power to his crown prince, Sheikh Tamim".

The news was not unexpected; the government has prepared the public and diplomatic allies for the transition, which diplomats said could include the departure of the powerful prime minister and foreign minister, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani, 53.

"The handover is positive in the sense that it will be well managed," says Sebastien Henin, portfolio manager at The National Investor in Abu Dhabi. "For the crown prince, there is a clear path to manage the country with no competition."

It is possible that the government could announce positive economic news or more benefits for local citizens to mark the transition. In any case, significant change in Qatar's economic direction does not appear to be on the cards.

"Tamim has controlled key policies in Qatar for some time, and shares his father's views on political development in Qatar and economic diversification," Eman Ebed Alkadi of Eurasia Group consultants Alkadi wrote.

National budgets have been agreed up until 2016-2017, Alkadi wrote, and with preparations for the World Cup in 2022 in full swing, much change in domestic momentum is unlikely.

Qatar's bourse, up 10.4 percent so far this year, benefited from news early this month that MSCI was upgrading it to emerging market status. In the last week it has been hit by the uncertain global environment, but it ended Sunday well off its lows, suggesting bargain-hunting support.

In the United Arab Emirates, Dubai builder Arabtec , part-owned by Abu Dhabi state fund Aabar, has extended the subscription period for its $650 million rights share issue to July 4 from June 23.

Arabtec said it wanted to give investors outside the UAE a chance to participate; a source familiar with the matter told Reuters that the entire amount had not been taken up by shareholders at the original deadline. However, many traders expect Arabtec to succeed eventually in selling the issue, given its strong backers, so the stock may have little downside.

In Saudi Arabia, the government announced it is switching its official weekend to Fridays and Saturdays, bringing the kingdom's working week closer in line with other countries.

Although there may be little immediate economic benefit, the stock market may be boosted by the decision as it had been requested by the business community and indicates the government's willingness to reform the economy.

The global backdrop for markets is negative, however; Asian shares fell to a fresh 9-1/2-month low on Monday as investors worried about China's economic and financial stability.

Local investors may continue to sell in Egypt, where the army stepped into a deepening political crisis on Sunday, demanding that the Islamist government and its opponents settle their differences and warning that it would act to stop violence spinning out of control.

However, foreign investors have been net buyers in the last several days, according to exchange data, which suggests they believe the market may be near a bottom and are looking for a rally if protest rallies planned for June 30 pass without major violence. (Reporting by Nadia Saleem; Editing by Andrew Torchia)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/stocks-news-mideast-qatar-leadership-transition-seen-positive-055834551.html

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Oregon chemists moving forward with tool to detect hydrogen sulfide

Public release date: 24-Jun-2013
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Contact: Jim Barlow
jebarlow@uoregon.edu
541-346-3481
University of Oregon

Newly developed approach could benefit basic medical research and find H2S in the environment

EUGENE, Ore. -- (June 24, 2013) -- University of Oregon chemists have developed a selective probe that detects hydrogen sulfide (H2S) levels as low as 190 nanomolar (10 parts per billion) in biological samples. They say the technique could serve as a new tool for basic biological research and as an enhanced detection system for H2S in suspected bacterially contaminated water sources.

Hydrogen sulfide, a colorless gas, has long been known for its dangerous toxicity -- and its telltale smell of rotten eggs -- in the environment, but in the last decade the gas has been found to be produced in mammals, including humans, with seemingly important roles in molecular signaling and cardiac health. Detection methods for biological systems are emerging from many laboratories as scientists seek to understand the roles of H2S in general health and different diseases.

Reporting in the Journal of Organic Chemistry -- online in advance of regular print publication -- researchers in the UO lab of Michael D. Pluth, professor of chemistry, describe the development of a colorimetric probe that relies on nucleophilic aromatic substitution to react selectively with H2S to produce a characteristic purple product, allowing for precise H2S measurement.

