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Visible Light Water Splitting Using Dye-
Sensitized Oxide Semiconductors
Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park,
Pennsylvania 16802
ical energy in the form of fuels. Hydrogen is a key solar fuel
because it can be used directly in combustion engines or fuel
cells, or combined catalytically with CO2to make carbon con-
taining fuels. Different approaches to solar water splitting
include semiconductor particles as photocatalysts and pho-
toelectrodes, molecular donor-acceptor systems linked to cat-
alysts for hydrogen and oxygen evolution, and photovoltaic
cells coupled directly or indirectly to electrocatalysts.
Despite several decades of research, solar hydrogen gen-
eration is efficient only in systems that use expensive pho-
tovoltaic cells to power water electrolysis. Direct photo-
catalytic water splitting is a challenging problem because the reaction is thermodynamically uphill. Light absorption results
in the formation of energetic charge-separated states in both molecular donor-acceptor systems and semiconductor par-
ticles. Unfortunately, energetically favorable charge recombination reactions tend to be much faster than the slow multi-
electron processes of water oxidation and reduction. Consequently, visible light water splitting has only recently been achieved
in semiconductor-based photocatalytic systems and remains an inefficient process.
This Account describes our approach to two problems in solar water splitting: the organization of molecules into assem-
blies that promote long-lived charge separation, and catalysis of the electrolysis reactions, in particular the four-electron
oxidation of water. The building blocks of our artificial photosynthetic systems are wide band gap semiconductor particles,
photosensitizer and electron relay molecules, and nanoparticle catalysts. We intercalate layered metal oxide semiconduc-
tors with metal nanoparticles. These intercalation compounds, when sensitized with [Ru(bpy)3]2+derivatives, catalyze the
photoproduction of hydrogen from sacrificial electron donors (EDTA2-) or non-sacrificial donors (I-). Through exfoliation of
layered metal oxide semiconductors, we construct multilayer electron donor-acceptor thin films or sensitized colloids in which
individual nanosheets mediate light-driven electron transfer reactions. When sensitizer molecules are "wired" to IrO2·nH2O
nanoparticles, a dye-sensitized TiO2electrode becomes the photoanode of a water-splitting photoelectrochemical cell.
Although this system is an interesting proof-of-concept, the performance of these cells is still poor (∼1% quantum yield)
and the dye photodegrades rapidly. We can understand the quantum efficiency and degradation in terms of competing kinetic
pathways for water oxidation, back electron transfer, and decomposition of the oxidized dye molecules. Laser flash pho-
tolysis experiments allow us to measure these competing rates and, in principle, to improve the performance of the cell
by changing the architecture of the electron transfer chain.
esearchers are intensively investigating photochemical
water splitting as a means of converting solar to chem-
Visible light water splitting is a long-standing prob-
lem in photochemistry.1,2Efficient photocatalytic
water-splitting systems could have practical value
for solar energy conversion, particularly if they
could be coupled to higher temperature catalytic
reactions for making liquid fuels.3In addition, the
lessons learned from the design and study of
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water-splitting catalysts would be relevant to other energy-
related problems, including fuel cell catalysis and the photo-
catalytic synthesis of higher value chemicals from carbon
In principle, direct water splitting is possible with both vis-
ible and near-infrared light, because the difference between
the potentials of the H2/H2O and H2O/O2half-cell reactions is
only 1.23 V. Bolton et al.4considered the thermodynamics of
photochemical water splitting in detail and concluded that it
is possible to store about 12% of the incident solar energy in
the form of hydrogen, allowing for reasonable losses (a total
of 1.0 eV) in the electron transfer steps and the catalytic reac-
tions of water oxidation and reduction. The catch is that their
calculations assume a quantum yield of 100%. In practice,
there have been very few reports of photocatalytic water split-
ting using visible light,5-7and the best reported quantum
yield is so far about 6% at 420 nm,8meaning that the best
solar power conversion efficiency is still below 0.5%.
In contrast to photocatalytic systems, photoelectrochemi-
cal cells based on semiconductor p-n junctions and
semiconductor-liquid junctions can be quite efficient. The dif-
ference is that charge recombination in a p-n junction is
inhibited by the electric field that separates the light-gener-
ated minority and majority carriers. Photon-to-electron quan-
tum yields approaching unity and power conversion
efficiencies up to 18% have been reported with single crys-
tal photoelectrodes.9As noted above, photocatalytic water
splitting would become similarly efficient if charge recombi-
nation reactions could be made sufficiently slow.
