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Moca, PR Honeywell Aerospace executives joined members of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to break ground on the construction of a new research and development laboratory that the company will operate in the northern municipality of Moca. During the last months, Honeywell Aerospace has been working closely with the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company (PRIDCO) to design and develop an electromagnetic interference (EMI) laboratory that will allow Honeywell Aerospace to test the electromagnetic compatibility in Honeywell Aerospace products.
The project that we build today and that should be completed by October 2015, will give Puerto Rico its first laboratory of aerospace technology. Honeywell Aerospace will use this center for research and development to test the effects ofelectromagnetic interference on its products. In other words, this isa key project that advances the position of Puerto Rico within the aerospace industry, said the governor Alejandro Garca Padilla during the groundbreaking event.
Puerto Rico has been chosen for this project given its competitive workforce, its compliance with all federal regulations related to defense activities and the economic incentives provided for manufacturing and export services activities, including those related to research and development. The project represents an important milestone for the growing Puerto Rico aerospace industry and the local economy overall, creating job opportunities for dozens of people and stimulating economic activity for several local contractors and suppliers.
This new state-of-the-art facility in Puerto Rico will enable Honeywell to expand our core competency in designing, developing and testing a wide range of advanced aerospace avionics and electric power technologies, said Bob Smith, Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer at Honeywell Aerospace. This move is a clear demonstration of Honeywells valued partnership with PRIDCO and the broader Puerto Rican community, and underscores our commitment to providing our customers with industry-leading aerospace solutions.
The construction timeline and related permits process of the 73,000 square-feet facility has already been completed and construction is expected to be done by October 2015. Honeywell Aerospace has also been successful in finding the right talent for these operations and continues to collaborate with local universities in the efforts to develop new talent.
At PRIDCO we are proud and excited to see how important projects, that were once conceived as major economic drivers in our industrial development roadmap, begin to bear fruit. Honeywell has been one of our key partners in the efforts of growing the aerospace segment in Puerto Rico and this groundbreaking marks an important milestone in our economic diversification strategy, added Antonio Medina Comas, executive director of PRIDCO.
This will be Honeywells second Aerospace site in Puerto Rico, complementing its already successful operation in Aguadilla. The parent company, Honeywell International, is a Fortune 100 company that invests and manufactures technologies to address challenges relates to energy efficiency, clean energy generation, safety and security, globalization and customer productivity.
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Since 1942, the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company (PRIDCO) has been committed to attracting investment and creating jobs for Puerto Rico. Operating as a government owned economic development organization; PRIDCO offers support to companies in areas such as aerospace, life sciences, information technology and electronics. For more information about PRIDCO please visit http://www.pridco.com. Follow us @FomentoPridco on Twitter or find us at facebook.com/PRIDCO.
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Dillon County, SC (WMBF) - An aerospace company is expected to make a $115 million economic impact in Dillon County. Wyman Gordan is expected to be up and running by next September.
The large titanium and super alloy manufacturer is moving into the Pee Dee to create 400 jobs, Gov. Nikki Haley announced Tuesday. This is a premier fortune company that we want to make sure stays that way, she said.
For Dillon, the move makes history as the largest job announcement ever made in the county.
The manufacturer is setting up shop inside of a spec building located just feet away from I-95, but it's also using about 60 acres to build an even bigger facility next to the 50,000 square foot building given to the company.
The 400 new jobs being created here over the next five years are expected to pay between 18 and 19 dollars and hour.
Vice-President Greg Paolini said move to the Pee Dee just made sense.
We'll be moving and building all new aerospace post forging operations in the region and the intent is to basically take a lot of the assets that either exist in other facilities and combine them into one location for efficiency and get closer to our customer base, Paolini said.
Construction is expected to be complete by September of next year and the company plans to begin hiring a few months before that facility is complete.
Company execs said they are glad to help provide jobs to people in the Pee Dee.
People around here are great people and with the right training and the help of the state to help us get the right training, I'm sure they will turn out to be the best employees in the state, Paolini said.
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PARIS The well-heeled Marilyn Monroe once said, "Give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world."
The allure of high-heeled shoes is no secret among women, who have used them to entice men from the streets of Ancient Rome to the New York City sidewalks of Carrie Bradshaw. Heels have also been a controversial symbol in the battleground of sexual politics.
