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Saturday, June 30, 2012
Samsung Galaxy S3 Faces Battery Drain Issue
Samsung Galaxy S3 is facing a new problem in the form of battery drain, which is reportedly caused by a software bug.
In fact, the latest problem is not found by majority of users; but a few consumers found the fault in their devices. The issue was also spotted by XDA-Developers, who claim that a value in a system file is causing all the trouble.
The power used when the phone is in stand-by mode is 10 times more compared to the power the phone should use during normal usage. Many other developers studied the problem and one of them found that an error in framework-res.apk is responsible for the mess. The power drain value for cell standby is set to 34mA, ten times higher than a reasonable value of 3.4mA.
The issue is not widespread, and Samsung has not yet acknowledged the latest problem. Most of the users seem to be enjoying their Galaxy S3 smartphone without any trouble. There is no problem with the units being supplied to United States, but the problem was detected lies in the smartphone's international version.
Some people reportedly found a way to fix this issue manually. However, it is better to wait until Samsung issues a patch through an update.?
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Source: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/358132/20120630/samsun-galaxy-s3-battery-drainage.htm
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Over the hill: NYC's Cyclone coaster turns 85
In a Tuesday, June 26, 2012 photo, people ride the Cyclone roller coaster at Coney Island in New York. The New York City landmark and international amusement icon will be feted Saturday, June 30 with a birthday party in its honor. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
In a Tuesday, June 26, 2012 photo, people ride the Cyclone roller coaster at Coney Island in New York. The New York City landmark and international amusement icon will be feted Saturday, June 30 with a birthday party in its honor. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
In a Tuesday, June 26, 2012 photo taken on Coney Island in New York, a maintenance worker applies a decal commemorating the Cyclone's 85th anniversary while people wait in line to buy tickets. The New York City landmark and international amusement icon will be feted Saturday, June 30 with a birthday party in its honor. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
In a Tuesday, June 26, 2012 photo taken on Coney Island in New York, a float marking the Cyclone roller coaster's 85th anniversary and used in the Mermaid Parade is seen in the ride's lot. The New York City landmark and international amusement icon will be feted Saturday, June 30 with a birthday party in its honor. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
In a Tuesday, June 26, 2012 photo taken on Coney Island in New York, a reflection of the first and steepest climb is seen in a mirror placed near the tracks of the Cyclone roller coaster. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
In a Tuesday, June 26, 2012 photo taken on Coney Island in New York, warning signs are posted before the first and steepest climb of the Cyclone roller coaster. The New York City landmark and international amusement icon will be feted Saturday, June 30 with a birthday party in its honor. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
NEW YORK (AP) ? The ride begins with two train cars, filled with as many as 24 passengers, cautiously trekking up a hill of wooden tracks. The rattle of the ascent slowly grows louder. As the cars reach the coaster's 85-foot peak, there's a short pause ? followed by a swift 60 mph plunge to the bottom that has made stomachs churn and eyes water since Calvin Coolidge was in the White House.
Such a timeworn ride requires a great deal of attention to ensure the safety of its passengers, say workers responsible for the Cyclone, the 85-year-old New York City landmark and international amusement icon that will be feted Saturday with a birthday party including 25-cent rides ? the same price they were on its debut on June 26, 1927.
"It takes a lot of work to run a very old roller coaster," said Valerio Ferrari, president of Central Amusement International, which operates the coaster.
Each morning beginning at 7, maintenance workers hike the coaster's tracks along the walk boards in search of damaged wood and loose bolts. The cars, which are originals from 1927, are dismantled every winter before they undergo nondestructive testing and are reassembled.
The Cyclone may not be the oldest or tallest coaster in the nation. But it became a worldwide symbol of America's emerging leisure class in the early 20th century.
Towering above Coney Island's boisterous boardwalk at the corner of Surf Avenue and West 10th Street in Brooklyn, the Cyclone went up after brothers Jack and Irving Rosenthal invested $175,000 to build a dynamic new coaster that would satisfy the demand for more attractions in the area.
