FILE - In an 80-foot billboard at 34th Street and 7th Avenue in Manhattan, Lance Armstrong and Nike challenge New Yorkers to "Run Like Lance" in an Oct. 2, 2006 file photo. Nike said Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012 that it is severing ties with Armstrong, citing insurmountable evidence that the cyclist participated in doping and misled the company for more than a decade. (PRNewsFoto/NIKE, Inc., File)
FILE - In an 80-foot billboard at 34th Street and 7th Avenue in Manhattan, Lance Armstrong and Nike challenge New Yorkers to "Run Like Lance" in an Oct. 2, 2006 file photo. Nike said Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012 that it is severing ties with Armstrong, citing insurmountable evidence that the cyclist participated in doping and misled the company for more than a decade. (PRNewsFoto/NIKE, Inc., File)
FILE - In this Oct. 7, 2012, file photo, Lance Armstrong competes wearing Nike gear in the Rev3 Half Full triathalon in Ellicott City, Md. Nike said Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012 that it is severing ties with Armstrong, citing insurmountable evidence that the cyclist participated in doping and misled the company for more than a decade. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark, File)
NEW YORK (AP) ? Nike has severed ties with cyclist Lance Armstrong, citing insurmountable evidence that he participated in doping and misled the company about those activities for more than a decade.
The clothing and footwear company said Wednesday that it was terminating Armstrong's contract "with great sadness."
"Nike does not condone the use of illegal performance enhancing drugs in any manner," it said in a statement.
Armstrong said Wednesday, just minutes before the announcement from Nike, that he was stepping down as chairman of his Livestrong cancer-fighting charity so that the organization can steer clear of the whirlwind surrounding its founder.
A representative for Armstrong could not be immediately reached for comment.
Nike Inc., based in Beaverton, Ore., said it plans to continue its support for Livestrong. Anheuser-Busch and the sunglasses company Oakley have already pledged ongoing support for the organization.
The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency released a massive report last week detailing allegations of widespread doping by Armstrong and his teams when he won the Tour de France seven consecutive times from 1999 to 2005.
The 41-year-old Armstrong, who overcame life-threatening testicular cancer, retired from cycling a year ago. He announced in August that he would no longer fight the doping allegations that have dogged him for years.
Nike's courting of top celebrity athletes is well known, as are the inherent risks companies assume when doing so.
After Tiger Woods ran his SUV over a fire hydrant in November 2009, eventually bringing to light his infidelities, Accenture, AT&T Inc. and Gatorade cut ties with him. But EA Sports and Nike stood by the golfer.
Nike signed NFL quarterback Michael Vick to a contract during his rookie year in 2001, but ended that pact in August 2007 after he filed a plea agreement admitting his involvement in a dogfighting ring. Vick spent 21 months in prison.
Nike re-signed Vick, who plays with the Philadelphia Eagles, in July 2011. The company said at that time that it didn't condone Vick's actions, but was supportive of the positive changes he had made to better himself off the field.
Shares of Nike edged slightly higher in early trading.
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Case Western Reserve University researchers have won a $1.2 million grant to develop technology for mass-producing flexible electronic devices at a whole new level of small.
As they're devising new tools and techniques to make wires narrower than a particle of smoke, they're also creating ways to build them in flexible materials and package the electronics in waterproofing layers of durable plastics.
The team of engineers, who specialize in different fields, ultimately aims to build flexible electronics that bend with the realities of life: Health-monitoring sensors that can be worn on or under the skin and foldable electronic devices as thin as a sheet of plastic wrap. And, further down the road, implantable nerve-stimulating electrodes that enable patients to regain control from paralysis or master a prosthetic limb.
Thinking bigger, the team believes the technology could be used to crank out rolls of thin-film solar panels that stand up to decades in the elements. Current thin-film panels are plagued with short life spans due to seepage between layers.
