New self-assembling particles offer great promise for optical materials and ceramics

ScienceDaily (Oct. 31, 2012) ? Scientists have created new kinds of particles, 1/100th the diameter of a human hair, that spontaneously assemble themselves into structures resembling molecules made from atoms. These new particles come together, or "self-assemble," to form structures in patterns that were previously impossible to make and hold promise for manufacturing advanced optical materials and ceramics.

The method, described in the latest issue of the journal Nature, was developed by a team of chemists, chemical engineers, and physicists at New York University (NYU), the Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, the Harvard Department of Physics, and Dow Chemical Company.

The method is centered on enhancing the architecture of colloids -- small particles suspended within a fluid medium. Colloidal dispersions are composed of such everyday items as paint, milk, gelatin, glass, and porcelain, but their potential to create new materials remains largely untapped.

Previously, scientists had succeeded in building rudimentary structures from colloids. But the ability use colloids to design and assemble complex 3-dimensional structures, which are vital to the design of advanced optical materials, has been limited. This is, in part, because colloids lack directional bonds, which are necessary to control particle self-assembly as well as to enhance complexity while maintaining the structural integrity of these creations. Such assemblies serve as the building blocks of the natural world -- e.g., atoms and molecules -- but they are rare in the colloidal domain.

"What this method aimed to do was to use nature's properties for atoms and apply them to the colloidal world," explained NYU chemistry professor Marcus Weck, one of the study's coauthors.

"Chemists have a whole periodic table of atoms to choose from when they synthesize molecules and crystals," added coauthor Vinothan Manoharan, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and Physics at Harvard. "We wanted to develop a similar 'construction set' for making larger-scale molecules and crystals."

In developing colloids with such properties, the researchers engineered chemical "patches" that can form directional bonds, thus allowing for the assembly of 3-dimensional "lattices" with only a few connections between particles, an important design element for many advanced materials. Without directional bonding, such structures are unstable.

The trick was establishing bonding capabilities on the patches. The scientists did so by using single strands of DNA, which scientists at NYU and elsewhere have previously employed to organize small particles. In the method described in Nature, these strands of DNA served as "sticky ends" to which particle patches could adhere.

"What this means is we can make particles that attach only at the patches, and then we can program them so only specific kinds of particles attach at those patches," said coauthor and NYU physics professor David Pine. "This gives us tremendous flexibility to design 3-dimensional structures."

The researchers added that the specificity of DNA interactions between patches means that colloids with different properties, such as size, color, chemical functionality, or electrical conductivity, could lead to the production of new materials. These potentially include 3-dimensional electrically wired networks or photonic crystals to enhance the optical displays of a range of consumer products and to improve the speed of computer chips.

Additional coauthors included Yufeng Wang (NYU), Yu Wang (NYU), Dana R. Breed (Dow Chemical Co.), Lang Feng (NYU), and Andrew D. Hollingsworth (NYU).

Key work was performed at NYU's Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, an interdisciplinary laboratory supported by the National Science Foundation.

The research was also supported by grants from the National Science Foundation (MR-0820341, ChE-0911460, DMR-0923251).

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'Jersey Shore' cast sends support to Sandy victims

SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. (AP) ? The shore town that Snooki and gang made famous and synonymous with their show "Jersey Shore" took a heavy hit from superstorm Sandy, with homes splintered and buried in sand, roofs flattened, the boardwalk buckled and amusement rides dumped in the ocean.

Its famous summer residents sent their prayers to those affected.

"Sandy destroyed Seaside ? our second home," Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi told MTV News in a statement. "It's devastating to see our boardwalk and favorite spots ruined. My prayers go out to everyone affected by the storm."

Huge piles of sand choked the streets blocks from the beach on the narrow barrier island as construction vehicles entered the ghost town Wednesday.

Police Chief Thomas Boyd described the island scene as one of "total devastation."

An Associated Press photographer who went by the house used to film "Jersey Shore" said it appeared to have come out of the storm unscathed.

Appearing Tuesday on "The Tonight Show," Jenni "JWoww" Farley was asked by host Jay Leno about the house she owns with her fiance, Roger, in neighboring Toms River.

"Fixable, I want to say. It's really, it like hurts the heart a lot. It's really kind of devastating," she said. "But as long as like my dogs, Roger's safe, my friends are safe, we're just all without power."

Vinny Guadagnino told MTV that Seaside Heights had become his second home, while Paul "Pauly D" DelVecchio sent thanks to the "heroes" who were working to help. Sammi Giancola called the impact "devastating."

Guadagnino tweeted that the New York City borough of Staten Island, where he lives, "looks like war zone" and posted a picture of a downed tree.

He, Farley and DelVecchio asked their Twitter followers to donate $10 to the American Red Cross by texting REDCROSS to 90999. Polizzi also said she would donate but was more true to form: "Ugh trying to change my son's diaper while holding a flash light is not easy," she wrote from East Hanover, using the hashtag "nopower."

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WWE Zombies vs. Superstars: How would Superstars survive?

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Political ads gear up for final push of campaign

NEW YORK (AP) ? The campaign ad war has intensified and expanded in the last week of the presidential contest, with President Barack Obama, Republican challenger Mitt Romney and allied independent groups making their final, full-throated advertising pitches to voters in the major battlegrounds.

The Romney team began airing ads in Pennsylvania for the first time in the general election after venturing into Minnesota late last week, signaling a renewed effort to broaden the map of potentially competitive states. Obama's team responded in kind in both places and will go on the air in Michigan to counter a $2 million ad assault there from a pro-Romney group.

A presidential campaign advertising effort likely to total more than $1 billion was on track to end just as it began, with a blizzard of TV commercials in a handful of states aimed at still-persuadable voters, who may decide the outcome of the contest.

The Obama campaign has sunk more than $28 million into TV ads for the remainder of the contest, according to media trackers who follow the presidential race. Ohio is the top prize, seeing $6.5 million in Obama ad spending through Tuesday, Election Day.

