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Friday, June 29, 2012
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Thursday, June 28, 2012
Young Aroostook County athletes make strong showing at Maine ...
BREWER, Maine ? Kes Lavoie has always been a baseball player. The 13-year-old from Bangor played this spring on the Cohen Middle School ?A? team and also competes on a Junior League squad.
On a damp, gray Tuesday, she demonstrated her strong throwing arm ? this time, with a softball in her hand.
Lavoie uncorked a throw of 145 feet, 6 inches to win the ages 13-14 softball throw during the 35th Maine Hershey Track and Field State Championship meet at Pendleton Street Field in Brewer.
?I?ve been playing baseball and I realized that I was able to throw a lot farther than most of the girls my age,? Lavoie said.
?My farthest throw I?ve done is 157, so I was trying to get 160 today, but I don?t know what happened,? she said. ?The ball was kind of wet and it was harder to throw.?
More than 200 youngsters ages 9 to 14 earned the right to compete in the state meet, which is run by the Maine Recreation and Parks Association and sponsored by the Hershey Co.
The athletes, who came from cities and towns across Maine, were vying to earn spots in the Hershey Track and Field Games North American Final, scheduled Aug. 4-5 in Hershey, Pa.
Tim Baude, Maine chairman for the Hershey Games, said each state and Canadian province is guaranteed five competitors at the North American Final. Mainers are going up against competitors from the other New England states and the Maritimes.
He said it will be approximately two weeks before any of the Maine winners learn whether they earned a trip to Hershey.
?[It?s a] four-day, all-expenses-paid trip by Hershey,? said Baude, adding that the athletes and their parents are flown to Pennsylvania, where they stay and eat for free. ?They actually open the [candy-making] plant one day for us. They get to go to Hershey Park, stay at college dorms and get to meet kids from all around the United States and Canada.?
Tuesday?s meet brought together runners, jumpers and throwers in three different age groups: 9-10, 11-12 and 13-14.
Aspen Cote of Madawaska and Daniel Hemminger of Portland demonstrated their versatility as three-event winners.
Cote claimed the 100 meters (14.27 seconds), the 200 (29.71) and the long jump (7 feet, 4? inches) in the girls 13-14 age group. Hemminger won the 100 (14.32) and also took the 200 (29.80) and the softball throw (147-10) for boys ages 11-12.
Adam Bohlen of Bucksport enjoyed a successful day on the track in the boys 13-14 division. He claimed the 1,600 with a time of 5:41.43 and then won the 800 in 2:34.69.
?It felt great,? said the 13-year-old, who runs middle school cross country and track in Bucksport. ?I beat my last record [in the 1,600] by 10 seconds.?
In both races, Bohlen had to fend off late challenges by competitors. He edged Jake Flewelling of Easton in the 1,600 and Thomas Dupuy of Greenville in the 800.
?I heard him [Flewelling] behind me, but that means I know the last lap I had to go even harder,? Bohlen said.
Caribou?s Parker Deprey won the 100 (16.12), the softball throw (119-9) and ran on the first-place 4?100 relay (1:10.87) along with Ethan Holdsworth, Carter Quist and Jordan Duplissie in the 9-10 division. Isaac Robison of Bangor won the 100 (13.36) and the long jump (8-7) for 13-14 boys.
Niko Naranja of Fort Kent won the 400 meters (1:13.67) and was part of a first-place quartet in the 4?100 (1:04.38) along with Alex Nissenbaum, Zachary Nadeau and Max Ouellette among 11- and 12-year-olds.
That group continued Fort Kent?s tradition of excellence in the boys relay. Nadeau, Naranjo and Ouellette had been part of previous Hershey winners.
?If you actually trust your friends, that they can do well, you have this feeling that it?s going to be easier for you to push it because they?re depending on you and themselves,? Ouellette said.
Aroostook County sent 133 athletes to the meet, including a talented 9-10 girls contingent. Paige Espling of Caribou won both the 400 (1:25.61) and the long jump (6-7?) and finished second to Caribou?s Emma Hixon by one-hundredth of a second in the 50.
?I start out jogging and then when I get to that [last] corner I usually start sprinting,? Espling said of the 400.
Bailey Bellefleur of St. Agatha, running for Fort Kent, showed off her speed in the 11-12 girls bracket. The 11-year-old won both the 100 (14.82) and the 200 (31.40).
Fort Kent teammate Dolice Tanguay was a double winner among the 9-10 girls, taking the 100 (16.02) and the 200 (33.94). Kolleen Bouchard of Houlton, competing in the 11-12 girls, threw the softball 129-2 to earn first place and was second in the 100.
?I don?t know if it?s enough to make it to Hershey. They can throw far down there,? she said of her softball throw.
Bouchard also is playing in an all-star softball tournament at Hermon.
Other girls winners included ? ages 9-10, girls: 4?100, Houlton (Emma Drew, Alyssa Abbotoni, Grace Johnson, Lauren McGillicuddy), 1:14.71; softball throw, Alana Legasse (PI), 65-8; boys: 50, Connor Demerchant (PI), 8.50; 400, Ethan Holdsworth (Car), 1:19.21; 200, Sawyer Deprey (Car), 34.12; long jump, Holden Stoutameyer (PI) 6-7.
11-12, girls: 400, Annah Rossvall (Portland), 1:08.26; 800, Alexis Rodriguez (Car), 3:09.09; 4?100, PI (Miranda Drost, Kate Goulet, Isabelle Jackson, Libby Moreau), 1:08.48; long jump, Abby Pipkin (Port), 7-1; boys: 800, Evan Michaud (Car), 2:43.28; long jump, Cole Winslow (Hou) 7-1.
13-14, girls: 1,600, Jordan Tanguay (FK), 6:09.53; 800, Gentle Prescott (FK), 2:47.05; 4?100, Easton (Emma Bonner, Sara Gilman, Elise Allen, Breann Clayton), 1:07.10; boys: 100, Isaac Robison (Bangor), 13.36; 200, Jacob O?Berry (PI), 25.71; 4?100, PI (Gavin Kelley, Max Bartley, John Saucier, Jacob O?Berry), 1:01.00; long jump, Isaac Robison (Bangor), 8-7; softball throw, Cole Tweedie (Hampden) 182-9.
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Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Moody's cuts debt ratings of 28 Spanish banks
Spain's battered banks have taken another hit, this time in the form of a sweeping downgrade by Moody's.
The rating agency said that it is cutting its views on the debt issued by 28 Spanish banks, including international heavyweights Banco Santander and Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria.
