Carolina on the wing USC, Boeing forge aerospace research partnership BY SUSANNE M. SCHAFER The Associated Press
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COLUMBIA — Boeing and University of South Carolina have announced a long-term research agreement that its leaders said will produce new and innovative technologies for the aerospace industry as well as the engineers to foster them. University President Harris Pastides and Boeing Chief Technology Officer John Tracy made the announcement Thursday at the school’s McNair Center for
aerospace research in Columbia. Boeing is expected to invest up to $5 million during the life of the agreement. The money should pay for up to two dozen research projects that are expected to improve Boeing’s products, officials said. The projects will focus on such things as new ways to use carbon fiber composite materials, finding improved techniques for fusing aircraft parts and improving the efficiency of structures through automated manufacturing. Boeing is the world’s largest
aerospace firm. Its workers assemble the company’s 787 Dreamliner aircraft at its 740-acre facility in North Charleston. About 6,000 people are employed at the complex. It also opened a research center in North Charleston that focuses on composite fuselage and propulsion production. The McNair Center is named in honor of the late space shuttle Challenger astronaut Ronald McNair, a South Carolina native killed in the 1986 explosion of the
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Demo Day focuses on resources available to minority entrepreneurs BY ADRIENNE SARVIS adrienne@theitem.com According to two representatives of the Sumter area, the statewide meeting that was held in Columbia on Tuesday regarding inclusive entrepreneurship could lead to increased opportunities for minority entrepreneurs in South Carolina. The meeting was held in conjunction with the first-ever White House Demo Day, during which entrepreneurs pitched their ideas to the president and venture capital-
ists. Demo Day focused on celebrating minority entrepreneurs. In South Carolina, entrepreneurs and representatives of entrepreneur support organizations met to discuss ways to amplify opportunities for minority entrepreneurs throughout the state. Brenda Golden, South Carolina Department of Commerce Regional Workforce adviser for Sumter, Clarendon, Kershaw and Lee counties, said there were about 30 people, including herself, representing a variety of organizations during
the meeting earlier this week. It was encouraging to see how our state pulled together to build this segment of our economy, Golden said, referring to minorityowned businesses. She said many perspectives were represented, and a lot of information was shared regarding economic markets in different areas in the state. Golden hopes to localize the best practices that were shared in
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Remembering Hiroshima, Nagasaki Japan marks 70th anniversary of atomic bombings HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Japan marked the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Thursday with Mayor Kazumi Matsui renewing calls for U.S. President Obama and other world leaders to step up efforts toward making a nuclear-weapons-free world. Tens of thousands of people stood for a minute of silence THE ASSOCIATED PRESS at 8:15 a.m. at a ceremony in Members of a rightist group offer silent prayers for the victims of the Hiroshima’s peace park near atomic bombing with anti-U.S. banners near the U.S. Embassy in the epicenter of the 1945 atTokyo on Thursday. Japan marked the 70th anniversary of the atomic tack, marking the moment of bombing of Hiroshima on Thursday. A banner, left, reads “Is U.S. righ- the blast. Then dozens of doves were released as a symteous? Human rights? Don’t make a fool of victims!”
bol of peace. The U.S. bomb, “Little Boy,” the first nuclear weapon used in war, killed 140,000 people. A second bomb, “Fat Man,” dropped over Nagasaki three days later, killed another 70,000, prompting Japan’s surrender in World War II. The U.S. dropped the bombs to avoid what would have been a bloody ground assault on the Japanese mainland after the fierce battle for Japan’s southernmost Okinawan islands, which took 12,520 American lives and an estimated 200,000 Japanese, about half civilians. Matsui called nuclear weapons “the absolute evil and ultimate inhumanity” that must be abolished and criticized nuclear powers for
keeping them as threats to achieve their national interests. He said the world still bristles with more than 15,000 nuclear weapons. He renewed an invitation to world leaders to visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki to see the scars themselves during the G-7 summit in Japan next year. “President Obama and other policy makers, please come to the A-bombed cities, hear the hibakusha (surviving victims) with your own ears and encounter the reality of the atomic bombings,” he said. “Surely, you will be impelled to start discussing a legal framework, including a nuclear weapons convention.”
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