The result was a ride that included 2,640 feet of track, 12 drops and 27 elevation changes. For a minute and 50 seconds, passengers aboard the Cyclone were jerked from one edge of their seat to the other, as the coaster would slow around the bends before heaving its riders down steep dips.
This was all done by design, said Jennifer Tortorici, the Cyclone's operations manager.
"It's 2,640 feet of track, so if it wasn't slow in certain areas, the cars would wind up on the beach somewhere," she said.
Still, the turbulence is sometimes so forceful that passengers have seen personal belongings fly out of their pockets. Lost items range from the typical ? keys, wallets and cellphones ? to the more obscure, like dentures, wigs and underwear, Tortorici said.
Safety issues have at times dogged the Cyclone. A worker died on the ride in 1985, Tortorici said, and in 2008, the family of a California man who died after fracturing his neck on the ride sued the city for failing to keep the coaster safe. A Law Department spokeswoman said the city has been indemnified and the case is pending.
The city's Buildings Department conducts safety inspections up to three times a season, according to spokeswoman Ryan FitzGibbon.
Beyond its age, what distinguishes the Cyclone from contemporary steel coasters is that it's made of wood, from the cars to the tracks they ride on, though it rests on a steel base. Ferrari said this construction makes for a ride that has "a lot of energy."
"Wood has that feeling, that vibration. It's more alive," he said.
He added: "Going for one ride on this coaster is like going through, someone said, a car accident."
The sentiment has been shared throughout the years. The coaster's employees have no qualms about perpetuating a legend that in 1948, Emilio Franco, a West Virginia coal miner who had been mute since birth, spoke his first words ? "I feel sick" ? after plummeting down the Cyclone's precipitous 60-degree drop.
Even Charles Lindbergh, the American aviator who became the first person to fly a nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean, said several years after it opened that riding the Cyclone was "greater than flying an airplane at top speed," according to The New York Times.
These days, the Cyclone's paint has chipped, and the steel beams have rusted a bit. But patrons still enjoy the same rush.
"You can describe it in just one word: intense," said Laurie Rosen, of Burke, Va., who rode it Tuesday.
The Cyclone, also known as the Big Momma of Coney Island, carries about 250,000 riders every season from April through October.
By 1988, the city declared the coaster an official landmark, and it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
According to the Parks Department, the Gravesend Historical Society's president wrote in a letter requesting the landmark status: "Unlike the Dodgers, the Cyclone will never leave Brooklyn."
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Friday, June 29, 2012
Michigan Football Adds Non-Conference Foes
EAST LANSING, MI ? OCTOBER 15: Denard Robinson #16 of the Michigan Wolverines scores on a 15 yard run in the first quarter and is congratulated by teammates Kevin Koger #86 during the game against the Michigan State Spartans at Spartan Stadium on October 15, 2011 in East Lansing, Michigan. (Photo by Leon Halip/Getty Images)
By: Doug Karsch
I love what the Wolverines have done here. I usually look at non-conference schedules and yawn. I remember years ago when I was campaigning for Michigan to avoid scheduling any 1-AA opponents someone in the Michigan athletic department told me, ?you better warm up to the idea.?
My problem with those games was there is ZERO positive that can come out of those games. You either have to win by 10 Touchdowns or the game was considered too close. Playing anything remotely close to a ?tight game? would be treated like a loss. And if you lose ? we all know, Armageddon.
What Michigan did by adding Utah, Oregon State and Colorado adds more intrigue to a time of year that has fewer and fewer interesting games. Not to mention, getting Oregon State and Colorado to agree to come to Ann Arbor for one game is nice too ? no return trip ? fans should love that. The Thursday night game will give Michigan the national stage to open the season. I get the sense that Michigan Athletic Director David Brandon loves the stage Michigan is on all summer leading into a marquee game against Alabama to open the season. Playing Utah on a Thursday night, isn?t Alabama, but it is a solo-act on a national stage.
