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(CNN)For more than 36 hours, there’s been no word from, and no sign of, the U.S.-flagged container ship El Faro.

That means no news on what’s happened to the 28 Americans and five Poles aboard, faced with the full fury of Hurricane Joaquin and its up to 150-mph gusts, 30-foot waves and potentially 25 inches of rain.

The U.S. Coast Guard dispatched a cutter ship, an MH-60 Jayhawk rescue helicopter and a C-130 Hercules airplane on Friday. But while the C-130 flew as low as 2,000 feet — far below the normal 10,000 feet for such a storm — it was not able to get close to the last known location off the Bahamas of El Faro, which means lighthouse in Spanish, much less spot or communicate with its occupants.

“There’s so much wind, thunderstorms and sea spray that it is difficult to see,” Coast Guard Capt. Mark Fedor told CNN’s Eric Burnett. “But our hope is that they are either on the vessel or on life rafts, and we can identify them.”

The search was resumed Saturday morning and was still underway as of Saturday afternoon.

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The air at Milk Studios today was arctic, frosty enough that Xavier Jones, a stylist, felt compelled pull his black fox tight around him as he stoically braved the 45-minute wait to showtime.

The atmosphere heated up plenty, though, the moment Rio Uribe, the Los Angeles-bred designer behind Gypsy Sport, sent his first models striding, or break-dancing, down the runway in what had to have been one of the zestiest shows of a jampacked week.

Rio, as the 28-year-old designer is known to his chums in voguing circles, had shed his shirt and with it, apparently, his last shred of inhibition, before releasing on his catwalk a giddy procession of male and female models done up in brocade boleros, raffia-trimmed skirts, chambray shorts and carpenter pants that slid down the hips like crisp upmarket saggers.

He showed, in addition, a stew of multitiered skirts, latticed string tops, some baring the models’ torsos, and, for the second time this week (the first was at Hood by Air), free-form trousers that exposed a lustily contoured derrière.

Nor did Mr. Uribe, a CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund finalist, neglect his signature locker room looks, harmoniously fusing satin with athletic mesh or jersey, in a collection that was mostly produced in a garment-district basement.

His mannequins wore outsize septum rings. Some carried string bags bulging with fruit, and all pouted moodily, their lips darkly lacquered, bleeding and crazily askew.

Mr. Uribe picked up much of his craft as a merchandiser, working with Nicolas Ghesquière at Balenciaga in

Article source: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/inside-fashion-week/spring-2016/first-look-celine

The Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement faces a grueling battle for approval in Congress — and the legislatures of each participating country — now that the 12 nations
involved have hammered out a deal after five years of negotiations led by the United States.

The TPP “would phase out thousands of import tariffs as well as other barriers to
international trade, like Japanese regulations that keep out some American-made autos and trucks,” Jackie Calmes reports for the New York Times. “It also would establish uniform rules on
corporations’ intellectual property, and open the Internet even in communist Vietnam.”

But just as Congress and presidential candidates are divided on TPP in a
bipartisan manner — neither Bernie Sanders nor Donald Trump like it, for instance — marketers are also split. Ford opposes the plan for its lack of strong “currency manipulation” regulations, for example. 

Meanwhile, “Boeing, the largest U.S. exporter by value, said the
deal would help it compete overseas, where it gets 70% of its commercial airplane revenue, while computer-chip giant Intel Corp. said it could bolster U.S. tech companies through
‘critical’ intellectual property protections and encryption standards,” write David Kesmodel, William Mauldin and Jonathan D. Rockoff for the Wall Street
Journal. 

They also report strong support from Big Ag, including Cargill, which claims the pact “take[s] the world
a step closer to becoming more prosperous and more food-secure.” The New Zealand Kiwi Growers also like the deal, apparently benefiting by the elimination of a tariff agreement with

Article source: http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/259793/let-the-games-begin-tpp-deal-goes-to-congress.html

WASHINGTON — As commander of US Air Force Materiel Command, Gen. Ellen Pawlikowski has a lot on her plate. Headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, AFMC  provides logistics support and acquisition management services for weapon systems across the Air Force. As AFMC chief, Pawlikowski oversees development and transition of technology to the war fighter.

In the face of increasing threats from Russia and China, not to mention persistent budget uncertainty, Pawlikowski’s main focus is ensuring the Air Force has the tools it needs to fight all over the world.

Q. What is your take on the state of Air Force Materiel Command?

A. The command is in really excellent shape, so that gives me a good foundation. But there are lots of opportunities as we look to the future to do things better and to be more supportive. A real focus for us in the Air Force is strategic agility. If you look at the world environment with all of the different activities, whether it is now we are fighting ISIL, the next minute we are dealing with Putin, we are finding ourselves needing to be able to move and bring different capabilities around the world very rapidly and as effectively as we can. Whether it is sending F-22s to Europe or flying MQ-9s 24/7, all of those things

Article source: http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense/policy-budget/leaders/interviews/2015/10/06/interview-gen-ellen-pawlikowski-us-air-force-materiel-command/73446828/

General Electric Aviation, maker of the jet engine that caught fire on a British Airways plane taking off from Las Vegas, has said it is inspecting parts from other engines of the same types as part of a US federal investigation.

On 8 September BA flight 2276 was on a McCarran international airport runway bound for London when the left engine burst into flames. Takeoff was aborted and all 157 passengers and 13 crew members survived; some had minor injuries.

Updated findings released on Tuesday by the National Transportation Safety Board indicated the fire started with the engine’s spool, a key part in the high-pressure compressor that gives the plane power.

“We’re doing a full pare-down of the spool and analysis of the components,” said Rick Kennedy, a spokesman for GE Aviation.

The twin-engine Boeing 777 was built in 1998 and registered to British Airways a year later. By the end of 2013 it had flown nearly 77,000 hours, according to the British Civil Aviation Authority. GE90 engines are used in most Boeing 777s.

GE Aviation said that the spool, which holds the blades in the GE90-85B engine, was among the first ever made for that model in 1995.

The manufacturer said it was voluntarily analysing 38 similar spools of about the same age that were out of service awaiting maintenance and repairs. Other inspections of working engines were

Article source: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/07/british-airways-jet-fire-parts-from-other-general-electric-engines-examined

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