Mojave Spaceport Tenants to Get Broadband Services, Utilities ...

By Douglas Messier
Parabolic Arc Managing Editor

Tenants at the Mojave Air and Space Port will have access to broadband fiber services beginning in December. In a related move, officials are moving forward with a plan to extend broadband, power and water utilities to the test area on the north side of the spaceport, where there are currently no services.

Jim Miller, CEO of High Desert Wireless Broadband Communications (HDWBC), told the East Kern Airport District (EKAD) Board of Directors on Tuesday that the airport?s broadband network has been connected to a main fiber line running out from Los Angeles. Several clients have been provided service, and HDWBC and its partner, Race Communications, are using them for a 30-day testing period.

Once the tests are completed successfully, the companies will be able to offer full broadband services to airport offices and nearly 70 tenants, Miller said. He expects that services will be offered at the beginning of December.

?Mojave has a[n online] presence just like we were sitting at 1 Wilshire in Los Angeles,? said Miller, referring to a major Internet hub about 90 miles south of the desert spaceport.

Miller added that the companies have an application in to the California Public Utilities Commission, which has funded some of the broadband extension work, to provide services to the towns of Mojave and Boron. The commission helps to fund the expansion of Internet to under-served communities.

In a related move, the airport has decided to extend broadband, power and water services to the north side of the airport, said Mojave Spaceport CEO Stu Witt. Officials met with representatives from Southern California Edison to discuss the project last week, and the parties will meet again on Friday. Witt said he hopes the utility company will provide an estimate for the work in time for the next EKAD board meeting on Nov. 20.

Witt said there are four tenants ready to hook up to all three services immediately. One tenant has an immediate need for high-speed broadband services.

The north side of the airport includes the Mojave boneyard, where aircraft are recycled, as well as rocket test facilities. Airport tenants that use this area include Scaled Composites, XCOR Aerospace,? Firestar Technologies, Masten Space Systems, Virgin Galactic and Interorbital Systems.

Witt has stated in the past that providing utilities to the north side could create about 50 new jobs at the airport.

Source: http://www.parabolicarc.com/2012/11/06/mojave-spaceport-tenants-to-get-broadband-services-utilities-to-be-extended-to-test-area/

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Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone sales pass 30 mln

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ? Samsung said Monday it has sold more than 30 million flagship Galaxy S III smartphones in about five months, making it one of the fastest selling smartphones in the world.

Samsung Electronics Co., the world's biggest mobile phone maker, launched the smartphone at the end of May, months before competitors began shipping the latest versions of their top phones.

When Apple Inc. unveiled the iPhone 5 in September, Samsung launched an advertising campaign poking fun at the new iPhone.

The South Korean firm said the S III is selling at a much faster rate than its predecessor announced a year ago, the Galaxy S II. The S II took 14 months to hit 30 million sales. Sales of the Galaxy Note II, which fills a market niche between smartphones and tablets, surpassed 3 million in 37 days, Samsung said last week.

The runaway demand for high-end smartphones fueled record profits at Samsung in recent quarters while other consumer electronics firms were hit by the global economic downturn that dented demand for TVs and personal computers.

Samsung, which also makes TVs, home appliances, semiconductors and display panels, got almost 70 percent of its third-quarter operating profit from the division that makes mobile devices, cameras and computers.

Nomura Financial Investment in Seoul forecasts that Samsung will sell 67 million smartphones in the October-December quarter. That would be about 10 million units more than Samsung's smartphone sales in the previous quarter.

Samsung does not disclose its quarterly smartphone sales figures, but analysts and research firms say the company sold a record 56-58 million smartphones in July-September.

Nomura, which is more optimistic about Samsung's prospects than other forecasters, says Samsung's mobile communications business will post 5 percent growth in fourth quarter profit from the third quarter, thanks to the high-end phones ? the S III and the Note II.

Research firm IDC ranks the South Korean firm as the world's top smartphone seller in the last three quarters. In the latest July-September period, Samsung sold 56.3 million smartphones versus Apple's 26.9 million, IDC said.

Associated Press

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Electron microscopes with a twist: Vortex beams, rotating like a tornado, offer new possibilities for electron microscopy

ScienceDaily (Nov. 5, 2012) ? Vortex beams, rotating like a tornado, offer completely new possibilities for electron microscopy. A method of producing extremely intense vortex beams has been discovered at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna).

