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Comets hammered at Somerset

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Workington Comets endured a miserable evening of speedway after being drubbed 64-28 away at Somerset last night.

SOMERSET 64 COMETS 28

Comets registered just a single race win all night as league leaders Somerset Rebels ran out comfortable victors.

Every single Rebels rider rode superbly, particularly guest Nicolai Klindt (13 points) and Nick Morris (14 points).

In contrast, not one Comets rider got into double figures, with both Josh Grajczonek and Ricky Wells top-scoring for Workington with eight points.

The match was a cagey affair to begin with and after the first two heats the scores were level at 6-6 following successive 3-3 scores.

But it was the Rebels who grabbed the first advantage courtesy of a 5-1 in heat three. Klindt sprung into the lead from the tapes and team-mate Charles Wright went past Comets pair Mason Campton and Wells on the outside of the opening turn.

Comets went further behind in heat five due to another excellent 5-1 for the Rebels to extend their lead to 19-11.

It was again the combo of Klindt followed by Wright who secured the points for Somerset. Comets No 1 Grajczonek battled throughout the race to try to pass Wright but to no avail.

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Workington Comets' play-off hopes still alive desptie defeat

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WORKINGTON Comets play-off hopes are still in their own hands despite a resounding 64-28 loss away at Somerset last night.

Comets recorded just one race win as league leaders Somerset Rebels showed their title credentials. But the loss did nothing to dent their play-off chances.

Comets trail Newcastle, who are in the final play-off place, by two points and the North East side have a tough trip away at Edinburgh today.

Workington will also have to keep an eye on Peterborough as they are on equal league points with Comets but have a slightly worse points difference.

Peterborough lost away to Plymouth 56-40 and host Rye House tomorrow in their final league fixture.

Therefore, two wins for Comets against Sheffield today in a double-header should secure a play-off place, as long as Newcastle dont pick up four points at second-placed Edinburgh.

Team manager Tony Jackson was disappointed with the loss to Somerset, but admitted that it didnt come as a surprise.

He said: Its not unexpected for several reasons. When we played them in the Knockout Cup we lost 60-30. They are putting 60 points on everybody. There was no reason why we shouldnt be any different.

We didnt start too badly, but after heat eight they graded the track and they got four 5-1s. Their guys know how to ride that track. We were chasing tails all night. Its such a tough place to go.

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Comets eye third straight state crown

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Interest and expectations are high for the Mason High School girls cross country team.

Coach Chip Dobson said the size of the roster has increased 40 percent over 2013. The Comets have 126 runners in the program.

Our district is getting very large, Dobson said. We have a big freshman class, but some of it is the success we have had and that culture has developed.

Indeed, the Comets have won back-to-back state championships. They return six of the seven runners to competed in last years state meet.

Still, Dobson said the Comets have multiple time trials during the season to find the best lineup (top seven).

We feel like we have a pretty good handle on it in that we are always assessing our top seven, Dobson said. It changes week-to-week. Thats how we roll each season.

Through the first few invitationals, the Comets have already had 15 different runners turn in varsity times. Meagan Murphy, Leah Ford, Ellie Brush, Alberta Negri, Ailee Henderson, Nia Myre, Delaney McDowell, Lauren Rose, Bethany Angstadt, Amy Satterhwaite, Erin Brush, Elizabeth Atkins, Madeline Seiller, Annie McBeth and Taylor Wood have all posted times among the Greater Miami Conference leaders.

Dobson said winning a Greater Miami Conference title the Comets have won four straight is goal No. 1. Winning a third state state title is another.

We know the field is going to be challenging, Dobson said. Last year, three of the top four teams at state were from our regional and one team that didnt get out would have been as good as eight or nine of the teams there. It is a very competitive atmosphere and it wakes me up early thinking about it.

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Dendritic cells affect onset, progress of psoriasis

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Different types of dendritic cells in human skin have assorted functions in the early and more advanced stages of psoriasis report researchers in the journal EMBO Molecular Medicine. The scientists suggest that new strategies to regulate the composition of dendritic cells in psoriatic skin lesions might represent an approach for the future treatment of the disease.

"We urgently need new ways to treat psoriasis, treatments that will deliver improved benefits to patients and reduce the incidence of known side effects for existing drugs," says EMBO Member Maria Sibilia, a Professor at the Medical University of Vienna in Austria, and one of the lead authors of the study. "Our experiments have revealed that increases in the number of plasmacytoid dendritic cells are important early triggers of the disease while other types of dendritic cells, the Langerhans cells, help to protect the balance of the immune response that is established during inflammation of the skin."

Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease that affects around 125 million people worldwide. Symptoms, which include the formation of red inflamed lesions that appear on the skin, vary from mild to severe. The disease is often associated with other serious health conditions such as diabetes, heart disease and depression.

The researchers observed an increase in the accumulation of plasmacytoid dendritic cells in the psoriatic lesions of patients as well as in mice that are model organisms for the study of the disease. Plasmacytoid dendritic cells are a specific type of immune cell that can infiltrate damaged tissue during the early phase of psoriasis. In contrast, the levels of another type of dendritic cells known as Langerhans cells, were significantly decreased in the lesions compared to healthy skin in humans and mice. If the levels of plasmacytoid dendritic cells in mice were decreased during the early stages of the disease then the symptoms of psoriasis were quelled. A similar decrease in Langerhans cells at an early stage of the disease had no effect. If the levels of Langerhans cells were reduced at advanced stages of the disease, the symptoms of psoriasis were exacerbated.