Now a scientific study in France has measured their power.
Scientists from the Universite de Bretagne-Sud conducted experiments that showed that men behave very differently toward high-heeled women. The results, published online in the journal "Archives of Sexual Behaviour," may please the purveyors of Christian Louboutin or Jimmy Choo shoes yet frustrate those who think stilettos encourage sexism.
The study found if a woman drops a glove on the street while wearing heels, she's almost 50 percent more likely to have a man fetch it for her than if she's wearing flats.
Another finding: A woman wearing heels is twice as likely to persuade men to stop and answer survey questions on the street. And a high-heeled woman in a bar waits half the time to get picked up by a man, compared to when her heel is nearer to the ground.
"Women's shoe heel size exerts a powerful effect on men's behavior," says the study's author, Nicolas Gueguen, a behavioral science researcher. "Simply put, they make women more beautiful."
Raised shoes have an unglamorous beginning: worn first by Egyptian butchers, who donned platforms to avoid treading in bloody offal.
But on women as "signifiers of femininity," raised shoes initially appeared in Ancient Greece and Rome, according to Elizabeth Semmelhack of The Bata Shoe Museum. In Rome, where the sex trade was legal, high heels helped clients identify prostitutes in crowds.
Although high heels were worn for centuries in the Ottoman Empire and in Persia for horseback riding, they only minced into the West in the 1500s, when they were associated with imperial power and popularized as erotic in the 19th and 20th centuries. Such was the allure that a person with status or wealth became referred to as "well-heeled."
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Newswise SEATTLE, December 8, 2014 Children with epilepsy can face greater intellectual and behavioral problems compared to their peers. New research presented at the American Epilepsy Societys (AES) 68th Annual Meeting explores the complex emotional, behavioral and intellectual disabilities associated with childhood epilepsy and their effect on development.
The first of three studies (Platform Session A.04) presents a culmination of 20-30 years of research that sought out to understand if intellectual disability (ID) predicts a low chance of remission and a high risk of intractability in epilepsy. Researchers of this study focused on examining the severity of ID to predict epilepsy outcome.
A cohort of children from Nova Scotia who developed epilepsy between 1977 and 1985 and had ID was followed for an average of 21 years following diagnosis. The initial study followed 692 children with incident epilepsy, of which 147 (21%) had intellectual disability. The degree of intellectual disability was established by standard psychometric testing around 5 years of age, and confirmed by subsequent academic achievements.
Researchers at Dalhousie University found that the degree of intellectual disability in children with epilepsy did predict seizure outcome. Mild intellectual disability was associated with a substantially better prognosis for remission and absence of intractability than moderate or severe/profound ID. Focal epilepsy and mild intellectual disability had the same rate of remission and intractability as focal epilepsy with normal intelligence. While mild ID seriously affects social outcome, it is not an important prognostic factor for seizure outcome, particularly if the epilepsy is focal.
The level of ID varied by the type of epilepsy present, with focal epilepsy apparent in 70% with mild ID, 38% with moderate and 29% with severe/profound ID. Generalized symptomatic epilepsies were most common with moderate (53%) and severe/profound ID (65%) than with mild ID (13%). Participants with mild ID were more likely to be in remission at the end of the twenty-year follow up (50%) than moderate (34%) or severe/profound ID (28%). Intractable epilepsy was more common with moderate (35%) and severe/profound (59%) than with mild ID (17%).
Mild intellectual disability has a profound effect on a childs adaptation to adult life, said Dr. Peter Camfield, M.D., Professor Emeritus, Department of Pediatrics, Dalhousie University. However, it is not particularly associated with severe epilepsy. Moderate to severe ID has ominous implications for seizure control.
A second study (Poster 1.097) explores the relationship between behavioral/psychiatric disorders and childhood epilepsy. Researchers at Northwestern Universitys Feinberg School of Medicine referenced children with the Connecticut Study of Epilepsy (CSE) that were recruited between 1993 and 1997, and underwent comprehensive reassessments between 2002 and 2006, 8 to 9 years after they were diagnosed with epilepsy. Within those 16 years, cognitive testing was conducted with a Wechsler IQ test and behavioral assessment with the parent-reported Child Behavior Check List (CBCL). Controls of this study were similar-aged siblings without epilepsy who received the same assessment instruments.