The Spanish government's fragile finances are making it more difficult for that country to support its lenders, according to Moody's. And it says the banks are vulnerable to further losses from Spain's real-estate bust.
The announcement late Monday from Moody's Investors Service came on the same day that Spain's government formally asked for help from its European neighbors in cleaning up its stricken banking sector. The request left many questions unanswered, including how much Spain would ask for out of the $125 billion loan package it has been offered.
That uncertainty over Spain led to losses Monday in global stock markets. Bond investors, meanwhile, pushed Spain's borrowing costs higher, a sign of wilting confidence in the country's ability to support its banks.
The downgrades reflect Moody's dimming view on the ability of the Spanish banks to repay their debts. Moody's said the lower ratings stemmed from its having downgraded the Spanish government's credit rating by three notches earlier this month.
A downgrade usually means that banks will have to pay more to service their debt. Investors demand higher interest for riskier debt implied by lower credit ratings.
Spain formally asked the European Union on Monday for rescue loans to help clean up its troubled banking industry. The Spanish economy, the fourth-largest of the 17 countries that use the euro currency, is suffering from the aftershocks of a real estate bust that has devastated families as well as banks. Unemployment is nearly 25 percent.
The Spanish government's financial fate is intertwined with that of the country's banks. Two-thirds of the government's bonds are owned by Spanish banks, pension funds and insurance companies.
Moody's long-term rating on Banco Santander SA, the eurozone's largest bank by market capitalization, remains in investment grade despite a two-notch downgrade. The rating agency cited Santander's diversified holdings that reduce its exposure to the government's finances. Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA's new long-term rating is one notch below Santander's and just one notch above non-investment, or "junk" status.
The debt of several others, however, is now considered junk. Those include Banco Popular Espanol, Bankinter SA and Bankia.
Moody's did say in a statement that the agency is encouraged by measures being taken by Spain to support its banks.
The rating agency's move came four days after the rating agency downgraded some of the world's biggest banks, including Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs, reflecting concern over their exposure to the violent swings in global financial markets. Moody's also cut the ratings on seven German and three Austrian banks this month.
The downgrades haven't come as a surprise. But they come at a time of great uncertainty in the global economy. Europe's 17-nation currency union is under threat, the U.S. economy is slowing and the economies of India, Brazil and China are cooling.
EU leaders are meeting Thursday and Friday in Brussels for another summit aimed at reining in Europe's debt crisis. Debt-wracked Greece is looking to renegotiate some of the budget-cutting measures it has agreed to in exchange for continued support from international lenders. The summit comes just a week after Greece's new coalition government was formed following months of political turmoil and two inconclusive elections.
Two international audits last week found that Spain could need as much as $77 billion. The government wants the loans to go directly to the banks so that it won't be responsible for repayment in case of a default. That idea has met with resistance.
The size and interest rates of the loans likely will be discussed at the EU summit this week.
Investors are concerned that beyond a rescue for its troubled banking sector, Spain itself may ultimately need a full country bailout like Greece, Ireland and Portugal.
Steep losses stung stock markets on both sides of the Atlantic Monday. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 138 points to close at 12,502.66, a loss of 1.1 percent. The broader Standard & Poor's 500 index fell even more, 1.6 percent.
In Europe, Britain's FTSE 100 stock index fell 1.1 percent, France's CAC-40 slumped 2.2 percent, while Germany's DAX dropped 2.1 percent. The selling spilled over to Asian on Tuesday, with Nikkei 225 index fell 0.8 percent and South Korea's Kospi was 0.2 percent lower in early trading.
Many analysts believe big banks, including those in the U.S., would be the first to feel the hit of a freeze-up in Europe's financial system if Spain isn't able to convince bond markets that it can rescue its hobbled banks.
The uncertainty pushed borrowing costs higher for Spain's government on Monday. Its stock market plunged 3.7 percent.
The other 23 banks downgraded by Moody's are Caja Laboral, Banca March SA, Caja Rural de Navarra SCC, Caixa Bank, Instituto de Credito Oficial, Banco Cooperativo Espanol SA, Banco Sabadell SA, Kutxabank SA, Unicaja Banco SA, Banco Pastor SA, Confederacion Espanola de Cajas de Ahorro, Caja Rural de Granada SCC, Bankoa SA, Liberbank SA, Ibercaja Banco SA, Cajamar Caja Rural SCC, Ahorro Corporacion Financiera SV SA, Banco CEISS, Catalunya Banc SA, NCG Banco SA , Banco CAM, Dexia Sabadell SA and Banco de Valencia SA.
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AP Business Writer Seth Sutel contributed to this story.
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Monday, June 25, 2012
Galaxy S III sales to hit 10 million next month
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ? Samsung Electronics Co. expects worldwide sales of the latest Galaxy smartphone to surpass 10 million in July.
Samsung's mobile business president Shin Jong-kyun said on Monday that the Galaxy S III will reach the milestone two months after its launch.
The estimate reflects robust demands from mobile operators. Unlike Apple Inc., Samsung does not disclose sales figures to consumers.
The Korean company says the S III will be released by nearly 300 mobile carriers around the world by the end of July.
Samsung overtook Nokia as the world's biggest mobile-phone maker in 2011 and competes with Apple for the top smartphone maker position. It aims to double its smartphone sales this year to nearly 200 million phones.
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Friday, June 22, 2012
Decoding the dance of the chromosomes
Sex is old.
In Scottish Country dancing, couples can swap sides during a dance. During meiosis, pairs of chromosomes line up and exchange genetic information. Image copyright Furlongs Travel/Crieff Hydro. Used with permission.
More correctly, sexual reproduction as a biological phenomenon has been around for over a billion years. Birds, bees, flowers and trees all reproduce sexually. For an organism to reproduce sexually it needs to produce gametes, or sex cells, and this occurs during a specialised form of cell division known as meiosis.
During meiosis, two cycles of cell division occur to produce gametes with only half of the number of chromosomes of the parent that produced them. Just before the first division, the maternal and paternal pairs of chromosomes line up and cross over, like couples swapping places in a formation dance. This recombination leads to gametes with a unique combination of genetic material from both parents and is responsible for genetic diversity within populations. It?s why two sisters (or two brothers) from the same parents don?t look the same.
Like in all formation dances with particular steps, the process of crossing over is tightly controlled. For researchers keen to unlock genetic diversity in agricultural crops, understanding the genetic control of crossing over is of particular interest. For Dr Wayne Crismani, this interest in the genes controlling recombination has led him from a PhD in his home town at the University of Adelaide, to a three-year stint in the meiosis lab of INRA in Versailles, France.
