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Robert Samuel Maclay, D.D. (; Pinyin: Mài Lìhé; Foochow Romanized: Măh Lé-huò; February 7, 1824 - August 18, 1907) was an American missionary who made pioneer contributions to the Methodist Episcopal missions in China, Japan and Korea. He served as the first president of Aoyama Gakuin University.

Life

Early life
Robert Samuel Maclay was born on February 7, 1824, in Concord, Pennsylvania, one of nine children. His parents, Robert Maclay and Arabella Erwin Maclay, ran a tanning business in the local community. His father, a respected member of the Democratic Party, was raised up in the Presbyterian faith but became actively involved in the Methodist Episcopal Church, dedicating himself to spreading the Gospel, his mother an immigrant from the north of Ireland who shared her husband's religious devotion.

Maclay entered Dickinson College in the fall of 1841 and was elected into the Belles Lettres Society. As a college student he was highly influenced by his professor Rev. John McClintock. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree on July 10, 1845, and at his graduation he presented a commencement speech entitled The Rule and End of Life. Later Maclay received his Master's degree was subsequently honored with a Doctor of Divinity. One year after his graduation, Maclay was ordained in the Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Maclay's ministry within the United States was brief. Throughout the 1840s, many American churches experienced a growing concern for the expansion of mission work overseas, and at that time the Methodist Episcopal Church suffered a split into two conferences due to the controversial issue over slavery. Maclay avoided the internal struggle of the Church and responded to the overseas mission call. On September 10, 1847, he was appointed as a missionary to Foochow, China.

Life among the Chinese

On October 12, 1847, Maclay, together with another Methodist missionary Rev. Henry Hickok, boarded the "Paul Jones" and set sail for China. They arrived in Foochow on April 12 the next year, reinforcing the mission work that had been commenced by Revs. Moses Clark White and Judson Dwight Collins. On July 10, 1850, Maclay and Henrietta Caroline Sperry were married in Hong Kong by Bishop George Smith. The newly wedded couple returned on August 14 to the mission field in Foochow, and the next year they had their first child Eleanor Henrietta Maclay. The Maclays had five sons and three daughters in total, four of whom died at a young age.

In their first years in China the Mission was slow in progress, faced with strong enmity and plagued with health problems. For ten years after the arrival of the first Methodists to Foochow, not a single convert was won. And of the twelve missionaries that had been sent before 1851 only the Maclays remained in the field by 1854; others had either died or returned to America. While the first years were primarily preparatory, significant achievements were made, however, in the educational work. By May 1849, three days schools for boys were founded, each with an attendance of twenty pupils. In December 1850, Mrs. Maclay opened the first mission school for girls, which employed a native teacher to teacher lessons in reading, writing, singing, geography, and arithmetic, by incorporating Bible stories, Christian doctrines and hymns. These schools were successful not only in providing education, but also in improving the relationship between the Chinese and the Methodist missionaries.

Shortly after the establishment of schools, Maclay and other missionaries purchased premises in and outside Foochow for use as chapels. Eventually, these missionaries acquired a level of fluency which permitted them to preach in the local vernacular. On August 3, 1856, the first Methodist church in East Asia, the  (), was erected at Iongtau (); and on October 18 the same year, the second church was built on the south bank of River Min, the Church of Heavenly Peace (). On July 14, 1857, Maclay baptized the first Chinese convert connected with the Methodist Episcopal Mission, a 47-year-old man named Ting Ang ().

While in China Maclay published two books: Life Among the Chinese with Characteristic Sketches and Incidents of Missionary Operations and Prospects in China (1861) and an Alphabetic Dictionary of the Chinese Language in the Foochow Dialect that he completed with Rev. Caleb Cook Baldwin (1870).

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Missionary work in Japan and Korea
In 1871, Maclay returned to the United States and was appointed superintendent of the newly founded mission in Japan. Maclay arrived in Yokohama on June 12, 1873, and immediately set about learning the Japanese language and seeking converts. He became an integral part of the Wesleyan mission in Japan, helping to found and serve as first president of the Anglo-Japanese College (now the Aoyama Gakuin) in Tokyo. While serving in Japan, Maclay was asked to travel to Korea to survey the possibility of a Methodist mission there. In June, 1884, Maclay made a brief visit to Seoul, where he acquired the permission of the king to begin medical and educational mission work. He declined leadership of the mission, though, and returned to Yokohama.

Retirement
Maclay retired from the mission field in 1887 and returned to San Fernando in California. He became the dean of the Maclay School of Theology (named for his brother Senator Charles Maclay), and spent the rest of his life as an educator. Maclay died on August 18, 1907, in Los Angeles, California.

Family life
Maclay had been married twice. On July 10, 1850, he was married to Henrietta Caroline Sperry in Hong Kong; on June 6, 1882, he was married secondly to Sarah Ann Barr in San Francisco. There were no children out of his second marriage. His youngest son Edgar Stanton Maclay (1863–1919) was a historian. His brother Charles Maclay was a state senator of California. His nephews included Judge Robert Maclay Widney, a founder of the University of Southern California, and Dr. Joseph Widney, the second president of the University of Southern California.

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American expatriates in China
Methodist missionaries in China
Christian missionaries in Fujian
Methodist writers
Dickinson College alumni
1824 births
1907 deaths
American Methodist clergy
American sinologists
American Methodist missionaries
Methodist missionaries in Korea
Methodist missionaries in Japan
Robert Samuel
19th-century American clergy

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package net.compusult.geopackage.service.wmts;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
import javax.xml.xpath.XPath;
import javax.xml.xpath.XPathConstants;
import javax.xml.xpath.XPathExpressionException;
import javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory;

import net.compusult.geopackage.service.model.Rectangle;
import net.compusult.xml.DOMUtil;

import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
import org.springframework.util.xml.SimpleNamespaceContext;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;

public class WMTSCapabilitiesDocument {

	private static final Logger LOG = Logger.getLogger(WMTSCapabilitiesDocument.class);

	private static final String WMTS_NS  = "http://www.opengis.net/wmts/1.0";
	private static final String OWS_NS   = "http://www.opengis.net/ows/1.1";
	private static final String XLINK_NS = "http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink";

	private static final SimpleNamespaceContext MY_NAMESPACE_CONTEXT = new SimpleNamespaceContext();
    static {
		Map<String, String> namespaces = new HashMap<String, String>();
		namespaces.put("wmts",  WMTS_NS);
		namespaces.put("ows",   OWS_NS);
		namespaces.put("xlink", XLINK_NS);

		MY_NAMESPACE_CONTEXT.setBindings(namespaces);
    }

	private final Document capabilities;
	private final DOMUtil domUtil;
	private final XPathFactory xpathFactory;

	private final Element contents;
	private final Map<String, Element> tileMatrixSets;

	private String kvpGetTile;

	public WMTSCapabilitiesDocument(String url) throws IOException, ParserConfigurationException, SAXException, XPathExpressionException {
		DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
		dbf.setNamespaceAware(true);
		DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();

		this.capabilities = db.parse(url);
		this.domUtil = new DOMUtil();
		this.contents = domUtil.findFirstChildNamed(capabilities.getDocumentElement(), WMTS_NS, "Contents");
		this.tileMatrixSets = new HashMap<String, Element>();

		for (Element tms : domUtil.findChildrenNamed(contents, WMTS_NS, "TileMatrixSet")) {
			Element identifier = domUtil.findFirstChildNamed(tms, OWS_NS, "Identifier");
			if (identifier != null) {
				String ident = domUtil.nodeTextContent(identifier);
				tileMatrixSets.put(ident, tms);
			}
		}

		this.xpathFactory = XPathFactory.newInstance();

