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DFW International Airport welcomed Aug. 26 the first of what will be three Air China Cargo freighter flights a week, bringing DFW additional cargo lift capa-bility to Shanghai and a new con-nection to a strategically important destination. The inaugural flight, a Boeing 747-400F freighter, was welcomed with DFW’s traditional “shower of affection” water cannon salute as it arrived at the Interna-tional Cargo Centre on the Air-port’s west side.

“We are extremely pleased to open new avenues of trade from Texas to China, so this is a big day for us,” said Jeff Fegan, CEO of DFW International Airport. “Chi-na continues to be a tremendously important market for DFW, and

this new Air China Cargo service certainly provides an excellent op-portunity for regional businesses to ship goods quickly.”

Air China Cargo, the largest freight carrier in China, will fly a route from Shanghai Pudong In-ternational Airport to Anchorage, then on to DFW, Chicago O’Hare, and back to Anchorage and Shang-hai. It will arrive at DFW on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays.

The new flights continue DFW’s impressive growth in its cargo busi-ness over the past decade, as Asian freighter business has grown over 11 percent annually since 2000.

China is DFW’s largest air cargo trading partner, with over 133,000 metric tonnes of air cargo shipped

Kate Hanni, Executive Director of Fly-ersRights.org, praised implementation of new Department of Transportation (DOT) airline passenger protections. Effective Aug. 23, international flights will fall under the same requirements as domestic flights as they will no longer be able keep passengers on the tarmac indefinitely. The new protections also

increase compensation from $650 and $1,300 depending on the length of the delay. Addi-tionally, the new rules provide that carriers must publish all fees for their optional servic-es, and provide for a refund of your baggage fees if your baggage is lost.

“Today represents another major victory for airline passengers as all commercial air-

lines operating in the U.S. will now fall under the 3 Hour Tarmac Rule while consumers will now enjoy a number of new common sense protections,” said Kate Hanni. “These improvements to the existing passenger rights regulations will help create account-ability and greater efficiency in commercial air travel.

“Perhaps best of all, these new rules that we have fought so hard for, will make sure that passengers will no longer be forced to pay for the privilege of having their luggage lost by an airline.”

For decades, the commercial airlines have successfully managed to convince the DOT

By Mary Harp ShanklesThe North Dallas Remote

Control Club (NDRCC) held its fourth annual Float Fly at Hid-den Cove along the shore of Lake Lewisville. The NDRCC Float Fly was fun in the sun, on the shore and before it was too hot.

Overall the consensus was that the Float Fly was a great success in spite of the hot temperatures. There were 25 registered pilots, but more in attendance. Members of the North Dallas Remote Con-trol entered planes ranging in sizes from electric foamies on floats to .80 size twins kit bashed semi scales Catalina’s to 80cc Bearcat on floats and other planes entered were identified as “the crazy 1/2 boat 1/2 planes flying on glow and big gas.” Among those were turbine, gasoline and Li-Po powered models. It is up to each individual member to examine his or her flight plan.

Even with the familiar high temps, the thrill and challenge of the Fly Float was first on members’

minds, so not everyone brought water or beverages to keep themselves hydrated. Sitting center stage was one of the largest ice chest coolers a club can handle, with thanks to Don Hafer who supplied the drinks and the big cooler. Hafer was looking out for the members, knowing very well how they

Remote control club holds Float Fly rally

Photo by Mary Harp ShanklesMembers of the North Dallas Radio Control Club prepare their planes for the club’s annual Float Fly event.

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Asian freight carrier begins service from DFW to Shanghai

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Passenger rights limiting delays now applies to international flights

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get so caught up in the sport that the basic need to be re-hydrated can be neglected.

The experienced members of the NDRCC will train the beginner from the very basic to the intermediate. Many members have been with the club for more than ten years.

Among the honorable mentions, spe-cial thanks to Billy Slater for his great support; former Vice President Jacques Parker for great support and his endless scary travel stories. Also special thanks to Alan Buckner for jumping in for Charlie to be Contest Director last Saturday on short notice.

Safety is an important factor to remote controlled aircraft much like it is in the aviation industry. Thanks and appreciation was expressed to Dr. Bruce who inspected the runway for anything that could be and would pose as a foreign object, which could trip or injure persons or damage their fly floats.

In October, the NDRCC will host the Pattern Classic Contest. Dave Cotton says Pattern Flying is fun but the members said not to take his word for it, but come, bring a plane and fly in the Basic Class.