For those that don?t think it?s tough enough, consider this: many have said Michigan has the toughest schedule in 2012 with games @ Alabama, Notre Dame, Nebraska and Ohio State. Also, from 2013-2016 only one Big Ten has more non-conference games scheduled against BCS conference opponents and Notre Dame ? that?s Northwestern with 10. Michigan has 8. No one in the SEC has more than 8. Again, tougher than most. That could change and if you don?t think it?s tough, then do yourself a favor and look at everybody else?s non-conference schedule.
For those concerned about Notre Dame dropping off the schedule in 2018-2019, believe me, they will be replaced by a big time program. Brandon see?s the schedule as a marketing tool, just as much as anything, so he won?t let an opportunity to add a marquee game pass him by.
Source: http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2012/06/29/michigan-football-adds-non-conference-foes/
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pr pitch tips from a reporter - Business Insider
Why didn't you just SAY Reid Hoffman was an investor? |
I didn't open any of them until I saw the news -- which was actually interesting -- up on other sites.
The startup they were representing, Rally.org. raised a big $7.9 million Series A from some amazing investors: Mike Maples, Reid Hoffman, Kevin Rose, and Scott Belsky, to name a few.
Anything those people are interested in is something I'm interested in covering. And Rally is actually a decent-sounding startup.? It's a social fundraising platform that helps anyone with a cause raise money and share their stories.
Here's what Atomic did wrong.
Due to an absurd amount of startup pitches that infiltrate my inbox, I've learned to manage emails by scanning for three things:
- The sender
- The subject title
- The first sentence
I use Gmail, so those are the three things I can see without clicking to open the message.
The three emails I received from Atomic were titled:
- The Trouble with Pebble: Kickstarter competitor Rally.org Sheds Some Light
- Embargoed News: Rally.org secures unique round of funding from superstar investors
- Social fundraising platform Rally.org raises $7.9 million in Series A funding online
Here's why I didn't open them:
- I had never met or heard of the people sending me the news, and it was clear they didn't know me either
- I had never heard of Rally.org, so using the startup's name in the subject title wasn't alluring
- "Embargoed news" isn't particularly compelling either. No reporter wants news every other publication will be receiving. They want exclusives!
- The most interesting part of the news, the investors (which help give unknown startups credibility) were never mentioned up front
- The most compelling (final) email arrived in my inbox after the news was already out (it was a short email followed by a press release). It still didn't list any of the impressive investors up front.
So, I missed the boat, and so did Atomic/Rally.
For more specific tips on what I look for in email pitches, read: 10 Dead-Honest Reasons Reporters Delete Your Emails >
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/pr-pitch-tips-from-a-reporter-2012-6
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Sunday, June 17, 2012
2012 U.S. Open Golf: Health Benefits Are For Everyone
The 2012 U.S. Open will close on Sunday, June 17, and though the event celebrates the driving and putting achievements of professional athletes like Tiger Woods and Luke Donald, it's a good opportunity to revisit all the ways that this sport, often viewed as more of a leisure activity, actually improves fitness and health.
In one large 2008 study from Sweden's Karolinska Institute comparing health outcomes for 300,000 golfers to the rest of the population, researchers discovered that the golfers had a 40 percent lower death rate than non-golfers of the same gender, age and socioeconomic circumstance. What's more, they enjoyed an average five year increase in life expectancy.
The researchers credited several factors for golf's healthful effect. "A round of golf means being outside for four or five hours, walking at a fast pace for six to seven kilometres, something which is known to be good for the health," said lead study author Anders Ahlbom in a statement at the time of the study's release. "People play golf into old age, and there are also positive social and psychological aspects to the game that can be of help."
But just how strenuous is a round of golf? An experiment conducted by Neil Wolkodoff of Denver's Rose Center for Health and Sports Sciences and detailed in Colorado AvidGolfer magazine found that golfing a nine-hole course while carrying one's own bag burned a full 721 calories. Using a pull cart was similarly beneficial, burning 718 calories, though there was no shame in bringing a caddy along: walking alongside a caddy, unencumbered by the bag, still managed to burn 613 calories and riding in a cart burned 411 calories.
So next time you find yourself in close proximity to a course (this Father's Day perhaps?), it might be worthwhile to take a page from both the champs -- and the weekend warriors -- and hit the links.
