Stars come out for charity night in aid of Kielder Observatory Astronomy Village plan

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The stars came out for a charity night to raise cash for the proposed 8.5m Kielder Observatory Astronomy Village.

The main speaker was NASA flight controller Sy Liebergot who played a crucial role in bringing the stricken Apollo 13 back to earth safely.

And the event was hosted in the Moncur Suite at St James Park, home of Newcastle United, by diehard Sunderland fan and Athletics legend Steve Cram.

Steve, now a respected TV commentator, joked at the beginning of the evening. Its not often I can say its a pleasure to come to St James Park.

Meanwhile Toon star Bob Moncur, who the suite was named after and also attended, hit back: Steves not used to big crowds.

The black tie event, funded by Cramlington-based manufacturing company Miller International, marked the official launch of the astronomy village project.

It included an auction of some, literally, out of this world lots including a rare 2.13g slice of lunar meteorite, a piece of the NASA space shuttle signed by Sy Liebergot, and a facsimile of the Apollo 13 checklist, again signed by Sy as well as astronauts on the mission Jim Lovell and Fed Haise.

Movie fans may remember the Ron Howard film Apollo 13 which recreated the dramatic events of the mission.

However pride of place went to a framed dollar bill, signed by members of the Apollo 11 mission which was the first to land on the moon. They were Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins.

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Aircraft Fragment Likely Not Amelia Earhart's, Says Investigator

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An aluminum fuselage fragment purported to be from Amelia Earharts 1936 twin-engine Lockheed Electra 10E Special, actually dates from World War II (or at least several years after Earhart went missing), Gary LaPook, a California-based attorney specializing in aviation accident investigations told Forbes.

The slightly rectangular, roughly three sq ft fragment was found on the uninhabited southwest Pacific atoll of Nikumaroro in 1991. But it was recently offered by Tighar, a prominent Earhart search group, as fresh fodder for the hypothesis that on July 2, 1937, Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan crash-landed on one of the islands outlying coral reefs. That is, after completely missing tiny Howland Island some 400 miles to the north. An unprecedented air and sea search at the time turned up nothing.

Amelia Earharts Lockheed Model 10 Electra, at Oakland, CA on March 20, 1937. Scanned from Lockheed Aircraft since 1913, by Ren Francillon. Photo credit USAF. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (Tighar)s claim is that after leaving Lae, New Guinea around Noon on July 2nd, Earhart was actually as much as 200 miles south of Howland as part of her attempt to finish a weeks-long second attempt to complete a west to east round-the-world journey. The Pennsylvania-based Tighars idea is that they then ran south on a navigational line of position and hit Nikumaroro, then known as Gardner Island.

Yet Tighars executive director Ric Gillespie and LaPook disagree on the dates and labeling of the artifact fragment which Tighar found on Nikumaroro.

The skin of the aircraft [fuselage] was made of an aluminum alloy and to protect it from corrosion was then coated with pure aluminum known as ALCLAD for aluminum clad, said LaPook, who is also a celestial navigation instructor and former commercial transport pilot. On the back of the fragment, only the AD of the longer marking ALCLAD is still legible, a label that LaPook maintains would not have been in use until years after Earharts doomed flight.

But Gillespie, who is also author of Finding Amelia: The True Story of the Earhart Disappearance, contends that aluminum sheets on such 1930s aircraft were first marked with the ALCLAD [aluminum clad] label; then the letters ALC, before Alcoa Alcoa finally switched the labeling back to ALCLAD.

LaPook however counters that the ALCLAD labeling followed the earlier ALC labeling by several years and the switch was made during World War II.

My challenge to Gillespie still stands, if they ever marked aluminum with the word ALCLAD prior to Earharts disappearance, then he has the burden of proving it by producing one other piece of it with that marking, said LaPook. Nor has he come up with any photos showing such ALCLAD aluminum [markings] being used prior to July 2, 1937.

Gillespie told Forbes that Tighar has yet to find any piece of metal or photograph of a piece of metal that has exactly the same font on it as the artifact. But he says there are other features about the artifact that fit perfectly with it being part of a patch from Earharts aircraft.

