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Willard Manufacturing Company Building. The Willard Manufacturing Company Building is a historic factory building at 25 Stowell Street in the city of St. Albans, Vermont.  Built in 1896, the building saw industrial uses continuously until 2006, retaining many original early period features.  It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

Description and history
The Willard Manufacturing Company is located in the industrial areas of St. Albans that flank the tracks of the Central Vermont Railroad.  It is set on the north side of Stowell Street, at its junction with Allen Street, which runs north–south along the tracks.  It is a flat-roofed two story wood-frame building, extending for about  along Stowell Street. It is set on a limestone foundation, and its roof has a slightly projecting cornice with occasional exposed rafter ends.  Windows are tall and rectangular, with fixed upper portions and a short bottom sash.  A single-story addition extends westward from the main block, with garage bay openings facing Allen Street.  The interior has a lobby at the eastern end, and a largely open factory space on the balance of the ground floor, with offices and a showroom on the east end of the upper level.

The Willard Manufacturing Company was founded in 1886 by Rodney S. Willard, a prominent local garment manufacturer, by merging two businesses in which he was a partner.  The business first produced overalls and frocks, but expanded to produce undergarments, hosiery, and swimwear.  This factory was built in 1896 on land acquired from W. Beecher Fonda, a company board member who owned the adjacent lumber yard.  The city had in 1895 suffered a devastating fire in its downtown area, and this factory was built using the latest in fire resistance and suppression methods.  The Willard Company operated into the early 1940s, producing military uniforms during World War II.  Its building was acquired in 1942 by the George H. Soule Company, makers of maple syrup evaporators.  The Soule Company was responsible for partition some of the factory space for offices and other uses, and the addition of the garage to the west end.  It was later owned by the Leader Evaporator Company, which moved to a modern plant in 2006. The building was later converted to apartments.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Franklin County, Vermont

References

See also 
 Willard Mill Housing

Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Vermont
National Register of Historic Places in Franklin County, Vermont
Italianate architecture in Vermont
Industrial buildings completed in 1896
Buildings and structures in St. Albans (city), Vermont
1896 establishments in Vermont
Textile mills in the United States
Apartment buildings in Vermont
Mauboussin M.112. The Mauboussin M.112, M-12 or Mauboussin M.XII was originally called the Peyret-Mauboussin PM XII and was renamed when Mauboussin founded his own company in 1931, ending his partnership with Louis Peyret. It was a French, single-engine, two-seat, low cantilever wing touring monoplane. At least six were built.

Design and development

The low, cantilever wing of the M.112 was built in three parts, a tapered centre-section which was part of the fuselage and trapezoidal outer panels with elliptical tips. Its aspect ratio of 9.5 was high for the time. The outer panels carried mild dihedral and full-span, narrow-chord ailerons. The wings were completely wooden, with twin box spars and alder plywood skin.

It was powered by an uncowled  Salmson 9Ad nine-cylinder radial engine with its fuel tanks in the wing centre-section. Behind it, beyond a firewall, the wooden fuselage had a rectangular section defined by four longerons, though the upper decking was curved. It was covered in plywood. The M.112 had a pair of tandem seats over the wing, with the pilot at the rear. These seats could be open or enclosed by a removable cover. The fuselage tapered to the rear where the tail surfaces, also ply-covered, were straight-tapered and round tipped. Both horizontal and vertical surfaces had quite high aspect ratios and the vertical tail was tall; the horizontal tail was mounted on top of the fuselage. Both rudder and elevators were aerodynamically unbalanced.

The M.112 had conventional, fixed landing gear.  Its mainwheels, fitted with brakes, were on cranked axles and drag struts, both hinged from the lower fuselage longerons. There were short, vertical Messier oleo struts from the outer axles to the forward wing spars in the centre-section, giving it a track of . Its tailskid, which could be replaced with a wheel, castered and had twin small bungee shock absorbers.

