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Skip to comments.How Many Times Did John Bruhns Stand With Code Pink At Walter Reed?
Posted on 05/29/2007 8:45:58 PM PDT by tgslTakoma
August 26, 2005:
Here is the official Freep report for this date. and in this photo from that thread, John Bruhns is front and center, holding the Stars and Stripes:
Here is Freeper Plea Deal's report and photos. Blogger Tantor also has a report, here. Freeper Tom the Redhunter has his blog report here. Andi of Andi's World wrote a report on her blog here. And here is another photo of Bruhns (far right) with the Pinkos:
September 2, 2005:
On this date, John Bruhns is spotted (for the second week in a row) with the Code Pinkos and Veterans For Peace, outside the main gate at WRAMC. Here is Freeper Plea Deal's blog report. And here is a photo of Bruhns holding up one end of the VFP banner. (Enlarge the image on your computer... yep, he's the one holding it.)
Our official Freep Report for this night now is missing BillF's photos due to a loss of files on his website, but you can read the report anyway. And hopefully one day he can recover all the photos
Here are three more photos of Bruhns with the Pinkos on September 2, 2005:
September 9, 2005:
You can read the Freep report for this night here; but again the image links are dead.
Because of the loss (online) of BillF and bmwcyle's photos, it is not known if Bruhns was with the Pinkos on this date. Hopefully BillF and bmw will look over their photo files and see if they can clarify...
September 16, 2005:
On this date, this "same night" thread documents Bruhns' attempts to start a fight with Freepers. On his third week (verified via photo searches on various sources) with the Code Pinkos' WRAMC protest, Bruhns stormed across the street, from the Code Pinko side of the street and started spewing profanities at bmwcyle and others (caught on audio tape by a Freeper):
Then he made a big show of pulling up his sleeve:
and revealing a USMC tattoo:
September 16, 2005 official AAR thread, posted 9/21/05.
Freeper Plea Deal blogged about the Freep, and she also has a photo of Bruhns that night, at the WRAMC main gate.
Blogger Andi, of Andi's World also wrote a report about this week's (9/16/05) Freep of the Code Pinko "vigil." Most noteworthy as regards Bruhns' present claim that he thought the Pinkos were protesting the BRAC decision to close WRAMC, is Andi's photo of the "Quiet Zone" sign on one Pinko corner, while singing and "whooping it up" by Pinkos on the other corner.
Also, Freeper Tom the Redhunter wrote a report on his blog about this night's Freep. On his report, he also has a photo of Bruhns with the Pinkos (although the date stamp is off by one day):
September 23, 2005:
September 23rd was a big weekend for the radical left in DC. On Sunday they would be marching against the war, our troops and our president. Here's a photo of Bruhns at the Walter Reed main gate that night, for his fourth week standing with the Pinkos:
Here's another banner that was out on this night while Bruhns was there:
I know it's very dark, so I lightened the image a little so that you can read the message better:
Freeper Plea Deal also has a photo of that banner on her blog report about that evening.
Now, that is four different occasions that Freepers and bloggers have documented John Bruhns' participation in Code Pink's protests at Walter Reed. Didn't Bruhns say in his email to Jim Robinson that he was only a participant twice?
Maybe he just didn't recall attending the Pinko protest for four weeks?
And then to muddy the issue further, on Memorial Day, May 28, 2007, Bruhns appeared on CSPAN's Washington Journal and claimed that he had only been there one time!
Good Golly Miss Molly! How does that old saying go... "Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to..."?
In his own words "I took Cindy Sheehan to Walter Reed last Friday night. She and I went in and delivered a get well card to the troops. She was welcomed with open arms. It was really nice. After we left the mob scene across the street began to scream the most awful things at her. We left quick though. I drove her to the airport right after we left Walter Reed."
I know I already posted this link above, but I thought it was worth repeating.
Note: Save this file. Newsworthy stuff like this has a funny way of getting "disappeared."
I guess I'm dumber than a fence post, but who is this guy and why is it important? I missed something somewhere (imagine that—LOL!)
Why do we care about this particular blockhead? Kinda crummy/lazy effort to explain to those of us not in the know.
Who is this person? What makes him differant from the other wacko's who protest at Walter Reed?
Two years ago Bruhns was hanging out with the radicals, but recently he's been "cleansing" his history with them.
Now he's speaking out on behalf of "Vote Vets" and is trying to clean up his act for that. The most recent photo op I saw him in was with Nancy Lugosi and Dingy Harry Reid.
Kind of reminds me of John Effin' Kerry back in his "Jenjiss Khan" testimony days, only to resurrect himself as a patriot Senator/Presidential candidate.
Who is John Bruhns and why should I be concerned? I understand the Code Pinko thing but why is Bruhns singled out? Is he just another socialist troublemaker?
Founded and supported by Veterans, VoteVets.org PAC views defense policy as an American priority. The goal of the VoteVets.org PAC is to put Iraq and Afghanistan War Veterans in Congress who are critical of the execution of the war in Iraq and representative of the principles of VoteVets.org PAC in the US Congress by:
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Sounds good, doesn't it?
But it's not so good if the kind of vets they highlight are the type who hang out with Marxist groups like Code Pink.
BTW, Harry Reid gave VoteVets.org a $5,000 donation.
See #6, #8 and #10.
Ok, thanks for clearing things up.
Thank you. Now I know. I'll remember the name.
He is a jerk and doesn't know truth. I have looked into this little boys eyes. There is nothing behind them. He is a coward and he need to go home to mom where she can take care of him until they find a home for him.
I have looked into this little boys eyes. There is nothing behind them.
That emptiness even shows through in photos.
John Bruhns was given the privilege of a cspan appearance on Memorial Day. That is why his lies are being exposed today. (A caller from Takoma Park got through who challenged his version of events at WRAMC.)
Schedule date: Monday, May 28, 2007
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He is looking for his day in the sun. John is just another John Kerry type.
The difference in the demeanor of the two veterans on C-Span was astounding. This one was slouching, puffily overweight and vacant looking. The other sat up straight, appeared to be strong and fit and spoke forcefully. I didn't know that Mr. anti-Iraq war was lying, but I could have guessed.
They love to get on TV and make up their brand of truth.
I just read that other thread where JimRob had posted that threatening email from John Bruhns then it appeared that John Bruhns had signed up using his own name then John Bruhns was quickly outed and ZOTTED. John Bruhns is quite the liar it seems..........
One photo, our hero is wearing an Army t shirt. Wearing that with a USMC tattoo is a fashion faux pau, kind of like wearing white after Labor Day...
And then he switched to Cindy Sheehan and the Code Pink Marxists.