		XPath xpath = xpathFactory.newXPath();
		xpath.setNamespaceContext(MY_NAMESPACE_CONTEXT);
		this.kvpGetTile = (String)
				xpath.evaluate("//ows:OperationsMetadata/ows:Operation[@name='GetTile']/ows:DCP/ows:HTTP/ows:Get/@xlink:href",
						capabilities.getDocumentElement(), XPathConstants.STRING);
	}

	public Element findLayer(String layerName) {

		for (Element layer : domUtil.findChildrenNamed(contents, WMTS_NS, "Layer")) {
			Element identifier = domUtil.findFirstChildNamed(layer, OWS_NS, "Identifier");
			if (identifier != null) {
				String ident = domUtil.nodeTextContent(identifier);
				if (ident.equals(layerName)) {
					return layer;
				}
			}
		}

		return null;
	}

	public WMTSLayerInfo getLayerInfo(String layerName) {
		Element layer = findLayer(layerName);
		if (layer != null) {
			String defaultStyle = "";
			for (Element style : domUtil.findChildrenNamed(layer, WMTS_NS, "Style")) {
				if (Boolean.parseBoolean(domUtil.getAttributeValue(style, "isDefault"))) {
					Element identifier = domUtil.findFirstChildNamed(style, OWS_NS, "Identifier");
					if (identifier != null) {
						defaultStyle = domUtil.nodeTextContent(identifier);
					}
				}
			}
			Element layerInfoElem = domUtil.findFirstChildNamed(layer, WMTS_NS, "ResourceURL");
			WMTSLayerInfo layerInfo;

			if (layerInfoElem != null) {
				layerInfo = new WMTSLayerInfo(
						defaultStyle,
						domUtil.getAttributeValue(layerInfoElem, "format"),
						domUtil.getAttributeValue(layerInfoElem, "template"),
						true);
			} else {
				layerInfo = new WMTSLayerInfo(
						defaultStyle,
						"image/png",		// FIXME
						kvpGetTile,
						false);				// not a restful service
			}

			try {
				getAdditionalTileMatrixSetInfo(layerName, layerInfo);
			} catch (XPathExpressionException e) {
				LOG.error("Failed to gather additional tile matrix set information", e);
				return null;
			}
			return layerInfo;
		}
		return null;
	}

	private String findLinkedTileMatrixSet(String layerName) {
		Element layer = findLayer(layerName);
		if (layer != null) {
			Element tmsLink = domUtil.findFirstChildNamed(layer, WMTS_NS, "TileMatrixSetLink");
			if (tmsLink != null) {
				Element tms = domUtil.findFirstChildNamed(tmsLink, WMTS_NS, "TileMatrixSet");
				if (tms != null) {
					return domUtil.nodeTextContent(tms);
				}
			}
		}

		return null;
	}

	private void getAdditionalTileMatrixSetInfo(String layerName, WMTSLayerInfo layerInfo) throws XPathExpressionException {
		String tileMatrixSet = findLinkedTileMatrixSet(layerName);
		Element tms = tileMatrixSets.get(tileMatrixSet);
		if (tms != null) {
			Element title = domUtil.findFirstChildNamed(tms, OWS_NS, "Title");
			if (title == null) {
				layerInfo.setTitle(tileMatrixSet);
			} else {
				layerInfo.setTitle(domUtil.nodeTextContent(title));
			}

			Element crs = domUtil.findFirstChildNamed(tms, OWS_NS, "SupportedCRS");
			layerInfo.setCrs(domUtil.nodeTextContent(crs));

			Element bboxElem = domUtil.findFirstChildNamed(tms, OWS_NS, "BoundingBox");
			if (bboxElem != null) {
				Element ll = domUtil.findFirstChildNamed(bboxElem, OWS_NS, "LowerCorner");
				Element ur = domUtil.findFirstChildNamed(bboxElem, OWS_NS, "UpperCorner");
				String lltext = domUtil.nodeTextContent(ll);
				String urtext = domUtil.nodeTextContent(ur);
				String[] llpieces = lltext.split("\\s+");
				String[] urpieces = urtext.split("\\s+");
				double llx = Double.parseDouble(llpieces[0]);
				double lly = Double.parseDouble(llpieces[1]);
				double urx = Double.parseDouble(urpieces[0]);
				double ury = Double.parseDouble(urpieces[1]);
				layerInfo.setBbox(new Rectangle(llx, lly, urx, ury));
			} else {
				layerInfo.setBbox(new Rectangle(-180,-90,180,90));
			}
		}

		Element layer = findLayer(layerName);
		XPath xpath = xpathFactory.newXPath();
		xpath.setNamespaceContext(MY_NAMESPACE_CONTEXT);
		NodeList limitNodes = (NodeList)
				xpath.evaluate("./wmts:TileMatrixSetLink[wmts:TileMatrixSet/text() = '" + tileMatrixSet + "']/wmts:TileMatrixSetLimits/wmts:TileMatrixLimits",
						layer, XPathConstants.NODESET);

		for (int limit = 0, nlimit = limitNodes.getLength(); limit < nlimit; ++ limit) {
			Element thisNode = (Element) limitNodes.item(limit);
			Element tileMatrix = domUtil.findFirstChildNamed(thisNode, WMTS_NS, "TileMatrix");
			Element minTileRowElem = domUtil.findFirstChildNamed(thisNode, WMTS_NS, "MinTileRow");
			Element maxTileRowElem = domUtil.findFirstChildNamed(thisNode, WMTS_NS, "MaxTileRow");
			Element minTileColElem = domUtil.findFirstChildNamed(thisNode, WMTS_NS, "MinTileCol");
			Element maxTileColElem = domUtil.findFirstChildNamed(thisNode, WMTS_NS, "MaxTileCol");

			RowColLimits rcl = new RowColLimits(
					Integer.parseInt(domUtil.nodeTextContent(minTileRowElem)),
					Integer.parseInt(domUtil.nodeTextContent(maxTileRowElem)),
					Integer.parseInt(domUtil.nodeTextContent(minTileColElem)),
					Integer.parseInt(domUtil.nodeTextContent(maxTileColElem)));
			layerInfo.addLimits(tileMatrixSet, domUtil.nodeTextContent(tileMatrix), rcl);
		}
	}

	public void scanTileMatrixSet(String tileMatrixSet, TileMatrixSetScanner callback) {

		Element tms = tileMatrixSets.get(tileMatrixSet);
		if (tms != null) {
			for (Element elem : domUtil.findChildrenNamed(tms, WMTS_NS, "TileMatrix")) {
				Element identElem = domUtil.findFirstChildNamed(elem, OWS_NS, "Identifier");
				if (identElem != null) {
					String identifier = domUtil.nodeTextContent(identElem);

					Element scaleDenomElem = domUtil.findFirstChildNamed(elem, WMTS_NS, "ScaleDenominator");
					double scaleDenom = Double.parseDouble(domUtil.nodeTextContent(scaleDenomElem));

					Element doublePairElem = domUtil.findFirstChildNamed(elem, WMTS_NS, "TopLeftCorner");
					String[] ul = domUtil.nodeTextContent(doublePairElem).split("\\s+");
					double ulx = Double.parseDouble(ul[0]);
					double uly = Double.parseDouble(ul[1]);

					Element tileWidthElem = domUtil.findFirstChildNamed(elem, WMTS_NS, "TileWidth");
					int tileWidth = Integer.parseInt(domUtil.nodeTextContent(tileWidthElem));

					Element tileHeightElem = domUtil.findFirstChildNamed(elem, WMTS_NS, "TileHeight");
					int tileHeight = Integer.parseInt(domUtil.nodeTextContent(tileHeightElem));

					Element matrixWidthElem = domUtil.findFirstChildNamed(elem, WMTS_NS, "MatrixWidth");
					int matrixWidth = Integer.parseInt(domUtil.nodeTextContent(matrixWidthElem));