A fluorescent in situ hybridisation image of wild-type Arabidopsis just prior to the first meiotic division. Each of the five pairs of chromosomes (blue) have found their partners and are involved in reciprocal exchanges of their DNA. Labels (green and red) are used identify the different chromosome pairs so that the behaviour of each chromosome during meiosis can be analysed. Image copyright Wayne Crismani. Used with permission.
When asked where his interest came from, Wayne explained ?It was by chance at the beginning. A friend introduced me to my PhD supervisor, Dr Jason Able and I was fascinated by the complicated yet very impressive genetics of bread wheat and other crops. Later I made a very deliberate decision to come to France for my post-doc. I was lucky enough to visit many excellent overseas laboratories during my PhD including the opportunity to spend four months here on a Marie Curie fellowship from the EU. I developed a taste for genetics and microscopy and I knew this was the place to be and that I wanted to come back.?
And now, Dr Crismani, his fellow researchers at INRA and their Spanish and American colleagues have made an exciting new discovery, recently published in Science (DOI: 10.1126/science.1220381). ?Many genes that promote the formation of meiotic crossovers in plants have been discovered. But we have found a gene that actually limits the number of crossovers that occur? said Wayne.
Composite image showing fluorescent pollen demonstrating the increase in meiotic recombination. Each of the groups of four cells (known as a tetrad) is derived from a single cell which underwent meiosis. Three different labels (red, yellow and blue) are placed on the same chromosome. More colours spread across the four cells indicate more recombination along the chromsome. Image copyright Wayne Crismani. Used with permission.
Dr Crismani and his colleagues worked with a mutant of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana (thale cress) with very low numbers of crossovers and, as a consequence, poor fertility. By looking for new mutations that had restored fertility due to increased crossovers, the researchers were able to work backwards and identify the genes responsible.
They discovered that a single mutation in a gene known as FANCM led to a tripling in the numbers of crossovers compared to what usually occurs in Arabidopsis, without any negative effects on the fertility or health of the plant. Wayne explained ?This was really exciting for us. Until now, FANCM was known to have a role in DNA repair and the human version of the protein has an essential role in genome stability. But we are the first to show that it limits meiotic crossing over in any species.?
Because combining traits in a breeding program is limited by meiotic crossovers, this discovery is likely to be welcomed by crop breeders world-wide. However, it will still take some time before this discovery may be applied to species of agricultural interest. ?The gene exists in essentially all species. However the important question for plant breeders is does a loss of function of the gene have the same effect in other species, notably in the world?s major crop species? If so it could deliver huge benefits by reducing the amount of time required to produce a new variety? said Wayne.
Dr Wayne Crismani inspects his Arabidopsis thaliana plants. Image copyright Wayne Crismani. Used with permission.
Although Wayne and his fellow researchers hope that this work will ultimately help to accelerate the production of new plant varieties needed to feed a growing population, their findings also question the role of genetic recombination in evolutionary terms. ?We were able to markedly increase the frequency of crossovers without negatively affecting the fertility, but we still don?t really know why in nature genetic recombination is typically quite limited? said Wayne, adding ?The findings have opened up many avenues of future research. I have lot of projects in mind, particularly since my boss Rapha?l Mercier is someone who just has idea after idea. I think it is rubbing off on me.?
Dr Crismani?s work is funded by the EU-FP7 program Meiosys-KBBE-2009-222883
Reference:
Crismani et al., FANCM Limits Meiotic Crossovers. Science 22 June 2012: Vol. 336 no. 6088 pp. 1588-1590. DOI: 10.1126/science.1220381
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Astronomers spy 2 planets in tight quarters as they orbit a distant star
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A research team led by astronomers at the University of Washington and Harvard University has discovered a bigger version of Earth locked in an orbital tug-of-war with a much larger, Neptune-sized planet as they orbit very close to each other around the same star about 1,200 light years from Earth.
The planets occupy nearly the same orbital plane and on their closest approach come within about 1.2 million miles of each other just five times the Earth-moon distance and about 20 times closer to one another than any two planets in our solar system.
But the timing of their orbits means they'll never collide, said Eric Agol, a UW astronomy professor and co-lead author of a paper documenting the discovery published June 21 by Science Express, the online edition of the journal Science.
"These are the closest two planets to one another that have ever been found," Agol said. "The bigger planet is pushing the smaller planet around more, so the smaller planet is harder to find."
Orbiting a star in the Cygnus constellation referred to as Kepler-36a, the planets are designated Kepler-36b and Kepler-36c. Planet b is a rocky planet like Earth, though 4.5 times more massive and with a radius 1.5 times greater. Kepler-36c, which could be either gaseous like Jupiter or watery, is 8.1 times more massive than Earth and has a radius 3.7 times greater.
The larger planet was originally spotted in data from NASA's Kepler satellite, which uses an instrument called a photometer to measure light from distant celestial objects and can detect a planet when it transits, or passes in front of, and briefly reduces the light coming from, its parent star.
The team wanted to try finding a second planet in a system where it was already known that there was one planet. Agol suggested applying an algorithm called quasi-periodic pulse detection to examine data from Kepler.
Joshua Carter, a Hubble fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the other co-lead author of the Science paper, used the algorithm to begin methodically checking planetary systems already in the Kepler data and saw a clear signal in the Kepler-36a system.
"We found this one on a first quick look," Carter said. "We're now combing through the Kepler data to try to locate more."
The data revealed a slight dimming of light coming from Kepler-36a every 16 days, the length of time it takes the larger Kepler-36c to circle its star. Kepler-36b circles the star seven times for each six orbits of 36c, but it was not discovered initially because of its small size and the gravitational jostling by its orbital companion. But when the algorithm was applied to the data, the signal was unmistakable.
"If you look at the transit time pattern for the large planet and the transit time pattern for the smaller planet, they are mirror images of one another," Agol said.
The fact that the two planets are so close to each other and exhibit specific orbital patterns allowed the scientists to make fairly precise estimates of each planet's characteristics, based on their gravitational effects on each other and the resulting variations in the orbits. To date, this is the best-characterized system with small planets, the researchers said.
They believe the smaller planet is 30 percent iron, less than 1 percent atmospheric hydrogen and helium and probably no more than 15 percent water. The larger planet, on the other hand, likely has a rocky core surrounded by a substantial amount of atmospheric hydrogen and helium.
The planets' densities differ by a factor of eight but their orbits differ by only 10 percent, which makes the differences in composition difficult for the scientists to explain using current models of planet formation.
