Media Advisory/Photo Opportunity – Cash Store Financial Freedom Run to Take Place in Cornwall

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CORNWALL, ON , Sept. 25, 2013 /CNW/ - This Saturday hundreds of runners (and walkers) will participate in the Cash Store Financial Freedom Run for Diabetes Research in Cornwall . The race is one of 27 community runs across the country in support of the Canadian Diabetes Association and will help raise funds and awareness for diabetes.

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"Money raised from the Freedom Runs for Diabetes Research will help support the Canadian Diabetes Association's cutting-edge diabetes research. We thank Cash Store Financial for making the Freedom Runs for Diabetes Research possible and helping to make a difference for Canadians living with diabetes."

- Fred DeFina , Director of Community Giving for the Canadian Diabetes Association

"Cash Store Financial is dedicated to supporting the CDA in raising funds and awareness for diabetes - a disease that is now a global pandemic. Through the Cash Store Financial Freedom Run, we are proud to join the hundreds of walkers and runners, from coast-to-coast, in the fight against diabetes. Each year, the Freedom Run will bring us closer to our goal of raising $7.5 million in support of diabetes research."

- Gordon Reykdal , CEO of Cash Store Financial

To learn more about how you can volunteer or participate in the Cash Store Financial Freedom Run for Diabetes Research, visit http://www.thefreedomrun.ca.

About Cash Store Financial Cash Store Financial is the only lender and broker of shortterm advances and provider of other financial services in Canada that is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (CSF.TO). Cash Store Financial also trades on the New York Stock Exchange (CSFS). Cash Store Financial operates 510 branches across Canada under the banners "Cash Store Financial" and "Instaloans". Cash Store Financial also operates 27 branches in the United Kingdom .

About the Canadian Diabetes Association The Canadian Diabetes Association is a registered charitable organization, leading the fight against diabetes by helping people with diabetes live healthy lives while we work to find a cure. Our professional staff and more than 20,000 volunteers provide education and services to help people in their daily fight against the disease, advocate on behalf of people with diabetes for the opportunity to achieve their highest quality of life, and break ground towards a cure. Please visit diabetes.ca, join us on facebook.com/CanadianDiabetesAssociation, follow us on Twitter @DiabetesAssoc, or call 1-800-BANTING (226-8464).

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Media Advisory/Photo Opportunity – Cash Store Financial Freedom Run to Take Place in Hamilton

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HAMILTON, ON , Sept. 25, 2013 /CNW/ - This Saturday hundreds of runners (and walkers) will participate in the Cash Store Financial Freedom Run for Diabetes Research in Hamilton . The race is one of 27 community runs across the country in support of the Canadian Diabetes Association and will help raise funds and awareness for diabetes.

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"Money raised from the Freedom Runs for Diabetes Research will help support the Canadian Diabetes Association's cutting-edge diabetes research. We thank Cash Store Financial for making the Freedom Runs for Diabetes Research possible and helping to make a difference for Canadians living with diabetes."

- Fred DeFina , Director of Community Giving for the Canadian Diabetes Association

"Cash Store Financial is dedicated to supporting the CDA in raising funds and awareness for diabetes - a disease that is now a global pandemic. Through the Cash Store Financial Freedom Run, we are proud to join the hundreds of walkers and runners, from coast-to-coast, in the fight against diabetes. Each year, the Freedom Run will bring us closer to our goal of raising $7.5 million in support of diabetes research."

- Gordon Reykdal , CEO of Cash Store Financial

To learn more about how you can volunteer or participate in the Cash Store Financial Freedom Run for Diabetes Research, visit http://www.thefreedomrun.ca.

About Cash Store Financial Cash Store Financial is the only lender and broker of shortterm advances and provider of other financial services in Canada that is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (CSF.TO). Cash Store Financial also trades on the New York Stock Exchange (CSFS). Cash Store Financial operates 510 branches across Canada under the banners "Cash Store Financial" and "Instaloans". Cash Store Financial also operates 27 branches in the United Kingdom .

About the Canadian Diabetes Association The Canadian Diabetes Association is a registered charitable organization, leading the fight against diabetes by helping people with diabetes live healthy lives while we work to find a cure. Our professional staff and more than 20,000 volunteers provide education and services to help people in their daily fight against the disease, advocate on behalf of people with diabetes for the opportunity to achieve their highest quality of life, and break ground towards a cure. Please visit diabetes.ca, join us on facebook.com/CanadianDiabetesAssociation, follow us on Twitter @DiabetesAssoc, or call 1-800-BANTING (226-8464).

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Media Advisory/Photo Opportunity – Cash Store Financial Freedom Run to Take Place in Waterloo

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WATERLOO, ON , Sept. 25, 2013 /CNW/ - This Sunday hundreds of runners (and walkers) will participate in the Cash Store Financial Freedom Run for Diabetes Research in Waterloo . The race is one of 27 community runs across the country in support of the Canadian Diabetes Association and will help raise funds and awareness for diabetes.

