Entergy traces Super Bowl power outage to relay device

(Reuters) - U.S. power company Entergy Corp said Friday it has traced the cause of Sunday's Super Bowl power outage to an electrical relay device.

The device was specifically installed to protect the Superdome's equipment in the event of a cable failure between the switchgear and the stadium, Entergy said.

The relay had functioned without issue during a number of other events, including the New Orleans Bowl, the New Orleans Saints-Carolina Panthers game, and the Sugar Bowl.

But during Super Bowl XLVII on Sunday, the relay device triggered, signaling a switch to open when it should not have, causing a partial power outage in the building.

Entergy said the device has since been removed from service and new replacement equipment is being evaluated.

With more than 108 million Americans watching along with television viewers in 180 countries, about half the stadium lights went dark early in the second half of the National Football League championship game, in which the Baltimore Ravens defeated the San Francisco 49ers, 34-31.

The disruption lasted about 35 minutes.

"While some further analysis remains, we believe we have identified and remedied the cause of the power outage and regret the interruption that occurred during what was a showcase event for the city and state," Charles Rice, president and chief executive officer of Entergy New Orleans, said in a statement.

Entergy New Orleans, a unit of Entergy Corp, provides electricity to more than 160,000 customers and natural gas to more than 100,000 customers in Orleans Parish in Louisiana.

(Reporting By Scott DiSavino; Editing by Gerald E. McCormick)

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Skitch update for iOS brings improved text editor, faster UI response

First went Skype, now goes Skitch. (Must be something in the Sk-water.) Yet another app update is on its way today for iOS users and this time, it's Evernote's productivity app that's seeing a version bump. Bundled into this 2.0.3 update is a new text editor that the company claims will allow users to easily add and resize image annotations without adding unnecessary steps to their workflow. A host of unspecified, "under the hood" improvements have also been added to address various bugs and speed up overall app response time. So, if you've been finding that app a little too laggy or just needed a faster way to add "LOLZ" to pics of your friends, head on to the source for your iTunes fix.

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Climate change may get us into hot political waters

Michael Le Page, features editor

"THE most important obstacle to meaningful action on climate change is the fact that people have not come to accept how serious it is," argues Andrew Guzman, professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley, in Overheated.

To impress upon us the severity of the situation, Guzman describes many of the fragile geopolitical situations that will be exacerbated by climate change in this ambitious book. Take Pakistan, which depends almost entirely on the Indus river for its water. Most of the river's water is meltwater from snow and glaciers in the Himalayas. Climate change is likely to bring more flooding in the short term, as glaciers melt. But flow will decline in the long term, as shrunken glaciers contribute less during the dry season.

This will heighten already fraught relations with its neighbour India, which controls the source of the river. India has used this power as a weapon already and, as ever more strain is put on the water supply, tensions over the river could lead to war.

There are some laborious analogies, and perhaps Overheated would have been better if it focused on the impacts of climate change rather than trying to summarise the basics as well. Overall, though, Guzman does a good job of conveying just how bad even a 2 ?C rise could be, from triggering wars to causing mass migration, famine and disease. No one can predict the future, but by exploring historical catastrophes, Guzman opens your eyes to what it might hold.

But will convincing people it is serious really lead to action? I'm dubious about Guzman's premise. In our political system, making radical changes now to avoid problems tomorrow is virtually impossible, and matters aren't helped by the immense clout of fossil fuel-related industries.

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The Math Behind the GOP Goal of Balancing the Budget In 10 Years

Rep. Paul Ryan?s most recent spending proposal?the aggressive one for which liberals caricatured him as a granny-killer?promised to balance the federal budget in less than 30 years. That, the Wisconsin? Republican now says, was not enough. With the blessing of the House leadership, his proposal this spring will get the job done in just 10 years. It?s either an ingenious way to cast the GOP as the party most able to straighten America?s ledger or a nightmare that will thwart the party?s makeover and alienate midterm voters.

