The News Review:
- Contracts Awarded
- Genetically engineered plants to offset C2?
- FinancialContent.com – Stock Quotes and Business News
- Bloomberg.com: India & Pakistan
- Merrick & Company Wins High Honors for Three Projects
- Man Vs. Machine
- Summer Series – “Environment” – NMB Water Recycling System
Contracts Awarded
Washington Post – Dec 24, 2007
4 million contract from the Navy for switch maintenance. C&E Services of Vienna won a $1. 9 million contract from the Department of the Treasury for operation and maintenance of the government’s industrial wastewater pretreatment plant in Fort Worth. Cape Fox Professional Services of Manassas won a $2 million contract from the Army for hardware and abrasives. CherryRoad GT of Vienna won a $45 million contract from the Department of Justice for integrated wireless telecommunications and Web portal. Executive Crossing West of Virginia Beach won a $3. 1 million contract from the General Services Administration for lease of office space for the Social Security Administration in Hampton… 4 million from the Defense Supply Center Philadelphia for men’s dress shoes. Global Linguist Solutions of Springfield won a $60 million contract from the Army Intelligence and Security Command for interpreter and translator services. ITT Advanced Engineering & Sciences of Annapolis Junction won a $9. 8 million contract from the Naval Sea Systems Command for the design development and delivery of development models including engineering support services training maintenance and repair. Northrop Grumman Systems of Linthicum Heights won a $730 million contract from the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base to provide radar systems. Northrop Grumman Defense Mission Systems of Reston won a $18. 1 million contract from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center San Diego for command control communications computers and intelligence system training and operational support.
Genetically engineered plants to offset C2?
Hindu – Dec 24, 2007
Robert Turgeon Cornell professor of plant biology who first proposed the theory of transporting sugar in 1991 said his team used genetic engineering techniques to prove his theory known as the polymer trap model. The researchers say their findings may help deepen the understanding of basic plant biology. They also say these findings may be critically important in an era of climate change because they may one day allow researchers to genetically engineer plants with increased photosynthetic rates yields and carbon dioxide intake. Turgeon’s theory upon accumulation in leaves as a product of photosynthesis sucrose diffuses into the plant’s tubelike transport tissue called phloem along with other nutrients to move to other areas of the plant.
FinancialContent.com – Stock Quotes and Business News
sltrib.com – Dec 24, 2007
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Bloomberg.com: India & Pakistan
Bloomberg – Dec 24, 2007
and by selling overseas bonds. AIG's investment of 300million rupees will be used for meeting daily expenses thecompany said. The remaining 700 million rupees will be used for aplant that will make gearboxes for a small car being planned byTata Motors Ltd. India's third-biggest carmaker. Maruti Suzuki India Ltd.
Merrick & Company Wins High Honors for Three Projects
WebWire – WebWire (press release) – Dec 24, 2007
“We’re all proud of the success of the project and have concluded with our client that the multi-sensor approach is technically feasible for the remaining 735 miles of the river. Merrick provided detailed architectural and engineering design services for one of the initial elements of the $460 million modernization of the USDA National Centers for Animal Health (NCAH). The state-of-the-art facility provides an opportunity for this campus to become the leading animal research facility in the world. The NACH project is a complete modernization of the agency’s laboratory animal and physical plant facilities. In the Special Projects category Bob Trout and Glenn Pierce of Merrick accepted an Engineering Excellence Award for the Spallation Neutron Source Target Hot Cell project (ak Ridge TN). Merrick provided detailed design work on a first-of-a-kind and one-of-a-kind shielded hot cell and associated support systems… Merrick provided detailed architectural and engineering design services for one of the initial elements of the $460 million modernization of the USDA National Centers for Animal Health (NCAH). The state-of-the-art facility provides an opportunity for this campus to become the leading animal research facility in the world. The NACH project is a complete modernization of the agency’s laboratory animal and physical plant facilities. In the Special Projects category Bob Trout and Glenn Pierce of Merrick accepted an Engineering Excellence Award for the Spallation Neutron Source Target Hot Cell project (ak Ridge TN). Merrick provided detailed design work on a first-of-a-kind and one-of-a-kind shielded hot cell and associated support systems. The target maintenance hot cell is a shielded and confined operating room where the heart of the Spallation Neutron Source project the activated mercury targets are remotely maintained to support the operations of this world-class material science R&D facility. Merrick & Company is an employee-owned professional services firm with headquarters in Aurora C.
Man Vs. Machine
Forbes – Dec 24, 2007
Where workers once craned and crawled they would flit and swivel in and out of SUVs to install overhead lamps seat belts and air bags. “Moving around is surprisingly smooth” says staff engineer Karen Lewis. ” Honda is testing the chair in its Lincoln Ala. plant where it builds the dyssey and the Pilot. The chair made by a company called Stillwater costs $70000 to $100000.
Summer Series – “Environment” – NMB Water Recycling System
abc.net.au – Dec 24, 2007
DESLEY BLANCH : So how does yours differ from other similar technologies?DR TNY TAYLR : The NMB is actually a solid state culture where the cells grow on the surface of a membrane in direct contact with air and two membranes are arranged in parallel with each other and liquid is trickled down between them and this forms a primitive form of a gill and air passes passively between the sets of gills and the cells consume the nutrients and it does the whole job with a much higher availability of oxygen. DESLEY BLANCH : So you don’t have the expense of having to aerate and all of those things which you have in these other systems that are grown in liquid?DR TNY TAYLR : Yeah in a sewerage treatment situation you’ll pump air down underneath the liquid and it’ll bubble straight to the top. So then you have to keep doing this time and time again and it’s very expensive costing something like about a quarter of a million dollars a year for one sewerage treatment plant just in the electricity they consume. Whereas with the NMB the aeration’s passive all you have to do is pump the liquid up to the top and let it very slowly trickle down through the membranes. DESLEY BLANCH : Well you’re membrane bio-reactor is being patented by ANST and that’s how it really does really function so inexpensively then?DR TNY TAYLR : Yeah pumping costs for the liquid are much lower than the aeration costs in a normal bio-reactor. DESLEY BLANCH : And what’s it made of?DR TNY TAYLR : There’s a very big variety of membranes that we’ve made. But essentially they’re a porous glass or a porous glass composite with polymers… DESLEY BLANCH : And what other uses might there be for this invention because there are other uses that are quite wide and varying. DR TNY TAYLR : Well it was originally designed for making antibiotics. The big issue with antibiotics is that you can’t make antibiotics in the cells that produce them in submerged cultures that is without genetically engineering the organisms. With the NMB the produce very large amounts of antibiotics very efficiently very quickly without the need for genetic engineering and this we hope we’ll be able to bring at least 15 may be 20 brand new totally fundamentally different antibiotics to the market which will help us eradicate these super bugs that are a big problem at the moment. But we’ve also managed to prove it was extremely good for producing foods like citric acid. It had great results for mining which is used in bio-leaching. We haven’t used it for bio-remediation that’s where you clean up toxic waste sites but it probably will work very well for that.