					Element matrixHeightElem = domUtil.findFirstChildNamed(elem, WMTS_NS, "MatrixHeight");
					int matrixHeight = Integer.parseInt(domUtil.nodeTextContent(matrixHeightElem));

					callback.onTileMatrix(identifier, scaleDenom, ulx, uly, tileWidth, tileHeight, matrixWidth, matrixHeight);
				}
			}
		}
	}

	public interface TileMatrixSetScanner {
		void onTileMatrix(String identifier, double scaleDenom, double ulx, double uly,
				int tileWidth, int tileHeight, int matrixWidth, int matrixHeight);
	}

	public class WMTSLayerInfo {
		private final String defaultStyle;
		private final String format;
		private final String template;
		private final boolean restful;
		private String title;
		private String crs;
		private Rectangle bbox;
		private final Map<String, Map<String, RowColLimits>> limits;		// indexed by TileMatrixSet name, value is a map from TileMatrix name to the limits for that matrix

		public WMTSLayerInfo(String defaultStyle, String format, String template, boolean restful) {
			this.defaultStyle = defaultStyle;
			this.format = format;
			this.template = template;
			this.restful = restful;
			this.limits = new HashMap<String, Map<String, RowColLimits>>();
		}

		public String getDefaultStyle() {
			return defaultStyle;
		}

		public String getFormat() {
			return format;
		}

		public String getTemplate() {
			return template;
		}

		public String getTitle() {
			return title;
		}

		public void setTitle(String title) {
			this.title = title;
		}

		public String getCrs() {
			return crs;
		}

		public void setCrs(String crs) {
			this.crs = crs;
		}

		public Rectangle getBbox() {
			return bbox;
		}

		public void setBbox(Rectangle bbox) {
			this.bbox = bbox;
		}

		public boolean isRestful() {
			return restful;
		}

		public void addLimits(String tileMatrixSet, String tileMatrix, RowColLimits lim) {
			Map<String, RowColLimits> map = limits.get(tileMatrixSet);
			if (map == null) {
				map = new HashMap<String, RowColLimits>();
				limits.put(tileMatrixSet, map);
			}
			map.put(tileMatrix, lim);
		}

		public Map<String, Map<String, RowColLimits>> getLimits() {
			return limits;
		}

	}

	public class RowColLimits {
		private final int minRow;
		private final int maxRow;
		private final int minCol;
		private final int maxCol;

		public RowColLimits(int minRow, int maxRow, int minCol, int maxCol) {
			this.minRow = minRow;
			this.maxRow = maxRow;
			this.minCol = minCol;
			this.maxCol = maxCol;
		}

