Unique air show features planes of all sizes
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Unique air show features planes of all sizes
Article source: http://www.wcsh6.com/story/news/local/sanford-springvale/2014/09/07/unique-air-show-planes-all-sizes/15255007/

A mid-air collision sends debris flying as pilots of the model planes try to maneuver the planes to cut each other’s streamers.
Hobbyists north of Malheur Butte take to the skies with model aircraft and play a game where they try to cut the streamer from opponents planes in what is known as Combat Flying.
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Pictures of what is allegedly a working iPhone 6 have surfaced on the Chinese social network Weibo. While tons of parts have leaked up to this point, this is the first time we’ve seen what appears to be the device powered on and running iOS 8.
The 4.7-inch device looks legit, although it’s authenticity cannot obviously be confirmed. On the screen, there’s a new Passbook icon. This hints towards the mobile payments platform Apple is expected to unveil at next week’s event.
As you can see, there’s a fourth stripe in the Passbook icon that looks like a credit card. Apple will reportedly allow users to pay with their iPhones at merchants like Nordstrom, CVS and Walgreens. The current Passbook icon in iOS 7 includes only an airplane, camera and coffee cup.


If indeed legitimate, this leak is amazing because it appears to show a fully operational iPhone 6. The Weibo user has shared pictures of its Settings app, which shows that it’s running a newer build of iOS 8 that is not yet available to developers. Touch ID is also used by the leaker to unlock the device on video.

The video raises questions because the
Article source: http://www.cultofmac.com/294428/leaked-pics-claim-show-working-iphone-6-new-passbook-icon/
Almost 13 years after the World Trade Center attacks, the National September 11 Memorial Museum opened on May 21. In its sunlit steel-and-glass entry, two dramatic 70-foot-tall steel tridents from the wreckage stand steadfast, twin symbols of American grit and guts.
Descending into a darkening world beside these battered, rusty icons, our tour group instinctively began to speak in hushed tones. Even children talked softly and reached for their parents’ hands. The respectful mood became somber.
At descent’s end, Foundation Hall felt like a sacred place. At WTC bedrock level, this vast room — seven stories below ground — contained few objects. Its emptiness felt heavy, almost tangible.
It it still hard to wrap one’s mind around the details of that day, when 19 al-Qaeda terrorists commandeered four planes to wreak physical, emotional, political and economic havoc in New York City, Washington, D.C., and beyond.
The WTC’s North Tower was hit by Flight 11 at 8:46 a.m. on Sept. 11, 2001. The South Tower was hit by Flight 175 at 9:03 a.m. The South fell at 9:59 a.m.; the North at 10:28 a.m. Those killed by the plane crashes and their aftermath, including the six people lost in the 1993 WTC truck bombing,
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Six months after Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared the reason it disappeared remains the most frustrating mystery in aviation history. Still nothing can explain it. And that is the point:. The science of air crash investigation – and it is a very mature science – abhors mystery. There were supposed to be no mysteries left.
The passing of six months has more significance than simply a point on a calendar. It really is startling that not one fragment of an airplane that weighed 250 tons has yet turned up.
No airplane this large sinks whole to the bottom of the ocean. Some parts are too buoyant to ever sink. Which should mean that somewhere out there in the expanse of ocean between Australia and the Antarctic there are traces of Flight 370 – albeit very small pieces.
What would be the most likely pattern of wreckage in this case? To provide some perspective, I have looked at five cases where large commercial airplanes have crashed into the sea in order to determine how much wreckage was left on the surface and how soon it was located:
June 1985: An Air India Boeing 747 with 329 people aboard flying from Montreal to London is destroyed by a bomb in a suitcase as it nears the coast of Ireland. The airplane falls into deep water but because traffic controllers immediately see its disappearance a search begins, and within two hours some wreckage and bodies are located on the surface.
November 1987: A South African Airways
Article source: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/09/07/mh370-debris-is-lost-forever-can-the-plane-be-found-without-it.html

Pictures of what is allegedly a working iPhone 6 have surfaced on the Chinese social network Weibo. While tons of parts have leaked up to this point, this is the first time we’ve seen what appears to be the device powered on and running iOS 8.
The 4.7-inch device looks legit, although it’s authenticity cannot obviously be confirmed. On the screen, there’s a new Passbook icon. This hints towards the mobile payments platform Apple is expected to unveil at next week’s event.
As you can see, there’s a fourth stripe in the Passbook icon that looks like a credit card. Apple will reportedly allow users to pay with their iPhones at merchants like Nordstrom, CVS and Walgreens. The current Passbook icon in iOS 7 includes only an airplane, camera and coffee cup.


If indeed legitimate, this leak is amazing because it appears to show a fully operational iPhone 6. The Weibo user has shared pictures of its Settings app, which shows that it’s running a newer build of iOS 8 that is not yet available to developers. Touch ID is also used by the leaker to unlock the device on video.

The video raises questions because the
Article source: http://www.cultofmac.com/294428/leaked-pics-claim-show-working-iphone-6-new-passbook-icon/
Rudolph Hurwich – serial entrepreneur and mentor, international businessman, inventor, philanthropist, investor and a behind-the-scenes supporter of numerous liberal causes and creative endeavors – died peacefully at his Oakland home on August 2, 2014. He was 92.
The self-effacing, MIT-trained mechanical engineer was the founder and longtime CEO and Chairman of Dymo Industries, best known for its hand-held device that stamped out adhesive strips of embossed labels with a rotating wheel. It was used in homes and businesses in more than 100 countries to label shelves, drawers, possessions and spare parts and was manufactured for use in more than 20 languages. Founded in Berkeley in 1958, with headquarters in San Francisco for many years, the diversified multinational firm was listed on the New York Stock Exchange until it was bought out in 1978 in a hostile takeover by the Swedish conglomerate Esselte, which sold it to Newell Rubbermaid in 2005.
From the early 1990s until recent health problems slowed him down, he served as the co-founder, initial-round fundraiser and six-day-a-week President, CFO and CEO of Berkeley’s PolyPlus Battery Company, which has developed a versatile breakthrough battery technology with unprecedented energy density that Time magazine selected as one of the 50 Best Inventions of 2011. Rudy, as he was commonly called, was the management genius who transformed the discoveries of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientists Lutgard De Jonghe and Steven J. Visco into a promising business.
He was widely admired by business leaders and fellow entrepreneurs for his expertise as a business officer, partner,
Article source: http://oaklandlocal.com/2014/09/bay-area-entrepreneur-humanitarian-rudolph-hurwich-dies-at-92-community-voices/