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Hey, kids! Get your stuff sent into orbit
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CubeSats like the one shown in this artist's conception, measuring 4 inches (10 centimeters) on each side, are coming within reach of student experimenters and DIY enthusiasts.
By Alan Boyle
Wanna do some space science? You no longer have to be a professional researcher, or even a grown-up, to get your experiment into orbit. A new program called DreamUp is offering slots on the International Space Station's experimental racks to school groups for as little as $15,500 a pop, and you can use credit-card reward points to help cover the cost.
"We are committed to lowering the barriers for entry to space research," Jeffrey Manber, managing director of NanoRacks, said in a news release announcing the program. "This is a double win. This first-of-its-kind student experiment donation platform will help create a world-class experience for students."
NanoRacks, which has already helped put iPhones and the makings for Scotch whisky into space, is partnering up with the Conrad Foundation on the DreamUp program.
"Some experiments can't be done on Earth because we can't 'turn off' gravity," said Nancy Conrad, the foundation's chairman and the widow of Apollo astronaut Pete Conrad. "DreamUp, powered by our partner NanoRacks, is the ultimate 'plug and play,' helping our next great innovators participate in a scientific research opportunity like no other."
Organizers say American Express Membership Rewards points can be put toward the cost of an experiment, at the rate of $10 for every 1,000 points redeemed. The DreamUp program is open to junior-high students, high-schoolers and college undergraduates from accredited U.S. schools.
Teacher, I shrunk the experiment
The concept follows up on a series of student experiments that have already flown up to the station on NanoRacks' platforms. One of the key players in the project will be Werner Vavken, director of Valley Christian Schools' Applied Math, Science and Engineering Institute in San Jose, Calif. Vavken and his students have built experiments for the space station and taught several other schools to do likewise.
The first lesson that Vavken shares with other schools is that doing space science isn't as hard as it sounds. "I explain this to them, and they think I'm from outer space," he told me. "But they really can do it. The sky is no longer the limit."
Werner Vavken / Valley Christian Schools
Valley Christian High School's principal, Mark Lodewyk (back row with tie), Vice Principal Jennifer Griffin and projector mentor George Sousa (in the blue shirt) witness the packing of one of two NanoLabs being readied for shipping to the International Space Station. The students are Brian Hu and Evan Borras.
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A NanoLab container holds a plant growth experiment as well as electronic gear.
The key trick is to shrink the experiment: Vavken said the experiments that he and his students build have to fit within a 2-by-2-by-4-inch space (5 by 5 by 10 centimeters). That sounds incredibly challenging, but it can be done. One of the schools he worked with wanted to design an experiment to mix concrete in microgravity?? a task that some thought would cost millions of dollars. Suffice it to say that the eight-student team from Faith Christian Academy in Coalinga, Calif., found a cheaper way.
"They conjured up a way to mix concrete in space, in 16 cubic inches, and they didn't have a $4 million budget," Vavken said. The experiment is due to return to Earth next month aboard a Russian Soyuz craft, and the students will then analyze how zero-gravity concrete differs from the Earth-made equivalent on the molecular level.
Other high-school experiments have been aimed at monitoring?plant growth,?bacterial growth?and food spoilage in microgravity.
"The opportunity for students to do small experiments on the ISS is a powerful motivator in science, technology, engineering and math," Julie Robinson, NASA's chief scientist for the International Space Station, said in this week's news release. "DreamUp will provide the opportunity for top students of all socio-economic levels to fly their experiments to the space station, and the NanoRacks system allows them to be completed without any impact to other research activities."
The revolution continues
NanoRacks' standardized research platforms, known as NanoLabs, are shipped up to the space station on cargo flights. NASA astronauts plug them into the station's power and communication system, and then just let them run for 30 days. The students get the opportunity to interact with the astronauts and check in with their experiment.
"It's really pretty revolutionary for teenagers to conjure this up, get it built and tested, and approved by NanoRacks," Vavken said.