		public int getMinRow() {
			return minRow;
		}

		public int getMaxRow() {
			return maxRow;
		}

		public int getMinCol() {
			return minCol;
		}

		public int getMaxCol() {
			return maxCol;
		}

	}

}

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Going to Alaska
February 19, 2017 by Michael A. Calvert Leave a Comment
By Michael Calvert
Not yet ten, I sat on my knees at our kitchen table and slurped Cheerios. Dad and Uncle Bill sipped their morning coffee with Uncle Bill heralding bold plans. Dad was not a pessimistic, but skeptical about his grand ideas.
"I'm going to file a claim under the Homestead Act in the Alaska Territory. I've been reading about Peace Valley. With the midnight sun in the winter, you can get three crops a year in a greenhouse. Tomatoes the size of pumpkins, cucumbers as big as watermelons," my Uncle Bill asserted.
"You already used the GI Bill to buy the farm. How in the world are you going to go to Alaska?" Dad asked.
"The Al-Can Highway," said Uncle Bill with a laugh."It will be passable next year. Some stretches only gravel, BUT…" Dad scowled as Mom served scrambled eggs and toast on melmac plates. She put salt, pepper, and the catsup Bill liked on his eggs in the middle of the table.
"Just you wait and see. First I'll get the farm running like a well-oiled machine after I quit my job here in Columbus and move down there with Dad and Mom. Dad runs the place like farmers did when he was growing up at the turn of the century. God bless him for doing it, but I've got big plans for modernizing the farm."
"I don't know, Bill," said Dad. A lot of men would kill for your job on the railroad."
"I'm not quitting tomorrow, but it won't be long. After making improvements at the farm, we'll be on the Al-Can Highway headed to Peace Valley." He affirmed this with a hearty laugh. Mom offered more coffee, but Dad said he needed to get to work.
Uncle Bill held out his cup saying that coffee never kept him awake. He had just got off work. Soon he was stretched out on the couch under a blanket. As always, he said, "Good night, Michael," as I was leaving for school with my book bag and metal lunch box.
For a couple of years, Uncle Bill made the two-hour drive to help Grandpa plow and plant in the spring, mow alfalfa and hay in the summer, and harvest corn and wheat in the fall. Sometimes he didn't sleep between shifts to be in the fields sunny days.
"I can get to the farm in an hour and a half going the back roads where there are no cops." Mom said she worried that he would fall asleep at the wheel or make himself sick if he didn't get more rest. He answered with a laugh.
A couple of years later, Uncle Bill moved his family to the farm, but drove back and forth to his job at the rail yard. His vision was a working farm to support his family. Milk from a few head of cattle, eggs from the chicken coop, apples and peaches from trees near the farmhouse, grapes from an arbor near the front porch, and a one-acre kitchen garden would feed his family. Jams, vegetables and fruit would be canned in Bell jars for the winter. Hogs and cows would be butchered, and hung in the smokehouse. A bountiful life.
Corn, wheat, hay, alfalfa, and soybeans would be cash crops trucked to markets in Logan and New Straitsville. More hogs and cattle were definitely planned, and Uncle Bill was evaluating sheep, llamas, and ostriches. He subscribed to Progressive Farmer and received bulletins from from the Department of Agriculture. Although he grew up in a Columbus, Uncle Bill was eager to be his own boss and manage of a successful farm.
The first summer my cousins lived on the farm, Uncle Bill asked me if I would like to help him, Grandpa and my cousin Tom, who was also eleven, bring in the hay. Of course, I would. I mowed the yard, took out the trash, and did other chores at home, but working as a farm hand in the hay fields was not a boy's job.
Grandpa harnessed Dolly, an old black mare, with Prince, a new palmino stallion, and attached them to a mowing machine with large iron wheels, a metal seat above the axle, and a set of overlapping blades extending ten feet to the side. The triangular blades, driven by gears connected to the wheels cut the hay. A machine without an engine.
After traversing the field repeatedly to mow the hay, we stopped to eat the lunch delivered by my cousins Connie and Joyce. Grandpa's pale blue shirt was darkened with sweat. Tom and I led the horses to the creek. Grandpa harnessed the horses to the rake, another implement with iron wheels, a moulded seat, and a row of semi-circular bars for rake the mown hay into windrows. Before the sun reached the crest of the hill to the west, the hay that had waved sinuously in the morning breeze was piled in long windrows. Grandpa harvested hay this way in his youth in the first decade of the twentieth century.
Aunt Josephine rousted us out of bed at dawn. Tom and I were soon leading cows into stanchions in the milk shed and squirting streams of warm milk into stainless steel buckets. Streaming piles of manure were deposited by the stolid beasts. Tasseled tails struck out like whips at flies on their flanks and occasionally slapped Tom and I as we bent to our task.
After we turned the cows loose and mucked out the shed, Aunt Josephine served a big breakfast. Uncle Bill, who had worked the night shift, arrived before we were half-finished.
Tom and I sat in the empty hay wagon as Grandpa harnessed Dolly and Prince on either side of the rough-hewn tongue. It was like a buckboard in the TV Westerns. The wheels and spokes were gray, weathered wood with rusty, iron rims. With Uncle Bill on the seat next to him, Grandpa flicked the reins and growled commands to the horses, addressing them by name, until we reached the hayfield and stopped next to a windrow.
All four of us grabbed pitchforks and began tossing forkfuls of hay on the wagon. Only the snorting and stomping by the horses and the chatter of birds in the trees bordering the field intruded on the silence. Sweat dampened my shirt and attracted small bees with annoying stings. As the hay piled up on the wagon supported by vertical staves, Tom and I struggled to pitch the hay high enough. We took turns climbing up and tamping down the load. The sun was directly overhead when Grandpa called a halt. Connie and Joyce appeared with lunch and another jug of cool well water, and we ate in the shade of a huge oak beside the field. Tom and I sprawled on dead leaves while Grandpa and uncle Bill took the wagon to the barn.
A new hoist with an 8-foot claw was one of Uncle Bill's innovations. A system of pulleys, tracks, and ropes pulled by Prince enabled them to put all the hay loaded onto the wagon with pitchforks into the mow in half an hour. Tom and I were disappointed when they returned with an empty wagon so soon.
We brought in more hay that afternoon and every day when it would not mildew on the ground or in the barn. I acquired a deep tan, ate heartily, slept soundly, and took satisfaction in my role as one of the hands.
The following summer, Uncle Bill presented a new Ferguson tractor, gray with the name in bright red letters. Dolly had died during the winter, and Prince was bartered for the corn from two fields on the Wahl's place. The tractor's two small front wheels, inches apart, and the tall, wide rear tires, reminded me of a giant's tricycle. The perforated metal seat behind the steering wheel and next to a long gear shift was high in the air. At Uncle Bill's urging, I climbed up to the seat, sat with my legs dangling, and stretched my arms to grip the steering wheel.
"This Ferguson's got a lot more than the two horsepower we got from Dolly and Prince," said Uncle Bill. "We've invested in some new livestock, too," as he motioned me to the upper pasture. "You're looking at genuine Merinos. Their wool gets top dollar, and it grows back fast!" The black hooves, snouts, and eyes made the sheep more menacing than those i remembered from my children's books. Their guttural cries sounded like threats.
"Looks like a good prices for corn, wheat, and hay this year. Wool will bring in some cash. This farm is going to work out for us."
The next summer when I was thirteen, Uncle Bill had a new task for Tom and me. He led me to a pile of stacked cement blocks from a demolished building on Route 33. Our job was to chisel off the encrusted mortar so Uncle Bill could build walls for a shed for the hay baler he bought at a foreclosure auction in Perry County. Grandpa noted with a hint of skepticism "It's a mighty big investment."
"This will get me in condition for football," I said as I put on the work gloves, picked up the mallet and chisel, and began chipping off mortar. Uncle Bill watched me for a while and said, "I've never laid block, but it can't be too hard. Maybe you can help with that, too. Always good to learn a trade.
Tom and I became adept at hitting the chisel, not our thumbs, knocking mortar off with a few well-placed blows, and piling up stacks of cleaned blocks. Meanwhile Uncle Bill was on his back under the baler repairing the gear box and differential. The gasoline-powered John Deere machine had a blade for cutting the hay, a conveyor for feeding it into a compressor, and a chute for expelling bales bound with wire. Uncle Bill hailed it as advanced technology, but Grandpa lamented that a farmer had to be a skilled mechanic to make a modern farm work.
On Sunday mornings, my cousins and I dressed for church. Connie and Joyce wore bonnets secured with hair clips. Although he was not Catholic, Grandpa always drove Grandma and the children to St. Mary's in New Straitsville and attended the nine o'clock mass. Grandpa told me slyly that he had always taken his girlfriends to church. Aunt Josephine was not Catholic and a divorced woman to boot. Uncle Bill had not been a practicing Catholic since he returned from service as a seabee in the South Pacific.
One Sunday, conversations stopped when Uncle Bill emerged from the bedroom in a dated brown suit with a white shirt, and asked Grandpa to lend him a tie. We piled into Uncle Bill's sedan. Grandpa gave him directions to the modest brick church on a hilltop in the oldest part of the town. We walked under tall elms and oaks past the cemetery with birth dates from the early 1800s to the open double doors.
Grandma led us to our usual pew near the front. The tall candles between vases of blue hydrangea blossoms on the altar were already lit. The pastor entered the sanctuary from the side followed by two altar boys, stood at the foot of the altar, and intoned the first lines of the Latin liturgy in a deep resonant voice. The altar boys' response was barely audible. After the introductory prayers, the priest mounted the steps to the altar while parishioners deployed the hinged kneelers and shifted to their knees with a muffled rumble.
I leaned forward and glanced at Uncle Bill, still surprised that he was there. His head was bowed, eyes closed, and hands folded on the back of the next pew. I looked away to avoid embarrassing him with my staring.
After mass, the car was quiet until Grandma broke into the silence with her plans for Sunday dinner. After Tom said he didn't like spinach, my cousins commented on their likes and dislikes. Grandpa wondered aloud if the cattle should be moved to the other pasture.
Everyone shed their Sunday best for everyday clothes. Grandma and Josephine started dinner. Connie and Joyce set the table and played card games. Tom and I threw stones at chickens after Uncle Bill and Grandpa went for a walk down the lane toward the mailbox even though there would be no mail on Sunday.
Aunt Josephine carried steaming dishes of potatoes, green beans, and cauliflower to the table. Grandma added a bowl of salad, and Aunt Josephine placed a platter of meatloaf and carrots in the center prompting a murmur of approval. Afterwards Connie and Joyce cleared the plates to make way for slices of neapolitan ice cream from Kroger's.
When everyone was seated, Uncle Bill quieted the chatter by saying, "Now hear this," a bit of Navy lingo he used frequently. "I hope you're enjoying this ice cream, but we won't be buying desserts for a while. We've got to tighten our belts until we get the farm running right. We're going to sell half the herd and butcher seven of the hogs to tide us over. We'll be fine after we get the corn crop to the market in October. No need to worry. OK?" Everyone nodded as spoons clicked on ice cream bowls.
Before I left for home, all the hay was in the barn, and Tom and I had the cement blocks cleaned and stacked. I was sure my biceps had grown as I viewed them privately before the mirror. I was ready for the football season.
In December, Mom opened her weekly letter from Grandma. Phone lines had not reached the farm, and only emergencies justified the expense of a long-distance call from a pay phone in town. Mom announced, "Your uncle got a job at a new plant in Logan. He starts next week."
"What about the farm? How will he take care of the livestock, crops and machinery and build up the farm?" I asked.
"Oh, he and Grandpa will keep it going, but it's hard to support a family with a farm these days. I'm sure he got the job to pay bills and put food on the table."
I was stunned. I had never doubted that Uncle Bill would succeed with all his plans to make the farm work. His boyish enthusiasm, inexhaustible energy and dogged determination seemed to conquer every problem. He fixed the hay baler, learned how to butcher hogs, and got hay in the barn even when it rained almost every day.
I had spent my last summer helping at the farm. I spent the next four summers on the golf course caddying to earn money for my tuition at St. Charles. I seldom had time to visit during high school and college years, but when I did, I took note that the cement blocks had become part of the landscape, entwined by vines and surrounded by tall weeds and a couple of saplings.
After graduate school, I relocated to Baltimore, married and had two children. During a visit to Columbus over the Fourth of July, all the Calverts were invited to a birthday party for Uncle Bill at Joyce's home. He sported a gray ponytail and stood in the front of a black Harley with several young men who were introduced as his sons-in-law.
"This here is my nephew, Michael, he was an extra hand for getting in the hay. Damn good worker," Bill said followed by his laugh that I triggered memories from prior years at the farmhouse and in the hayfields. We reminisced about Dolly and Prince, the hay hoist, and Aunt Josephine's big meals at the end of our days in the fields. The others drifted away.
"How about a ride on my hog," he said pointing to the Harley with an extended seat for a passenger. "I usually stay below the speed limit, but I've had her over a hundred." Again, the laugh, good-natured but mocking.
"Not now. Maybe later."
"I'll be eligible for retirement in three years. Jo and I are planning to do some touring on this bike. The Al-Can Highway is paved now. We're going to Alaska to see Peace Valley, Mount McKinley, and Anchorage," he concluded with a laugh.
"Great! What a trip. Exciting," I said recalling his vows to go to Alaska many years before. I was skeptical, but I hoped I would see a snapshot of him and Aunt Josephine on the Harley with snow-capped Mount Mckinley in the background.
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The Trust has established Fazlani Institute of Vocational Training (FIVE) at J.J, Imamwada Municipal School, Meghraj Sethi Municipal School, Nagpada Municipal School, Jogeshwari and Malad Township Municipal School.
To empower our young generation and provide them training in professional vocational courses and help them to get skill based jobs.
To serve technical education to the Dropout candidates from underprivileged/marginal/economically low background SC/ST, minority and women candidates.
To empower youth by giving them vocational skill based training to get skilled employment and so that they can earn on their own.
Development of skilled manpower is one of the key factor to project our country as a "Global Leader".
To establish Vocational Training Centres in different underprivileged area and to meet the current demands of skill based employees.
To strive for them to get better employment.
To make Self Help Group for women to empower them.
Tie up with other commercial firms to absorb our successful candidates in job placement.
These courses help them to enhance their employment prospects greatly. At present, the courses are affiliated with Saboo Siddiq Polytechnic, Government Polytechnic Bandra and SNDT University (Mumbai).
Tailoring, Machine work, fancy work, crochet & Decorative work.
Those enrolled include school students with poor academic performance, drop-outs as well as destitute women, widows and divorcees who can financially support themselves and their families by pursuing these professions. Some students have started their own shops and doing well in their work. Judging by the response to these programs and its outcome, the trust plans to expand these activities in other areas of Mumbai as well.


