Friday, August 31, 2012

Raleigh man going for gold in London Paralympics

A Raleigh blind man is going for gold in the Paralympics in London. Elexis ?Lex? Gillette lost his sight at the age of 8. He went to Athens Drive High School and then went to East Carolina University for college. Lex is a track and field athlete and competes in the Long Jump, Triple Jump, 100 and 200 meter sprints.

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Thursday, August 30, 2012

'Promiscuous' enzymes still prevalent in metabolism: Challenges fundamental notion of enzyme specificity and efficiency

ScienceDaily (Aug. 30, 2012) ? Open an undergraduate biochemistry textbook and you will learn that enzymes are highly efficient and specific in catalyzing chemical reactions in living organisms, and that they evolved to this state from their "sloppy" and "promiscuous" ancestors to allow cells to grow more efficiently. This fundamental paradigm is being challenged in a new study by bioengineers at the University of California, San Diego, who reported in the journal Science what a few enzymologists have suspected for years: many enzymes are still pretty sloppy and promiscuous, catalyzing multiple chemical reactions in living cells, for reasons that were previously not well understood.

In this study, the research team, led by Bernhard Palsson, Galetti Professor of Bioengineering at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, brought together decades of work on the behavior of individual enzymes to produce a genome-scale model of E. coli metabolism and report that at least 37 percent of its enzymes catalyze multiple metabolic reactions that occur in an actively growing cell.

"We've been able to stitch all of the enzymes together into one giant model, giving us a holistic view of what has been driving the evolution of enzymes and found that it isn't quite what we've thought it to be," said Palsson.

When organisms evolve, it is the genes or proteins that change. Therefore, gene and protein evolution has classically been studied one gene at a time. However in this work, Palsson and his colleagues, introduce an important paradigm shift by demonstrating that the evolution of individual proteins and enzymes is influenced by the function of all of the other enzymes in an organism, and how they all work together to support the growth rate of the cell.

Using a whole-cell model of metabolism, the research team found that the more essential an enzyme is to the growth of the cell, the more efficient it needs to be; meanwhile, enzymes that only weakly contribute to cell growth can remain 'sloppy.' The study found three major reasons why some enzymes have evolved to be so efficient, while others have not:

Enzymes that are used more extensively by the organism need to be more efficient to avoid waste. To increase efficiency, they evolve to catalyze one specific metabolic reaction. When enzymes are responsible for catalyzing reactions that are necessary for cell growth and survival, they are specific in order to avoid interference from molecules that are not needed for cell growth and survival.

Since organisms have to adapt to dynamic and noisy environments, they sometimes need to have careful control of certain enzyme activities in order to avoid wasting energy and prepare for anticipated nutrient changes. Evolving higher specificity makes these enzymes easier to control.

"Our study found that the functions of promiscuous enzymes are still used in growing cells, but the sloppiness of these enzymes is not detrimental to growth. They are much less sensitive to changes in the environment and not as necessary for efficient cell growth," said Nathan Lewis, who earned a Ph.D. in bioengineering at the Jacobs School in March and is now a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School.

This study is also a triumph in the emerging field of systems biology, which leverages the power of high-performance computing and an enormous amount of available data from the life sciences to simulate activities such as the rates of reactions that break down nutrients to make energy and new cell parts. "This study sheds light on the vast number of promiscuous enzymes in living organisms and shifts the paradigm of research in biochemistry to a holistic level," said Lewis. "The insights found in our work also clearly show that fine-grained knowledge can be obtained about individual proteins while using large-scale models." This concept will yield immediate and more distant results.

"Our team's findings could also inform other research efforts into which enzymes require further study for overlooked promiscuous activities," said Hojung Nam, a postdoctoral researcher in Palsson's lab. "Besides testing and characterizing more enzymes for potential promiscuous activities, enzyme promiscuity could have far-reaching impacts as scientists try to understand how unexpected promiscuous activities of enzymes contribute to diseases such as leukemia and brain tumors," said Nam.

Funding was provided by the U.S. Department of Energy and National Institutes of Health (DE-SC0004917, DE-FG02-09ER25917, and 2R01GM057089-13) and a fellowship from the National Science Foundation (NSF GK-12 742551).

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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Republicans ready to roll, but Isaac clouds tone

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) ? For the thousands of Republican convention-goers who've been cooling their heels in Tampa, the party is finally on. But with New Orleans and much of the Gulf Coast waiting fearfully to see where a massive storm makes landfall, politics has become an awkward enterprise and no one knows what sort of party it will turn out to be.

At least for now, the Republican National Convention will go on Tuesday according to its latest script: delivering Mitt Romney the presidential nomination he fought years to achieve, calling the party to unify around him and setting the stage for the final stretch of the hotly contested campaign to unseat President Barack Obama.

Romney was coming to Tampa on Tuesday, in time to see his wife's speech in the evening, although it was kept a mystery whether he would attend the convention before his big address Thursday night.

