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To celebrate 100 years since Lester D. Gardner published the very first issue of Aviation and Aeronautical Engineering on Aug. 1, 1916, we asked you, our readers, to tell us your favorite aerospace memory, what got you interested in the industry and what keeps you reading us. We received hundreds of responses. Here’s a small sampling. Read more at AviationWeek.com/100

When I was a boy, my mother worried that I did not read books. However, each week I would wait by the mailbox for the new Aviation Week to arrive. I read every page before putting it with my dad’s mail. While mom would have preferred that I read the classics, she decided that Aviation Week was an acceptable compromise. More than 40 years on, I still haven’t read Moby Dick, but I do still read Aviation Week!

Capt. Stephen R. Taylor, Chief Pilot, Boeing Flight Services

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2016 is the Year of Centennials. Three big players in our sector are proudly looking back on 100 years of successful operations. Boeing just completed its anniversary festivities at the Farnborough Airshow and they deserve the recognition: They are a truly iconic company and have pioneered so many innovations and new products over the last century! Another centenarian is Dassault Aviation, one of France’s greatest aerospace giants whose roots also

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A federal appeals court Friday overturned parts of North Carolina’s 2013 voting law, including provisions that required voters to show a photo identification card, saying they were enacted “with racially discriminatory intent” in violation of the Constitution and the Voting Rights Act.

“We cannot ignore the record evidence that, because of race, the legislature enacted one of the largest restrictions of the franchise in modern North Carolina history,” 4th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Diana Motz wrote.

This was the third federal court ruling against voter identification laws this month. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled July 20 that Texas’ voter ID law violated the Voting Rights Act, and federal judges softened a Wisconsin law on July 19.

North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory said the state would immediately appeal the decision.

“Photo IDs are required to purchase Sudafed, cash a check, board an airplane or enter a federal courtroom. Yet three Democratic judges are undermining the integrity of our elections while also maligning our state,” McCrory, a Republican, said in a statement.

‘Almost surgical precision’

Besides eliminating voter ID requirements in North Carolina, Friday’s ruling erases provisions that prohibited same-day registration and out-of-precinct provisional voting, as well as those that restricted early voting.

The court found that the North Carolina legislature enacted the provisions after it gathered data on the use, by race, of certain voting practices.

The provisions “target African-Americans with almost surgical precision” and “impose cures for problems that did not exist,” the judges wrote.

Challengers of the law, including the Department of Justice and the

Article source: http://wtvr.com/2016/07/31/north-carolina-voter-id-law-overturned/

Remarks as delivered.

It’s great to be back at Fordham and great to see all of you this morning. What I want to do this morning is just share with you briefly some thoughts about how the FBI sees the threat in all things cyber, how we slice up that threat, what we’re trying to do about it, and how we need your help, especially those of you who are in the private sector. Then I’d like to take your questions.

Let me start with the overview of the threat and I’ll start with, who are the players? At the top of that stack we see increased effort at cyber intrusion by nation-states and near-nation-state actors. China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea are the most prominent players. We also see just in the three years I’ve been Director a growth in multinational cyber syndicates—criminal groups that are increasingly specialized as to role, and who are stealing information for sale to the highest bidder for criminal purposes.

We see ransomware spreading like a virus. It is simply about a pure business proposition—how much people will pay to continue to do their business. Then hacktivism, which is the term we use for a motley collection of people of all different kinds of motivations, some political, some financial, some just pure harassment. And then of course terrorists, who have highly proficient at using cyber space to proselytize, to recruit, to direct, to inspire, who are quite literally buzzing in the pockets of troubled people all over

Article source: https://www.fbi.gov/news/speeches/humility-adaptability-and-collaboration-the-way-forward-in-cyber-security

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A federal appeals court Friday overturned parts of North Carolina’s 2013 voting law, including provisions that required voters to show a photo identification card, saying they were enacted “with racially discriminatory intent” in violation of the Constitution and the Voting Rights Act.