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The Hubble Space Telescope viewed by the STS-125 shuttle repair crew in 2009. Credit: NASA
The Hubble Space Telescope has delivered an amazing near quarter-century of science from all over the universe. Even this year, its delivered results to think about: the shrinking Great Red Spot on Jupiter (see picture below), helping New Horizons hunt for flyby targets after Pluto, and enhancing our view of deep space.
But that didnt come cheap. Four astronaut servicing missions (including one to fix a mirror that was launched with myopia) were required to keep the telescope going since 1990. Hubble has never been more scientifically productive, according to a recent NASA review, but a new article asks if Hubble is destined to die a fiery death when its orbit decays in the next eight to 10 years.
NASA doesnt have any official plans for upgrading the telescope, meaning its hardware will grow old and out-of-date in the coming years, reads the article in Popular Science. Without assistance, Hubble cant maintain its orbit forever, and eventually Earths gravity will pull the telescope to a fiery death.
Thats not to say NASA is going to abandon the cosmos far from it. Besides NASAs other space telescopes, the successor James Webb Space Telescope is planned to launch in 2018 to chart the universe in other wavelengths. But a review from April warns that ceasing operations of Hubble would not be prudent until James Webb is up, running, and doing its own work productively. Thats a narrow window of time considering Hubble is expected to work well until about 2020.
The Hubble Space Telescope shows the shrinking size of Jupiters Great Red Spot in this series of images taken between 1995 and 2014. Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center)
The Hubble Space Telescope senior review panel submitted a report on March that overall praised the observatorys work, and which also talked about its potential longevity. As is, Hubble is expected to work until at least 2020, the review stated. The four science instruments are expected to be more than 85% reliable until 2021, and most critical subsystems should exceed 80% until that same year.
The report urges that experienced hands are kept around as the telescope degrades in the coming years, but points out that Hubble has backups that should keep the observatory as a whole going for a while.
There are no single-point failure modes on Hubble that could take down the entire observatory. It has ample redundancy. Planned mitigations for numerous possible sub-system failures or degraded performance have been developed in advance via the projects Life-Extension Initiatives campaign. Hubble will likely degrade gracefully, with loss or degradation of individual science instrument modes and individual sub-system components.
In NASAs response to the Senior Review for several missions (including Hubble), the agency said that the telescope has been approved (budgetarily speaking) until 2016, when an incremental review will take place. Further in the future, things get murky.
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Kabul, Afghanistan The US and NATO closed their combat command in Afghanistan on Monday, more than 13 years after invading the country in the wake of the Sept. 11 terror attacks to target Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden.
Though quickly routing the Taliban-led government that sheltered the militants, the US-led coalition soon found itself spending billions of dollars rebuilding a country devastated by almost 30 years of war while an insurgency grew as the invasion and occupation of Iraq quickly took America's attention.
As NATO's International Security Assistance Force's Joint Command, which was in charge of combat operations, lowered its flag Monday and formally ended its deployment, resurgent Taliban militants launched yet another bloody attack in the country. And with US President Barack Obama allowing American troops to go after both Al Qaeda and Taliban militants in the country into next year, the fighting likely won't be over anytime soon.
"I don't think the war will slow or stop during the winter, as attacks on cities are not contingent on the weather," Afghan political analyst Wahid Muzhdah said. "I believe attacks in the cities will increase they attract media attention."
Monday's ceremony saw the NATO flag of the command folded and put away amid the foreign troop withdrawal. From Jan. 1, the coalition will maintain a force of 13,000 troops in Afghanistan, down from a peak around 140,000 in 2011. As of Dec. 1, there were some 13, 300 NATO troops in the country.
US Gen. John F. Campbell, commander of NATO and US forces, said foreign troops now will focus on training and supporting local Afghan forces, which have led the fight against the Taliban insurgents since mid-2013.
"The Afghan security forces are capable," Campbell told The Associated Press. "They have to make some changes in the leadership which they're doing, and they have to hold people accountable."