And now (maybe someone in the 'Rat party whispered sweet nothings in his ear) he's working on legitimizing his antiwar activism, by allying himself with Nancy Lugosi and Dingy Harry Reid's style of constitutional subversion.
I would not be surprised to see him put up by VoteVets.org as a 'Rat candidate; similar to the candidate Paul "The Hack" Hackett was.
The thing that set off my radar about Bruhns was that he tried to wipe "the record" of his past protests with Code Pink and other radical groups, as if they never happened. And when that didn't work, he said, "I only went to two Walter Reed protests." Then on CSPAN on Memorial Day, he tried to float the story that he had only been to one protest at WRAMC.
That's why I started digging through all of our WRAMC reports and blog reports, to find out just how many times he was there.
When I saw that we had record of four protests that he had been to there, as well as accompanying Mother Sheehan to WRAMC on the occasion of the 2000th death in Iraq, I had visions of a candidate John Bruhns a few years down the road saying, "I'm John Bruhns, and I'm reporting for duty."
If he really does think that what Code Pink is doing at Walter Reed is reprehensible, I want to see him issue a press statement condemning what the leftists in Code Pink (and Veterans For Peace and IVAW and the rest of the radicals) are doing there. I want to read his public apology to the wounded soldiers and their families for the pain and suffering he caused them by his participation in those protests.
Otherwise, it looks to me like he's a political opportunist.
I researched it a while back and IIRC, VoteVets.org Wesley Clark's hobby horse. I did the reseach, no "journalist" would know because they're not that good.
Bet there's something to be learned there.
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We did it! Finally after much searching we found suitable wheels for our Lylee. I'll post on her blog with more pics how it all worked out. But here is a quick shot i took the day we got it (off Craigslist)
Seriously cool that we got one for her - just sorry we didn't do it sooner!
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8 November 2010
How darling she looks in there! How does she like it? How does she manuver steps?
— Beth and Spirit Smilin' Sammy
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Golden retriever, diagnosed with osteosarcoma in September 2010 — right front leg amputated November 2010. He fought valiantly to stay with us; but a second diagnosis of osteosarcoma, this time in his left front leg, was more than our golden warrior could overcome. He loved his pack — and everyone else he met.
We loved him even more. Thanks for the pennies, Sammy. They helped.
7 January 2011
Lylee looks so snug; the girl is certainly ready to roll! How did your first stroll go? Is this a dog stroller or a human one?
Baby is 155# with three legs- WOW!!!!!! However did you guys cope immediately after the amp? You must be seriously strong!
OK- chariot races at the next Nor Cal Tripawd meet up!!! Although with those big wheels you have an advantage over the pug stroller and Shelby's red wagon! And my knees aren't what they used to be!
How exciting for Lylee! Looks like she has taken to it just fine. Now she has to work on her Queen Mum wave!
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29 October 2010
Oooo, chariot races - good idea, Karen! We'd consider a trip up to Nor Cal to see that!
Have fun, Lylee!
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1 February 2011
All she needs now is her tiara and scepter!
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28 November 2011
I think she needs decorative pinwheels added to the cart. Or, maybe some streamers?
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12 February 2010
chariot races? pinwheels? coffee is now coming out of my nose...you definitely need to make some videos!!!
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29 October 2010
OMD, Karen - that thread was hysterical. Thank you for posting, since it was before our time.
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13 October 2011
Awesome Lylee!!! Do you actually stay in it? Miss Pegz loves the walk....but gets mad at her Mom for making her turn back before Monkey Chaz has to turn back. SHe wants to go all the way with him, but it is a little too far and one time we had to carry her and it was not pretty. Very undignified for a warrior princess.
I am afraid she will always try to jump out along the route. What do you think?
14 August 2009
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She was born with a deformed front leg and a tripawd all of her life.
10 December 2011
Oh, Lylee you are absolutely styling in your new buggy. Daisy is getting one (waiting for the tax refund) and I'm hoping after I spend all that money she will actually ride in the thing. She's kind of weird when it comes to anything "different".
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Acts III & IV Guiding Questions
1. It seems that every time John Proctor, Giles Corey, and Francis Nurse try to defend their wives, they are accused of trying to overthrow the court. What would Rev. Parris have to lose if the defense's case was seriously considered? What would Danforth and the judges have to lose? (Nate)
Rev. Parris' niece and daughter would be lost, and he would lose trust from the people. Danforth and the judges would also lose their respect and trust from the people and they might me put to death for false accusations.
2. What does Abigail's refusal to answer Danforth's questions show aboute the status the trials have given her? (Nate)
The refusal of Abigail answering Danforth's questions shows that the status of the trials might not be entirely true and might be having made false accusations against people.
3. We noted before that public reputation can make or break one in Salem. How is this importance of reputation reflected in Act III? (Caitie)
The differing opinions of reputation are apparent in the acts of Reverend Parris. He, above all, fears the tainting of his reputation and the reputation of his daughter and his niece. When John Proctor, Giles Corey, and Francis Nurse come forward with accusations of fraud, Parris was the first to jump on their reputations in order to preserve his family's as good and holy people. John Proctor was heavily concerned with reputation as well. In Salem, John is known as an honest man, a simple farmer. He knew that the whole witch ordeal was Abby's awful attempt to get rid of Elizabeth, so she could have John all to herself. He knew he HAD to tell the courts that the whole thing was just a sick game. He knew that if he told the court about Abby, he would have to admit to lechery, thus inflicting a great amount of damage to both Abby's and his own reputation. In addition, Elizabeth Proctor, a woman known to have never told a lie in her life, recognizes the risk her husband's reputation is faced with. She abandons her own reputation, and lies for her husband. Danforth refuses to pardon the prisoners of witchcraft to protect his own reputation as a man strong with the power of justice. Reputation is certainly a major theme through the Crucible.
4. Danforth admonishes that "--a person is either with this court or he must be counted against it , there be no road between." In other words, theres is no room for honest disagreement as far as he's concerned. What are some modern day scenarios where those in authority have taken that approach? Are there instances where this type of thinking is justified? Explain you answer. (Caitie)
This black and white thinking can be observed in more recent times in the Red Scare, which The Crucible is directly linked to. During the 1950's, if the government feared that anyone who was not a devout capitalist, was a communist. Lives were flipped upside down, just as they were in Salem. One might also observe this thinking in the events of the Holocaust during WWII. The Nazi party oppressed anyone who was not a Nazi, and thus pressed many Europeans into their political party, against their will. Anyone whom they did not consider "Aryan" was thrown into concentration camps, stripped of all identity and refused their human rights. This thinking might be observed in even more recent time in the great debate over abortion. You're either Pro-Life or Pro-Choice. There are no exceptions; not even for victims of rape, or for those who's lives might be endangered in birth. I cannot observe a single instance in which this thinking is justified. There are almost always exceptions to the rule, there are always going to be those who fall into the shades of gray, those who take less radical positions.