"The commercial development of nanoelectromechanical systems is limited by access to low-cost, high output we call it 'throughput' processing tools," said Christian Zorman, an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science and lead researcher on the grant. "We're trying to address that bottleneck."
With this four-year National Science Foundation Scalable Nanomanufacturing Program grant, Zorman and his colleagues will push alternative technologies they've created to make wires and other metal structures less than 100 nanometers, which is about 1/10th the diameter of a particle of smoke.
Currently, devices that combine electronic and mechanical functions are being made this small using electron beam lithography. But electron beams are too energetic to use on flexible plastics and require very high vacuum, which significantly limits throughput, , is costly and very time-consuming all impediments to mass production.
Using ink-jet printers to build small devices has proven cheap and effective, but getting down into the nanometers has been difficult.
Philip Feng, an assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science, specializes in nanofabrication and devices. Joao Maia, an associate professor of macromolecular science and engineering, is an expert at making nanolayered polymers.
R. Mohan Sankaran, an associate chemical engineering professor, developed the technology to use microplasmas as a manufacturing tool. Zorman spent the last two decades developing techniques used to build microelectromechanical devices for harsh environments and biomedical applications.
When Feng and Zorman saw Sankaran's work "we realized this could revolutionize nanoscale manufacturing," Zorman said.
A plasma is a state of matter similar to a gas but a portion is ionized, that is particles are gaining or losing electrons and becoming charged. A spark is an example of a plasma, but it's hot and uncontrollable.
Sankaran makes a controllable microplasma by ionizing argon gas as it is pumped out of a tube a hair-width across. "The plasma is like a pencil," Sankaran said, "You can use it to draw a line or any pattern you want."
To get down to nanometers, Feng must make stencils of nano-sized wires, circuits and other desired forms. He'll use a durable silicon carbide material Zorman has developed.
"To get to 100 nanometers or less," Feng said, "we must study the laws of scaling, the materials used, and reactions that a microplasma can induce, such as the reactions on the surface of a polymer and inside the polymer, and to compare this process side-by-side with the electron beam lithography."
As they scale down, Maia will focus on sealing the electronics from moisture.
"A lot of people are working on flexible electronics, but the problem is the product's lifetime is short because moisture enters and decreases resistivity, shorts out or corrodes the electronics," Maia said. "If you have to change out your flexible device every two weeks or two months, that's not such a good thing."
Maia will make sheets of polymers that include a nanolayer embedded with metal salts, such as silver nitride or gold chloride. These are the precursors of the wires and metallic structures needed to make the electronics.
The sheet will roll through a production line and pause under stencils. A set of microplasmas above the stencils will fire.
In preliminary tests on a stationary piece of film, electrons from the microplasma travel through the stencil and into the polymer where they turn the metal salts into conductive chains of metal particles that form wires and structures, like spray paint and a stencil form letters and numbers.
The sheet can then be dipped in a solution to dissolve the unexposed metal salts, to be recycled.
More layers or combinations of layers will be added to make the sheet watertight.
If multiple devices or packaging layers are needed, the sheets can be looped back through the process.
Originally, Maia and Zorman had led two teams that planned to pursue this NSF grant, but their work fit so well, they decided to work together. Staff and faculty at the Institute of Advanced Materials at the Case School of Engineering helped link up the team.
"This is a truly a multidisciplinary proposal," Zorman said. "Advanced manufacturing has to be."
The grant comes just six weeks after Case Western Reserve, Carnegie Mellon University and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing led five-dozen organizations across Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia in winning a $30 million federal manufacturing grant. The newly formed National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute, whose members have added another $40 million in funding, is the pilot effort of an ambitious initiative to transform manufacturing across the country.
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Contact: Kevin Mayhood
kevin.mayhood@case.edu
216-368-4442
Case Western Reserve University
Case Western Reserve University researchers have won a $1.2 million grant to develop technology for mass-producing flexible electronic devices at a whole new level of small.