Here's what closing the deficit would involve:

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1. Roughly $4 trillion would need to be lopped off from spending during the next decade, according to Tuesday?s estimate from the Congressional Budget Office. That figure would rise considerably if Congress undoes the $1.2 trillion sequester cuts slated for March 1. There are only three major ways to slash so much cash that quickly.
2. The size of government could be shrunk radically by eviscerating nondefense discretionary spendingon programs such as education, food stamps, transportation, and housing assistance. That would create a government much leaner than Americans are used to. But this sector will account for just $5.9 trillion in outlays over the decade, so any sizable cuts, let alone $4 trillion, would be excruciating. One option for Ryan would be to make larger cuts to Medicare than he has previously proposed. An approach put forth by the conservative Heritage Foundation would involve changing the benefits for current recipients and those slated to enroll in the next 10 years, not just for younger Americans. Heritage estimates that distributing vouchers to buy private insurance, rather than providing defined government benefits, would save $400 billion over 10 years (still only 10 percent of what Ryan needs). ?Do we as a nation want to grandfather in the grandparents, or do you go to premium support much quicker?? asks Alison Fraser, a scholar at Heritage. There is a danger for Ryan, though: he pledged on the campaign trail last fall not to tweak Medicare for those near retirement so shifting gears could jeopardize his presidential or congressional leadership hopes.
3. Fuzzy math and budget gimmicks ? moves that both parties have used over the last few years -- are an option if Ryan were to reject the other two choices. He could propose big tax cuts, as he did in the past; deep spending cuts; and tweaks to Medicare that wouldn?t cause a riot among seniors. Then, he could assume that such cuts would unleash so much economic growth that?presto, chango?revenue rises, economic output increases, and the deficit disappears. This time around, Ryan?s growth assumptions may be even more dramatic than before, predicts Paul Posner, former director of federal budget and intergovernmental relations at the Government Accountability Office. The chairman might repeal the Affordable Care Act in his draft, for instance, yet still count the law?s savings. Or he could assume that shifting Medicaid to a block grant rather than an open-ended entitlement program would save $600 billion. Those little assumptions, Posner adds, make big differences.

Already, Republican aides say that balancing the budget in 10 years will not be as tough as it seems. The annual deficit shrank in 2013 to $845 billion after several years of exceeding $1 trillion. That?s the lowest level since 2008. And federal revenue is slated to rise by 25 percent (about $665 billion) over two years, thanks to the higher taxes from the fiscal-cliff deal and a slowly improving economy. The growth in health care spending has slowed, too. Medicare outlays grew by just $16 billion in 2012, the slowest rate of growth since 2000, according to CBO. All of this gives Ryan a better starting point, but he?ll still need to figure out how to phase in any spending cuts toward the end of his 10-year window so that they don?t undo the fledgling economic recovery.

One thing Ryan can?t use to erase the deficit: new tax revenue. Although he declined to comment for this story, he has said he won?t revise the code to raise more money. ?The president got his additional revenues, so that?s behind us,? he said during a January appearance on Meet the Press. ?Spending is the problem.? It should be doable, GOP House aides contend. The tricky part, one says, was constructing a budget from scratch after Republicans won the House majority in 2010. This year?s draft will simply refine and tweak that path.

Of course, sunny optimism won?t convince Ryan?s doubters until he releases his budget this spring. And even then, questions will remain. Budgets can call for spending or revenue targets merely as a percentage of economic growth, without delving into which agencies or functions would shrink. They can stand more as declarations of political vision than actually policy plans. Of course, vision won?t close the deficit. But it?s good to know where your leaders stand.

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Morgan Poliquin Discusses Almaden's Ixtaca Gold-Silver Project ...