The high campaign season opens with Romney and Obama about even in the last of the pre-convention polls, with each candidate possessing distinct and important advantages. The Democrat is the more likable or empathetic leader; the Republican is more highly regarded as the candidate who can restore the economy, the top issue for voters.

Ann Romney's convention speech was designed to speak to that divide. It was an important part of the GOP's effort to flesh out her husband and present him to the nation as more than a successful businessman and the former Republican governor of a Democratic state, Massachusetts.

Isaac, the intensifying tropical storm bordering on a hurricane, skirted Tampa, a big relief for convention organizers worried about the safety of the host city and GOP delegates. But they remain saddled with the question of how to proceed with a political festival ? one devoted both to scoring points against Obama and firing up excitement for Romney ? under the shadow of a dangerous storm crawling toward the Gulf Coast.

Organizers essentially cut Monday from the schedule, calling the convention to order just long enough to recess it, and shoehorned their four-day showcase into the remaining three days. But even that was subject to change, depending on Isaac's whims.

Republicans plainly had more at stake in their convention week ? Democrats meet next week in Charlotte, N.C. ? but the Obama campaign also had to recalibrate its tactics as Gulf residents fled their homes or hunkered down. Vice President Joe Biden was called off a Romney-bashing trip to Florida and Obama's planned campaign travels were uncertain. On Monday, he worked on preparations for the storm, declaring a state of emergency in Louisiana, speaking with governors and directing federal officials to coordinate disaster relief with state and local officials along the Gulf Coast.

That's not to say partisanship has subsided with Isaac's gathering strength. Hardly.

On Twitter Monday night, Obama circulated a quotation from Women's Health Magazine suggesting that Republicans would take away women's right to contraception, which the Romney campaign denies. "Crazy as it sounds, the fight to limit or even ban birth control is a key issue in the upcoming presidential election," it said.

And Republicans made clear that Obama's performance is very much fair game for the convention. Reince Priebus, the Republican chairman, may have gone beyond Romney's comfort zone on that front when he told "CBS This Morning" that "we need to prosecute the president who seems to be in love with the sound of his own voice."

The suggestion of criminal proceedings against a president, however rhetorical, was a step beyond the ordinary, and Russ Schriefer, Romney's chief convention planner, appeared to dissociate himself from the remark. "I wouldn't define it that way and I wouldn't look at it that way," he told a news conference. "What we would want to do is define what President Obama has done over the last four years, how and why he's failed, and how his leadership has really failed the American people."

In a sign of just how stage-managed these conventions have become, the never-dull New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie did something he rarely does before a speech ? wrote down a full text ? as he prepared to deliver the keynote address Tuesday night. "They want you to work off a full text and that's fine," he told MSNBC. "I think my challenge up there is gonna be to be natural and be myself."

In the same interview, Christie pounced on Todd Akin, the Senate Republican candidate in Missouri who set off sparks with his inflammatory remark that a woman's body has a way of preventing pregnancy in cases of "legitimate rape." Romney is still trying to tamp down that distraction and get people thinking about the economy, not Republican abortion policy.

"In the end, these other guys don't matter," Christie said. "They're background noise ? Todd Akin in Missouri, who's a joke and should get out of the race and everybody knows it, except for him apparently."

Romney managed to stir up the pot over abortion, if briefly, when he said in a CBS interview that he opposes abortions except "in the case of rape and incest, and the health and life of the mother." Any exceptions made solely on the basis of a woman's health have drawn particularly fierce criticism from abortion foes for years, because they argue such an exception is so broad as to do nothing to limit the procedure.

But Romney's aides quickly said he wasn't, in fact, advocating an exemption for a woman's health. "He opposes abortion except for cases of rape, incest and where the life of the mother is threatened," said Andrea Saul, a spokeswoman. Still, his comment underscored his difference of opinion on the subject with his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, as well as with his own convention platform, which opposes all abortions.

With the economy seen as Romney's strong suit, and Obama's economic record considered a fat target in a time of persistent unemployment over 8 percent, Republicans, both from the stage and the floor, want to keep a laser focus on the subject.

"We've got to make the case that he is uniquely qualified in this hour," said Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., interviewed in the hall. "This week is about convincing the 10 percent of undecided voters that Romney has always been called to come out and fix broken organizations."

Even so, there were unmistakable if gentle nudges from Republicans who say it is also vital for Romney to broaden his appeal.

"This is Romney's threshold moment," Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, wrote in The Washington Post. "He must demonstrate that he would follow the example of other Republican presidents in addressing issues important to women."

An AP-GfK poll of registered voters conducted from Aug. 16-20 found Obama leading Romney 50 percent to 44 percent among women. That represented a narrowing of the gap by Romney since a survey in May, when the president led 54-39 among female voters.

Romney trailed badly among another key group. A Gallup poll taken between July 30 and Aug. 1 found Obama winning 60 percent support among Hispanic voters, and the Republican at 27 percent, little different from 64-29 earlier in the year.