5. Some of Salem's accused got into trouble merely because they stood up for those who had been arrested. The court obviously believed in guilt by association . What do you think about the theory of guilt by association? Can it ever be valid? Explain your answer. (Amanda)
The court believed just because you knew the convicted meant you were to also be accused of witchcraft. The judges believed that good "Christians" would welcome the court because they had nothing to hide and any who opposed the court would have something to fear. The theory of guilty by association can only be valid in some instances. If the person being accused of being guilty by association is deliberately protecting a convicted criminal then the law says they are guilty. But in the subject of witchcraft guilty by association is not valid because no one can force you to do something like witchcraft.
6. Explain Danforth's course of logic in refusing to pardon the remaining prisoners. What might he have to lose by doing so? (Amanda)
Danforth refuses to pardon the remaining prisoners because he wants only to protect his reputation and the court system's reputation. Releasing the prisoners would mean the court made a mistake in believing the hype on witchcraft.
7. What would Proctor's confession do for Danforth and Hathorne? What's in it for Proctor by refusing to confess? (Amanda)
Proctor's confession would solidify the fact that Danforth and Hathorne are doing the right thing, Proctor gets to keep his dignity and shows how corrupt the court is by refusing to confess.
8. What does Elizabeth mean when she says that John has his goodness now, and God forbid she should take it from him? (Jen)
Elizabeth means that he has decided to stay true to himself and God and that Proctor would rather tell the truth and be hung for it, than lie and have to live with the guilt and a bad reputation. She didn't want to take that from him becuase it's his decision and she trusts that he's weighed the consequences of it. She knows he's telling the truth about Abby and the girls.
9. Some might say that, in John Proctor's case, honesty was definitely not the best policy. After all, he couldn't save his friends and was hanged in the end. But given what we know about John's character, how do you think his life would have gone if he had confessed? (Jen)
If John had confessed his life would most likely have been miserable. I don't think he'd be able to live with himself knowing that he lied to save his own skin. His reputation would also be ruined because he sees himself as a holy and religious person, but the town would know of his affair with Abby and that he committed adultery. Proctor would rather be true to himself and God, than save himself and have his reputation soiled.
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PASADENA, Calif./SEATTLE--The dream of monitoring a patient's physical condition through blood testing has long been realized. But how about detecting diseases in their very early stages, or evaluating how they are responding to treatment, with no more to work with than a drop of blood?
That dream is closer to realization than many of us think, according to several leading experts advocating a new approach known as systems biology. Writing in the current issue of the journal Science, Institute for Systems Biology immunologist and technologist Leroy Hood and California Institute of Technology chemist Jim Heath and their colleagues explain how a new approach to the way that biological information is gathered and processed could soon lead to breakthroughs in the prevention and early treatment of a number of diseases.
The lead author of the Science article is Leroy Hood, a former Caltech professor and now the founding director of the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle. According to Hood, the focus of medicine in the next few years will shift from treating disease--often after it has already seriously compromised the patient's health--to preventing it before it even sets in.
Hood explains that systems biology essentially analyzes a living organism as if it were an electronic circuit. This approach requires a gigantic amount of information to be collected and processed, including the sequence of the organism's genome, and the mRNAs and proteins that it generates. The object is to understand how all of these molecular components of the system are interrelated, and then predict how the mRNAs or proteins, for example, are affected by disturbances such as genetic mutations, infectious agents, or chemical carcinogens. Therefore, systems biology should be useful for diseases resulting from genetics as well as from the environment.
"Patients' individual genome sequences, or at least sections of them, may be part of their medical files, and routine blood tests will involve thousands of measurements to test for various diseases and genetic predispositions to other conditions," Hood says. "I'll guarantee you we'll see this predictive medicine in 10 years or so."
"In this paper, we first describe a predictive model of how a single-cell yeast organism works," Heath explains, adding that the model covers a metabolic process that utilizes copious amounts from data such as messenger RNA concentrations from all the yeast's 6,000 genes, protein-DNA interactions, and the like.
"The yeast model taught us many lessons for human disease," Heath says. "For example, when yeast is perturbed either genetically or through exposure to some molecule, the mRNAs and proteins that are generated by the yeast provide a fingerprint of the perturbation. In addition, many of those proteins are secreted. The lesson is that a disease, such as a very early-stage cancer, also triggers specific biological responses in people. Many of those responses lead to secreted proteins, and so the blood provides a powerful window for measuring the fingerprint of the early-stage disease."
Heath and his colleagues write in the Science article that, with a sufficient number of measurements, "one can presumably identify distinct patterns for each of the distinct types of a particular cancer, the various stages in the progression of each disease type, the partition of the disease into categories defined by critical therapeutic targets, and the measurement of how drugs alter the disease patterns. The key is that the more questions you want answered, the more measurements you need to make. It is the systems biology approach that defines what needs to be measured to answer the questions."
In other words, the systems biology approach should allow therapists to catch diseases much earlier and treat them much more effectively. "This allows you to imagine the pathway toward predictive medicine rather than reactive medicine, which is what we have now," Heath says.
About 100,000 measurements on yeast were required to construct a predictive network hypothesis. The authors write that 100,000,000 measurements do not yet enable such a hypothesis to be formulated for a human disease. In the conclusion of the Science article, the authors address the technologies that will be needed to fully realize the systems approach to medicine. Heath emphasizes that most of these technologies, ranging from microfluidics to nanotechnologies to molecular-imaging methods, have already been demonstrated, and some are already having a clinical impact. "It's not just a dream that we'll be diagnosing multiple diseases, including early stage detection, from a fingerprick of blood," Heath says.
"Early-stage versions of these technologies will be demonstrated very soon."
The other authors of the paper are Michael E. Phelps of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and Biaoyang Lin of the Institute for Systems Biology.
With a $1.5 million matching grant from the Skirball Foundation in New York, Caltech biologists have established the Engineering Immunity project, designed to create a novel immunological approach to treating–and even some day preventing–HIV infection and some cancers like melanoma.
The immune system provides humans with a powerful defense against infectious diseases–but sometimes, it fails. Utilizing an innovative, integrated approach, the Engineering Immunity project will combine gene therapy, stem cell biology, and immunotherapy to arm the immune system; this integrative methodology offers groundbreaking potential for treatment of these diseases and others for which the immune system currently fails to provide defense.
Caltech President David Baltimore, who won the Nobel Prize in 1975 for his work in virology and cancer research, stated, "The Engineering Immunity project advocates a new approach to therapy for AIDS and cancer with revolutionary implications for the treatment of these and many other diseases. It is an innovative research project that holds special significance for the future of biomedical sciences."