The Obama campaign is running two ads in Ohio. In one, titled "The Problem," Romney is criticized for saying he would deal with China on the economic front while having a history of investing in companies that outsourced U.S. jobs. "Mitt Romney's not the solution. He's the problem," the ad says. Another spot, "No One Was Looking," plays off Romney's comments, caught on tape at a private fundraiser in May, about the "47 percent" of Americans who don't pay federal income tax but also criticizes the Republican on taxes, job outsourcing, Medicare and education.

The Obama campaign also is spending $5.4 million in Florida and $4.1 million in Virginia. An ad titled "Looking" was in heavy rotation in both states, while Florida voters also were seeing "Unbreakable," aimed at Jewish voters and touting Obama's commitment to Israel, and "Remember," which criticizes Romney on Wall Street regulations and taxes. Also on the air is a Spanish-language version of "Determination," in which Obama makes a direct appeal for a second four years in office.

The rest of Obama's final campaign ad buy was spread across the other major swing states ? Colorado, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina and Wisconsin ? plus Minnesota and Pennsylvania, which Romney is trying to put into play.

The Obama campaign also indicated Tuesday it would begin advertising in Michigan to counter a $2 million ad buy from the pro-Romney super political action committee Restore Our Future. The super PAC, which was founded by several former Romney aides, has run a total of $10 million in ads in Michigan. It's the only group to actively advertise in a state generally considered an Obama stronghold.

The Obama campaign has sent high-profile surrogates to Minnesota in addition to running ads. Former President Bill Clinton campaigned in Minneapolis on Tuesday. Romney aides point to tightening polls in the state, which Obama carried by 10 percentage points over Republican John McCain in 2008.

The Romney campaign had placed $17.2 million in ads for the final week by Tuesday afternoon, but that figure was expected to climb.

Romney's team spent $5.1 million on commercials in Ohio, where polling has shown him lagging a few points behind Obama for most of the contest. The state's 18 electoral votes are crucial to Romney's effort to amass the 270 needed for victory. No Republican in the past 110 years has won the presidency without Ohio, and a loss there would mean Romney would have to carry virtually all the other swing states in order to prevail.

Romney also was spending $4.2 million in Florida and $2.3 million in Virginia and was advertising in all the swing states Obama was targeting. Romney was spending just $150,000 on ads in New Hampshire, compared with $2 million for Obama, and just $564,000 on ads in North Carolina, compared with $1.1 million for Obama. But campaign ad trackers expected Romney's team to boost its spending across the board in the coming days.

The Romney campaign was running a mix of ads in the final week of the race. In one ad, "Bringing People Together," Romney stresses the need for bipartisanship and says he worked with Democrats as governor of Massachusetts. In another, "Cabinet Members ? Humanity," women who worked in his Cabinet laud his attitudes toward the poor, working women and families. "It's so wonderful to have someone whom you respect and work for that understands how important family is," one of the women says.

Romney called himself "severely conservative" during his run for the Republican nomination but since has tried to appear more moderate to appeal to women and swing voters.

His campaign is also continuing to run a controversial new ad in Ohio suggesting that Chrysler, one of the auto companies boosted by a federal bailout in 2009, was planning to move production of its Jeep line to China. The claim drew a rebuke from company CEO Sergio Marchionne, who insisted Chrysler has no plans to shift U.S.-based Jeep production overseas.

The Romney team's new ad buy in Pennsylvania followed that of several independent groups supporting his candidacy that had begun purchasing commercials over the weekend in what had been considered a safe state for Obama.

Restore Our Future announced it would advertise in Pennsylvania as part of a $20 million, multistate push in the campaign's final week. Another pro-Romney group, Americans for Job Security, was spending about $1.2 million on ads in Philadelphia, while American Crossroads, a super PAC tied to former President George W. Bush's longtime political counselor Karl Rove, announced Tuesday it would spend $1.2 million on ads in the rest of the state.

American Crossroads and a companion group, Crossroads GPS, planned to spend more than $17.7 million on pro-Romney ads in the top battlegrounds. American Crossroads released a new ad on Tuesday airing in most of the swing states suggesting the economy under Obama was similar to a patient in a hospital whose vital signs had flat-lined.

"If you saw this line in the ER, you'd be panicked," an announcer says.

Obama, for his part, was getting an assist from Priorities USA Action, a super PAC formed by two former White House aides. The group was spending $9.5 million on commercials in the campaign's final week, including $2.7 million in Ohio.

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Full Dragon exits space station, Earth next stop

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) ? An unmanned Dragon freighter left the International Space Station on Sunday with a stash of precious medical samples and aimed for a Pacific splashdown to end the first official shipment under a billion-dollar contract with NASA.

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station used a giant robot arm to release the commercial cargo ship 255 miles up. The California-based SpaceX company will steer its capsule back to Earth via parachutes on Sunday afternoon, a couple hundred miles off the Baja California coast.

The supply ship is bringing back nearly 2,000 pounds of science experiments and old station equipment. Perhaps the most eagerly awaited cargo is nearly 500 frozen samples of blood and urine collected by station astronauts over the past year.

The Dragon is the only delivery ship capable of returning items, now that NASA's shuttles are retired to museums. Atlantis made the last shuttle haul to and from the station in July 2011.

SpaceX ? more formally Space Exploration Technologies Corp. ? launched the capsule three weeks ago from Cape Canaveral, full of groceries, clothes and other station supplies. Ice cream as well as fresh apples were especially appreciated by the station residents, now back up to a full crew of six.

It's the second Dragon to return from the orbiting lab; the first mission in May was a flight demo. This flight is the first of 12 deliveries under a $1.6 billion contract with NASA.

"It was nice while she was on board," space station commander Sunita Williams said as the Dragon backed away. "We tamed her, took her home and, literally and figuratively, there's a piece of us on that spacecraft going home to Earth."

