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Aerospace Archaeology – Video

Posted on October 3, 2014 by Danzig

Aerospace Archaeology
Aerospace Archaeology is a discipline based on one of the greatest inventions of the last centure -- the Aerospace industry.

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Continues Improvement Coordinator (Aerospace Parts Manufacturing), Bandung, Indonesia – Video

Posted on October 3, 2014 by Danzig

Continues Improvement Coordinator (Aerospace Parts Manufacturing), Bandung, Indonesia

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Honeywell Aerospace joins hands with Tata Power – Video

Posted on October 3, 2014 by Danzig

Honeywell Aerospace joins hands with Tata Power
Honeywell Aerospace president Arijit Ghosh speaks on the company #39;s tie-up with Tata Power for assembly of TALIN in India. Watch more videos: http://www.ndtv....

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Fast Five with Sean McGeough, President and CEO, Nextant Aerospace – Video

Posted on October 3, 2014 by Danzig

Fast Five with Sean McGeough, President and CEO, Nextant Aerospace

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Netflix-Adam Sandler: The digital platform as comeback springboard

Posted on October 2, 2014 by ev1

Adam Sandler isn't a big digital guy. He's copped to as much recently, telling reporters at the Toronto International Film Festival last month that he by and large avoided Twitter (he has an account but rarely tweets from it) and other forms of social media. (He does sort of like Wikipedia.)

Sandler chalked up this techno-agnosticism to him being "busy doing other stuff." Some of that, apparently, is making 21st century deals after all. Sandler and Netflix announced Wednesday evening that they were partnering on four new films. After rejuvenating the career of Keyser Soze and finding new life in the women's prison drama, the future-minded folks of Los Gatos were now turning to the man who was once Billy Madison. Give us your tired your poor, your huddled former box-office A-listers, yearning to break free.

You have to admire the commitment to the enterprise. Sandler is one of the hardest-working actors in show business, keeping a pace of more than a movie per year for the past two decades. So he'd get to four films quicker than the rest. Still, four movies don't come easy no matter how much you work. (It does bear emphasizing that this is not his four next movies -- he'll keep doing his studio stuff -- and in fact there's no guarantee we'll ever get close to that number; like most long-term deals in Hollywood, these are options, not obligations.)

Also not explicated in the announcement is exactly what kind of movies Netflix is signing up for and what kind of scrutiny the company will exercise on scripts. If history is any indication, they'll give the talent wide berth, which means this is Sandler's chance to really mix it up with some unexpected directors. If you're a filmmaker with a risky or reinvention story in mind, your agent should have been calling Sandler's people at WME an hour ago. At the very least here's hoping he doesn't just pull something out of the drawer with his Happy Madison production banner, which is part of the deal. "Grown Ups 5" doesn't need Netflix's boldness to get to a greenlight.

(One side question if this keeps up -- Netflix's stream and day-and-date policies automatically invalidate films for Oscar contention. If they hope to lure serious projects, that's going to be an obstacle.)

The timing of the news was a tad odd. It came the night of the opening of Sandler's "Men, Women & Children." In the film, his character does spend a lot of time on the Internet -- looking at porn and booking escorts.

That bit of experimentation doesn't seem to be working out as planned, and it's hardly a secret the actor isn't the draw he once was in bread-and-butter comedies either.

Still, it's a coup for Netflix. Sandler is long known among syndication and re-air types as the King of Cable for how his movies pull a number even on their 237th broadcast, so new movies will offer a little bit of synergy. (Netflix noted in its announcement that the old films play well on its service too.)

And Sandler's no doubt lost some luster but he still brings them in, especially when he has other big stars around him--he has a trio of $100-million grossers since 2010 all in that vein. In that sense the Sandler deal comes in a similar mold as the "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" sequel Netflix boarded earlier in the week--a brand that doesn't have the equity it once did (and this isn't as expensive as it once was) but still means something to plenty of film fans.

Until now, Netflix has been about creators. But apparently they want in on the star game too. Sandler, for his part, wants back in on the heat, the mojo, the water-cooler -- in short, on the way people once talked about him but now talk about Netflix. The two just landed one other. Now we'll see if they can each get what they want.

