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1 BUSINESSCONTACT US: 582-1502 | SUBMIT BUSINESS | INSIDE: Stock market roundup, C10| |C12 BRIEFSBUSINESS BEAT BLOGKeep up on Tri-City businessnews at Herald staff and news servicesScientist in custody inseed theft conspiracyLITTLE ROCK, Ark. Afederal judge in Arkansas hasordered an agricultural scien-tist from China who is accusedof conspiring to steal seeds toremain in Yan of Stuttgart,Ark., and Weiqiang Zhang ofManhattan, Kan., are accusedof conspiring to steal seedsfrom a research facility inKansas and pass them to aChinese delegation that visitedthe United States this judge in Little Rockordered Yan to remain in cus-tody Friday. Zhang has a hear-ing set for Tuesday in Kansas. Yan and Zhang are chargedwith conspiracy to steal Airlines settles 9 11lawsuitFORT WORTH, Texas American Airlines and itsinsurers have settled a long-running legal battle withfinancial-services firm CantorFitzgerald, which lost 658employees when terroristscrashed a hijacked airlinerinto the World Trade of the settlementwere not disclosed when theagreement was announced infederal court in New Fitzgerald had soughtalmost $ billion in damagesabove insurance New York Times reportedthat the firm later reduced itsdemand to between $400 mil-lion and $500 million.

2 Thecase had been scheduled fortrial in 2001, Cantor Fitzgerald sheadquarters were in the topfloors of the north tower,which was struck by Ameri-can Airlines Flight 11. The firmaccused American of negli-gence in allowing hijackers toboard the plane and crash itinto the tower. Americanresponded that it could nothave predicted such an attackand that it followed federalsecurity says he wasfired for putting out fireGAYLORD, Mich. Aretired mail carrier said hehas been fired from a job as agreeter at a retail store innorthern Michigan after rush-ing to the parking lot to putout a vehicle Bowers, 62, said hegrabbed a fire extinguisherwhen a customer entered aMeijer store in Gaylord lastmonth asking for help. Meijer,a Midwest chain, won t specifi-cally comment on the matterbut said it has policies fordealing with an , who was paid $ hour, returned to his postgreeting shoppers wife, Lynn Bowers, saidthe couple decided to go publicafter receiving a cheeryChristmas card from Meijerjust a few days had worked at Mei-jer for about 41 2years.

3 Saturday, Dec. 14, 2013 MOLLY MCMILLINTHE WICHITA EAGLEThe need for speed remainsthe catalyst behind a continuingeffort by Aerion Corp. to developa BUSINESS jet that can fly fasterthan the speed of sound. We don t think there s anydoubt this is clearly the nextfrontier, said Brian Barents,Aerion vice chairman and a for-mer executive at BombardierLearjet and Cessna industry is building busi-ness jets that fly farther, but it sstuck at subsonic flight, Barentssaid. There s clearly a demand forspeed, and we feel that we re in agood position to take advantageof that demand, he BUSINESS jet flightwill happen in our lifetime, Bar-ents , Aerionwants to be first to the also has a smallsupersonic jet research pro-gram.

4 It does not yet have an air-craft. Its program is dedicatedto mitigating the sonic boomcreated by supersonic was founded in 2002by Texas billionaire Robert Bassto develop and commercializesupersonic last supersonic flight tookplace 10 years ago with the Con-corde, a commercial airplanebuilt by Britain s British AircraftCorporation and France sAerospatiale. Falling passengerdemand and rising maintenancecosts prompted British Airwaysand Air France to discontinueflying the Concorde, they said atthe manufacturers have con-tinued to pursue the is deep in has been working withNASA s Dryden Flight ResearchCenter to conduct the first five months of2013, they conducted a round of11 flights with a 40-by-80-inchAerion test article mountedunderneath an F-15 researchplane and flown up to two timesthe speed of test article was engi-neered to represent the Aerionwing flow and pressure condi-tions in supersonic conditions,the company all goes well.

5 Aerion plansfor a supersonic BUSINESS jet toenter the market in also is rethinkingwhich engines it will use for theproject a move that couldimprove performance orincrease cabin had planned to use Pratt &Whitney engines that could pro-duce speeds of up to Mach, ormore than 1,200 mph. Mach 1, or760 mph, is the threshold atwhich an airplane begins flyingfaster than the sound waves aircraft design wasdesigned around the maximumcapability of that engine, saidDoug Nichols, Aerion s Aerion is in discussionswith at least three engine manu-facturers to consider otherengines that might producemore may allow the companyto resize the airplane with alarger cabin size or give it betterperformance, such as anincrease in range, Barents that end, Aerion haslaunched a new market surveyto help determine marketrequirements for range, cabinsize and price, because none ofthat comes free, he said.

