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Freedom plans Te'o girlfriend bobblehead giveaway

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The Florence Freedom are making plans to give away a Manti Te'o girlfriend bobblehead. Sort of.

On May 23 the Frontier League baseball team will be giving away the boxed bobblehead to the first 1,000 fans through the gates.

The box will be empty.

"This will be the best kind of bobblehead a fan could get," Freedom General Manager Josh Anderson said in a news release. "Because now fans can make the bobblehead out to be whatever they want it to be."

"Section 115 will be blocked and reserved only for fans to sit with their imaginary friends, girlfriends/boyfriends or spouses," the team said.

Te'o, the star Notre Dame football player, is coming under scrutiny after a girlfriend he said died of leukemia turned out to never exist.

Izzy's Famous Corned Beef is also offering a "Manti Teo To Go Order" which consists of "a take-out order with nothing in the box. Its just a reminder to all our wonderful customers who are Notre Dame football fans," CEO John Geisen said in a news release.

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Internet freedom and the universe online

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SECOND UNIVERSE. The Internet and the universe inside of it needs to be free.

MANILA, Philippines - For a good number of Internet denizens, January 18 in the US is supposed to be Internet Freedom Day.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) terms this year's celebration as one to remember previous years' fights against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the US. It's also being held to remember Aaron Swartz, the Internet activist who fought for the rights of Internet users in a number of ways.

While the date may not have much significance for Filipinos yet, it may be important to remember January 18 as Internet Freedom Day for the Philippines simply because we need a day to remember how the Internet, and the pursuit of Internet freedom, goes beyond our immediate spheres.

FIGHT FOR FREEDOM. The oral arguments against the Cybercrime Law are one facet of a world-spanning issue.

On Philippine shores

In the Philippine context, one major point of interest when it comes to Internet freedom is the way legislation is being done to protect people's interests, both in terms of protecting intellectual property and stopping libelous or hateful statements from becoming commonplace online.

On the one hand, there is the Cybercrime Law, RA 10175, which some have described as having certain deficiencies currently being brought up in argumentation. It also has a dubious backstory, one of online bullying of a senator or hearty dissent against his views, depending on whom you ask. The deficiencies and the hazy backstory cloud the perception of the law's effectiveness and intent.

The current alternative is something called the Magna Carta for Philippine Internet Freedom (MCPIF), otherwise known as Senate Bill 3327. This was filed by Sen Miriam Defensor-Santiago in November 2012 and is a more citizen-friendly bill that hopes to be passed in place of the Cybercrime Law.

What's notable about the MCPIF is that it makes provisions that specifically address deficiencies in RA 10175, such as protecting the right for the freedom of expression and the right to privacy.

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Our freedom was not a gift: President

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Tamluk (West Bengal) Jan 18 (IANS) Stating that India's freedom was not a gift given under international pressure but one achieved through years of struggle, President Pranab Mukherjee Friday saluted the freedom fighters from Midnapore district.

Mukherjee unveiled statues of Ajoy Mukherjee, Satish Chandra Samanta and Sushil Kumar Dhara who played crucial roles in India's freedom movement and were instrumental in forming the Tamralipta National Government - a parallel government during the Quit India Movement - here. The area now falls within East Midnapore district.

In 2002, Midnapore district was divided into East Midnapore and West Midnapore districts by West Bengal's Left Front government for administrative reasons.

"We have achieved our freedom through a long struggle. We earned our freedom in return for blood. It was not a gift or given under international pressure," the president said in his address.

He said Midnapore has a long history of contribution towards the freedom movement.

"Midnapore has a long and glorious history. There is history in its every page, a history of sacrifice, of glory and self sacrifice. From Khudiram (Bose - the first martyr of India's independence movement) to Hemchandra Kanungo - the first chemical bomb maker - and Matangini Hazra who in spite of being riddled with bullets did not let the tricolour fall, Midnapore has a very rich tradition and history of freedom fighters," said Mukherjee.

Talking about Ajoy Mukherjee, the fourth chief minister of West Bengal, who hailed from here, the president said he came to power in the most torrid times but with his astute leadership countered all problems.

"His tenure as a chief minister from 1976-71 was marked with a lot of difficulties but he remained unfazed and tackled them accordingly. There were natural calamities, famine and a severe financial crisis, but nothing could deter his determination," said Mukherjee, who had his baptism into politics as a leader of Bangla Congress founded by Ajoy Mukherjee.

He paid rich tributes to Ajoy Mukherjee, Satish Chandra Samanta and Sushil Kumar Dhara, the president said: "Whenever people will pass by these statues, their heads will bow in respect."