She added to the SpaceX flight controllers in Hawthorne, Calif.: "Congratulations Hawthorne and thank you for her."

The Dragon will be retrieved from the Pacific and loaded onto a 100-foot boat that will haul it to Los Angeles. From there, it will be transported to McGregor, Texas.

The medical samples will be removed as quickly as possible, and turned over to NASA within 48 hours of splashdown, according to SpaceX. Everything else will wait for unloading in McGregor.

A Russian supply ship, meanwhile, is set to blast off this week. It burns up upon descent, however, at mission's end. So do the cargo vessels provided by Europe and Japan.

SpaceX is working to transform its Dragon cargo craft into vessels that American astronauts could fly in another four or five years. Until SpaceX or another U.S. company is able to provide rides, NASA astronauts must rely on Russian rockets to get to and from the space station.

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Fed sticks to stimulus plan, says economy a bit firmer

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve on Wednesday stuck to its plan to keep stimulating U.S. growth until the job market improves even as it acknowledged some parts of the economy were looking a bit better.

In a statement after a two-day meeting, the central bank repeated its vow to keep rates near zero until mid-2015 and its pledge to keep supporting growth while the recovery strengthens.

The Fed's policy-setting panel made no change in its plan to purchase $40 billion in mortgage-backed debt per month to push interest rates lower and spur a stronger recovery.

"The committee remains concerned that, without sufficient policy accommodation, economic growth might not be strong enough to generate sustained improvement in labor market conditions," the Fed said.

U.S. stocks edged lower after the announcement and the dollar extended gains against the euro, while Treasury bonds showed little reaction, closing the session lower.

The central bank's statement differed little from its announcement last month in which it launched its third round of bond-buying, or quantitative easing, known as QE3, and made clear officials still had concerns on the recovery's strength.

Analysts said December will likely be a more eventful meeting as the Fed decides what to do when its separate Operation Twist program, in which it is buying long-term Treasury debt with proceeds from short-term securities, expires at the end of the year.

"Officials will likely make a decision then on whether QE3 will be extended to include Treasuries purchases when Operation Twist ends at year-end," said Jim O'Sullivan, economist at High Frequency Economics. "We expect it will be."

U.S. gross domestic product grew at an annual rate of just 1.3 percent in the second quarter. Economists expect the pace of recovery quickened a bit in the third quarter but not by enough to put steady downward pressure on the jobless rate, which fell sharply in September but remains at an elevated 7.8 percent.

HOUSING STARTS, BUSINESS SLACKENS

The Fed noted the housing sector was continuing to gather its strength and said household spending had grown "a bit more quickly." However, it cautioned that business investment was softening.

It also nodded to a recent increase in inflation but said it was linked to higher energy prices, adding that inflation expectations have remained stable -- a sign officials think pressures will remain under wraps.

Richmond Federal Reserve Bank President Jeffrey Lacker dissented against the decision, as he has done at every meeting this year.

The central bank's announcement came just under two weeks before the U.S. presidential election. Economists said policymakers were likely to keep their heads down and avoid drawing any political fire.

The Fed, which has held rates close to zero since December 2008, had already bought $2.3 trillion in mortgage-related and government debt before it launched its latest round of stimulus.

Some analysts and many conservative politicians have expressed concern the Fed's policies could spark inflation, but prices increases have remained tame so far.

The problem is, growth has too. At the same time, a looming tightening of U.S. fiscal policy risks tossing the economy back into recession.

Europe's debt crisis, a key source of concern for the Fed, also remains unresolved, although it is not flaring up too wildly in financial markets, offering comfort that the U.S. economy will escape any contagion.

TALKING THE TALK

Aside from their discussion over the stance of monetary policy, officials likely continued to debate fine-tuning their communications strategy by adopting numerical thresholds for economic variables that would guide the central bank's unconventional stimulus.

However, no new announcement was made. Analysts say to look to the Fed's next meetings in December or January for greater clarity on policymakers' goal posts.

Chicago Federal Reserve Bank President Charles Evans has advocated keeping rates near zero until the unemployment rate, currently at 7.8 percent, goes down to 7 percent, as long as inflation does not exceed 3 percent. The central bank formally targets 2 percent inflation.

Officials are also strongly considering the adoption of a consensus economic forecast for the central bank as a whole, as opposed to the quarterly individual projections for growth, employment, inflation and interest rates currently published.

(Editing by Tim Ahmann, Andrea Ricci and Kenneth Barry)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/fed-sticks-stimulus-plan-says-economy-bit-firmer-011326119--business.html

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All Roads Should Glow in the Dark (Obviously)

The Dutch design firms Studio Roosegaarde and Hejimans Infrastructure just came up with a brilliant prototype for a "Smart Highway" that uses interactive lighting that adapts to driving conditions to make the roads safer. Enough with crap infotainment systems inside cars that distract us from driving with Twitter and dinner reservations—let's light up the roads like a night club until no one crashes again. More »

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BioTech News Headlines - Yahoo! News