Nowadays, electron microscopes are an essential tool, especially in the field of materials science. At TU Vienna, electron beams are being created that possess an inner rotation, similarly to a tornado. These "vortex beams" cannot only be used to display objects, but to investigate material-specific properties -- with precision on a nanometer scale. A new breakthrough in research now allows scientists to produce much more intense vortex beams than ever before.

Quantum Tornado: the Electron as a Wave

In a tornado, the individual air particles do not necessarily rotate on their own axis, but the air suction overall creates a powerful rotation. The rotating electron beams that have been generated at TU Vienna behave in a very similar manner. In order to understand them, we should not think of electrons simply as minuscule points or pellets, as in that case they could at most rotate on their own axis. Vortex beams, on the other hand, can only be explained in terms of quantum physics: the electrons behave like a wave, and this quantum wave can rotate like a tornado or a water current behind a ship's propeller.

"After the vortex beam gains angular momentum, it can also transfer this angular momentum to the object that it encounters," explained Prof. Peter Schattschneider from the Institute of Solid State Physics at TU Vienna. The angular momentum of the electrons in a solid object is closely linked to its magnetic properties. For materials science it is therefore a huge advantage to be able to make statements regarding angular momentum conditions based on these new electron beams.

Beams Rotate -- With Masks and Screens

Peter Schattschneider and Michael St?ger-Pollach (USTEM, TU Vienna) have been working together with a research group from Antwerp on creating the most intense, clean and controllable vortex beams possible in a transmission electron microscope. The first successes were achieved two years ago: at the time, the electron beam was shot through a minuscule grid mask, whereby it split into three partial beams: one turning right, one turning left and one beam that did not rotate.

Now, a new, much more powerful method has been developed: researchers use a screen, half of which is covered by a layer of silicon nitride. This layer is so thin that the electrons can penetrate it with hardly any absorption, however they can be suitably phase-shifted. "After focusing using a specially adapted astigmatic lens, an individual vortex beam is obtained," explained Michael St?ger-Pollach.

This beam is more intense by one order of magnitude than the vortex beams that we have been able to create to date. "Firstly, we do not split the beam into three parts, as is the case with a grid mask, but rather, the entire electron stream is set into rotation. Secondly, the grid mask had the disadvantage of blocking half of the electrons -- the new special screen does not do this," said St?ger-Pollach.

Thanks to the new technology, right and left-rotating beams can now be distinguished in a reliable manner -- previously this was only possible with difficulty. If we now add a predetermined angular momentum to each right and left-rotating beam, the rotation of one beam is increased, while the rotation of the other beam decreases.

Electron microscopes with a twist

This new technology was briefly presented by the research team in the "Physical Review Letters" journal. In future, the aim is to apply the method in materials science. Magnetic properties are often the focus of attention, particularly in the case of newly developed designer materials. "A transmission electron microscope with vortex beams would allow us to investigate these properties with nanometric precision," explained Peter Schattschneider.

More exotic applications of vortex beams are also conceivable: in principle, it is possible to set all kinds of objects in rotation -- even individual molecules -- using these beams, which possess angular momentum. Vortex beams could therefore also open new doors in nanotechnology.

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Buying Your Entire Life on Amazon Sounds Like a Hilariously Good Time

I'm pretty sure we can all agree that buying stuff on Amazon Prime is the best shopping experience outside of not shopping ever so it totally makes sense to want Amazon Prime for everything. Your dating life, your family members, your problems and even Amazon Crime for murder. What? Yes. Check out the video above by Comediva and see how loving and using Amazon too much can hilariously ruin your life. [Comediva] More »

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Syrian rebels capture oil field, but oil not marketable

Oil used to be a major source of revenue for the regime of President Bashar Assad before the European Union and the United States imposed an embargo on?Syria's?crude exports last year.

By Barbara Surk,?Associated Press / November 4, 2012

Syrian rebels firing mortars and rocket-propelled grenades captured an oilfield in the country's east on Sunday after three days of fierce fighting with government troops protecting the facility, activists said.

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The head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdul-Rahman, said rebels overran the Al-Ward oilfield in the province of Deir el-Zour near the border with Iraq early Sunday. About 40 soldiers were guarding the facility that the rebels had been pounding for the past three days, he said, adding that opposition fighters also captured several regime troops.

Oil was a major source of revenue for the cash-strapped regime of President Bashar Assad before the European Union and the United States imposed an embargo on?Syria's?crude exports last year to punish the government for its brutal crackdown on protesters early on in the uprising.

