Friday, August 2, 2013

Golf | Women's British Open: Park opens with 69

Associated Press Thursday August 1, 2013 11:48 AM

Scott Heppell | Associated Press

Inbee Park's round included a double-bogey on the back nine.

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland -- Inbee Park wasn't just chasing history at St. Andrews. She was sprinting toward it.

All it took were three loose tee shots, a pair of three-putts and a double-bogey on the back nine today in the Women's British Open to remind her that winning an unprecedented four straight majors in one year is not going to be easy.

Park ran off six birdies in 10 holes to race to the top of the leaderboard, only to stumble coming back in for a 3-under-par 69 that leaves her two shots out of the lead.

"Felt like a roller coaster today," Park said.

Stacy Lewis, the former No. 1 who would love to be a spoiler at St. Andrews, hit her stride on the back nine with a 31 that gave her a 67 and a share of the lead midway through the opening round with Na Yeon Choi, Nicole Castrale and Mi-Jeong Jeon.

Paula Creamer played bogey-free for a 68.

"Once the round started, and especially playing so good the first few holes, that really gave me a lot of confidence," Park said. "I didn't feel much pressure during the round. I'm just glad that it is already started and I got the first round under my belt."

The conditions were perfect for scoring on the Old Course, with light rain falling from a lead gray sky and barely any wind. Some of the biggest names in women's golf, including Park, Lewis and Creamer, teed off in front of the Royal & Ancient clubhouse with no more than a few dozen fans in tow.

Park already has won three majors this year. No golfer, male or female, has ever won four in one year. The 25-year-old South Korean said she was more nervous than usual before getting to the first tee, perhaps because of all the chatter about a Grand Slam.

It sure didn't show.

Park opened with a wedge to? about 7 feet for birdie, and then she really poured it on with an amazing display of her putting stroke. She rolled in a 30-foot birdie putt on No. 3 with perfect pace. She hit a hybrid the perfect distance on No. 4, giving her a flat line between ridges for an 18-foot birdie putt. She made a 35-foot birdie putt on No. 6, another birdie just inside 20 feet on No. 8 and a sixth birdie on No. 10 after a wedge that stopped 5 feet from the hole.

Just like that, there was a feeling of inevitability about this Women's British Open, much like it was for Tiger Woods when he won the British Open for the first time at St. Andrews by eight shots to complete the career Grand Slam in 2000.

Dressed in a black rain suit, her emotions never changed, even when she started to unravel.

It started with a tee shot into thick grass to the right of the 12th fairway and a shot he hacked out to the front of the green, below a 3-foot ridge some 75 feet away. Park left the putt some 15 feet short, and made that to save par.

But she couldn't save herself from another poor drive on the 13th, and her second shot came dangerously close to a large gorse bush. She chipped to 15 feet and made bogey, her first of the day. A delicate pitch-and-run helped her avoid another bogey on the 15th after a tee shot to the right.

Her biggest mistake came from the only bunker she found, just short of the 16th green. The ball was a few feet from the lip, and Park was tempted to take it up over the high face of the vetted wall. Instead, she turned sideways and blasted out to the middle of the double green, the ball about halfway between the holes cut for No. 2 and No. 16. From some 90 feet away, she didn't hit it nearly hard enough, and her par putt from 15 feet caught the lip.

She also three-putted the 17th from 40 feet when her first attempt came up 10 feet short. Considered one of the top putters on the LPGA Tour - and looking for a short time as though she couldn't miss - Park had consecutive three-putt bogeys and had lost four shots in a five-hole span.

"I thought that I fixed my problems coming into this week. I was hitting it so good on the practice round and I didn't really miss any balls," Park said. "I thought I was really prepared, but those couple of bad shots really shocked me. I couldn't really concentrate on the greens when I hit those shots. I've learned my lesson. Good thing I've got my time to fix that today and tomorrow."

Still, she is only two shots behind, opening with a round that could have been much better. Even so, Park had no complaints.

"A little disappointing, but I'm glad that I've done that in the first round instead of the final round," she said. "I'm looking to improve the next three days."

Only four months ago, Park and Lewis were battling for No. 1 in the world until the South Korean left everyone in her wake by adding to her major championship collection. The Kraft Nabisco Championship put her in position to take No. 1 away from Lewis, and the playoff win at the LPGA Championship and four-shot win at the U.S. Women's Open brought her to the brink of something grand.

Lewis, however, has some history of her own at St. Andrews. In her final event as an amateur, Lewis was part of the Curtis Cup team that beat Britain & Ireland at the home of golf. Lewis won all five of her matches. She turned pro and played in the final group of the U.S. Women's Open at Interlachen, which Park rallied to win for her first major.

Lewis and Karrie Webb were on the 11th tee when they saw Park make birdie to reach 5 under through eight holes.

"We both looked at each other and shook our heads," Lewis said. "We knew she was going to be there, but it's like she keeps doing it over and over and over again. The front nine is usually where you score. For me, it was the opposite. And I feel lucky to get away with one today."