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(AP Photo/National Human Genome Research Institute, Maggie Bartlett)" border="0" /></a>It sounds like a scene from a TV show: Someone sends a discarded coffee cup to a laboratory where the unwitting drinker&#039;s DNA is decoded, predicting what diseases lurk in his or her future.</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/nobel-awarded-stem-cell-early-cloning-195518381.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/XxbMNg8zzN_7PikC9RKdfw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/a44614ca60e4681c1d0f6a70670042e6.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="In this Monday, Oct. 8, 2012 photo combo, British scientist John Gurdon, left, speaks in London, and Japanese scientist Shinya Yamanaka, right, speaks in Kyoto after they were named winners of the 2012 Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering that mature, specialized cells of the body can be reprogrammed into stem cells ? a discovery that scientists hope to turn into new treatments. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, left; Kyodo News, right) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, FRANCE, HONG KONG, JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREA" align="left" title="In this Monday, Oct. 8, 2012 photo combo, British scientist John Gurdon, left, speaks in London, and Japanese scientist Shinya Yamanaka, right, speaks in Kyoto after they were named winners of the 2012 Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering that mature, specialized cells of the body can be reprogrammed into stem cells ? a discovery that scientists hope to turn into new treatments. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, left; Kyodo News, right) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, FRANCE, HONG KONG, JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREA" border="0" /></a>Two scientists from different generations won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for the groundbreaking discovery that cells in the body can be reprogrammed into completely different kinds, work that reflects the mechanism behind cloning and offers an alternative to using embryonic stem cells.</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/nobel-awarded-stem-cell-early-cloning-195518381.htmlMon, 08 Oct 2012 19:19:54 -0400Associated Pressnobel-awarded-stem-cell-early-cloning-195518381<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/nobel-awarded-stem-cell-early-cloning-195518381.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/XxbMNg8zzN_7PikC9RKdfw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/a44614ca60e4681c1d0f6a70670042e6.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="In this Monday, Oct. 8, 2012 photo combo, British scientist John Gurdon, left, speaks in London, and Japanese scientist Shinya Yamanaka, right, speaks in Kyoto after they were named winners of the 2012 Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering that mature, specialized cells of the body can be reprogrammed into stem cells ? a discovery that scientists hope to turn into new treatments. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, left; Kyodo News, right) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, FRANCE, HONG KONG, JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREA" align="left" title="In this Monday, Oct. 8, 2012 photo combo, British scientist John Gurdon, left, speaks in London, and Japanese scientist Shinya Yamanaka, right, speaks in Kyoto after they were named winners of the 2012 Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering that mature, specialized cells of the body can be reprogrammed into stem cells ? a discovery that scientists hope to turn into new treatments. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, left; Kyodo News, right) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, FRANCE, HONG KONG, JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREA" border="0" /></a>Two scientists from different generations won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for the groundbreaking discovery that cells in the body can be reprogrammed into completely different kinds, work that reflects the mechanism behind cloning and offers an alternative to using embryonic stem cells.</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/nobel-prize-briton-japanese-stem-cell-111153957.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/etgmu74_kEJ2z0V6RCuvvA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/09408a3d5fc7631c1d0f6a7067005294.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Kyoto University Professor Shinya Yamanaka speaks during a news conference at Kyoto University in Kyoto, western Japan, Monday, Oct. 8, 2012, after learning that he and British researcher John Gurdon won this year&#039;s Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. The prize committee at Stockholm&#039;s Karolinska Institute said the two won the prize for discovering that mature, specialized cells of the body can be reprogrammed into stem cells ? a discovery that scientists hope to turn into new treatments. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, FRANCE, HONG KONG, JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREA" align="left" title="Kyoto University Professor Shinya Yamanaka speaks during a news conference at Kyoto University in Kyoto, western Japan, Monday, Oct. 8, 2012, after learning that he and British researcher John Gurdon won this year&#039;s Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. The prize committee at Stockholm&#039;s Karolinska Institute said the two won the prize for discovering that mature, specialized cells of the body can be reprogrammed into stem cells ? a discovery that scientists hope to turn into new treatments. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, FRANCE, HONG KONG, JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREA" border="0" /></a>British researcher John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka of Japan won this year&#039;s Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine on Monday for discovering that mature, specialized cells of the body can be reprogrammed into stem cells ? a discovery that scientists hope to turn into new treatments.</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/nobel-prize-briton-japanese-stem-cell-111153957.htmlMon, 08 Oct 2012 08:37:26 -0400Associated Pressnobel-prize-briton-japanese-stem-cell-111153957<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/nobel-prize-briton-japanese-stem-cell-111153957.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/etgmu74_kEJ2z0V6RCuvvA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/09408a3d5fc7631c1d0f6a7067005294.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Kyoto University Professor Shinya Yamanaka speaks during a news conference at Kyoto University in Kyoto, western Japan, Monday, Oct. 8, 2012, after learning that he and British researcher John Gurdon won this year&#039;s Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. The prize committee at Stockholm&#039;s Karolinska Institute said the two won the prize for discovering that mature, specialized cells of the body can be reprogrammed into stem cells ? a discovery that scientists hope to turn into new treatments. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, FRANCE, HONG KONG, JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREA" align="left" title="Kyoto University Professor Shinya Yamanaka speaks during a news conference at Kyoto University in Kyoto, western Japan, Monday, Oct. 8, 2012, after learning that he and British researcher John Gurdon won this year&#039;s Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. The prize committee at Stockholm&#039;s Karolinska Institute said the two won the prize for discovering that mature, specialized cells of the body can be reprogrammed into stem cells ? a discovery that scientists hope to turn into new treatments. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, FRANCE, HONG KONG, JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREA" border="0" /></a>British researcher John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka of Japan won this year&#039;s Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine on Monday for discovering that mature, specialized cells of the body can be reprogrammed into stem cells ? a discovery that scientists hope to turn into new treatments.