As they're devising new tools and techniques to make wires narrower than a particle of smoke, they're also creating ways to build them in flexible materials and package the electronics in waterproofing layers of durable plastics.
The team of engineers, who specialize in different fields, ultimately aims to build flexible electronics that bend with the realities of life: Health-monitoring sensors that can be worn on or under the skin and foldable electronic devices as thin as a sheet of plastic wrap. And, further down the road, implantable nerve-stimulating electrodes that enable patients to regain control from paralysis or master a prosthetic limb.
Thinking bigger, the team believes the technology could be used to crank out rolls of thin-film solar panels that stand up to decades in the elements. Current thin-film panels are plagued with short life spans due to seepage between layers.
"The commercial development of nanoelectromechanical systems is limited by access to low-cost, high output we call it 'throughput' processing tools," said Christian Zorman, an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science and lead researcher on the grant. "We're trying to address that bottleneck."
With this four-year National Science Foundation Scalable Nanomanufacturing Program grant, Zorman and his colleagues will push alternative technologies they've created to make wires and other metal structures less than 100 nanometers, which is about 1/10th the diameter of a particle of smoke.
Currently, devices that combine electronic and mechanical functions are being made this small using electron beam lithography. But electron beams are too energetic to use on flexible plastics and require very high vacuum, which significantly limits throughput, , is costly and very time-consuming all impediments to mass production.
Using ink-jet printers to build small devices has proven cheap and effective, but getting down into the nanometers has been difficult.
Philip Feng, an assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science, specializes in nanofabrication and devices. Joao Maia, an associate professor of macromolecular science and engineering, is an expert at making nanolayered polymers.
R. Mohan Sankaran, an associate chemical engineering professor, developed the technology to use microplasmas as a manufacturing tool. Zorman spent the last two decades developing techniques used to build microelectromechanical devices for harsh environments and biomedical applications.
When Feng and Zorman saw Sankaran's work "we realized this could revolutionize nanoscale manufacturing," Zorman said.
A plasma is a state of matter similar to a gas but a portion is ionized, that is particles are gaining or losing electrons and becoming charged. A spark is an example of a plasma, but it's hot and uncontrollable.
Sankaran makes a controllable microplasma by ionizing argon gas as it is pumped out of a tube a hair-width across. "The plasma is like a pencil," Sankaran said, "You can use it to draw a line or any pattern you want."
To get down to nanometers, Feng must make stencils of nano-sized wires, circuits and other desired forms. He'll use a durable silicon carbide material Zorman has developed.
"To get to 100 nanometers or less," Feng said, "we must study the laws of scaling, the materials used, and reactions that a microplasma can induce, such as the reactions on the surface of a polymer and inside the polymer, and to compare this process side-by-side with the electron beam lithography."
As they scale down, Maia will focus on sealing the electronics from moisture.
"A lot of people are working on flexible electronics, but the problem is the product's lifetime is short because moisture enters and decreases resistivity, shorts out or corrodes the electronics," Maia said. "If you have to change out your flexible device every two weeks or two months, that's not such a good thing."
Maia will make sheets of polymers that include a nanolayer embedded with metal salts, such as silver nitride or gold chloride. These are the precursors of the wires and metallic structures needed to make the electronics.
The sheet will roll through a production line and pause under stencils. A set of microplasmas above the stencils will fire.
In preliminary tests on a stationary piece of film, electrons from the microplasma travel through the stencil and into the polymer where they turn the metal salts into conductive chains of metal particles that form wires and structures, like spray paint and a stencil form letters and numbers.
The sheet can then be dipped in a solution to dissolve the unexposed metal salts, to be recycled.
More layers or combinations of layers will be added to make the sheet watertight.
If multiple devices or packaging layers are needed, the sheets can be looped back through the process.
Originally, Maia and Zorman had led two teams that planned to pursue this NSF grant, but their work fit so well, they decided to work together. Staff and faculty at the Institute of Advanced Materials at the Case School of Engineering helped link up the team.