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Freedom Rider to speak today in St. Louis

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ST. LOUIS One of the original Freedom Riders who in 1961 challenged U.S. Supreme Court decisions striking down segregated bus travel and challenged segregated public facilities will speak today at U.S. District Court downtown.

Reverend Dr. John C. Raines and four others traveled by bus from St. Louis to Little Rock, Ark. on July 10, 1961, Raines and the others - civil rights activist Rev. Benjamin Elton Cox, New York artist Janet Reinitz and public school teacher Bliss Anne Malone and student Annie Lumpkin, both of St. Louis - were arrested after refusing to leave the bus terminal. They were released later that week and continued on to New Orleans.

Raines was from Long Island at the time. He is currently a professor emeritus at Temple University.

The program starts at 12:15 p.m. with a reception. The final events consist of optional tours of the Freedom Riders exhibit at the courthouse, as well as the building's Judicial Learning Center. Speakers scheduled to appear include Raines, longtime St. Louis lawyer and civil rights pioneer Frankie Muse Freeman and Adjoa A. Aiyetoro, the founding director of the University of Arkansas - Little Rock Institute on Race and Ethnicity.

The event is free. To make a reservation got to JudicialLearningCenter.org/event-registration/.

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Florence Freedom announce plans for ‘Manti Te’o Girlfriend Bobblehead Night’ in May

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(AP)Just when you thought the Manti Teo story and its fallout couldnt get any more absurd, we present to you the Florence Freedom.

Who are the Florence Freedom you ask?

They're an Independent baseball team that plays in the Frontier League, which is mostly made up of teams from Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri and that general area. The Freedom are actually based out of Florence, KY, so that means they log some decent miles on the road.

And what is their contribution to the Te'o saga?

Well, you see, the Freedom are already planning on cashing in on the bizarre story by announcing plans for a special Manti Te'o's Girlfriend Bobblehead Night, which will take place at their May 23 home game against the Schaumburg Boomers.

Yes, that's right, a Lennay Kekua bobblehead or name her as you wish, I suppose will be given to the first 1,000 fans through the gate on that evening. But if that wasn't enough, the team also encourages fans to buy seats in section 115, which will be blocked off and reserved for those who would like to bring along an imaginary friend, girlfriend, spouse, or whatever else you can think of. And there will even be a pretend kiss cam.

Seriously. They went the whole nine yards on this one.

Here are more details from the Freedom's press release:

On Thursday, May 23 the Freedom will be giving away the Manti Te'o Girlfriend Bobblehead to the first 1000 fans through the gates.

"This will be the best kind of bobblehead a fan could get," Freedom General Manager Josh Anderson said. "Because now fans can make the bobblehead out to be whatever they want it to be."

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The EyeOpener- Life

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The EyeOpener- Life Death: Bioethics as crypto-eugenics
3. April 2012 Few in the general public have heard much, if anything at all, about the relatively obscure corner of academia known as bioethics. First emerging as an academic discipline in the late 1960s, bioethics concerns itself with the ethical questions raised by advancing knowledge and technological sophistication in biology, medicine, and the life sciences. When the discussions of the bioethics community eventually filter down to the level of popular discourse, they often seem like bizarre, science fiction-like scenarios about improbable possibilities. This is our EyeOpener Report by James Corbett, exploring the dangers inherent in entrusting some of the most important discussions about the life, death and health of humanity in the hands of a priestly academic class toiling in relative obscurity to produce position papers for government advisory boards.

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Eugenics and Other Evils – GK Chesterton – Video

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Eugenics and Other Evils - GK Chesterton
Download for free as mp3: librivox.org Most Eugenists are Euphemists. I mean merely that short words startle them, while long words soothe them. And they are utterly incapable of translating the one into the other, however obviously they mean the same thing. Say to them "The persuasive and even coercive powers of the citizen should enable him to make sure that the burden of longevity in the previous generation does not become disproportionate and intolerable, especially to the females"; say this to them and they will sway slightly to and fro like babies sent to sleep in cradles. Say to them "Murder your mother," and they sit up quite suddenly. Yet the two sentences, in cold logic, are exactly the same." Total running time: 5:17:02 Read by Ray Clare

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Cyborg Zane Theory (An Example of Using Research and Show Evidence to Fill Plotholes) – Video

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Cyborg Zane Theory (An Example of Using Research and Show Evidence to Fill Plotholes)
I only own my thoughts. Revealing Zane to be a robot made a lot of plot holes. How can writers fill them in? maybe using a little theory magic.