The team also calculated specific information for the star itself, determining that Kepler-36a is about the same mass as the sun but is just 25 percent as dense. It also is slightly hotter and has slightly less metal content. The researchers concluded that the star is a few billion years older than the sun and no longer burns hydrogen at its core, so has entered a sub-giant phase in which its radius is 60 percent greater than the sun's.
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The research was funded by NASA, the Space Telescope Science Institute and the National Science Foundation. In addition to Agol and Carter, the Science paper has 44 co-authors from institutions in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Denmark and The Netherlands.
For more information, contact Agol at 206-543-7106 or agol@astro.washington.edu or Carter at 617-495-7278 or jacarter@cfa.harvard.edu.
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Public release date: 21-Jun-2012[ | E-mail |
Share ] Contact: Vince Stricherz
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206-543-2580
University of Washington
A research team led by astronomers at the University of Washington and Harvard University has discovered a bigger version of Earth locked in an orbital tug-of-war with a much larger, Neptune-sized planet as they orbit very close to each other around the same star about 1,200 light years from Earth.
The planets occupy nearly the same orbital plane and on their closest approach come within about 1.2 million miles of each other just five times the Earth-moon distance and about 20 times closer to one another than any two planets in our solar system.
But the timing of their orbits means they'll never collide, said Eric Agol, a UW astronomy professor and co-lead author of a paper documenting the discovery published June 21 by Science Express, the online edition of the journal Science.
"These are the closest two planets to one another that have ever been found," Agol said. "The bigger planet is pushing the smaller planet around more, so the smaller planet is harder to find."
Orbiting a star in the Cygnus constellation referred to as Kepler-36a, the planets are designated Kepler-36b and Kepler-36c. Planet b is a rocky planet like Earth, though 4.5 times more massive and with a radius 1.5 times greater. Kepler-36c, which could be either gaseous like Jupiter or watery, is 8.1 times more massive than Earth and has a radius 3.7 times greater.
The larger planet was originally spotted in data from NASA's Kepler satellite, which uses an instrument called a photometer to measure light from distant celestial objects and can detect a planet when it transits, or passes in front of, and briefly reduces the light coming from, its parent star.
The team wanted to try finding a second planet in a system where it was already known that there was one planet. Agol suggested applying an algorithm called quasi-periodic pulse detection to examine data from Kepler.
Joshua Carter, a Hubble fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the other co-lead author of the Science paper, used the algorithm to begin methodically checking planetary systems already in the Kepler data and saw a clear signal in the Kepler-36a system.
"We found this one on a first quick look," Carter said. "We're now combing through the Kepler data to try to locate more."
The data revealed a slight dimming of light coming from Kepler-36a every 16 days, the length of time it takes the larger Kepler-36c to circle its star. Kepler-36b circles the star seven times for each six orbits of 36c, but it was not discovered initially because of its small size and the gravitational jostling by its orbital companion. But when the algorithm was applied to the data, the signal was unmistakable.
"If you look at the transit time pattern for the large planet and the transit time pattern for the smaller planet, they are mirror images of one another," Agol said.
The fact that the two planets are so close to each other and exhibit specific orbital patterns allowed the scientists to make fairly precise estimates of each planet's characteristics, based on their gravitational effects on each other and the resulting variations in the orbits. To date, this is the best-characterized system with small planets, the researchers said.
They believe the smaller planet is 30 percent iron, less than 1 percent atmospheric hydrogen and helium and probably no more than 15 percent water. The larger planet, on the other hand, likely has a rocky core surrounded by a substantial amount of atmospheric hydrogen and helium.
The planets' densities differ by a factor of eight but their orbits differ by only 10 percent, which makes the differences in composition difficult for the scientists to explain using current models of planet formation.
The team also calculated specific information for the star itself, determining that Kepler-36a is about the same mass as the sun but is just 25 percent as dense. It also is slightly hotter and has slightly less metal content. The researchers concluded that the star is a few billion years older than the sun and no longer burns hydrogen at its core, so has entered a sub-giant phase in which its radius is 60 percent greater than the sun's.
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The research was funded by NASA, the Space Telescope Science Institute and the National Science Foundation. In addition to Agol and Carter, the Science paper has 44 co-authors from institutions in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Denmark and The Netherlands.
For more information, contact Agol at 206-543-7106 or agol@astro.washington.edu or Carter at 617-495-7278 or jacarter@cfa.harvard.edu.
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Thursday, June 21, 2012
American Airlines pilots reject contract offer
DALLAS (AP) ? The pilots' union on Wednesday rejected the latest contract offer from American Airlines, which is awaiting a judge's ruling on whether it can impose its own terms for cutting costs that include eliminating thousands of jobs.
The union's board voted 11-5 to reject the company's offer. American said it was disappointed that the union didn't let members vote on the contract.
A federal bankruptcy judge is scheduled to rule Friday on whether American can break its current contracts with pilots and other union workers. The pilots' union wants in that ruling delayed.
American and parent AMR Corp., filed for bankruptcy protection in November. American is the nation's third-biggest airline behind United and Delta.
Its attempt to fix itself has been complicated by US Airways, which has taken steps toward a potential takeover of AMR ? something that AMR executives don't want to talk about yet. US Airways won the support of American's unions by promising fewer layoffs and even some wage increases if it buys AMR.
American wants to emerge from bankruptcy as an independent company. To do that, it says it must cut labor costs by $1.25 billion per year ? mostly by eliminating nearly 12,000 union jobs. American has about 75,000 employees including nearly 55,000 union members.
While pilots would bear only 400 of the immediate job losses, they have complained bitterly about other changes sought by American. A key ingredient to the turnaround plan is boosting revenue by selling seats on other U.S. airlines as if they were American flights.
American can't do that under the current contract with pilots, who fear that so-called code-sharing would mean fewer pilot jobs at American. But federal law lets companies in bankruptcy scuttle their union contracts if it's essential to their survival.
After several days of last-ditch negotiations, American made a new contract proposal to the pilots' union last week. The union said there were "clear improvements" over American's original plan but that some areas, such as scheduling, which affects a pilot's pay, were too vague.
"This is still a concessionary contract," said union spokesman Tom Hoban.
Still, Hoban said the two sides were "very close in many areas." He said that union President David Bates asked AMR CEO Thomas Horton to seek the judge's approval for more time to negotiate by pushing back Friday's deadline.
American Airlines spokesman Bruce Hicks said the company offered pay increases, profit sharing, stock in the company that emerges from bankruptcy, and freezing the pilots' pension plan instead of terminating it.