"This is a truly a multidisciplinary proposal," Zorman said. "Advanced manufacturing has to be."
The grant comes just six weeks after Case Western Reserve, Carnegie Mellon University and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing led five-dozen organizations across Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia in winning a $30 million federal manufacturing grant. The newly formed National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute, whose members have added another $40 million in funding, is the pilot effort of an ambitious initiative to transform manufacturing across the country.
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Source: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-10/cwru-etm101612.php
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A Texas?woman has been arrested and charged with a felony for posting a publicly available photo of an undercover police officer to her Facebook profile.
Melissa Walthall, according to reports, retaliated against the officer for his testimony in a drug case against her friend George Pickens.
But it wasn't Walthall who set the officer's unveiling in motion. Instead, Pickens found the photo and his brother, Bobby Stedham, according to a federal affidavit, made garage sale-style signs that identified the officer, the Dallas Morning News reported.
Stedham was also charged with retaliation.
It was a photo of one of those signs that Walthall posted, leading to her felony charge.
According to the affidavit, law enforcement learned of the Facebook post when a woman tipped off the Mesquite police Sunday. The affidavit described the act as a ?viable threat to that officer?s safety.?
The felony retaliation charge, however, may be baseless. According to the Texas Penal Code, retaliation occurs when "a person commits an offense if he intentionally or knowingly harms or threatens to harm another by an unlawful act."
If the photo was publicly viewable on the Internet, it may be difficult to prove that Walthall or Stedham broke any laws beyond copyright infringement ? a civil offense ? and that may even be a stretch, Pixiq pointed out.
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Detroit Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander throws at Comerica Park in Detroit, Monday, Oct. 15, 2012, to prepare for his start against the New York Yankees in Game 3 of the American League championship series Tuesday. Detroit leads the series 2-0. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Detroit Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander throws at Comerica Park in Detroit, Monday, Oct. 15, 2012, to prepare for his start against the New York Yankees in Game 3 of the American League championship series Tuesday. Detroit leads the series 2-0. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
New York Yankees' Robinson Cano, center, complains to umpire Jeff Nelson after Nelson called Detroit Tigers' Omar Infante, left, safe at second base in the eighth inning of Game 2 of the American League championship series Sunday, Oct. 14, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
DETROIT (AP) ? There were times this year when Justin Verlander took the mound while his team was reeling a bit ? and the right-hander's presence was Detroit's best shot at snapping out of a momentary funk.
Now, the hard-throwing ace is in a different situation. Led by Verlander, the Tigers' rotation has been absolutely terrific this postseason, and his job is simply to keep this remarkable run going against the slumping New York Yankees.
"I think pitching, much like hitting, is contagious," Verlander said. "Guys go out there night in and night out and see guys have a good game, and the next day he wants to have a good game, so on and so forth. And I think that's what we are feeding on right now."
The Tigers won the first two games of the AL championship series in New York, holding the Yankees scoreless except for one brief uprising against closer-in-limbo Jose Valverde. With the exception of Valverde, no Detroit pitcher has allowed an earned run since Game 3 of the division series against Oakland.
Verlander takes the mound Tuesday night in Game 3 of the ALCS. The reigning AL MVP won both his starts against the A's, throwing a shutout in the decisive fifth game.
"As a rotation, right now things are going well," Verlander said during Monday's off-day. "It is nice to see us get rolling as a group, and hopefully we can continue it through the World Series."
Detroit's starters have posted an 0.94 ERA in the playoffs this year. The postseason record for a starting staff pitching at least seven games is 1.05, set by the 1920 Cleveland Indians, according to STATS LLC.
Verlander, Max Scherzer, Doug Fister and Anibal Sanchez are off to that type of start this year.