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Candidates must at least feign some religiosity

Posted on October 2, 2014 by ev1

Guess how many of the major-party candidates in next month's congressional elections are openly atheist. Hint: You can count them on one finger.

It tells you something that in a time when "no religion" is the category of roughly 20 percent of Americans, virtually none of the hundreds of Democrats and Republicans vying for congressional seats identify as a religious "none."

Whether it's because some consider their atheism, agnosticism or indifference a deal-breaker and don't even try for office, or whether it's because some non-religious candidates fudge the truth for political viability, this much seems clear: Candidates have to at least feign some religiosity to qualify for prominent political office, despite our Constitution forbidding religion tests of this sort. And atheism and related forms of non-belief are about the worst thing a candidate can be associated with.

This situation should not, and will not, hold for long.

Just in time for the "silly season," otherwise known as the elections, a coalition of secular organizations is launching a campaign to destigmatize non-belief in the public square. It's called Openly Secular, and if that brings to mind people coming out of closets as we saw with the gay-rights movement, well, that's the idea.

Explaining the need for the campaign, Carolyn Becker, spokesperson for Openly Secular, points to polling data showing that 53 percent of Americans think it's necessary to believe in God to be moral. Other survey data show that being an atheist is more injurious to one's shot at political office than being an adulterer.

These trends would likely bend if more Americans got to know people who were openly non-religious and saw them working hard, taking care of their kids and neighborhoods, and being generally kind and honest in their dealings with other people.

These days, candidates often rush to outdo one another in showing how religious they are. Those who are quieter about such matters are frequently asked where they stand on matters of faith. Non-believers -- and you know they're out there -- should not have to lie to remain viable.

Get this: Even some conservatives don't believe in God. The prominent columnist George Will, for instance, recently revealed that he is an atheist -- albeit an "amiable, low-voltage" one, as Will put it. Low voltage or high, Will has come out.

So has his conservative column-writing compatriot Charles Krauthammer, who recently distanced himself from conventional belief in God by saying that reverence for the mystery and awesomeness of the universe was as far as he could go.

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Here’s what the Netflix-Adam Sandler deal could give each side

Posted on October 2, 2014 by ev1

That bit of experimentation doesn't seem to be working out as planned, and it's hardly a secret the actor isn't the draw he once was in bread-and-butter comedies either.

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Farmer calls for debate on GM potential

Posted on October 2, 2014 by ev1

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PROTEST: Luthar Donselaar, 6, at a New Plymouth march against the use of genetically modified organisms in New Zealand food.

A visit to an experimental farm run by the Monsanto Corporation and others in the Mississippi delta has changed the way Southland Federated Farmers' president Russell MacPherson views genetic modification (GM).

MacPherson admits he left New Zealand thinking genetic modification of crops was not important to New Zealand farmers, but after seeing several effective applications of the technology in the Mississippi River delta, he believes farmers here should at least debate the potential benefits of the technology.

"I think it's important that New Zealanders don't just put genetic engineering on the shelf because we're not interested," he said. "Let's not become an agricultural museum.

"There are some aspects of genetic engineering that could actually help resolve some environmental problems in New Zealand."

The Mississippi River is renowned for its heavy sediment loading from intensive farming of its flood plains, concisely captured in the famous adage: "Too thick to drink and too thin to plough."

During a recent farming study tour of the United States with 25 Southland farmers, MacPherson visited a corn farm in the Mississippi River delta which is regularly flooded and fertilised by silt from the river.

He said soil loss was a major concern for growers on commercial scale farms, who had slowed sediment losses from 36 kilograms an acre to 9kg an acre through a policy of no tillage cultivation.

Genetically modified herbicide tolerant corn seeds are direct drilled into the previous season's slash and when weeds emerge they are sprayed with a herbicide to reduce competition.

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Q23. Can a person with HIV who has an undetectable viral load pass HIV to someone else? – Video

Posted on October 2, 2014 by ev1

Q23. Can a person with HIV who has an undetectable viral load pass HIV to someone else?
From the HIV Avatar Project, posted by the Department of Behavioral Science and Community Health at the University of Florida hiv-avatar-project.com http://b...