Hicks said American was disappointed that the union didn't let rank-and-file pilots vote on the offer. The Transport Workers Union, which represents American ground workers, let its members vote and five of the union's seven groups ratified company offers.
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Navy commander fired for collision with fuel ship
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The USS Essex, a U.S. Navy amphibious assault ship, arrives in Hong Kong harbor for a scheduled port visit. The Essex had been positioned in Asia for 12 years and was returning to port in San Diego when it collided with a refueling ship off the coast of southern California on May 16.
By Kari Huus, msnbc.com
The Navy has fired the commander of the Navy assault ship Essex which collided with a Navy oil supply ship at sea last month, the Navy Times reported Tuesday.
Capt. Chuck Litchfield was relieved of his duties due to a "loss of confidence in his ability to command," over the May 16 collision, said the Times, citing Navy spokesperson Cmdr. Tamsen Reese.
The USS Essex, a big-deck amphibious assault ship ran into the USNS Yukon, a replenishment oiler during the approach for a routine refueling, about 120 miles off the coast of southern California on May 16, sending both ships to port for emergency repairs, the Navy News Service reported at the time of the collision. It said there were no injuries or fuel spills caused by the accident.
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Capt. Chuck Litchfield has been fired as commanding officer of the amphibious assault ship Essex.
An ongoing investigation has indicated "a number of factors that contributed to the collision," according to Reese. The problem began with the partial loss of rudder control and was followed by "a breakdown in command and control, in bridge resource management and in communication between the two ships," she told the Times.
The Essex was returning to San Diego after completing 12 years as the Navy's only permanently forward-deployed amphibious assault ship in Sasebo, Japan.
Litchfield has been temporarily reassigned to the Naval Air Force Pacific staff in Coronado, the Navy Times reported.
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Slowing economy may force Fed to take action
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Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke testifies before the Joint Economic Committee on Capitol Hill earlier this month.
By Roland Jones
With the dark cloud of Europe?s ongoing financial crisis still hanging over the world financial system, the Federal Reserve opens a two-day meeting?Tuesday?with speculation swirling that policymakers could announce more stimulus to boost the U.S. economy.
A crucial Greek election over the weekend eased fears of an imminent financial disaster in the eurozone by handing?victory to New Democracy, a center-right party that supports Greece staying in the currency union. That means, for now at least, investors can stop worrying about the market chaos that would follow a Greek decision to?leave the eurozone.
Now the focus shifts to the Fed and how it might play its next hand.
Recent reports, including two straight months of weak job growth, suggest?economic growth is slowing again after a tepid recovery. That sets the stage for?Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke to ask central bankers to approve more stimulus, although the options are limited. In?testimony this month Bernanke said the Fed stands ready to act if needed.
Opinions are divided over what the Fed will do.
Some economists expect policymakers to extend ?Operation Twist,? a program launched last fall that adjusts the composition of the government bonds held by the Fed by swapping short-term assets for longer-term assets. The idea is to push down long-term interest rates, making it easier for businesses and consumers to get credit. The program is due to end?June 30, although the?Fed could opt to extend it beyond that date.
Others are hoping for something stronger, such as another massive bond-buying program known as ?quantitative easing,? or QE, in which the Fed essentially?prints?money to buy long-term mortgage or Treasury bonds.
That would be?controversial?because past efforts have had a?questionable success rate, and it brings with it the risk of inflation down the road because it increases the money supply. Also, economists say the Fed is likely to want to keep something in its arsenal in case the?economic outlook worsens further?over the summer.
An extension of ?Operation Twist? is?the most likely first step, according to Former Richmond Fed President Al Broaddus.
?I think if there?s a significant risk, and action is needed, they may need to do something this week,? Broaddus told CNBC. ?My guess is it will be some kind of modification of Operation Twist.?
He said the?focus of the meeting would be?domestic U.S. conditions with some discussion of the eurozone crisis.
Barclays Capital strategists Alan James and Edmund Shing are also expecting an extension to the Fed?s Operation Twist, pointing to weakness in manufacturing output and in consumer sentiment.
?The soft patch in U.S. economic data keeps getting larger,? they wrote in a research note Monday.
One of the only other options open to the Fed is to adjust interest rates, which are already at record-low levels near zero. In January the Fed said it plans to hold down rates until late 2014 to sustain the economic recovery. The Fed would now have to signal to the market that it plans to hold rates down even further into the future.
The worsening debt crisis in Europe and fears over whether?Congress will hold off on tax increases and government spending cuts that are supposed to start in 2013 -- also known as the ?fiscal cliff? -- are weighing on consumer and business confidence.
Signs that Europe?s woes, which investors fear will have negative repercussions on the U.S. economy, are far from over were seen Monday when Spanish borrowing costs soared, with 10-year bond yields hitting 7.30 percent -- the highest in the eurozone?s history and above the rate that has forced other struggling euro-area nations to seek an international bailout.
Still, the troubles in Europe shouldn?t factor too heavily in the Fed?s plans this week, said Dino Kos, a former New York Fed executive vice president. Weakness in Europe should already be factored into the Fed?s forecast, he told CNBC.
?It shouldn?t really affect their thinking, although the situation has obviously gotten worse,? he said. ?The way it should impact their thinking is does the European slowdown affect U.S. growth, and does the growth then come down to such a degree that they need to counter it??
Kos said the best position for the Fed this week would be to hold fire, given the potential negative consequences of the fiscal cliff.
?Do you want the Federal Reserve to have something in reserve?? he said, noting that there are many uncertainties surrounding the fiscal cliff, given its timing, and the uncertainties about what the political situation will be at the end of the year.
?I would say they should wait,? he said.
Reuters contributed to this report.
Dino Kos, former NY Federal Reserve Bank executive vice president and Alfred Broaddus, former Richmond Federal Reserve president, discuss the outcome of Sunday's election in Greece; the impact on U.S. markets and the economy; and whether the Fed will i...
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Jack Osbourne's Multiple Sclerosis Diagnosis: What Does It Mean?
Experts say that Osbourne has a promising range of treatment options.
By Gil Kaufman
Jack Osbourne
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A few tell-tale signs are what clued Jack Osbourne into the fact that something was seriously wrong with his health. The son of hard rock icon Ozzy and "America's Got Talent" judge Sharon Osbourne revealed earlier this week that he has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis earlier this spring.
According to the "Today Show," Osbourne, 26, decided to visit a doctor when he noticed tingling in his extremities and suffered a 60 percent loss of vision in one eye.