</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/calif-initiative-test-appetite-gmo-food-164707523.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/h1mp_T8mDMDE1AVr1DCzmA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3B4b2ZmPTUwO3B5b2ZmPTA7cT04NTt3PTEzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/1aa1bdc82cf0361c1d0f6a7067005387.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="A product labeled with Non Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) is sold at the Lassens Natural Foods &amp; Vitamins store in Los Feliz district of Los Angeles Friday, Oct. 5, 2012. International food and chemical conglomerates are spending millions to defeat California&#039;s Proposition 37, which would require labeling on all food made with altered genetic material. It also would prohibit labeling or advertising such food as &quot;natural.&quot; (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)" align="left" title="A product labeled with Non Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) is sold at the Lassens Natural Foods &amp; Vitamins store in Los Feliz district of Los Angeles Friday, Oct. 5, 2012. International food and chemical conglomerates are spending millions to defeat California&#039;s Proposition 37, which would require labeling on all food made with altered genetic material. It also would prohibit labeling or advertising such food as &quot;natural.&quot; (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)" border="0" /></a>Calories. Nutrients. Serving size. How about &quot;produced with genetic engineering?&quot;</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/calif-initiative-test-appetite-gmo-food-164707523.htmlSat, 06 Oct 2012 13:30:56 -0400Associated Presscalif-initiative-test-appetite-gmo-food-164707523<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/calif-initiative-test-appetite-gmo-food-164707523.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/h1mp_T8mDMDE1AVr1DCzmA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3B4b2ZmPTUwO3B5b2ZmPTA7cT04NTt3PTEzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/1aa1bdc82cf0361c1d0f6a7067005387.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="A product labeled with Non Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) is sold at the Lassens Natural Foods &amp; Vitamins store in Los Feliz district of Los Angeles Friday, Oct. 5, 2012. International food and chemical conglomerates are spending millions to defeat California&#039;s Proposition 37, which would require labeling on all food made with altered genetic material. It also would prohibit labeling or advertising such food as &quot;natural.&quot; (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)" align="left" title="A product labeled with Non Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) is sold at the Lassens Natural Foods &amp; Vitamins store in Los Feliz district of Los Angeles Friday, Oct. 5, 2012. International food and chemical conglomerates are spending millions to defeat California&#039;s Proposition 37, which would require labeling on all food made with altered genetic material. It also would prohibit labeling or advertising such food as &quot;natural.&quot; (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)" border="0" /></a>Calories. Nutrients. Serving size. How about &quot;produced with genetic engineering?&quot;</p><br clear="all"/>NEW YORK, N.Y. - Two scientists from different generations won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for the groundbreaking discovery that cells in the body can be reprogrammed into completely different kinds, work that reflects the mechanism behind cloning and offers an alternative to using embryonic stem cells.http://news.yahoo.com/britains-gurdon-japans-yamanaka-share-nobel-medicine-prize-202014238.htmlMon, 08 Oct 2012 16:20:14 -0400Associated Pressbritains-gurdon-japans-yamanaka-share-nobel-medicine-prize-202014238<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/gurdon-yamanaka-win-nobel-prize-medicine-095714871.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/V_Y.8L2ZggOw_W6Wzdxqjw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-10-08T121953Z_1_CBRE8970Y9800_RTROPTP_2_NOBEL-MEDICINE.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Kyoto University Professor Shinya Yamanaka and John Gurdon of the Gurdon Institute in Cambridge are seen at a symposium on induced pluripotent stem cell in Tokyo" align="left" title="Kyoto University Professor Shinya Yamanaka and John Gurdon of the Gurdon Institute in Cambridge are seen at a symposium on induced pluripotent stem cell in Tokyo" border="0" /></a>STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Scientists from Britain and Japan shared a Nobel Prize on Monday for the discovery that adult cells can be transformed back into embryo-like stem cells that may one day regrow tissue in damaged brains, hearts or other organs. John Gurdon, 79, of the Gurdon Institute in Cambridge, Britain and Shinya Yamanaka, 50, of Kyoto University in Japan, discovered ways to create tissue that would act like embryonic cells, without the need to collect the cells from embryos. They share the $1. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/gurdon-yamanaka-win-nobel-prize-medicine-095714871.htmlMon, 08 Oct 2012 11:27:59 -0400Reutersgurdon-yamanaka-win-nobel-prize-medicine-095714871<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/gurdon-yamanaka-win-nobel-prize-medicine-095714871.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/V_Y.8L2ZggOw_W6Wzdxqjw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-10-08T121953Z_1_CBRE8970Y9800_RTROPTP_2_NOBEL-MEDICINE.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Kyoto University Professor Shinya Yamanaka and John Gurdon of the Gurdon Institute in Cambridge are seen at a symposium on induced pluripotent stem cell in Tokyo" align="left" title="Kyoto University Professor Shinya Yamanaka and John Gurdon of the Gurdon Institute in Cambridge are seen at a symposium on induced pluripotent stem cell in Tokyo" border="0" /></a>STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Scientists from Britain and Japan shared a Nobel Prize on Monday for the discovery that adult cells can be transformed back into embryo-like stem cells that may one day regrow tissue in damaged brains, hearts or other organs. John Gurdon, 79, of the Gurdon Institute in Cambridge, Britain and Shinya Yamanaka, 50, of Kyoto University in Japan, discovered ways to create tissue that would act like embryonic cells, without the need to collect the cells from embryos. They share the $1. ...</p><br clear="all"/>CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. scientists have sequenced the entire genetic code of four gravely ill newborns and identified genetic diseases in three of them in two days, quick enough to help doctors make treatment decisions. Doctors behind the preliminary study released on Wednesday say it demonstrates a practical use for whole genome sequencing, in which researchers analyze all 3.2 billion chemical "bases" or "letters" that make up the human genetic code. "It is now feasible to decode an entire genome and provide interim results back to the physician in two days," said Dr. ...http://news.yahoo.com/rapid-gene-machines-used-cause-newborn-illnesses-181435778--finance.htmlWed, 03 Oct 2012 17:27:40 -0400Reutersrapid-gene-machines-used-cause-newborn-illnesses-181435778--financeToo often, newborns die of genetic diseases before doctors even know what's to blame. Now scientists have found a way to decode those babies' DNA in just days instead of weeks, moving gene-mapping closer to routine medical care.http://news.yahoo.com/two-day-test-spot-gene-diseases-newborns-200806055.htmlWed, 03 Oct 2012 17:20:48 -0400Associated Presstwo-day-test-spot-gene-diseases-newborns-200806055(Reuters) - The American Civil Liberties Union has asked for a second time that the Supreme Court invalidate Myriad Genetics Inc's patents on two genes associated with hereditary breast and ovarian cancers, the latest salvo in a case with broad consequences for the future of gene-based medicine. The lawsuit against Myriad and the University of Utah Research Foundation, which hold patents that allow the company to control testing for the genes, alleges that the patents are illegal and restrict scientific research and patients' access to medical care. ...http://news.yahoo.com/aclu-asks-supreme-court-reconsider-gene-patenting-case-193652861--finance.htmlTue, 