Source: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/sports/2013/08/01/0801-womens-british-open.html

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UN says over 1,000 people killed in Iraq in July

BAGHDAD (AP) ? The U.N. mission in Iraq says more than 1,000 people have been killed in violence across the country last month, the highest monthly death toll in years.

The U.N. figures released Thursday underscore concerns that security is quickly deteriorating in Iraq amid a spike in violence in recent months.

The United Nations says it recorded 1,057 people killed in July, including members of Iraq's security forces. The capital, Baghdad, was the worst affected, with 238 killed. The U.N. figure was higher than the June death toll, which stood at 761.

The U.N. figure is different from a count by The Associated Press, which reported that at least 730 people were killed in July.

Reports of Iraq casualty tolls can vary considerably, with different accounts from local police and hospital officials.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/un-says-over-1-000-people-killed-iraq-105021570.html

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Skipton Building Society's profits rise 60 per cent (From Bradford ...

Skipton Building Society?s profits rise 60 per cent

Skipton Building Society made nearly as much profit in the first half of this year as it did in the whole of 2012.

Pre-tax profits at the mutual financial group grew by nearly 60 per cent to ?34.4 million against ?21.7m at the halfway stage last year and just below the ?35.4m for the whole of 2012.

The success came as the society attracted 11,000 more customers and increased gross lending by two-thirds to ?1.09 billion. It also boosted net lending by ?455m, or 4.4 per cent, at a time when overall UK residential mortgage lending was flat.

The Skipton drew down ?410m under the Bank of England?s Funding for Lending Scheme which had increased its net UK mortgage lending since its launch by ?656m.

Mortgage arrears (where the arrears balance was greater than 2.5 per cent of the total outstanding balance) fell to 1.16 per cent from 1.3 per cent, below the industry average of 1.42 per cent.

Skipton increased retail savings balances by ?319m to ?9.74bn, a growth of 3.4 per cent.

It saw continued improvement in the performance of its mortgages and savings division where profits increased by ?12.5m to ?16.2m, compared to ?3.7m for the first half of 2012. The result was boosted by higher lending business and falling savings rates.

Chief executive David Cutter said the Skipton had continued to improve its key capital ratios and maintain prudent levels of high-quality liquidity, while meeting members? needs through a personalised approach to service, further growth in lending and competitive savings products.

The group?s estate agency division, Connells, increased profits by a quarter to ?23 million from ?18.5 million in the first half of 2012 as a result of a 16.8 per cent increase in house sales.

Homeloan Management, the mortgage servicing business, traded profitably in a subdued outsourcing market, lifting pre-tax profits to ?300,000 against ?100,000 a year earlier.

Skipton?s three financial advice businesses overturned a ?500,000 loss 12 months ago to post ?500,000 profits as they benefited from a buoyant stock market for most of the period.

David Cutter said: ?I am delighted to report a 59 per cent increase in profits at the same time as growth in mortgage and savings balances and capital ratios.?

?I am particularly pleased at the way in which we have achieved our results. We remain committed to being an organisation that cares about our customers, continually offering good value products to our members, backed up by outstanding personal service.?

Source: http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/10584287.Skipton_Building_Society___s_profits_rise_60_per_cent/

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Osheaga: Alt-J stays outside of the musical box - Montreal Gazette

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The members of Alt-J masked their identities in photos until success and ambition necessitated a compromise. ?It got to a point where it was like, ?Well, you?re not going to be in this magazine because they won?t even publish an article on you without a picture of your faces,? ? guitarist/bassist Gwil Sainsbury says.

Photograph by: Noah Kalina , Warner Music Canada

MONTREAL ? Gwil Sainsbury was speaking from Norway via a crackling connection, but you could still hear the ironic quote marks around the word when Alt-J?s guitarist/bassist described himself as a musician.

So success has changed Sainsbury?s life, but not Sainsbury. More than a year after the release of the British quartet?s debut, An Awesome Wave, Alt-J is still touring the album intensively, and is in the midst of a particularly demented summer itinerary that includes Europe, Australia, Mexico, Japan, the U.S. and Canada. Despite all the on-the-job training, ?I don?t really consider myself a musician, because I don?t really know about music,? Sainsbury said.

?I spent a long time in this band trying to work at how you write music: what the approach is, how it all happens, how it fits together. But at the end of the day, I don?t know things that lots of musicians know ? like, you know, what notes I?m playing on guitar. So it?s kind of amusing that we?re in this position.?

If Sainsbury?s modesty paints a picture of Alt-J as butter-fingered amateurs, the Mercury Prize jury may be a more reliable witness. The prestigious British award ? the equivalent of Canada?s Polaris Music Prize, awarded to an album solely on the basis of artistic merit ? went to An Awesome Wave last year, in recognition of a work that escapes easy definition. High-minded cultural references are hung on Joe Newman?s nursery-rhyme vocal hooks; Thom Green?s clattering percussion is as likely to drive a song as Newman and Sainsbury?s skeletal guitars.