Photoinduced electron transfer reactions in molecular
donor-acceptor dyads and in sensitizer-semiconductor dyads
are now well understood processes. High quantum yields for
transient photochemical charge separation are very often
found, and when these systems are coupled to sacrificial elec-
tron donors or acceptors, hydrogen or oxygen can be made
in good quantum yield.10,11One must be careful not to brag
about the "efficiency" of these sacrificial systems in the con-
text of practical energy conversion, because the overall reac-
tion (e.g., persulfate to oxygen and sulfate) is usually downhill
thermodynamically. However, sacrificial donors such as EDTA
or methanol, or acceptors such as persulfate, are useful in
mechanistic studies because they remove the complication of
back electron transfer and allow one to examine a light-driven
half cell reaction (water oxidation or reduction) in isolation. For
example, the oxidation of photoexcited Ru(II) polypyridyl com-
plexes by persulfate provides a photogenerated oxidant with
a well-defined potential for studying the kinetics of oxygen
evolution by different catalysts.11The quantum yield of hydro-
gen or oxygen evolution in sacrificial half cycles is also an
effective method for rapidly screening new photosensitizers or
The high quantum yields obtained in sacrificial half cycles
imply that the essential components (photosensitizers, elec-
tron relays, and catalysts) are already in hand for overall water
splitting, at least at the proof-of-concept level. The problem is
to combine them in such a way that reverse reactions, elec-
tron transfer short-circuits and hydrogen-oxygen recombina-
tion, do not dominate kinetically. Back electron transfer in
even the simplest such systems (e.g., a sensitized oxide semi-
conductor particle, loaded with a hydrogen evolving catalyst
and linked through a sensitizer to an oxygen evolving cata-
lyst, Figure 1) is however quite complex. At each branch point
in the chain, a high quantum yield can result only if the for-
ward electron transfer rate (solid arrows) is faster than the sum
of all the reverse rates from the same point in the system. For
example, in Figure 1, the forward electron transfer from the
semiconductor to the hydrogen evolving catalyst must com-
pete effectively with back transfer to the oxidized dye, and
also with electron transfer to the catalyst for water oxidation.
In general, the reverse pathways have much greater driving
forces than the forward ones, and this makes the reverse reac-
tions fast. However, because electron transfer rates are also
strongly distance-dependent, it should be possible to arrange
the molecules in space in such a way that the forward path-
way becomes kinetically competitive or even dominant. Pho-
tosynthesis is living proof of this principle, which is the general
theme of the research described in this Account.
Assembly of Nanostructures for Light-
Induced Charge Separation
Layer-by-Layer Assembly of Multicomponent Electron
Transfer Chains. Layer-by-layer (LBL) assembly offers a sim-
ple way to control the distances between electroactive mole-
FIGURE 1. Kinetic scheme illustrating forward electron transfer
(solid lines) and possible recombination pathways (dotted lines) in
sensitized semiconductor nanosystems containing hydrogen and
oxygen evolving catalysts.
Visible Light Water Splitting Youngblood et al.
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cules, at least in the stacking direction of a multilayer film.
With this idea in mind, we developed schemes for growing
layered metal-organic solids on surfaces by sequential
adsorption of the constituent metal ions and ligands.12-14The
first of these was the metal phosphonate LBL method, in
which Zr4+or other multiply charged metal ions were alter-
nately adsorbed with diphosphonic acids.12The phosphonate
ligands could contain electroactive or photoactive groups, and
early experiments by Katz et al. explored the photochemis-
try of zirconium phosphonate films that contained porphyrin
sensitizers and viologen electron acceptors in different lay-
ers.15Two problems with the metal phosphonate method
were the need to derivatize the electroactive molecules with
phosphonic acid groups and the long adsorption times needed
to grow ordered films. In 1991, Decher and Hong discovered
the electrostatic layer-by-layer assembly method, which over-
came both problems.16However, LBL deposition of linear
polyelectrolytes results in "fuzzy" multilayers in which there is
strong mixing of successive layers.17For artificial photosyn-
thesis, one needs well stratified structures to prevent back
electron transfer reactions.
A modification of the LBL method uses two-dimensional
sheets, which are made by exfoliating layered solids, in place
of organic polyanions.18-20This results in a "lasagna" archi-
tecture that separates the electroactive components into well-
defined layers. We showed by using fluorescent resonant
energy transfer (FRET) that there was minimal layer interpen-
etration in such structures.21Several different kinds of sheets
could be used, but the most relevant to artificial photosynthe-
sis were insulating 1 nm thick sheets made from zirconium
phosphate (R-Zr(HPO4)2·H2O)22and wide band gap semicon-
ductor sheets made by exfoliation of layered metal oxide
semiconductors (LMOS).23In the assembly shown schemati-
cally in Figure 2, there are five photoactive/electroactive com-
ponents organized by the LBL method. Visible photons are
absorbed by the coumarin and fluorescein molecules, and
energy is transferred efficiently to the porphyrin sensitizer
(PdTSPP4-) in the same layer. The porphyrin triplet excited
state is quenched by forward electron transfer to the titanonio-
bate sheets, which then transfer the electron to the viologen
polymer. The overall quantum yield for this multistep cascade
is 0.6, and the lifetime of the porphyrin-viologen charge-sep-
arated state is long (0.9 ms), because back electron transfer
reaction from the viologen to the LMOS sheet is energetically
Hydrogen Evolution from Sensitization of Layered
Metal Oxide Semiconductors. While it is possible to achieve
long-lived transient charge separation by organizing redox
molecules into assemblies like that shown in Figure 2, perma-
nent charge separation requires catalysis of the water oxida-
tion and/or reduction reactions. The LMOS sheets that are the
primary electron acceptors in Figure 2 can be functionalized
with catalytic particles for hydrogen evolution. Using this idea,
we were able to demonstrate photochemical hydrogen evo-
FIGURE 2. Cascade of energy/electron transfer reactions in a multilayer LBL assembly. Polycation chains containing coumarin and
fluorescein groups are sandwiched with porphyrin sensitizer molecules between anionic sheets. Electron transfer from the porphyrin to the
viologen polymer in the top layer occurs rapidly (1-2 µs time scale) because of the intermediacy of the semiconducting titanoniobate layer,
but back electron transfer is slow (∼900 µs). A tapping mode AFM image of titanoniobate sheets on the top surface of a three-layer LBL film
is shown at the left.
