The partnership School evolved out of the School Business Partnership program developed by the Aurora Chamber of Commerce to partner local businesses with schools.
At the ceremony, a 5-foot Corten steel sculpture will be unveiled by fourth-grader Allen Fairbanks, who designed the piece.
The sculpture features the hand of a child juxtaposed before the hand of an adult, signifying a partnership.
The steel for the statue was cut by My-Lin Manufacturing Inc. of Aurora and it was constructed by Garbe Iron Works of Aurora.
These firms donated their time and materials.
The public is welcome.
Call (630) 844-3835.
Plano Spring concert on tap The Plano High School Music Department will present its Spring Band and Choral Concert at 7 p.m. Monday in the Gary Mitchell Fine Arts Center at the high school.
Admission is free.
Batavia Haircuts to help band The Batavia High School Marching Band is holding an All-Day Pedicure and Haircut-a-Thon as part of a fund-raising campaign BHS band parents and students have worked together on this spring to help pay for 200 marching band uniforms on order for fall delivery.
Sarah at Sue's Family Hair Co., 40 N. Island Ave., Batavia (near Parsley and Basil's) will give pedicures for $15 each from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday with all proceeds to benefit the BHS band uniform fund.
There will also be a Haircut-a- Thon at Sue's Family Hair Co. from 3 to 7 p.m. Thursday to benefit the uniform fund.
The cost of a haircut will be $12, with the entire $12 to be donated to the band.
No appointments will be taken for either event.
Anyone wanting to donate directly to the uniform fund is invited to mail a check payable to BHS Bands to Batavia High School, 1200 W. Wilson St., Batavia 60510.
Picnic planned Batavia High School's Parent Advisory Council will sponsor a "Most Improved Performer" picnic lunch at Engstrom Park from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday. The faculty has nominated students to be recognized for improving their performance in a positive direction.
The picnic lunch will be catered by the high school food service class. This will be the Parent Advisory Council's final student recognition activity this year.
Internet class set Batavia High School student computer technicians are sponsoring a free class on how to use the Internet.
This class will include how to use the Netscape Navigator World Wide Web browser, how to view basic web pages and how to save bookmarks.
The class is 7 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Call (630) 879-4600, Ext. 4803.
Kindergartners sought The Geneva Community School District is looking for all new incoming kindergarten students.
The district is looking for anyone who missed the districtwide registration in March.
Parents may contact any of the following schools: Harrison Street School, (630) 232-0883; Coultrap Elementary School, 232-0884 Western Avenue School, 232-8324, Mill Creek Elementary, 208-7592, or the school district at 262-2770.
MEXICO CITY, Oct 29, 2001
Mexican state-owned power utility the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) announced third-quarter net profits of 3.702 billion pesos, and operating losses of 1.117 billion pesos, reported Mexico City daily el Universal. The negative balance was owed to increases in energy prices, while the CFE's rates remained unchanged, reported Mexico City daily el Universal. Fixed net assets represented 88.8 percent of the CFE's total assets. Despite net profits, the company had negative operating profits because of rising energy costs, the company emphasized. The CFE said it would continue to announce its financial results in an effort to increase the organization's transparency.
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Richard Noble has assembled a team of engineers to create a new kind of light aircraft, the Farnborough Fl, designed to open up a market for single-engined air taxis across the US and Europe. The project is gathering pace.
Since the Farnborough Air Show, new engineers have joined the team, and funds are coming in from supporters -- many of whom have discovered the project via its website -- at the rate of around [pound]120,000 a month.
At the same time, attention is turning towards the manufacturing requirements of the new aircraft, to meet a global market that could be in the tens of thousands, and talks are planned with two major manufacturers: not of aircraft, but of cars. takes up the story...
'WE HAD A fantastic Farnborough. We talked to everyone and got a terrific amount of interest from the industry. At the same time the funding off the internet really is growing, There are now 111 people who have made unsolicited donations, amounting to a total of [pound]460,000. And we are getting [pound]120,000 of new money every month. Not that this means we are rich. There is no City money in this, and no government money, either. But we now have 45 people on the payroll.
I will have to spend some more time in the US, talking to our suppliers over there about our concept and what we are doing. The idea of a single engined, propeller-driven aircraft is not a big thing in the states. In the US at the moment everyone is very focused on business jets, a market that's growing fast.