Among seniors, the group most affected by a Medicare debate that has become central to the campaign, Romney led Obama by a margin of 52 percent to 42 percent in the recent AP-GfK poll. That was compared with 53-40 in May.

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Woodward reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Brian Bakst, Thomas Beaumont, Tamara Lush, Brendan Farrington and Julie Mazziotta in Florida; Steve Peoples in New Hampshire; Philip Elliott in Wisconsin and Steven Ohlemacher, Alicia A. Caldwell and Jennifer Agiesta in Washington contributed to this report.

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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

nourishing obscurity ? The war in the sailing world

In posts passim, this blog has decried the way the America?s Cup has gone and not just for the obvious reason.

The obvious reason is that tradition has been thrown out of the window and these boats are no longer ?yachts? in the sense that the public perceives them to be.?? I wrote that, though a multihull man myself, multis have no place in this comp, the highest pinnacle in yachting.

If it weren?t the highest pinnacle, then moguls wouldn?t spend the ridiculous sums they do.?? But there?s another criticism now:

Larry Ellison?s Insane Plan to Turn America?s Cup Into a TV Spectacle

Look, nobody loves sailing more than I do but unless you?re an afficianado, then watching a yacht race is a little like watching paint dry ? at least in fleet racing. Match racing can be more exciting. And sure I?m watching the trials [see pic above] but I?m biased.

The America?s Cup World Series is the circus Ellison has brought to town, and he himself is the ringmaster. It is a warm-up to the America?s Cup match, the one-on-one winner-take-all main event. Ellison won the Cup in 2010, and as long as he holds the trophy, he controls the event and its future.

The World Series is Ellison?s particular stamp, designed to build excitement and anticipation for the finale. Here in Venice, the racecourse winds along the city?s waterfront before crossing a checkered flag near the mouth of the Grand Canal. The Musashi has a front-row seat.

The reality at this point is that his America?s Cup has turned into something of an albatross. Every sailor knows the old saw about the true definition of a boat: a hole in the water into which one throws money.

The only difference here is that Ellison has dug himself a billionaire-size hole. The World Series?indeed Ellison?s whole reimagining of the America?s Cup?is a Sea of Dreams: If you build it, they will come. The budget is confidential, but I?m told by Stephen Barclay, CEO of the America?s Cup Event Authority, that it?s ?well in excess of $100 million.?

Yet so far, few from outside yachting are coming. And inside the yachting world, all anyone can talk about is the financial straits that Ellison?s project is so obviously in. The evidence is everywhere: mass layoffs, radically foreshortened race schedules, and a slew of cancealed plans.

Actually, I?m a bit sad about that because I?ve been enjoying the racing [as a multihull man] but there?s just been too much of it.?? In Fremantle in 1987/8, all sorts of things were expected.?? The real estate market thought the ?home of the America?s Cup? was a good excuse to double house prices or thereabouts, they were charging $AU85 a pop to go out on the water in a launch which stayed to one side of the course and so on.

The reality was that no one would pay those prices, plus Australia lost the Cup back to America and near the end, they were taking people out to see the racing for a song.?? Don?t get me wrong ? there were many people in Fremantle from all round the world ? I met a Canadian mate that way ? and the atmosphere was friendly and vibrant, as a Cup city should be.? The parties were crazy.

In the current series, people are going down to the waterside to look through binoculars but they?re not spending and that?s the thing.?? It may be that the economic climate is to blame or the way the PTB have made flying so unpleasant these days.?? I suspect that people will watch some of it on TV and even go down to the beach if it?s their city the circus is visiting ? those boats look pretty awesome.?? They won?t do Pay-to-View.?? They?ll take the kids down to look but no more than that.

The Olympics were a classic case of actually very good TV coverage, with helicopters, camera angles, graphics and so on and it was watchable for the general public for some time.? In fact, the TV angle was mentioned in the article:

Ellison?s best hope for saving his listing ship now lies in the magic of television. If the World Series can draw a large audience, then the sponsorship money and advertising revenue should be enough to salvage the operation. Sailing doesn?t have to be the next Nascar to make the World Series a success. It merely has to generate the level of domestic interest that, say, the Tour de France has now. Bicycle racing didn?t resonate with American sports fans until relatively recently, but today it is a profitable sports niche. Why couldn?t sailing follow a similar trajectory?

What I object to is that they?ve not only ditched the tradition but they?ve cut right across the territory of the multihull community.?? There was for years a race called the Little America?s Cup and it was, as the name suggests, the pinnacle.

Sadly, the Sea Cliff Yacht Club (SCYC) of New York, which held the deeds, betrayed the multihull community by insisting it would now be raced for in little production boats and in fleet racing, which killed it as a spectacle for most.? That is taking F1 and racing for it in stock cars.

Plus one other thing happened ? the advent of the new ORMAs:

? and round the world maxi-cats. So the C Class, once the fastest things on water, were now no longer so. As an experimental development class, that might always have happened but it?s still sad to see.

