α (Alpha) digital SLR users can now enjoy even more control over creating beautiful, low noise images with the latest release of Image Data Converter SR v3.2 software. The latest update features new algorithms that significantly reduce image noise at high ISO settings when converting RAW data to JPEG files. Processing is most effective at ISO 800 and higher, delivering impressively natural results with minimized color noise right up to ISO 12800 (depends on DLSR model).
The new algorithm is effective when converting RAW file or cRAW files (depends on DSLR model) to JPEG files produced by all current and previous model digital SLR cameras by Sony (excluding DSLR-A100).
Image Data Converter SR Version 3.2 is part of the Image Data Suite that also includes Image Data Lightbox SR Version 2.2. Supplied free of charge with all new digital SLR cameras by Sony, the enhanced bundle now also offers support for Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
Click here to download the new update from Sony. This is a link that came from Sony Europe that ties back into a download at sony.net. Oddly, Sony’s e-support site doesn’t have it listed. I gave it a shot and was pleased to see it installed the full version hassle free, and I was quite interested in the functionality. The software seems like a good compliment to Photoshop, as it even allows the two programs to work together. What do you think? What would you add?
For a man who hasn’t joined a church in Washington since moving into the White House, President Barack Obama has packed a lot of religion into his life this week.
After attending church with his family on Easter Sunday, the president held a prayer breakfast on Tuesday at the White House and, without offering an intimate look at his own spirituality, expressed some joy at being able to celebrate his religion, Christianity.
“Today, I’m particularly blessed to welcome you, my brothers and sisters in Christ, for this Easter breakfast,” Obama said at the opening of the event, noting that the White House had held a Seder to mark the Jewish Passover and an Iftar with Muslim Americans during Ramadan.
“I can’t tell any of you anything about Easter that you don’t already know,” he said to laughter. “But what I can do is tell you what draws me to this holy day and what lesson I take from Christ’s sacrifice and what inspires me about the story of the resurrection.”
During the 2008 presidential campaign Obama had to deny recurring suggestions that he was Muslim. He also struggled to distance himself from controversial remarks by his long-time pastor, whose church Obama eventually left.
The president has not joined a church in Washington. On Tuesday he focused his remarks, which were greeted with affirmative murmurs of “yes” from those attending the breakfast, on the message of redemption.
“As I am continually learning, we are, each of us, imperfect. Each of us errs — by accident or by design. Each of us falls short of how we ought to live. And selfishness and pride are vices that afflict us all,” he said.
“So, on this day, let us commit our spirit to the pursuit of a life that is true, to act justly and to love mercy and walk humbly with the Lord. And when we falter, as we will, let redemption — through commitment and through perseverance and through faith — be our abiding hope and fervent prayer.”
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Photo credit: Reuters/Kevin Lamarque (Obama at prayer breakfast; best-selling author Joel Osteen, the pastor of Lakewood Church in Texas, with his wife, Victoria, at the prayer breakfast)
Investigators have yet to uncover the source of the explosion at West Virginia’s Upper Big Branch coal mine, which has killed 25 miners and left four still missing. But the blast takes place after the mine logged hundreds of safety violations in the past year.
Upper Big Branch is owned by Massey Energy, one of the nation’s biggest coal companies, and operated by Performance Coal, a Massey subsidiary. Massey is run by Don Blankenship, a CEO Rolling Stonepegged
as “a villain ripped straight from the comic books: a jowly,
mustache-sporting, union-busting coal baron who uses his fortune to
bend politics to his will.”
Blankenship has helmed Massey through an accumulation of safety and water pollution violations as well as disastrous toxic coal spills. One of the country’s most recent major disasters occurred at Massey’s Aracoma mine, also located in West Virginia. A group of miners were trapped in a fire and two did not survive.
Between 2003 and 2006, the New York Timesreported, Blankenship spent over $6 million in an attempt to boost Republican representation in West Virginia, a state traditionally dominated by Democratic and labor interests. In 2008, photos surfaced of Blankenship carousing in the French Riviera with a West Virginia Supreme Court justice who was trying a case against Massey. A year later, the justice voted in Blankenship’s favor.