Almaden Minerals Ltd T.AMM announced January 31 an initial resource estimate of the Ixtaca Zone on its 100%-owned Tuligtic Gold-Silver Project, located 150 kilometres east of Mexico City. At a 0.5 grams per tonne gold-equivalent cutoff, indicated resources are 57 million tonnes grading 0.52 g/t gold and 29.91 g/t silver (1.1 g/t AuEq) for 960,000 ounces gold and 54.8 million ounces silver (2.02 million ounces AuEq), and inferred resources are 41.5 million tonnes grading 0.56 g/t gold and 31.41 g/t silver (1.16 g/t AuEq) for 741,000 ounces gold and 41.9 million ounces silver (1.55 million ounces AuEq).

President/CEO Morgan Poliquin spoke to Kevin Michael Grace January 31.

RW: Tell me about your Ixtaca maiden resource estimate.

MP: We found this area and staked it. There was no history of any mines or previous exploration. The gold and silver mineralization we discovered didn?t crop out at surface, but the clay alterations we discovered often overlie gold and silver epithermal mineralization.

So we put a blind hole into it in 2010, and it was a game changer: 302 metres of 1.01 grams per tonne gold and 48 grams per tonne silver. So we spent 2.5 years drilling. We?ve drilled 225 holes, about 82,000 metres. At the end of 2012, we handed it off to an independent resource geologist and asked him to make sense of it. Of course, it?s just a snapshot; we?ve already stepped out?

RW: I was going to ask you about that. Your press release of January 24?2.9 g/t gold equivalent over 60.5 metres?that?s not included in the resource estimate, right?

MP: That?s right. We?ve shown conclusively that the resource is still growing. Our plan is to keep exploring and expanding. On a dollar-per-tonne basis, Ixtaca has roughly equal value in both gold and silver. In Mexico, this kind of rock is often oxidized and that tends to lower the silver recoveries. In our case, because it was not exposed, it was not oxidized.

We felt it was important to explain the potential recovery, so we did more comprehensive metallurgical tests than you would usually do at this stage.

RW: The press release says an 88% recovery for gold and 82% for silver.

MP: Yeah, that?s on a global basis. But for each geologic domain they are very similar. It?s very preliminary work, but it shows excellent potential for both metals.

RW: What?s your Ixtaca drilling schedule?

MP: Well, we own our own drills and drilled 50,000 metres last year. We have the same program underway for 2013, but it will be exploration dependent and geologically driven. Our drill program is about $500,000 a month all in. We have a budget of $5 million to $6 million for drilling.

RW: How much cash does Almaden have?

MP: We have $16 million in cash, plus about $3 million in refined gold.

RW: Tuligtic is 14,000 hectares. How big is Ixtaca?

MP: We?ve explored less than 1,000 hectares of Ixtaca. Ixtaca is open, and we have other gold-and silver-in-soil anomalies on the property. We have a two-pronged approach, expanding and developing the Ixtaca resource but also exploring for other zones. We think there is potential on Tuligtic apart in addition to Ixtaca.

RW: How close is Ixtaca to a preliminary economic assessment?

MP: We have a pretty good chance of doing a PEA this year. We could probably do a PEA based on what we have, but it would behoove us to do more drilling and also work on the metallurgy, the environmental aspect, the site plan and other things.

It?s not been a very fun two years for investors in this sector, but I think we have staying power. We?ve found a way through our business model of optioning and selling properties that we?ve found ourselves at very low cost and drilled at very low cost?Morgan Poliquin

RW: There was a story about Almaden by Christopher Davis on Seeking Alpha. He noted that your stock price went from $1.94 August 25 to $3.04 January 25. That?s a 56% increase at a time when the market isn?t doing very well.

MP: We?ve been able to weather the financial storms that are particularly difficult for prospectors by virtue of the fact that we?re able to monetize assets. From the time we discovered the Ixtaca deposit, we have suffered very little in the way of dilution. We?ve been able to do it largely on a cashflow-neutral basis, and that?s because we have large equity positions that we?re able to liquidate at various times. Since the Ixtaca discovery we?ve sold two deposits: Elk in Canada and Caballo Blanco in Mexico.