25 Sep 2012 15:36:52 -0400Reutersaclu-asks-supreme-court-reconsider-gene-patenting-case-193652861--financeScientists reported Sunday that they have completed a major analysis of the genetics of breast cancer, finding four major classes of the disease. They hope their work will lead to more effective treatments, perhaps with some drugs already in use.http://news.yahoo.com/breast-cancer-clues-found-gene-analysis-233644161.htmlSun, 23 Sep 2012 20:07:47 -0400Associated Pressbreast-cancer-clues-found-gene-analysis-233644161A three-day summit on livestock biotechnology takes place in Kansas City, Mo. this week with a focus on addressing global problems through genetically engineered animals.http://news.yahoo.com/biotech-summit-focuses-global-food-solutions-145910205--finance.htmlWed, 19 Sep 2012 10:59:10 -0400Associated Pressbiotech-summit-focuses-global-food-solutions-145910205--financeA University of Minnesota team has won a $600,000 federal grant to develop biotechnology for purifying wastewater from hydraulic fracturing.http://news.yahoo.com/minn-team-using-biotech-cut-fracking-impacts-154004372--finance.htmlTue, 18 Sep 2012 11:40:04 -0400Associated Pressminn-team-using-biotech-cut-fracking-impacts-154004372--financeA Santa Cruz-based biotechnology company has been cited by federal regulators for a long list of violations related to the proper care of animals.http://news.yahoo.com/biotech-firm-target-usda-animal-welfare-probe-151819957--finance.htmlTue, 18 Sep 2012 11:18:19 -0400Associated Pressbiotech-firm-target-usda-animal-welfare-probe-151819957--finance<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/romney-gene-hackman-play-him-movie-155527166.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/XIt_xetfkbf4zyCVy.aisw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/c469998df6b127191b0f6a7067008337.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney boards his campaign charter plane in Newark, N.J., Friday, Sept. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)" align="left" title="Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney boards his campaign charter plane in Newark, N.J., Friday, Sept. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)" border="0" /></a>Who would Mitt Romney like to see play him in a movie? (Gene Hackman)</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/romney-gene-hackman-play-him-movie-155527166.htmlFri, 14 Sep 2012 13:15:51 -0400Associated Pressromney-gene-hackman-play-him-movie-155527166<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/romney-gene-hackman-play-him-movie-155527166.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/XIt_xetfkbf4zyCVy.aisw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/c469998df6b127191b0f6a7067008337.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney boards his campaign charter plane in Newark, N.J., Friday, Sept. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)" align="left" title="Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney boards his campaign charter plane in Newark, N.J., Friday, Sept. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)" border="0" /></a>Who would Mitt Romney like to see play him in a movie? (Gene Hackman)</p><br clear="all"/>NEW YORK, N.Y. - Mitt Romney would like to see actor Gene Hackman play him in a movie. He's a fan of "Jersey Shore" star Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi. And when it comes to bedtime attire, Romney's says "as little as possible."http://news.yahoo.com/romney-gene-hackman-play-him-move-hes-fan-164022232.htmlFri, 14 Sep 2012 12:40:22 -0400Associated Pressromney-gene-hackman-play-him-move-hes-fan-164022232Shares of Oncolytics Biotech Inc. bounced back Thursday, a day after the company announced it was expanding a study of its cancer drug Reolysin, delaying the results from the trial.http://news.yahoo.com/oncolytics-biotech-rebounds-wednesday-slump-162933555--finance.htmlThu, 13 Sep 2012 12:29:33 -0400Associated Pressoncolytics-biotech-rebounds-wednesday-slump-162933555--financeST. LOUIS - More than five years after a radical treatment, a San Francisco man and his German doctor are convinced that he remains the first person cured of infection with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.http://news.yahoo.com/5-years-stem-cell-transplant-berlin-man-no-201329140.htmlWed, 12 Sep 2012 16:13:29 -0400Associated Press5-years-stem-cell-transplant-berlin-man-no-201329140For the first time, scientists have improved hearing in deaf animals by using human embryonic stem cells, an encouraging step for someday treating people with certain hearing disorders.http://news.yahoo.com/human-stem-cells-restore-hearing-gerbil-study-181104387.htmlWed, 12 Sep 2012 14:05:48 -0400Associated Presshuman-stem-cells-restore-hearing-gerbil-study-181104387About a dozen anti-genetic foods protesters have blocked the gates to a large Southern California seed plant.http://news.yahoo.com/anti-genetic-foods-protesters-block-ca-seed-plant-181203015--finance.htmlWed, 12 Sep 2012 14:12:03 -0400Associated Pressanti-genetic-foods-protesters-block-ca-seed-plant-181203015--finance<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/deaf-gerbils-hear-again-human-stem-cells-170318983.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/VCiOEAXpMWS85D8F0sk1Xg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-09-12T170948Z_2_CBRE88B1BDS00_RTROPTP_2_STEMCELLS-DEAFNESS.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Human stem cell-derived otic neurons repopulating the cochlea of deaf gerbils are seen in this undated handout photo courtesy of the University of Sheffield" align="left" title="Human stem cell-derived otic neurons repopulating the cochlea of deaf gerbils are seen in this undated handout photo courtesy of the University of Sheffield" border="0" /></a>LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have restored hearing to deaf gerbils using human embryonic stem cells in an advance that could eventually help people with an intractable form of deafness caused by nerve damage. The procedure needs further animal research to assess safety and long-term effectiveness but researchers said on Wednesday the experiment was an important proof of concept, marking a further advance in the growing field of regenerative medicine. ...</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/deaf-gerbils-hear-again-human-stem-cells-170318983.htmlWed, 12 Sep 2012 13:09:48 -0400Reutersdeaf-gerbils-hear-again-human-stem-cells-170318983<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/deaf-gerbils-hear-again-human-stem-cells-170318983.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/VCiOEAXpMWS85D8F0sk1Xg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-09-12T170948Z_2_CBRE88B1BDS00_RTROPTP_2_STEMCELLS-DEAFNESS.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Human stem cell-derived otic neurons repopulating the cochlea of deaf gerbils are seen in this undated handout photo courtesy of the University of Sheffield" align="left" title="Human stem cell-derived otic neurons repopulating the cochlea of deaf gerbils are seen in this undated handout photo courtesy of the University of Sheffield" border="0" /></a>LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have restored hearing to deaf gerbils using human embryonic stem cells in an advance that could eventually help people with an intractable form of deafness caused by nerve damage. The procedure needs further animal research to assess safety and long-term effectiveness but researchers said on Wednesday the experiment was an important proof of concept, marking a further advance in the growing field of regenerative medicine. ...</p><br clear="all"/>CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australian scientists have developed a genetic test to predict autism spectrum disorder in children, which could provide a long-sought way for early detection and intervention, according to a study published on Wednesday. About one in 150 children has autism, with symptoms ranging from social awkwardness and narrow interests to severe communication and intellectual disabilities, said researchers led by the University of Melbourne. The researchers used U.S. ...http://news.yahoo.com/australian-scientists-develops-genetic-test-predict-autism-084625097.htmlWed, 12 Sep 2012 04:52:23 -0400Reutersaustralian-scientists-develops-genetic-test-predict-autism-084625097