Visible Light Water Splitting Youngblood et al.
1966-1973December 2009 Vol. 42, No. 12
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lution from water using iodide, a nonsacrificial donor.25The
photolysis of HI at sensitized LMOS particles is shown sche-
matically in Figure 3. The layered architecture of an LMOS,
such as K4Nb6O17, allows for selective internal platinization26
such that the hydrogen evolving Pt catalyst sites are segre-
gated by charge exclusion from the triiodide that accumu-
lates in solution.
HI photolysis is the "poor man's" water splitting, because
the standard potential for the reaction is only +0.535 V. It
allows one to take a realistic look at the competition between
forward and back electron transfer rates in a thermodynami-
cally uphill photoreaction. The segregation of catalyst sites
allowed this system to function with a nonsacrificial electron
donor in contrast to earlier photocatalytic systems that
depended on sacrificial donors. A stringent test of the com-
partmentalization of the catalyst for the hydrogen half reac-
tion was the inability of these materials to catalyze the
thermodynamically downhill reaction of H2and I3-in the
The rate of hydrogen evolution decreases, approaching
zero, as the concentration of triiodide builds up. Since no dark
reaction was observed between hydrogen and triiodide, the
cause of the rate decay was identified as charge recombina-
tion between oxidized electron donor species and the LMOS.
Transient spectroscopy showed that the rate of back electron
transfer was 3 orders of magnitude slower than the forward
electron injection. However, percolation of the injected elec-
trons to catalytic Pt sites was hindered by the low interlayer
conductivity of the LMOS. Accordingly, the rate of hydrogen
evolution was correlated to the interlayer spacing, which could
be modulated by cation exchange.
Because back electron transfer from the semiconductor to
I3-was responsible for the low quantum yield in this system,
subsequent experiments focused on insulating the semicon-
ductor from the triiodide ions, by using anionic surface mod-
ifiers to repel negatively charged I3-and I2-.28Dye-sensitized
LMOS particles treated with either [TiNbO5]nn-polyanions
(derived from exfoliated KTiNbO5) or poly(styrenesulfonate)
showed 3- to 5-fold improvement in the hydrogen evolution
rate. This dramatic improvement resulted from a 10-fold
decrease in the rate of back electron transfer from the LMOS
to triiodide. With these anionic surface modifiers, the lifetime
of charge separation in the iodide-sensitizer-LMOS triad was
in the millisecond range, and initial quantum yields of 3%
were obtained for HI photolysis. It follows that efficient cou-
pling of such a system to oxygen evolving catalysts (to replace
the iodide donor) would require electron transfer from the cat-
alyst to the oxidized sensitizer on a time scale of hundreds of
microseconds. The turnover rate for oxygen evolution should
also be sufficiently fast to keep up with the photon flux at
solar irradiance levels. We will revisit these key issues in the
context of water splitting using dye-sensitized solar cells
Photocatalytic Water Reduction with Nanosheets and
Nanoscrolls. In a dye-sensitized semiconductor photosystem
like that illustrated in Figure 1, the semiconductor particle
mediates electron transfer between the dye and a particle (typ-
ically Pt or Rh) or molecule that catalyzes hydrogen evolu-
tion. For the hydrogen evolution reaction to be efficient, the
rate of electron transfer to this catalyst should be fast rela-
tive to back electron transfer to the oxidized dye or electron
donor. The dynamics of these processes have been studied for
many years, especially with colloidal TiO2particles.29,30Oxide
nanosheets, which are obtained by exfoliation of LMOS com-
pounds, make particularly good electron transfer mediators.
We recently observed external quantum yields of 20-25%
for hydrogen evolution from EDTA2-solutions with niobate
nanoscrolls and nanosheets catalyzed by Pt and sensitized by
a phosphonated [Ru(bpy)3]2+derivative (Figure 4).31Taking
into account light scattering, the low extinction coefficient of
the dye, and the charge injection efficiency, this system has
>50% internal quantum yield for hydrogen evolution from
photoinjected electrons. This high internal quantum yield
shows that the single crystal oxide nanoscrolls and sheets are
good mediators of electron transfer between the dye mole-
cules and Pt particles. Most interestingly, we found that elec-
tron transfer from EDTA2-to Ru3+was the slowest step in the
overall reaction, implying that one could replace the sacrifi-
cial electron donor with a nonsacrificial donor if the Pt cata-
lyst could be compartmentalized to eliminate the back
reaction with H2. Domen and co-workers have shown that
FIGURE 3. Scheme for visible light evolution from aqueous I-, a
nonsacrificial electron donor. Electron transfer to the hydrogen-
evolving Pt catalyst (ket) occurs on a time scale of tens of
milliseconds. The idealized structure of the LMOS K4Nb6O17is
shown at the left.
