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SAN MARTIN . (AP) — Ernie Els suggested that playing in the Frys.com Open last year helped him achieve a major victory this year. He's hoping it can happen again.
Els tied for fourth last year in the Fall Series event at the CordeValle Golf Club, his best finish of the season. He topped that in a big way this season, winning the British Open for his fourth career major.
"It's beautiful. I love coming here," Els said Wednesday, a day before the start of play. "Even before last year we did some outings out here for SAP, and I always enjoy coming out here. ... It's great staying on the property here. With weather like this, I mean, you can't beat it. It's just a wonderful place to play golf.
"Obviously, you would like to play well to make it an even nicer experience, but it's nice to be back and obviously looking forward to the week. Golf course is playing a little differently. It's a little firmer. Scoring should be good, so I'm looking forward to it."
European Ryder Cup player Nicolas Colsaerts also is in the field along with Vijay Singh, U.S. Ryder Cup captain Davis Love III and recent college stars Patrick Cantlay, Luke Guthrie, John Peterson, Patrick Reed and Kelly Kraft.
Colsaerts is trying to earn a PGA Tour card. As a special temporary member, he needs to finish the equivalent of 125th on the money list to earn a full 2013 card. The Belgian player has earned $652,886, enough now for the 120th spot.
"When you get a chance to play this tour with all these players, the courses you play on such a big stage, it would be stupid not to consider it," Colsaerts said. "I've always played in Europe for a lot of years. It's an unbelievable tour to play on and get your grades up, but once you get a taste of what the possibilities here are, you know, they get you pretty excited."
Guthrie, the former University of Illinois player who turned professional this year after the NCAA tournament, won consecutive Web.com Tour events last month in Boise, Idaho, and Midland, Texas, to wrap up a 2013 PGA Tour card as a top-25 finisher on the developmental tour's money list. He's second on the Web.com money list with $382,463, and also has earned $284,672 in three PGA Tour starts — all top-20 finishes.
"I believed I could compete at that kind of level out here. I didn't know how I was going to handle that amount of golf," said Guthrie, still a student at Illinois. "You don't play that many four-round tournaments until you get out here, which it's fine for a couple weeks because the adrenaline is going. But after a couple months to keep playing well was nice, and to keep it rolling. I'm happy with how I've responded."
Last year, Bryce Molder won his first PGA Tour title, outlasting Briny Baird with a birdie on the sixth hole of a playoff.
"You get to relive some of the cool memories," Molder said. "So that's certainly been the one thing I noticed for the week. But also more than just trying to defend your title, you become an ambassador for the Frys.com Open. It's been a lot of fun, and I look forward to that carrying on in the future. It's a great event. It's so fun being back here."


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" Introducing the new Archive Goldfish capsule. Released to celebrate with Lunar New Year, this special collection is influenced by intricate goldfish designs found on humidors, cigarette cases and pen stands from the dunhill archive.
The artwork of which references Japanese art, in particular the historic relationship between dunhill and Namiki. In ancient Chinese culture the fish became a universal symbol of good fortune, health and happiness. Where people believed the fish to be a close relative of sea dragons and other mythical beasts; positioning them as hugely positive symbolic creatures, something that continues today."

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It has something in common with Gwyneth Paltrow—sliding doors—and it'll bring the European MPV aesthetic to American mothers of young children—the only Americans who will fit in the 7-seater's third row. Actually, it's a 5+2, but who's counting?
That means the Ford C-Max is mostly a five seater with room for cargo—a novel concept for an MPV. Not only that, Ford's C-Max will debut the company's 1.6-liter Ecoboost engine among North American C-class vehicles, before it migrates down the line.
Another clever feature is a hands-free rear liftgate, activated by an underbody-mounted motion sensor. Kick a sensor under the rear bumper and the rear tail lifts, as long as you've got the fob on you. Sneaky stuff. Not only that, but Ford notes that its dimensions are similar to those of the original minivans offered in North America back in the '80s. Blinded with science again.


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Kickboxing will move you. Group cycling will drive you. Yoga will soothe you.
No matter what your style, the National Capital Region YMCA-YWCA has a group exercise class for you.
Group fitness at the Y is more than just aerobic classes. In addition to offering traditional cardiovascular based fitness, many of our contemporary classes include strength training and flexibility components.
Get a complete workout in a fun, motivating and safe environment where people of all fitness levels are invited and encouraged to participate.