The greatest disappointment though is not for the likes of me who have always gone for the speed side of sailing but for the yachties, the yachting community for whom the America?s Cup was the last bastion against the ?plastic fantastics?.?? They?ve basically had their event taken away from them.

Source: http://nourishingobscurity.com/2012/08/28/the-war-in-the-sailing-world/

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Oil companies, refiners brace for Louisiana-bound Isaac

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Energy companies evacuated offshore oil rigs and shut down U.S. Gulf Coast refineries on Monday as Tropical Storm Isaac threatened to reach hurricane strength and batter the country's oil refining belt this week.

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) projected that Isaac, currently a tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico, could strengthen markedly before making landfall in Louisiana by Wednesday, seven years after Katrina ravaged the Louisiana coast when it swept ashore as a Category 3 storm.

Late Monday, the NHC revised its forecast for Isaac, warning that it could reach Category 2 strength -- marked by winds between 96 and 110 miles per hour on the Saffir scale -- before making landfall.

Earlier Monday, it had projected a lighter Category 1 landfall.

"Reconnaissance aircraft indicates Isaac getting stronger," the NHC said in an advisory at 4:56 p.m. EDT (2056 GMT), calling the storm surge threat "significant" for the Northern Gulf Coast.

As a precaution, as of Monday afternoon the energy industry had shut down 78 percent of Gulf of Mexico crude production and 48 percent of its natural gas production, government figures showed.

Houston-based Bristow Group, which runs a fleet of 90 helicopters in North America, has been running a military-style evacuation operation ferrying workers from oil platforms hundreds of miles offshore in the Gulf of Mexico back to heliports in New Iberia, Louisiana.

"We have been very busy in the past three or four days," said Jonathan Bailiff, senior vice president and chief financial officer. "It's not hectic, but there is a real sense of urgency."

Shut-ins are expected to increase over the next few days. The region accounts for nearly a fourth of U.S. oil output and 7 percent of its natgas output.

Oil and gas traders on Monday focused on Isaac's potential to tighten fuel supplies by idling refinery operations in the Gulf Coast, home to around 7.8 million barrels per day (bpd) of capacity, or 45 percent of the U.S. total.

U.S. gasoline futures rose by 2.5 percent on fears the storm could affect low-lying Louisiana refineries. Crude futures fell 0.7 percent to settle at $95.47 per barrel, on concerns oil consumption could drop as refineries are idled.

Isaac, currently around 255 miles southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River, is packing 65 mile-per-hour (100 kilometer-per-hour) winds and is expected to strengthen before reaching land, when it could cause storm surges of six to 12 feet in parts of Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi, the NHC warned.

"Isaac looks like a smaller storm event than Katrina was, but energy companies are following their emergency drill, which means we will lose some production and some refineries will be shut," said Citi energy analyst Tim Evans.

"They have learned their lesson from past storms."

Refineries in Louisiana usually process more than 3 million bpd. On Monday, companies including Marathon Petroleum, Valero, Exxon Mobil, and Phillips66 had closed -- or were in the process of reducing rates at -- around half of the state's refining apparatus.

The Louisiana Offshore Oil Port (LOOP), a major conduit for U.S. oil imports, suspended tanker unloading to brace for the storm.

The U.S. Coast Guard said it closed the port of New Orleans temporarily.

In Mississippi, Chevron Corp. said it continued to operate its 330,000 bpd plant at Pascagoula. Chevron, like many other U.S. producers, said it had shut in some offshore oil and gas output.

Energy firms, including top offshore producer BP PLC, have already idled more than a dozen major offshore oil and gas platforms since last week.

FIRST OF SEASON

The Gulf of Mexico is also the site of a vast pipeline network and 30 percent of U.S. natural gas storage.

If Isaac continues on the trajectory forecast by the NHC, it would be the first hurricane of 2012 to make landfall.

In 2005, Katrina took out around 4.5 million bpd of refining capacity, some of which was idled for months, driving up fuel costs.

Gasoline inventories in the Gulf Coast remain at seasonally high levels. For the week to August 17, they stood at 70.2 million barrels, or 1.1 million barrels above their five-year average level for the week, according to Department of Energy figures.

Since 2005, billions have been spent on new levees and pumping stations to lessen the potential blow from tidal surges like those that destroyed part of New Orleans seven years ago during Katrina.

"It's too early to know, but if all goes well this storm will only be a test of the emergency drill," said Citi's Evans. "In that case, energy infrastructure could be back up and running soon."

Marathon Petroleum said on Monday it was initiating the shutdown of its 490,000 bpd refinery in Garyville, Louisiana.

Phillips66 said it was in the process of shutting its 247,000 bpd Alliance refinery in Belle Chase, Louisiana, and that the plant would be offline by late Monday.