Detroit's pitching display has gone hand in hand with New York's horrendous slump. Derek Jeter is out for the year after breaking an ankle in Game 1 of this series, and the Yankees desperately need their other stars to start hitting. Robinson Cano, Alex Rodriguez, Curtis Granderson and Nick Swisher are a combined 12 for 107 ? for a .112 batting average ? in the playoffs.
Add catcher Russell Martin, and five regulars are below .200, hitting a combined 17 for 133 with 42 strikeouts ? 25 more strikeouts than hits. They have a combined seven RBIs, four of those by Cano.
"We can't score seven runs, eight runs in one at-bat," first baseman Mark Teixeira said. "It's momentum. When things are going bad, they can be really bad, but when things are going good, we're capable of putting up a whole bunch of runs."
The Yankees have actually had a decent amount of success against Verlander. He faced New York three times this season, and the Yankees won twice. Phil Hughes, who will start Game 3 for New York, pitched a complete game against Verlander in a win over the Tigers on June 3.
"Obviously Verlander is a great pitcher, but he is human and we know we can score off him," Hughes said. "I just have to do a better job than he does. It's going to be a challenge, but, like I said, I'm looking forward to it."
In his most recent start against the Yankees, on Aug. 6, Verlander struck out 14 in eight innings.
"You want to face familiar pitchers, even if he happens to be the best pitcher on the planet," Teixeira said.
With the starters pitching brilliantly, Detroit's big concern right now is the bullpen. Valverde allowed the Yankees to tie Game 1 with four runs in the ninth, and although the Tigers won 6-4 in the 12th, Detroit manager Jim Leyland needed to change plans a bit. He used Phil Coke to close out a 3-0 win in Game 2, and the left-hander pitched the final two innings.
Coke may be a viable option against a New York lineup with plenty of left-handed power, but it's clear the situation is still in flux.
"I am just going to play it out and see what happens, see what kind of matchup there is," Leyland said. "Find out who they have coming up, who the matchup will be, probably go from there. I am hoping that Valverde in the very near future is ready to take back over. As I said, that is pretty important that we have him."
Of course, if Detroit's rotation keeps up its record pace, the pressure on the bullpen could be minimal. Can the Yankees possibly hit this poorly for another few days? Leyland is skeptical.
"We're just hoping we can keep the Yankees from swinging the bats too good," Leyland said. "You are certainly concerned about it because they are just too good. They are too good of hitters and you know they will break out at some point. You just try to shut them down to the best of your ability and scratch out a few runs. The runs are pretty much at a premium so far."
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Cyber marketing has now become an indispensable segment of e-commerce as well as the internet and World Wide Web related topics. Cyber marketing simply refers to a technique of attracting potential customers by advertising your products or services through such means as websites, emails, and banners.
2: Article Marketing Strategy: Putting Together a "Class Schedule" For Your Article TopicsBusinesses go to so much trouble when there is one sure-fire, simple, very inexpensive way to attract new clients to a business: Teach a free class. That is what article marketing is like. Your articles are just like free classes. You teach your target readers something helpful in your article. Your resource box then says, "If you enjoyed this article you can visit my website and apply what you have learned."
3: SEO Copywriting: How To Choose Article Marketing Topics To Achieve Maximum ExposureDistributing articles online can be an effective way to build backlinks to your website -- when done correctly. This article explores how to choose the right topics for your article marketing campaign so that they will be widely accepted and distributed online.
4: Stumped For What to Write About? 15 Article Topic Ideas...Do you ever dread sitting down to write because you're just not sure what to write about? When you're doing article marketing, you need to create a steady flow of articles. Even if you feel stumped, I assure you--you have more creative writing ideas in you. You just need a little help in looking at your topic in a new way to come up with new writing ideas. Use these 15 article ideas to start your next brainstorming session.
5: Article Marketing Or Guest Blog Posting : Which Do I Favor?An analysis of Article Marketing in comparison to Guest Blog Posting as a strategy towards achieving the twin objectives of gaining backlinks and getting massive traffic
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