Next year could be even more revolutionary. "We are teaching the kids how to design and launch a satellite from the International Space Station," Vavken said. The CubeSat device, measuring 4 inches (10 centimeters) on each side, could be sent into orbit as early as next February from?Japan's Kibo laboratory, he said.
Vavken acknowledged that the $15,500 cost was "a little pricey," but he said the project could be a game-changer for teens who are interested in math, science and engineering. He recalled the case of one high-schooler who was on the team for a space experiment he helped organize. "She graduated this past year ... and got a four-year, full-ride scholarship to MIT," he said. "Now, I think that's a good payback for a kid in an after-school program."
For more information about the DreamUp program, including a registration form, click on over to the Conrad Foundation website.
But wait ... there's more
Meanwhile, aerospace experts and their corporate partners have just set up a Kickstarter campaign for a citizen-space-science project called ArduSat. They're soliciting donations to cover the anticipated $35,000 cost of building a CubeSat that will contain more than two dozen sensors for orbital observations. "As soon as the funding goal is met, we can move ahead with applications for free launches through various NASA or ESA ride-along programs," the project leaders say.
Organizers of the ArduSat project state their case for Kickstarter backing.
Organizers of the campaign say that ArduSat will be the "first open platform allowing the general public to design and run their own space-based applications, games and experiments, steer the onboard cameras to take pictures on demand, and even broadcast personalized messages back to Earth." If the project gets off the ground, Kickstarter supporters will get the first turns at taking the controls, at a discounted price.
Discover Magazine has partnered with ArduSat to run the Discover Space Challenge, which is soliciting ideas for innovative experiments, games or applications to run on the nanosatellite. The winning team members will be awarded a Team Development Kit that could turn their idea into a reality.
Interested? For more information, check out Phil Plait's spiel on the Bad Astronomy blog, plus Evan Ackerman's report on the DVICE blog.
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The Gadgeteer has?reviewed several items?which are?handcrafted by Oberon Design.?When I was asked to review the Bold Celtic Tote Handbag and the?matching Bold Celtic Women’s Bi-Fold Wallet, I was really excited?to get?the opportunity. You may remember the news item for the iPad cover with the Tree of Life pattern on it. I am a very happy [...]
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Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Experts: Okla., not Texas, had hottest summer ever
FILE - In this July 21, 2011 file photo, Liz Moody, left, and Stephanie Russell, right, both of Forest Grove, Ore., cover their heads with towels to keep cool as they watch the Japan-Canada World Cup of Softball game in Oklahoma City. After recalculating data from 2011, the nation's climatologists are declaring that Oklahoma suffered through the hottest summer ever recorded in the U.S. last year ? not Texas as initially announced last fall. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)
FILE - In this July 21, 2011 file photo, Liz Moody, left, and Stephanie Russell, right, both of Forest Grove, Ore., cover their heads with towels to keep cool as they watch the Japan-Canada World Cup of Softball game in Oklahoma City. After recalculating data from 2011, the nation's climatologists are declaring that Oklahoma suffered through the hottest summer ever recorded in the U.S. last year ? not Texas as initially announced last fall. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)
FILE - In this Sept. 30, 2011 file photo, sailboats and a floating dock lie on the dry, cracked dirt in a harbor at Lake Hefner in Oklahoma City. After recalculating data from 2011, the nation's climatologists are declaring that Oklahoma suffered through the hottest summer ever recorded in the U.S. last year ? not Texas as initially announced last fall. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
FILE - In this Aug. 2, 2011 file photo, sweat shines on the face of Larry McMillan as he takes a drink of water after working with a weed-eater in the heat of the day in a city park in Warr Acres, Okla. After recalculating data from 2011, the nation's climatologists are declaring that Oklahoma suffered through the hottest summer ever recorded in the U.S. last year ? not Texas as initially announced last fall. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)
TULSA, Okla. (AP) ? Oklahoma and Texas have argued for years about which has the best college football team, whose oil fields produce better crude, even where the state border should run. But in a hot, sticky dispute that no one wants to win, Oklahoma just reclaimed its crown.