Massey curries no favor with environmentalists. It is the industry leader in the environmentally devastating and recently restricted mountaintop removal mining method. Blankenship has also lent his mustachioed jowls to the climate denial fight from his seat on the board of the Chamber of Commerce, where he has helped direct the lobbying group in its well-coordinated and lavishly funded assault on climate science
Blankenship’s Twitter account is a pithy log of his climate denying sentiments — “skeptical” would be too gentle a word — including the tongue-in-cheek Tweet, “We must demand that more coal be burned to save the Earth from global cooling.”
He has yet to Tweet anything about the mine explosion.
A man from Washington state has been arrested for allegedly threatening to kill Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., over her support of the health care overhaul.
Documents filed in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington charge Charles Alan Wilson with one count of “threatening a federal official.”
He was arrested Tuesday morning.
For the past several months, an unidentified man had been leaving “harassing” and “vulgar” voicemails with Murray’s office, but those voicemails became increasingly threatening after Congress approved the health care bill in March.
“The caller began to make overt threats to kill and/or injure Senator Murray,” according to court documents.
Between March 22 and April 4, Wilson allegedly left at least 15 threatening and profanity-laden voicemails with Murray’s office.
“It only takes one piece of lead,” he allegedly said in one voicemail on March 22. “Kill the f***ing senator! I’ll donate the lead. … Now that you’ve passed your health-care bill, let the violence begin. … We, the people, will not subside, succumb to socialism. … You have awakened a sleeping giant.”
Wilson also allegedly referenced comments by Attorney General Eric Holder last year.
“We are not a country of cowards, as one of the high ranking people of this administration says,” Wilson allegedly said.
The next day, employing a common refrain from opposition to the health care reform bill, Wilson allegedly suggested that in addition to “killing the bill” people should “Kill the f***ing Senator!”
“Kill the bill, kill the Senator too,” he allegedly said. “I do believe that every one of you mother-f***ing socialist democratic progressive mother-f**kers need to be taken out.”
Federal authorities were able to identify Wilson by reviewing phone records, according to court documents. He later told an undercover FBI agent that he possessed and regularly carried a gun, according to court documents.
“I do pack, and I will not blink when I’m confronted,” he allegedly said in a recorded conversation with the FBI agent. “It’s not a threat, it’s a guarantee.”
As usual, Joel Kotkin nicely encapsulates the problem at hand:
Now the question is whether the president can refocus on jobs. This will take, among other things, backing off the economically ruinous climate change agenda. Even the most gullible economic development officials are beginning to realize that “green jobs” are no panacea. In fact, as evident in Spain, Germany and even Denmark, over-tough green legislation can destroy the productive capacity of the most enlightened industries. Similarly in green strongholds like California and Oregon, the mounting climate change jihad could slow and even explode the incipient recovery by imposing ever more draconian regulation on businesses that can choose to migrate to less onerous locales.
There are some hopeful signs of Obama’s repositioning. His recent moves embracing nuclear power and off-shore oil drilling, however inadequate, show that he’s at least trying to triangulate between the green purists and the unreconstructed despoilers. Some sort of moderated energy legislation–there’s no way to get the more radical House version through the Senate–would reassure businesses and the public that the president has jobs as his No. 1 priority.
Show: Alex Jones Show Host: Alex Jones Date: 4/5/2010
Transcript
Alex Jones: Ladies and gentlemen, we are live. It is Monday, the 5th day of April, 2010. Until the bottom of the hour, we have Congressman Ron Paul with us. And we appreciate him coming on. Congressman, good to have you here.
Ron Paul: Good to be with you.
Alex Jones: There is so much going on. I’ve got a lot of important questions I want to ask you. But out of the gates, what is most important on your plate that you want to warn the American people about today?
Ron Paul: Oh, there are too many things. And I don’t know which one is the worst. You know, the finances are so bad, and they’re getting much worse because of the way they’re spending money, running up the debt. I think the financial crisis is getting so much worse. Interest rates are going up. I think that’s a major, major problem we face. But Ben Bernanke believes that he’s achieved great things by printing the money, […], taking care of his friends. And the people who lost their jobs don’t have a voice. So he thinks he’s had a great victory. But the second thing is what’s going on over in the Middle East; that’s getting much worse. The Iraqi situation is worse, now they won’t remove any troops at all. And of course, we’re going to be up to a 100,000 troops in Afghanistan, and Karzai is now feeling very bold and critical of the United States. When that happens, you know, I just wonder how we’ll handle that, because at times when our good friends start to act on their own, we usually get rid of them or desert them or let them go on their own. So I think that thing is a whole mess and it’s really going to blow up in our face.