There are over 200 members in the North Dallas Remote Control Club. The NDRCC has moved their meetings to a more social atmosphere at Obzeet Restau-rant Located at 19020 Preston Road, Dal-las, Texas, 972-867-6126.

Heavenly HumorA Jewish Rabbi and a Catholic

Priest met at the town’s an-nual 4th of July picnic. Old

friends, they began their usual banter.“This baked ham is really deli-

cious,” the priest teased the rabbi. “You really ought to try it. I know it’s against your religion, but I can’t understand why such a wonder-ful food should be forbidden! You don’t know what you’re missing. You just haven’t lived until you’ve tried Mrs. Hall’s prized Virginia Baked

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ing to break down and try it?”The rabbi looked at the priest

with a big grin, and said, “At your wedding.”

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good vocabulary, the teacher told her young charges, “Use a word ten times, and it shall be yours for life.”

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The independent Swiss agency “Air Trans-port Rating Agency” is providing the new sci-entific “holistic safety rating” for commercial airlines.

Although the European Union publishes a “black list” of dangerous airlines, there are real differences in terms of safety among the other airlines belonging to the “white list”. The Swiss rating agency Air Transport Rating Agency has used a scientific multi-criteria analysis ap-proach that takes into account the complex-ity of airlines organizations in order to obtain results which are tangible, meaningful and that can be reproduced: the ATRA holistic safety rating.

Most of safety rankings are based on one single criteria which is accident statistics. This approach is very limited because accident rates are fortunately extremely low in commercial aviation and unable to derive any valid statis-tical interpretations beyond simple descriptive information. Indeed, the analysis of air disasters very often shows an accumulation of technical, human, organizational and external causes.

“Highly experienced pilots can handle

technical and external problems very well; conversely flights without technical or external problems can go very well with very inexpe-rienced pilots. However, the combination of technical or external problems and inexpe-rienced pilots can be disastrous.” said Jean-Pierre Otelli, aviation safety expert.

Unfortunately, conjunction of very rare fac-tors can occurred with any carriers and one single accident significantly impact company reputations. The innovative approach of the ATRA holistic safety rating takes into account airlines organizational parameters which con-tribute to general safety, without being neces-sarily directly attributed to safety management.

Using publicly available data sources, Air Transport Rating Agency has selected 15 criteria directly or indirectly contributing to flight safety. Quantitative parameters (such as the average age of the fleet) or qualitative pa-rameters (such as the homogeneity of the fleet) were subjected to a multi-criteria mathemati-cal analysis in order to generate a synthetic indicator and to present a meaningful holistic safety rating.

Like any unsolic-ited rating agencies, full detailed rating and competitive data report are available for professionals (airlines, insurance companies, financial analysts, etc.) from Air Transport Rating Agency. Technical report includes Air-lines cluster analyses, correlations between selected parameters, multi-criteria rating calculations, etc. Special requests for ad hoc analyses are also possible such as advanced multi-criteria analyses of internal databases, sub-ratings by type of airlines, market or geo-graphical area, experts’ reports, etc.

From a dataset of the 100 most important airlines, 44 airlines met the inclusion criteria for the multi-criteria analysis.

Source: Air Transport Rating Agency

Airline safety ranked in ‘holistic’ survey2011 Top 10 Airlines(in alphabetical order): n Air France-KLMn AMR Corp. (American Airlines/ American Eagles)n British Airwaysn Continental Airlinesn Delta Airlinesn Japan Airlinesn Lufthansan Southwest Airlinesn United Airlines n US Airways

Truckers urge repeal of toll hike American Trucking Associations leader Bill

Graves recently called on Govs. Chris Chris-tie of New Jersey and Andrew Cuomo of New York to reconsider an “ill-conceived and un-precedented” toll hike, which was recently ap-proved at their request.’

“We urge you to veto this proposal, which will not only devastate trucking companies who serve the New York City area, but will also increase the cost of doing business in a region already regarded as among the most expensive in the nation,” he wrote.

In his letter, Graves said the proposed tolls will be nearly three times higher than for com-parable bridges nationwide.

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in 2010. Almost half of DFW’s imports from China consist of communications equipment (cel-lular phones, televisions, radios and components), while the Dallas-Fort Worth region exports numerous commodity groups including high technology and oil & gas explora-tion equipment to China.

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Upon arrival the officer made contact with the driver who admit-ted to failing to stop for a red light and struck another vehicle. The driver admitted to drinking prior to the accident. It was determined the driver was intoxicated and was placed under arrest for Intoxication Assault.

