<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Interesting article on Reuters:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/06/us-utilities-noaa-solarstorms-idUSTRE7746UA20110806">http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/06/us-utilities-noaa-solarstorms-idUSTRE7746UA20110806</a></div><div><br></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; "><div id="articleInfo" style="margin-bottom: 10px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.6; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); "><span class="location" style="font-weight: bold; ">NEW YORK</span> | <span class="timestamp" style="font-size: 11px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Sat Aug 6, 2011 1:04pm EDT</span></div></div><span class="focusParagraph"><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">(Reuters) - Three large explosions from the Sun over the past few days have prompted U.S. government scientists to caution users of satellite, telecommunications and electric equipment to prepare for possible disruptions over the next few days.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5; font-size: 15px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">The largest solar storm ever recorded was in 1859 when communications infrastructure was limited to telegraphs.</font></p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span id="midArticle_6"></span></font><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">The 1859 solar storm hit telegraph offices around the world and caused a giant aurora visible as far south as the Caribbean Islands.</font></p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span id="midArticle_7"></span></font><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Some telegraph operators reported electric shocks. Papers caught fire. And many telegraph systems continued to send and receive signals even after operators disconnected batteries, NOAA said on its website.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; ">Here's a link to the NOAA Space Weather website's "Top news of the day" page, with navigation to other parts of the site:</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><a href="http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/WhatsNew.html">http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/WhatsNew.html</a></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; ">Suppose your AVR-2 will keep playing during a severe solar storm, even when unplugged ?</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; ">Ted</p></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5; font-size: 15px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: 12px; ">Ted Langdell</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5; font-size: 15px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: 12px; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: 12px; ">Secretary</span></p></span></span><div apple-content-edited="true"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-size: 14px; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#0018ea" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 24, 234); "></font></div></div></div> </div><br></body></html>