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Le château de Val Duchesse (néerlandais : Kasteel Hertoginnedal) est situé dans la commune d'Auderghem, dans le sud de Bruxelles (Belgique), en bordure de la forêt de Soignes.

Historique

Prieuré dominicain

Le château de Val Duchesse était à l'origine un prieuré dominicain du , établi dans la vallée de la Woluwe.

Château de Val-Duchesse
La propriété fut vendue et plusieurs propriétaires se succédèrent jusqu'en 1850, où le baron Eugène Amour de Cartier en fit l'acquisition. À la mort de sa fille Anne-Marie, épouse de François Puissant d'Agimont d'Heer et d'Heerlette, en 1871, faute de descendance, la propriété fut rachetée par le banquier A. Franck-Morel et ensuite par le baron Charles Dietrich, agent de change et vice-consul de Norvège et ex-propriétaire du Castel de Linthout.

Lorsqu'en 1903, le baron acquit le domaine, le prieuré n'existait plus, seul subsistaient une aile du château, une partie de l'enceinte et quelques bâtiments ruraux. En 1915, il décida de reconstruire le prieuré et fit appel à l'architecte Albert Roosenboom.

Le  s'y tint la fête de bienfaisance organisée par l'ambassadeur d'Espagne au bénéfice des orphelins de guerre belges et français. Et c'est en 1930, que Ditrich légua le domaine à la Donation royale, dans le but d'en faire un lieu de prestige pour accueillir les hôtes de marque de passage à Bruxelles.

Centre de rencontres

Après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, le château devient le siège de réunions nationales et internationales. Du  au , le château abritera la conférence intergouvernementale sous la présidence de Paul-Henri Spaak en vue de conclure le Marché commun et l'Euratom. C'est entre ces murs que les traités donnant naissance à la Communauté économique européenne (CEE) et à la Communauté européenne de l'énergie atomique (Euratom) ont vu le jour. Ces lieux ont également abrité certaines réunions gouvernementales et des négociations de formation de gouvernement. Ce château a par ailleurs accueilli une réunion du groupe international Bilderberg le , où Herman Van Rompuy a présenté sa vision de l'Europe.

Notes et références

Liens externes
 Historique du domaine de Val Duchesse
 Historique du domaine de Val Duchesse

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Liste des anciens prieurés de la Forêt de Soignes
 Liste des châteaux belges par région
 Quartier du Val Duchesse
 Liste des monuments classés d'Auderghem

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The Barbican Centre is a performing arts centre in the Barbican Estate of the City of London and the largest of its kind in Europe. The centre hosts classical and contemporary music concerts, theatre performances, film screenings and art exhibitions. It also houses a library, three restaurants, and a conservatory. The Barbican Centre is a member of the Global Cultural Districts Network.

The London Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Symphony Orchestra are based in the centre's Concert Hall. In 2013, it once again became the London-based venue of the Royal Shakespeare Company following the company's departure in 2001.

The Barbican Centre is owned, funded, and managed by the City of London Corporation. It was built as the City's gift to the nation at a cost of £161 million (equivalent to £480 million in 2014) and was officially opened to the public by Queen Elizabeth II on 3 March 1982.  The Barbican Centre is also known for its brutalist architecture.

Performance halls and facilities
 Barbican Hall: capacity 1,943; home of the London Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
 Barbican Theatre: capacity 1,156; designed exclusively by and for the Royal Shakespeare Company
 The Pit: flexible 200-seat theatre venue
 Barbican Art Gallery and the free new-commission gallery The Curve
 Barbican Film: 3 cinema screens with seating capacity of 288, 156 and 156
 Barbican Library: Public lending library with special collections in arts and music
 Restaurants: 3
 Conference halls: 7
 Trade exhibition halls: 2
 Informal performance spaces

The second-floor library is one of the five City of London libraries. It is one of the largest public libraries in London and has a separate arts library, a large music library and a children's library which regularly conducts free events. The Barbican Library houses the 'London Collection' of historical books and resources, some of which date back 300 years, all being available on loan. The library presents regular literary events and has an art exhibition space for hire. The music library has two free practice pianos for public use.

History and design

The Barbican Centre had a long development period, only opening some years after the surrounding Barbican Estate housing complex had been finished.  It is situated in an area which was badly bombed during World War II.

The Barbican Centre, designed by Peter Chamberlin, Geoffry Powell and Christoph Bon of Chamberlin, Powell and Bon in the Brutalist style, has a complex multi-level layout with numerous entrances. Lines painted on the ground help would-be audience members avoid getting lost on the walkways of the Barbican Estate, within which the centre is located, on the way to it. The Barbican Centre's design – a concrete ziggurat – has always been controversial and divides opinion. It was voted "London's ugliest building" in a Grey London poll in September 2003.

In September 2001, arts minister Tessa Blackstone announced that the Barbican Centre complex was to be a Grade II listed building. It has been designated a site of special architectural interest for its scale, its cohesion and the ambition of the project. The centre was designed by architectural practice Chamberlin, Powell and Bon, who were also responsible for the upscale residential area surrounding the centre (the Barbican Estate), as well as the nearby Golden Lane Estate. Project architect John Honer later worked on the British Library at St Pancras – a red brick ziggurat.

In the mid-1990s, a cosmetic improvement scheme by Theo Crosby, of the Pentagram design studio, added statues and decorative features reminiscent of the Arts and Crafts movement. In 2005–2006, the centre underwent a more significant refurbishment, designed by architects Allford Hall Monaghan Morris and Roger Westman, which improved circulation and introduced bold signage in a style in keeping with the centre's original 1970s Brutalist architecture. That improvement scheme added an internal bridge linking the Silk Street foyer area with the lakeside foyer area. The centre's Silk Street entrance, previously dominated by an access for vehicles, was modified to give better pedestrian access. The scheme included removing most of the mid-1990s embellishments.

Outside, the main focal point of the centre is the lake and its neighbouring terrace. The theatre's fly tower has been surrounded by glass and made into a high-level conservatory.  The Barbican Hall's acoustic has also been controversial: some praised it as attractively warm, but others found it too dry for large-scale orchestral performance.