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In October, the Supreme Court heard Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin. You may have read about the case: the plaintiff, Abigail Fisher, applied for undergraduate admission to the University of Texas at Austin but was turned down. If she had graduated in the top 10% of her high school class, she would automatically have been admitted—but she did not.
When admitting students, the University of Texas first accepts all in-state students who place in the top 10%. This policy is race-neutral and fills about 80% of all spaces. The remaining seats are filled according to an evaluation process which considers six factors. Race is one of them.
Fisher is white and she claims that the explicit use of race as a factor in admission to the university violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution.
Within the next few months, the Supreme Court will announce its decision
What the Case Means for Medical Schools—and Patients
Last week, the New England Journal of Medicine published an editorial warning that the decision will "chart the future of affirmative action in American higher education . . . including admission of students to our nation's medical schools."
The editorial's authors underline the need for a physician workforce that is ethnically and racially diverse:
"To provide good care, physicians must understand the communities and cultures in which they work. An important way to ensure that physicians understand the lives of their patients and to reduce health disparities is to promote diversity."
I agree, and would add a second argument: if Fisher wins, the Court's decision will leave millions of Americans without the medical care they desperately need because they live in a place where few physicians want to practice.
In this two-part post, I will be asking four questions:
1) How do we attract more physicians to underserved communities? Could we entice them with higher salaries? (Probably not. A doctor who doesn't want to raise his kids in rural Alabama won't set up shop there even if you double his income.)
2) Should we encourage medical schools to practice class-based rather than race-based affirmative action? This is, at best, a partial solution. A large percentage of low-income Americans are white. If they were admitted to medical school, those who grew up in rural areas might well decide to practice in similar communities where physicians are needed.. But this would not solve a larger problem—the shortage of Latino, African-American and Native-American primary care doctors available to work both in inner cities and in the many rural areas where minorities are rapidly becoming the majority.
Multiple studies show that outcomes, communication, and compliance improve when a patient is able to see a physician from his own racial or ethnic group. This is not to say that committed white physicians cannot overcome cultural barriers and build strong patient relationships in these communities. But many fewer choose to work, and raise their families, in remote rural areas that are primarily Latino, Native American, Mexican-American, or African American.


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One of the most fundamental measures needed to assess the effectiveness of a gas turbine is its ability to convert the chemical energy of the fuel into mechanical work-the thermal efficiency of the engine (i.e., htherm = power to the gas stream/ energy input rate). The precise derivation of this parameter requires a knowledge of the details of flows within the engine, including air used inside the engine to cool hot parts. For present purposes, however, a good estimate of the constraints and potential of the engine can be obtained by neglecting such minor flows and by further assuming that the working fluid throughout the engine retains the same properties as air at room temperature throughout the cycle. The compressor and turbine are inevitably less than perfect, and their performance is described by efficiencies (hcomp and hturb, respectively). This simple treatment assumes that hcomp = hturb = 90%; these are plausible "state-of-the-art" values. The two properties that affect gas turbine thermal efficiency are T4/T2-the ratio of temperature leaving the combustor (i.e., the turbine inlet temperature) to that of the air entering the engine-and the overall pressure ratio between atmospheric pressure and peak pressure within the engine.
Taking first the effects of variations in T4/T2 at typical conditions in the cruise phase of a modern civil aircraft (Mach 0.85 at 10.7-km altitude), the inlet temperature, T2, sensed by the engine for standard atmospheric conditions is 250 K. The upper limit on temperature, T4, would be reached if sufficient hydrocarbon fuel were burned to consume all the oxygen (stoichiometric combustion; see Figure 7-8). This temperature would be about 2590 K, though this value depends to some extent on the pressure ratio of the engine and the efficiency of the components. These values give T4/T2 � 10.3. For a mid-1990s engine the value of T4 at cruise is about 1400 K, whereas in the mid-1970s a value of about 1250 K would have been more typical. For these combinations of air inlet temperature, and turbine inlet temperature the ratio T4/T2 would be 5.6 and 5.0, respectively. Figure 7-8 shows, for these three examples, the thermal efficiency of a gas turbine as a function of pressure ratio for cruise at Mach 0.85 at 10.7 km. The solid lines are for compressor and turbine efficiencies of 90% and are labeled with the temperature ratio T4/T2. The broken line is for ideal compressors and turbines (having hcomp = hturb =100%); in this case, the thermal efficiency is a function of pressure ratio only.