Operational history

Built at the Zenith factory, the M.XII first flew in September 1931. In August 1932, flown by André Nicolle and registered as a Mauboussin M.112, it competed in the Challenge International de Tourisme 1932 (), which involved both technical tests and a  circuit around Europe. It came last, but with its very low-powered engine, was the only aircraft in its class. It also appeared at the 1932 Paris Aero Salon. The French civil aircraft register included six M.112s, used by aero clubs and individuals.

Aircraft in the Mauboussin M.120 Corsaire series which followed were similar to the M.112 but heavier and with more powerful engines.

Specifications

References

Peyret aircraft
Mauboussin aircraft
1930s French sport aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1931
Florida Surface Water Improvement and Management Act of 1987. The Surface Water Improvement and Management Act of 1987 was a law passed by the Florida Legislature in order to protect surface waters of, which include estuaries, rivers, lakes, and streams.  The act created the Surface Water Improvement and Management Program, which seeks to control nonpoint source pollution.

Administration
The five water districts of Florida are responsible for the administration of the SWIM Program.  The water districts perform these duties in consultation with other federal, state, and local agencies.

SWIM Priority Water Bodies

Northwest Florida Water Management District 
Apalachicola River and Bay Watershed, Pensacola Bay System, Choctawhatchee River and Bay Watershed, St. Andrew Bay Watershed, St. Marks River and Apalachee Bay Watershed, Ochlockonee River and Bay Watershed, and Perdido River and Bay Watershed.

South Florida Water Management District
Tier 1: Biscayne Bay, Florida Keys, Lake Istokpoga, Lake Okeechobee, Lake Trafford, Lower Charlotte Harbor (incl. Charlotte Harbor, Estero Bay and Caloosahatchee River & Estuary), Loxahatchee River, and St. Lucie Estuary.
Tier 2: Florida Bay, Indian River Lagoon, Lake Worth Lagoon, Naples Bay/Gordon River, and Rookery Bay/Marco.
Tier 3: Lake Arbuckle, Lake Butler, Lake Weohyakapka, and Upper Kissimmee Chain of Lakes.

Southwest Florida Water Management District 
Tampa Bay, Rainbow River, Crystal River/Kings Bay, Lake Panasoffkee, Charlotte Harbor, Lake Tarpon, Lake Thonotosassa, Winter Haven Chain of Lakes, Sarasota Bay, Weeki Wachee River, Chassahowitzka River, Homosassa River.

St. Johns River Water Management District
Upper St. Johns River, Lower St. Johns River, Lake Apopka, Upper Ocklawaha, Middle St. Johns River, Northern Coastal Basin, and Orange Creek.

Suwannee River Water Management District
Alligator Lake, Aucilla River, Coastal Rivers, Santa Fe River, Suwannee River, and Waccasassa River.

References

1987 in Florida
Paul Blainey. Paul Blainey is an investigator and core faculty member at the Broad Institute in Boston, Massachusetts, and assistant professor of biological engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is recognized for his work in single cell genomics.

Blainey studied mathematics and chemistry as an undergraduate at the University of Washington. He continued his studies in physical chemistry at Harvard University, earning a M.S. and Ph.D. He did a postdoc at Stanford University, where he developed high-throughput methods for whole-genome amplification of DNA from individual microbial cells in Stephen Quake’s laboratory.

Awards 
 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Awards at the Scientific Interface, 2011
 Agilent Early Career Investigator Award, 2014
 2017 NIH New Innovator Award

References

External links
 

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
MIT School of Engineering faculty
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
American geneticists
Toei 5500 series. The  is an electric multiple unit (EMU) train type owned by Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation (Toei) for use on Toei Asakusa Line services in Japan from June 2018.

Design
The 5500 series were built by Japan Transport Engineering Company (J-TREC) as part of its "Sustina S13 Series" family of -long, three-door stainless steel-bodied trains. The new trains have a maximum operating speed of , compared to  on the majority of the earlier Toei 5300 series fleet. In addition, they use energy-efficient three-phase induction motors controlled by two-level variable frequency drives using silicon carbide-based MOSFETs.

Operations
They are used on the Toei Asakusa Line, Keikyu Main Line, Keikyu Airport Line, the Hokuso Line and the Keisei Line through services since 30 June 2018. They were introduced on Narita Sky Access Line services on 26 February 2022.

