Jay Quinn Storms into the Quarter-finals at ASP PRIME Quiksilver Pro Portugal

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Pupo, one of the most explosive and innovative surfers on the planet, recognises the immergence of future talent in the sport of surfing and is satisfied to be part of the new school coming through.

"The young guys have been on fire the whole event and we had good results last week in the previous PRIME contest. There are plenty of young guy coming up and you can see that they are pretty strong and good surfers and they will go through for sure."

John John Florence (HAW) 17, put on another relaxed performance on the tricky right-handers with huge hits in the critical sections mixed with top-to-bottom rail carves to claim a two-wave combined total of 16.67 out of 20. Low tide conditions meant a shifting peak which added to the importance of wave selection to locate the potentially higher scoring waves.

Pat Gudauskas (San Clemente, USA) 25, after having a shocker in the ‘No Losers' round, came back with a strong performance to oust a determined Junior Faria (BRA) and claim his best PRIME event result for 2011. Currently bordering on the 32-man cut-off mark, the guaranteed equal 5th placing and 3120 valuable ranking points at the Quiksilver Pro Portugal is a welcomed result so close to the midyear mark. "You just never know which waves are going to turn into a good one and this morning I was waiting for a good one and watching Junior (Faria) he sort of had that strategy in this heat. He was sitting a little too deep and waiting a little more so I was trying to ride waves and let my surfing do the talking because you never know which are going to be the good ones."

Dark horse Jay Quinn (Gisborne, NZL) 27, for the second consecutive day, stormed through his heat to head directly into the quarterfinals with a power packed 16.97 out of 20 heat total, the highest of the day. Jeremy Flores (FRA) 23, and Julian Wilson (AUS) 22, advanced also to the final 8 surfers despite having to surf Round Five. Both ASP World Tour members, after having failed in Round Four, came back to give commanding shows with their trademark forehand attacks in the improving afternoon conditions.

Saturn's Violent Storms Rage Across the Entire Planet

NASA's Cassini spacecraft and a European Southern Observatory ground-based telescope tracked the growth of a giant early-spring storm in Saturn's northern hemisphere that is so powerful it stretches around the entire planet (see image below). The rare storm has been wreaking havoc for months and shooting plumes of gas high into the planet's atmosphere. The infrared image at top of page  shows the entire south polar region with the hurricane-like vortex in the center. 

Cassini's radio and plasma wave science instrument first detected the large disturbance, and amateur astronomers tracked its emergence in December 2010. As it rapidly expanded, its core developed into a giant, powerful thunderstorm. The storm produced a 3,000-mile-wide (5,000-kilometer-wide) dark vortex, possibly similar to Jupiter's Great Red Spot, within the turbulent atmosphere. "Our new observations show that the storm had a major effect on the atmosphere, transporting energy and material over great distances, modifying the atmospheric winds -- creating meandering jet streams and forming giant vortices -- and disrupting Saturn's slow seasonal evolution," said Glenn Orton, a paper co-author, based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "On Earth, the lower stratosphere is where commercial airplanes generally fly to avoid storms which can cause turbulence," says Brigette Hesman, a scientist at the University of Maryland in College Park who works on the CIRS team at Goddard and is the second author on the paper. "If you were flying in an airplane on Saturn, this storm would reach so high up, it would probably be impossible to avoid it." Other indications of the storm's strength are the changes in the composition of the atmosphere brought on by the mixing of air from different layers. CIRS found evidence of such changes by looking at the amounts of acetylene and phosphine, both considered to be tracers of atmospheric motion. A separate analysis using Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer, led by Kevin Baines of JPL, confirmed the storm is very violent, dredging up larger atmospheric particles and churning up ammonia from deep in the atmosphere in volumes several times larger than previous storms. Other Cassini scientists are studying the evolving storm, and a more extensive picture will emerge soon.

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