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D.W.i.8/21/11 at 3:15 a.m. While in

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Delta orders 100 planes from Boeing

Delta Air Lines announced Aug. 25 plans to purchase 100 Boe-ing 737-900ER aircraft for delivery between 2013 and 2018 as it retires older mainline jets and upgrades its fleet.

The order will enable Delta to add 100 fuel-efficient, state-of-the-art 180-seat aircraft to its fleet, re-placing on a capacity-neutral basis older technology aircraft that will be retired from the fleet. The new aircraft will improve the company’s profitability while providing cus-tomers with an industry-leading on-board experience. With a range of 3,200 nautical miles, the Boeing 737-900ER can operate on any do-mestic route offered by Delta.

“A key component of Delta’s strategy is making prudent invest-ments for the future while main-taining our financial and capacity discipline,” said Richard Ander-son, Delta’s chief executive officer. “With this next-generation Boeing aircraft, we can give our customers a superior in-flight experience while at the same time improving our shareholder returns.

“I want to commend all the manufacturers who participated in this process. Their innovation in developing fleet solutions for the future resulted in several very com-petitive proposals.”

Delta will begin taking deliver-ies of the aircraft in the second half of 2013, with 12 aircraft in 2013, 19 aircraft per year in 2014 through 2017, and the remaining 12 aircraft in 2018. Each aircraft has commit-ted long-term financing.

The size and timing of the order will allow Delta to maintain its an-nual capital expenditure run rate between$1.2 billion and $1.4 bil-lion over the next three years and will not impact the company’s $1.2 billion of capital expenditures pro-jected for 2011. Capital discipline is key to the company achieving its $10 billion adjusted net debt target by 2013.

As a result of maintenance ef-ficiencies and a 15 to 20 percent improvement in fuel consumption per seat, the Boeing 737-900ER will have lower unit costs than the older technology Boeing 757 and 767 and Airbus A320 aircraft that it will replace. The aircraft will be equipped with CFM56-7B engines produced by CFM International, a joint venture of General Elec-tric Co. of the U.S. and Snecma of France.

“With significant savings from increased fuel efficiency and lower maintenance costs, these aircraft will be cash flow positive and earn-ings accretive from the first year of operation,” Anderson said.

Delta is more than halfway through a $2 billion, three-year in-vestment to enhance the customer experience as a means of generating a unit revenue premium to the in-dustry. The investments include im-provements to Delta’s fleet, facilities and technology.

Source: Delta Air Lines

Boeing Corp.Delta says its new planes will improve profitability.

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to police themselves when it comes to how they treat passengers. DOT data has proven beyond any doubt that the DOT Passengers Rights rules, including the 3 Hour Rule, are in fact market-based and have actually made the airlines more ef-ficient. These new rules should also prove to be a major benefit to con-

sumers, while serving to enhance the long term health of the industry.

While celebrating the imple-mentation of the new rules, Fly-ersRights.org also expressed disap-pointment that the DOT’s plans to delay until January other key provi-sions of their rulemaking, including requirements to publish all fees and taxes as part of the fare, rapid pas-senger notification of flight status changes, and requiring airlines and

ticket sellers hold reservations for 24 hours before requiring purchase.

“We look forward to new rules which will afford consumers much great transparency and better infor-mation when they travel - allowing the marketplace to operate more cleanly and efficiently,” said Hanni. “We are hopeful the DOT will con-sider putting them into effect before the holiday travel season this year.”

Source: FlyersRights.org

United launches paperless flight deck

United Continental Holdings, Inc. announced Aug. 23 that it is converting to paperless flight decks and deploying 11,000 iPads to all United and Continental pilots. The electronic flight bags (EFB) replace paper flight manuals, and as a first for major network carriers, provide pilots with paperless aeronautical navigational charts through an iPad app. Distribution of iPads began earlier this month, and all pilots will have them by year end.

“The paperless flight deck repre-sents the next generation of flying,” said Captain Fred Abbott, United’s senior vice president of flight op-erations. “The introduction of iPads ensures our pilots have essential and real-time information at their fingertips at all times throughout the flight.”

The iPads are loaded with Jeppe-sen Mobile FliteDeck, the indus-try’s premier app featuring interac-tive, data-driven enroute navigation information and worldwide geo-referenced terminal charts. The en-hanced full-color, high-quality in-formation display ensures the right information is displayed at the right time.