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Killer Is Dead trailer reveals cyborg arms, katana combos, dazzling visuals

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Suda51's patented strain of gore-soaked madness doesn't appear to be losing momentum. Grasshopper Manufacture has released the first trailer for new IP Killer Is Dead, an action game published by Kadokawa Games featuring starkly-lit anime visuals and cyborg sword combos.

We don't know much else about it, other than that it's set in the same universe as Killer 7 and No More Heroes for the Gamecube and Wii, respectively, but is not a direct sequel to either.

"It's not trying to regress into the past," Suda51 told Famitsu in a chat translated by Polygon. "We're trying to make a game that we'd only be able to make right now, at this point in time. The result is seen in our unique high-contrast shading seen in the graphics, as well as the high-speed wrestling-like action."

The star is Mondo Zappa, a 35-year-old swordsman with a bionic left arm that morphs into different weapons, including drills and guns. You'll absorb the blood of your foes to charge up nasty specials, apparently. Head over to Famitsu for screenies.

"It's the story of a man who doesn't show himself much in the public world, but still worms his way into society and mercilessly eliminates the evil dispersed in it," Suda51 added. "It's a personal story, not one that's conscious of the chaos going on in the real world at the moment, but you might get more than a taste of that in the end anyway."

A Western release has yet to be announced. It's out in Japan this summer. Stoked?

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Bakau and Paradise beaches, Brikama craftmarket – Gambia – Video

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Bakau and Paradise beaches, Brikama craftmarket - Gambia
We made trips to different beaches on the different days. Bakau is the nortmost resort of the South side, and was peaceful beach with kingfisher birds and smaller waves.. Paradise Beach is in south and has some restaurants and beautiful white sand beach, and lots of local fishing boats. Brikama craftmarket Home to some of the most talented wood carvers in the country, this craft market offers a wonderful selection of woodcarvings and souvenirs that can be bought at a reasonable price. More of our adventures in Gambia: http://www.jokisaari.net

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Northern Ireland scientist warns of disaster facing famous beaches

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Cannes, Cancun, Torremolinos and West Palm Beach this is the roll call of some of the worlds favourite beaches which are facing wipeout due to sea level rise.

Scientists in Northern Ireland are warning it could take a sea level rise of just a few feet to threaten some of the world's most famous beach resorts.

According to Professor Andrew Cooper, Professor of coastal studies in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of Ulster, the problems caused by changing sea levels are being compounded by a lack of political will and a lack of short-term coastal management initiatives.

While sea level rise is the most pervasive driver of coastal change, beaches are not necessarily threatened by sea level rise alone.

The problem arises when beaches are artificially hemmed in and not given room to move, the Coleraine-based academic said.

Beaches have survived 120m of sea level rise over the last 10,000 years. Problems only arise if we dont give beaches room to move and to adjust to the changing sea level, Professor Cooper said.

A key attractor in most of the worlds examples of coastal resort cities has been the presence of an adjacent beach.

Some well-known examples are Benidorm, Torremolinos, Cannes, West Palm Beach, Florida, Atlantic City, New Jersey, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Virginia Beach, Virginia, Cancun and the most rapidly developed of all coastal resort cities, Dubai.

In all of these resorts the challenge is to preserve the real estate behind the beach and still save the beaches, which are being pushed landwards by rising sea level.

People are responding to the threat of rising sea level by building walls to protect valuable property.

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Our beaches are the best, say Aussies

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Australian families ranked The Whitsundays in Queensland as the best spot for a coastal break. Source: Supplied

IT'S official - Australians may be travelling to Bali, Thailand and Fiji in record numbers, but they have realised our beaches are better.

Six out of ten Australians rate local beach destinations higher than our biggest Asian and South Pacific rivals, a new survey shows.

While young, childless travellers prefer overseas beach holidays, families ranked The Whitsundays in Queensland as the best spot for a coastal break.

Western Australia's north-west coast ranked highest amongst older travellers without children.

With the strong Australian dollar and cheap flights luring a record number of Australians overseas, Tourism Australia's Domestic Consumer Demand Survey tested six of Australia's most iconic beach holiday destinations popular with domestic travellers against Bali, Thailand and Fiji.

The Australian destinations were the Gold Coast, Whitsundays and Tropical North Queensland, the north-west coast of Western Australia, South Australia's Fleurieu Peninsula and Kangaroo Island and Tasmania's Freycinet Peninsula, which includes perennial favourite Wineglass Bay.

Tourism Australia managing director Andrew McEvoy said the survey put paid to the myth that Australians had fallen out of love with domestic beach holidays.