(Additional reporting by Jeanine Prezioso, Janet McGurty, Selam Gebrekidan, Eileen Houlihan, Robert Gibbons, Edward McAllister and Joshua Schneyer in New York. Editing by Sofina Mirza-Reid, Gary Crosse, Andrew Hay, David Gregorio and Joseph Radford)

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Lambda Legal is holding a virtual town hall at 1 pm ET at Drake University. The event, which features Sharon Malheiro, Founder and Board Chair, One Iowa, Jim Bennett, Midwest Regional Director, Lambda Legal, Donna Red Wing, Executive Director, One Iowa, and special guest Zach Wahls, is streaming live online.

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In 2009, the Iowa Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in Lambda Legal?s lawsuit Varnum v. Brien striking down Iowa?s marriage ban and extending the freedom to marry to gay and lesbian couples. Since then, gay and lesbian couples in Iowa have been able to legally wed.

In response, well-funded antigay groups launched an outright attack on Iowa?s courts and the freedom to marry, resulting in the ousting of three well-respected Iowa Supreme Court justices during a retention election. This mean-spirited campaign was designed to intimidate judges in Iowa and across the nation and fuel a fundamental misunderstanding of the role of the judiciary in our democracy.

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Monday, August 27, 2012

15-year-old Lydia Ko wins in Canada

Lydia Ko, of New Zealand, is doused by fellow golfers after winning the LPGA Tour's Canadian Women's Open golf tournament, Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012, at the Vancouver Golf Club in Coquitlam, British Columbia. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Darryl Dyck)

Lydia Ko, of New Zealand, is doused by fellow golfers after winning the LPGA Tour's Canadian Women's Open golf tournament, Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012, at the Vancouver Golf Club in Coquitlam, British Columbia. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Darryl Dyck)

Lydia Ko, of New Zealand kisses the trophy after winning the LPGA Tour's Canadian Women's Open golf tournament, Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012, at the Vancouver Golf Club in Coquitlam, British Columbia. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jonathan Hayward)

Lydia Ko, of New Zealand, hugs her caddie Brian Alexander after winning the LPGA Tour's Canadian Women's Open golf tournament, Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012, at the Vancouver Golf Club in Coquitlam, British Columbia. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Darryl Dyck)

Lydia Ko, right, of New Zealand, and her caddie Brian Alexander line up a putt on the third hole during the LPGA Tour's Canadian Women's Open golf tournament, Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012, at the Vancouver Golf Club in Coquitlam, British Columbia. Ko won the tournament. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Darryl Dyck)

Lydia Ko, of New Zealand, is sprayed with water by Jiyai Shin, of South Korea, after winning the LPGA Tour's Canadian Women's Open golf tournament, Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012, at the Vancouver Golf Club in Coquitlam, British Columbia. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Darryl Dyck)

(AP) ? Lydia Ko made some more history ? and made it clear that she has no plans to rush into a professional golf career.

The 15-year-old Ko is used to questions about her future, and she handled the latest round with ease Sunday after running away with the Canadian Women's Open to become the youngest winner in LPGA Tour history and only the fifth amateur champion.

"I'll still remain an amateur and then finish high school and then go to college," said Ko, who has mentioned Stanford as her college of choice. "I mean this is a great win, but I don't think this will affect me changing my roots to my career."

The South Korean-born New Zealander closed with a 5-under 67 for a three-stroke victory. She broke the age record of 16 set by Lexi Thompson last September in the Navistar LPGA Classic in Alabama, and is the first amateur winner since JoAnne Carner in the 1969 Burdine's Invitational.

"To break another record, or being in the history, it's amazing, and it's always awesome to be able to play with the pros," Ko said. "The last few holes, it got a bit nerve wracking, but Stacy Lewis, after my birdie on 15, she said, 'You know you can do it.' It was really great to have another player that I look up to giving me that much support. So it was really awesome."

In January, Ko won the New South Wales Open in Australia at 14 to become the youngest player to win a professional tour event, a mark broken by 14-year-old Brooke Henderson in June in a 36-hole Canadian Women's Tour event in Quebec. Ko also won the U.S. Women's Amateur two weeks ago in Cleveland.

"I didn't cry after this one," said Ko, but (after) that one I did cry," Ko said, referencing the Amateur. "Yeah, to me, U.S. Amateur is a big event, and obviously this is a huge event as well. But still, as an amateur winning one of the biggest amateur events, I feel like it was a better win ? even though this one was awesome."

Ko finished at 13-under 275 at The Vancouver Golf Club, pulling away with birdies on five of the first six holes on the back nine. She opened with consecutive 68s and shot a 72 on Saturday to take a one-stroke lead into the final round.

"I was most impressed with just her demeanor," said Lewis, who tied for sixth at 7 under. "I mean you would have never known that it was the final round of an LPGA event. She played like she had been there before."

Inbee Park shot a 69 to finish second. Park chipped in for birdie on the final hole, and Ko closed with a bogey to make it closer.

"The pressure she was handling is really amazing," Park said. "I'm really happy for her. It's great for her career ? and I think I was just lucky to get the winner's check today."