In the fight against HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, T-cell immunity and T-cell-focused therapies and vaccines have been methods widely investigated and pursued. However, antibodies often provide the best protection against viruses, and virtually all vaccines for other viral diseases are designed to elicit antibody-based immunity. Antibodies against HIV do appear during HIV infections, but heretofore, they had not been able to provide therapeutic advantage to most patients. Rare neutralizing antibodies have been identified, but have not proven valuable because a general way to elicit their production in all patients has not been found. Moreover, most of them are effective only at very high concentrations that are hard to maintain in a person by conventional means. Thus, early attempts to elicit antibody-based immunity against HIV have largely failed.
The Engineering Immunity integrated methodology involves utilizing retroviruses, which are natural carriers of genes. Retrovirus vectors will be produced that encode antibodies found to be effective against HIV. Utilizing retroviruses, the Baltimore Laboratory at Caltech, in collaboration with Caltech structural biologist Pamela Bjorkman, will introduce specific genes into stem cells. These genes will encode specificity molecules on the immune cells, thereby arming the immune cells to kill selected agents or cells, i.e., the cells that are growing HIV or particular cancer cells.
The Engineering Immunity initiative will provide a new route to the production of antibodies with therapeutic, and even protective, ability for a potential cure of AIDS, melanoma, and other diseases ultimately.
The Skirball Foundation, an independent foundation created in 1950 by Jack H. Skirball, is dedicated primarily to medical research and care, educational and social needs of disadvantaged children, and advancing the highest values of the Jewish heritage. Among the many institutions that the Foundation has supported are the Skirball Cultural Center, the Salk Institute, the Venice Family Clinic, the Jewish Childcare Association in New York City, and the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine at New York University.
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PASADENA, Calif. — For several years now the Department of Energy (DOE) has been urging the fuel cell community to solve a major problem in the design of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs): heat. Such fuel cells could someday provide reliable power for homes and industry, dramatically cutting greenhouse gas emissions as well as other pollutants.
But SOFCs run hot, at temperatures as high as 1000 degrees Celsius (about 1800 degrees Fahrenheit). They're efficient at such temperatures, but only a few costly materials can withstand the heat. Using such materials makes things expensive, and is the reason for the push for lower temperatures by the DOE.
Sossina Haile, an associate professor of materials science and chemical engineering at the California Institute of Technology, is an expert in fuel cells, and she has been whittling away at the heat problem for years. Now she and her colleagues have not only solved the problem, they've smashed it. They've brought the temperature down to about 600 degrees Celsius (1100 degrees Fahrenheit), while achieving more power output than others are achieving at the higher temperatures--about 1 watt per square centimeter of fuel cell area.
They accomplished this by changing the chemical composition of one component of a fuel cell called the cathode. The cathode is where air is fed in to the fuel cell, and it's where the oxygen is electrochemically reduced to oxygen ions. The oxygen ions then migrate across the electrolyte (which conducts electricity), to react with fuel at the anode, another fuel cell component. The electrochemical reduction of oxygen is an essential step in the fuel cell's process of generating power. But the problem with running solid oxide fuel cells at 500 to 700 degrees Celsius is that the cathode becomes inactive when the temperature is less than about 800 degrees Celsius.
Haile and postdoctoral scholar Zongping Shao's insight was to switch out the conventional cathode and replace it with a compound that has a long chemical formula guaranteed to strike fear into the heart of every undergraduate, but is abbreviated as "BSCF" for short.
What BSCF can do that standard cathodes can't is to allow the oxygen to diffuse through it very rapidly. "In conventional cathodes, the oxygen diffuses slowly, so that even if the electrochemical reaction is fast, the oxygen ions are slow in getting to the electrolyte," says Haile. "In BSCF the electrochemical reaction is fast and the oxygen ion transport is fast. You have the best combination of properties." This combination is what gives the very high power outputs from Haile's fuel cells.
The work was reported in a recent issue of the journal Nature. Because they are using relatively conventional anodes and electrolytes with this new cathode, says Haile, it would be easy to switch out cathodes in existing fuel cells. That will probably be their next step, says Haile: to partner with a company to produce the next generation of solid-oxide fuel cells.
PASADENA, Calif.--Cosmologists from the California Institute of Technology have used observations probing back to the remote epoch of the universe when atoms were first forming to detect movements among the seeds that gave rise to clusters of galaxies. The new results show the motion of primordial matter on its way to forming galaxy clusters and superclusters. The observations were obtained with an instrument high in the Chilean Andes known as the Cosmic Background Imager (CBI), and they provide new confidence in the accuracy of the standard model of the early universe in which rapid inflation occurred a brief instant after the Big Bang.
The novel feature of these polarization observations is that they reveal directly the seeds of galaxy clusters and their motions as they proceeded to form the first clusters of galaxies.
Reporting in the October 7 online edition of Science Express, Caltech's Rawn Professor of Astronomy, and principal investigator on the CBI project, Anthony Readhead and his team say the new polarization results provide strong support for the standard model of the universe as a place in which dark matter and dark energy are much more prevalent than everyday matter as we know it, which poses a major problem for physics. A companion paper describing early polarization observations with the CBI has been submitted to the Astrophysical Journal.
The cosmic background observed by the CBI originates from the era just 400,000 years after the Big Bang and provides a wealth of information on the nature of the universe. At this remote epoch none of the familiar structures of the universe existed--there were no galaxies, stars, or planets. Instead there were only tiny density fluctuations, and these were the seeds out of which galaxies and stars formed under the hand of gravity.
Instruments prior to the CBI had detected fluctuations on large angular scales, corresponding to masses much larger than superclusters of galaxies. The high resolution of the CBI allowed the seeds of the structures we observe around us in the universe today to be observed for the first time in January 2000.
The expanding universe cooled and by 400,000 years after the Big Bang it was cool enough for electrons and protons to combine to form atoms. Prior to this time photons could not travel far before colliding with an electron, and the universe was like a dense fog, but at this point the universe became transparent and since that time the photons have streamed freely across the universe to reach our telescopes today, 13.8 billion years later. Thus observations of the microwave background provide a snapshot of the universe as it was just 400,000 years after the Big Bang--long before the formation of the first galaxies, stars, and planets.
The new data were collected by the CBI between September 2002 and May 2004, and cover four patches of sky, encompassing a total area three hundred times the size of the moon and showing fine details only a fraction of the size of the moon. The new results are based on a property of light called polarization. This is a property that can be demonstrated easily with a pair of polarizing sunglasses. If one looks at light reflected off a pond through such sunglasses and then rotates the sunglasses, one sees the reflected light varying in brightness. This is because the reflected light is polarized, and the polarizing sunglasses only transmit light whose polarization is properly aligned with the glasses. The CBI likewise picks out the polarized light, and it is the details of this light that reveal the motion of the seeds of galaxy clusters.
