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Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Saturday, June 22, 2013
Southwest planes flying after computer glitch
CHICAGO (AP) ? Southwest Airlines was operating normally Saturday afternoon after a system-wide computer failure caused it to ground 250 flights for nearly three hours late Friday night.
Full service was restored just after 2 a.m. EDT Saturday, but the Dallas-based airline experienced lingering delays in the morning as it worked to clear a backlog of flights and reposition planes and crew.
The airline ? the country's largest domestic carrier ? canceled 43 flights Friday night and another 14 Saturday morning.
Southwest is the latest airline to ground flights because of a large computer outage. But its problem was minor compared to those experienced by two competitors ? thanks in part to its late-day timing.
In April, American Airlines grounded all of its flights nationwide for several hours due to computer problems. The airline ultimately canceled 970 flights. And last year, United Airlines had two major outages: one in August delayed 580 flights; another in November delayed 636 flights.
The problem was detected around 11 p.m. EDT Friday, Southwest spokesman Brad Hawkins said. It impaired the airline's ability to do such things as conduct check-ins, print boarding passes and monitor the weight of each aircraft. Some flights were on the taxiway and diverted back to the terminal, Hawkins said. Flights already in the air were unaffected.
Most of Southwest's cancelations Friday night were in the western half of the country, according to airline spokeswoman Michelle Agnew. Saturday's cancelations were scattered across the U.S. They included planes leavings from Minneapolis, Chicago, Phoenix, Denver and San Diego, according to flight tracking service FlightAware.
Southwest flies an average of 3,400 flights each day.
Agnew said in an email Saturday morning that the airline's technology team is "still working to confirm the source of the issue."
Shortly after 2 a.m., Southwest posted on its Twitter page that "systems are operating and we will begin work to get customers where they need to be. Thanks for your patience tonight."
Agnew said the computer system was "running at full capacity" by early Saturday. Before that, though, officials used a backup system that was much more sluggish.
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AP Airlines Writer Scott Mayerowitz in New York contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/southwest-planes-flying-computer-glitch-213430461.html
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Solar splashdown provide new insights into how young stars grow by sucking up nearby gas
June 20, 2013 ? On June 7, 2011, our Sun erupted, blasting tons of hot plasma into space. Some of that plasma splashed back down onto the Sun's surface, sparking bright flashes of ultraviolet light. This dramatic event may provide new insights into how young stars grow by sucking up nearby gas.
The eruption and subsequent splashdown were observed in spectacular detail by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. This spacecraft watches the Sun 24 hours a day, providing images with better-than-HD resolution. Its Atmospheric Imaging Assembly instrument was designed and developed by researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA).
"We're getting beautiful observations of the Sun. And we get such high spatial resolution and high cadence that we can see things that weren't obvious before," says CfA astronomer Paola Testa.
Movies of the June 7th eruption show dark filaments of gas blasting outward from the Sun's lower right. Although the solar plasma appears dark against the Sun's bright surface, it actually glows at a temperature of about 18,000 degrees Fahrenheit. When the blobs of plasma hit the Sun's surface again, they heat up by a factor of 100 to a temperature of almost 2 million degrees F. As a result, those spots brighten in the ultraviolet by a factor of 2 -- 5 over just a few minutes.
The tremendous energy release occurs because the in falling blobs are traveling at high speeds, up to 900,000 miles per hour (400 km/sec). Those speeds are similar to the speeds reached by material falling onto young stars as they grow via accretion. Therefore, observations of this solar eruption provide an "up close" view of what happens on distant stars.
"We often study young stars to learn about our Sun when it was an 'infant.' Now we're doing the reverse and studying our Sun to better understand distant stars," notes Testa.
These new observations, combined with computer modeling, have helped resolve a decade-long argument over how to measure the accretion rates of growing stars. Astronomers calculate how fast a young star is gathering material by observing its brightness at various wavelengths of light, and how that brightness changes over time. However, they got higher estimates from optical and ultraviolet light than from X-rays.
The team discovered that the ultraviolet flashes they observed came from the in falling material itself, not the surrounding solar atmosphere. If the same is true for distant, young stars, then by analyzing the ultraviolet light they emit, we can learn about the material they are accreting.
"By seeing the dark spots on the Sun, we can learn about how young stars accrete material and grow." explains Testa.
Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/space_time/astronomy/~3/0ZGlUd7zKoI/130620162838.htm
Friday, June 21, 2013
India Gold imports a reason behind FDI thinking in defence pharma and telecom?
By Rakesh Neelakandan
India's insatiable gold appetite is in a way leading the nation to usher in Foreign Direct Investment in defence, pharma and telecom!
Let me explain: India's gold imports are leading to a widening of CAD or Current Account Deficit?the difference between outflows and inflows of foreign currency?and is giving its finance minister sleepless nights. The other partner in crime, crude oil imports; the commodity being an essential commodity, cannot be curbed.
The only way to contain Current Account Deficit (CAD) is to increase the domestic production of oil & coal and restraining the consumption of gold, said the Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram recently.
Finance Minister's aversion to gold looks to be of recent origin.
?India does not produce an ounce of gold. You pay in rupee, but the government has to spend dollars to buy gold,? Chidambaram had said to The Times of India. ?I do not buy gold. To think that gold is the safest investment is wrong.?