Formation
As of July 2021, the fleet consists of 27 eight-car trainsets. The formations consist of 6 motored ("M") cars, and two non-powered trailer ("T") cars. Car 1 is on the south end.

 Cars 3 and 6 each have two single-arm type pantographs.

Interior

History
Toei officially announced initial details of the new trains on 6 December 2016.

One eight-car set was delivered during fiscal 2017, and was to enter service in fiscal spring 2018. This will be followed by seven more sets in fiscal 2018, with 19 further sets delivered in subsequent years.

The trains entered service on 30 June 2018.

Gallery

References

External links

 Toei news release published in December 2016 
 J-TREC news release 

Electric multiple units of Japan
5500
Train-related introductions in 2018
J-TREC multiple units
1500 V DC multiple units of Japan
James H. Woodward. Dr. James Woodward is an aeronautical engineer, professor, and past chancellor of University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

James Woodward was born in Sanford, Florida and grew up in Columbus, Georgia. He married his childhood sweetheart at the age of sixteen. Shortly after he graduated from high school and attended Auburn University. He decided he wanted to be an Aeronautical Engineer, so he enrolled in the School of Aeronautics at Georgia Tech where he graduated first in his class in 1961. He received his master's degree in 1962 and his PhD in engineering mechanics in 1967. Upon receiving his degree he taught as an Associate Professor of Engineering Mechanics at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado. He was promoted to the rank of captain.

In 1968 Woodward moved his family back down south and began teaching at North Carolina State University. In 1969 he accepted a tenured position at the University of Alabama at Birmingham where he would eventually serve as the Dean of the School of Engineering and the Senior Vice President.

In 1989 Dr. Woodward began his long career as the Chancellor of the UNC Charlotte succeeding Chancellor E. K. Fretwell. Under Woodward enrollment grew to 19,000 students. He continued the growth of the Graduate School at UNCC and added new doctoral programs. He oversaw the largest fundraising campaign the school had ever seen as well as construction of several new buildings on campus.  Woodward retired in 2005. Woodward Hall, the home of the College of Computing and Informatics, was dedicated in Woodward's honor in 2005. In 2009 the UNC System asked Woodward to be the Interim Chancellor of NC State University.

References

External links
 Chancellor James H Woodward records, J Murrey Atkins Library Archives, UNC Charlotte
 Dr. James Woodward 2012 Alumni Awards Video
 The Making of a Research University: James Woodward and UNC Charlotte'' by William Thomas Jeffers

21st-century American engineers
Leaders of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Living people
Georgia Tech alumni
People from Sanford, Florida
North Carolina State University faculty
United States Air Force Academy faculty
University of Alabama at Birmingham faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Hurlburt Hurricane. The Hurlburt Hurricane, also known as the Camburn Special, is a midget-class racing plane designed in the mid 1940s by aviators Marge Hurlburt, Anna Logan, and Duke Caldwell, all former members of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP).

When WASP was disbanded after World War II, former WASP aviator Marge Hurlburt took up air racing, becoming interested in a new midget class of racing airplanes that had first been proposed before the war: these would be smaller, lighter, and cheaper to build than those then in use and thus suitable for civilian pilots and homebuilders to build and fly.

Together with fellow WASP aviators Anna Logan and Duke Caldwell, she formed a consortium to design and build such a plane, which required a stock  engine, fixed pitched propeller, and non-retractable landing gear. Known ultimately as the "Hurlburt Hurricane", their design was powered by an  Continental C85 engine. It was sponsored by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Continental Motors, and Kendall Motor Oil. The trio moved to Michigan, where the plane was being built, to supervise and to put on the plane's covering themselves. Its registration number was NX1223, with the 'X' designating it as an experimental aircraft.

Given entry number 85 in the 1947 Goodyear Trophy Race, a  course for midget racers, the trio hoped for Hurlburt to pilot the plane, but she was killed prior to the race when her aircraft crashed at an air show in Iowa. Neither of the other members of the trio was ultimately able to take over because the race remained restricted to male pilots. The Hurlburt Hurricane thus flew with Joe Smith as pilot and was eliminated in the heats.