Each iPad, which weighs less than 1.5 pounds, will replace ap-proximately 38 pounds of paper operating manuals, navigation charts, reference handbooks, flight

checklists, logbooks and weather information in a pilot’s flight bag. A conventional flight bag full of paper materials contains an average of 12,000 sheets of paper per pilot. The green benefits of moving to EFBs are two-fold—it significantly reduces paper use and printing, and, in turn, reduces fuel consumption. The airline projects EFBs will save nearly 16 million sheets of paper a year which is equivalent to more than 1,900 trees not cut down. Sav-ing 326,000 gallons of jet fuel a year reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 3,208 metric tons.

With iPad, pilots are able to

quickly and efficiently access ref-erence material without having to thumb through thousands of sheets of paper and reduce clutter on the flight deck. United and Continen-tal pilots’ work will be streamlined as they can immediately download updates on iPad to their electronic flight materials, rather than waiting for paper updates to be printed and distributed. In addition, by elimi-nating bulky flight bags loaded with paper, pilots will have less to lift and carry through airports and onboard the aircraft, reducing the risk of in-jury while on duty.Source: United Continental Holdings, Inc

Americans rank cleanliness (43 percent) over security (11 per-cent) as the most important factor in selecting a hotel, according to a survey conducted on behalf of the Chubb Group of Insurance Com-panies. Price and location were top factors for 23 percent and 19 per-cent of respondents, respectively.

The survey also showed that 84 percent of Americans would not refrain from traveling for business on Sep. 11, 2011, the 10-year anni-versary of the 9/11 terrorist attack. Fewer than one in five of Ameri-cans are fearful of flying on Sep. 11, while only 16 percent are fear-ful about flying on an airplane on a national holiday.

“Travelers should take safety precautions more seriously, and travel security should be higher on their checklist than cleanliness,” said Jim Villa, a senior vice presi-dent and North American manager for Chubb’s Accident & Health

business. “It seems that more peo-ple are concerned about housekeep-ing than security.”

In other survey findings:n Nearly one-third of respondents would be concerned about being near a nuclear power plant on Sept 11;n 22 percent would avoid a chemical plant;n 18 percent would avoid entering a sports stadium or entertainment venue with a large crowd of people;n 16 percent would be concerned about being near an oil refinery;n 13 percent would be concerned about being near a military base;n 14 percent would not take a cruise;n 11 percent would not take a train; andn 9 percent would avoid taking a ferry.

Chubb’s survey of 1,000 partici-pants was conducted by Opinion Research Corporation, an indepen-dent public opinion and market re-search firm, in June 2011.

Source: Chubb Group of Insurance Cos.

Americans pick cleanliness over hotel security in survey

(PRNewsFoto/United Continental Holdings, Inc.)United announced that it is converting to paperless flight decks and deploying 11,000 iPads to all United and Continental pilots.

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By Sgt. Kellena H. Leech Roughly 47, 000 U.S. troops re-

main in Iraq in support of Operation New Dawn. A small portion of those are Marines. Among those Marines, there is a select group of men and women who have left their civilian lives behind to join in sustaining daily military operations to closeout the war in Iraq. They are the United States Marine Corps Reserve.

Ninety-five years ago this week, the Marine Corps Reserve took its place in history, as it was estab-lished as the eighth component of the U.S. armed forces. Since then, the Reserve has become the larg-est command in the Marine Corps, and has served in every U.S. foreign conflict since its start in 1916.

“There are only about 90 Ma-rines in Iraq at this time,” said Maj. Jeffery Reichman, a reservist and plans officer with United States Forces- Iraq. “The Marine mission has gone, but we each continue to contribute proudly here to the USF-I mission.”

In lieu of the U.S. military draw-down in Iraq, the need for combat troops was replaced with a mission

to rebuild and revitalize this country. “Most reservists are Marines

who have completed their time on active duty, but continue to serve,” said Reichman. “They’ve deployed already. They have the experience.”

The Marines deployed to Iraq are now lending their expertise to ensure the successful transfer of au-thority from U.S. to Iraqi military forces.

“The impact and the opportuni-ties the Marine Corps has provided to me are amazing, “ said Reich-man, a native of Keokuk, IA. “There is not an organization that I could be more proud to be a member of. “

Upon the completion of their tour of duty, most reservists will pack their bags and head home to a civilian life. Unlike their active-duty colleagues, reservists will return and train one weekend a month, two weeks a year to remain combat-ready.