"The changes in the severity of symptoms we have observed related to changes in the composition of dendritic cells most likely impact the balance of inflammatory mediators at the site of disease. It may well be that by inducing favourable compositions of dendritic cells at the early stages of psoriasis we may be able to help reduce the effects of psoriasis by achieving a better balance of these mediators at the site of the disease. Further work is needed before we can say with any certainty if such an approach will lead to a viable clinical treatment for psoriasis."

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World's Best Places To Travel In 2014

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By SiliconIndia| Friday, 12 September 2014, 18:42 IST

BANGALORE: As Rumi, the Persian poet quoted, Travel brings power and love back into your life. To travel is to find your inner self, and to explore creations in their great marvellous feats. Let us discover the stunning travel destinations of the world worth visiting at least ones in a lifetime.

Istanbul

Istanbul is a mixture of vibrant culture and combines Asiatic ambience with European roots.

The city forms one of the largest urban cities in Europe and stands among the top tourist destinations of the world with its historical monuments, peninsulas, and scenic beauties adoring the City of Istanbul.

The city's biggest attraction, its historic center, is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, but its cultural and entertainment hub can be found across the city's natural harbor, the Golden Horn, in the Beyoblu district.

While in Istanbul or visiting the nearby cities, it offers you its unique pleasant environment pearled with peace and serenity. Istanbul enriches you with providing a glorious view of the Black Sea in the north, The Marmara Sea in the South and the Istanbul Strait running through the middle of the city.

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Google's First Quantum Computer Will Build on D-Wave's Approach

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Most quantum computing labs hope to slowly build universal "gate-model" machines that could perform as super-fast versions of today's classical computers. Such labs have tended to cast a skeptical eye upon D-Wave, the Canadian company that has rapidly developed a more specialized type of quantum computing machine for lease to corporate customers such as Google and Lockheed Martin. In the latest twist, Google has hired an academic team of researchers to help build the first Google quantum computer based on the specialized D-Wave approach rather than on a universal gate-model blueprint.

The Google announcement of its plan to build new quantum computing hardware coincided with itshiring of John Martinis, a professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, last week. Martinis has led an academic team in developing error correction techniques that can stabilize the quantum bitscalled qubitsused by quantum computers to perform many simultaneous calculations by representing both 0 and 1 states at the same time. Many news outlets, includingIEEE Spectrum, had initially assumed that Google's hiring of the Martinis team signaled the technology giant's intent to develop universal quantum computing hardware as an alternative to D-Wave's specialized quantum annealing machines.

That turned out to be only partly true. In the long run, Google and Martinis do want to work toward universal gate-model quantum computers capable of solving a wide range of problems. But they have set their immediate sights on building a quantum annealing computer similar to the D-Wave machines that can only solve optimization problems. In the short term,Google wants to use the Martinis team's expertise to build a more stabilized version of a quantum annealer that can ensure longer coherence times for the system's fragile qubits.

"Were taking the approach that if we have longer coherence times, maybe the quantum annealer would work better," Martinis says. "We know how to make coherent qubits and scale them up."

Quantum annealing by itself isn't very controversial. But D-Wave has attracted controversy because it has sacrificed some qubit coherence by scaling up quickly to the 512-qubit D-Wave Two machinefar larger than most experimental quantum computing systems containing just several qubits. Many researchers remain skeptical of whether D-Wave's quantum annealing machines will ever end up beating classical computers in solving optimization problems. (The D-Wave machines have so far not demonstrated significantly better performance than classical computers.)

Google's new plan represents a complementary, slow-but-steady approach to building a quantum annealer that could potentially deliver better performance in the long run. The technology giant still plans to work with D-Wave's scientists as D-Wave scales up to a 1,000-qubit "Washington" processor, says Hartmut Neven, director of engineering at Google's Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab, in ablog post. But Google's own quantum computer plans seek to combine the best of both worlds by ensuring system stability through qubit coherence as the hardware scales up in size.

The Martinis group had previously built quantum computing systems of up to nine qubits based on superconducting quantum circuitsthe same type of general hardware design used by D-Wave's machines. Under the new Google effort, Martinis hopes his team can roughly double the number of qubits every year and eventually work up to 40 or 80 qubits through "brute-force" scaling. "Forty qubits is a large enough number so that you can really tell if the device is going to give any interesting performance," Martinis says.

At the same time, Martinis and his team will continue developing error-correction codes for Google with the aim of uncovering and fixing errors in universal logic-gate quantum computers. In May, they demonstrated a type of error-correction code called surface code that can work with lower accuracy thresholds for quantum logic operations.

The recruitment of the Martinis group signals Google's intent to recruit or tap into talent with wide-ranging expertise at the Google Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab. Such a move also inaugurates a new era of cooperation between academic researchers and D-Wave under the Google umbrellaa scenario that would have seemed unbelievable just several years ago because of the skepticism and heated debates surrounding D-Wave's machines. Scott Aaronson, a theoretical computer scientist at MIT and a leading D-Wave critic, applauded the Martinis group's move to Google on his Shtetl-Optimized blog.

As for Martinis, the UCSB researcher described his excitement about moving from the university environment to the application-focused Google lab. He anticipates being able to focus more on the business of building a working quantum computer with his more permanent staff at Google, as opposed to university projects with a rotating cast of students and post-doctoral fellows who typically leave in several years. Many of his senior researchers, including post-doctoral fellows, have moved over to work at Google. The graduate students on his team will continue working at the University of California, Santa Barbara, through a grant from Google.(Martinis currently holds a joint appointment at Google and UCSB.)

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