Alex Jones: Well, let’s get into the economy then first. I’ve seen the different job charts, showing that this is the worst recession since the late 1940s. And, meanwhile, I have a Business Week article from 2 weeks ago, where the federal regulators are pressuring public and private pension funds to be invested “in failed banks”. We have Geithner in the news with China talking about not buying as many dollars. We have open discussion by Moody’s and other top rating services of the U.S. losing their AAA rating. The economic situation appears to be spiraling downwards.
Ron Paul: Well, I don’t think there’s any doubt about that. But there are a lot of people with their head in the sand. And I don’t know whether they’re lying to themselves when they say, “Oh, I really believe that things have turned around.” They look at the other side of the story and they see more jobs are being found, and unemployment is staying under 10%, GDP is going up. And they either try to fool the people, or they’re fooling themselves. But ultimately, though, the market will dictate and everybody will catch on. But I think where the disconnect is the government is putting a positive spin on it, but the people that you talk to and the people who take part in the Tea Party Movement know better. That’s why they’re […]; they’re not buying into this. This is a completely different year than we’ve had in, I guess, many, many years.
Alex Jones: Well, the AP reported last week that half of these so called ‘new jobs’ are government jobs and census jobs. And we know that the unemployment number is really above 20%. So even with cooked numbers, they’re claiming that we’ve gotten a small amount of job increases.
Ron Paul: Yeah, and in this last report there were a lot of part-time jobs. They weren’t real jobs. There were part time jobs, government jobs. I don’t think there’s much good news in that report at all.
Alex Jones: Congressman Ron Paul, let’s talk about the healthcare bill; how it was passed, what it really does, the best ways you think the states can counter this. I think we shouldn’t just have lawsuits and trust the federal courts, state level nullification. Specifically on the healthcare bill, you talked about Obama being emboldened, and now he wants this carbon tax. He’s going to try to pass that in the Senate, declaring CO2 a toxic waste. Let’s talk about healthcare legislation, because we’ve seen Obama say, “Look, it’s been a few weeks since this passed, the birds are singing, the sun is shining”, but he knows that this thing doesn’t get phased in until next year and the three years after that. So that’s a very deceptive game he’s playing of perception.
Ron Paul: You know what he’ll probably do is by that time, whoever is in charge or whoever will be there, will say, “Oh, maybe we didn’t do quite enough. Maybe what we really needed to have was that single-payer system”. So failure to them is just another opportunity. And if in the next year and next six months the people only hear good news and they don’t see what it’s going to really cost, you know, he may get away with it for a year without it coming down hard on him. But ultimately, though, it’s an illusion to think that they can do what they claim and not cost any money and improve healthcare. That’s a hard sell.
Alex Jones: Well, you’re a medical doctor yourself, not just a congressman. And, of course, you’re also someone who’s researched how the economy really works. Specifically, for people that have questions about the healthcare legislation that is now law, a) what is in it that concerns you most, b) What do you think the most effective constitutional strategy is to defeat this?
Ron Paul: Well, if the people were awake enough and there were enough of us, the process would be to just change the Congress, change the president, and repeal all that stuff. That’s the smoothest way to do it. The part that bothers me the most, of course, is the process that you talked about. I mean, how they pulled it off and, you know, we passed the rule, and the rule passed the Senate version, and then they go to reconciliation. That was horrible. But I think philosophically the worst part was that they moved away any opening for a private option. You know, they talk about public option, but what about the private option? Why don’t individuals have the right to get out?
Fortunately, some people opt out of the public school system and they have private schooling and homeschooling. Why don’t we have that in medicine? And that’s the HSA approach. But they minimize those; it’s much more difficult and if you opt out and say, “I don’t want it, I’ll take care of myself, I’ll handle everything. I don’t want to be a ward of the state”, you’ll have to pay a fine. You know, pay your $9000 and that, to me, was a big, big move in the wrong direction. And instead of thinking the day after we got this passed, “Oh, let’s repeal the whole thing.” Well, that would be great if you could, but maybe if we could narrow it down. And I want to introduce legislation to just narrow it down to legalize a private option to get out and take care of yourself. And that might be less confusing than going through 2,000 pages and explaining what is good, what is bad, what we’re going to keep, can you really get rid of everything; you know, that whole thing. So I would like to see debate where we just have a change over in Congress and we wouldn’t have to fight these things over and over. I mean, they pass this stuff and the people now are becoming more informed and they get upset. So there is lot of frustration out there turning into anger.
