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Article source: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/01/business/international/airasia-tony-fernandes-responds-to-crisis-with-quick-compassion.html
Mario Cuomo, who served as governor of New York from 1983 to 1994 and passed on running for president in 1988 and 1992 despite intense pressure from the Democratic Party, died today at the age of 82, his son CNN host Chris Cuomo confirmed to the network.
Earlier in the day Mario Cuomo had missed the inauguration of his son Andrew Cuomo for his own second term as New York governor; in his speech, the younger Cuomo cited his father’s health issues as the cause of his absence:
“My father is not with us today. We had hoped that he was going to be able to come; he is at home and he is not well enough to come. We spent last night with him, changed the tradition a little bit. We weren’t in Albany last night; we stayed at my father’s house to ring in the New Year with him. I went through the speech with him. He said it was good, especially for a second-termer. See, my father is a third-termer. But he sends his regards to all of you. He couldn’t be here physically today, my father. But my father is in this room. He is in the heart and mind of every person who is here. He is here and he is here, and his inspiration and his legacy and his experience is what has brought this state to this point. So let’s give him a round of applause.”
Cuomo died hours later from heart failure at
Article source: http://krcc.org/post/former-new-york-gov-mario-cuomo-dead-82
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One has been called “America’s most reviled lawyer” – and she’s not even the one who defended the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski.
Miriam Conrad and Judy Clarke are two of the lawyers defending accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, and they are part of what amounts to an all-star team.
It will be formidable opposition for the prosecution, says Christopher Dearborn, a law professor at Suffolk University. But it will have to be formidable, as the prosecution has pursued an aggressive case from Mr. Tsarnaev’s first bedside arraignment in a Boston hospital three days after he was captured.
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The lawyers might be maligned, or worse. But, most likely, it won’t be anything new.
Ms. Conrad, the head of Boston’s Federal Public Defender Office, will be Tsarnaev’s lead counsel. She has been described as everything from a terrorist sympathizer to an enemy combatant. The Detroit Free Press wrote that she “may have become America’s most reviled lawyer” after deciding to represent Tsarnaev.
She also has represented convicted shoe bomber Richard Reid and Rezwan Ferdaus, who is serving 17 years for his role in a 2011 plot to bomb the Pentagon and US Capitol with remote-controlled
Article source: http://news.yahoo.com/star-team-defend-accused-boston-bomber-tsarnaev-160827442.html
Associated Press files
American aviatrix Amelia Earhart disappeared over the South Pacific more than 75 years ago.
Associated Press files
American aviatrix Amelia Earhart disappeared over the South Pacific more than 75 years ago.
(AP)
SEDRO-WOOLLEY — A Bow-based business owner and high school teacher and a Sedro-Woolley aircraft mechanic: Maybe not the people you’d expect to discover clues that could help unravel one of the modern world’s most daunting mysteries: What happened to Amelia Earhart?
But after several trips to the Marshall Islands, Dick Spink of Bow came home with two interesting pieces of aluminum from Mili Atoll, where residents said Earhart crash-landed in July 1937, he said.
Jim Hayton, a longtime airplane mechanic and owner of North Sound Aviation in Sedro-Woolley, said he has identified one — a 6-inch dust cover for a Goodyear Air Wheel — as almost certainly coming from Earhart’s plane, a Lockheed Model 10-E Electra.
“It’s exactly the part that would’ve been fitted to a Lockheed 10. How many Lockheed 10s would have crash-landed on that beach on a little island? Just one. That’s the only one,” Hayton said.
The background and experience of both men uniquely led Spink to the artifacts and Hayton to a position of authority to identify them.
Spink founded Dynatrax, an aluminum boat kit manufacturer, in Bow in 1989. He said he produces approximately 200 kits a year and sells them around the world, when he’s not teaching computer-aided
Article source: http://www.columbian.com/news/2015/jan/02/washington-men-unearth-potential-earhart-clues/
First Air, a Canadian airline, flies across some of the most remote and sparsely populated areas on the continent, with routes going as far north as Resolute Bay, inside the Arctic Circle. Its planes are often beyond the reach of conventional radar. They are also nearly disappearance-proof.
That’s because of a six-pound tracking system, about the size of a hotel room safe, installed in the planes’ electronics bays. When flights proceed normally, the system never snaps into action. But if something goes wrong — a sudden loss of altitude; an unexpected bank; engine vibrations — the system begins transmitting data to the ground, via satellite, every second. That six-pound box spits out reams of performance data, as well as the basics necessary for a search-and-rescue: coordinates, speed and altitude.
The technology hardly sounds cutting edge, given today’s access to cloud storage, satellite communication and real-time data tools. But First Air is an outlier. Most commercial airlines have no comparable safeguard. As seen in the case of AirAsia Flight 8501, they can crash into the sea without relaying information about their last minutes or seconds of flight.
Given the technology that’s available, airplanes are surprisingly non-communicative. They have transponders that broadcast location, but those only work in tandem with radar. (So, good luck over the deep ocean.) About three-quarters of the world’s airlines also use an additional data system, the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS), that reports
Article source: http://english.astroawani.com/news/show/one-airline-figured-out-how-make-sure-its-airplanes-never-disappear-51324
SEATTLE — As a record production year winds down at Boeing, executives shrug off analysts’ worries about a possible downturn and express full confidence in busy years ahead for Washington state’s aerospace industry.
With massive production hikes planned and a wave of worker retirements on the horizon, Pat Shanahan, Boeing vice president in charge of airplane programs, said the company expects to hire 20,000 to 30,000 people in Washington through the end of this decade.
At the same time, Boeing is making big investments in new automation equipment that promises to transform the nature of blue-collar production jobs for those future hires.
Inside the Renton 737 jet assembly plant, where two assembly lines each pump out 21 airplanes every month, construction crews are installing the foundation for a third — the new 737 MAX line that will begin production in 2015.
On a tour this month, Shanahan predicted the Renton plant won’t miss a beat executing Boeing’s ambitious plan: “Going to 52 a month, introducing the MAX and changing our manufacturing process, all simultaneously.”
In the adjacent 737 wing facility, a shiny, new 25-foot-tall automated wing-panel fastening machine is being put through its paces to gain certification for initial operation in the spring.
Boeing is installing eight of these multimillion-dollar machines — designed and built by Electroimpact of Mukilteo — to make possible its plan for the astonishing Renton ramp-up to 52 jets per month, triple what it was a decade ago.
Meanwhile in Everett, construction is well along on two buildings that will house production of
Article source: http://www.columbian.com/news/2014/dec/31/boeing-bullish-dismisses-doubts/