(This may partly explain why India is not going aggressive on exploration activities in gold!)
The Current Account Deficit of India stood at 5% of GDP in 2012-13 and was seen reaching 6.7% of GDP in October-December quarter.
Chidambaram said that the extent of CAD and its financing are the two major concerns. He said that it is important to finance CAD than to draw from the reserves.
Now, how would you finance the CAD and even add to foreign exchange reserves.?
There are two options:
As a short-term measure, one may promote FII or Foreign Institutional Investments in debt and equities. However, with the Quantitative Easing measures in US looks set to tapering, there is a capital flight from Emerging Markets like India. This is significantly contributing to Rupee depreciation.
The other route is FDI or Foreign Direct Investment in selected sectors. Currently, telecom sector has 74% cap in FDI and so also with broadcast sector. Defence sector is however closely guarded and attracts a cap of 26%.
On July 1, India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would convene a meeting of the respective ministers on raising caps. The outcome of the meeting remains unpredictable. However, widening CAD and behind it, the expanding gold appettite are also elements in forcing an FDI rethink.?
Meanwhile, authorities expect a moderation of gold imports in June as various curbs on gold take effect.
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EMC Acquires Israeli Storage Startup ScaleIO For $200M-$300M To Compete Better With The Cloud Kings
Palo Alto-based ScaleIO?is one of a new generation of startup storage providers that's using intelligent software to help big companies streamline and converge their data storage operations at scale, across thousands of servers. On a mission to re-imagine the very operations of enterprise data centers, the startup's tech takes aim at the core business of storage giants like EMC and IBM. In fact, ScaleIO?claims that its block storage technology offers 80 to 90 percent savings compared to the bigs.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/BfmGEH3x-zk/
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Immigration reform: new security plan could sway dozen Republicans
Many Republicans have balked at the immigration reform bill, saying it didn't do enough to improve border security. A new compromise amendment in the Senate addresses those concerns and could pave the way for overwhelming approval next week.
Republican Sens. Bob Corker of Tennessee (l.) and John Hoeven of North Dakota talk to reporters at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Thursday about their amendment to immigration legislation.
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EnlargeImmigration reform got a substantial boost in the Senate Thursday, as Republican Sens. Bob Corker of Tennessee and John Hoeven of North Dakota helped craft a compromise proposal on border security that could pave the way for an overwhelming approval of the bill when it comes to a final vote next week.
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The amendment, together with a handful of others still under negotiation but whose prospects appear favorable, could push the vote total toward 70 senators. That is something of a magic number for proponents of immigration reform, who think a huge, bipartisan vote in the Senate could compel the House to act. Many Republicans in the House have so far shown little enthusiasm for comprehensive immigration reform.?
Yet border security has been among the primary stumbling blocks for Republicans, both in the House and Senate, and Senator Corker is confident that his amendment should allay any concerns.
?If anybody on either side of the aisle had any concerns whatsoever about the border being secure ? certainly securing the border should not be an issue if this amendment passes,? he said Thursday.
The "Gang of Eight" senators that crafted the immigration bill also also hailed the importance of the compromise amendment.?
?If this amendment doesn?t convince people we are securing the border, nothing will,? says Sen. Chuck Schumer (D) of New York, one of the bill?s authors.
The amendment, which will likely come up for a vote early next week, would double the number of border security agents along the US-Mexico divide to 40,000 and require the completion of 700 miles of border fencing, up from 350 in the initial border plan. The measure explicitly spells out the types of technology (including unmanned aerial vehicles and special radar) and infrastructure to be deployed by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which will have to provide a border security strategy six months after the bill is enacted.
The Corker-Hoeven compromise addressed concerns on both sides of the aisle.
Republicans pointed out that the DHS has failed to enforce immigration laws in the past. They also were concerned that, under the original bill, DHS was tasked with devising its own border security plan. What if that plan wasn't up to snuff? Republicans said.?
Democrats, on the other hand, feared that an alternative ? putting specific border-security goals in place and then making the pathway to citizenship contingent on their fulfillment ? would allow a future Congress to short-circuit the route to citizenship for the nation?s 11 million undocumented immigrants.
Corker-Hoeven?s answer was to establish five "triggers" that will increase border security significantly, but which can be definitively implemented in a relatively short period. These are:
- The addition of 20,000 border patrol agents.
- The construction of 700 miles of fencing.
- The implementation of more and advanced border-security technology
- The nationwide implementation of the E-Verify employment verification system.
- The implementation of electronic scanning systems for foreigners entering and exiting the US at all air and seaports.
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Thursday, June 20, 2013
WSJ: Facebook Will Announce Ambiguous Vine-Like Video Sharing Today
The WSJ is the latest publication to report unnamed sources claiming that today's Facebook announcement will be all about video sharing. Now it looks like the service will be separate from Instagram? Or is that an omission?
According to "sources with knowledge" Facebook will announce "pieces" of a "Vine-like video service". The main difference between this report and others that have surfaced is that there's no mention of Instagram at all. Does this mean that the service will be some kind of standalone feature? Or does the WSJ just have shitty intel it's trying to cover with ambiguity. We'll find out this afternoon. [WSJ]
Source: http://gizmodo.com/wsj-facebook-wil-announce-ambiguous-vine-like-video-sh-516523358
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