But as local troops stepped up, they now face record-high casualty figures that have risen 6.5 percent this year, to 4,634 killed in action, compared to 4,350 in 2013. By comparison, some 3,500 foreign forces, including at least 2,210 American soldiers, have been killed since the war began in 2001.
President Obama recently allowed American forces to launch operations against both Taliban and Al Qaeda militants, broadening the mission of the US forces that will remain in the country. They also will be permitted to provide combat and air support as necessary, while Afghan President Ashraf Ghani also considers resuming controversial night raids that could see Americans take part.
Up to 10,800 US troops will remain in Afghanistan for the first three months of next year, 1,000 more than previously planned, said a NATO official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss troop deployments. As a result, there will be little, if any, net drop in U.S. troop numbers between now and Dec. 31, when the international combat mission formally ends.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- The U.S. and NATO have ceremonially ended their combat mission in Afghanistan, 13 years after the Sept. 11 terror attacks sparked their invasion of the country to topple the Taliban-led government.
NATO's International Security Assistance Force Joint Command, which was in charge of combat operations, lowered its flag Monday, formally ending its deployment.
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U.S. Gen. John F. Campbell, commander of NATO and U.S. forces, says the mission is transitioning to a training and support role. He says from Jan. 1, the coalition will maintain a force of 13,000 troops in Afghanistan, down from a peak around 140,000 in 2011.
The mission ends as the Taliban is increasing its attacks. President Obama recently allowed U.S. forces to launch operations against both Taliban and al Qaeda militants amid the training mission.
And an augmentation of the U.S. role in that training mission was announced just days before Monday's ceremony, with Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel saying about 1,000 more American troops than initially planned were to remain in Afghanistan beyond the end of the year.
At a news conference with President Ashraf Ghani, Hagel said the original plan to cut U.S. troop levels to 9,800 by the end of 2014 had been abandoned, but not because of the recent surge in Taliban attacks.
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In a ceremony Sunday morning, U.S. Marines and British combat troops officially marked the end of their operations in Afghanistan
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Dec. 8, 2014 - International Security Assistance Force Joint Command (IJC), Lieutenant General Joseph Anderson, left, folds the flag of IJC during a flag-lowering ceremony at Kabul International Airport in Afghanistan. The U.S. and NATO ceremonially ended their combat mission in Afghanistan Monday, 13 years after the Sept. 11 terror attacks sparked their invasion of the country.(AP)
Dec. 8, 2014 - International Security Assistance Forces take part in a ceremony at Kabul International Airport in Afghanistan. The U.S. and NATO ceremonially ended their combat mission in Afghanistan Monday, 13 years after the Sept. 11 terror attacks sparked their invasion of the country.(AP)
December 7, 2014: US military forces listen to U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel speaking at Tactical Base Gamberi in eastern Afghanistan. Hagel was winding up a two day visit, his last to Afghanistan as secretary of defense. (AP Photo/Mark Wilson, Pool)
The U.S. and NATO closed their combat command in Afghanistan on Monday, more than 13 years after invading the country in the wake of the Sept. 11 terror attacks to target al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden.
Though quickly routing the Taliban-led government that sheltered the militants, the U.S.-led coalition soon found itself spending billions of dollars rebuilding a country devastated by almost 30 years of war while an insurgency grew as the invasion and occupation of Iraq quickly took America's attention.
As NATO's International Security Assistance Force's Joint Command, which was in charge of combat operations, lowered its flag Monday and formally ended its deployment, resurgent Taliban militants launched yet another bloody attack in the country. And with President Barack Obama allowing American troops to go after both al Qaeda and Taliban militants in the country into the next year, the fighting likely won't be over anytime soon.
"I don't think the war will slow or stop during the winter, as attacks on cities are not contingent on the weather," Afghan political analyst Wahid Muzhdah said. "I believe attacks in the cities will increase -- they attract media attention."
Monday's ceremony saw the NATO flag of the command folded and put away amid the foreign troop withdrawal. From Jan. 1, the coalition will maintain a force of 13,000 troops in Afghanistan, down from a peak around 140,000 in 2011. As of Dec. 1, there were some 13, 300 NATO troops in the country.
U.S. Gen. John F. Campbell, commander of NATO and U.S. forces, said foreign troops now will focus on training and supporting local Afghan forces, which have led the fight against the Taliban insurgents since mid-2013.