6 It gives us the opportunity toexplore a larger airplane if themarket dictates, Barents a revised version willlikely look a lot like today sdesign, Nichols said. It may be a little longer orwider; it could have threeengines, he said. That clearlyhas not been decided. That willbe the result of how the marketspeaks to us. Aerion says the market BUSINESS jet industry hasnot recovered from the reces-sion that began in 2008. Butdemand is strong for larger busi-ness jets costing more than $60 million, Barents for speed drives efforts for supersonic BUSINESS jet It may be a littlelonger or wider; itcould have threeengines. That clearlyhas not been Nichols, CEO,AerionTHE SEATTLE TIMES SEATTLE Plastic solar cells aseasy to manufacture as Saran that could make theelectrical grid smarter and more types of industrial-scale batter-ies that could work with wind turbinesor hydropower to store energy whenit s not needed, and release it when it innovations, and others, areamong the new ideas being developedat the University of Washington s newClean Energy Institute, which waslaunched Thursday by Gov.

7 Jay Inslee,a strong proponent of institute was created with $6 million in money from the Legisla-ture that will support the institute forthe next two aim is to tie together workalready under way by UW researchersaround the campus, much of which isdone in partnership with Pacific North-west National Laboratory. The sciencecurrently being conducted is funded byfederal research acknowledged that naysayersdon t think the technology can deliveron its promises, but he said he s abeliever: Clean energy is going tomake tons of money and create thou-sands of jobs, and Washington is in anexcellent position to benefit from thoseinnovations. We know the demand is going to beout there for clean-energy technology, he said.

8 This is a real-life scenario, notjust some pipe dream. The institute is focused on solar,electrical storage and smart-grid tech-nology, but it will also examine large-scale environmental disruptions thatcould be caused by new sources ofpower, said Daniel Schwartz, directorof the institute and the Boeing-Sutterprofessor of chemical engineering atUW. All energy forms have an impact onthe environment, he said; for example,hydropower creates clean energy, butit causes the loss of salmon runs andremakes the landscape. We have to bethoughtful about how we designenergy systems. New Clean Energy Institute launchesUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONC enter aims to tie togetherwork by UW researchersand PNNL in RichlandERIC DEGERMANGREAT NORTHWEST WINEW ashington s ColumbiaValley has earned aworldwide reputationfor its wines rather thanrestaurants, but Tagaris Win-ery in Richland has begun tochange that, according Google-owned pro-ducer of food and travel guidesrecently published an onlinefeature headlined 8 Winerieswith Fabulous Food, andZagat placed the Tri-City win-ery among some famous com-pany.

9 Three other Northwestwineries made that elite eight. There s Ferrari Winery inItaly, Etoile at Domaine Chan-don in Napa, Mission Hill inBritish Columbia, King Estatein Oregon and then I sawTagaris, said Penny Morgan,president of Tagaris Wineryand Taverna Tagaris . Ithought, This just can t be!This is not just a local list. Tri-City BUSINESS andtourism officials congratu-lated Tagaris and welcomedthe recognition. What Zagat does is putrankings on places where peo-ple spend their money on aworldwide level, said SondraWilson, president of TravelLeaders Tri-Cities. Millionsof people go onto their websiteto decide what they are goingto do, so now they have acrack at getting some of thisbusiness. This serves asrecognition that Tagaris isrunning an establishmentthat s world-class.

10 Morgan said she believesthe recognition from Zagatwill spread beyond her ownrestaurant and wine program. When someone from Seat-tle and beyond, someone fromthe East Coast or Europe won-ders what is Washington winecountry and Ste. Michelle allabout, they go to a Zagatreview and they ll discoverthe wineries on Tulip Lane Tagaris and Barnard Griffinand Bookwalter and inProsser and Woodinville. Ithink of it as a pebble in thewater, it will spread out acrossthe state. Linnea Covington, a Brook-lyn-based food and travelwriter who contributes , complimentedTagaris executive chef JoshuaDuquist and his team not onlyfor featuring local ingredientsbut also on how they incorpo-rate estate wines into themenu. Each menu item suggests awine to go with food, andthough some blends you maybe unfamiliar with, like theirSee INSTITUTE| Page C11 Tagaris recognized for wine, foodRichland winerycalled world class inZagat online featureCourtesy Kim complimented Tagaris executive chef and his team for featuring local ingredients and incorporating estate wines into the Tagaris | Page C11 SATURDAY, december 14, 2013C11| TRI-CITY Oregon s NE Oregon s Largest Truck Largest Truck Grande Subject to prior sale.