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Now in its 24th year, the Future City Competition allows teams of 6th, 7th and 8th graders to design their city of the future. This year’s theme was “Waste Not, Want Not”.

The teams were charged with coming up with solutions to handle food, energy byproducts and the general clutter created by 21st century life. More than one hundred teams representing 20 Wisconsin schools participated.

Longfellow Middle School in Wauwatosa is WAY into the Future City Competition.

This year it boasted 21 teams. You could not help but be impressed with these kids, determined to come up with the winning waste control scheme.

8th graders Jenna, Carson and Levi create the City Ignis. “And our solution is plasma gasification which has to do with fire to eliminate trash,” Carson said.

The team devised an underground solution. “Because in the future, it’s going to be packed, so we might as well start going underwater so we have more space,” Jenna said.

Then there was George’s team – also 8th graders.

“This project uses only recycled materials, so everything you see here is not bought in stores – it’s totally recycled. Everything is from all of our houses, everything is recycled, nothing is not recycled,” George said.

Sixth graders Mick, Lance and Jack featured zipline transportation, and Jack’s waste solution – intensive recycling. “Some of the trash would not compost, so you would just have to recycle it to the most that you can, but if you can’t recycle it any more, you’ll just going to have to throw it

Article source: http://wuwm.com/post/greendale-middle-school-team-represents-wisconsin-future-city-competition-washington-dc

North Charleston, S.C. — Just over three years after Boeing South Carolina delivered the first 787 Dreamliner built at its final assembly plant here, on Tuesday it handed the keys of the 100th jet to American Airlines.

Celebrating that milestone as Boeing prepares to ramp up 787 production, site leader Beverly Wyse said “the next 100 planes will happen in about half that time.”

It was a watershed day at Boeing’s East Coast manufacturing complex, which has recently added significant engineering work and now employs about 7,500 people — growth that makes it both a key supplier to Boeing’s Puget Sound-area factories and a serious rival for future airplane work.

Boeing South Carolina

Employees: About 7,500, compared to more than 78,000 in Washington state.

787 fuselage work: The site fabricates the rear fuselage and assembles the mid-fuselage of all 787s.

787 final assembly: It currently builds 4 to 5 Dreamliners per month, compared to 7 jets built in Everett.

Other: The company also manufactures parts for 787 passenger cabins and has IT, engineering design and research units in South Charleston.

Source: Boeing

Article source: http://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boeings-s-carolina-site-delivers-100th-dreamliner/

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Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished colleague Mr Valls, distinguished Mr Ischinger, my speech will be of a more general nature, but I hope it will be useful.

The first cold war ended 25 years ago. This is not long in terms of history, but it is a considerable period for individual people and even for generations. And it is certainly sufficient for assessing our common victories and losses, setting new goals and, of course, avoiding a repetition of past mistakes.

The Munich Security Conference has been known as a venue for heated and frank discussion. This is my first time here. Today I’d like to tell you about Russia’s assessment of the current European security situation and possible solutions to our common problems, which have been aggravated by the deterioration of relations between Russia and the West.

Before coming to this conference, I met with President Putin. We talked about his speech at the Munich conference in 2007. He said then that ideological stereotypes, double standards and unilateral actions do not ease but only fan tensions in international relations, reducing the international community’s opportunities for adopting meaningful political decisions.

Did we overstate this? Were our assessments of the situation too pessimistic? Unfortunately, I have to say that the situation is now even worse than we feared. Developments have taken a much more dramatic turn since

Article source: http://www.globalresearch.ca/nato-threatens-russia-we-are-rolling-into-a-new-cold-war-speech-by-russias-prime-minister-dmitri-medvedev-at-2016-munich-security-conference/5507919

What a great company Studebaker Corp. was. According to historian Fred K. Fox, from 1853 to 1858, John Studebaker lived and worked in Hangtown (Placerville), making and selling wheelbarrows and tools to the gold prospectors during the Gold Rush. He was quite successful, brought his $8,000 ($223,195 in today’s dollars) earnings back to South Bend, Indiana, and joined his four brothers in what became the largest producer of horse-drawn vehicles in the world.

Studebaker initially did well in the automobile manufacturing business, and by 1913 the company was the third-largest producer of cars in the country, behind Ford and Overland. The Great Depression caused the company to go into receivership, and Studebaker never again regained the leadership position it once had. But many said Studebaker was ahead of its time when, after World War II, it became the first automaker to bring out completely restyled cars, changing the way all cars would look in the future.

In 1953, Studebaker introduced the remarkable Starlight Coupe, designed by noted industrial designer Raymond Loewy. While the coupes were truly a work of art, the sedans and wagons were pretty stodgy. This was the last completely new model Studebaker would produce, with the last Studebaker being built in 1966, but not the last Avanti.

Studebaker did reasonably well in the 1950s, including the Studebaker Lark in 1959. But the Big Three came out with strong competition, and Studebaker Lark sales dropped. The company searched for new leadership and ended up hiring Sherwood Egbert as

Article source: http://www.contracostatimes.com/tri-valley-times/ci_29502605/me-my-car-studebakers-avanti-daring-but-doomed