It?s not been a very fun two years for investors in this sector, but I think we have staying power. We?ve found a way through our business model of optioning and selling properties that we?ve found ourselves at very low cost and drilled at very low cost.

RW: Where do you see your company in two years?

MP: Moving Ixtaca long past PEA and hopefully into a development story. I think my skillset is in discovery and exploration. We?ve spent 15 years sitting in a helicopter flying around eastern Mexico landing on thousands of different places and selecting a whole bunch of claims valued virtually at zero because they?re early-stage. But we believe in our proprietary knowledge of eastern Mexico, of which we?re the pioneers. We know more about it than anybody, and I did my PhD on it.

So somewhere between now and 2015, we would hope to make a nice capital gain for shareholders with Ixtaca and then get back to our knitting, which is making new discoveries. We?ve made it very clear that we?re not miners. Our management group, me and my father [Duane Poliquin, Chairman], we have a history of our assets being bought out.

At press time, Almaden had 59.7 million shares trading at $2.53 for a market cap of $151.1 million.

Source: http://business.financialpost.com/2013/02/06/morgan-poliquin-discusses-almadens-ixtaca-gold-silver-project/

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Scientists discover protein that allows safe recycling of iron from old red blood cells

Scientists discover protein that allows safe recycling of iron from old red blood cells

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Humans survive by constantly recycling iron, a metal that is an essential component of red blood cells, but which is toxic outside of those cells. More than 90 percent of the iron in an adult human's 25 trillion life-sustaining red blood cells is recycled from worn-out cells.

Almost 50 years ago scientists first began hypothesizing that our bodies must have a special protein 'container' to safely transport heme -- the form of iron found in living things ? during the breakdown and recycling of old red blood cells and other types of heme metabolism. Now a team of scientists from the University of Maryland, Harvard Medical School, the National Institutes of Health and the University of Utah School of Medicine have identified this long-sought heme-iron transporter and shown that it is the same HRG1 protein that a common microscopic worm, C. elegans, uses to transport heme. In humans, the iron in heme is the component that allows hemoglobin in red blood cells to carry the oxygen needed for life.

The team's findings are based on studies in human, mouse, zebrafish and yeast systems and are published in the Feb. 5, issue of the journal Cell Metabolism.

"Our current work reveals that the long-sought heme transporter that permits humans to recycle over 5 million red blood cells per second in our spleen and liver, is the same HRG1 transporter protein that my students and I discovered in worms in 2008, and which we showed at that time is used by C. elegansto safely carry heme-iron that it obtains from dirt into its intestine," says team leader and corresponding author Iqbal Hamza., a University of Maryland associate professor in the Department of Animal & Avian Sciences.

"Moreover, we show in this current study that mutations in the gene for HRG1 can be a causative agent for genetic disorders of iron metabolism in humans," he says.

First author Carine White, a UMD post-doctoral researcher and three other students from his lab joined Hamza in the research, along with researchers from Harvard, NIH and Utah.

This study's findings are the third major piece that Hamza and his Maryland lab have added to the puzzle of understanding how humans and other organisms safely move heme around in the body. In addition to their two studies showing the role of the HRG1, that Hamza showed in a 2011 Cell paper that in C. elegansthere is a different, but related, protein called HRG3 that transports heme from the mother worm's intestine to her developing embryos.

According to Hamza, the HRG3-mediated pathway that worms use for transporting heme to developing oocytes also appears to be an excellent target for stopping the reproduction of hookworms and other parasites that feed on host red blood cell hemoglobin. Together these three findings could lead to new methods for treating two age-old scourges - parasitic worm infections, which affect more than a quarter of the world's population, and problems of iron metabolism and iron deficiency. The latter is the world's number one nutritional disorder. With the help of UMD's Office of Technology Commercialization and the university's Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute, Hamza has started a company, Rakta Therapeutics, Inc. that focuses on developing anti-parasitic drugs that specifically target the parasite's variation of HRG1 and HRG3 transporters.