MS is an autoimmune disease that attacks the central nervous system and which currently has no cure, but is very treatable. It causes inflammation in the brain and spinal cord resulting in the loss of myelin, the insulation around nerves. Among the symptoms are: loss of vision, numbness, tingling, excessive fatigue and weakness. The effects can range from mild to debilitating, but experts said that with the right mix of medications and doctors Osbourne has a good chance at leading a fulfilling life.
"The prognosis now is better than it's ever been," neurologist Dr. David Snyder, director of the Multiple Sclerosis Center at New York Hospital Queens told the morning show. "We have treatments we just never had before."
The disease can affect any organ system in the body, according to NBC chief medical editor Dr. Nancy Snyderman. "Every nerve has insulation around it and MS attacks that insulation so that the electrical impulses from the brain to tips of fingers and toes don't work as well," she said. The key for Osbourne is keeping in tune with any changes to his body and getting on the right mix of medicines to help slow down the progress of flare-ups.
"Now somebody on medication, treated early, we're very hopefully we're interrupting the natural course of the disease," Snyder said. "Patients are leading full lives, with families, jobs and travel."
While some people have not responded well to treatments, he said a large number do and lead full, if slightly modified, lives that may require a cane or other precautions. Around 400,000 people in the U.S. have MS, with 200 new cases diagnosed each week. Like other autoimmune diseases, MS affects more women than men, affecting females two to three times more than men.
Osbourne is right in peak age range in which most cases are diagnosed (late teens, 20s and 30s), which is why his revelation is not a surprise to experts. Snyder said that given Osbourne's age, his prognosis is relatively bright.
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Sunday, June 3, 2012
UN rights body condemns Syria over massacre
BEIRUT (AP) ? The U.N.'s top human rights body voted overwhelmingly Friday to condemn Syria over the slaughter of more than 100 civilians last week, but Damascus appeared impervious to the crescendo of global condemnation following a string of horrific massacres.
Syria's most important ally and protector, Russia, voted against the measure by the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva. Russia has refused to support any move that could lead to foreign intervention in Syria, Moscow's last significant ally in the Middle East.
New bloodshed was reported across Syria on Friday, with troops firing on protesters and more execution-style killings coming to light, while U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan urged Syrian President Bashar Assad once again to stop the violence.
As Russian diplomats in Geneva dismissed the resolution as "unbalanced" and voted against the text, Russian President Vladimir Putin promised to press the Syrian government for an end to the violence and insisted a political solution was still possible despite mounting frustration over the lack of diplomatic progress.
"It requires a certain professionalism and patience," Putin said in Germany.
Russia, along with China, has twice used its veto power to shield Syria from U.N. sanctions.
Although Syria has come under deep international isolation since its forces launched a ferocious crackdown on dissent nearly 15 months ago, the May 25 massacre in a cluster of villages known as Houla has brought a new urgency in calls to the crisis.
"Syria is on the edge, it is on the edge of a catastrophic situation, if we can imagine one even worse than the current situation," British Foreign Secretary William Hague said on the sidelines of a conference in Turkey.
A majority of countries in the 47-nation rights council supported a U.S.- and Arab-led resolution condemning the "outrageous use of force against the civilian population" in Houla.
"We believe that the acts committed by the Syrian regime may amount to crimes against humanity and other international crimes, and demonstrate a pattern of widespread and systematic attacks against civilian populations," Hague said.
He said evidence from U.N. observers and independent witnesses confirmed that security forces shelled Houla and that "government militia then went house to house slaughtering entire families without compassion or mercy."
New satellite images posted on the website of U.S. Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford showed signs of what look like freshly dug mass graves. A senior intelligence official speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to do so publicly, confirmed the authenticity of the images.
Only Russia, China and Cuba voted against the resolution, with Uganda and Ecuador abstaining. The Philippines was absent.
The resolution blamed "pro-regime elements" and government troops for the massacre. But Moscow echoed the Syrian government's explanation for the killings, blaming rebels that the Kremlin says are trying to stir up a civil war.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said the Houla massacre was a well-planned attempt to thwart a political solution to the crisis and "lead the situation in Syria to a new circle of gory violence."
Moscow's pro-Syria stance is motivated in part by its strategic and defense ties to Damascus, including weapons sales. Russia also rejects what it sees as a world order dominated by the U.S.
Speaking late Friday in Paris, Putin said Russia was not backing the Syrian regime, but trying to "reduce the violence to a minimum."
"We are not for Bashar Assad or for his adversaries. We want to arrive at a situation where the violence is ended and the possibility of a civil war is completely avoided," he said.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said she doesn't quite buy the claim that Moscow is neutral in the Syrian conflict, saying in Oslo that Russia is viewed in the United Nations, in Damascus and around the world "as supporting the continuity of the Assad regime."
"The continued supply of arms from Russia has strengthened the Assad regime," and "that Russia has maintained this trade ... has raised serious concerns," she said.
Activists say as many as 13,000 people have died in Assad's crackdown against the anti-government uprising, which began in March 2011 amid the Arab Spring. One year after the revolt began, the U.N. put the toll at 9,000, but many hundreds more have died since.
Despite the relentless violence, the Houla massacre stands out for its sheer brutality. Many of the dead were women and children who were gunned down in their homes.
Since then, two other mass killings were reported, both on Thursday. Thirteen bound corpses, many apparently shot execution-style, were found in the eastern province of Deir el-Zour, near the Iraqi border. Gunmen also killed 11 people on their way to work at a state-owned fertilizer factory in the central province of Homs, activists said.
There is no clear idea of who carried out the killings, although both sides traded blame.
U.N. deputy spokesman Eduardo del Buey said the U.N. has sent two teams to the area of the reported killings. "We cannot yet confirm the reports but teams are right now working on this," del Buey said in New York.
The violence has grown increasingly chaotic in recent months, and it is difficult to assign blame for much of the bloodshed as the country spirals toward civil war. The government restricts journalists from moving freely, making it nearly impossible to independently verify accounts from either side.
While Putin urged patience in the crisis, Annan called for immediate action, saying Assad must take bold steps to end the violence.
"I know we are all impatient, we are all frustrated by the violence, by the killings," Annan told reporters in Beirut. "We really want to see things move much faster."
Annan is trying to salvage a peace plan that he initiated six weeks ago, which calls for a cease-fire by both sides. The plan has never really taken hold, but world leaders have pinned their hopes on it, since the U.S. and others are unwilling to get deeply involved in another Arab nation in turmoil.