Park's $300,000 check as the top pro moved her past Lewis for the season money lead with $1,419,940.

U.S. Women's Open champion Na Yeon Choi, Chella Choi and Jiyai Shin tied for third at 8 under. Na Yeon Choi had a 73, and Chella Choi and Shin shot 71.

The glove Ko wore in the final round will be displayed in the World Golf Hall of Fame.

"To have something that's mine to be up there, it's amazing, and it doesn't come down or anything," she said. "So it will always remain there, and it'll be a good memory. It's been an awesome week."

Ko was headed to her native South Korea on Monday, and will return to the tour next month for the Women's British Open.

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In this July 20, 2009, photo, Buzz Aldrin, left, Michael Collins, center, and Neil Armstrong stand in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, on the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Neil Armstrong was a quiet self-described nerdy engineer who became a global hero when as a steely-nerved pilot he made "one giant leap for mankind" with a small step on to the moon. The modest man who had people on Earth entranced and awed from almost a quarter million miles away has died. He was 82. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

In this July 20, 2009, photo, Buzz Aldrin, left, Michael Collins, center, and Neil Armstrong stand in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, on the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Neil Armstrong was a quiet self-described nerdy engineer who became a global hero when as a steely-nerved pilot he made "one giant leap for mankind" with a small step on to the moon. The modest man who had people on Earth entranced and awed from almost a quarter million miles away has died. He was 82. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

FILE - In this 1969 photo provided by NASA the crew of the Apollo 11 mission is seen. From left are Neil Armstrong, Mission Commander, Michael Collins, Lt. Col. USAF, and Edwin Eugene Aldrin, also known as Buzz Aldrin, USAF Lunar Module pilot. The family of Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, says he has died at age 82. A statement from the family says he died following complications resulting from cardiovascular procedures. It doesn't say where he died. Armstrong commanded the Apollo 11 spacecraft that landed on the moon July 20, 1969. He radioed back to Earth the historic news of "one giant leap for mankind." Armstrong and fellow astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin spent nearly three hours walking on the moon, collecting samples, conducting experiments and taking photographs. In all, 12 Americans walked on the moon from 1969 to 1972. (AP Photo/NASA)

As space exploration has become more common and the number of astronauts has risen past 300, many names have faded into the background. But some will forever be associated with the golden age of space exploration. Some examples:

From 1969's Apollo 11, the first manned moon landing mission:

? Buzz Aldrin: Lunar module pilot for Apollo 11. Second man on the moon after commander Neil Armstrong. Left NASA in in 1971 and returned to Air Force. Wrote several books including "Return to Earth" and "Men from Earth." Advocate for future U.S. space exploration and frequent lecturer. Age: 82.

? Neil Armstrong: Commander of Apollo 11 mission and first human to set foot on the moon. Left NASA in 1971, taught engineering at the University of Cincinnati, and later became chairman of electronic systems companies. Died Aug. 25 at age 82.

? Michael Collins: Command module pilot on Apollo 11 and circled the moon while colleagues Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed. Left NASA in 1970 and became first director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington. Wrote "Carrying the Fire," considered one of the best insider space books. Age: 81.

Some other notable astronauts:

? Scott Carpenter: Second American to orbit the Earth in 1962. With John Glenn, surviving member of NASA's original Mercury 7 astronauts. Gave the famous send off ? "Godspeed, John Glenn." Involved in Navy's SeaLab program, and spent 30 days under the ocean in 1965. Left the Navy in 1969. Age: 87.

? Eugene Cernan: Commander of Apollo 17 in 1972; last astronaut to walk on the moon. Second person to walk in space in 1966 as a pilot on Gemini 9. Retired from the Navy in 1976 and later started an aerospace consulting company in Houston. Age: 78

? John Glenn: First American to orbit the Earth in 1962, circling three times in five hours. Left NASA in 1965 and retired from the Marine Corps the next year. Became a Democratic U.S. senator from Ohio and ran briefly for president in 1984. Return to space in 1998 for a nine-day mission aboard space shuttle Discovery, becoming at age 77 the oldest person in space. Turned 91 in July.

? Jim Lovell: Commander of Apollo 13 in 1970, his fourth space flight. Oxygen tank in the spaceship exploded and the moon mission was aborted. Left NASA in 1973 and became a business executive. Age: 84.

? Edgar Mitchell: The sixth man to walk on the moon in 1971 after maneuvering the landing module from Apollo 14. Made two excursions to collect lunar samples with Alan Shepard. Left NASA in 1972 and went on to become an educator, lecturer and consultant. Age: 81.

? Alan Shepard: First American in space; made a 15-minute suborbital flight in 1961. Returned to space as commander of Apollo 14 in 1971; used a lunar sample scoop with an attached golf-club head to hit a ball on the moon. Retired from NASA in 1974 and went into private business in Houston. Died in 1998 at age 74.