In the total intensity we see a series of peaks and valleys, where the peaks are successive harmonics of a fundamental "tone." In the polarized emission we also see a series of peaks and valleys, but the peaks in the polarized emission coincide with the valleys in the total intensity, and vice versa. In other words, the polarized emission is exactly out of step with the total intensity. This property of the polarized emission being out of step with the total intensity indicates that the polarized emission arises from the motion of the material.
The first detection of polarized emission by the Degree Angular Scale Interferometer (DASI), the sister project of the CBI, in 2002 provided dramatic evidence of motion in the early universe, as did the measurements by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) in 2003. The CBI results announced today significantly augment these earlier findings by demonstrating directly, and on the small scales corresponding to galaxy clusters, that the polarized emission is out of step with the total intensity.
Other data on the cosmic microwave background polarization were released just two weeks ago by the DASI team, whose three years of results show further compelling evidence that the polarization is indeed due to the cosmic background and is not contaminated by radiation from the Milky Way. The results of these two sister projects therefore complement each other beautifully, as was the intention of Readhead and John Carlstrom, the principal investigator of DASI and a coauthor on the CBI paper, when they planned these two instruments a decade ago.
According to Readhead, "Physics has no satisfactory explanation for the dark energy which dominates the universe. This problem presents the most serious challenge to fundamental physics since the quantum and relativistic revolutions of a century ago. The successes of these polarization experiments give confidence in our ability to probe fine details of the polarized cosmic background, which will eventually throw light on the nature of this dark energy."
"The success of these polarization experiments has opened a new window for exploring the universe which may allow us to probe the first instants of the universe through observations of gravitational waves from the epoch of inflation," says Carlstrom.
The analysis of the CBI data is carried out in collaboration with groups at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) and at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA).
"This is truly an exciting time in cosmological research, with a remarkable convergence of theory and observation, a universe full of mysteries such as dark matter and dark energy, and a fantastic array of new technology--there is tremendous potential for fundamental discoveries here" says Steve Myers of the NRAO, a coauthor and key member of the CBI team from its inception.
According to Richard Bond, director of CITA and a coauthor of the paper, "As a theorist in the early eighties, when we were first showing that the magnitude of the cosmic microwave background polarization would likely be a factor of a hundred down in power from the minute temperature variations that were themselves a heroic effort to discover, it seemed wishful thinking that even in some far distant future such minute signals would be revealed. With these polarization detections, the wished-for has become reality, thanks to remarkable technological advances in experiments such as CBI. It has been our privilege at CITA to be fully engaged as members of the CBI team in unveiling these signals and interpreting their cosmological significance for what has emerged as the standard model of cosmic structure formation and evolution."
The next step for Readhead and his CBI team will be to refine these polarization observations significantly by taking more data, and to test whether or not the polarized emission is exactly out of step with the total intensity with the goal of finding some clues to the nature of the dark matter and dark energy.
The CBI is a microwave telescope array comprising 13 separate antennas, each about three feet in diameter and operating in 10 frequency channels, set up in concert so that the entire instruments acts as a set of 780 interferometers. The CBI is located at Llano de Chajnantor, a high plateau in Chile at 16,800 feet, making it by far the most sophisticated scientific instrument ever used at such high altitudes. The telescope is so high, in fact, that members of the scientific team must each carry bottled oxygen to do the work.
The upgrade of the CBI to polarization capability was supported by a generous grant from the Kavli Operating Institute, and the project is also the grateful recipient of continuing support from Barbara and Stanley Rawn Jr. The CBI is also supported by the National Science Foundation, the California Institute of Technology, and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and has also received generous support from Maxine and Ronald Linde, Cecil and Sally Drinkward, and the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago.
In addition to the scientists mentioned above, today's Science Express paper is coauthored by C. Contaldi and J. L. Sievers of CITA, J.K. Cartwright and S. Padin, both of Caltech and the University of Chicago; B. S. Mason and M. Pospieszalski of the NRAO; C. Achermann, P. Altamirano, L. Bronfman, S. Casassus, and J. May all of the University of Chile; C. Dickinson, J. Kovac, T. J. Pearson, and M. Shepherd of Caltech; W. L. Holzapfel of UC Berkeley; E. M. Leitch and C. Pryke of the University of Chicago; D. Pogosyan of the University of Toronto and the University of Alberta; and R. Bustos, R. Reeves, and S. Torres of the University of Concepción, Chile.
PASADENA, Calif.- Biologist Erin Schuman is interested in how memories are formed--or forgotten. The landscape the professor of biology at the California Institute of Technology explores is the hippocampus, the part of the brain known to be crucial for memory in humans and other animals.
In 2002, Schuman and Miguel Remondes, her graduate student, published a paper in the journal Nature that suggested a possible role for a well-known but poorly understood part of the brain known as the temporoammonic (TA) pathway. Using rat hippocampal slices, they suggested two possible roles for the TA pathway that were not previously known: to serve as a memory gatekeeper that can either enhance or diminish memories, and to provide information to help animals know where they are in their environments.
The researchers' next step was to prove their theories by looking at a possible role for the TA in memory at a behavioral level. That is, says Remondes, now a postdoctoral fellow at MIT, "to do the real test."
To understand how memories are formed, many scientists have focused on the "trisynaptic circuit," which involves three areas of the hippocampus: input from the senses is first sent from the cortex to the dentate gyrus, where this signal is processed by two sets of synapses, then sent back to the cortex. That's the circuit. An often overlooked separate input to the hippocampus, though, is the TA pathway. It makes direct contact with the neurons that are at the last station in the trisynaptic circuit, thus short-circuiting the traditional trisynaptic pathway.
Reporting in the October 7 issue of the journal Nature, Remondes and Schuman, also an associate investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, now show they were correct in their belief that the TA Pathway is important in spatial or location memory. The scientists used rats as their experimental animal, and the Morris Water Maze, a standard test for location memory in rodents. The animals swim in a pool of opaque water until they find a hidden goal--a platform which allows them to escape the water. To find the platform, the animals rely on the geometrical relationships of cues away from the pool (e.g., on the walls of the maze). In other words, says Remondes, "they have to navigate and remember where the platform is in order to escape the water."
The researchers tested both short-term (24 hours) and long-term memory (four weeks). The TA pathway was lesioned (disabled) in one set of rats; another set was used as a control. Having learned the location of the platform, both sets of rats still remembered where it was 24 hours later. But when tested four weeks later, only the control rats remembered where it was. The lesioned rats forgot, which showed that the TA pathway played some role in the retention of long-term memories. But what was the role?