On Friday, activists said Syrian security forces fired on thousands of protesters in different parts of the country as crowds poured into the streets to mark the Houla massacre.
An amateur video said to be taken in the posh Damascus neighborhood of Mazzeh showed scores of people inside a mosque chanting "Death is better than humiliation!" and accusing the Syrian army of being traitors.
Protests erupted in the capital Damascus, the southern province of Daraa, the northern regions of Idlib and Aleppo, Latakia on the coast and Hama and Homs in central Syria.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the shooting at protesters occurred in Daraa, the suburbs of Damascus, and Aleppo, the country's largest city.
Several people were reported killed, but there was no way to confirm the toll.
On Friday, the Red Cross said thousands of people who have been displaced because of the Houla massacre need urgent help.
"People left everything behind as they ran for their lives," said Marianne Gasser, the head of the ICRC delegation in Syria. "Most of the displaced are women and children."
Many are taking shelter in schools and other public buildings in a nearby village.
"There was not enough food, water and medicine for everyone, which put a great deal of pressure on the small village," she said.
Del Buey, the U.N. deputy spokesman, said 210 detainees in Damascus and 13 in Daraa were released Thursday in the presence of U.N. military observers. He stressed that U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Annan "have said repeatedly we must see the release of all detainees being arbitrarily held and that clearly many more must be released."
Gen. Robert Mood, head of the U.N. mission, welcomed the release.
"This is a positive act in these challenging times," Mood said in a statement.
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AP writers John Heilprin and Frank Jordans in Geneva, Geir Moulson and David Rising in Berlin, Christopher Torchia in Istanbul, Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations in New York, Nataliya Vasilyeva and Mansur Mirovalev in Moscow, Sylvie Corbet in Paris, Kimberly Dozier in Washington, D.C., and Bassem Mroue and Zeina Karam in Beirut contributed to this report.
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On the web: http://www.humanrights.gov/2012/03/05/situation-in-syria/
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Saturday, June 2, 2012
Guy Ritchie Sails for Treasure Island
While we all wait with baited pipe smoke-tinged breath for another highly stylized Sherlock Holmes adventure from Guy Ritchie, Deadline Trenton reports that Warner Bros. has attached the director to helm a new take on Robert Louis Stevenson?s classic novel ?Treasure Island.?
And, as if there was any question about whether or not Ritchie would be straying from the high-action, whiz-bang stuff that?s made his Robert Downey Jr.-starring Holmes such a smash, the film has been set up by producer Lionel Wigram (Ritchie?s producing partner and the one responsible for ushering in the new Holmes tales). Wigram reportedly set up the project before he and Ritchie even became producing partners, and the buzz is that it will be a ?stylized version of the classic novel.? So, yeah, pretty much just like Holmes. Expect the doubloons to roll in.
The film will be adapted by newbie screenwriter Alex Harakis (whose script, Enemy of God, popped up on the 2005 Black List). He?ll be tasked with adapting Stevenson?s 1883 novel, a tale best known for its vivid imagination, action, and atmosphere. Stevenson?s book has been adapted for the screen over fifty times (not including a number of takes on the material via theater, radio, and other books), with some of the best known examples including a 1934 MGM version, the 1950 Disney take (which was the studio?s first completely live action production), Orson Welles? 1972 film, a murderer?s row of Eurpoean takes, and some weird spins ? like Muppet Treasure Island and Treasure Planet.
The book itself is principally narrated by protagonist Jim Hawkins, the teenage son of some innkeepers who ends up going on some fantastical adventures in the book. If they can?t age up the character enough for Downey to take the role on (they really can?t, especially because the book is so often lauded for being a classic coming-of-age story), look for a younger actor to get cast who can do a wicked RDJ impression. Downey? Yeah, he?d make a fitting Long John Silver for this type of production. Argh and such.
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Myanmar's Suu Kyi warns against 'reckless optimism'
By Ian Williams, NBC News
BANGKOK -- Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi stole the show at a regional economic forum here in Bangkok Friday.
It's the first time she's traveled abroad in almost a quarter of a century, and her audience, the good and the great of Asia's business and political world, were hanging on her every word.
"We just want to improve the state of Burma," she said in a?speech to the World Economic Forum on East Asia. ?"That's what we mean when we say reform."
Her speech was in many ways a reality check, warning against what she called "reckless optimism" over the rapid reforms taking place in Myanmar, also known as Burma.?
The Oxford-educated daughter of Myanmar's slain independence leader?added:
"I would not like you to be over-optimistic. I think optimism is good, but cautious optimism. These days I am coming across a lot of what I would call reckless optimism. That is not going to help you. It's not going to help us. So we need a balanced report. A little bit of healthy?skepticism I think is in order."?
In Bangkok, she's been given a hero's welcome by Myanmar migrants -- who call her Mother Suu. ?More than two million live in Thailand -- workers, refugees and exiles who've escaped the poverty and repression back home, and for whom she had a message of hope -- that conditions would soon be right for them to return.
For the first time in nearly a quarter century, Myanmar's opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has left her country for a journey overseas, first to Bangkok and later to Europe. NBC's Ian Williams reports.
Even when she wasn't in detention, Suu Kyi, 66, had not left Myanmar since 1988, fearing the ruling generals wouldn't let her back in -- even when her husband was dying in the U.K.
Myanmar's president, who kicked off the reforms by releasing Suu Kyi from house arrest and allowing her to run for parliament, was also invited to this forum, but decided to stay at home --- fearing he's be upstaged.
Suu Kyi receives ecstatic Thailand welcome
Still, the fact Suu Kyi has decided to leave for this visit -- with more planned to Europe -- is in itself a vote of confidence in the reforms.
In Dublin, she'll share a stage with U2 frontman Bono, a staunch Suu Kyi supporter, at a concert in her honor, according to Irish media.?In England, she has been given the rare honor of addressing both houses of Parliament. France's Foreign Ministry says she also plans to stop in Paris.
And in Norway she'll deal with some unfinished business --?picking up her 1991 Nobel Peace Prize.
Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.?
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Dragon mission ends with splashing success
The Dragon space capsule returned to Earth from the International Space Station, capping off its historic mission with a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. NBC's Mark Barger reports.
By Alan Boyle
SpaceX's Dragon cargo capsule parachuted to a picture-perfect splashdown in the Pacific Ocean today, ending the first-ever commercial mission to the International Space Station.
The gumdrop-shaped Dragon made history last week as the first U.S. craft to reach the orbital station since last year's retirement of the space shuttle fleet, and it made history today as the first commercial craft to return a shipment from orbit.