Visible Light Water Splitting Youngblood et al.
Vol. 42, No. 12December 2009 1966-1973
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Rh-Cr2O3core-shell particles on oxynitride semiconductor
particles can catalyze the forward reaction of hydrogen evo-
lution even in the presence of molecular oxygen,32so this
appears to be a promising avenue to pursue with exfoliated
Catalysis of the Water Oxidation Reaction
The oxidation of water is arguably the most difficult problem
in artificial photosynthesis. Because it is a four-electron pro-
cess, water oxidation at moderate overpotential (100-300
mV) is slow even with the best catalysts. A related problem is
that molecules that can oxidize water tend to be unstable at
the very positive potentials needed to drive the reaction. As
noted above (see Figure 1), water oxidation catalysts must
deliver electrons to oxidized photosensitizer molecules rap-
idly, because the time scale for back electron transfer is fast,
typically microseconds to milliseconds. Despite much recent
progress in the design of molecular water oxidation
catalysts,33-39such fast turnover rates have not been
Transition metal oxides have been known for many years
to be good catalysts for water oxidation.40Harriman and co-
workers surveyed a number of such catalysts, including IrO2,
RuO2, and Co3O4, and found that IrO2was both stable and
very active in the sacrificial half-cycle of water oxidation from
persulfate (S2O82-) and photoexcited [Ru(bpy)3]2+.11Several
groups have now studied water oxidation by IrO2·nH2O nano-
particles inboth electrochemical
systems.41-44With these amorphous, hydrated nanoparticles,
O2turnover rates of ∼40 s-1per surface Ir atom were mea-
sured under photochemical conditions at pH 5.7, where the
overpotential for water oxidation by [Ru(bpy)3]3+is 370 mV.41
Murray and co-workers found electrochemical turnover rates
of 5-6 s-1per Ir atom (of which about 50% are on the sur-
face) at 250 mV overpotential with mesoporous films of 2 nm
IrO2·nH2O particles.44Considering the difference in overpo-
tentials, the electrochemical data are consistent with the pho-
tochemical measurements.
Another important finding in the photochemically driven
reaction between [Ru(bpy)3]3+and IrO2·nH2O was that the H/D
kinetic isotope effect (KIE) is 1.0.41Because most of the ensu-
ing reaction steps involve proton and electron transfer, the
lack of a KIE means that the initial electron transfer between
Ir(IV) and Ru(III) is the slow step in the overall process at low
overpotential. Outer-sphere electron transfer rates are strongly
distance-dependent, and this suggested to us a strategy of
directly coupling the sensitizer to the nanoparticles to increase
the rate. We found that the alkaline hydrolysis of IrCl62-in the
presence of dicarboxylic acids, especially succinate and mal-
onate derivatives, gave stable 1-2 nm diameter capped par-
ticles. These particles could be linked to [Ru(bpy)3]2+
derivatives through the capping ligands.45In these covalently
linked sensitizer-IrO2·nH2O dyads, the first-order electron
transfer rate from Ir(IV) to Ru(III) was 8 × 102s-1, correspond-
ing to electron transfer on the millisecond time scale. This is
comparable to the charge-separated state lifetime in some of
the LMOS-based photosystems described above (Figures 2 and
3), and so it suggested that sensitizer-capped IrO2·nH2O clus-
ters could be integrated with oxide semiconductors for over-
all water splitting.
and photochemical
Overall Water Splitting in a Dye-Sensitized
Solar Cell
The simplest system for exploring the idea of visible light
water splitting with a sensitized oxide semiconductor is a pho-
toelectrochemical cell. In an electrochemical cell, one can
avoid the possible complication of H2-O2recombination by
making H2in a physically separated cathode compartment. A
FIGURE 4. (top) Schematic representation of photoinduced electron
transfer from a phosphonated [Ru(bpy)3]2+sensitizer to Pt catalyst
particles, mediated by LMOS nanoscrolls derived from H4Nb6O17.
(center) TEM images of the scrolling of individual nanosheets (right)
and of nanoscrolls precipitated from a suspension of exfoliated
H4Nb6O17(left). (bottom) The dependence of the rate of hydrogen
evolution on Pt loading and the high quantum yield establish that
electron transfer from EDTA2-to Ru3+is the slowest step in the
overall process.
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WASHINGTON (WUSA) -- Below average sports fans know who Bryce Harper is.
They've seen the highlights: the gambling doubles, the barreling over catchers, the opposite field home runs, the running into walls. His versatile playing style is putting him in position to be handed the torch from Derek Jeter as baseball's golden child.
The reason baseball fans cherish the Home Run Derby is that it can introduce a star player's personality to country. Ten straight minutes of live camera time can reveal a side of somebody. Josh Hamilton won over the country in 2008 as did Ken Griffey Jr. at Camden Yards in 1993.
Harper may have lost the title to Oakland's Yoenis Cespedes in his first ever derby. It didn't matter. His thriving legacy of living up to any pressure situation stood firmly Monday night at Citi Field. No moment is too big for the 20-year-old. In fact, he prefers them at their biggest.