"This field used to supply the regime with fuel for its tanks and our aim was to stop these supplies," Omar Abu Leila, an activist in Deir el-Zour, told The Associated Press by telephone. He said there was heavy fighting recently near the oil facility that is located just east of the city of Mayadin.

Both activists said the rebels shot down a fighter jet near the oil field Sunday. It was not clear if the warplane was taking part in fighting in the area.

Abu Leila said that the oilfield had been functioning up until shortly before the rebels seized it. It was not clear whether the facility was damaged in the fighting or sabotaged by regime forces.

Oil not marketable

Analysts say the rebels would not benefit economically from capturing the oil filed, although the opposition's latest conquest could reduce crude supplies available to the government.

"It's another blow to Assad in terms of ... the oil available to him," said Robin Mills, head of consulting at Manaar Energy Consulting & Project Management in Dubai. The capturing of Al Ward is largely symbolic, Mills added. The rebels face serious challenges getting much ? if any ? of the captured oil to the market since the main export pipeline along the Mediterranean coast remains under government control.

"I don't see how they can export the oil that way," Mills said. "And even if they could, I don't see that anyone would pick up that oil."

In the past year, Syrian officials have repeatedly accused rebel units of targeting the country's infrastructure, including blowing up oil and gas pipelines in the energy-rich northeast of the country.

Syria?exported some 150,000 barrels of oil a day before European and US imposed sanctions took effect. In 2010, it earned $4.4 billion by selling to EU countries alone.

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Swiss team visits Arafat grave ahead of exhumation

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) ? A team of Swiss investigators visited the West Bank grave of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat Monday to determine how best to dig up remains and extract samples ahead of their exhumation later this month, a Palestinian official said.

The Swiss team, one of two groups set to conduct parallel probes into Arafat's 2004 death, spent an hour inspecting the tomb, located in a mausoleum outside Palestinian government headquarters in Ramallah. A Western diplomat, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing, said the exhumation would most likely take place Nov. 26.

Tawfik Tirawi, the head of the Palestinian committee investigating the death, said Monday's visit was meant "to check the place" ahead of the exhumation. The Swiss team is expected to return at the end of the month along with French investigators to exhume the body, and will be allowed only one chance to withdraw samples from the remains.

The French and Swiss teams are acting separately on behalf of Arafat's widow Suha Arafat and the Palestinian Authority, who each had misgivings about the other's investigation. The late leader's wife and the Palestinian Authority have a history of rocky relations, and Palestinian officials have complained that they felt Suha Arafat was forcing an investigation on them.

The new probes into Arafat's death come after a Swiss lab recently discovered traces of polonium-210, a deadly radioactive isotope, on clothes said to be his, which sparked new accusations that he was poisoned.

Arafat's death in a French hospital in November 2004 has remained a mystery for many. While the immediate cause of death was a stroke, the underlying source of an illness he suffered in his final weeks has never been clear, leading to persistent conspiracy theories that he had cancer, AIDS or was poisoned.

Many in the Arab world believe Arafat, the face of the Palestinian independence struggle for four decades, was killed by Israel. Israel, which saw Arafat as an obstacle to peace, vehemently denies the charge.

There is no guarantee the exhumation will solve the mystery. Polonium-210 is known to rapidly decompose, and experts are divided over whether any remaining samples will be sufficient for testing.

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Apple avoids corporate tax

The BBC has outed Apple as a significant tax cheat after the company announced that it paid less than two percent corporation tax on its profits outside the US.

Apple only paid ?445m in the year to 29 September on foreign pre-tax profits of $36.8bn, a rate of 1.9 percent.

The BBC points out that paying low corporation tax seems to be a game among the top US companies with Starbucks, Facebook and Google coming up with new methods of avoiding paying EU corporation taxes.

What is more alarming is that none of the their tax avoidance schemes are illegal and the companies involved still pay pots of cash to the UK taxman. Things like National Insurance and VAT, but money still ends up with the taxman.

But Apple's figures for foreign tax appear to be rather low, considering that it paid a rate of 2.5 percent the previous year.

Apple funnels most of its European business through a subsidiary in the Republic of Ireland, which has lower corporation tax than the 24 percent in Britain.

But Ireland charges 12.5 percent, so it is not clear how Apple is managing to save such a huge amount of cash.?

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