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The man who authorities said Wednesday is among the worst serial killers and rapists in U.S. history is a 72-year-old Vietnam War veteran, former police officer and grandfather who lived in a tidy, suburban California home with a neatly kept green lawn.

Joseph James DeAngelo was described Wednesday as an odd but decent neighbor in the Sacramento suburb of Citrus Heights. Neighbors said he mostly kept to himself, but was quick to anger and could often be heard loudly cussing in frustration over a landscaping issue or other minor annoyance.

“You can tell he’s a very meticulous person,” said neighbor Kevin Tapia. “His house is always perfectly painted. His grass is always cut. He gets down around all the rocks on his lawn and is cutting to make sure it’s just perfect.”

Another neighbor, Natalia Bedes-Correnti, said DeAngelo appeared to be a “nice old grandpa” but he cursed loudly and often over misplaced car keys and the like. She said one of DeAngelo’s adult daughters and a granddaughter lived with him in the neighborhood where children ride their bikes home from school.

“He liked the F word a lot,” Bedes-Correnti said.

His history also shows a seemingly ordinary life for the man police are now linking to crimes committed by the suspect variously known as the Golden State Killer, the East Area Rapist and the Original Night Stalker. Investigators towed away two cars, a Volvo and a Toyota along with a fishing boat DeAngelo kept in his three-car garage.

Article source: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/suspect-serial-killings-lived-suburban-california-life-54733547

Oct. 3, 1934 — April 25, 2018

DAVENPORT — Arthur Squire Jr., 83, of Davenport, passed away peacefully surrounded by his family Wednesday, April 25, 2018, at Clarissa C. Cook Hospice House, Bettendorf. In honor of Arthur’s wishes the family will have a private burial at Rock Island National Cemetery, Arsenal Island. Online condolences may be expressed at www.rungemortuary.com.

Art was born Oct. 3, 1934, in Davenport, to Weldon and Fern Squire. He joined the U.S. Army and served as a paratrooper. While he was stationed at Ft. Campbell, he spent weekends in Nashville, Tennessee, where he met his future wife, Lois Murphy. Art and Lois were united in marriage on May 28, 1955, and went on to spend 62 years together.

Art retired from the Davenport Fire Department after 32 years of service. He enjoyed building and flying model airplanes, hunting, building and constructing computers, and visiting casinos with his wife. He also enjoyed sitting on his front porch, people watching.

Those left to cherish his memory include his wife, Lois; sons, Arthur (Nancy) Squire III, and Steven (Angie) Squire; grandchildren, Rochelle (Shawn Thomas), Colleen, Arthur IV, Emily, Sloan, and Cameron; and great-grandchildren, Jace, Gabe, Liam and Marcella.

He was preceded in death by his parents.

Article source: http://www.mdjonline.com/neighbor_newspapers/extra/news/arthur-squire-jr/article_3e8f6ebe-5533-5ea5-91a7-511b651ca197.html

“I remember DoT studies in the ’60s about the great future of [VTOL] air taxis,” says Hubert Horan, an airline industry veteran, transportation consultant, and stanch Uber critic. “Now we can have service every 15 minutes from Philadelphia to New York. You know, pie in the sky stuff.”

VTOL mechanics are too complex with big gas engines, says Moore. Only the U.S. military can afford such craft, like the V-22 Osprey. In the past, says Moore, “The amount of claptrap that was required just to get the vehicles into the air was so crazy that the maintenance, the payload [capability], were just horrible.”

The technological breakthrough he and his tribe needed came from a surprising place–model airplanes. So says Eric Allison, former CEO of Larry Page’s electric airplane venture Zee.Aero (now called Cora), who became head of Uber Elevate in March. That change came in the late 1990s and early 2000s with “brushless motors”–light, high-efficiency electric motors controlled by silicon chips.

“The simplification of the technology, combined with the sophistication that can be pushed into the software, has completely changed the landscape of what you can do with these flying vehicles,” says Allison. “It’s that basic insight, applied to larger scale airplanes… that Mark had pretty early on.”

Instead of one or two big, noisy, gas-powered engines, eight or 10 smaller electric motors can be distributed around the plane, to fine-tune airflow over the vehicle. Running on cheap electricity at over 90 percent efficiency, these

Article source: https://www.fastcompany.com/40522758/how-uber-plans-to-get-flying-taxis-off-the-ground