? Jack Swigert Jr.: Pilot for Apollo 13 in 1970, a last-minute replacement after another astronaut came down with the measles. Mission to moon was aborted after an oxygen tank on the spaceship exploded. Left NASA in 1977. Elected to Congress in November 1982; died of bone cancer the next month at age 51.

? John Young: First person to fly into space from Earth six times ? seven times counting his lunar liftoff in 1972. Flew two Gemini and two Apollo missions. Commander of the first space shuttle flight, aboard Columbia in 1981. Final space flight in 1983 aboard Columbia. Retired from NASA in 2004. Age: 81.

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Southampton physicists join search for hidden magnetic states

Southampton physicists join search for hidden magnetic states [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 24-Aug-2012
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Contact: Glenn Harris
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University of Southampton

Physicists from the University of Southampton were among the first researchers to use the new high magnetic-field beamline at Diamond Light Source, the UK's national synchrotron facility, to search for 'hidden magnetic states'.

If found, they will provide important confirmation of a theoretical model, which could have important applications in magnetic data storage.

Diamond's new I10 Beamline for Advanced Dichroism Experiments (BLADE) beamline, which has 300,000 times the strength of the earth's magnetic field, is providing them with the tools for the search. The beamline was developed through a partnership of several UK universities, including Southampton.

A team led by Professor Peter de Groot, from Southampton's Quantum, Light and Matter Group, consisting of physicists from the University of Southampton, the Clarendon Laboratory at Oxford and the Magnetic Spectroscopy Group at Diamond, is looking for 'hidden magnetic states' in a type of magnet that has been identified as an ideal candidate for data storage. The composition of this magnetic film material is such that it provides sufficient energy barriers to prevent thermally-activated data loss, with the potential to relieve the present limit on the storage density of hard disk drives.

Professor Graham Bowden from the University of Southampton explains: "We are using the 14 Tesla Oxford Instruments superconducting magnet on the BLADE beamline to study exchange-spring magnets. Our exchange-spring magnetic multilayers consist of alternating hard and soft-magnetic layers, in which the magnetisation arranges in spring-like magnetic nanostructures. Such magnets offer additional flexibility in optimising magnetic properties, with possibilities for superior data storage capabilities.

"So far we have identified at least three different classes of exchange-spring magnetic states. Being able to manipulate these states will mean that more than one piece of information can be stored at a given site. There are also 'hidden magnetic states'. Accessing these new exchange-spring states and their switching processes would be an exciting breakthrough in the field of novel magnetic store media. It will provide important confirmation of the theoretical model developed for exchange spring magnets at Southampton."

The Southampton team has been allocated further beam time to continue this research in early 2013.

Senior Beamline Scientist on BLADE, Dr Peter Bencok adds: "The first results on the new high-field superconducting magnet represent an important milestone, not only for the beamline, but for the whole of Diamond. Its magnetic field of 14 Tesla is about six times stronger than the saturation magnetization of high purity iron. This beamline also enables studies at the lowest temperature at Diamond of 300 milliKelvin a chilling minus 272.85 degrees Celsius. The team has worked hard to achieve this milestone and we are really pleased to see that BLADE is playing a key role in important new physics."

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Notes for editors:

1. The paper 'Magnetic reversal in a YFe2 dominated DyFe2/YFe2 multilayer film' by G. B. G. Stenning, G. J. Bowden, S. A. Gregory, J.-M. L. Beaujour, P. A. J. de Groot, G. van der Laan, L. R. Shelford, P. Bencok, P. Steadman, A. N. Dobrynin, and T. Hesjedal, which is published in Applied Physics Letters, is available from Media Relations on request. Also, higher resolution attached image available.

2. The University of Southampton is celebrating its 60th anniversary during 2012.

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, granted the Royal Charter that enabled the University of Southampton to award its own degrees in the early weeks of her reign in 1952.

In the six decades to follow, Southampton has risen to become one of the leading universities in the UK with a global reputation for innovation through academic excellence and world-leading research.

This year, the University's reputation continues to grow with the recent awarding of a Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education in recognition of Southampton's long-standing expertise in performance sports engineering. To find out more visit www.southampton.ac.uk/60

3. Diamond Light Source is funded by the UK Government via the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and by the Wellcome Trust. www.diamond.ac.uk

Diamond generates extremely intense pin-point beams of synchrotron light of exceptional quality ranging from X-rays, ultra-violet and infrared. For example Diamond's X-rays are around 100 billion times brighter than a standard hospital X-ray machine.

Many of our everyday commodities that we take for granted, from food manufacturing to cosmetics, from revolutionary drugs to surgical tools, from computers to mobile phones, have all been developed or improved using synchrotron light.

Diamond brings benefits to:

  • Biology and medicine. For example, the fight against illnesses such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, osteoporosis and many cancers will benefit from the new research techniques available at Diamond.
  • The physical and chemical sciences. For example, in the near future, engineers will be able to image their structure down to an atomic scale, helping them to understand the way impurities and defects behave and how they can be controlled.
  • The Environmental and Earth sciences. For example, Diamond helps researchers to identify organisms that target specific types of contaminant in the environment which can potentially lead to identifying cheap and effective ways for cleaning polluted land.