He wanted to win the competition more then everyone else in the derby combined. At the same time he was in his ultimate comfort zone. He paraded around his best friend and father, Ron, who pitched cut-fastballs to his youngest son. The younger Harper's fiery unsatisfied facial expressions after falling short of a home run were observed by millions. The superstar muttered a string of curse words, censored out by ESPN. As his intensity raged, it became apparent that Harper was literally living out a dream crafted long ago inside his head.
Baseball is game where tiny mechanical things are over analyzed while big picture things sometimes go totally untouched. The Nationals need to play the rest of the season mimicking Bryce Harper's style. Being even-keeled is a trademark of Davey Johnson, Ryan Zimmerman, Stephen Strasburg, Denard Span etc. It's the approach taken on by many baseball teams. Some seasons you have to adapt your game plan.
After the all-star break Johnson should sit down with Harper and name him a co-captain of the team. It may not seem like much on the surface, but it will give Harper permission to challenge his teammates to play as hard as he does. It will mean Davey trusts Harper to become more of a police officer, calling out tickets for guys who aren't trying to steamroll each opponent. Fingerpointing can be handled by strong teams like the Nationals. Possibly more importantly, it'll put more pressure on Harper. Like Batman, Harper's abilities seem to enhance when odds are stacked against him. Things slow down.
The Zimmermans, the Werths and the Laroches of the locker room are strong enough presences as it is. This subtle change could shake things up more than a lineup change. Maybe players will start acting like losses are a big deal, the way Harper showed his displeasure at the Derby. Maybe they'll utter some curse words. Being under .500 to start the month of August generally means your season is over. The Nats' playoff run needs to begin Friday at home against the Dodgers.


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I survived 12/21, time for some new artworks.
Evolved version of Ishtar from Legend of the Cryptids.
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How can I get the age of someone given the date of birth in a C# datetime.
I want a precise age like 40.69 years old
This will calculate the exact age. The fractional part of the age is calculated relative to the number of days between the last and the next birthday, so it will handle leap years correctly.
The fractional part is linear across the year (and doesn't take into account the different lengths of the months), which seems to make most sense if you want to express a fractional age.
This would be an approximative calculation:
BTW: see also this question on Stack Overflow: How do I calculate someone's age in C#?
An approximite would be:
The 40 years part is easy enough. But to get a truly accurate decimal point, I'm not sure how you translate the rest of the age into a decimal number. You see age is expressed in Years, Months, Days, Hours, Seconds. And the calculation isn't that easy. You have to deal with anniversary dates. Like if someone was born on January 31st, when are they 1 month old? The answer is March 1st. But in some years that is 28 days later and some years 29 days later. Here is a javascript implementation I did that tries to deal with this.
But I suppose the decimal could express the number of days since the most recent birthday anniversay divided by the number of days till the next birthday anniversary. And if you wanted to get more precise you could do it in seconds using the same principle.
But I think it is a poor representation of an age. We just don't usually represent an age like that.
And make sure your datetimes are in the same timezone for your comparisons.
You could do this:
how much error is allowed in the fractional portion? a precise age would be
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Former UCSB students with an interest in making money consider becoming Mechanical Engineers, the highest-paying gig (average earnings amount to $70K) among this alumni group. Other well-paid jobs include Marketing Managers ($68K) and Account Managers ($59K). Marketing Coordinators get the short end of the stick when it comes to salary; grads report making an average of around $36K in this job.
San Francisco, Calif. is a hub for UCSB graduates — a large number call this city home. UCSB grads also flock to San Jose, Calif., which is home to salaries significantly above average (median pay is $88K). On the other hand, UCSB alumni who end up in Los Angeles, Calif. receive the lowest median salary of $59K. Close-by Santa Barbara, Calif. and San Diego, Calif. are also desirable cities among UCSB alumni.
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Around one in seven UCSB grads wind up using Project Management at their job, which is one of the most common skills among alumni. Former Gauchos with Engineering Design abilities can expect to make 27 percent more than their former classmates (around $80K). Competency in Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, and Data Analysis also warrants excellent remuneration.
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Whats the Over/Under on him wiping out young & pretty like James Dean? Being forever worshiped as a lost teen idol?
Wiping out young? Seems plausible (fingers crossed!)
Worshiped as lost teen idol? Nope, maybe a week and then 'Justin who?'
Just this morning I was contemplating the futility of life and the loss of hope in our dark times. Then the Superficial swings in like Batman to save the day. Justin Bieber on something doctors simply refer to as the organ donor maker. There is hope… there is hope…
Yep, when I was a nurse and I was really hoping for a patient to get an organ, I would just hope for nice days. Bikers would come out by the dozen, and there was always a good kidney or liver delivered soon after.
This is actually a very encouraging development.
The kid's got Ferrari's and Ducatis, his life expectancy is pretty iffy at this point. If SOMEONE would just introduce him to heroin, we could finally be rid of him. I'm looking at you Russel Brand…
Damn you, helmet laws! *shakes fist at sky*
Thumbs up for anyone who actually heard let alone remembers the night rider theme.