"It led to a second question," says Schuman. "Because long-term memories require something called consolidation, an exchange of information between the cortex and hippocampus, we wanted to know if the TA pathway was working in the acquisition phase of memory or in its consolidation."
Using two other groups of rats, the pair conducted a second set of tests. After confirming the rat's memory of the platform after 24 hours, one group was immediately lesioned. These animals lost their long-term memory when tested 4 weeks later, indicating to Schuman and Remondes that ongoing TA pathway activity was required on days after learning to stabilize or consolidate the long-term memory.
The second group of rats was also lesioned, but not until three weeks later. The researchers found that this group remembered the platform's location, showing their memory had already been adequately consolidated after three weeks. This proved the TA pathway is required to consolidate long-term location memory.
"These data indicate there must be a dialogue between the hippocampus and the cortex during long-term memory consolidation," says Schuman. "Clearly, the TA pathway plays an important role in this discussion." Further, she notes, "understanding the mechanisms of memory formation and retention may shed light on diseases like Alzheimers, where memory is impaired. "
PASADENA, Calif. - "Sometimes letting nature tell you what's important is the better way to go," says Raymond Deshaies, an associate professor of biology at the California Institute of Technology. Deshaies is referring to new work to come out of his lab and the lab of Randall King at Harvard that defies conventional thinking--they've discovered a chemical that stops a key cell function, but, more importantly, suggests a new possible target within a cell, once thought to be untenable, for future therapeutic drugs.
In a report in this week's issue of the journal Science, lead author Rati Verma, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Research Specialist in the Deshaies lab, Deshaies, also an assistant investigator for the HHMI, and nine other authors report that a small molecule called ubistatin blocked an important step in the so-called cell cycle, a process fundamental to life where a cell makes duplicate copies of its own DNA for distribution to two daughter cells. Knowing how to stop cell duplication is critical in preventing diseases like cancer, when mutated cells go out of control and proliferate madly. Further, ubistatin blocked the cell cycle by preventing two proteins from interacting together. Prior to this, it was thought unlikely that a compound with low molecular weight like ubistatin--or any future drug--would have much impact on the interaction of proteins with each other.
While ubistatin has other properties that preclude it from being a drug candidate, its stoppage of the cell cycle provides an important clue for future drug development, says Deshaies. "We've found a chemical Achilles' heel in this cell pathway, at least from the viewpoint of these small molecules that comprise most therapeutic drugs."
Because the cell cycle is maddeningly complex, researchers usually pick a single pathway (a pathway is a series of chemical events within a cell that perform some task), then try to make a chemical to block it. They may find such a chemical, but often find it difficult to discover where in the pathway--the target--their drug hit. Finding the target is like finding the proverbial needle in a haystack.
Deshaies's colleague Rati Verma found the needle. Instead of using the typical "top down" approach of starting with a specific target, then looking for a drug to block it, the researchers took a "bottom up" approach of starting with a drug and then searching for the target it blocks. They decided to test a large number of molecules to see if any of them might block any step in one particular pathway called the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway (UP pathway): within the cell cycle, when a protein's job is done, another chain of proteins called ubiquitin attaches to it. That serves as a signal to yet another protein called proteasome. The proteasome, says Deshaies, is the biological equivalent of a Cuisinart. "It attaches to these ubiquitin-marked proteins, then ingests them and chews them up."
The researchers examined an entire cell, specifically that of a frog's egg. The King group decided to screen 110,000 molecules to see if any had an impact on the cell. First, they weeded out those molecules that had no effect on cellular function in the UP pathway. King attached a molecule of luciferase ("the stuff that makes a firefly light up," says Deshaies) to certain proteins that are normally destroyed during cell division. Next, he added this newly created protein (now a readily detectable biological "flashlight") to droplets of cellular material extracted from the frog's egg that had been placed in individual chambers. As the egg extract conducted its normal cell division, the luciferase flashlight was destroyed and the chambers went dark. That meant those proteins had been destroyed as part of the normal progress of the cell cycle. He then separately added the 110,000 small molecules to see if any of them would prevent the loss of the luciferase--essentially looking for a lit-up reaction chamber in a field of darkness.
Using this approach, the researchers eventually narrowed the molecules they were testing down to a few that were operating in a specific part of the pathway--downstream from where ubiquitin attaches to the soon-to-be doomed protein, but before the proteasome ingested and chewed it up. But given that numerous proteins are involved in this process, the question remained--where specifically was the molecule they were testing working? In short, where was the target?
To find out, Deshaies turned to work they had done over the last five years with ubiquitin, which examined how it interacted with various other proteins, including proteasome. Through a process of elimination, says Deshaies, "we figured out that these small molecules called ubistatins were blocking the recognition of the ubiquitin chain by the proteasome." Graphic evidence for how this occurs was provided by a 'picture' taken by David Fushman at the University of Maryland with a nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer.
This step blocked by ubistatin involves a protein-protein interaction, a surprise to Deshaies. "One interesting thing about our discovery is that it is further evidence that you can affect a protein-protein interaction with a small molecule. The conventional thinking was that if you look at a footprint of a drug binding a protein, the drugs are small, but the footprint that corresponds to one protein binding to another is big. So most people thought that the idea of trying to block the huge footprint of protein-protein interaction with a tiny drug was extremely unlikely. So if I were asked to predict what we would find, I would never have proposed that a drug could prevent the ubiquitin chain from binding to the proteasome, because I was also influenced by this conventional wisdom."
PASADENA, Calif.—When it comes to finding a used book on the Internet, one merely needs to Google the title, and a few suitable items for sale will soon be just a click away. But for the biologist or medical researcher looking for information on how two nematode genes interrelate in hopes of better understanding human disease, there is a clear need for a more focused search engine.
Bioinformatics experts from the California Institute of Technology are formally announcing today the Textpresso search engine, which they hope will revolutionize the way that genetic information is retrieved by researchers worldwide. The Textpresso search engine is specifically built to serve researchers who work on the small worm known as C. elegans, but the basic design should lead to the creation of new search engines for researchers who specialize in other living organisms that are intensively studied.
In the current issue of the journal PLOS, published by the Public Library of Science, Caltech biology professor Paul Sternberg and his colleagues--research associate Hans-Michael Muller and bioinformatics specialist Eimear Kenny--write that the new "text-mining system for scientific literature" will be invaluable to specialists trying to cope with the vast amount of information now available on C. elegans. This information has vastly increased in recent years due to the large-scale gene-sequencing initiative as well as the more traditional small-scale projects by individual researchers. As a result, the need for a way to scan the vast literature has become much more important.