In 1994, Chicago acoustician Larry Kirkegaard oversaw a £500,000 acoustic re-engineering of the hall "producing a perceptible improvement in echo control and sound absorption", music critic Norman Lebrecht wrote in October 2000 – and returned in 2001 to rip out the stage canopy and drop adjustable acoustic reflectors, designed by Caruso St John, from the ceiling, as part of a £7.5 mn refurbishment of the hall. Art music magazine Gramophone still complained about "the relative dryness of the Barbican acoustic" in August 2007.

The theatre was built as the London home of the Royal Shakespeare Company, which was involved in the design, but decided not to renew its contract in 2002 after claiming a lack of performing space, plus the artistic director, Adrian Noble, wanting to develop the company's touring performances. The theatre's response was to extend its existing six-month season of international productions, "Barbican International Theatre Event", to the whole year. On 23 January 2013 Greg Doran, RSC artistic director, announced the company's return to the Barbican Centre in a three-year season of Shakespeare's history plays.

The Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where the Barbican Centre theatrical performances are occasionally staged, and the City of London's Barbican Library, neither part of the centre, are also on the site. The Museum of London is nearby at Aldersgate, and is also within the Barbican Estate.

In popular culture

In literature
The Barbican Centre features in Michael Paraskos's novel In Search of Sixpence as the home of the lead character, Geroud, and also a bar called "The Gin Bar" loosely based on the Gin Joint bar at the Barbican Centre.

TV and film
The centre has been used as a filming location for numerous TV shows and films, including the BBC series Luther and in the Disney+ series Andor.

Gallery

Nearby railway stations
 Barbican tube station
 Farringdon station
 Liverpool Street railway station
 Moorgate tube station
 St Paul's tube station

See also
 Barbican Centre, York
 Barbicania, a feature-length film by Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine
 Culture of London
 List of concert halls

References

External links

Barbican Estate
1982 establishments in England
Art museums and galleries in London
Arts centres in London
Music venues completed in 1982
Concert halls in London
Dance in London
Event venues established in 1982
Grade II listed buildings in the City of London
London Symphony Orchestra
Museums in the City of London
Theatres in the City of London
Brutalist architecture in London


