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Of course we should ban all nonessential travel from Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone and any other country badly hit by the Ebola virus. The lesson of the crisis so far isn’t that this protocol rather than that one should have been used in a Dallas hospital, or that the Centers for Disease Control needs better leadership, or more money, or sharper focus, or all of the above. It’s not even about Ron Klain’s intriguing qualifications as Ebola czar.

The lesson is that government bureaucracy should be treated, at every level,…

Article source: http://online.wsj.com/articles/bret-stephens-what-the-ebola-experts-miss-1413847021

SEATTLE — Alan Mulally spent nearly eight years as head of Ford Motor Company and many people in Western Washington remember him as visible former chief of Boeing Commercial Airplanes.

Mulally spent most of his career with Boeing, starting as one of the last engineers hired in 1969 before the so-called “Boeing Bust.” Wednesday morning in Seattle, he spoke before a packed house of mostly business people at the Westin Hotel during a breakfast put on by the Puget Sound Business Journal.

Mulally spent much of his time talking about going from a highly successful airplane company to a struggling car company when he joined Ford in September of 2006.

“The first forecast I saw was for a $17 billion loss. And we achieved it,” said Mulally.

It became clear he had to change the culture of Ford, which had become a company of feifdoms where “everybody was scared.” Entire divisions were operating independently with little contact with each other, much less sharing the benefit of knowlege good or bad to support each other. He said Ford needed a comprehensive strategy where people had to work together, which is what he promoted at Boeing starting with the highly successful 777 program.

Headquarters of nation’s second largest car company was nicknamed “the Kremlin.”

“In Ford, if you had an issue, you disappeared,” said Mulally.

He said

Article source: http://www.king5.com/story/tech/science/aerospace/2014/10/20/alan-mulally-speaks-from-quasi-retirement/17316559/

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Health workers bury the body of a woman who is suspected of having died of the Ebola virus on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia, on Monday, October 20. Health officials say the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is the deadliest ever. More than 4,000 people have died there, according to the World Health Organization.

Christine Wade, a registered nurse at the University of Texas Medical Branch, greets Carnival Magic passengers disembarking in Galveston, Texas, on Sunday, October 19. Nurses met passengers with Ebola virus fact sheets and to answer any questions. A Dallas health

Article source: http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/20/health/ebola-travelers-study/

DALLAS — About 120 people are now being monitored for possible infection with Ebola because they may have had contact with one of the three people in Dallas who had the disease, Texas health officials said Monday.

Officials said 43 of 48 people on an original watch list have passed the 21-day maximum incubation period for the viral disease and are now in the clear.

But others who cared for a Liberian man who died Oct. 8 at a Dallas hospital remain at risk, along with two nurses he infected and their close contacts. That brings the total to 120 people now being monitored, with their wait period ending Nov. 7, said Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings. He said the number may fluctuate.

Clay Jenkins, the top administrator for Dallas County, said he was unaware

Article source: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ebola-outbreak-120-people-now-being-monitored-for-virus/

By aviation industry standards, Gulfstream Aerospace’s launch last week of its new G500 and G600 aircraft was a well-kept secret, especially since the programs have already been in the works for five years since 2009. Over the past 12 months, the U.S. airframer has seen rival Dassault Falcon refresh its product range with the launch of the new Falcon 5X and 8X models, but Gulfstream insists that its focus has been on boosting choice and the value proposition of its own family of aircraft rather than seeking to keep up with competitors.

The new aircraft build a bridge between the G450 and G550 models and the G650 flagship. According to Lor Izzard, Gulfstream’s director sales support and technical marketing, the G500 and G600 will deliver unmatched high-speed range when they enter service, respectively in 2018 and 2019.

Pricing for the first 50 serial numbers has been set at $43.5 million for the G500 and $54.5 million for the G600. By comparison, the G650 is now priced at $66.5 million and the rates for the G450 and G550 are, respectively, “in the mid 30s and lower 50s”, according to Gulfstream.

The airframer’s core challenge in product definition has been the classic trade off between delivering a leap ahead in terms of aircraft performance, balanced against the desire to combine this with superior cabin comfort. The result is a pair of aircraft with a wider cabin cross-section than the G450 and G550, but not quite as wide as that of the G650. Nonetheless, the length of

Article source: http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/nbaa-convention-news/2014-10-18/new-gulfstreams-deliver-more-range-and-cabin-comfort