Kia Classic returning to La Costa Resort and Spa next month
The recently renamed and renovated Legends Golf Course at the La Costa Resort and Spa will get its first professional workout next month as it hosts the return of the Kia Classic from March 19-25. The LPGA event that will feature a 144-player field of the world's top women golfers vying for a $1.7 million purse.
The Kia Classic launched in 2010 in La Costa, but moved to City of Industry near Los Angeles last year while La Costa underwent its extensive $50 million renovation, which gave the Legends Course, previously the South Course, four new holes. Now that the renovation is complete, the Kia Classic is returning.
The tournament week will feature a qualifier, practice rounds Monday and Tuesday, a Wednesday pro-am and four competitive rounds Thursday-Sunday.
"We are excited about the return of the LPGA and the Kia Classic to begin a new chapter in La Costa's legacy," said Paul McCormick, general manager at La Costa Resort and Spa. "La Costa has been synonymous with the top echelon of golf for more than 40 years, hosting 38 professional golf events. It is important that we keep its championship spirit alive."
Hee Kyung Seo won the inaugural Kia Classic at La Costa as a sponsor exemption in 2010 and was the 2011 Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Year. In 2011, Germany's Sandra Gal became a Rolex-First Time Winner with her thrilling one-shot victory over eight-time LPGA Tour winner Jiyai Shin at Industry Hills Golf Club.
Tickets to the Kia Classic are now available at www.kiaclassic.com or by calling 1-888-SEE-LPGA.
In addition to grounds passes, the Kia Classic is offering packages to the Champions Club, a shared hospitality venue at the 18th green that is perfect for entertaining clients or small groups. Daily Champions Club packages are $300 for each competition day (Thursday-Sunday) and include Champions Club access for two, complimentary food and beverage and a VIP parking pass.
Life Technologies sequencer can decode a human genome in one day
The Life Technologies Corporation is taking orders for its new benchtop Ion Proton Sequencer, designed to sequence the entire human genome in a day for $1,000.
Priced at $149,000, the sequencer, unveiled at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, takes a process that, up to now, has taken weeks or months and hundreds of thousands of dollars and makes it faster and more economical.
Baylor College of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine and The Broad Institute signed up for multiple of the new sequencers and will be the first customers to adopt this transformative technology.
"A genome sequence for $1,000 was a pipe-dream, just a few years ago," said Dr. Richard Gibbs, Director of the Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine. "A $1,000 genome in less than one day was not even on the radar, but will transform the clinical applications of sequencing."
Between the benchtop Ion PGM Sequencer and the benchtop Ion Proton Sequencer, the Ion Torrent technology can cover any application. The Ion PGM Sequencer is ideal for sequencing genes, small genomes, panels of genes, or performing gene expression profiling, for as little as $99 a chip. The Ion PGM Sequencer's speed, simplicity and scalability also make it an ideal platform to extend into diagnostics. Life Technologies will seek FDA clearance for the Ion PGM platform this year.
The Ion Proton Sequencer is ideal for sequencing both exomes, regions in the DNA that code for protein, and human genomes. The Ion Proton I Chip, ideal for sequencing exomes, will be available mid-2012. The Ion Proton II Chip, ideal for sequencing whole human genomes, will be available about six months later. In addition, the Ion Proton OneTouch system automates template prep and a stand-alone Ion Proton Torrent Server performs the primary and secondary data analysis.
"Just six months after our first semiconductor sequencing chip was released, people used it to solve the German E. coli outbreak, sequencing the toxic strain in just a couple of hours," said Dr. Jonathan M. Rothberg, the Founder and CEO of the Ion Torrent division. "Now, six months later we're developing a chip that's 1,000 times more powerful than that to sequence an entire human genome in about the same amount of time. That's the power that semiconductors bring to sequencing."
Tri-City buys former bank building
The Tri-City Healthcare District recently purchased an .83 acre parcel of land at 4000 Vista Way in Oceanside. The sale was completed Dec. 29, 2011.
The property initially will be used to increase parking areas to better serve patients and visitors. The former bank building, on the southwest corner of the Tri-City Medical Center campus, has been vacant for over a decade. The district initially considered acquiring the property through eminent domain, but was able to reach agreement with the owners, the 4000 Vista Way LLC, on a price of $2.25 million.
The newly-acquired property ultimately will be used for the proposed future expansion of the 31-acre hospital campus. The hospital district also recently purchased a single-story, 6,123-square-foot building formerly owned by Rady Children's Hospital at 4120 Waring Road in Vista for the same purpose.
Encinitas Sylvan Learning scores recognized
The Encinitas Sylvan Learning Center, which has been in operation since 1993, has won one of Sylvan Learning's Top Academic Achievement Awards from its corporate parent.
This award is given to centers that are able to demonstrate academic growth, as measured by standardized tests grade equivalencies in all reading and math content areas. Sylvan Learning Corporate determined that students in the Encinitas Sylvan Learning Center scored in the top 10 of all Sylvan Learning centers out of over 880 in North America.
The award was presented to Bob and Chris Ross, owners of the Encinitas Sylvan Learning Center by Jeffrey H. Cohen, president and chief executive officer, and Lynn A. Fontana, chief academic officer of Sylvan Learning, at Sylvan's Annual Conference.
Bob and Chris have served more 6000 local students within their community. They employ certified teachers and are Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) accredited.
"This center has consistently demonstrated Sylvan's highest standards in the delivery of educational programs," said Fontana. "Recognized as one of the top 10 centers to reach academic excellence throughout the United States and Canada, we are proud that the Encinitas Sylvan Learning Center provides a proven system of instruction that helps its students to reach their full potential."
