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Pueblo Economic Development Corp. has received its share of criticism for allegedly not helping existing businesses enough. Last week’s groundbreaking for United Technologies Corp. Aerospace Systems is proof that the community’s half-cent sales tax for job creation not only helps new business prospects but also assists companies that have long called Pueblo home.

UTC broke ground on its $82 million expansion project Aug. 25. The manufacturer of airplane brakes expects to add 46 good-paying jobs to its payroll in the coming months to help meet the growing demand for its carbon braking system for Boeing and Airbus aircraft.

To help convince UTC to add jobs and construct the addition in Pueblo, $1.4 million from Pueblo’s half-cent sales tax fund was committed to the project. Pueblo County tax breaks totaling another $1.4 million and state funds for job training also helped sweeten the local economic development deal.

“It’s a good example of PEDCO, Pueblo County and the state of Colorado really pulling together,” UTC President for Landing Systems Jim Wharton said at the groundbreaking event.

The Pueblo plant, which currently employs about 200, opened in 1987 by B.F. Goodrich to manufacture carbon brakes for aircraft. In 2012, a merger of two companies — Hamilton Sundstrand and Goodrich — created UTC.

As demand for its aircraft brake parts has grown, UTC has been exploring various

Article source: http://www.chieftain.com/opinion/3889405-120/pueblo-utc-tax-cent

Where does it all go after we’re gone?

Gerald Willits’ life was full of things, but he was very much alone.

When he died a year ago at 76, it took days for anyone to notice. By then, said Orange County Deputy Public Administrator Brett Williams, his body had begun to decompose.

Willits had lived in Buena Park, in a little one-story house behind a high chain-link fence. His rooms were piled high with papers and trash and fast-food wrappers. His roommates were swarms of bees and rats. The rodents ate away at everything, including the furniture.

By the time officials discovered this classic case of hoarding, it was so bad that county workers had to cover their noses and mouths with masks.

“Mission: Impossible” has been captivating audiences with high-octane action sequences ever since the film franchise launched in 1996.

From the iconic wire hang in the first film to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge shootout in “M:I 3” to the Burj Khalifa sequence in 2011’s “Ghost Protocol,” there was a long list of thrilling and original set pieces that Christopher McQuarrie had to live up to when he took on the fifth film in the espionage series.

The opera house scene was McQuarrie’s answer to that challenge in this year’s “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation.” Tom Cruise hanging off the side of a a plane 5,000 feet in the air caught the attention of anybody who watched the film’s trailer, but it’s the elegant and heart-pounding opera sequence that really wowed audiences upon the movie’s release.

The scene features Ethan Hunt (Cruise) and Benji (Simon Pegg) searching for a suspect at the Vienna Opera House. Various members of spy and counterspy organizations position themselves in what feels sometimes like a dance, sometimes like a fight, to either kill or protect the Chancellor of Austria — and sometimes it’s not clear exactly what fate someone has intended for the Chancellor, as is the case with Rebecca Ferguson’s mysterious Ilsa.

All this is going down during a performance of “Turandot,” an Italian opera by Giacomo Puccini. The aria “Nessun Dorma” in the final act is one of those opera pieces like

Article source: http://www.hitfix.com/news/fascinating-behind-the-scenes-stories-about-the-opera-scene-in-mission-impossible-rogue-nation

There are a million and one ways to build a rollcage from scratch, and there are almost as many seat options when it comes to assembling an early Jeep. Not all of them will look good or even work in the confined interior of a flatfender. Comfortably fitting in an early Jeep is not an easy task. If you’re any taller than 5 foot, 6 inches tall, you have to be a bit of a clown-car contortionist to even get in and out of a flatfender Jeep. If you’re 5 foot, 11 inches tall like Cappa, then you are near the max-height limit for this ride, unless you plan to cut and extend the body. Over the years we’ve come up with a few tricks to make the seating in an early Jeep more comfortable, while still retaining a low overall ’cage height.

When we set out to build our ’cage, we took the many rollovers of our last flatfender into consideration. There were a few parameters we worked with: the top of the cage had to sit below the windshield frame, it had to mount solidly to the Jeep’s frame, the seats and belts had to be mounted to the ’cage itself, we needed plenty of headroom all around, we wanted to keep it light, and the ’cage had to help make the hacked-up and crumbling 70-year-old body more rigid. We considered building a buggy-style cage but scrapped the idea because we like the look of a traditional dual-hoop ’cage

Article source: http://www.fourwheeler.com/project-vehicles/1508-jeep-flatfender-garage-project-gpw-part-5/

Measurement theory shows that strong assumptions are required for certain statistics to provide meaningful information about reality. Measurement theory encourages people to think about the meaning of their data. It encourages critical assessment of the assumptions behind the analysis.

In pure science, we can form a better, more coherent, and objective picture of the world, based on the information measurement provides. The information allows us to create models of (parts of) the world and formulate laws and theorems. We must then determine (again) by measuring whether these models, hypotheses, theorems, and laws are a valid representation of the world.

Gauri Shankar Shrestha

In science, the term observer effect refers to changes that the act of observation will make on a phenomenon being observed. This is often the result of instruments that, by necessity, alter the state of what they measure in some manner.

It was, perhaps, the most unusual episode in the long running duel between the two giants of twentieth century economic thought. During World War Two, John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek spent all night together, alone, on the roof of the chapel of Kings College, Cambridge. Their task was to gaze at the skies and watch for German bombers aiming to pour incendiary bombs upon the picturesque small cities of England.

Night after night the faculty and students of Kings, armed with shovels, took it in turns to man the roof of the ornate Gothic chapel, whose foundation stone was laid by Henry VI in 1441. The fire watchmen of

Article source: http://news.goldseek.com/GoldSeek/1440961104.php

September 1, 2015

Updated Sep 1, 2015 at 7:38 PM EDT

KENDALLVILLE, Ind. (21Alive) — People who own their own aircraft can be a picky lot, so when something happens to their plane, more often than not, they steer toward a cornfield in Kendallville, Indiana, where the craftsmen at Airframe Components can get it wheels up once again.

It’s kind of surreal, walking into the Airframe Componentsfacility in rural Noble County. Like a model airplane store…except the planes are real. The company was started in 1980 and has grown into a worldwide business.

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” We have a reputation as being the number one shop in the world specifically for wing and control service rebuilding,” owner Roy Williams says.

The shop is an FAA and EASA certified repair shop where they fixed damaged wings, and tails and flaps and send parts all over the world. It’s a very

Article source: http://www.21alive.com/madehere/Your-Story-Made-Here-Airframe-Components--323788051.html