Alex Jones: What do you see as the best strategy to defeat this, though, at the state level? I mean, can’t the states nullify this because it does force the states to pay for a large part of the federal mandate? So we have attorney generals now suing, but I don’t think that’s enough.
Ron Paul: Well, I’m all for that if people want to do it. But they’re behind the 8-ball there. It’s not going to be accomplished. It’s sort of like they take our highway funds and then they come and say, “Well, you get your highway funds from the federal government, so we’re going to set your speed limit. Everybody has to drive at 55 miles per hour”. That’s what they did for so many years. And the states say, “Oh, we’re not going to do that? We’re going to fight that. We don’t want that sort of law.” The federal government says, “Alright, we’ll just keep their highways fund”.
And that’s what they’ll do on Medicare. What are you going to do? Repeal every state participation in Medicaid? And then it’ll make the problem worse. There are unfunded mandates, and they’re going to have more unfunded mandates if they just try to ignore the law. I think the states want to do it, and I think it’s good that they’re talking about it and they passed these resolutions. That represents some good PR on how upset the people are. But I don’t think that is the solution. The ultimate solution for all this is people having a better understanding and a better trust in the way the market works and the way freedom works. You don’t need the government nanny state taking care of us from cradle to grave. If that isn’t repealed – that attitude – tinkering around the edges of legislation won’t do the trick.
Alex Jones: Congressman, you’ve talked about the fact that what’s really going to end this is the country collapsing financially. Can you speak to that? And then also as a medical doctor, my dad’s a physician, and everyone knows that federal money comes in for abortion. And then these hospitals and clinics just use money that they would have used for something else for the abortion, and use the other federal money to pay for the other programs. So it’s a shell game.
Ron Paul: Yeah, and that whole thing and the process…
Contributing in its own way to fight climate change, the government of Morocco has devised a scheme to invest $2 billion to build solar power plants. It expects to generate 2,000 megawatts of power from five solar power plants which will be built under this scheme. The construction of these plants is supposed to start by 2015 and the plants are expected to be functional by 2020. Due to a small population and modest energy needs, it is estimated that these plants will be able to supply more than 40% of the total energy required. The abundant availability of sunlight in this region has made this project feasible.
The government is utilizing all the resources in its power to build these plants as soon as possible. Other countries should take inspiration from this great effort to generate clean energy.
[cleantechnica]
A fuerza de la revolución, todo cubano que tiene la suerte de tener coche se ha convertido en mecánico y restaurador al mismo tiempo y de los más competentes que pudieras encontrar en todo el mundo. Aproximadamente la mitad del parque automotor de la isla de Cuba, es anterior a 1959, el año en que los comunistas llegaron al poder. Y 51 años después, los coches de Cuba no solamente han dado un servicio excepcional a base de la imaginación de sus dueños, quienes los mantienen como pueden. Además, han dado un gran servicio a la revolución, o al menos a los primitivos postulados de la revolución.
Studebaker, Nash Rambler, Kaiser, De Soto, Ford, Chevrolet, Dodge, Plymouth, Buick, Pontiac… y una larga lista; todas las marcas imaginables de los años 40´s y 50´s, más algunos modelos europeos de la misma época, todos son mantenidos de manera increíble, la mayoría de ellos convertidos a diésel con motores Perkins adaptados.
Por más que ciertos coleccionistas sueñen con que el embargo comercial a Cuba se levante algún día y puedan echarle mano a estos coches, la verdad es que no habría demasiado que valga la pena. Todos ellos han sido convertidos, modificados o cambiados a… lo que la necesidad demandara en el momento. Casi todos han sido repintados, hace tiempo que ya no tienen sus motores originales, ni sus instalaciones eléctricas originales. Además en la mayoría de los casos, los repuestos que se necesitaron para reparaciones fueron hechos casi artesanalmente y de una calidad no muy buena. Estos coches exteriormente son una cosa, pero por dentro son otra muy distinta.
A pesar de las dificultades que pasan los cubanos para mantener estos coches, su única propiedad, no escatiman esfuerzos para mostrar con orgullo al mundo sus obras de arte moderno. La valoración de estos vehículos es mayor al de otros países porque detrás de éstos existe toda una historia familiar enriquecida cuando menos desde hace 40 años. Parte de la historia de Cuba está puesta sobre sus viejos coches. Cuba es, en definitiva, un museo rodante.