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"Money raised from the Freedom Runs for Diabetes Research will help support the Canadian Diabetes Association's cutting-edge diabetes research. We thank Cash Store Financial for making the Freedom Runs for Diabetes Research possible and helping to make a difference for Canadians living with diabetes."

- Fred DeFina , Director of Community Giving for the Canadian Diabetes Association

"Cash Store Financial is dedicated to supporting the CDA in raising funds and awareness for diabetes - a disease that is now a global pandemic. Through the Cash Store Financial Freedom Run, we are proud to join the hundreds of walkers and runners, from coast-to-coast, in the fight against diabetes. Each year, the Freedom Run will bring us closer to our goal of raising $7.5 million in support of diabetes research."

- Gordon Reykdal , CEO of Cash Store Financial

To learn more about how you can volunteer or participate in the Cash Store Financial Freedom Run for Diabetes Research, visit http://www.thefreedomrun.ca.

About Cash Store Financial Cash Store Financial is the only lender and broker of shortterm advances and provider of other financial services in Canada that is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (CSF.TO). Cash Store Financial also trades on the New York Stock Exchange (CSFS). Cash Store Financial operates 510 branches across Canada under the banners "Cash Store Financial" and "Instaloans". Cash Store Financial also operates 27 branches in the United Kingdom .

About the Canadian Diabetes Association The Canadian Diabetes Association is a registered charitable organization, leading the fight against diabetes by helping people with diabetes live healthy lives while we work to find a cure. Our professional staff and more than 20,000 volunteers provide education and services to help people in their daily fight against the disease, advocate on behalf of people with diabetes for the opportunity to achieve their highest quality of life, and break ground towards a cure. Please visit diabetes.ca, join us on facebook.com/CanadianDiabetesAssociation, follow us on Twitter @DiabetesAssoc, or call 1-800-BANTING (226-8464).

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Visiting reporter speaks on eugenics and history

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By Topher Webb on September 25, 2013. Contact Topher Webb at t.webb@chronicle.utah.edu.

Edwin Black speaks Tuesday morning in the Public Health Building about Eugenics. Cole Tan

The American eugenics movement caused the forced sterilization of 1,000 people per year and influenced the Nazi party, said visiting scholar Edwin Black.

Black, an investigative reporter, spoke at the School of Medicines grand rounds in public health on Tuesday.

Eugenics began as a response to social upheaval in the U.S. at the end of the 19th century, Black said. Populations had started to move from rural to urban locations and the ethnic demographic of the country was changing as Jewish, Mexican and Chinese immigrants made the United States their home.

Black said some intellectuals wanted to change the country back to the way it was. People promoting eugenics were often prominent and respected members of society, such as university presidents and judges. He said other examples include Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, President Theodore Roosevelt and Thomas Edison.

What they wanted was a white, blonde, blue-eyed, Nordic supreme race, Black said.

Eugenics was not based on simple racism but the idea that all bad things in society come from peoples genes. Black said it did not matter how educated a person was or how much good he or she had done in society, because his or her offspring could potentially harm society.

You werent born into poverty. Poverty was born into you, Black said. It was not about eliminating individuals, but about eliminating your bloodline.

The goal was to remove Jews, Mexicans, blacks, southern Italians and Caucasians with dark hair, as well as the mentally inferior from society. This was to be done by removing one-tenth of the population at a time until only the supreme race, meaning people who looked like those promoting eugenics, remained.

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Scouring the California beaches

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What do Mr. Potato Heads mustache, a baby stroller with a demons head attached, a meat thermometer and a live octopus inside a stereo speaker all have in common?

They were all items collected Saturday in the California Coastal Cleanup Day.

The event, which featured cleanup efforts in 53 of the states 58 counties and focused on picking up trash from the coastal beaches and waterways all the way to Lake Tahoe collected more than 501,748 pounds 251 tons of trash and recyclables. And thats with only 70 percent of the cleanup sites reporting their work.

Coastal Cleanup Day is always an incredible celebration of our coastal and aquatic environments, said Eben Schwartz, Marine Debris Program Manager for the California Coastal Commission, which along with the Ocean Conservancy has presented the event for the past 29 years.

This years celebration included more than 51,000 volunteers with local participants sweeping beaches in drizzly, blustery conditions.

In Santa Barbara County, 952 volunteers netted 2,545 pounds of debris on local beaches and creeks.

Included in the haul this year were Mr. Potato Heads mustache found at Butterfly Beach and an electric popcorn popper discovered at Goleta Beach.

Why would anyone want these things at the beach? Sam Dickinson, Santa Barbara County cleanup coordinator asked incredulously.