Aww…He got the training wheels taken off of his big boy bike,
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Twitter's latest acquisition is Gnip, a Colorado-based start-up that has worked closely with the social network for several years.
Twitter has acquired its four-year data partner Gnip, in a move that gives the social network more control over the monetization of its content.
The Colorado-based start-up is one of the few certified partners that have full access to Twitter Firehose, an archive of public tweets since 2006, and now runs more than 500 million Tweets per day. Backed by the Firehose, Gnip analyzes Twitter data and resells the information to advertisers. The company also provides APIs that offer data from other social media channels, including Reddit, Instagram, and Tumblr.
Through this acquisition, Twitter will be able to sell access to its data directly to other businesses without the use of a middleman. It will also provide the social network with ad revenue opportunities, allowing data to be sold directly to brands around conversations that are happening on its platform.
"This is an interesting move for Twitter," says Craig Kallin, senior vice president of business development and marketing at digital agency Primacy.
"While it's been working with Gnip for years now, Twitter still has a limited strategy on how to monetize its growing user base. As Twitter, and many other social networks, look to grow their revenue streams and monetize their user base, companies like Gnip can provide the missing link between users and brands," he adds.
Under the agreement, Gnip will continue to operate under its own branding. It is unclear yet if it will continue providing data access to other social media platforms as mentioned above. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.
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"We strongly believe in Mobile Reporting and receiving highly graphical Management information via tablets" continues Wouter Born. "We also know that if a SAP BPC customer wants to establish a Mobile Reporting platform with the traditional SAP BI Tools (like BO), it will be a long, expensive and risky project. With the unique CXO-Cockpit App for SAP BPC your project is live within 1 week at low and predictable costs and at low risks as well", states Wouter Born.
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Avoca Capital Hires Abbey's Holland for North American Sales
April 26 (Bloomberg) -- Avoca Capital Holdings, a Dublin-based credit manager overseeing 6 billion euros ($7.9 billion), hired Stephen Holland from Abbey Capital Ltd. as director of sales and marketing focusing on North America.
"The changing European credit market dynamics brought about by the diminishing role of banks presents a number of opportunities which are finding interest among investors outside of Europe," Chief Operating Officer Clayton Perry said in an e-mailed statement. "Avoca has seen increasing interest and demand from institutional investors in [North America] for the significant return and diversification opportunities available through the credit markets in Europe."
Holland was most recently business development manager in charge of sales for the $4 billion Abbey Capital hedge fund in Dublin, and previously worked for Bank of Ireland Asset Management (U.S.) Ltd., spending 13 years working in North America, the company said in the statement.
Avoca hired Vaibhav Piplapure from Credit Suisse Group AG in February to head its structured and illiquid credit unit, managing allocations to Avoca's 500 million-euro credit opportunities fund.
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The Whispering Statue
Original edition cover
|Carolyn Keene
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|United States
|Nancy Drew Mystery Stories
|Juvenile literature
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Publication date
|1937, 1970
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|PZ7.K23 Nan no. 14 1970
|Preceded by
|The Mystery of the Ivory Charm
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The Whispering Statue is the fourteenth volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series. It was originally published by Grosset & Dunlap in 1937. An updated, revised, and largely different story was published under the same title in 1970.
Plot summary - 1937 edition[edit]
Nancy, Bess, and George encounter a troublesome stray terrier on their way to the opening festivities of a new park and recreation complex in River Heights. The terrier carries the handbag of one of the guest speakers into a nearby pond. Nancy retrieves the handbag, and uses the wet notes to prompt the speaker during her address. Nancy learns that the woman seeks her estranged husband. Nancy keeps the terrier temporarily, and takes it with her when she, her father, and friends go on a retreat to the seashore. On the train, the girls observe elderly Bernice Conger, and suspect a youthful companion of trying to swindle the woman.
Once there, the girls find a statue with an uncanny resemblance to Nancy, in a whispering pose. Further mysterious actions occur when Mrs. Conger acknowledges that she is being swindled, and dismisses Nancy. A seaplane accident leads Nancy to the estranged husband she has been seeking. In the climax of the story, Nancy hides behind the statue and uses her voice to make the statue appear to speak to both Mrs. Conger and the crook.
1970 revision[edit]
Nancy is asked to solve a puzzling mystery, whereupon she encounters a second case. The first mystery concerns a valuable collection of rare books. Wealthy Mrs. Horace Merriam has commissioned a supposedly reputable art dealer to sell the collection, but she now suspects that the man is a swindler who is not giving her portion of the sales money. The second mystery involves the baffling theft of a beautiful marble statue, which bears an uncanny likeness to Nancy.The statue is known to whisper.Nancy becomes an undercover employee of the dealer with an alias of Debbie Lynbrook. The mystery becomes complicated when the returned marble statue is discovered to be fake. An attempted kidnapping, a nearly disastrous sailboat collision, and an encounter with a dishonest sculptor are just a few of the exciting challenges that Nancy is faced with as she gathers evidence against a clever ring of art thieves.