» Remember those creepy Palm (NSDQ: PALM) ads (or are you still trying to forget)? Amid lousy sales, Palm may be considering cutting ties with their ad agency. [Digital Daily]
» Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) Cable’s Roudi explains how WiMax service fits. [Multichannel]
» Fifteen must-have features for iPhones 4.0 OS. [SAI]
» Handmark will develop and support mobile apps for Freedom Communications’ newspapers and broadcast television stations. [Release]
Nokia surprised many in the industry (myself included) when they announced that Ovi Maps would be free for anyone with a compatible handset. Three months after the official launch of the service, the Nokia E71 and the E66 have been added to the Ovi Maps “family.”
Noah and I tested OviMaps in San Francisco a few months ago (against Google Maps), and I found it to be an incredible tool. And it’s free to boot! As of now, Ovi Maps is available for the N97, N97 Mini, 5800 XpressMusic, 5800 Navigation Edition, E52, E55, E72, 5230, 6710 Navigator, 6730 Classic, X6, N86, E71 (not the E71x, unfortunately), and E66. If you’re a Nokia user, head to http://nokia.com/maps to download today!
ConEd recycled around 67,000 tonnes of waste in 2009, which amounted to 91% of its total waste. Due to this, it was rightfully awarded with the ‘WasteWise Gold Achievement’ by the EPA. This huge amount of waste mainly consisted of sand and dirt (33,000 tonnes), scrap Metals (11,500 tonnes), trash (3,400 tonnes) and construction and demolition debris (1,300 tonnes). However, along with these, equal attention was paid to the recycling of day-to-day utilities such as office papers (400 tonnes), wood (100 tonnes), carboards (150 tonnes), and electronics (50 tonnes). This massive environmental effort from ConEd not only reduced the amount of waste to be dumped as landfill by a huge amount, but also saved the company more than $19 million.
This effort from ConEd should be an inspiration for other organizations to promote recycling.
[treehugger]
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa called Tuesday for all city agencies — except for police, other public safety and revenue-generating departments — to close for two days a week starting April 12 because of the city’s continuing budget crisis.
"We have to act, and we have to act quickly," Villaraigosa said at a press conference.
The mayor said he would direct the city’s chief administrative officer to immediately begin planning to set the shutdown in motion.
Villaraigosa’s call comes one day after executives with the city’s Department of Water and Power said they would recommend not sending a promised $73.5-million contribution to the city’s beleaguered treasury because the City Council recently declined to grant a desired electricity rate increase.
That action prompted City Controller Wendy Greuel to warn that Los Angeles could run out of cash to pay employees and business vendors within four weeks.
It has been brought to my attention that some legitimate comments without copious linkage seem to have gotten caught in the spam filter. If your comment is legit and it isn’t showing up after a day (or, if you’ve already been approved for comments and it doesn’t show up immediately), email me.
The Nexus One crowd has had Android 2.1 from the get-go. The Motorola Droid just got it. Looks like the Samsung Moment could be any time now. And so we ask you the following question: What must-have feature is missing from Android 2.1?
And we’re gonna try (in vain) to cut this one off at the pass: Features like the 3D app drawer and five home screens are individual phone customizations — not features of Android 2.1. Doesn’t mean they can’t be on your wish list, though.
Major drawbacks in using silicone panels to harness solar energy are their cost and their bulky nature. However, very soon these may be problems of the past. Recently developed technology to produce thin-film solar panels can make them flexible so that they could be rolled up into sheets and laid out on a roof without being very apparent. In recent years, the cost of using solar panels has reduced as their efficiency has increased. According to Abound Solar, a company based in Colorado, thin-film solar panels can be used to generate energy at $1 per watt, which is very low when compared the effective cost of $4 per watt while using silicone solar panels.
Though thin-film solar panels aren’t as effective as silicone solar panels, which can harness about 20.3% of the total energy incident on them, efforts are going on to increase their efficiency so that using solar energy can be more convenient and affordable.
[instalbiz]
The rumor winds have been stirring for months about AT&T seeing an end to its iPhone monopoly with Apple set to launch a model that could work on Verizon’s network. Today, Verizon’s CEO would only admit that his company has expressed an interest in being able to offer the iPhone to its customers.
