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Friday, May 25, 2012
Private ship's space station flyby called success
This computer generated image provided by SpaceX shows their Dragon spacecraft with solar panels deployed. The world's first private supply ship flew tantalizingly close to the International Space Station on Thursday, May 24, 2012 but did not stop, completing a critical test in advance of the actual docking scheduled for Friday, May 25, 2012. (AP Photo/SpaceX)
This computer generated image provided by SpaceX shows their Dragon spacecraft with solar panels deployed. The world's first private supply ship flew tantalizingly close to the International Space Station on Thursday, May 24, 2012 but did not stop, completing a critical test in advance of the actual docking scheduled for Friday, May 25, 2012. (AP Photo/SpaceX)
FILE - In this Tuesday, May 22, 2012 file photo, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from space launch complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The privately built space capsule that's zipping its way to the International Space Station has also launched something else: A new for-profit space race. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) ? The world's first private supply ship flew tantalizingly close to the International Space Station on Thursday, passing a critical test in advance of Friday's actual docking.
The unmanned SpaceX Dragon capsule performed a practice lap around the orbiting lab and checked out its communication and navigation systems. Officials at the U.S. space agency, NASA, and the SpaceX company declared the rendezvous a success.
It is the first U.S. vessel to visit the space station since NASA's shuttles retired last summer ? and the first private spacecraft to ever attempt a delivery. The Dragon is carrying 1,000 pounds (453 kilograms) of provisions.
Thursday's accomplishment "is a big confidence boost. Everyone's very excited," said SpaceX mission director John Couluris. After working all night, he urged his team to go home and rest up for Friday. "It's exciting to be an American and part of putting American spacecraft into orbit, and we're very proud right now."
NASA flight director Holly Ridings said the mood was upbeat on her side as well, but noted "there's still a lot of really new things that the teams need to perform and the vehicles, frankly, need to perform" on Friday.
The space station astronauts struggled with bad computer monitors and camera trouble as the Dragon zoomed toward them, but the problem did not hold up the operation.
The astronauts successfully turned on Dragon's strobe light by remote control, but could not see it because of the sun glare and distance. The Dragon finally popped into camera view about 10 minutes later, appearing as a bright speck of light against the blackness of space, near the Earth's blue horizon. The two solar wings were clearly visible as the Dragon drew closer.
"Can nicely see the vehicle," Dutch spaceman Andre Kuipers said.
On Friday morning, Kuipers and fellow astronaut Donald Pettit will use the space station's robot arm to grab the Dragon and attach it to the complex. The crew will have just under a week to unload the contents before releasing the spacecraft for re-entry next Thursday. It is the only supply ship designed to return to Earth with experiments and equipment; the others burn up in the atmosphere.
SpaceX's objective is to help stockpile the space station, joining Russia, Europe and Japan in resupply duties. In three or four more years, however, the company run by the billionaire who co-founded PayPal, Elon Musk, hopes to be launching station astronauts.
It is the cornerstone of President Barack Obama's strategy for NASA: turning over orbital flights to private business so the space agency can concentrate on destinations farther afield, like asteroids and Mars. Several U.S. companies are competing for the opportunity.
Obama called Musk on Wednesday, a day after Dragon's flawless launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, aboard the company's Falcon 9 rocket.
"The President just called to say congrats. Caller ID was blocked, so at first I thought it was a telemarketer," Musk said via Twitter early Thursday.
Couluris said two more supply trips are planned by year's end.
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Optical Illusion Relieves Arthritis Pain
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Amputees who experience phantom limb pain can sometimes get relief from an optical illusion. This trick involves looking in a mirror at the reflection of a healthy limb from a certain angle, which causes it to appear where the missing limb should be. Seeing the limb move freely fools the brain into relieving the pain. Now a study suggests this technique might also work for arthritis pain.
Cognitive scientist Laura Case, working in the lab of Vilayanur S. Ramachandran (a member of Scientific American Mind?s board of advisers) at the University of California, San Diego, used a modified version of the mirror technique to superimpose a researcher?s healthy hand over a subject?s arthritic hand, which was painfully constricted or contorted. Subjects mimicked the slow, purposeful movements of the researcher?s hand with their own unseen hand. After experiencing the illusion of their hand moving smoothly, subjects rated their arthritis pain slightly lower than before and had an increased range of motion.
The result suggests that the toxic soup of inflammatory molecules bathing an arthritic joint is not the only source of painful sensations. ?The brain has learned to associate movement with pain,? says Case, who presented her results at the Society for Neuroscience meeting last November in Washington, D.C. The illusion provides the brain with a way to disconnect the sight from the sensation. Next, the group will investigate whether this type of mirror therapy might provide long-term benefits for arthritis, a condition that affects about 50 million Americans.
This article was published in print as "Brain Trick Relieves Pain."
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
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Wednesday, May 23, 2012
U.S. census bridges pre-war 1940 with the present
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Actress Ginger Rogers won an Oscar, McDonald's opened its first restaurant, there were only 48 U.S. states, and the average annual salary was $1,299.
The year was 1940. Actor Al Pacino was an infant. James and Mary were the most popular baby names and the 132 million people living in the United States took part in a national census that was released last month by the National Archives and Record Administration (NARA) after a 72-year embargo required by law.
Unlike earlier censuses, which were released on microfilm, the 1940 census data is available online.
Genealogists and historians say it contains a treasure trove of information about people who survived the Great Depression and provides a form of time travel for anyone looking for information about lost relatives or friends.