“Being in the Reserve, it’s a different set of challenges,” said Reichman. But once we’re in coun-try, we’re all Marines.”

The few, the proud; the ready, relevant, and sustainable, Marine Corps Reserve.

Afghan Air Force reaches milestone in training program

Defense Technology Inc. an-nounced Aug 24 that they com-pleted teaching one year of Mi-17 intermediate level maintenance training for the Afghan Air Force. Over thirty Afghan soldiers have now graduated from the class and are ready to lead maintenance teams in the field.

Under the leadership of the USAF 440th Air Expedition-ary Squadron, these classes were designed to provide experienced maintenance personnel with a re-fresher of OEM maintenance tech-niques and added theory to assist with trouble shooting.

The senior Afghan maintainers have a strong level of experience, but most have not had OEM-type training in 20 years.

“These courses have helped in-crease the knowledge of our Mi-17 maintainers and will improve the maintenance posture of our (Af-

ghan) Air Force in general,” said Colonel Abdul Shafi, commander of the Afghan Aviation Mainte-nance Group. “Graduates must ap-ply what they have learned in the course to their responsibilities in maintaining the helicopters on the

flight line.”The DTI training team, led by

Bryon Kreck, received letters of ap-preciation from Afghan Air Force Lt. Gen. Abdul Wahab for their ex-ceptional service.

Source: Defense Technology Inc.

PRNewsFoto/Defense Technology Inc.Afghan Soldiers Graduate from Mi-17 Maintenance Training - DTI photo.

Marines in Iraq celebrate birthday of Corps Reserve

The GBTA Foundation, the research arm of the Global Business Travel Association, released a com-prehensive report Aug. 23 analyzing the current state of global business travel spend and growth projections over the next five years. The study reveals that business travel spending around the world increased 8.4 percent in 2010, after falling 7.8 percent in 2009. Global spend-ing on business travel is projected to grow another 9.2 percent in 2011 to just over $1 trillion.

According to the study, the global economic recov-ery is occurring at two different speeds and that is re-flected in the recovery of global business travel. Com-pound annual growth in business travel spending in Brazil, Russia, India and China is projected to grow two to three times faster than in developed economies like the U.S., France, Germany and the U.K:

projecTeD GroWTh in BuSineSS TrAvel SpenDinG, 2011-2015 Taking Off Cruising Altitude China – 11.2 percent UK – 5.4 percent India – 10.8 percent U.S. – 3.8 percent Russia – 7.1 percent France – 3.3 percent Brazil – 7.0 percent Germany – 2.9 percent

“The recovery is happening, it’s just not happening as quickly as most people would like,” said Michael W. McCormick, GBTA executive director. “Several coun-tries are seeing the rebound happen at a much faster and more stable pace, and we’re seeing that in the pace

of business travel spending in the economies of China, India, Russia and Brazil. We’re still bullish on business travel and all signs point towards continued growth.”

Global business travel has advanced faster and far-ther than expected a year ago. The industry has benefit-ed by the combination of a number of positive factors that have allowed it to recover.

First, corporate balance sheets and profits have been strong due, in part, to the stringent cost controls put in place during the “Great Recession.” In fact, a 2010 GBTA Foundation study (ROI Refresh: Travel as a Competitive Advantage) actually found that travel budget cuts were more aggressive (relative to sales) during the recession than sales losses would routinely dictate. This contributed to a release of pent-up de-mand once the recovery got underway.

Second, the recovery in global trade growth dramat-ically boosted international business trips.

Finally, travel inflation, particularly in air fares, is contributing to the rebound in travel spend.

Rapid growth in the developing world is juxtaposed with troubles with debt, real estate, and a slowdown in consumption in the developed world. New patterns of consumption, a relative change in the volume of major trade routes, and industrial innovation have begun to shape a new world order in the patterns, volume, and regional distribution of global business travel.

Another key determinant will be the volume and pattern of international trade.

Source: GBTA Foundation

Business travel spending on the rise

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A rare East Coast earthquake and the threat of a hurricane didn’t deter 658 New York-area kids and adult chaperones on Aug. 26 from breaking a Guinness World Records® title for “Most people bouncing tennis balls on ten-nis racquets in one location.” This “smashed” the previous record of 383 set in England in 2006.

The event at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, home of the US Open, was spon-sored by Wilson Racquet Sports, the Official Ball of the US Open. In addition to dozens of volun-teers, the feat was mentored by number one American tennis pro Mardy Fish, and top ranked Ger-man woman Andrea Petkovic. Both achieved their fame using Wilson tennis racquets.