Appearing before the Council on Foreign Relations this morning, Verizon’s Ivan Seidenberg said his company has told Apple it wants to carry the iPhone, but wouldn’t comment on if that is in the works or if it’s still just on Verizon’s wish list.
The latest round of Verizon iPhone rumors stem from a Wall Street Journal report that Apple has not only created an iPhone that will run on the CDMA networks used by Verizon and Sprint, but that the company is ready to start mass production of these devices as early as September.
Currently, the device only works on the GSM network used by AT&T (T-Mobile also uses GSM).
It is possible that Apple could be manufacturing CDMA phones for the non-US market, thus allowing AT&T to maintain their exclusivity on the product.
About the only notables this week aren’t really on shelves, unless we say they’re virtual shelves. Borderlands and Mass Effect 2 are getting their respective add-ons…and that’s about it.
Carbon nanotubes, long touted for applications in electronics and in materials, may also be the stuff of atomic-scale black holes.
Physicists at Harvard University have found that a high-voltage nanotube (a tiny tubelike structure) can cause cold atoms to spiral inward under dramatic acceleration before disintegrating violently. The physicists’ experiments, which are the first to demonstrate something akin to a black hole at atomic scale, are described in the current issue of the journal Physical Review Letters.
“On a scale of nanometers, we create an inexorable and destructive pull similar to what black holes exert on matter at cosmic scales,” said Lene Vestergaard Hau, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics at Harvard. “As importantly for scientists, this is the first merging of cold atom and nanoscale science, and it opens the door to a new generation of cold atom experiments and nanoscale devices.”
Hau and co-authors Anne Goodsell, Trygve Ristroph, and Jene A. Golovchenko laser-cooled clouds of 1 million rubidium atoms to just a fraction of a degree above absolute zero. The physicists then launched this millimeter-long atomic cloud toward a suspended carbon nanotube, located some two centimeters away and charged to hundreds of volts.
The vast majority of the atoms passed right by the wire, but those that came within a micron of it — roughly 10 atoms in every million-atom cloud — were inescapably attracted, reaching high speeds as they spiraled toward the nanotube.
“From a start at about 5 meters per second, the cold atoms reach speeds of roughly 1,200 meters per second, or more than 2,700 miles per hour, as they circle the nanotube,” said Goodsell, a graduate student on the project and now a postdoctoral researcher in physics at Harvard. “As part of this tremendous acceleration, the temperature corresponding to the atoms’ kinetic energy increases from 0.1 degrees Kelvin to thousands of degrees Kelvin in less than a microsecond.”
At this point, the speeding atoms separate into an electron and an ion rotating in parallel around the nanowire, completing each orbit in just a few trillionths of a second. The electron eventually gets sucked into the nanotube via quantum tunneling, causing its companion ion to shoot away — repelled by the strong charge of the 300-volt nanotube — at a speed of roughly 26 kilometers per second, or 59,000 miles per hour.
The experiment was conducted with great precision, allowing the scientists unprecedented access to both cold atom and nanoscale processes.
“Cold atom and nanoscale science have each provided exciting new systems for study and applications,” said Golovchenko, Rumford Professor of Physics and Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics at Harvard. “This is the first experimental realization of a combined cold atom-nanostructure system. Our system demonstrates sensitive probing of atom, electron, and ion dynamics at the nanoscale.”
The single-walled carbon nanotube used in these researchers’ successful experiment was dubbed “Lucy,” and its contributions are acknowledged in the Physical Review Letters paper. The nanotube was grown by chemical vapor deposition across a 10-micron gap in a silicon chip that provides the nanowire with both mechanical support and electrical contact.
“From the atom’s point of view, the nanotube is infinitely long and thin, creating a singular effect on the atom,” Hau said.
Mortgage rates for 30-year fixed mortgages continued to rise this week, with the current rate borrowers were quoted on Zillow Mortgage Marketplace at 5.08%, up from 4.93% at this same time last week. The 30-year fixed mortgage rate spiked Sunday at 5.14 percent before falling to 5.05 percent Monday.
Additionally, the 15-year fixed mortgage rate on Tuesday morning was 4.37% and for 5/1 ARMs, 3.68%.
What are the rates right now? Check Zillow Mortgage Marketplace for up-to-the-minute mortgage rates for your state.