''This research confirms our country offers some of the most beautiful, safe and high quality beach holiday experiences in the world,'' he said.

''There's a place, of course, for overseas holidays but it never fails to amaze me that people are prepared to battle queues and immigration to sit on busy beaches, sharing the sea frontage with noisy pubs and heaving night clubs, when Australia has some of the world's most incredible pristine coastline and beaches.''

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Durham University academics win prestigious astronomy prizes

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Two rising young stars in the world of astronomy research have been awarded prestigious prizes by the Royal Astronomical Society. Durham University academics Dr Mark Swinbank and Dr Baojiu Li were awarded two of this year's 14 accolades the Fowler prize and Winton Capital award.

The prizes from the RAS, the UK's voice for professional astronomers and geophysicists, honour individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to their disciplines.

Professor Martin Ward, head of Durham University's Department of Physics, said: "It is a great honour for Durham Physics that two of our brightest young rising research stars have been given these prestigious awards, one in the area of observational astrophysics and the other in theoretical cosmology."

The Society's Fowler prizes are awarded to individuals who have made a particularly noteworthy contribution at an early stage of their research career.

Dr Mark Swinbank received the 2013 Fowler Award for astronomy for the drive and initiative he has shown in developing new techniques to determine the nature and evolutionary histories of high redshift galaxies seen as they were when the Universe was young. Dr Swinbank was awarded his PhD by Durham University in 2005 and since then has been highly productive, publishing 90 papers in high-impact refereed journals (18 as lead author).

His particular contribution has been to couple the new generation of integral field unit (IFU) spectrographs with adaptive optics and to take advantage of the natural magnification of distant galaxies resulting from gravitational lensing.

Dr Swinbank's work has provided some of the most detailed information yet obtained on the motion of and star formation properties of distant galaxies.

His world-leading contributions include determining the properties of galaxies at large distances (so far away that light we see from left between seven and 11.5 billion years ago), including their rotation and the distribution of their star forming regions.

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Astronomy Photographer of the Year Competition Now Open for 2013

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Winning photograph in the Earth and Space category in the 2012 Astronomy Photographer of the Year Competition, 'Star Icefall' by Masahiro Miyasaka (Japan).

Its back! The 2013 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition is now open and accepting submissions. This is the fifth year of the competition, which is sponsored by the Royal Observatory Greenwich and the Sky at Night Magazine, and every year it produces some of the most beautiful and spectacular visions of the cosmos, whether they are striking pictures of vast galaxies millions of light years away, or dramatic images of the night sky taken much closer to home.

Every year brings something new to see in the sky and the arrival in March of the predicted Comet C/2011 PANSTARRS will hopefully inspire some memorable pictures in this years competition, said Dr. Marek Kukula, Public Astronomer at the ROG and judge in the competition. It will be great to see even more entries from talented young photographers and newcomers to astrophotography who prove year after year that all you need to do is pick up a camera. Entries to the competition must be submitted by June 13, 2013. There are some great prizes, too. The overall winner will receive 1,500. Category winners will receive 500. There are also prizes for runners-up (250) and highly commended (125) entries. The Special Prize winners will receive 350, with an 125 prize for the People and Space Special Prize runner-up. All of the winning entries will receive a one year subscription to Sky at Night Magazine.

Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2013 has four main categories:

Earth and Space Photographs that include landscape, people and other earth-related things alongside an astronomical subject ranging from the stars, the Moon or near-Earth phenomena such as the aurora.

Our Solar System Imagery which captures the Sun and its family of planets, moons, asteroids and comets.

Deep Space Pictures that capture anything beyond the Solar System, including stars, nebulae and galaxies.

Young Astronomy Photographer of the Year Pictures taken by budding astronomers under the age of 16 years old.

There are also three special prizes: People and Space recognizes the best photo featuring people in the shot; Best Newcomer is awarded to the best photo by an amateur astrophotographer who has taken up the hobby in the last year and who has not entered an image into the competition before; and Robotic Scope, is awarded for the best photo taken using one of the increasing number of computer-controlled telescopes at prime observing sites around the world which can be accessed over the internet by members of the public.

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Astronomy Teacher Finds Hubble Telescope's Hidden Treasure

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A Connecticut astronomy teacher has uncovered a dazzling view of a satellite galaxy to the Milky Way while exploring the "hidden treasures" of the Hubble Space Telescope.