A group of pilots and aviation enthusiasts has formed to make the Hurlburt Hurricane airworthy again. Peanut-scale models of the Hurlburt Hurricane have been built from plans drawn by Dave Livesay.

References

External links
Hip Pocket Aeronautics Builders' Plan Gallery — Downloadable plans for scale-model Hurlburt Hurricane (membership required)

Racing aircraft
1940s United States experimental aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Mid-wing aircraft
Plastics Industry Association. The Plastics Industry Association, abbreviated as PLASTICS, is a trade association representing the plastics industry. Founded in 1937 as the Society of the Plastics Industry, the organization rebranded as the Plastics Industry Association, and PLASTICS for short, in 2016. 

The Organization was in charge of many new laws that pass the mandate of all plastics to be uniformed with a special resin code. This code closely resembles the recycling symbol which includes three chasing arrows in a triangular shape. The foundations most recent law passed includes the law SB 343. The SB 343 law forces all plastics in California to display this unique resin code in order to (ironically), not confuse the daily consumer of confusing the plastic product as recyclable. This also hits on they want the producers to "GreenCycle" or "Wish-Cycle" which is unlawful due to misconception of the products nature. All plastics are not from nature whatsoever and laws like these allow the production of Plastics to exist (the last statement cannot be fully backed up entirely though opinions).

Membership
Membership in PLASTICS is divided into four different industry councils, each one representing a different segment of the plastics industry:

 Materials Suppliers
 Processors
 Brand Owners
 Equipment Manufacturers and Moldmakers

The organization also hosts international plastics showcase NPE, among largest triennial trade show for the global plastics industry.\

See also
 British Plastics Federation

References

External links

Adsale Plastics

Recycling organizations
Plastics industry organizations
Trade associations based in the United States
Advocacy groups in the United States
LCM62-class landing craft. The LCM62 class is a series of landing craft mechanized used by the Italian Navy.

History 

The first four hulls were ordered by the Italian Ministry of Defense (NAVARM) on 21 December 2007, for €3,992,000. The fifth hull was ordered by NAVARM on 9 November 2009. The last four hulls were ordered by NAVARM on 21 December 2010.

The LCM62 class is designated by Vittoria Shipyards as the C828 class and is a vehicle crafted to support amphibious military action. The boats were designed for the transport of troops and ground vehicles, as part of landing operations on the coasts. These models are required and employed by all major navy forces, for their versatility and safety features guaranteed by the ballistic protection of the cabin. The hull and superstructure construction material is steel AH36. The closed and air-conditioned wheelhouse can accommodate up to three sailors. The wheelhouse and the front ramp door are equipped with ballistic protection against NATO 7.62×51mm A.P. bullets.

The MTM (Motozattera Trasporto Mezzi)-class landing crafts LCM62 have been developed by Studio Fast Service and  Vittoria Shipyard for the Italian Navy. Nine of these crafts are operated aboard the three  ships and are used by the San Marco Marine Brigade at Brindisi Naval Station homeport.

Export

Algerian Navy 

In July 2011 the Algerian Navy placed an order with Fincantieri for an improved version of the San Giorgio-class amphibious transport ships classified as "Bâtiment de Débarquement et de Soutien Logistique" (BDSL), and named  The BDSL can accommodate three C828 landing craft mechanized, built in Ecrn (Etablissement de Construction et Réparation Navales) Shipyard of Mers-El-Kebir (Algeria), under license by Cantieri Vittoria

Ships in class

References

External links 
 Ships Marina Militare website

Amphibious warfare vessel classes
Ships built in Italy
Landing craft
Amphibious warfare vessels of the Italian Navy
Evelyn Miralles. Evelyn Rodriguez Miralles (born 19 February 1966) is a Venezuelan-American engineer that served as the chief principal engineer with CACI International at NASA Johnson Space Center Houston Texas. Her work at the virtual reality laboratory at NASA furthered human spaceflight by training United States astronauts to perform spacewalks and working outside a spacecraft in micro-gravity. Miralles is currently the Associate vice president for Strategic Information Initiatives and Technology at the University of Houston–Clear Lake.

