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United Launch Alliance Marks 80th Successful Launch by Delivering Air Force's Weather ...
2014-04-03 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket successfully launched the Air Force's Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP-19) payload at 7:46 a.m. PDT today from Space Launch Complex-3. This is the third mission of 15 scheduled for 2014 and the 80(th) mission since ULA was formed in December 2006.<br /> <br /> "Congratulations to the Air Force and all of our mission partners on this morning's successful launch of DMSP-19! ULA takes tremendous ...This story is related to the following:Vision SystemsSearch for suppliers of: Satellite Imaging Weather Forecasting Systems | Satellite Communication Systems
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Fire hazard forces recall of Lenovo ThinkPad batteries
2014-03-28 12:14:09| InfoWorld: Top News
Lenovo is recalling certain ThinkPad battery packs that could be a fire hazard due to overheating, which could ultimately also lead to computer damage. The recall applies to 34,500 batteries sold in the U.S. and 2,900 batteries sold in Canada, said the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission in a statement.
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Web giants join forces for open source MySQL scalability project
2014-03-27 18:05:58| InfoWorld: Top News
Engineering teams from Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, and Twitter have begun work on WebScaleSQL, a project designed to address the challenges of running MySQL at Web scale."Delivering a reliable, personalized experience for the 1.23 billion people who use Facebook requires an expansive and large-scale infrastructure," says Steaphan Greene, a Facebook software engineer. "As Facebook has grown, so has our MySQL deployment, and that deployment is now one of the largest in the world. Along the way, we've learned and benefited from code changes made by the MySQL community."
California Drought Forces Fisheries to Truck Salmon Smolts to Sea
2014-03-26 20:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Every year between late March and early June, roughly 30 million Chinook salmon make their way from five Central Valley hatcheries to the Pacific Ocean. This year, however, these young salmoncalled smoltsface a perilous journey due to Californias enduring drought. In order to ensure that the Chinook make it all the way to the sea, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) and the U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) have adopted a drought contingency plan to transport salmon smolts...
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Drought forces Native Americans to choose which tradition to save
2014-03-20 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: On a brisk winter morning last month, Everett Chavez climbed into the drivers seat of a dust-covered SUV he calls the Brown Bomber, a vehicle that helped him maneuver the dirt roads of the agricultural lands of the Santo Domingo Pueblo, affording a closer look at the tribes new pipe-based irrigation system. Chavez, whose official title is tribal affairs liaison, pointed to several fields being prepped for the start of the growing season, which now support crops from green chili to corn to...
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