SpaceX's 40-year-old billionaire founder, Elon Musk, told reporters that the nine-day space station resupply mission was "like a grand slam" in baseball, and repeatedly voiced joy and surprise at how well it went.?"There are a thousand ways that it could fail, so this may sound sort of odd, but when you see it actually work, you're sort of surprised," he said.
The 14.4-foot-high (4.4-meter-high) capsule came down about 560 miles west of Baja California, within a mile of its target point, Musk said. When he saw the first pictures of the craft bobbing in the Pacific, he said his reaction was, "Welcome home, baby. ... It's like seeing your kid come home."
Michael Altenhofen / SpaceX via AP
A photo from SpaceX shows the Dragon spacecraft floating on the surface of the Pacific Ocean about 500 miles west of Mexico's Baja California today.
The demonstration flight will almost certainly earn a go-ahead for SpaceX to start space station resupply missions in earnest under the terms of a $1.6 billion contract with NASA. Alan Lindenmoyer, manager of NASA's commercial crew and cargo program, said a few more items needed to be marked off on the list of criteria, but he voiced nearly as much satisfaction about the results as Musk did.
"It is very easy to see that this satisfies, I believe, 100 percent of those criteria," he said.?
The demonstration flight began on May 22 with the Dragon's launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The mission?reached its climax last Friday when astronauts used the space station's robotic arm to?pull the Dragon in to its docking port on the the station's Harmony module. On the following day, when station crew members entered the Dragon for the first time, NASA astronaut Don Pettit gushed over its new-car smell.
Over the days that followed, the station's crew unloaded a half-ton of food, equipment, experiments and other supplies?? then loaded it back up with more than 1,300 pounds (620 kilograms) of non-essential Earth-bound shipments.
What happened today
Today, astronauts reversed the process they went through last week.?The robotic arm pulled the Dragon out from its port and positioned it for release at 5:49 a.m. ET. SpaceX's craft then executed a series of engine burns to take itself out of the station's neighborhood and descend from orbit.
The final engine burn slowed the Dragon's orbital velocity by 100 meters per second (224 mph)?? enough to drop it into a fiery descent through the atmosphere.?The craft's bottom is coated with a layer of protective material called PICA-X, which SpaceX's engineers say is resilient enough to weather a return to Earth from Mars. At its peak, the heat shield had to endure temperatures in excess of 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit (1,650 degrees Celsius).
The suspense built during a few minutes of scheduled communication blackout, but eased when infrared imagery from airplanes circling the projected splashdown site showed the Dragon's parachutes opening. For some observers, the sight of the red-and-white main parachutes sprouting from the capsule sparked a flashback to the days of the Apollo moonshots.
Michael Altenhofen / SpaceX
A photo taken from a recovery ship shows the SpaceX Dragon's parachutes floating in the air after the cargo craft's splashdown.
At 11:42 a.m. ET, SpaceX's controllers confirmed that the craft made a successful splashdown.?NASA mission commentator Josh Byerly observed that the Dragon mission "ended like it began ??which is, fairly easily."
A pre-positioned flotilla of recovery ships loaded up the Dragon and will bring it back to Los Angeles, near SpaceX's headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif. Some high-value experimental payloads will be express-delivered to NASA within 48 hours; however, the bulk of Dragon's cargo will be taken off after it's transported to SpaceX's rocket test facility in MacGregor, Texas. This particular Dragon won't be reused for another NASA flight, but eventually SpaceX plans to refurbish the capsules as well as rocket stages.?
Over the past few years, NASA has paid out about $300 million to help SpaceX develop the Dragon and the Falcon 9 rocket. SpaceX has invested a similar amount of its own capital. This test mission should clear the way for SpaceX to start in on the $1.6 billion station resupply contract, which covers 12 flights through 2015. Musk said he expected the first full-fledged Dragon cargo run to lift off late this summer.
Another company, Virginia-based Orbital Sciences Corp., is working on an alternate commercial delivery system, but that system hasn't yet gone through flight testing.
Grand plans for NASA and SpaceX
Such deliveries are part of NASA's grand plan in the post-shuttle era to transfer space station resupply operations to commercial companies, at what is expected to be a cost far less expensive than space shuttle operations. Theoretically, that would free up money for NASA to concentrate on developing a more powerful heavy-lift rocket and a more capable Orion spacecraft for missions beyond Earth orbit ? heading toward asteroids, the moon and eventually Mars.
SpaceX and three other companies?? Blue Origin, the Boeing Co. and Sierra Nevada Corp.?? are working on spacecraft capable of transporting astronauts to and from the station, and NASA expects those ships to be available for its use by 2017. SpaceX's crew-carrying craft will be an upgraded version of the Dragon that was used for the current cargo mission.
Musk said Dragon 2.0 would have a thruster system capable of making near-pinpoint, helicopter-style landings. That system is due for testing later this year, and could be ready for NASA in three to five years.?Such a system would be a must-have for landings on other worlds, Musk noted.
Musk, a dot-com billionaire who made his fortune with PayPal, ?founded?SpaceX?in 2002 as part of his own grand plan to help humans get to Mars and become a "multiplanet species."
Today he noted that the company, known more formally as Space Exploration Technologies Corp., is under contract for about 40 launches, including the 12 planned Dragon cargo missions for NASA as well as additional commercial launches. Just this week, SpaceX announced a deal with Intelsat to put a telecom satellite into geosynchronous transfer orbit using the Falcon Heavy rocket, which is still under development. SpaceX also hopes to win some launch contracts for the Falcon Heavy from the U.S. military.
Some veteran observers of the space effort, including Apollo moonwalkers Neil Armstrong and Gene Cernan, have been critical of NASA's move toward commercialization. Cernan, for example, complained to Congress that commercial space companies "don't know what they don't know." But Musk said the Dragon mission demonstrated that "commercial spaceflight can be successful." He voiced hope that SpaceX's efforts would inspire a new generation of engineers and explorers.
"We're really at the dawn of a new age of space exploration, where there's going to be a huge amount of opportunity and a lot of exciting things happening," Musk said.
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden expressed similar sentiment in a post-splashdown statement: "This successful splashdown and the many other achievements of this mission herald a new era in U.S. commercial spaceflight. American innovation and inspiration have once again shown their great strength in the design and operation of a new generation of vehicles to carry cargo to our laboratory in space. Now more than ever we're counting on the inventiveness of American companies and American workers to make the International Space Station and other low-Earth-orbit destinations accessible to any and all who have dreams of space travel."
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This item was last updated at 4 p.m. ET.
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