Career
When Miralles was young she wanted to be an architect "to build something" in space, and at the University of Houston–Clear Lake she learned computer science and how to code algorithms for computer graphics. In 1990, she graduated from the Lamar University with a BS in Computer Graphics, and in 1992 from University of Houston–Clear Lake with a BA in CIS. She worked at NASA Johnson Space Center's VRLAB for twenty years in Houston (Texas).

Since 1992, Miralles supported the Space Shuttle and International Space Station missions. Her first project was building a 3D model of a Habitat for the Moon project. It was not feasible but could possibly be used in the future for a mission to Mars. Miralles was the co-author of the state-of-the-art Dynamic Onboard Ubiquitous Graphics (DOUG) flight software, which has been used since 2000 to train astronauts using virtual reality technology. She was part of the team for STS 61 mission, which repaired the Hubble Space Telescope in 1993, and for all Space Shuttle and ISS missions after.

Miralles is involved with science outreach. She keynoted the Hispanic science conference "Hispanicize 2017".

Awards 
 One of BBC 100 Inspirational Women in the World BBC 100 Women - 2016
 University of Houston–Clear Lake - Distinguish Alumna Award - 2016
 CNET in Spanish Top 20 most influential Hispanics in the US - 2016
 NASA Space Flight Safety Award "Silver Snoopy Award" - 2012

References

External links

 
 

Living people
NASA
Johnson Space Center
American women engineers
1966 births
University of Houston–Clear Lake alumni
American software engineers
21st-century American women
North Coast Corridor. The North Coast Corridor is an infrastructure improvement project in northern San Diego County, California, intended to upgrade road, rail, pedestrian, and bicycle transportation infrastructure, as well as fund environmental restoration. The project has a $6 billion budget, and after beginning the first phases of construction in late 2016 is planned to be completed over the following 40 years.

First phase
The $700 million initial phase of construction began in 2016 with a groundbreaking on November 29 at San Elijo Lagoon.  The projects in this phase are scheduled to be completed by 2021. The state government is contributing $250 million to this project, mostly coming from the fuel tax levied by SB1, known as the Road Repair and Accountability Act.

Highway
Two new bridges are to be built on Interstate 5: one across the San Elijo Lagoon in Solana Beach and Encinitas, and one across Batiquitos Lagoon in Carlsbad.  Other road projects include added carpool lanes and sound barriers.  The total cost of the highway portion of the first phase was budgeted for $480 million. The highway expansion faces opposition from environmentalists, who argue that "expanding the amount of space we dedicate to cars not only fails to speed up traffic but also accelerates the breakdown of ecosystems that support life on earth."

Rail
Two segments of the major passenger rail line following the coast from San Diego north, used by Coaster commuter trains and Pacific Surfliner inter-city trains, are to be double tracked.  Work began initially on a  segment of track between Cardiff-by-the-Sea and San Elijo Lagoon, including replacement of the railroad bridge over the lagoon. The wooden trestle crossing San Elijo Lagoon was demolished in 2018, after 74 years in service, and was replaced by a modern double-track concrete structure. The wooden trestle had been built in 1944, replacing one built in 1880.

Work is ongoing on a similar project at Batiquitos Lagoon, including a bridge replacement and  of new double track. These projects, as well as grade crossing work, are budgeted for $102 million. 

This railway line was originally known as the Surf Line built in the 1880s by the California Southern Railroad, which became part of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. It is currently part of the LOSSAN Corridor, which forms the route of the Pacific Surfliner. The upgrades to the North Coast Corridor are being done in conjunction with the extension of the San Diego Trolley's Blue Line to UC San Diego, which is known as the Mid-Coast Corridor.

Other transportation
$40 million is to be spent on bicycle path and pedestrian improvements, along with local community enhancements.

Environment
San Elijo Lagoon will receive $80 million for restoration efforts, such as dredging and filling to bring sediment to natural levels, as well as additional conserved area to mitigate the impact of the new road and rail bridges. This work is scheduled to begin in 2017.

References

External links

Project website

Transportation in San Diego County, California