Several odd items were found on San Luis Obispo County beaches, as well. More than 1,100 volunteers at 28 sites cleared more than 54 miles of coastline.

Their discoveries included a meat thermometer, the hood of a red pickup, a mattress, a couple pairs of underwear, a machete, several strands of Christmas lights and a message in a bottle. Michael Heater, program coordinator for EcoSLO which organizes the effort, said he hadnt yet heard what was in the note.

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Eclipses 1949 International Tele-Film Productions – Almanac Films; Astronomy – Video

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Astronomy Photographer of the Year, Royal Observatory – exhibition review

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Click here to view the gallery of photos from the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2013 exhibition

The seven finalists in the competition are thrillingly projected in the Planetarium and hung on a wall and all 24 short-listed winners, from more than 1,000 contestants, are presented in light-boxes incongruously small for such epic subjects.

The overall winner, Australias Mark Gee, presents Guiding Lights to the Stars as a cinematic panorama of a New Zealand seashore lit by the night sky. Digitally stitched together in panels, the contents include a tiny moon, smudgy Magellanic clouds hovering over the Milky Way and a glowing lighthouse, coalesced in the broad story. Ben Canaless similarly epic construction, Hi. Hello, is in contrast, an empty snowscape where a monk stares at the skys chimney of smoke holding millions of stars.

Many images have a painting feel: Frank Bromss Green Energy is a swirling dayglo vortex of an Aurora Borealis; Lszl Francsicss The Trapezium Cluster and surrounding Nebulae, involves dust clouds reflecting the colours of exploding gases and resembling Turners skies in their rich blue and fuschia tones. The exhibition's invitation to "Become an Astro Photographer" and use a robotic telescope to photograph a chosen image, includes receiving it by email; irresistible.

Until February 23, 2014 (rmg.co.uk, 020 8858 422)

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GKN Aerospace opens engineering centre in Bangalore

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Bangalore, Sept 25:

GKN Aerospace today officially announced the opening of its engineering centre here.

The company officials said the centres highly skilled engineering team, which extends companys one thousand strong global engineering strength, is already contributing design engineering expertise to the companys international aero-engine activities.

Stating that 70 highly qualified design and development engineers have been transferred from Volvos Bangalore facility to the new centre, GKN Aerospace VP Engineering Andrew Clarke said over the next eighteen months a local recruitment campaign will increase the work force in Bangalore to over 100 individuals.

We will not be parachuting foreign engineers, he added.

The company officials said Volvo Aerospace was acquired by GKN in 2012 and incorporated into companys aerospace business, GKN Aerospace. The aerospace engineering team with in the Volvos Bangalore office is now moving to form the core of GKN Aerospaces new Bangalore engineering centre.

Clarke said In the future the centre will extend to provide engineering support for projects across the GKN Aerospace enterprise, including its market leading aero-structures and transparencies operations.

Stating that the company is also considering aerospace sector related manufacturing unit in Bangalore, he said: We are currently in early negotiation with number of our Indian partners.

(This article was published on September 25, 2013)

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RideAlong! Pilot View, Kaney Aerospace L-39-Formation Flight with F-86, CT-133, T-37-Waukesha 2013 – Video

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Sikorsky Aerospace Services Receives Prestigious Maintenance Excellence Award for 11th Time

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SHELTON, Conn., Sept. 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --Sikorsky Aerospace Services (SAS) announced today it has received the 2012 Maintenance Excellence Award from the U.S. Naval Reserve Tactical Support Wing (TSW) for support of the Composite Fighter Squadron VFC-111, based in Key West, Fla. The award is the 11th for SAS since the program started in 2001. SAS is the worldwide aftermarket business of Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX)

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"It's truly an honor for our employees to receive this award, which symbolizes the unwavering commitment by Sikorsky Aerospace Services to an essential and critical program that prepares U.S. Navy pilots for their missions," said George Mitchell, SAS Vice President, Military Customer Support. "It also speaks to the breadth and scope of our support capabilities for fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft produced by other Original Equipment Manufacturers. SAS' comprehensive and integrated support portfolio serves not only multiple branches of the U.S. military, but also provides strategic maintenance offerings globally."

Known as the Golden Wrench Award, the honor for maintenance excellence goes to the squadron that has demonstrated superlative skills leadership, professionalism and unrivaled effectiveness in the safe flight and operation of aircraft involved in Navy Adversary Flight Operations. SAS provides maintenance and logistics support for 14 F-5F/N aircraft in VFC-13, and 18 F-5 F/N aircraft in VFC-111, used in the Navy Adversary Flight Operations program. Respectively, the squadrons fly an average of 3,400 and 5,200 hours per year providing adversary training to every Navy Carrier Air Wing and squadron that deploy to ships and bases throughout the world.