People are talking about a new class of small business jet, which is basically two small jet engines with a cabin in the middle, designed for the amateur pilot. But these 'biz.jets' are noisy little screamers, need a longer runway than our plane, and don't climb as fast. That's where the biz-jet concept runs into trouble.
Our propeller-driven aircraft is quieter, which is enormously helpful when you are dealing with local residents who are opposed to the reopening of their local rural airfield because of noise. That's why in the long run, our aircraft, which is as fast as these business jets, will be able to land in a lot of places where they cannot. In the market for air taxis, that is a crucial advantage.
The big engineering issue for us continues to be the design of the air intake, which is likely to cause some changes to the front end of the aircraft, as it passes around the front undercarriage.
As the aircraft is really one big spreadsheet, where every. thing affects everything else, this is likely to be a big job, and could take our air intake designer well into next year. But if we change too far from the standard design, the question is always how much more certification this will entail, even though it may look like a great engineering improvement.
This problem has not taken us by surprise. Our chief engineer Nigel Bamber says he always knew the air intake would be a bit of a drama, but it's only as we move into the more detailed engineering this becomes evident.
The team is growing. Since the Farnborough Air Show, where we got round to talk to as many people as possible, interest in the project has really taken off, and we are getting some extremely talented people involved, including senior guys from A3XX. Many find that their jobs on the overall concept of the aircraft have shifted into detail design, and hence their desire for a new challenge.
Our main vacancies at the moment are for a stress engineer with experience of composite structures, and a systems engineer who knows how to lay out fuel, hydraulics and oxygen systems for an aircraft.
We've also had more suppliers approaching us. The typical deal is that they get involved in some of the design work, and give us some of the first shipments free of charge, in return for getting their kit specified on the plane,
The team here is working hard, with a minimum of around 40 hours a week, and some people putting in 60. But the atmosphere is really buzzing, especially as more and more new people join. It remains a small team, with good feedback and communication. There's no politics, or any of the distractions that face larger organisations, and the management structure is very flat Nigel likens the atmosphere to that of a Formula One team-but without the money.
We are also starting to think about the operating system software. This is the system that will operate the aircraft booking and scheduling over the internet. For a network of air taxis the system will be a lot more complex than typical A to B to A charter flight logistics. This unique system must be developed from scratch, and Unisys is working with us.
It may seem like a long way ahead, but the manufacturing process needs to come into play now, as there could be design changes to be made to simplify that process. The Fl will be a composite structure, so we want to re-appraise the traditional build technique, which remains something of a craft skill.
We need to create a virtual production capability concurrently with the design of the aircraft, and we are going to talk to car manufacturers to see if we can share some of their expertise in this field.
Yes, that's car makers: they are the only ones who know how to do this best. They could also make some money out of it -- at a time when overproduction in the car industry is causing margin decline. It will be interesting to see what they make of it.'
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A group of Australian Muslims planned to attack a 2005 football final in Melbourne attended by 97,000 fans, Australia's biggest terrorism trial heardA yesterday. But security raids on the homes of some members of the group in July 2005, three months before the Australian Football League (AFL) grand final, forced the group to change its target and begin planning attacks on Melbourne's casino during a Formula One race weekend or another football match, the court heard.
Muslim spiritual leader Abdul Nacer Benbrika and 11 of his followers have pleaded not guilty to charges they planned a bomb attack to force Australia to withdraw its troops from Iraq. Australia has about 550 combat troops in Iraq, which it plans to withdraw by about the middle of this year. Australia also has about 1,000 troops in Afghanistan.
A former associate of the 12 men told the Victorian Supreme Court yesterday that Benbrika had told him the group was targeting the AFL grand final, the biggest football match in Australia each year. "He said the AFL grand final was the original target," Izzydeen Atik told the court. Atik said the AFL attack was cancelled after Australian security agents and police raided the homes of some members. He said the raids had raised security concerns among the group and robbed it of its finances, which were seized by authorities.
He said the group then decided to target Melbourne's Crown Casino during the city's Formula One Grand Prix and an AFL pre-season match. The prosecutor has told the court that Benbrika, who praised Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden as a "great man", told the group that Australia was a land at war and jihad was justified.
The prosecutor said police raids on the men's homes had found literature on how to make bombs and video tapes with messages from bin Laden and showing beheadings.
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