Monday, 5 November 2012

United Airlines completes certification process for its 787 Dreamliner

United Airlines announced that the company has successfully completed the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certification process for its 787 Dreamliner. United can now begin flying the Dreamliner for passenger service, beginning with its inaugural 787 commercial flight departing Houston for Chicago Nov. 4 at 7:20 a.m. CST.

United's first Dreamliner arrived in Houston on Sept. 28 to begin a month-long certification program that included non-commercial flights to several of United's domestic and international stations, totaling more than 100 flight hours. During this time, the aircraft underwent a series of test scenarios, including diversions and simulated mechanical issues, in thorough preparation for service.

 

"I want to thank my co-workers who worked so carefully and professionally to get United certified to operate the Dreamliner," said United's President and Chief Executive Officer Jeff Smisek. "Many people from across the company put in a lot of work to help us induct and prepare to operate the 787, and I'm proud to share this important day with all of them."

United has received two of the 50 Dreamliners it has on order. Configured with 36 seats in United BusinessFirst, 70 seats in United Economy Plus and 113 seats in United Economy, the Dreamliner will revolutionize the flying experience for United customers and crews while delivering unprecedented operating efficiency, comfort and lower emissions. Customers will experience greater comfort with improved lighting, bigger windows, larger overhead bins, lower cabin altitude and enhanced ventilation systems, among other passenger-friendly features.

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After 9/11, plane crash and Sandy, NY community rises against fire and storm to rescue itself

Tragedy has too often visited one Queens community, but residents drew a line in the sand with Superstorm Sandy, rallying with a surfboard and kayaks at the storm’s peak to rescue themselves as a fire engulfed 14 homes and flaming embers came at them like a torch.

“We heard screaming and crying in the dark,” 55-year-old Thomas Buell recalled as he explained the midnight march through 4-foot-high flood waters in Belle Harbor by dozens of residents to reach a yacht club on higher ground. “It was a nightmare.”


People here know disaster. On these few blocks of beach community that’s home to many emergency responders, the Sept. 11 attacks hit hard, followed weeks later by a plane crash in the area that killed 265 people and now Superstorm Sandy, which took lives and touched off fires that destroyed about two dozen homes. But the rescues are the talk of the community, even as residents continue their cleanup, stacking destroyed belongings up to 20 feet high outside their ruined homes.

The heroism included Tommy Woods, who put his 82-year-old mother on a surfboard and ferried her several blocks to his brother’s home through the chilly waters.

“He did a good job,” Charlie Moran said, speaking quietly and reverently of his nephew, as he stood near the charred wood and concrete that was all that remained of the mostly two-story homes. A blackened firefighter statuette stood guard in front of one home’s skeletal remains.

After rescuing his mother and 15-year-old son with the surfboard, Woods returned to the street where homes were burning to the ground to help a neighbor’s mother get out by putting her in a kayak and walking her to safety, said Moran, a retired firefighter.

Several men in the burning homes went door-to-door to get everyone out.

Down the street, unaware of Woods’ heroics, Buell and his neighbor Troy Bradwisch joined three other men wearing waist-high fisherman’s waders to ferry people through the rolling waters to the Belle Harbor Yacht Club. Dozens of others, including an 86-year-old man, formed a human chain and trudged through the water, clutching neighbors to make sure no one was lost.

“There was a lot of current, but people were close together, holding on to each other,” Buell said.

“Up the block it was like the apocalypse,” he said, explaining why no one protested the move to the yacht club, a social club built high enough to remain dry even after the waters of the ocean met Jamaica Bay. He said the wind-driven storm and subsequent flood at high tide combined with a fire that produced grapefruit-size flaming flakes and clouds of smoke, distorting perceptions and making it impossible to know how near the fire was. Fire trucks couldn’t immediately get through.

Those who were walked through the swirling waters in two kayaks, one 9 feet long and the other 15 1/2 feet, included Bradwisch’s wife and children, a woman and her newborn, a pregnant woman and an elderly couple.

“The fire just kept spreading because of the wind,” he said. “It was like being in front of a flame thrower. The most harrowing part of it was hearing the screams in the dark.”

Bradwisch, a former Navy nurse who now works at a federal prison in Brooklyn, said everyone kept calm during the evacuation “because we had kids.”

Once at the yacht club, 40 to 50 of them waited out the storm until morning by the light of lanterns, not knowing if they would have homes when they returned.

Buell said one friend who lost her home in the fire has since asked him if he was OK.

“I find that ironic coming from someone who lost her house,” he said.

Caring for one another comes naturally in a community that’s “been very hard hit over the last decade,” he said.

