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Monday, June 24, 2013
Home Values Jump 28 Percent in Las Vegas - Marshall Stearns
Jun 24, 2013, Posted by: Summer Bowen
The other major markets where home values improved over the past year include Sacramento (26.1 percent), San?Francisco?(24.2 percent),?San Jose (21.8 percent), and Phoenix (21.3 percent). Only one of the 30 metros covered in the report had home values decreased year-over-year which was St. Louis.
Nationwide home values have risen 5.4 percent year-over-year to $159,000 in May. Home values are predicted to raise another 4.1 percent by May 2014. Zillow anticipates the pace of appreciation will slow down as more sellers list their homes and builders increase construction. This will help?alleviate?the low supply of housing inventory.
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Source: http://www.marshallstearns.com/las-vegas-real-estate/home-values-jump-28-in-las-vegas/
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Sunday, June 23, 2013
Soldiers work to move stranded in India mountains
GOVINDGHAT, India (AP) ? Soldiers worked on rocky gorges and rugged riverbanks Saturday trying to evacuate tens of thousands of people still stranded by monsoon flooding and landslides that killed nearly 600 people in northern India's Himalayas.
With bad weather and heavy rainfall predicted over the next two days, there was an added urgency to reach the approximately 22,000 people still stranded in the flood-hit Uttarakhand state, federal Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said.
Since helicopters could rescue only small groups of people at a time, army troops Saturday opened up another road route to the Hindu temple town of Kedarnath, worst affected by the floods that hit the mountainous region nearly a week ago.
Soldiers created rudimentary bridges by stringing rope across rocky riverbanks and gouged earth, enabling safe passage for civilians in areas where bridges and roads were swept away by the floods or blocked by debris and boulders.
Shinde said air force helicopters were dropping food and drinking water to those stranded in inaccessible areas.
Uttarakhand state spokesman Amit Chandola said late Saturday that more than 80,000 people have been rescued from the worst-hit districts by air and road since the rescue operations began.
At least 7,000 people were air-lifted by air force and privately-owned helicopters and transported to Uttarakhand's capital, Dehradun, on Saturday, he said.
Food, water and medicines were being supplied to the numerous relief camps that had been set up for the people rescued from the mountains until arrangements were made for the tourists to return home. Officials were also drawing up lists of local residents whose homes have been flattened to arrange compensation.
Officials say the death toll was expected to rise as troops reach remote hillside villages where flash floods washed away homes and boulders hurtled down on the fleeing villagers.
Around 10,000 army and paramilitary troops, members of India's disaster management agency and volunteers were involved in the rescue and relief efforts, Shinde said.
Uttarakhand state Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna said Friday that 556 bodies were buried deep in slush caused by the landslides. Another 40 were found floating in the Ganges River.
Thousands of homes have been washed away or damaged in the state.
People across India are collecting clothes, blankets and tarpaulins and contributing money to help those left homeless in Uttarakhand.
Army engineers were rebuilding bridges and clearing roads to enable thousands of people to leave the region.
Uttarakhand is a popular summer vacation destination for hundreds of thousands of tourists seeking to escape the torrid heat of the plains. It is also a religious pilgrimage site with four temple towns located in the Garhwal Himalayan range.
The tourists usually head down to the plains before the monsoon breaks in July. But this year, early rains caught hundreds of thousands of tourists, pilgrims and local residents unaware.
Meteorological officials said the rains in Uttarakhand were the heaviest in nearly 80 years.
Google has launched an application, Person Finder, to help trace missing people in Uttarakhand. The version is available in both Hindi and English languages, according to a Google India blog.
Meanwhile, opposition parties and angry relatives in Uttarakhand accused the government of not doing enough to rescue people stranded in the temple towns.
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi of the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party accused the government of callousness toward those affected by the flooding.
"It is very unfortunate that the government cannot coordinate the rescue efforts and provide timely help to the survivors of this calamity," Naqvi told repoters.
Earlier Saturday, Shinde admitted that there had been gaps in the government's rescue and relief efforts due to a lack of coordination between several disaster and welfare agencies in Uttarakhand.
Sri Devi, a tourist from neighboring Nepal, said she and her companions took shelter in a building in Govindghat, a small town on the road to the Sikh holy site of Hemkund, after their car was washed away. The 60-year-old woman was among a group of stranded tourists rescued from the town.
"It was raining boulders down the mountain and then a flood of water swept away everything. The road was washed away and we were stuck for four days without any food," Devi said.
Monsoon flooding is an annual occurrence in India, causing enormous loss of life and property, and hundreds of people were missing and feared washed away in this week's torrential monsoon downpours and flash floods in the tributaries of the Ganges River.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/soldiers-move-stranded-india-mountains-141123173.html
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Coroner: Police kill gunman at Mississippi church
LEXINGTON, Miss. (AP) ? A coroner says police fatally shot a Mississippi man after they were called to a church because of a dispute over the firing of a pastor.