All participants were asked to simply bounce a ball on their rac-quet for 10 seconds – a drill called “ups.”

Each received a Wilson Junior racquet and a tennis ball to encour-age them to continue to play tennis in the future.

“With a fun introduction to ten-nis in their early years, the sport can become a lifetime passion for

many kids today, and not just on the competitive level,” said Mike Steck, Global Director of Market-ing for Wilson Racquet Sports. “Few sports offer as much in terms of pure physical exercise, condition-ing, and social interaction with fel-low players.”

“Tennis is more than a spectator sport,” Fish said. “Its low cost of en-try mean kids can play at school or in local parks or recreation centers. I hope today’s event provided them with the inspiration to stay in the game.”

Source: Wilson

PRNewsFoto/Wilson, Patrick McDermottNew York-area kids set a Guinness World Records title for “Most people bouncing tennis balls on tennis racquets in one location.” The event was mentored by top ranked German woman player Andrea Petkovic (center left) and top American tennis pro Mardy Fish (center right).

Kids break Guinness World Record

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Economic growth in the U.S. over the next 12 months is expected to decline to around 2.0 percent, significantly lower than the 3.1 per-cent predicted as late as June 2011,

according to the proprietary macro-economic model of Mellon Capital Management. The slower growth expectation is discussed in a recent white paper from Mellon Capital,

“Impact from the Recent Turmoil: A Macroeconomic Outlook.”

The report attributes the lower growth forecast in the U.S. to the impact of the uncertainty of gov-ernment policies during a soft eco-nomic patch. The weakening eco-nomic outlook, in Mellon Capital’s view, could limit earnings growth for the companies comprising the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index to approximately 6.8 percent over the next 12 months, well below the consensus forecast of 14.1 percent. Mellon Capital also warns that de-teriorating conditions in the Euro-zone could pose a threat to financial markets.

“While our models are forecast-ing earnings well below the consen-sus, the situation appears to be far better than 2008, when, according to our model, the probability for negative gross domestic product (GDP) growth rose to 30 percent before the Lehman failure,” said Jonathan Xiong, managing direc-tor and global investment strategist in Mellon Capital’s global asset al-location group. “This time, even if U.S. GDP growth falls to zero per-cent, we believe the companies in the S&P 500 should post earnings gains since they derive nearly half of their earnings from outside the U.S.”

Looking at the Eurozone, Mel-lon Capital suggests the lack of a long-term solution to the debt problem may result in a prolonged period of uncertainty that ultimate-ly ends with the restructuring of the debt in certain peripheral nations.

“We believe the sovereign crisis in Europe represents a much larger and more complicated structural is-sue than the U.S. debt downgrade or austerity plans,” said Xiong. “While the recent actions by the European Central Bank to purchase bonds in Italy and Spain seem to have eased short-term uncertainty, we do not believe this is a long-term solution to resolving the sovereign debt is-sues in Europe.”

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Two studies appearing in the Aug. 25 issue of the journal Nature provide new insights into a cosmic accident that has been streaming X-rays toward Earth since late March. NASA’s Swift satellite first alerted astronomers to intense and unusual high-energy flares from the new source in the constellation Draco.

“Incredibly, this source is still producing X-rays and may remain bright enough for Swift to observe into next year,” said David Burrows, professor of astronomy at Penn State University and lead scientist for the mission’s X-Ray Telescope instrument. “It behaves unlike any-thing we’ve seen before.”

Astronomers soon realized the source, known as Swift J1644+57, was the result of a truly extraordi-nary event -- the awakening of a distant galaxy’s dormant black hole as it shredded and consumed a star. The galaxy is so far away, it took the light from the event approximately 3.9 billion years to reach earth.

Burrows’ study included NASA scientists. It highlights the X- and gamma-ray observations from Swift and other detectors, includ-ing the Japan-led Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image (MAXI) instru-ment aboard the International Space Station.

The second study was led by Ashley Zauderer, a post-doctoral fellow at the Harvard-Smithso-nian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, MA. It examines the unprecedented outburst through observations from numerous ground-based radio observatories, including the National Radio As-tronomy Observatory’s Expanded Very Large Array (EVLA) near Socorro, NM.