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Annual KOBB Brew-In Nov 3

Knights:
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Call it what you like ? HoptoberFest, Pumpkin Brew In, Big Frog Appreciation Day ? we will be brewing!
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When is it?
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Saturday, November 3rd? mark it on your calendars ? we?re two weekends away!!
Bring your systems over any time that week ? come early and stay late!
Brewing will start about 8:00 am or 11:17 Jamison time, whichever comes first.
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Sacrifices and offerings have been made to insure a beautiful brewing day? we?ve arranged for mid 70?s and partly cloudy ? just the way The Woogie ordered it!!
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What is it?
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Knights take a day from their busy lives and spend time together brewing.? We?ll have all kinds of different systems working that day, making all kinds of wonderful beers.? Club members bring their systems, brew beer and enjoy a day, night, weekend of food, beer and festivities.
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We encourage everyone to participate ? doesn?t matter if you?re brewing on high end all grain system or a coffee pot ? Let?s Brew!!
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Bring snacks, bring beer, bring a friend or two!!? We?ve got the whole day, all night and most of Sunday to play!!
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Do I have to brew?
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No.? If you can?t brew or spend an entire day, please feel free to drop by as your schedule permits.? We?ll have all kinds of good things to sample and lots of things going on ? you?re welcome to stop by for a few minutes or spend the day brewing.? Have some friends interested in homebrewing?? Bring them along!!
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We?ll throw some goodies on the smoker and the grill.? We ask everyone to bring a side dish or snack if you can? and let?s chat it up a bit so we don?t end up with 20 different types of potato salad and nothing else? although there isn?t anything wrong with potato salad!!
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Where?
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Woogie?s place? 928 E Mitchell St, Arlington
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It?s a red brick ranch located about a block and a half to the EAST of the intersection of Collins and Mitchell streets in Arlington.? Mitchell runs East/West and is about a mile south of Division ? it?s a lighted intersection ? you can?t miss it.? We?re at the top of the curve in the road ? about a mile before the place where the old Davis?s barn burned down 100 years ago? you can?t miss it.
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Ok?maybe you can?
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We?ll hang the KOBB banner over the garage doors just in case you haven?t been here before? There will be at LEAST one white and one red Jeep sitting in the circular drive.
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As usual, the gates open early and parking is always free.? Due to the current economic climate, we will NOT offer valet parking this year.? DO NOT give your keys to the labs? they love joy riding and we cannot be responsible for lost or damaged property.
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Mark your calendars, get out your brewing books and start thinking about what kind of beer YOU want to be enjoying!!

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I was born and bred in London but I can't find it on a map, says Jessie J

The pop singer-songwriter, 24, who has sold more than 11 million singles and 2.5 million albums thanks to her punchy lyrics, confessed: "Certain things don't soak into my brain." The star said: "I'm intelligent but I'm not academic. I'm not someone who can work out massive sums. I got four per cent in my geography exam and to this day I struggle to find London on the weather map." The Voice judge suffered a stroke at 18 because of a hereditary heart defect, but denied reports that she is teetotal. She said: "One thing that was said early on is that I don't drink, but I do drink now and then.

"I never said that I don't drink. I said I don't get smashed-up crazy drunk every day. I don't have time to. If I did, I would be hungover every day and I wouldn't be able to have the career that I have." She told Ireland's Sunday World Magazine: "When I let go, my friends think I'm hilarious. I've got no inhibitions.

It's funny and it's when I make the most mistakes. I get very giggly and flirtatious and sexual when I'm drunk. I like to have a good time and I love to dance." The singer, whose hits include Price Tag and Domino, was diagnosed with Wolff-Parkinson- White syndrome when she was seven, which entailed hospital visits and excluded her from many school games.

"In primary school, the beta blockers literally turned my skin green," she said. "Plus I looked ill. I had sunken eyes and big teeth and a massive fringe. There was a handful of kids who were mean to me. The bul-lying was never horrific. I've never been beaten up, but sometimes words hurt more than the bruises.