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Viral Airborne GMO’S Spreads Infectious Disease In Animals & Humans – Video

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Why is Google a Learning Machine? – Here’s Why with Mark & Eric – Video

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Guess who's coming for your job?

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Tech visionary Elon Musk made headlines when he said recently that artificial intelligence is like "summoning the demon" and may well be humanity's "biggest existential threat." Just this month, researchers in Japan announced they had created a software system that could outperform the average Japanese high school student on a standardized college entrance exam. In other words, the machines are catching up to humans in intelligence.

Concerns about A.I. and robots can be divided into two broad categories and framed as questions. First, will the machines take our jobs and destroy our livelihoods? Second, do we have to worry that advanced artificial intelligence could truly threaten humanity, perhaps by acting to destroy us (as in the "Terminator" movies) or enslave us (as in the "Matrix" series).

The evidence suggests that, at least for the foreseeable future, the impact on employment is what should worry us.

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The reality is that most people in our workforce are employed in occupations that are on some level fundamentally routine and predicable. Most people come to work and, regardless of their job title or industry, tend to face the same basic types of challenges again and again. Just as a trainee might learn to do a job by carefully observing everything done by an experienced worker, rapidly improving machine learning algorithms seem likely to eventually figure out how to do a great many jobs.

Last year, a team in Oxford University performed a detailed analysis of over 700 occupations in the United States. They came to the conclusion that jobs constituting a staggering 47% of U.S. employment---well over 60 million jobs---could become automated in a decade or two.

It's important to realize that projections like these do not rely on the stuff of science fiction. Machine learning technology is already in widespread use; it powers Google's language translation service as well as its self-driving cars, the book and movie recommendations made on websites like Amazon and Netflix, and the potential matches suggested by online dating sites.

The idea that smart software will eventually begin to eat any job that consists primarily of tasks that are predicable requires only a fairly simple extrapolation that technology will only get better and better.

Many people remain very skeptical that progress will ever result in a significant unemployment problem. So far, history is on their side. The classic example of technological disruption is the mechanization of agriculture. In the United States, most people once worked on farms. Now the number is roughly 2% of the population. Millions of jobs were lost, and yet we are clearly better off; food is much cheaper and workers moved on to often more fulfilling jobs in other industries. The farm workers of yesteryear were able to transition into a rising manufacturing sector and later into service industries.

But it may be overly optimistic to expect that scenario to play out again in the face of today's technology. Unlike the specialized, mechanical innovations that transformed agriculture, today's information technology is truly general purpose, and it will ultimately bring sophisticated artificial intelligence and robotics capability to every industry and employment sector.

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France to invest in PH aerospace industry

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The EU country is also keen on exploring more opportunities in infrastructure, with several French firms already involved in PPP projects in the Philippines

MANILA, Philippines Exploratory talks are ongoing as France is eyeing prospects of investing in the aerospace industry of the Philippines.

France ambassador to the Philippines Gilles Garachon said in an interview there are exploratory talks on the private sector side, in time for the visit to the country of French President Francois Hollande.

The opportunities are seen in both the supply of aircraft parts, including maintenance, repair, and overhaul.

For instance, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is now working with Groupement des industries franaises aronautiques et spatiales (GIFAS), the French aerospace industry association, on initiatives that will improve the countrys capabilities as a supplier in the global aerospace supply chain.

The DTI had said the Philippines is well credentialed as leading companies like SDV, Lufthansa Technik, MOOG Technologies, and BE Aerospace have already given the country a foothold in the global aerospace supply chain.

Early this year, the Mouvement des entreprises de France (MEDEF, or the Movement of the Enterprises of France), early this year recently sent a business delegation where the Philippine government encouraged French investment, technology, and training in aerospace, including in the field of aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul, and logistics.

MEDEF was a 23-man mission composed of representatives from French companies involved in airport design and construction (Aroports de Paris, Vinci Airports); energy (Green Lighthouse); financial services (Crdit Agricole); infrastructure, transport, and public works (Citelum, Egis, SNC Lavalin, Systra, Vossloh Cogifer); (Socotec); shipbuilding (Ocea); and space technology (Collecte Localisation Satellite).

France is also looking into other industries like infrastructure, where private sector can partner with local firms, Garachon said.

French firms are already participating in some of the government's public-private partnership (PPP) projects.

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