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| Papal Tickets Available Today, Katz Crash Investigation Hearing, Papal Cell Test Continues |
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 by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 09/09/15 8:57 am | updated: 09/09/15 8:57 am |
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Tickets for the Festival of Families and the Mass with Pope Francis on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway will be made available online Wednesday, September 9th. Tickets are available on a first come, first served basis and individuals are limited to four (4) tickets per person. There is absolutely no cost associated with these tickets. 10,000 tickets will be made available for The Festival of Families beginning Wednesday, September 9, at 4:00 p.m. EST. Officials say those seeking tickets for The Festival of Families should visit www.worldmeeting2015.org/tickets. There, visitors will click on the image associated with "The Festival of Families" and will be taken to the appropriate page for this event's ticketing. The Festival of Families will be held on Saturday, September 26. 10,000 tickets will also be made available for The Papal Mass beginning Wednesday, September 9, at 8:00 p.m. EST. Officials say those seeking tickets for the Papal Mass should visit www.worldmeeting2015.org/tickets. There, visitors will click on the image associated with “The Papal Mass†and will be taken to the appropriate page for this event’s ticketing.
The Papal Mass will be held on Sunday, September 27. For more information regarding the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia, visit www.WorldMeeting2015.org. Tuesday, 10,000 tickets were made available online for Pope Francis’ remarks at Independence Hall on Saturday, September 26. Officials say reservations for all 10,000 tickets were placed within two minutes and the website experienced 394,000 unique pages views during that time.
Federal air safety investigators are holding a hearing Wednesday morning in Washington to determine what likely caused the crash last year in Massachusetts that left seven people dead, including Philadelphia Inquirer co-owner Lewis Katz. Previous reports point the finger at the pilots: air safety investigators suggesting they didn’t do the proper checks, and realized too late that a wind gust locking system was on. That kept the jet from taking flight. It hurtled into a ditch and exploded.
“I’m not buying into the NTSB saying this highly experienced crew didn’t do a control check. That’s not possible in my judgment and my experience.†Arthur Wolk is the attorney for two of the victims’ families in a lawsuit against Gulfstream and others. He’s waiting to get his first look at the wreckage, which the NTSB will release after the meeting. “We’re having an inspection in the middle of October.†says Wolk. “We’ll start making some independent judgments, and I’m sure they’ll be different than the ones made by the board.†Investigators today also are expected to release recommendations designed to prevent a similar accident.
The wireless companies said this past weekend’s Made In America festival would be a test of how they’re prepared to handle the slew of smartphones expected along the Parkway for the pope’s visit later this month. It’s not for lack of trying: Verizon and AT&T each have spent more than $20 million beefing up their networks, quadrupling capacity in Center City. To do so, they’re using things like Distributed Antenna Systems — short towers or radio nodes attached to lampposts where the densest crowds are expected. “If you’re talking about a million people in a very small area — there have been systems that have been boosted in capacity to handle that sort of thing in the past, but there’s never been a system that could fully handle all the traffic.†Joe Madden is principal analyst with the wireless market research firm Mobile Experts. He says the cell companies are doing it the right way, with the Labor Day weekend festival as a trial balloon. “What they can do is move the antennas around to point the antennas in slightly different directions.†says Madden. “They can place another small cell in that location and adjust the system in that way.†He says this is an extreme case, and you’ll likely be met with the on-screen spinning wheel of death when trying to use data during prime pope times. Still, wireless customers will benefit after Francis is gone — since a good deal of the network improvements are permanent.
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