After recalculating data from last year, the nation's climatologists are declaring that Oklahoma suffered through the hottest summer ever recorded in the U.S. last year ? not Texas as initially announced last fall.
"It doesn't make me feel any better," joked Texas rancher Debbie Davis, who lives northwest of San Antonio.
In the new tally by the National Climatic Data Center, Oklahoma's average temperature last summer was 86.9 degrees, while Texas finished with 86.7 degrees. The previous record for the hottest summer was 85.2 degrees set in 1934 ? in Oklahoma.
"I'm from Oklahoma, and when you talk about the summer of 1934, there are a lot of connotations that go with that," said Deke Arndt, chief of the NCDC's climate monitoring branch in Asheville, N.C. "That whole climate episode ? the Dust Bowl ? that is a point in our state's history that we still look back to as transformative."
Yet the summer of 2011, "was warmer than all those summers that they experienced during the Dust Bowl," Arndt said.
The record swap became apparent after extra data trickled in from weather stations and meteorological field reports across both states. That data also pushed up Oklahoma's mark as the hottest month ever by two-tenths of a degree, to 89.3 degrees in July 2011.
Oklahoma had experienced unusually dry, hot weather in the winter and spring, then summer brought regular triple-digit temperatures that fueled wildfires, prompted burn bans and led to water rationing in some communities.
"We didn't just barely surpass the previous summer record, we smashed it," said Gary McManus, Oklahoma's associate state climatologist. "That last summer was so far above and beyond what we consider normal, I don't think there will be another, compared to what we had."
Through the years, Texans and Oklahomans have fought over just about everything, from water rights to barbecue joints. Huge crowds attend the annual meeting of the University of Texas and University of Oklahoma football teams in Dallas. It even took the states until 1999 to settle a boundary dispute that landed before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1894 ? before Oklahoma's statehood.
But residents on both sides of that now undisputed Texas-Oklahoma border want no part in the summer fight.
For Oklahoma rancher Monte Tucker, last summer was a breaking point, and it didn't make him feel any better Friday when he learned about his state's new dubious honor.
Last summer felt like "opening an oven after cooking bread," said Tucker, who ranches in Sweetwater, in western Oklahoma. "We basically got up right about sun-up and did all we could until 11 in the morning, and we basically shut down almost 'till dark and kind of started up again.
"I don't want to do it again, I'll say that much," he said.
Last summer also took a toll on plants and trees, many of which were weakened by the intense heat.
"We had to stop planting last summer because it was silly to plant in 100-degree temperatures," said Stephen Smith, who works at Southwood Garden Center and Nursery in Tulsa.
"I've been in this business 30 years," he added. "And it was probably one of the worst temperatures I can remember."
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Giant solar plane lands in Rabat
5 June 2012
Last updated at 19:30 ET
A solar-powered plane has landed in Morocco after flying from Spain, completing the second leg of its pioneering journey.
Pilot Bertrand Piccard landed the Solar Impulse in Rabat - 19 hours after taking off from Madrid.
The plane - the size of a jumbo jet - was powered by 12,000 solar cells turning four electrical motors.
The 2,500km-trip (1,550 miles), begun in Switzerland in May, is described as a rehearsal for a world tour in 2014 .
Made of carbon fibre, the plane is the size of an Airbus A340 but only weighs as much as an average family car, according to its creators.
'Silent giant'People were able to follow the aircraft's flight progress via a virtual dashboard on Solar Impulse's website, which showed the plane's battery status, altitude and speed.
Mr Piccard was also posting live updates of his journey on Twitter (@bertrandpiccard). In one of his tweets, the former balloonist described the "great feeling" of gliding across southern European skies with solar-powered engines.
The Solar Impulse project was launched in 2003 by Mr Piccard and Swiss pilot Andre Boschberg who flew the first leg of the journey from Switzerland to Madrid in late May.
The aircraft made history in July 2010 when it became the first manned solar plane to complete a 26-hour nonstop flight.
The landmark flight proved that the sun's energy was enough to keep the plane in the air, even at night.
The organisers now hope to go on a round-the-world tour with an improved Solar Impulse model in 2014.
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