Most galaxies, including our own, possess a central supersized black hole weighing millions of times the sun’s mass. According to the new studies, the black hole in the galaxy hosting Swift J1644+57 may be twice the mass of the four-million-solar-mass black hole in the center of the Milky Way galaxy. As a star falls toward a black hole, it is ripped apart by intense tides. The gas is corralled into a disk that swirls around the black hole and becomes rapidly heated to temper-

atures of millions of degrees.The innermost gas in the disk

spirals toward the black hole, where rapid motion and magnetism create dual, oppositely directed “funnels” through which some particles may escape. Jets driving matter at ve-locities greater than 90 percent the speed of light form along the black hole’s spin axis.

In the case of Swift J1644+57, one of these jets happened to point straight at Earth.

“The radio emission occurs when the outgoing jet slams into the in-terstellar environment,” Zauderer explained. “By contrast, the X-rays arise much closer to the black hole, likely near the base of the jet.”

Theoretical studies of tidally dis-rupted stars suggested they would appear as flares at optical and ul-traviolet energies. The brightness and energy of a black hole’s jet is greatly enhanced when viewed head-on. The phenomenon, called relativistic beaming, explains why Swift J1644+57 was seen at X-ray energies and appeared so strikingly luminous.

When first detected March 28, the flares were initially assumed to signal a gamma-ray burst, one of the nearly daily short blasts of

high-energy radiation often asso-ciated with the death of a massive star and the birth of a black hole in the distant universe. But as the emission continued to brighten and flare, astronomers realized that the most plausible explanation was the tidal disruption of a sun-like star seen as beamed emission.

By March 30, EVLA observa-tions by Zauderer’s team showed a brightening radio source centered on a faint galaxy near Swift’s po-sition for the X-ray flares. These data provided the first conclusive evidence that the galaxy, the radio source and the Swift event were linked.

“Our observations show that the radio-emitting region is still expanding at more than half the speed of light,” said Edo Berger, an associate professor of astrophysics at Harvard and a coauthor of the radio paper. “By tracking this ex-pansion backward in time, we can confirm that the outflow formed at the same time as the Swift X-ray source.”

Swift, launched in Novem-ber 2004, is managed by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD. It is operated in collaboration with Penn State, the

Los Alamos National Labora-tory in N.M. and Orbital Sciences Corp., in Dulles, Va., with inter-national collaborators in the U.K., Italy, Germany and Japan. MAXI

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Title: Our Idiot BrotherRated: R

Every family has one; that relative that always seems to be the topic of dinner discussion and whose name is usually ac-

companied by a head shake or eye roll. In the new adult comedy Our Idiot Brother, we are in-troduced to a character who means well, but al-ways seems to get it all wrong.

Ned (Paul Rudd) is a simple man who loves to think the best of people. To call him a naïve person would be like calling the Grand Canyon a small hole.

He isn’t mentally challenged as much as he is just socially inept. He is a child in many ways, floating through life and try-ing to just stay happy. After being released

from jail (for a crime that was all heart and no brain) he bounces around to each of his three sisters, driving them crazy and nearly ruining their lives.

Rudd does a great job with the role, but sadly the writing has little continuity for the character. One minute Ned is doing something that is simply a bad choice, and then follows it up by doing something that no one legally sane would do. So you nev-er know if he is just big hearted or a true idiot. He could have been endearing had the writers focused more on the decisions that had heart but bad timing. Instead you always get the sense that he is disjointed and the emotions never click.

His three sisters, played nicely by Eliza-beth Banks, Zooey Deschanel, and Emily Mortimer, are all so much more dysfunc-tional than Ned is. They think he is the idiot when really he is just stating the ob-vious things in their lives that they are try-ing to sweep under the rug or run from. This would be annoying for anyone. In the

end, it is up to them to realize that blood is thicker than water and family always has to come first.

Our Idiot Brother is rated R for sexual content including nudity, and for language throughout. It is certainly an adult comedy. The three sisters drop the F bomb like a game of space invaders. There are affairs, adult dialogue and a few openly homo-sexual relationships. If this isn’t your cup of comedic tea, then I would suggest looking elsewhere for entertainment. If you want a mid level comedy in which Rudd delivers as best as he can, and you have money to burn then I would say go for it.

The cast is solid and they do a lot with the little they are given. I give it 2.5 out of 5 shoulder shrugs.

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AAA forecasts 31.5 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more from home during the Labor Day holiday weekend, a 2.4 percent decrease from the 32.3 million people who traveled one year ago. The La-bor Day holiday travel period is defined as Sep. 1 to 5.