The original 1937 cover art is by Russell H. Tandy, and shows Nancy crouched behind a statue, speaking to a man. Rudy Nappi illustrated the same scene for the 1962 picture cover edition, with updated clothing and hairstyles. Nappi also illustrated the cover of the 1970 edition, which is predominantly blue and white, featuring Nancy's profile behind an overlay of a statue.
Adult collectors of juvenile series often discuss artwork and plot elements in various fanzines and list serves. The original story introduces the recurring character of Nancy's dog, Togo, who begins as a bull terrier (popular in 1937) but is mentioned as a Fox Terrier or illustrated as a Scottish Terrier in other appearances. The whispering element in the original version is simply Nancy fooling individuals; in a climactic moment, Nancy and Mrs. Conger are swept out to sea inside of a floating house, a somewhat strange and criticized element. In the revision, Nancy and her friends "hide" by kneeling inside three empty picture frames, a somewhat laughable idea. The statue whispers because of special holes drilled in the original that the wind could pass through when positioned in a garden. The artwork on the 1970 cover and interior text illustrations make the statue's resemblance to Nancy undeniable: they both wear their hair in a bobbed flip. Since the statue is a likeness of a long-dead woman, it is anachronistic that the statue sports a hairstyle not popularized until 1960 or later, a point of discussion among critics.


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FDA Clears Motorized Exoskeleton
I've been in touch with the developers of Ekso Bionics, a motorized exoskeleton that helps paralyzed people learn to walk again, therefore I'm always happy to see new developments in this area. Now, an exoskeleton designed by another company, ReWalk Robotics, received FDA approval which is amazing news for paralyzed people as well. We are truly not far now from giving every paralyzed people a chance to walk again.
A motorized exoskeleton designed to help some of the 200,000 people in the U.S. with lower body paralysis has won clearance from the FDA to market the device in the U.S., according to a company and FDA statement. ReWalk Robotics' device is designed to help people with spinal cord injuries stand upright and walk.
ReWalk uses a fitted, metal brace that supports the legs and part of the upper body. Motors provide movement at the hips, knees, and ankles. There's also a tilt sensor and a backpack that contains the computer and power supply. The idea is that by getting people out of their wheelchairs, users can lead healthier lives. Some of the risk factors associated with paralysis over timeincludes hypertension, blood clots and respiratory problems.
It can be used for personal and clinical rehabilitation purposes. Science fiction (Avatar, Ironman, etc.) is getting real soon!


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TurnKey PHP-Nuke Live CD is a free and open source project based on the award winning and highly acclaimed Debian GNU/Linux operating system and built around the PHP-Nuke software. It provides users with an easy-to-use appliance for deploying dedicated PHP-Nuke servers with minimum effort.
PHP-Nuke is an open source CMS (Content Management System) and news automated system designed especially for Internet and Intranets. The appliance includes all of the upstream PHP-Nuke configurations, which are installed by default in /var/www/phpnuke.
Key features include a Postfix MTA (Mail Transfer Agent) for sending email messages to users, such as password recovery, Webmin modules for configuring MySQL, PHP, Postfix and Apache, the phpMyAdmin software for managing MySQL databases, and support for secure connections.
You will be able to download this appliance as Live CD ISO images, which can be burned onto CD discs or writte to USB flash drives, and install it on a local disk drive. In addition, virtual images in the OVF, Xen, OpenVZ, OpenNode and OpenStack formats are available for download from the project's homepage.
The appliance can be installed using the ISO images on the 64-bit and 32-bit architectures. The entire installation process takes a few minutes and requires users to only partition the disk and set up the boot loader.
While the default username for the Postfix, MySQL, SSH and Webmin components is root, the default PHP-Nuke username is admin. You will need to set up passwords for these accounts during the first boot configuration process. In addition, it is a must to enter a valid email address for the PHP-Nuke 'admin' account.
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In particularly aggressive forms of breast cancer, cancer cells can settle in other organs and form metastases there. Once such metastases form, complete recovery is rare. Consequently, it is enormously important to prevent the metastasisation of the breast cancer cells. The success, however, achieved by using existing forms of therapy is limited. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research in Bad Nauheim have now discovered that they can prevent the formation of metastases by blocking the receptor protein Plexin B1. They hope that their discovery will provide a new approach to preventing the metastasisation of aggressive forms of breast cancer, and thus improve the prognosis for patients.
Breast cancer is by far the most common form of cancer in women. Around one in ten women will suffer from the disease at some point in their lives. Around one quarter of all patients suffer from a particularly aggressive form of breast cancer, in which the tumour cells frequently metastasise in other organs. This aggressive form of breast cancer is characterised by the fact that the tumour cells produce the protein ErbB-2. If ErbB-2 is detected in the tumour cells in the tissue sample taken routinely from all breast cancer patients, they must undergo special and complicated therapy. Despite this treatment, it is not always possible to prevent the emergence of metastases.
Scientists from the research group of Stefan Offermanns, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, have now discovered precisely what it is that makes ErbB-2-producing tumours so aggressive. "It was already known from tests on the nervous system that ErbB-2 forms a complex with the receptor protein Plexin-B1 which controls the movement and migration of cells," explains Thomas Worzfeld, leader of the rese
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MADISON, Wis. -- The state Supreme Court on Friday overturned a decision that threw out a $94 million award to the families of three ironworkers killed when a crane collapsed during the construction of Milwaukee's Miller Park.