Holmes County Coroner Dexter Howard says 26-year-old Cacedrick White died Sunday afternoon at a hospital after being shot by police in Lexington, which is about 55 miles north of Jackson.
WLBT-TV (http://bit.ly/14RM65N ) reports police were called to Asia Missionary Baptist Church to escort the pastor from the property.
Holmes County Sheriff's Office Capt. Sam Chambers tells WAPT-TV (http://bit.ly/189d6kt ) White got out of a vehicle with a gun and started walking toward officers in the church doorway. Police say he refused a command to set down the gun.
Howard says White was the son of a deacon at the church.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/coroner-police-kill-gunman-mississippi-church-220713944.html
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Plants 'seen doing quantum physics'
21 June 2013
Last updated at 05:26 ET
The idea that plants make use of quantum physics to harvest light more efficiently has received a boost.
Plants gather packets of light called photons, shuttling them deep into their cells where their energy is converted with extraordinary efficiency.
A report in Science journal adds weight to the idea that an effect called a "coherence" helps determine the most efficient path for the photons.
Experts have called the work "a nice proof" of some contentious ideas.
Prior work has shown weaker evidence that these coherences existed in relatively large samples from plants.
But the new study has been done painstakingly, aiming lasers at single molecules of the light-harvesting machinery to show how light is funnelled to the so-called reaction centres within plants where light energy is converted into chemical energy.
What has surprised even the researchers behind the research is not only that these coherences do indeed exist, but that they also seem to change character, always permitting photons to take the most efficient path into the reaction centres.
Until very recently, quantum mechanics - a frequently arcane branch of physics most often probed in laboratory settings at the coldest temperatures and lowest pressures - would not have been expected in biological settings.
The fact that plants and animals are extremely warm and soft by comparison would suggest that delicate quantum states should disappear in living things, leaving behaviour explicable by the more familiar "classical physics" that is taught in school.
But the new results join the ranks of a field that seems finally to be gaining ground: quantum biology.
'Something shocking'Niek van Hulst of the Institute of Photonic Sciences in Castelldefels, Spain, and colleagues studied the light-harvesting complexes of purple bacteria to address the question.
Continue reading the main storyThe weird world of quantum mechanics
Quantum mechanics starts with the simple idea that energy does not come in just any amount; it comes in discrete chunks, called quanta. But deeper into the theory, some truly surprising - and useful - effects crop up
- Superposition: A particle exists in a number of possible states or locations simultaneously - strictly, an electron might be in the tip of your finger and in the furthest corner of the Universe at the same time. It is only when we observe the particle that it 'chooses' one particular state
- Entanglement: Two particles can become entangled so that their properties depend on each other - no matter how far apart they get. A measurement of one seems to affect the measurement of the other instantaneously - an idea even Einstein called "spooky"
- Tunnelling: A particle can break through an energy barrier, seeming to disappear on one side of it and reappear on the other. Lots of modern electronics and imaging depends on this effect
These are literally like antennas that gather up light, and are arranged like adjacent rings.
When laser light is shone on just one isolated ring, some of it is re-released in the form of what is called fluorescence.
But what the team saw is that over time, that amount of fluorescence rose and fell - a sign that the energy was coming and going elsewhere: a coherence.
This is linked to the quantum mechanical notion of a "superposition": that a particle can effectively be in multiple places at once - or try multiple paths simultaneously.
"What you see here is this photon comes in, and it sees many energy pathways," explained Prof van Hulst.
"Where does it go? It goes to the one that's most efficient, the one where this quantum effect tells you it has the highest probability (of being put to use)," he told BBC News.
But the soft, flexible, warm conditions at room temperature mean that, as things move and jiggle - as life tends to do - that most efficient path can change. Remarkably, so did the evident path along the rings.
"Nature is very robust at keeping this up no matter what happens - this for me is something shocking," Prof van Hulst continued.
"The result is that this fluffy stuff at room temperature where everything is variable, it just works - with an efficiency of 90%: way, way better than any solar cell we can make ourselves."
'Several questions'Rienk van Grondelle of the Free University Amsterdam called the work "a very nice proof that the ideas that existed about these coherences are actually correct".
"The system is able to overcome this problem by sampling two or three of those pathways at the same time and simply use the one that is best - I think it's very, very beautiful," he told BBC News.
Other researchers are less convinced. Daniel Turner of the University of Toronto has been working on similar problems and says that the study's primary proof - the comings and goings of the fluorescence - are "not necessarily directly relevant to how photosynthesis works in natural conditions".
"There are still several questions regarding how the results of this and other? measurements of highly purified protein extracts relate to the natural sunlight conditions experienced by photosynthetic organisms," he told BBC News.
Even the notion of what is meant by "quantum effects" in relation to biology, he said, was still up for debate.
But for Prof van Grondelle, the paper is another impressive addition to this debate.
"Of course (the acceptance of quantum effects in biology) is not going to come from one single paper," he said.
"It will take more evidence, and maybe more elaborate evidence that this is really happening. But this is how science goes."
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22996054#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
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