“AAA is projecting a decrease in the number of Labor Day travelers as some Americans react to recent economic un-certainty and increasing air fares,” said Glen MacDonell, director, AAA Travel Services. “While automobile travel is ex-pected to increase slightly, if recent de-clines in gasoline prices continue through Labor Day, we could see an increase in last-minute holiday weekend travel.”

The decrease in expected travelers is a result of a mixed economic outlook, con-sumer uncertainty regarding the overall economy, and recent downturns in eco-nomic factors that affect discretionary in-come, which is particularly relevant to the travel and tourism industry. Real dispos-able income is up just 1.3 percent, which is being offset by the travel price index rising 6.7 percent since last year, due primarily to rising transportation costs. The housing market remains depressed, with new and existing home prices down 2.4 percent and 3.4 percent, respectively.

AAA’s projections are based on eco-nomic forecasting and research by IHS

Global Insight. The Boston-based eco-nomic research and consulting firm teamed with AAA in 2009 to jointly analyze travel trends during the major holidays.

Approximately 27.3 million people (87 percent of holiday travelers) plan to take to the nation’s roadways this Labor Day holiday weekend. This is a slight increase of 0.5 percent from the 27.2 million Labor Day2010 auto travelers, and a three per-cent increase in the share of total holiday travelers from last year’s 84 percent. Auto-mobile travel remains the dominant mode of holiday transportation.

Almost 2.5 million leisure travelers (eight percent of holiday travelers) will fly during the Labor Day holiday weekend, a 1.9 percent decrease from 2010. Ris-ing fuel costs, combined with steady air travel demand, have resulted in rising air-fares, which are expected to be 13 percent higher than last year. The average lowest round-trip rate is $202 for the top 40 U.S. air routes. Increasing airfares and fees are factors contributing to the decline in air travel, the first expected decline for a major travel holiday in 2011 as forecast by AAA.

Other modes of travel (trains, water-craft, multi-modal travel) will make up the remaining five percent of total person-trips (1.7 million travelers), down from the 2010 share of eight percent, but well above the four percent seen in 2009. Travel

via these modes is extremely volatile from year to year, with 2011’s 34 percent decline in expected travelers falling well within historical averages. These modes are more highly utilized by those within lower in-come brackets, and as such, are highly sensitive to changes in disposable income as well as the travelers’ confidence in the economy and their finances. Consumer confidence has been trending down in recent months, and the share of travelers from the lower income bracket is expected to decline from 41 percent in 2010 to 37 percent in 2011.

Hotel rates for AAA Three Diamond lodgings are expected to increase six per-cent from one year ago with travelers spending an average of $148 per night compared to $139 last year. Travelers plan-ning to stay at AAA Two Diamond hotels can expect to pay eight percent more at an average cost of $110 per night. Weekend daily car rental rates will average $43, a seven percent decrease from one year ago.

According to a survey of traveler in-tentions, the average distance traveled by Americans during the Labor Day holiday weekend is expected to be 608 miles, only slightly less than last year’s average travel distance of 635 miles. Median spending is expected to be $702, largely unchanged from $697 last year.

Source: AAA

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FUN AND GAMESSuperior security rating achieved by Lockheed Martin

The Fort Worth location of Lockheed Martin Aeronautics recently earned a Superior rating in an annual audit by the U.S. Defense Security Service (DSS). The DSS, an agency of the De-partment of Defense, completed an extensive two-week review in August that encompassed all areas of collateral classified pro-grams at the facility.

DSS has responsibility for approximately 12,000 cleared contractor facilities. Of them, fewer than five percent dem-onstrate Superior performance, which is the highest rating for an industrial security program. According to the DSS, the Fort Worth facility is among the larg-est and most complex that un-dergo this type of review.

“It is a recognition that we’re proud and honored to receive,” said Steve Wheeler, director of Security for Aeronautics. “In to-day’s environment, where threats come from so many directions, a Superior rating is particularly meaningful to both our compa-ny and our employees as we all remain engaged in the mission of protecting our technology and safeguarding our informa-tion.”

The DSS reported no seri-ous findings and no repeat find-ings from the 2010 review, dur-ing which the facility received a Commendable rating. They also noted the significant scope of the Counterintelligence Pro-gram in place and the ongoing improvements in classified com-puter security.

Fort Worth is Aeronautics’ headquarters and the home of the F-35 and F-16 programs, among other business activities. The site has 15,000 employees, more than 680 acres and over 150 separate buildings at its op-erations.

Source: Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company

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