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Aerospace: A Wing and Two Players
Jan 15, 2018 | Aerospace, Sectors
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[title size="4″]Brexit has been the preoccupation for the UK aerospace industry for much of the past two years, with questions over the fate of Airbus' investments and complex supply chain should the nation have to make a no-deal departure from the European Union in 2019. However, late in the year it was supplanted in the headlines by another B-word – or two to be precise: Bombardier and Boeing. The US aircraft manufacturer's demand that sales of its Canadian counterpart's CSeries jet be subject to punitive 300% tariffs on imports into the USA threatened the future of not only the programme, but Bombardier's very existence, and with it the Belfast factory where the narrowbody airliner's composite wings are engineered and built.[/title]
On the surface, it seemed an incredibly heavy-handed tactic by Boeing to stop the purchase by Delta Air Lines of 75 CSeries jets; the result of a contest in which Boeing had not even participated.
Boeing insisted that the purchase broke trade rules because the CSeries is heavily subsidised and Delta was sold aircraft at lower than cost – the US airline's order represents almost a fifth of the CSeries backlog.
However, in Belfast – with 4,000 jobs at stake and many more in the supply chain – as well as in Westminster, Boeing was seen as a corporate bully.
The fact that Theresa May's majority depends on 10 Northern Ireland MPs, along with the fragility of the province's political situation, led to the matter being further up the agenda than may have been the case had Bombardier's factory been in Bristol or Bradford.
Bombadier clean room in Belfast factory
Concurrently, Boeing was on a full-on charm offensive to emphasise its impact on the UK economy. It claims it supports 16,500 jobs in the UK supply chain and spent £2.1 billion with UK suppliers in 2016 – a far greater contribution than Bombardier's. The country is Boeing's third largest source of supply after the USA and Japan. In September, Boeing opened its first British factory here; its Sheffield plant will employ just 50 people making actuator components, but it is a highly symbolic move as it's the first time the company has had a manufacturing footprint in the UK. Boeing is also supporting an Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre at She eld University and plans to open a maintenance hangar at London Gatwick airport in 2019, supporting Boeing operators based there. However, Boeing's attack on its competitor back red – in quite a spectacular way. Behind the scenes, Airbus and Bombardier had, on and off for two years, been discussing a way of salvaging the ailing CSeries, on which Bombardier's fortunes depend. The aircraft, available in 110- and 130-seat variants, has sold slowly compared with its larger Airbus A320neo and Boeing 737 Max rivals. The Montreal-based farm already had to sell a major stake in the programme to the Quebec government.
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Healthy SMEs are crucial to sector's prosperity
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A week after the US government's announcement about the CSeries tariffs, Airbus announced it was buying a 50.01% stake in the CSeries and will help market the aircraft and assemble US-bound examples at its Mobile, Alabama plant to get round US trade barriers. Boeing's actions almost certainly provided the impetus for Airbus to sign the deal. The move should safeguard the programme and the Northern Ireland factory, where Bombardier also makes components and sections for its business jets and smaller regional aircraft. Belfast had already been struggling to stay competitive – it effectively has to compete for in-house contracts against other Bombardier aerostructures plants in Mexico, Morocco and the USA. But the CSeries wing factory is one of its true jewels. The composite technology used for the wings is the result of expertise built through years of research and development in partnership with Queens University and local farms, and cannot easily be replicated elsewhere in the Bombardier empire.
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Boeing announced its first UK factory in September 2017 (Credit: Boeing)
Wing technology is also crucial to Airbus's presence in the UK and – despite the threat of a hard Brexit, of which more later – the European company's problems have been "nice to have", compared with those of Bombardier. Airbus factories in Bristol and Broughton, North Wales, engineer and assemble every Airbus wing, and with the company looking to ramp up to 60 single-aisle A320neo family aircraft a month from the end of the decade, there is the challenge of making sure the largely UK supply chain is robust enough to cope.
Fortunately, the A320neo is essentially a re-engined version of the venerable A320, in production for 30 years, so there are none of the complex engineering and design issues that can delay a clean-sheet aircraft programme, such as the Boeing 787.
While Airbus has been edging ahead in the competitive battle against its arch-rival in the narrowbody segment, the same cannot be said for its widebody aircraft. Its A350-900 and longer A350-1000 have been selling strongly enough but the A330neo was late to y this October – due to glitches with the Rolls-Royce Trent 7000 engines – and has been a slower-burner in terms of orders.
Meanwhile, the future of Airbus's flagship, the A380 superjumbo, looks more fragile by the day, with no new orders for two years and a rapidly-diminishing order book bolstered only by the one true-believer in the double-deck airliner: Emirates. The A380's giant 40m wing is Broughton's most prestigious product, but its days may be numbered.
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A350-1000 wing cover into production at Broughton
Rolls-Royce still argues it was right to exit the narrowbody market at the start of this decade – it had a share in the International Aero Engines consortium that powers about half of all previous-generation A320s – and promises a return to the sector in the 2020s.
In the meantime, it maintains a dominant position against rival General Electric on Airbus widebodies, including exclusivity on the A350 and A330neo. After a few rocky years for the Derby-based rm, a restructuring and efficiency drive by chief executive Warren East now appears to be reaping rewards. Profits for the rst-half of 2017 are up substantially after strong sales of Trent engines and a growth in maintenance and warranty activities, more lucrative for Rolls-Royce than the selling of actual engines.
The UK's other big aerospace and defence player, BAE Systems, has promised an "evolution not a revolution" under new chief executive Charles Woodburn. The company, which exited the commercial market over a decade ago with the cancellation of its last regional jet programme and exit from the Airbus consortium, depends almost entirely on the defence market. While about half its revenues come from its US operations, its Hawk jet trainer and Typhoon – it is a member of the four-nation European partnership behind the multi-role fighter – remain crucial to the UK's defence export prospects. However, falling orders for both types led BAE this year to reduce production rates and shed 1,400 jobs at five factories and air bases.
Definitions of what counts as aerospace di er but trade body ADS estimates the industry's revenues to be £32 billion, with 120,000 people employed directly in the UK, and almost the same amount again indirectly. Despite declining defence spending this decade, aerospace continues to grow in importance, mainly thanks to rising production of civil aircraft. The FlightGlobal Top 100 ranking of aerospace businesses by revenue includes nine UK-owned companies, most of them defence specialists such as BAE, Chemring, Marshall and ejection seat manufacturer Martin-Baker. Others, such as GKN, a major Airbus partner, have done well out of the booming commercial side. These do not count, of course, the foreign-run firms that are major UK employers, such as Leonardo, which builds and upgrades helicopters in Yeovil and makes defence electronics, Airbus, Bombardier and Thales. In addition, there are hundreds of SMEs.
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Brexit remains the elephant in the room, with ADS warning that failure to reach a deal with the EU would have "significant commercial consequences for UK industry". It has called for continuing access to the Single Market and Customs Union, Europe's skilled labour pool and the European Aviation Safety Agency's regulatory regime for authorising aircraft parts across the EU.
The prospect of companies such as Airbus shipping out overnight in the event of a hard Brexit is inconceivable, given the many years of investment it takes to establish competencies such as wing design and manufacture. Optimists also point to Airbus's decision to continue investing in R&D in this country. The Airbus-supported Aerospace Integration Research Centre opened this October at Cranfield University.
Weighed against this, Airbus's other partner nations, especially Germany and Spain, would love to snatch the UK's crown as wing centre of excellence. While Toulouse-head- quartered Airbus, under German chief executive Tom Enders, is today run much more as a conventional company than the alliance of often-warring national interests it used to be as EADS, politics still plays a role in investment decisions. It was behind Angela Merkel's opposition to a merger between the then-EADS and BAE to create a powerful European competitor to the US defence giants. So when it comes to decisions about where to design and build a wing for the next all-new Airbus, perhaps in the mid-2020s, the UK – without influence on the Airbus board and outside the EU – may not be able to take for granted its status as the go-to industry.
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While Whitehall – since the Thatcher revolution in the 1980s – has stayed largely clear of French-style lever-pulling when it comes to the aerospace industry and its champions, there have been initiatives by successive governments to improve productivity and competitiveness.
Sharing in Growth, introduced by the coalition government in 2012 and funded partly by the country's biggest aerospace companies, has signed up more than 60 supply chain companies to a programme of improving leadership and skills in areas such as "lean manufacturing, financial de-risking and employee engagement". Beneficiaries have included Nasmyth in Bulwell, Rockford Components in Ipswich and Worcester-based Aeromet. It continues to thrive.
Other schemes include Supply Chain 21 – designed to "accelerate the competitiveness [of the industry] by raising the performance of its supply chains" and also supported by the big manufacturers and tier ones. Launched in 2006, some 100 companies have joined every year. The Aerospace Growth Partnership, run by ADS on the government's behalf, is a broader strategic vision for the industry that promises to coordinate government spending decisions with the needs of industry and academia. A feature of the strategy is the Supply Chain Competitiveness Charter, aimed at strengthening relationships between the larger companies and the supply chain, and is an acknowledgement that the prosperity of the UK aerospace industry depends as much on healthy SMEs as its household names.
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How Will We Screen Out Terrorists Among Syrian Refugees?
Over the weekend, President Barack Obama announced the United States will welcome 10,000 Syrian refugees for resettlement over the next 12 months. Now, sane Americans must wonder how government officials will screen out terrorists among the refugees entering the country through refugee processing centers in almost every state.
This U.S. Department of State map shows where refugees, including those from Syria, will be sent.
The transcript of a State Department background briefing for reporters Sept. 9 offers some clues about how those ostensibly in charge of the nation's foreign affairs programs — including Secretary of State John "F'n" Kerry and other left-wing political appointees — plan to ensure no members of the Islamic State and other Islamic terror groups enter the United States under the guise of being refugees. Michael Gordon of The New York Times asked the first question:
"Could you tell us, please, what the range of numbers is? You say you want to – the Secretary wants to increase the number of refugees that are admitted, so what is the range you're looking at and what does that cost? And then it seems that part of the problem is vetting, in that the UN has submitted a list but it takes a long time to vet these people. Are you looking at committing more resources to speed up that vetting process? Thank you."
As someone who spent four years investigating the federal government's use of so-called credibility assessment technologies in places like Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay and Iraq, I'm more aware than most of the capabilities that exist within our defense and intelligence agencies for conducting background checks and vetting (a.k.a., "screening") foreign nationals. That awareness makes me more than a bit interested in the response of an unidentified "senior State Department official" to Gordon's question. It appears below with acronyms deciphered by yours truly:
"The Secretary talked about a range of different numbers, but I will not be sharing them with you today. And there was varying views within the group from the judiciary committees of the House and Senate about how receptive they were to increasing the numbers of refugees coming.
"And the process to bring refugees here is careful and deliberate, and that's – as a result, it takes a while. It takes between 18 to 24 months between when a refugee is referred to us and when they – if approved, when they end up arriving in the United States. And a big reason for this is the care that's put into the security vetting for them. It involves several aspects. Part of it is that every refugee has their sort of case file put together with help from organizations that we fund overseas, and then those files and the refugees' families themselves are interviewed by someone from the Department of Homeland Security, from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. And then we also check their names against a whole series of U.S. Government databases to make sure that they're not already in there – some sort of derogatory information about them.
"What we're trying to do is weed out people who are liars, who are criminals, or would-be terrorists. And this is something that slows down the process and it's taken very seriously by everyone involved in it."
The response, especially the description of the security vetting process having "several aspects" and being "careful and deliberate," reminds me of what I was told repeatedly over a period of several months in 2012 by U.S. military public affairs officers speaking on behalf of the now-defunct International Security Assistance Force, precursor to the Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan. An excerpt from a July 12, 2012, statement appears below:
"We (ISAF) have today, just as we discussed back in April, advise the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) in assisting them to develop improvements to the overall vetting and recruitment process for the ANSF. The 8-step vetting process, which we have discussed in the past, is the result of our advising on this issue. Just like everything else that we (ISAF) advise on in Afghanistan, it is an ongoing and continuous process. We continually advise our Afghan partners on ways to improve processes. Again, the Afghans have the lead and are responsible for vetting their recruits into their security forces."
Two months after receiving the statement above via email, I learned Afghans had not been in charge of all of the vetting taking place in that country. Instead, U.S. Army personnel were doing much of the vetting and, by September 2012, had grown "increasingly frustrated" with the eight-step vetting process that turned out to be largely ineffective at stopping so-called "Green-on-Blue" or "Insider" attacks, the often-deadly surprise attacks waged against U.S. and coalition forces by allegedly-trustworthy Afghans wearing the uniforms of Afghan military, police or security agencies.
And therein lies the problem with vetting 10,000 Syrian refugees, a group Nicholas Rasmussen, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, described as "clearly a population of concern" during a meeting of the House Committee on Homeland Security last week. [UPDATE at 7:55 p.m. Central: UK Prime Minister David Cameron has been warned that two out of every 100 Syrian refugees are Islamic State fighters.]
If federal government officials are not willing to subject Syrian refugees to the same highly-effective interrogation technology that was used to interrogate members of Saddam Hussein's inner circle (a.k.a., "The Deck of Cards") as well as hundreds of al-Qaeda and Taliban terrorists and other detainees at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere around the world, then we might as well plan to see a significant increase in the number of terror attacks waged on U.S. soil.
At a bare minimum, we will likely see more cities experience the types of refugee problems the folks in Minneapolis are facing.
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Retired Geologist Predicted EPA Failure in Letter to Editor Published Only Days Before Gold King Mine Disaster
While national news media outlets have been slow to take notice of Dale Hamilton's letter to the editor of the Silverton (Colo.) Standard newspaper about the Gold King Mine disaster in Colorado, Zero Hedge, was not.
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On Wednesday, as part of the Zero Hedge mission "to widen the scope of financial, economic and political information available to the professional investing public," the site's editors asked a headline-shaping question — Did The EPA Intentionally Poison Animas River To Secure SuperFund Money? — that caught my attention for several reasons.
For starters, I was attracted to the story, because I tend to smell a "rat" anytime the EPA is involved in anything. Here's the link to the EPA's official statement regarding the disaster.
On a more personal and emotional note, however, I care about the health of such rivers, because I spent some of the best times of my life as a youngster on summer vacations, fly fishing for brownie and rainbow trout on the Conejos River of southern Colorado.
My interest grew when I learned Environmental Restoration LLC, the EPA contractor said to be involved in the disaster, is from Fenton, Mo., according to a piece in the Wall Street Journal (subscription required).
Finally, the fact that my father is, like Hamilton, a retired geologist also played a role in drawing me to this story. After reading Hamilton's letter to the editor that was printed in the Silverton, Colo., newspaper only days before the disaster took place, I suspect my dad might secretly consider its author a superhero. But only secretly, because dad isn't much into idolizing folks.
What, exactly, did Hamilton write in his letter? In short, he warned that the EPA's "grand experiment" would fail and, in the long run, result in the federal government's environmental watchdogs having to declare the Animas River area where the disaster took place only days later an EPA Superfund Site, costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.
Stay tuned for more about this disaster, because I suspect it's gonna blow up in somebody's face.
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Who's Telling Truth About Nation's Job Numbers?
Today, I ran across conflicting numbers about the nation's employment situation. You decide who's telling the truth.
One set of claims (above) comes from Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO). In a graphic on her Facebook page. She shares this: "ICYMI: The economy has added 12.3 million private sector jobs in the last 62 months." In case you missed it, Claire, the economy is in the toilet thanks to you and your president's misguided and dangerous policies and actions.
A second set of claims comes from the popular website, Zero Hedge, and is accompanied by the an explanation that describes the April 2015 jobs payroll report as "unambiguously" unpleasant and indicative of "the accelerating deterioration of the broader economy."
Finally, a set of numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows the civilian labor force participation rate in the form of a chart that resembles a playground slide more accurately than it does anything positive about the economy.
All that in mind, please take my advice: DO YOUR HOMEWORK BEFORE YOU RE-ELECT ANY DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS SLIPPERY SLOPE.
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So I thought I'd start a thread on my winter build. Every year I do something to upgrade the car.
Little history, the car is a 1968 Beaumont Custom, I have owned this car since 2002. It laid rest in a field for 4 years when someone completed a semi restoration on it. The winters we're pretty harsh in the area so now it definitely has some patina. This car to date has been threw 4 motors 5 transmission and 2 differentials. It started out as a Smokey 350 motor with a 700r4 and Corp 10 belt setup. Now it is a 502, T56 Mag, s60 combo. There is also an array of suspension and chassis upgrades to get it where is is today. Overall the interior and exterior remain stock.
So this leads up to this winters upgrades!
After completing Drag Week 2018 I have realized that if a guy wants more power you don't necessarily need a larger motor, just cheat with some boost. Originally when I got the 502 I was gonna boost it but held back as my power goals were low for boost. For the builds end outcome I am looking to achieve a dyno proven 800-850 crank horsepower/torque between 5-5500rpm. I am not sure if this is realistic but we will find out. I am limiting myself to this number as the bottom end will not support anymore than this.
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How big is the turbo?
Either way, love the car. Being from Ohio, we had a few Beaumonts running around. I have seen exactly one in my 34 years in Flariduh!
Sorry bud, I see way more that 850ish horse in that combo if the tune is right. I would have to feed it corn fluid and shoot for 25 pounds of boost.
The '68 Beaumont is my number 2 favorite.
Turbo is a Garret GT4202,75mm, which is a fairly decently sized turbo but for this build it is consider small by most. I will most likely be out of the efficiency zone but should provide very quick response for a 90% stick shift street car. Like any upgrade the initial cost is a killer and I got this thing less than you would buy a ching chong turbo at, plus side is that it is brand new never used, ready for abuse. So the plan is to build things keeping in mind it will be upgraded in the future.
That car is badASS, Chris!
Are those wheels the Nascar/racing slotted steel wheels? I like those.
Yes Bassett wheels, one of the few non-dot approved parts.
Well I got the passenger side manifold/header completed. Just have to finish weld it out. To my surprise this manifold actually creates a scavenging effect, well at least with compressed air running down it. If pushing on tube 7 it will draw on 3&5. And conversely for the other. Tube 1 is solo and creates very little scavenging nor does it see much at all. Spark plug/boot clearance is 10-fold over the headman headers! As well the steering shaft. I see it does come close to the rag joint, might have to opt for a universal there instead.
Material I choose was steel, flanges are 3/8" thick with 16gauge tubing. Hopefully it will last.
Now to figure out how to weld this without warping everything.
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Been a little slow on this build but here is a picture of the 2.5" exhaust crossover from driver side to passenger side. Utilized a 4" long expansion joint, these allow for approx 5/8" deflection. Cross over sits approx 1-1.5" below the oil pan but just slight above the crossmember.
Turbo mount built! Just need to finish up welder big and clean it up. Will have to redo the oil cooler lines on the rad. Clearance is about 1.5" from hood to compressor housing, hopefully that's enough not to melt anything. Should be able to do a full 5" downpipe. Fender well clearance is a nice size if I decide to go to a bigger A/R housbig or bigger turbo in the future. As well I am thinking the alternator will fit back where I had it mounted before.
Now I can finish up the cross over, build passenger side manifold/header, and then the 60mm wastegate.
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Well got a solid 2 days in on more fabrication work. Built the passenger side header/manifold. Turned out well. Spark plug clearance again way better than long tube headers.
Completed the exhaust cross over and tied everything into the turbo mount/flange. Turbo mount is strong enough to support the turbo without the help of the exhaust, so hopefully this will minimize and cracking that could occur.
So far it is looking like a 5" downpipe is completely possible.
Up next will be the wastegate piping and plumbing. I will be doing a 2 into 1 wastegate setup.
Quick shot of the wastegate merge pipes. This is a 2 into 1 adaptor. I am going to run a single 60mm wastegate. Reading a little it should be easier to work with as I don't have to worry as much for syncing 2 gates or non-equal pressure in the banks, and less pipe work to get it back into the downpipe.
The waste gate of choice is a Turbosmart Gen V 60mm watercooled wastegate.
Each pipe is 1.75" diameter merging into a single 2.50" pipe to the gate.
Hopefully this does not effect spool times as the turbo is a twin scroll, my initial thoughts are 'no'.
With a wastegate this size I should be able to dial boost down as low as 3-5lbs and as high as I want to take it. The turbo matchbot calculator says I would need approx. 50-55mm.
Well I got a 5" downpipe/exhaust fabricated, not sure how well it will work. It is pretty close to the valve cover, about 1/4" away. I don't know if it will bake the oil on the inside or not, but will give it a try unless someone says something concerning.
I am thinking the valve cover will need to be ceramic coated with all the exhaust. Mayby wrap it as well.
You have got to get that car up to Edmonton!
WOW Chris, just WOW! I missed a chance to buy a 68 from a fella with teh handle "snake" here back in maybe 2004-05 for 6K ( US and CDN were near par) .
Well looks like I got a deadline now. Registered for Rocky Mountain Raceweek! I will be racing in stick shift class.
Once all done I will be driving the Beaumont to the event and back, no trailer either. Should be around 4-4500miles in total.