"This paper describes a new way to selectively detect H2S," said Pluth, who has been pursuing detection methods for the gas under a National Institutes of Health "Pathway to Independence" grant. That early career award began while he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "This technique allows you to use instruments to quantify how much H2S has been produced in a sample, and the distinctive color change allows for naked-eye detection."

In biological samples, he said, the approach allows for a precise measurement. In the environment, he added, the technique could be used to determine if potentially harmful H2S-producing bacteria are a contaminant in water sources through the creation of testing kits to detect the gas when levels are above a defined threshold.

The key to the technique, said the paper's lead author, doctoral student Leticia A. Montoya, is the reaction process in which the probe reacts with H2S to produce a distinctly identifiable purple compound. "This method allows you look selectively at hydrogen sulfide versus any other nucleophiles or biological thiols in a system," Montoya said. "It allows you to more easily visualize where H2S is present."

The chemical reaction produced in the experiments, Pluth said, also holds the potential to be applied in a variety of materials, on surfaces and films, with appropriate modifications. The UO has applied for a provisional patent to cover the technology.

The study is the second in which Pluth's lab has reported potential detection probes for H2S. Last year, in the journal Chemical Communications, Montoya and Pluth described their development of two bright fluorescent probes that sort out H2S from among cysteine, glutathione and other reactive sulfur, nitrogen and oxygen species in living cells.

"We're really interested in making sharper tools," Pluth said. "We have the basic science worked out, and now we want to move forward to fine-tune our tools so that we can better use them to answer important scientific questions."

"University of Oregon researchers are helping to foster a more sustainable future by developing powerful new tools and entrepreneurial technologies," said Kimberly Andrews Espy, vice president for research and innovation and dean of the UO graduate school. "This important research from Dr. Pluth's lab may someday alert us to environmental contaminants and could also impact basic science and human health."

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Co-authors with Montoya and Pluth on the newly published paper were UO undergraduate students Taylor F. Pearce and Ryan J. Hansen, and Lev N. Zakharov of the UO-based Center for Advanced Materials Characterization in Oregon (CAMCOR). The NIH grant to Pluth (R00 GM092970) came from the National Institute for General Medical Sciences. The research also utilized UO-based nuclear magnetic resonance facilities that are supported by the National Science Foundation (ARRA CHE-0923589).

About the University of Oregon

The University of Oregon is among the 108 institutions chosen from 4,633 U.S. universities for top-tier designation of "Very High Research Activity" in the 2010 Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. The UO also is one of two Pacific Northwest members of the Association of American Universities.

Sources:

Michael D. Pluth
assistant professor of chemistry
541-346-7477
pluth@uoregon.edu

Leticia A. Montoya
doctoral student, chemistry
lmontoya@uoregon.edu

Links:

Pluth faculty page: http://chemistry.uoregon.edu/fac.html?pluth
Pluth lab: http://pages.uoregon.edu/pluth/
Department of Chemistry: http://chemistry.uoregon.edu
Follow UO Science on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/UniversityOfOregonScience
UO Science on Twitter: http://twitter.com/UO_Research
More UO Science/Research News: http://uoresearch.uoregon.edu

Note: The University of Oregon is equipped with an on-campus television studio with a point-of-origin Vyvx connection, which provides broadcast-quality video to networks worldwide via fiber optic network. In addition, there is video access to satellite uplink, and audio access to an ISDN codec for broadcast-quality radio interviews.

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Contact: Jim Barlow
jebarlow@uoregon.edu
541-346-3481
University of Oregon

Newly developed approach could benefit basic medical research and find H2S in the environment

EUGENE, Ore. -- (June 24, 2013) -- University of Oregon chemists have developed a selective probe that detects hydrogen sulfide (H2S) levels as low as 190 nanomolar (10 parts per billion) in biological samples. They say the technique could serve as a new tool for basic biological research and as an enhanced detection system for H2S in suspected bacterially contaminated water sources.