To help them uncover the stories hidden in the data an army of more than 100,000 online volunteers across the U.S. working for the 1940 U.S. Census Community Project (http://the1940census.com/dashboard), a collaborative effort between NARA, FamilySearch.org, Archives.com, findmypast.com and ProQuest, is transcribing the census information into a searchable index.
When they are done, hopefully by the end of the year, anyone can search the 1940 census index online by name for free to discover stories they didn't know existed.
For Donna Hawkins, a 64-year-old retired state worker, grandmother and volunteer from New Oxford, Pa., being an indexer and arbitrator on the project is her way of learning about her ancestors.
"This is a way to give back because I wouldn't have found members of my family if someone wasn't indexing," she said in an interview.
"I knew of a lot of these people, that's what it means to me."
So far nearly 42 percent of the entire index of 132 million people is complete, including six states that are published, 10 more that are about to be published and eight others that are 50 percent or more complete.
In a record-breaking day 34,947 volunteers busily transcribed the data. More than 3 million records were indexed in a 24-hour period.
"The volunteers are indexing like crazy," said David Rencher, the chief genealogist for FamilySearch and a spokesperson for the project. "The way things are going I don't think there is any way that we won't have this done by the end of the year."
UNCOVERING UNKNOWN STORIES
Rencher described the census data as a great grab bag of information about the millions of people who took part in it who are still alive, and for everyone who can remember a relative who was living in 1940.
"What really is a standout for me is watching the migration," Rencher said. "You are coming out of the Depression and it is just before World War Two and many people listed in 1940 will not survive to the 1950 census because they will be killed in the war."
In 1940 along with questions about name, gender, age and relationship to head of household, education and salary, which Hawkins said "wasn't a heck of a lot," people were asked for the first time where they were five years earlier in 1935.
Rencher believes the information could provide answers for families who had lost contact with relatives who had fled Europe at the onset of World War Two. It is a stepping stone for uncovering the stories.
"That is when the magic happens," he said.
Hawkins agrees that the project holds enormous possibilities for anyone searching for their ancestry.
Since the census data was released in April she has indexed or arbitrated more than 10,000 names, and she isn't even doing it full time. For accuracy each entry is indexed twice and any inconsistencies are sent to an arbitrator.
"You start to see the movements," she said. "I think it is important. I have more family. I don't know where they lived. I have completely lost track of them. But I have to wait till it (the indexing) is done and I might find some distant cousins I didn't know I had."
Hawkins, an amateur genealogist who has traced one branch of her family back six generations, has already discovered facts about her family and revelations about how people lived seven decades ago.
"There is so much information. I didn't know my father did not have a job in 1940 and was looking for work. I am finding out, on a personal level, things I didn't know. I didn't know about their education. I didn't know where they worked, I didn't know what they did. I think I am closer to my family," she said.
"It's addictive. I've told people it is better than Angry Birds," she added, referring to the popular videogame.
(Reporting by Patricia Reaney, editing by Paul Casciato)
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Woman documents stolen iPhone's adventures on Facebook -- starring alleged thief
By Rosa Golijan
After her iPhone left her possession during a Disney cruise, a woman started noticing new photos being automatically uploaded to her iCloud account. The images include?the apparent phone stealer, a woman who appears to be his girlfriend and a bevy of their friends and co-workers. So the woman did what any clever but irate person would do: Upload them to a Facebook gallery, accompanied by hilarious captions.
Katy McCaffrey?went on a cruise aboard the Disney Wonder in April. At that time she lost possession of her iPhone.?In a comment on the Facebook album she created, she alleges that the smartphone was stolen by a man named "Nelson," who appears in many of the photos and is identifiable thanks to a Disney Cruise employee badge.
McCaffrey?is able to see photos taken with her iPhone because of Photostream,?an Apple feature which automatically uploads photos to a user's iCloud account. (It seems that the man using her iPhone didn't bother to disconnect her account or erase the iPhone.)
When?McCaffrey,?an L.A.-based "creative consultant in the entertainment industry," according to her social media profiles,?first began posting photos, the "Stolen iPhone Adventures"?album was private, but her friends quickly encouraged her to make it public so that it could be shared.?
"I can't see any reason why people shouldn't share this. [F]eel free," she wrote after confirming that her other private photos wouldn't be visible to strangers. The album has been shared over 3,000 times since she made the album public late Monday evening.
In a Facebook comment, McCaffrey?explained that she has alerted someone at Disney Cruise about the loss of her iPhone and forwarded the photos she'd recovered. "Hopefully I'll get my phone back and maybe some free passes to Disneyland," she added.
Rebecca Peddie ??manager of public affairs at Disney Cruise?? confirmed to TODAY.com that?someone from the company has indeed been in touch with McCaffrey and that they "are working on making it right with her."?Peddie explains that McCaffrey's iPhone has been recovered, but wouldn't confirm whether it was found in the possession of the man?who plays a starring role in McCaffrey's Facebook album. Peddie did say that?an employee has been placed on administrative leave while Disney Cruise investigates the situation.
We've reached out to McCaffrey to learn more about the incident, but she didn't wish to give an interview. So for the time being, all we've got are her parting words, in the form of a photo caption:
[C]heers to you Disney Wonder whom Nelson loves enough to photo-document his entire life with, using my stolen phone.
Want more tech news, silly puns, or amusing links? You'll get plenty of all three if you keep up with Rosa Golijan, the writer of this post, by following her on?Twitter, subscribing to her?Facebook?posts, or circling her?on?Google+.
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