The working-class neighborhood is on a peninsula known as the Rockaways and is home to numerous active and retired members of the city’s police and fire departments. In the Sept. 11 attacks, 59 residents of the Rockaways died. Two months after the attacks, American Airlines Flight 587 plunged into a home in Belle Harbor.

At the end of the street last Monday, the fire demolished the Harbor Light Pub, a 32-year-old restaurant owned by a man whose son died at the World Trade Center. The American flag out front and the blue awning and steps it covered were about all that remained of a building just a block from where Flight 587 crashed.

The storm in Belle Harbor still claimed lives. Buell said the neighborhood’s longtime postal worker died when he got trapped by water in his basement. And a friend of Buell’s was killed when a plate glass window shattered and a shard of glass sliced her, causing her to bleed to death, he said.

He said he last saw her Sunday at a school swim meet for their children.

“She kissed me on the cheek and said: ‘Be safe.’ It’s the last thing she said to me.”

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Student pilot dies in Nebraska plane crash

 A 55-year-old student pilot has died in the crash of a small plane in western Nebraska.

North Platte television station KNOP reports  that emergency crews were sent to the airport in Gothenburg around 10:30 a.m. Sunday.

Rescue workers found the two-seat plane upside down about 50 years short of the grass runway.

Officials say James Ross was alone in the plane and had died at the scene.

An autopsy is planned. Federal authorities are investigating the crash.

North Platte Mayor Marc Kaschke says Ross was the city's director of information systems.


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Saturday, 3 November 2012

Cloud Computing to Pick Up Pace in the Country

Cloud computing was a concept unfamiliar to many Kenyans just a few years ago, but indications are it is finally picking up in this market.

Globally, according to a Gartner Special Report on Cloud Computing, the period between 2008 and 2013 is the 'hype cycle' when revenues from the service are expected to increase significantly with global cloud spending growing to US$241 billion by 2020.

The East Africa region is predicted to be consistent with the global trend. A report by Deloitte East Africa released last week cited cost and tax advantages as some of the key reasons for the expected increase in uptake, in addition to other advantages derived from the cloud services.

The concept of cloud computing works through a collection of Internet-based or private network services by providing users with scalable, abstracted IT capabilities, including software, development platforms and virtualized servers and and storage.

















As opposed to the other computing models, users of cloud computing can reverse VAT and withholding taxes on imported service and do not have to have a physical taxable presence. Providers of cloud computing can also claim capital expenditure and VAT is not charged on exported services.

"Cloud computing makes it conveniently easier to innovate and increase revenues in a way that is not easy to achieve with the traditional IT models as it promises increased revenue, less recurrent costs and minimal initial capital outlay," said Nikhil Hira, Deloitte East Africa Tax Partner and Technology, Media and Telecommunication Leader at the AITEC East Africa ICT Summit last week.

Education, finance IT and telecommunications are going to be the forerunners in adopting to the cloud services. Business Process Outsourcing firms are also seeking a computing platform for their services without necessarily buying the software and hardware.

The increased demand for cloud computing infrastructure by companies is mostly because it provides computing infrastructure as a service exempting them from purchasing servers, software, data centre space, or network equipment directly.

But as much as it has its advantages, cloud computing has its risks. "Enterprises who manage sensitive information, such as social security numbers, credit card numbers, and patient health information must implement protection measures and policies when using the cloud," Marthinus van Jaarsveld, Deloitte East Africa Technology Advisory Partner.

Financial institutions must protect consumers from fraud and identity theft. Firms must carefully manage trust, authentication, and authorization to applications and data in the cloud, especially with "cloud to cloud" and "hybrid cloud" inter - application authorisations.

Last year,Safaricom rattled the market introducing its cloud computing services. In May it reported 51 per cent of organisations were currently using the cloud for data management, 45 per cent of organisations had adopted the cloud for communications and 47 per cent were currently using cloud services for corporate IT systems.



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Friday, 2 November 2012

Sandy aftermath: 4.6 lakh people remain without power in New York




More than 4,60,000 people remained without power in New York yesterday, four days after superstorm Sandy hit the city but electricity was now being quickly restored, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.

“Since Thursday to this time, light has come back to about 70,000 more customers across the city,” Bloomberg told a news conference yesterday.

He said about half of those still without power were in Manhattan but added that there should be electricity on most of the island by midnight.

More than 2,50,000 people had power cut on Monday night when Sandy caused an explosion at a substation near the East River.

Con Edison, the New York power company, made automatic telephone calls to some Manhattan customers yesterday saying their electricity has been restored, but called back an hour later saying “this is an important announcement: please disregard our last message.”

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