An Awesome Wave?s tense but spacious songs don?t have many direct parallels, but the counterintuitive structures came from a place of intuition. The benefit to not knowing how to write a song is that you can write your own rules.

?When we went off to university, none of us did music. We did English and fine art,? said Sainsbury, whose studies fit in the latter camp. ?Those are both very critical courses. They?re much more critical than a music degree in the U.K., certainly. And I think that what we took away from our courses was: question everything. Question the conventions. Had we all got degrees in music, I think we would have ended up making more generic music, because once you?re involved in that world of defining so much, you become accepting of something being the way it is ? that to do music, you have to do it in a certain way.

?Terminology that most bands would probably use, like verses and choruses and middle eights and bridges, we didn?t really use, simply because we didn?t really know what a bridge or a middle eight was. I probably still couldn?t tell you. So that was really helpful ? we weren?t restricted by thinking about songwriting in a conventional way.?

Ignoring the conventions of Music 101 means you can pick a geometric figure for your band name ? Alt-J being the keyboard command for the triangular delta symbol. (Clearly, Sainsbury and his bandmates are Mac users.) The sign can indicate change in science and math equations, so as rock iconography, it suited a band in search of its own sound and its own approach to self-promotion. Members? faces were obscured in early photos, and the visual mystery likely would have carried through Alt-J?s lifespan if success and ambition hadn?t dictated a certain level of compromise.

?It got to a point where it was like, ?Well, you?re not going to be in this magazine because they won?t even publish an article on you without a picture of your faces.? You go, ?OK, we?ll do it for this magazine.? And if we do it for that magazine, another magazine goes, ?Well, they did a face shot in this one; can they do one for us?? And then it just sort of snowballed.?

Sainsbury clearly expected anonymity to be in the cards for a while longer: ?We?re doing the kind of shows I didn?t think we?d be doing for another three years ? not until at least our next album,? he said, citing the band?s headlining of the second stage at Britain?s Reading and Leeds festivals in August.

He also didn?t expect Alt-J to be touring in support of An Awesome Wave so long after its release, ?because we didn?t think many people would like the record,? he said with a laugh. ?I thought that a few blogs would like it, and maybe one paper in the U.K. ? there might be one critic who liked it ? but that that would probably be the extent of any success. And then we?d maybe be dropped from the label, or go straight back after doing a very short tour and write a second album.?

The finely woven production touches in An Awesome Wave allowed for a contingency plan: ?It was quite important for us to put lots of little things in there that we knew about and could draw on so we wouldn?t get bored if we were going to tour it (for a long time).? Many of the sonic layers are almost subliminal ? ?you wouldn?t even necessarily know they were there unless you?d done a massive bong hit? ? which makes sense coming from a guitarist who claims David Gilmour as an inspiration. (?Sometimes if I?m stuck I try to channel him, because one issue I have is always trying to play too fast, and Gilmour always plays incredibly slowly but very articulately.?) It initially made less sense to a guitarist who had expected the live show to recreate the album.

?I got a bit freaked out because we were putting down so many parts. I thought, ?We?re never going to be able to play this live.? But we decided as a group that we would worry about that later, and that we would simply put down whatever we wanted to put down.?

Sainsbury expects the same attitude to prevail in the making of the eventual second album, while allowing that the streamlined minimalism of the concerts will likely carry over.

?When you?ve been touring for a year and a half, you?re probably more comfortable on stage than you are in the studio ? it?s about what becomes familiar to you. And I think that as ?musicians,? we?ve grown a lot in terms of our understanding of each other ? understanding what other people can do and how you fit around that.?

Alt-J performs Friday, Aug. 2?from 4:15 to 5 p.m. on the Mountain Stage as part of the Osheaga Music and Arts Festival at Jean Drapeau Park. The festival is sold out apart from a small number of three-day VIP Osheaga Experience packages, priced at $740.95 and offering an exclusive viewing area at the main stages and other amenities. For more information, visit osheaga.com.

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Source: http://www.montrealgazette.com/entertainment/festival-central/Osheaga+stays+outside+musical/8727227/story.html

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Chemists develop innovative nano-sensors for multiple proteins

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Chemists have developed a new method for parallel protein analysis that is, in principle, capable of identifying hundreds or even thousands of different proteins. It could be used to detect the presence of viruses and identify their type in tiny samples. At the same time, it is very cost-effective and quick.

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/matter_energy/biochemistry/~3/uZGG9UhG-I0/130731093506.htm

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Friday, July 26, 2013

Geeksphone Announces Its First Consumer-Focused Firefox Smartphone, Mid-Range Peak+ Preorders Kick Off At $196

Peak+Spanish open hardware phone platform manufacturer Geeksphone, which created the first developer preview devices for Mozilla's Firefox OS (aka Peak and Keon), has announced it's now taking pre-orders for a new beefed up consumer version of its Peak smartphone that it's called Peak+.

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