A state appeals court voted 2-1 on Sept. 30 that Mitsubishi Heavy Industries of America did not intentionally cause the three deaths, nor was its conduct certain to cause injury.
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Anonymous Hacks North Korean Sites, Reveals South Korean Users
Hacktivist collective Anonymous hacked into North Korea's official Twitter and Flickr account revealing registered users of the country's official website. The news was initially welcomed in South Korea, but opinion quickly turned after some users on the list turned out to be South Korean.
Stories about North Korea
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Why Young North Koreans Are Daring to Wear Skinny Jeans
Danbi is part of a generation of North Korean millennials who don't look to the country's leadership to provide for them in the same way their parents did.
4 January 2015
Countdown to Asian Cup 2015 Heats Up in Australia
The temperatures in Australia are soaring a week before hosting the Asian Cup 2015 starting 9 January.
20 January 2014
South Korea Accused of Rewriting History in High School Textbook
The South Korean government is blamed for favoring textbooks that support their political views and grant them excuses for their past flaws.
28 November 2013
South Korea Retaliates Against Outspoken Catholic Priest with 'Pro-North' Accusations
A Catholic priest vocal in his criticism against South Korea's president over her government's electioneering scandal has been branded a 'pro-North Korea sympathizer' and is under investigation.
11 September 2013
South Korean Film Questioning Warship Sinking Pulled from Theaters
A major cinema chain pulled a documentary film challenging the government's explanation of the Cheonan warship incident. Their move appears to have backfired.
1 May 2013
South Korea Pulls Out of Joint Industrial Complex in North Korea
The nearly decade-old, jointly run Kaesong Industrial Complex in North Korea, a place often referred as "last bastion of hope" for Korean reunification, is on the verge of a shutdown...
5 April 2013
North Korea Nuclear Threats Draw Arab Laughs
North Korea's threats to attack US military bases, including those on the American mainland, drew laughs from a number of Arab netizens.
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Nearly a week after a massive cyber attack against major websites in South Korea, the identity of the attackers remains unknown. Frustrated South Koreans have slammed authorities in their comments...
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Make sure you consume at the very least 8 ounces of lean meat daily. This can ensure that your nutrition amount is up to level. This can help you in meeting with your protein for the day. Lean beef alternatives include venison buffalo, and seafood.
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The first State of the Union address of President Obama's second term is shaping up as a conservative's nightmare come true.
In his speech to Congress on Tuesday night, Mr. Obama is certain to demand more tax revenue, part of his "balanced" approach to deficit reduction, even though he won a battle with Congress last month for a tax increase on wealthier households. He also will push for more spending to fund his job-creation proposals and education plans.
The nationally televised address will begin at 9 p.m.
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"He will focus on the proposals that are necessary to help the middle class grow and help the economy grow," White House press secretary Jay Carney said Monday. "We need more investment that helps the key industries of the 21st century take root here in the United States. We are not done, not even close."
Along with higher taxes and bigger government, Mr. Obama will renew his call for gun-control measures and immigration reform that includes a pathway to citizenship. Many Democrats expect the president to call attention again to climate change as part of his clean-energy agenda.
As for Republicans' goals of cutting spending, curbing the growth of entitlement programs and reducing the size of government? Most observers don't expect the president to give those subjects more than the briefest of lip service.
"Don't hold your breath," said Ron Haskins, a senior fellow in economic studies at the left-leaning Brookings Institution. "Why would he? He's in great political shape. I don't think he's going to do anything serious [on spending]. He has every reason to sit tight and play to his base."
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The day after delivering his agenda, Mr. Obama will begin a series of trips to sell his initiatives to the public in North Carolina, Georgia and Illinois.
The danger in failing to reach out to Republicans on deficit reduction, some analysts say, is that the Republicans have the power to block Mr. Obama's top priorities such as immigration reform. If the president takes too combative a posture with Republicans, it will "doom" much of his agenda, said Alice Rivlin, another senior fellow at Brookings who served on Mr. Obama's debt commission.
"We have a long-run problem, and if he's seen as not addressing it by much of the country and by the Republican opposition, he will doom his other agenda to bickering," she said.
Since winning re-election handily Nov. 6, Mr. Obama and his team have been giving every indication that they think they have the Republican Party on the run. They say their hand was strengthened when they won the "fiscal cliff" showdown Jan. 1, pushing through a tax-rate increase on families earning more than $450,000, and when Republican lawmakers temporarily backed away from a threat to block an increase in the nation's borrowing limit. Many Republicans view the debt ceiling as one of their few remaining options to force Mr. Obama to address spending.
As the president pursues an unabashedly liberal agenda, Democrats are simultaneously trying to exploit a rift in the Republican Party, as evidenced by a memo circulated Monday by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on gun control.
"On the eve of a major grass-roots push in favor of gun violence prevention, it's clear that Tea Party House Republicans will maintain their out-of-touch approach and obstruct sensible reforms to reduce gun violence that most Americans support — undermining their party's appeal, hurting their candidates and endangering suburban Republican seats," the memo states.