4. The superconducting magnet system was supplied by Oxford Instruments and achieved challenging specifications.



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Southampton physicists join search for hidden magnetic states [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 24-Aug-2012
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Contact: Glenn Harris
g.harris@soton.ac.uk
44-238-059-3212
University of Southampton

Physicists from the University of Southampton were among the first researchers to use the new high magnetic-field beamline at Diamond Light Source, the UK's national synchrotron facility, to search for 'hidden magnetic states'.

If found, they will provide important confirmation of a theoretical model, which could have important applications in magnetic data storage.

Diamond's new I10 Beamline for Advanced Dichroism Experiments (BLADE) beamline, which has 300,000 times the strength of the earth's magnetic field, is providing them with the tools for the search. The beamline was developed through a partnership of several UK universities, including Southampton.

A team led by Professor Peter de Groot, from Southampton's Quantum, Light and Matter Group, consisting of physicists from the University of Southampton, the Clarendon Laboratory at Oxford and the Magnetic Spectroscopy Group at Diamond, is looking for 'hidden magnetic states' in a type of magnet that has been identified as an ideal candidate for data storage. The composition of this magnetic film material is such that it provides sufficient energy barriers to prevent thermally-activated data loss, with the potential to relieve the present limit on the storage density of hard disk drives.

Professor Graham Bowden from the University of Southampton explains: "We are using the 14 Tesla Oxford Instruments superconducting magnet on the BLADE beamline to study exchange-spring magnets. Our exchange-spring magnetic multilayers consist of alternating hard and soft-magnetic layers, in which the magnetisation arranges in spring-like magnetic nanostructures. Such magnets offer additional flexibility in optimising magnetic properties, with possibilities for superior data storage capabilities.

"So far we have identified at least three different classes of exchange-spring magnetic states. Being able to manipulate these states will mean that more than one piece of information can be stored at a given site. There are also 'hidden magnetic states'. Accessing these new exchange-spring states and their switching processes would be an exciting breakthrough in the field of novel magnetic store media. It will provide important confirmation of the theoretical model developed for exchange spring magnets at Southampton."

The Southampton team has been allocated further beam time to continue this research in early 2013.

Senior Beamline Scientist on BLADE, Dr Peter Bencok adds: "The first results on the new high-field superconducting magnet represent an important milestone, not only for the beamline, but for the whole of Diamond. Its magnetic field of 14 Tesla is about six times stronger than the saturation magnetization of high purity iron. This beamline also enables studies at the lowest temperature at Diamond of 300 milliKelvin a chilling minus 272.85 degrees Celsius. The team has worked hard to achieve this milestone and we are really pleased to see that BLADE is playing a key role in important new physics."

###

Notes for editors:

1. The paper 'Magnetic reversal in a YFe2 dominated DyFe2/YFe2 multilayer film' by G. B. G. Stenning, G. J. Bowden, S. A. Gregory, J.-M. L. Beaujour, P. A. J. de Groot, G. van der Laan, L. R. Shelford, P. Bencok, P. Steadman, A. N. Dobrynin, and T. Hesjedal, which is published in Applied Physics Letters, is available from Media Relations on request. Also, higher resolution attached image available.

2. The University of Southampton is celebrating its 60th anniversary during 2012.

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, granted the Royal Charter that enabled the University of Southampton to award its own degrees in the early weeks of her reign in 1952.

In the six decades to follow, Southampton has risen to become one of the leading universities in the UK with a global reputation for innovation through academic excellence and world-leading research.

This year, the University's reputation continues to grow with the recent awarding of a Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education in recognition of Southampton's long-standing expertise in performance sports engineering. To find out more visit www.southampton.ac.uk/60

3. Diamond Light Source is funded by the UK Government via the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and by the Wellcome Trust. www.diamond.ac.uk

Diamond generates extremely intense pin-point beams of synchrotron light of exceptional quality ranging from X-rays, ultra-violet and infrared. For example Diamond's X-rays are around 100 billion times brighter than a standard hospital X-ray machine.

Many of our everyday commodities that we take for granted, from food manufacturing to cosmetics, from revolutionary drugs to surgical tools, from computers to mobile phones, have all been developed or improved using synchrotron light.

Diamond brings benefits to:

  • Biology and medicine. For example, the fight against illnesses such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, osteoporosis and many cancers will benefit from the new research techniques available at Diamond.
  • The physical and chemical sciences. For example, in the near future, engineers will be able to image their structure down to an atomic scale, helping them to understand the way impurities and defects behave and how they can be controlled.
  • The Environmental and Earth sciences. For example, Diamond helps researchers to identify organisms that target specific types of contaminant in the environment which can potentially lead to identifying cheap and effective ways for cleaning polluted land.

4. The superconducting magnet system was supplied by Oxford Instruments and achieved challenging specifications.



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