苹果发布会 + 华航 + 中梵協議? + 郭宸玮

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(1) 苹果，你发布会上这是什么意思？  环球时报, Sept 13, 2018 (online time)
http://world.huanqiu.com/article/2018-09/13005645.html

Note: The presenter was Phil Schiller, senior vice president of worldwide marketing at Steve Jobs Theater in Apple's Cupertino, California campus.

(2) 麦燕庭, 华航字眼见不得？香港机管局一度改图删除. 法广, Sept 13, 2018
http://cn.rfi.fr/%E6%B8%AF%E6%BE ... E%E5%88%A0%E9%99%A4

is based on

Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) 香港國際機場, Sept 11, 2018.
https://www.facebook.com/hkairport.official/

Note:
(a) "The 747 entered service on January 22, 1970, on Pan Am's New York–London route * * * As of July 2018, 462 Boeing 747s are in airline service, with British Airways being the largest operator with 36 747-400s.  The last US passenger Boeing 747 was retired from Delta Air Lines in December 2017 * * * The aircraft entered the cultural lexicon as the original Jumbo Jet, a term coined by the aviation media to describe its size, and was also nicknamed Queen of the Skies."  en.wikipedia.org for "Boeing 747."
(b) David Slotnick, US Airlines Have Said Goodbye to the 747 — But These Foreign Airlines Still Fly the Iconic Plane. New York City: Business Insider, Jan 3, 2018
https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... ying-the-747-2018-1
("the one-time 'Queen of the Skies' has been slowly becoming obsolete. The double-decker, four-engine behemoth guzzles a lot of fuel, cutting into airline profitability. While later versions like the 747-8 have significantly improved efficiency over the earlier variations of the plane, it's tough to beat two-engine workhorses like the Boeing 777-300ER. Beyond that, twin-engine planes have become more capable than ever before to safely handle long-distance flights. * * * The first wide-body plane with two aisles in the cabin, the 747's range and capacity were great for ferrying passengers between large hubs * * * [but] smaller wide-body planes like the [twin-engine, single-aisle] Boeing 787 Dreamliner and the new [twin-engine, twin-aisle] Airbus A350 are better for those point-to-point routes. Even the latest variations of the [twin-engine, single-aisle] narrow-body 737 are flying across oceans.")
(i) en.wikipedia.org for "wide-body aircraft" says, "The typical [twin-aisle] fuselage diameter is 5 to 6 m (16 to 20 ft). The same for "narrow-body aircraft" says it has "a [single-aisle] cabin below 4 metres (13 ft) of width."
(ii) This report was written to commemorate Delta's sending its last Boeing 747 to Arizona 'boneyard,' after United had retired its 747 in November 2017.

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(3)
(a) 【社論】傳聞的中梵協議. 公教報 (天主教香港教區週報), Aug 19, 2018.
http://kkp.org.hk/node/17298
, which basically said nothing. It is unclear whether it will include resolution of disagreement on bishop anointment.
(b) China, Vatican Agreement Imminent: Taiwan Ministry. AFP, Sept 13, 2018
politics.com.ph/china-vatican-agreement-imminent-taiwan-ministry/
("The foreign ministry [of Taiwan] said it had obtained information from 'various sources' that an agreement between the Vatican and China on 'religious affairs' [教务协议, per Taiwan] was most likely to be signed in September or October")

(4) Jessica Miller, A Man Will Spend the Rest of His Life in Prison for Killing a University of Utah International Student. Salt Lake Tribune, Sept 13, 2018 (print date),
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2018/09/12/man-will-spend-rest-his/

Note:
(a) The deceased is Chenwei Guo 郭宸玮. He came to US in 2012 from Beijing. He had been a mormon since age 16 and served as a missionary in Provo, Utah (but I can not find out when). He was killed at 8:32 pm local time, on Oct 30, 2017. Kathleen Boutain reported to University of Utah campus about Colorado killing 33 minutes before campus security heard gunshots that killed Guo. Six more minutes later, the female passenger in Guo's car called to report the shooting. Police went, heard more gunshots (for the woman, it turned out), and met the woman on the way when she ran toward the police (it is unclear whether it is campus or city police). The woman has not been publicly identified. See  

Chilling New Insights into the Murder of University of Utah Student ChenWei Guo. Gephardt Daily (an online-only news website based in Salt Lake City), Nov 16, 2017.
https://gephardtdaily.com/breaki ... tudent-chenwei-guo/(b) Red Butte Garden and Arboretum
(b) Red Butte Garden and Arboretum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Butte_Garden_and_Arboretum
(operated by the University of Utah; is open year-round to the public; 150 acres at the [northern] mouth of Red Butte Canyon [with Red Butte Creek running through the Garden])
is on the northeastern corner/margin of a contiguous campus of University of Utah (including health sciences campus and hospital).