"I have the utmost confidence in the performance of each maintenance department within this Air Wing. Maintenance managers, mechanics and technicians have enthusiastically met the challenge and executed the assigned task," said Air Wing Captain James Nichols, Commander of the Tactical Support Wing. "The outstanding professionalism displayed during the past year enabled the TSW to meet all operational requirements. I applaud your contributions to the Air Wing and the United States Navy."

In 2001-2003, 2005-2007 and 2009-2011, SAS won the award at the VFC-13 Squadron based in Fallon, Nev. This is the second time since 2008 that the SAS Key West support team has received the award. Recipients of the Golden Wrench are permitted to paint the award icon on the side of squadron aircraft.

Sikorsky Aerospace Services, a Sikorsky company, provides comprehensive support to rotary- and fixed-wing operators around the world. It offers its military and commercial customers a full portfolio of support services, including material distribution, maintenance, overhaul & repair, aircraft modifications, and life-cycle management. Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., based in Stratford, Conn., is a world leader in helicopter design, manufacture, and service. United Technologies Corp., based in Hartford, Conn., provides a broad range of high technology products and support services to the aerospace and building systems industries worldwide.

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Harbour Village Beach Club Honored with Prestigious World Travel Award

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MIAMI, FLA., Sept. 24, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Harbour Village Beach Club has been voted Bonaire's Leading Hotel in the 2013 World Travel Awards, hailed as the "Oscars of the Travel Industry" by the Wall Street Journal.

A member of Small Luxury Hotels of the World, Harbour Village Beach Club is located on a four-acre private peninsula with well-appointed villas nestled amid lush tropical gardens, a white sand beach, and an onsite First Class 5 Star PADI Dive Center catering to all ages and skill levels. Harbour Village's luxurious accommodations are situated just a few steps away from the beach and feature opulent decor and thoughtful details like secluded lanais and double hammocks. The resort is also home to the acclaimed La Balandra Restaurant and Bar, which gives the sensation of sailing into the Caribbean seascape with a dining deck located on a jetty extending out to sea, as well as The Spa at Harbour Village Beach Club.

The award, voted for by travel and tourism professionals worldwide, was presented to Harbour Village Beach Club at the World Travel Awards Caribbean & North America Gala Ceremony 2013 on September 14 in Antigua & Barbuda.

"We are honored to accept this award," said Frank Gonzalez, Managing Director of Harbour Village Beach Club, which received the award seven times previously. "It reflects our ongoing commitment to provide the best possible experience for our guests during their stay on this beautiful island."

Bonaire is designated as having the most pristine coral reef environment and most species of fish in the Caribbean by the NOAA and is consistently named Best Overall Dive Destination by Scuba Diving Magazine's Reader's Choice Awards. Due to Bonaire's leeward location outside of the hurricane belt, and its consistently pleasant climate, crystal-clear visibility prevails at any depth, giving an enthralling view of the undersea landscape. Guests can explore dive sites just off Harbour Village's shore, including the shipwreck of the 60-foot "Our Confidence," located just 50 yards out from the beach a great spot for beginners that can even be seen by snorkelers from the surface. Another popular dive site, "Something Special," is also a short swim away.

For more information on Bonaire and Harbour Village Beach Club, visit http://www.harbourvillage.com, call Debbie Reyes at 1-800-424-0004, or e-mail: reservations@harbourvillage.com to learn more.

About Harbour Village Bonaire

Located in the Dutch Antilles within an exclusive beachfront enclave on a four-acre, private peninsula on Bonaire, Harbour Village Beach Club is often referred to as "the best kept secret" in the Caribbean where vacationing is effortless, and the world's best diving and underwater landscapes are just steps away. Harbour Village Beach Club offers 30 luxurious guest rooms and suites, a private white-sand beach, onsite PADI 5 Star Dive and Water Sports Center, private 64-slip marina, beachfront restaurant, full-service spa, lighted tennis courts, beachside and cascade pools, fitness center, supervised children's programs, complimentary wireless Internet and a wealth of other premium amenities.

Located eighty-six miles east of Aruba, the island of Bonaire offers year round sunshine, low annual rainfall, and has been designated as having the most pristine coral reef environment and most species of fish in the Caribbean by the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration. The Reef Environmental Education Foundation lists eight out of almost 90 of Bonaire's dive sites in their top 10 in terms of species richness in the Caribbean -- abundant underwater life includes more than 300 species of tropical fish and over 120 different types of coral. The island is able to maintain this environment and receive awards for Bonaire diving year after year because its surrounding waters have been protected as the Bonaire National Marine Park for over 30 years.

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NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center Mighty Eagle Improves Autonomous Landing Software – Video

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The Mighty Eagle, a NASA robotic prototype lander managed out of NASA #39;s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. successfully completed a test flight...

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