Heme, Humans and Bloodless worms

In living organisms -- ranging from humans to baker's yeast -- iron enclosed in a heme cage is a critical molecule for health because it binds to oxygen and other gases needed for survival. However, because heme is toxic, scientists long ago started searching for the existence of proteins that could safely transport heme between cells and throughout the body.

However, identifying such proteins has been a very difficult task because organisms generate heme in a complicated eight-step process that is hard to control for in studies of heme transport pathways.

Hamza first started trying to uncover the secrets of heme transport in 2003. After briefly and unsuccessfully studying the question of heme carrying proteins in traditional bacteria and mice models, Hamza switched to a non-intuitive study subject, one that doesn't make heme, but needs it to survive, that doesn't even have blood, but shares a number of genes with humans - the C. elegans roundworm. C. elegans gets heme by eating bacteria in the soil where it lives. "C. elegans consumes heme and transports it into the intestine.

According to Hamza, C. eleganshas had several other benefits for studying heme transport. Hamza's team had control of the amount of heme the worms were eating. With only one valve controlling the heme transport, the scientists knew exactly where heme was entering the worm's intestine, where, as in humans, it is absorbed.

Moreover, C. elegans is transparent, so that under the microscope researchers could see the movement of the heme ingested by a live animal.

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"HRG1 Is Essential for Heme Transport from the Phagolysosome of Macrophages during Erythrophagocytosis," Cell Metabolism, Feb. 5, 2013.

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US to cut carrier fleet in Persian Gulf to 1

Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta delivers his speech to Georgetown University students and faculty on leadership and public service in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta delivers his speech to Georgetown University students and faculty on leadership and public service in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta delivers his speech to Georgetown University students and faculty on leadership and public service in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

The deck of the aircraft carrier the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower is resurfaced as it is docked in Norfolk, Va., for repairs and maintenance, on Jan. 29, 2013. U.S. officials say that budget strains will force the Pentagon to cut its aircraft carrier presence in the Persian Gulf area from two carriers to one. The Eisenhower was in the Gulf but was brought home in December for maintenance. It will return later this month, but plans for the USS Harry S. Truman to deploy to the Gulf this week have been canceled. (AP Photo/Lolita Baldor)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Pentagon is cutting its aircraft carrier presence in the Persian Gulf region from two carriers to one, the Defense Department said Wednesday, in a move that represents one of the most significant effects of budget cuts on the U.S. military presence overseas. The decision comes as Washington struggles to find a way to avoid sharp automatic spending cuts set to strike the Pentagon and domestic programs next month.

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has approved keeping just one carrier in the Persian Gulf region. The U.S. has maintained two aircraft carrier groups in the Gulf for most of the last two years.

Panetta has been leading a campaign to replace the automatic cuts he warns would "hollow out" the military, and the Pentagon has been providing greater details on the cuts it would have to make if Congress fails to both replace them and agree on a 2013 defense budget bill. The carrier decision is one of the most significant announcements made thus far.

Plans for the USS Harry S Truman to deploy to the Gulf later this week have been canceled. The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, brought home to Norfolk, Va., from the Gulf in December for the resurfacing of its flight deck and other maintenance, will return later this month and stay until about summer. The USS John C. Stennis will leave the Gulf and return home after the Eisenhower arrives.

Pentagon press secretary George Little issued a statement Wednesday afternoon confirming the carrier decision after The Associated Press, citing unidentified U.S. officials, reported Panetta's move.

Little said the Navy asked Panetta to delay the deployments of the Truman and the USS Gettysburg, a guided-missile cruiser, because of budget uncertainty.

"This prudent decision enables the U.S. Navy to maintain these ships to deploy on short notice in the event they are needed to respond to national security contingencies," Little said, adding that the U.S. will maintain "robust military presence" in the region.

According to the Navy, reducing the carrier presence in the Gulf from two to one will save several hundred million dollars, including spending on fuel for the ships and the carrier's air wing, food and other supplies.

