Young people may be wrestling with a tough jobs market, but the news isn’t all glum: Some employers are experimenting with new ways to hire, train and invest in them.
A cluster of Canadian manufacturers has banded together to tap young workers – even if they have no experience – for highly skilled, specialized positions. The employers have been spurred into action by strong demand, a shortage of people entering skilled trades and looming retirements.
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NAPLES, Fla. – A Naples man shot and killed his roommate in the house they shared, the Collier County Sheriff’s Office said Saturday.
The victim was identified by the sheriff’s office as John T. McArdle, 54, who died Friday night in the shooting at 1114 Hollygate Lane.
Wade Hampton Turner III, 63, who also lived there, was arrested shortly after the shooting and charged with second-degree murder, according to the sheriff’s office.
Photo gallery: Collier deputies investigate shooting death
Deputies responded to a call at 9:36 p.m. on Friday. Neighbors said all of Hollygate Lane was lined with police cruisers through much of the night. Deputies remained on the scene until early Saturday morning.
Around 10:30 a.m., a woman who said she was the victim’s daughter arrived at the Hollygate Lane house visibly upset and confused. There were no deputies at the house, but Kristee McArdle searched for answers.
“Do you know what happened here last night?” she asked a young man walking down the street. The man, who didn’t identify himself, responded, “I wasn’t here.”
McArdle said she was supposed to pick her father up Friday around 8:30 p.m. to go bowling. But he didn’t answer his phone. She was notified of his death early Saturday.
A friend, who did not identify himself, accompanied McArdle on Saturday to the house where her father had lived. After he looked through the windows, he told her not to go inside because “there’s so much blood.”
McArdle collapsed to the street crying and screaming, “Why.”
Neighbors said they heard
Article source: http://www.naplesnews.com/news/crime/naples-man-charged-in-shooting-death-of-his-roommate_61897161
Sources familiar with the Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel unmanned reconnaissance aircraft tell the National Interest that Iran’s copy of the drone is probably a fake.
Iran’s claims that it built a 60 percent scale prototype of an unmanned combat aircraft reverse engineered from a RQ-170 that crashed over that country in December 2011. Iran claims that it downed the aircraft via a cyberattack while at least one U.S. official said that Tehran’s account might not be entirely inaccurate. Earlier in the week, Iranian state television released a video that allegedly shows the Sentinel knock-off in the air.
An aerospace engineer familiar with the RQ-170 said that the Iranian machine is most likely not a prototype, but something more akin to a remote controlled toy, given what is shown in the video footage. The original U.S.-made RQ-170 was not a small aircraft and even a two-thirds-scale replica would have a roughly 40-ft wingspan.
“It does kind of look like a 1/5 scale model,” the source said. “That takeoff sequence at the beginning seems like it was sped up or something.”
Further, the purported RQ-170 clone flies more like a scale model than a full-scale prototype. “In flight it seems to have some roll oscillations about the longitudinal axis in a few of the frames,” the source said. “The frequency of those oscillations seems to suggest it’s a smaller model.”
Moreover, a civil helicopter is shown to be acting as a chase aircraft for
Article source: http://nationalinterest.org/feature/did-iran-just-create-stealth-drone-captured-american-tech-11683
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A little-known piece of space history from the Apollo moon missions is on display in the lobby of the United States Geological Survey’s Flagstaff Science Center.
The Grover, or geological rover, was built in 1970 by USGS employees Rutledge “Putty” Mills, Bill Tinning, Dick Wise and Walt Fahey as a lunar rover trainer for the astronauts of the Apollo 15, 16 and 17 missions. The three missions focused on studying the geology of the moon and the lunar rover allowed the astronauts to roam farther away from their landing zone.
According to a 2005 USGS report, in early 1970, NASA needed a lunar rover trainer that would withstand the weight of the astronauts in full gear on Earth. The original lunar rover would break, and Boeing, the company hired to build the lunar rover, was having trouble building a mockup.
Mills, Tinning, Wise and Fahey were told they had 90 days to build something. The four men were able to build the Grover using metal racks and used airplane and car parts. It had six-volt batteries that drove individual motors in each wheel and a top speed of about 7 mph with two passengers. According to the USGS report, it cost around $2,000 to build. Boeing’s mockup, when it was finished, cost around $1.2 million and had a tendency to break.
The astronauts used the Grover on 20 different field trips around Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada. Including driving tests at Cinder Lake near Flagstaff, where the USGS and NASA blasted 96 craters to
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