"The worst thing when you've got a heart problem is having to do running tests with only a bra on when you're just starting puberty. It sounds ridiculous, but I used to get more nervous about that than anything else." Jessie J ? whose real name is Jessica Cornish ? recently confirmed she will rejoin The Voice for its second series, but responded to certain critics who accused her of being grumpy on the BBC talent show.

She added: "People got to see a side of my personality they didn't know existed, whether they liked it or not.

"I think sometimes my seriousness got mistaken for grumpiness or rudeness, but most of the time I was just tired or needed a wee, especially on the live shows because we couldn't go to the toilet the whole show."

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Ask Us Anything About All The New Apple Gear

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Is the George Washington Bridge a work of art?

By David Blockley

Happy 81^st Birthday, George Washington Bridge! The French architect Le Corbusier reportedly said you are ?the most beautiful bridge in the world? ? you ?gleam in the sky like a reversed arch.? But are you really a work of art?

"George Washington Bridge. New York City." By Arthur Rothstein, 1941. From the Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection at The Library of Congress.

The designer Othmar H. Ammann certainly was conscious of the need to make beautiful bridges. In 1958 he wrote: ?Economics and utility are not the engineer?s only concerns. He must temper his practicality with aesthetic sensitivity. His structures should please the eye. In fact, an engineer designing a bridge is justified in making a more expensive design for beauty?s sake alone.?

Apart from its obvious elegance, I think that the George Washington Bridge (GWB) is notable perhaps for four reasons. First, at 3,500 feet it was nearly twice the span of the longest bridge at the time ? the Ambassador Bridge at 1,850 feet. Second, Ammann was able to make huge cost savings by reducing the estimates of live load (i.e. due to traffic and trucks etc.) and relying on a relatively new so called ?deflection theory? to design the bridge. Third, the bridge was built during the Great Depression, but there wasn?t enough money ? a cause of a change in appearance because the now famous steel towers were due to be faced in concrete and stone. Fourth, Ammann designed the bridge so that it could be added to, though that didn?t come about until 1962. With its 14 lanes of traffic it is now one of the busiest bridges in the world.

Given later events such as the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge ? the famous ?galloping Gertie? which Ammann actually investigated ? one could argue that Ammann?s design was ?brave?. Large changes from what has gone before, as at Tacoma, can be challenging. It is interesting therefore that as a young man Ammann made his name early by writing a report on another famous bridge disaster ? the Quebec Bridge that collapsed during construction in 1907. At the time the Quebec Bridge was also to be a very large span at 1800 feet, rivalled only by the Forth Railway Bridge in Scotland with main spans of 1710 feet and built in 1890. Ammann would have seen and learned how the many errors in the design and execution led to the downfall of Quebec. He would have contrasted that experience so strongly with the way Sir Benjamin Baker and Sir John Fowler took meticulous care with the Forth after they had witnessed the collapse of the Tay Bridge in Scotland in 1879. I suspect that he learned much from those experiences.

Suspension bridges are complex because the flow of forces in the structure is not easily calculated; engineers call them statically indeterminate. Only now with large computers can we model their behaviour with any confidence. Ammann was taught in Zurich at ETH by Wilhelm Ritter, the engineer who laid the basis for the new, but still rather approximate, deflection theory in 1877. Indeed Ritter taught arguably two of the greatest bridge designers of the early 20th century, Ammann and Robert Maillart, who was responsible for some beautifully elegant early reinforced concrete bridges in Switzerland including the world famous Salginatobel Bridge near Schiers. Ritter?s influence on two of his most accomplished pupils is clear in their work. Ritter emphasised the importance of visualising the flow of forces in the bridge and its relationship with aesthetics. Josef Melan improved the new deflection theory in 1888 and Leon Moisseiff used it to design the Manhattan Suspension Bridge in 1908. The theory was so-named because it took account of the deflections of the structure under live loads (i.e. the moving traffic, etc.). Moisseiff was confident that the theory was accurate but he later was to design Tacoma Narrows.

Perhaps Ammann was more aware of its limitations than some commentators, such as Henry Petroski, have intimated. He knew that the theory was based on quite severe simplifying assumptions. Darl Rastofer has written that Ammann was a reserved, self-effacing, and meticulous man, but one with a quiet inner confidence that meant he could hold his own. He was as comfortable at dealing with detail as well as taking an overview. Like others before him such as Thomas Telford at Menai Bridge in North Wales, Baker and Fowler at Forth, Ammann used theory. But unlike Theodore Cooper at Quebec and Sir Thomas Bouch at Tay, perhaps he was very careful to check and control the detail. I suspect that he was diligent in making sure he understood the flow of forces even if he knew he couldn?t calculate them precisely. I suspect that is why he went on to be so successful in leaving his mark on New York City with five major bridges that bear so much of the traffic flow to and from the city, and with his help on the high profile Golden Gate in San Francisco.

General view of North Side of Bridge from NJ Side of River. From the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

So is the GWB a work of art? Art is difficult to define but we can say it is a power of the practical intellect, the ability to make something of more than ordinary significance. Is the GWB an extraordinary bridge? Did Ammann achieve aesthetic sensitivity? He certainly achieved practicality; no-one can fail to be impressed. Le Corbusier liked it, so that is good enough for most of us. But of course Le Corbusier was a modernist, so he liked functionality; for example he saw buildings ?as machines for living in?. All in all I think it is no accident that suspension bridges are some of the most beautiful structures we see around us. The graceful curves of the cables are the defining feature and they are entirely natural structures. They are the best examples of harmonious form and function. The GWB is one of the best as was Othmar Ammann.

Emeritus Professor David Blockley is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, UK. He has won several awards including the Telford Gold Medal of the Institution of Civil Engineers. He has written over 160 technical papers and 7 books ? the latest of which are Bridges: The Science and Art of the World?s Most Inspiring Structures and Engineering: A Very Short Introduction. Read his previous blog post: ?The ingenious problem-solving of the modern-day engineer.?

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