"Textpresso gives me, as a researcher, more time to actually read papers because I don't have to skim papers anymore," says Sternberg, who is leader of the federally funded WormBase project that has already put online the entire genome sequence of C. elegans and the closely related organism C. briggsae, as well as genes for some 20 other nematode species.
The four-year-old WormBase project, a linchpin in the worldwide effort to better understand how genes interrelate, also makes a host of other information freely available in addition to the 100.2 million base-pairs that make up the millimeter-long worm's genome. There are now 28,000 gene-disruption experiments in WormBase, along with 2 million DNA expression ("chip") microarray observations, as well as detailed information on the expression of more than 1,700 of the worm's 20,000 genes. The Textpresso search engine is a logical product for the WormBase team to develop in the ongoing quest to put genetic information to work in curing and preventing human disease.
Lest anyone assume that the genes of a millimeter-long nematode have little to do with humans, it should be pointed out that the two organisms are similar in about 40 percent of their genes. A very realistic motivation for funding the genome sequencing of the fruit fly, the small mustardlike plant known as Arabidopsis, the chimp, and various other species, has been the expectation of finding underlying common mechanisms.
Thus, a cancer researcher who discovers that a certain gene is expressed in cancer cells can use the WormBase to see if the gene exists in nematodes, and if so, what is known about the gene's function. And now that Textpresso is available, the researcher can do so much more efficiently.
"The idea is distilling down the information so it can be extracted easier," says Muller, the lead author of the paper and codeveloper of Textpresso with Kenny. The idea for the name of the search engine, in fact, comes from its resemblance to "espresso," which is a process used to get the caffeine and flavor out of coffee in a minimal volume.
According to Kenny, the search engine is designed with a special kind of search in mind, which establishes categories of terms and organizes them as an ontology--that is, a catalog of types of objects and concepts and their relationships. For example, if the researcher wants to find out whether any other researcher has worked on the relationship between the nematode gene called "lin-12" and the anchor cell, then typing the two terms into a conventional search engine like Google results in more than 400 hits. And if the researcher wants to know which genes are important in the anchor cell, the task is even more arduous. But Textpresso is designed to get the information in a much simpler, more efficient, more straightforward way.
Textpresso is a text-processing system that splits research papers into sentences, and sentences into words or phrases. All words and phrases are labeled so that they are searchable, and the labels are then condensed into 33 ontological categories. So far, the database includes 4,420 scientific papers on C. elegans, as well as bibliographic information from WormBase, information on various scientific meetings, the "Worm Breeder's Gazette," and various other links and WormBase information. Therefore, the engine already searches through millions of sentences to allow researchers to find a paper of interest or information of interest with great efficiency.
Finally, the Textpresso search engine should be a useful prototype for search engines to serve other biological databases--some of which have even larger piles of data for the specialist to cope with. "Yeast currently has 25,000 papers," Kenny says.
Textpresso can be accessed at www.textpresso.org or via WormBase at www.wormbase.org.
PASADENA, Calif.--If you think it doesn't do much good to swipe the fly that's going after the potato salad, guess again. You may be discouraging the fly's colleagues from taking up the raid.
New evidence shows that a stressed fly emits an odor that makes other flies avoid the space in which the stressful event occurred. Reporting in an advance on-line publication of the September 15 issue of the journal Nature, California Institute of Technology professors David Anderson and Seymour Benzer, along with Professor Richard Axel of Columbia University, discuss their findings about how flies may communicate information about their internal state to one another.
According to the authors, the act of shaking or shocking flies causes a repellent odor to be emitted that contains carbon dioxide as one of its active components. The research involved the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, which has been used for decades in genetics experiments. However, the mechanism could be more widespread.
"We showed that CO2 is itself a potent repellent for Drosophila," says Anderson, a professor of biology at Caltech and also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.
The researchers also succeeded in mapping the initial neural circuitry that leads to CO2 avoidance. The team, led by Caltech postdoctoral scholar Greg Suh, found that CO2 activates a single class of sensory neurons in the fruit flies, and that these neurons seem to be dedicated to the sole task of responding to this odor. By inhibiting the synapses of these neurons using fancy genetic trickery, the researchers were able to block the ability of flies to avoid CO2, in behavioral experiments.
"These results show that there is probably a genetically determined, or 'hard-wired' circuit mediating CO2 avoidance behavior in the fly," Anderson says.
But even though the research is primarily aimed at furthering the understanding of the neural circuitry underlying innate behaviors, there might also be practical results. For one, the fact that mosquitoes are attracted to their warm-blooded hosts by CO2 exhalations has been known for years.
Although fruit flies are repelled by CO2, while mosquitoes are attracted to it, "given the evolutionary conservation of olfactory mechanisms in insects, if we learn about the molecular details involved in CO2 sensing in fruit flies, it could potentially lead to repellents that act by interfering with the reception of CO2," Anderson adds.
Such a repellent could be of benefit in third-world countries where mosquitoes are vectors of diseases like malaria--or even in the United States, where the mosquito-borne West Nile virus has been a serious health concern this year.
PASADENA, Calif.--Physicists for several years have been predicting a new age of semiconductor devices that operate by subtle changes in the orientation of electron spins. Known as "spintronics," the field relies on an intricate knowledge of the magnetic properties of materials and of how magnetic moments can be manipulated.
Now, scientists at the California Institute of Technology have developed a novel method of measuring the resistance of "domain walls," which are the nanoscale boundaries separating areas of a magnetized material that possess different magnetic alignments, or a "twist" of magnetic spins. Reporting in the September 2 issue of the journal Nature, Caltech physicists Hongxing Tang, Michael Roukes, and their colleagues show that their approach leads to an unparalleled precision in isolating, manipulating, and trapping domain walls one by one.
The authors have been able to trap individual domain walls between electrical probes for periods longer than a week. During that time, they are able to carry out extremely sensitive electrical measurements to identify the tiny amounts of resistance generated by this trapped single magnetic domain wall.
"We have demonstrated how a single magnetic domain wall can be monitored as it is made to traverse a patterned array of electrical probes in a microdevice made from single-crystal manganese-doped gallium arsenide," says Professor Roukes. Manganese- doped gallium arsenide belongs to a new class of ferromagnetic semiconductors that isexpected to have great potential for new spintronics devices.
This work also resolves an issue that has puzzled scientists for some time, according to Tang. Many physicists have thought that domain walls were a natural barrier to electron transport and that they cause positive resistance--in other words, the magnetic moments with different alignments created a natural opposition to the flow of charge from one side of the wall to the other. However, the new results show that the resistance is actually negative, which can be attributed to quantum effects in the locale of the domain wall itself. The very fact that the resistance is negative means that electrons can flow more easily under certain conditions, manifesting quantum mechanical origin in this novel phenomenon.