The new Hubble photo, released Thursday (Jan. 17), shows an intriguing star nursery dotted with dark dust lanes in the Large Magellanic Cloud about 200,000 light-years from Earth. The Hubble observation used to create the image was discovered in the telescope's archives by Josh Lake, a high school astronomy teacher at Pomfret School in Pomfret, Conn., as part of the "Hubble Hidden Treasures" contest that challenged space fans to find unseen images from the observatory.

Hubble officials also released an eye-popping video tour of the Large Magellanic Cloud, which zooms in on the region highlighted in Lake's photo.

Lake won first prize in the Hubble photo contest with an image of the LHA 120-N11 (N11) region of the Large Magellanic Cloud. Hubble officials combined Lake's image with more observations of the N11 region in blue, green and near-infrared light wavelengths to create the new view.

"In the center of this image, a dark finger of dust blots out much of the light," Hubble officials said in an image description. "While nebulae are mostly made of hydrogen, the simplest and most plentiful element in the universe, dust clouds are home to heavier and more complex elements, which go on to form rocky planets like the Earth." [Hubble Telescope's Hidden Treasures: Winning Photos

The interstellar dust in N11 is extremely fine, much more so than household dust on Earth. It is more similar to smoke, researchers explained.

The Large Magellanic Cloud, or LMC, is one of two small satellite galaxies of the Milky Way (the other is the smaller, aptly named Small Magellanic Cloud). Because of its relatively close proximity, the Large Magellanic Cloud has long been used as a sort of cosmic laboratory to study how stars form in other galaxies.

"It lies in a fortuitous location in the sky, far enough from the plane of the Milky Way that it is neither outshone by too many nearby stars, nor obscured by the dust in the Milky Ways center," Hubble officials said in a statement. "It is also close enough to study in detail and lies almost face-on, giving us a birds eye view."

In addition to the N11 region, the Large Magellanic Cloud is also home to the spectacular Tarantula nebula, the brightest nearby star nursery, Hubble officials said.

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Students to test who's got the smartest artificial intelligence at Saturday's event

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Students from five states are competing in a robotics challenge hosted by Penn State York, and the public is invited to watch for free.

Penn State York engineering students Ben Reinke of Stewartstown, left, and Jamison Taormino of York construct the ring that will be used during Saturday's FIRST Tech Challenge, a robotics competition for grades 7-12. (DAILY RECORD/SUNDAY NEWS - KATE PENN)

More than 350 middle- and high-school students from at least five states, including Pennsylvania, will gather at Penn State York Saturday to put their artificial intelligence to work.

"It's the most amazing thing you've ever witnessed in your life," said Marshall F. Coyle, associate professor of engineering, of the quality of competition at the annual robotics challenge hosted by the college.

This is the third year the competition, the FIRST Tech Challenge, has been held at Penn State York. Saturday's contest is the South Central Pennsylvania Regional Qualifier, the winners of which will go on to compete in the state championship. A world championship will be held in St. Louis.

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Penn State York engineering students John Dagostino of Jarrettsville, Md., left, and Andrew Callaghan of York construct the ring that will be used during Saturday's FIRST Tech Challenge, a robotics competition for grades 7-12, at Penn State York Friday. (DAILY RECORD/SUNDAY NEWS - KATE PENN)

Barbara H. Dennis, coordinator of publications and promotions at Penn State York, said the students want to win, but the focus is on "gracious professionalism."

"Teams that want to win, they're socializing, talking to one another, helping one another," Dennis said.

Coyle referenced a team from Phoenixville, Pa., in Chester County, helping a team from York two years ago.

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Aerospace taking off, says hedge fund manager

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By Hibah Yousuf January 17, 2013: 4:26 PM ET

The Dreamliners may be temporarily grounded, but one hedge fund manager is betting that aircraft makers are about to take off.

"The aerospace industry was essentially put on hold during the few years since the financial crisis, but now there is a real need for modern planes," said Dinakar Singh, founder and CEO of New York-based hedge fund TPG-Axon Capital Management, adding that he expects the industry will enjoy strong and steady growth around the world for the next 10 to 15 years.

Even though Boeing (BA) has been under pressure lately because of trouble with its 787 Dreamliner, the company along with rival Airbus, part of European aerospace group EADS, will continue to dominate the industry, said Singh while speaking at the Bloomberg Global Markets Summit in New York Thursday.

Related: What you need to know about the Boeing Dreamliner

Singh's bullishness also extends to airlines, particularly ones in Asia, like Japan Airlines, which has been profitable recently even as the U.S. airline industry has been struggling.

But he's thinks even U.S. airlines are a good bet, following years of tough restructuring.

Singh said Delta and United are in the best financial shape, with United poised for "years and years of profitability" thanks to its 2010 merger with Continental Airlines.

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