Figure 7-8 also shows that for high thermal efficiency, the internal pressure ratio of the engine must be moderately high; for new large engines, the value is around 40 at peak throttle settings of take-off and climb. In addition to "internal" compression of air (by the compressor), the aircraft's forward speed introduces a pressure rise of 1.6 times atmospheric pressure at Mach 0.85, giving an overall pressure ratio of about 64. Increasing the internal pressure ratio much beyond this value raises the temperature at compressor exit to the point where materials are a limitation; furthermore, the higher temperature increases the problem of cooling the turbine and increases levels of NOx production in the combustor (as discussed in Section 7.5.2). Increasing the internal pressure ratio at current values of T4/T2 would offer very little improvement in thermal efficiency.
Figure 7-9: Fuel consumption progress with time.
The increase in turbine inlet temperature over the past 20 years has been the result of research and development, primarily to increase the power-to-weight ratio of the engine. As Figure 7-8 shows, however, a modest increase in T4/T2 has had an effect on thermal efficiency. At the theoretical limit, by operating at stoichiometric fuel-air ratios in the combustion system, the temperature ratio would be about double that of current engines. The practical difficulties associated with achieving stoichiometric combustion (largely associated with maintaining structural integrity with materials that lose strength at high temperatures), however, remain formidable. Furthermore, even if these difficulties could be overcome, the thermal efficiency of the engine would still remain below 60% given current levels of turbomachinery component efficiencies. Only when hcomp = hturb =100% would thermal efficiency approach 70% for an overall pressure ratio of around 64. Thus, although there are clear gains to be made by further increases in T4/T2 and thermal efficiency, the full benefits can be achieved only through parallel efforts aimed at raising propulsive efficiency.
Figure 7-10: Overall pressure ratio trend with time.
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With each passing year the pre-ball choices become harder, yet more exciting. It always seems perfectly impossible to trump the previous year's gown, and each former date holds a special place in my heart....so what is a girl to do? Oh wait....this year...we have Pinterest! With this thought, I practically skipped to the PC to create my Willow Manor Ball Board!! This new way of organizing my fantasy shopping did NOT disappoint!
This is where delicate planning and extensive travel came to my rescue. One of my lifelong secret fantasies has been to attend Carnivale in Venice....complete with uber extravagant masks and costumes....which meant there was only one place to aim the private jet this year for final plans: Venezia of course!
In all of my excitement, and as I strolled the shops of Venice, I suddenly had this shadowy thought....my date will also need to wear a mask. But my date is none other than the charming and deliciously handsome Dennis Morgan....who wants to cover up that adorable mug on such an enchanted evening? So.....since the ball is so long....and since there are no rules.....I decided to select two different masks for our evening. One each for our grand entrance and early hours....and another each as the night wore long and exhilarating. So, with my selections made and my date busy purchasing flowers.....I jetted home to get ready!
Around the mid-point of our 24 hour revelry, the masks and elation were getting a bit to us and I decided to give our faces a bit of a break. Which meant switching out to the hand-held pieces of artistry I managed to pick up on my way back the airport. You see, not only was I concerned with comfort....but I did not want to go an entire ball without seeing that devilishly handsome face in all of its glory! Plus....with the masks aside at just the right moment.....perhaps out on a balcony...or in a quiet corner....I might be so fortunate as to receive a kiss from my 24 hour Prince Charming. A girl MUST prepare for all possibilities you know!
Pssst....there was one moment on the balcony, when he started whispering....
"At last a soft and solemn breathing sound
Rose like a steam of rich distill'd Perfumes,
And stole upon the Air, that even Silence
Was took e're she was ware, and wish't she might
Deny her nature, and be never more
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Some days the headlines just write themselves. CCTV in Newtownbreda, Northern Ireland recently capture a solemn, silvery visage hiding in the town's sewers. The fellows who work in the tunnels have dubbed this head (among many things) "the Silver Surfer."
Says NI Water field manager Davy Sloan of the eerie head:
NI Water constantly finds inappropriate items dumped down the sewer. Items vary from nappies, wipes, sanitary products and cotton buds which wash into pumping stations and block the pumps [...] They also block sewers which often causes internal and external flooding. This time however, the CCTV picked up a spooky face at the end of the tunnel [...] We think the image is a result of a combination of the bend in the sewer line and variations in light.
I don't know about you, but I would read the hell out of a story about Norrin Radd hiding from Galactus in a Belfast suburb's sanitation tubes.
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