"We are certain that both this result and our new measurement methodology will be of interest to those working on future semiconductor devices based on spintronics," Tang says.
Understanding the dynamics of magnetic domain walls is crucial for magnetic storage devices such as magnetic hard drives, and for future magnetic memories. The methods have the potential to significantly alter the theoretical and experimental research for some time to come.
The work has been made possible through the Caltech team's earlier discovery of a phenomenon dubbed the "giant planar Hall effect." To reach the ultra-high resolution required to resolve the resistance of a domain wall, the authors advance a nanofabrication process for precise alignments of materials at the microscopic level and deploy an innovative way of manipulating domain walls.
"Using these advances, we have made careful measurements on many devices having domain walls of varying lengths and thicknesses," says Roukes. "All show negative resistance at the domain wall."
In addition to being a professor of physics, applied physics, and bioengineering at Caltech, Roukes is also founding director of Caltech's new Kavli Nanoscience Institute. Dr. Hongxing Tang is a senior research scientist at Caltech. Other authors of the paper are Sotiris Masmanidis, a Caltech graduate student in applied physics, and Roland Kawakami and Prof. David Awschalom, both of the UC Santa Barbara department of physics.
PASADENA, Calif.—Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), along with colleagues at AMD, Cisco, Microsoft Research, Newisys, and S2io have set a new Internet2 land-speed record. The team transferred 859 gigabytes of data in less than 17 minutes at a rate of 6.63 gigabits per second between the CERN facility in Geneva, Switzerland, and Caltech in Pasadena, California, a distance of more than 15,766 kilometers. The speed is equivalent to transferring a full-length DVD movie in just four seconds.
The technology used in setting this record included S2io's Xframe® 10 GbE server adapter, Cisco 7600 Series Routers, Newisys 4300 servers utilizing AMD Opteron processors, Itanium servers, and the 64-bit version of Windows Server 2003.
The performance is also remarkable because it is the first record to break the 100 petabit meter per second mark. One petabit is 1,000,000,000,000,000 bits.
This latest record by Caltech and CERN is a further step in an ongoing research-and-development program to create high-speed global networks as the foundation of next-generation data-intensive grids.
Multi-gigabit-per-second IPv4 and IPv6 end-to-end network performance will lead to new research and business models. People will be able to form "virtual organizations" of planetary scale, sharing in a flexible way their collective computing and data resources. In particular, this is vital for projects on the frontiers of science and engineering, projects such as particle physics, astronomy, bioinformatics, global climate modeling, and seismology.
Harvey Newman, professor of physics at Caltech, said, "This is a major milestone towards our dynamic vision of globally distributed analysis in data-intensive, next-generation high-energy physics (HEP) experiments. Terabyte-scale data transfers on demand, by hundreds of small groups and thousands of scientists and students spread around the world, is a basic element of this vision; one that our recent records show is realistic." Olivier Martin, head of external networking at CERN and manager of the DataTAG project said, "As of 2007, when the Large Hadron Collider, currently being built at CERN, is switched on, this huge facility will produce some 15 petabytes of data a year, which will be stored and analyzed on a global grid of computer centers. This new record is a major step on the way to providing the sort of networking solutions that can deal with this much data."
The team used the optical networking capabilities of the LHCnet, DataTAG, and StarLight and gratefully acknowledges support from the DataTAG project sponsored by the European Commission (EU Grant IST-2001-32459), the DOE Office of Science, High Energy and Nuclear Physics Division (DOE Grants DE-FG03-92-ER40701 and DE-FC02-01ER25459), and the National Science Foundation (Grants ANI 9730202, ANI-0230967, and PHY-0122557).
About Caltech:
With an outstanding faculty, including three Nobel laureates, and such off-campus facilities as Palomar Observatory, and the W. M. Keck Observatory, the California Institute of Technology is one of the world's major research centers. The Institute also conducts instruction in science and engineering for a student body of approximately 900 undergraduates and 1,000 graduate students who maintain a high level of scholarship and intellectual achievement. Caltech's 124-acre campus is situated in Pasadena, California, a city of 135,000 at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains, about 10 miles northeast of the Los Angeles Civic Center. Caltech is an independent, privately supported university. More information is available at http://www.caltech.edu.
About CERN:
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, has its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. At present, its member states are Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Israel, Japan, the Russian Federation, the United States of America, Turkey, the European Commission, and UNESCO have observer status. For more information, see http://www.cern.ch.
About the European Union DataTAG project:
The DataTAG is a project co-funded by the European Union, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the National Science Foundation. It is led by CERN together with four other partners. The project brings together the following European leading research agencies: Italy's Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), France's Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), the UK's Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC), and Holland's University of Amsterdam (UvA). The DataTAG project is very closely associated with the European Union DataGrid project, the largest grid project in Europe also led by CERN. For more information, see http://www.datatag.org.


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Local College Roundup: Southeastern Win Aids Warner
Published: Friday, April 25, 2014 at 12:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, April 26, 2014 at 3:10 a.m.
Southeastern University's baseball team ended up doing something good for The Sun Conference rival Warner on Friday afternoon.
By beating Northwood 11-6, Southeastern clinched a spot in the TSC Baseball Tournament for Warner, which closed out its season on Wednesday.
The Fire (40-14, 20-7) also clinched the No. 2 seed in the tournament with their win over the Seahawks.
Southeastern was led by home runs by Aldo Ferrante and Corbin Weeks and got a three-hit performance from Luis Diaz that included two doubles and two RBIs. Ryne Knuth also had three hits for Southeastern.
Andres Cancio (9-1) allowed five runs (four earned) on seven hits in 5 2/3 innings to earn the victory.
Patrick Kinney and Tyler Murphy combined for 3 1/3 innings of relief, allowing just one run on four hits.
Florida Southern 6, Saint Leo 3
LAKELAND | Florida Southern opened its final home Sunshine State Conference series of its 2014 season here Friday evening as No. 20 Florida Southern collected 10 hits and used 10 strikeouts in seven innings on the mound from senior Clay Chapman to post a 6-3 win over Saint Leo at Henley Field.
FSC Men's Golf Team Earns Regional Berth
INDIANAPOLIS | For the 42nd time in the history of the men's golf program, Florida Southern is headed back to the NCAA Division II Tournament as head coach Doug Gordin's Moccasins will be one of the 10 teams representing the South Region in the South/Southeast Super Regional on May 5-7 at the Savannah Quarters Country Club in Pooler, Ga.
This will be the Mocs' 38th consecutive appearance in the NCAA Men's Golf Tournament.
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