The recently renamed and renovated Legends Golf Course at the La Costa Resort and Spa will get its first professional workout next month as it hosts the return of the Kia Classic from March 19-25. The LPGA event that will feature a 144-player field of the world's top women golfers vying for a $1.7 million purse.
The Kia Classic launched in 2010 in La Costa, but moved to City of Industry near Los Angeles last year while La Costa underwent its extensive $50 million renovation, which gave the Legends Course, previously the South Course, four new holes. Now that the renovation is complete, the Kia Classic is returning.
The tournament week will feature a qualifier, practice rounds Monday and Tuesday, a Wednesday pro-am and four competitive rounds Thursday-Sunday.
"We are excited about the return of the LPGA and the Kia Classic to begin a new chapter in La Costa's legacy," said Paul McCormick, general manager at La Costa Resort and Spa. "La Costa has been synonymous with the top echelon of golf for more than 40 years, hosting 38 professional golf events. It is important that we keep its championship spirit alive."
Hee Kyung Seo won the inaugural Kia Classic at La Costa as a sponsor exemption in 2010 and was the 2011 Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Year. In 2011, Germany's Sandra Gal became a Rolex-First Time Winner with her thrilling one-shot victory over eight-time LPGA Tour winner Jiyai Shin at Industry Hills Golf Club.
Tickets to the Kia Classic are now available at www.kiaclassic.com or by calling 1-888-SEE-LPGA.
In addition to grounds passes, the Kia Classic is offering packages to the Champions Club, a shared hospitality venue at the 18th green that is perfect for entertaining clients or small groups. Daily Champions Club packages are $300 for each competition day (Thursday-Sunday) and include Champions Club access for two, complimentary food and beverage and a VIP parking pass.
Life Technologies sequencer can decode a human genome in one day
The Life Technologies Corporation is taking orders for its new benchtop Ion Proton Sequencer, designed to sequence the entire human genome in a day for $1,000.
Priced at $149,000, the sequencer, unveiled at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, takes a process that, up to now, has taken weeks or months and hundreds of thousands of dollars and makes it faster and more economical.
Baylor College of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine and The Broad Institute signed up for multiple of the new sequencers and will be the first customers to adopt this transformative technology.
"A genome sequence for $1,000 was a pipe-dream, just a few years ago," said Dr. Richard Gibbs, Director of the Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine. "A $1,000 genome in less than one day was not even on the radar, but will transform the clinical applications of sequencing."
Between the benchtop Ion PGM Sequencer and the benchtop Ion Proton Sequencer, the Ion Torrent technology can cover any application. The Ion PGM Sequencer is ideal for sequencing genes, small genomes, panels of genes, or performing gene expression profiling, for as little as $99 a chip. The Ion PGM Sequencer's speed, simplicity and scalability also make it an ideal platform to extend into diagnostics. Life Technologies will seek FDA clearance for the Ion PGM platform this year.
The Ion Proton Sequencer is ideal for sequencing both exomes, regions in the DNA that code for protein, and human genomes. The Ion Proton I Chip, ideal for sequencing exomes, will be available mid-2012. The Ion Proton II Chip, ideal for sequencing whole human genomes, will be available about six months later. In addition, the Ion Proton OneTouch system automates template prep and a stand-alone Ion Proton Torrent Server performs the primary and secondary data analysis.
"Just six months after our first semiconductor sequencing chip was released, people used it to solve the German E. coli outbreak, sequencing the toxic strain in just a couple of hours," said Dr. Jonathan M. Rothberg, the Founder and CEO of the Ion Torrent division. "Now, six months later we're developing a chip that's 1,000 times more powerful than that to sequence an entire human genome in about the same amount of time. That's the power that semiconductors bring to sequencing."
Tri-City buys former bank building
The Tri-City Healthcare District recently purchased an .83 acre parcel of land at 4000 Vista Way in Oceanside. The sale was completed Dec. 29, 2011.
The property initially will be used to increase parking areas to better serve patients and visitors. The former bank building, on the southwest corner of the Tri-City Medical Center campus, has been vacant for over a decade. The district initially considered acquiring the property through eminent domain, but was able to reach agreement with the owners, the 4000 Vista Way LLC, on a price of $2.25 million.
The newly-acquired property ultimately will be used for the proposed future expansion of the 31-acre hospital campus. The hospital district also recently purchased a single-story, 6,123-square-foot building formerly owned by Rady Children's Hospital at 4120 Waring Road in Vista for the same purpose.
Encinitas Sylvan Learning scores recognized
The Encinitas Sylvan Learning Center, which has been in operation since 1993, has won one of Sylvan Learning's Top Academic Achievement Awards from its corporate parent.
This award is given to centers that are able to demonstrate academic growth, as measured by standardized tests grade equivalencies in all reading and math content areas. Sylvan Learning Corporate determined that students in the Encinitas Sylvan Learning Center scored in the top 10 of all Sylvan Learning centers out of over 880 in North America.
The award was presented to Bob and Chris Ross, owners of the Encinitas Sylvan Learning Center by Jeffrey H. Cohen, president and chief executive officer, and Lynn A. Fontana, chief academic officer of Sylvan Learning, at Sylvan's Annual Conference.
Bob and Chris have served more 6000 local students within their community. They employ certified teachers and are Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) accredited.
"This center has consistently demonstrated Sylvan's highest standards in the delivery of educational programs," said Fontana. "Recognized as one of the top 10 centers to reach academic excellence throughout the United States and Canada, we are proud that the Encinitas Sylvan Learning Center provides a proven system of instruction that helps its students to reach their full potential."