"The Afghan security forces are capable," Campbell told The Associated Press. "They have to make some changes in the leadership which they're doing, and they have to hold people accountable."
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Thirteen years after invading Afghanistan, U.S. and NATO forces have closed their combat headquarters Monday amid fresh attacks in the country from a resurgent Taliban. The first of two ceremonies marked the final month of formal NATO and U.S. combat missions in the country, which will officially cease on Dec. 31.
However, at the request of the Afghan government, U.S. troops will continue to target al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters into 2015 as a force of 13,000 coalition troops remains past the turn of the year. That's less than 10 percent of the 140,000 soldiers at the peak of involvement in 2011.
War operations typically slow down greatly or even cease altogether during the harsh Afghan winters, but the campaign of bombing by the Taliban rather than military attacks on enemy soldiers may keep going this winter. "I don't think the war will slow or stop during the winter, as attacks on cities are not contingent on the weather," Afghan political analyst Wahid Muzhdah said, as quoted by the Associated Press. "I believe attacks in the cities will increase -- they attract media attention."
When U.S. and NATO forces first began combat operations in Afghanistan in October 2001 in the wake of the September 11 attacks in the U.S., the sitting Taliban government and military was quickly beaten back, and U.S.-led coalition forces were able to take over control over much of the country. But as the Iraq war began one and half years later, attention pivoted away from Afghanistan, allowing a militant insurgency operating on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border to grow. That Taliban insurgency is now threatening to beat back the Western troops and the Afghan forces they trained, which risksdestabilizingmuch of what was achieved in the previous 13 years.
To that end, the 10,800 U.S. troops plus NATO allies that will remain in Afghanistan beyond the turn of the year have been authorized to launch attacks against the Taliban and al-Qaeda using ground forces and air support as necessary. New Afghan president Ashraf Ghani has also lifted a ban allowing the U.S. to conduct night raids, something that was not allowed under the previous presidency.
By the end of 2015, U.S. troop presence will be cut in half to 5,500 before hitting near zero by Christmas 2016.
Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, told the AP that the group would continue to fight until Afghanistan was clear of all foreign troops.
"The Americans want to extend their mission in Afghanistan, the motive being to keep the war going for as long as possible," he said. "And for as long as they do, the Taliban will continue their fight against the foreign and (Afghan) government forces."
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US National Security Agency (NSA) employees spent years monitoring domestic and international companies to find security vulnerabilities that could be exploited for surveillance purposes, according to new reports originating from documents obtained by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
Ryan Gallagher of The Intercept, who first broke the story, said that the program was codenamed Auroragold and also detailed how the agency planned to secretly introduce new flaws into communication systems that it could tap into but which experts said would also have made the general public more susceptible to hackers in the process.
The covert operation has monitored the content of messages sent and received by more than 1,200 email accounts associated with major cellphone network operators, intercepting confidential company planning papers that help the NSA hack into phone networks, Gallagher said.
One high-profile surveillance target is the GSM Association (GSMA), an influential UK-headquartered trade group that works closely with large US-based firms including Microsoft, Facebook, AT&T, and Cisco, and is currently being funded by the U.S. government to develop privacy-enhancing technologies, he added.
CNET technology columnist Don Reisinger said the NSA targeted IR.21 documents, which highlight new technologies and encryption methods used by mobile carriers, and Chris Johnston of The Guardian said that the documents reveal that the agency targeted meetings held by the trade association.
Cryptographer and cellphone security expert Karsten Nohl told Gallagher that information contained in the Auroragold documents provide hints that the volume and broad scope of data collected as part of the operation suggests the intent was to make sure that the overwhelming majority of mobile networks worldwide were NSA accessible.
Collecting an inventory [like this] on world networks has big ramifications, Nohl said, because it allows the agency to monitor and work around improvements in encryption technology cell providers utilize to protect calls and text messages from eavesdropping.
He added that evidence suggesting the NSA was deliberately attempting to weaken mobile communication infrastructure was especially alarming, since those vulnerabilities could be exploited by anyone, not just the NSA. The files also reveal that the NSA basically had unfettered access to the infrastructure of roughly 700 global wireless carriers as of May 2012, Engadgets Chris Velazco added.
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