Hydrogen sulfide, a colorless gas, has long been known for its dangerous toxicity -- and its telltale smell of rotten eggs -- in the environment, but in the last decade the gas has been found to be produced in mammals, including humans, with seemingly important roles in molecular signaling and cardiac health. Detection methods for biological systems are emerging from many laboratories as scientists seek to understand the roles of H2S in general health and different diseases.

Reporting in the Journal of Organic Chemistry -- online in advance of regular print publication -- researchers in the UO lab of Michael D. Pluth, professor of chemistry, describe the development of a colorimetric probe that relies on nucleophilic aromatic substitution to react selectively with H2S to produce a characteristic purple product, allowing for precise H2S measurement.

"This paper describes a new way to selectively detect H2S," said Pluth, who has been pursuing detection methods for the gas under a National Institutes of Health "Pathway to Independence" grant. That early career award began while he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "This technique allows you to use instruments to quantify how much H2S has been produced in a sample, and the distinctive color change allows for naked-eye detection."

In biological samples, he said, the approach allows for a precise measurement. In the environment, he added, the technique could be used to determine if potentially harmful H2S-producing bacteria are a contaminant in water sources through the creation of testing kits to detect the gas when levels are above a defined threshold.

The key to the technique, said the paper's lead author, doctoral student Leticia A. Montoya, is the reaction process in which the probe reacts with H2S to produce a distinctly identifiable purple compound. "This method allows you look selectively at hydrogen sulfide versus any other nucleophiles or biological thiols in a system," Montoya said. "It allows you to more easily visualize where H2S is present."

The chemical reaction produced in the experiments, Pluth said, also holds the potential to be applied in a variety of materials, on surfaces and films, with appropriate modifications. The UO has applied for a provisional patent to cover the technology.

The study is the second in which Pluth's lab has reported potential detection probes for H2S. Last year, in the journal Chemical Communications, Montoya and Pluth described their development of two bright fluorescent probes that sort out H2S from among cysteine, glutathione and other reactive sulfur, nitrogen and oxygen species in living cells.

"We're really interested in making sharper tools," Pluth said. "We have the basic science worked out, and now we want to move forward to fine-tune our tools so that we can better use them to answer important scientific questions."

"University of Oregon researchers are helping to foster a more sustainable future by developing powerful new tools and entrepreneurial technologies," said Kimberly Andrews Espy, vice president for research and innovation and dean of the UO graduate school. "This important research from Dr. Pluth's lab may someday alert us to environmental contaminants and could also impact basic science and human health."

###

Co-authors with Montoya and Pluth on the newly published paper were UO undergraduate students Taylor F. Pearce and Ryan J. Hansen, and Lev N. Zakharov of the UO-based Center for Advanced Materials Characterization in Oregon (CAMCOR). The NIH grant to Pluth (R00 GM092970) came from the National Institute for General Medical Sciences. The research also utilized UO-based nuclear magnetic resonance facilities that are supported by the National Science Foundation (ARRA CHE-0923589).

About the University of Oregon

The University of Oregon is among the 108 institutions chosen from 4,633 U.S. universities for top-tier designation of "Very High Research Activity" in the 2010 Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. The UO also is one of two Pacific Northwest members of the Association of American Universities.

Sources:

Michael D. Pluth
assistant professor of chemistry
541-346-7477
pluth@uoregon.edu

Leticia A. Montoya
doctoral student, chemistry
lmontoya@uoregon.edu

Links:

Pluth faculty page: http://chemistry.uoregon.edu/fac.html?pluth
Pluth lab: http://pages.uoregon.edu/pluth/
Department of Chemistry: http://chemistry.uoregon.edu
Follow UO Science on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/UniversityOfOregonScience
UO Science on Twitter: http://twitter.com/UO_Research
More UO Science/Research News: http://uoresearch.uoregon.edu

Note: The University of Oregon is equipped with an on-campus television studio with a point-of-origin Vyvx connection, which provides broadcast-quality video to networks worldwide via fiber optic network. In addition, there is video access to satellite uplink, and audio access to an ISDN codec for broadcast-quality radio interviews.

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Source: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-06/uoo-ocm062413.php

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