Although the ships will not deploy, the crews will continue with their duties in Norfolk, and the ships will routinely conduct training and exercises. It was not clear whether the ships would eventually be deployed to the Gulf if the budget issues were resolved.

"There is great disappointment, quite frankly," said Rear Adm. Kevin Sweeney, commander of the Truman strike group. "The crews are ready to go overseas. At the same time, nobody likes to leave their home. Nobody likes to leave their family."

Sweeney said he's focusing on assisting the roughly 5,500 crew members affected by the change. Prior to deployment, many sailors cancel their apartment leases and cellphone plans and put their cars and other belongings into storage.

In 2010, then-Defense Secretary Robert Gates approved a formal directive to keep two carrier groups in the Gulf amid escalating tensions with Iran. It has been part of a U.S. show of force in the region, particularly in an effort to ensure that the critical Strait of Hormuz remains open to naval traffic.

Iran has repeatedly threatened to close the strategic waterway, which is the transit route for about a fifth of the world's oil supply, in retaliation for increased Western-led sanctions.

The Pentagon blamed the decision on budget shortfalls in the current fiscal year spending as well as the threat of across-the-board automatic budget cuts that will be triggered if Congress doesn't act to stop them by the beginning of March. Congress has not approved a budget for this fiscal year, and instead has been passing bills to continue the same level of spending as last year. As a result, the Pentagon is operating on less money than it budgeted for this year.

On Wednesday, Panetta laid out a grim list of spending cuts the Pentagon will have to make in the coming weeks that he said will seriously damage the country's economy and degrade the military's ability to respond to a crisis.

Criticizing members of Congress as irresponsible, Panetta said lawmakers are willing to push the country off a fiscal cliff to damage their political opponents.

If Congress doesn't pass a budget, Panetta said, the Pentagon will have to absorb $46 billion in spending reductions in this fiscal year and will face a $35 billion shortfall in operating expenses.

"My fear is that there is a dangerous and callous attitude that is developing among some Republicans and some Democrats, that these dangerous cuts can be allowed to take place in order to blame the other party for the consequences," Panetta said in a speech at Georgetown University. "This is a kind of 'so what?' attitude that says, 'Let's see how bad it can get in order to have the other party blink.'"

On Capitol Hill, a group of GOP lawmakers from House and Senate offered a plan to cut the federal workforce and use the savings to replace some $85 billion in across-the-board budget cuts to the Pentagon and domestic programs.

The legislation reprises a plan offered last year that failed to advance.

In separate, highly detailed memos sent to Congress, the military services described widespread civilian furloughs, layoffs and hiring freezes that will hit workers all around the country. Overall, the military will furlough 800,000 civilian workers for 22 days, spread across more than five months, and will lay off as many as 46,000 temporary and contract employees.

The Navy says it will cease deployments to South America and the Caribbean and limit those to Europe.

The Air Force warned that it would cut operations at various missile defense radar sites from 24 hours to eight hours. The Army said it would cancel training center rotations for four brigades and cancel repairs for thousands of vehicles, radios and weapons.

"These steps would seriously damage the fragile American economy, and they would degrade our ability to respond to crisis precisely at a time of rising instability across the globe," Panetta said, adding that the self-made crisis "undermines the men and women in uniform who are willing to put their lives on the line in order to protect this country."

In addition to all of the more immediate cuts, U.S. troops are also likely to see a smaller pay hike next year than initially planned, due to strains on the budget. The Pentagon is recommending that the military get a 1 percent pay increase in 2014, instead of a 1.7 percent raise.

The Georgetown appearance was likely one of Panetta's last speeches as defense secretary. He is set to leave the Pentagon this month. Former Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel has been nominated to take his place, but the Senate Armed Services Committee on Wednesday announced its vote on the matter was being delayed.

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Associated Press writer Brock Vergakis in Norfolk, Va., contributed to this report.

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