The News Review:
- Aircraft makers flock to Mexico
- PLAYING GD WILL NT ANSWER PRAYERS
- WEEK IN REVIEW
- Business in Wisconsin
- Bamboo is pretty practical pervasive persistent
- Time to start paying water’s real price
- Water-treatment pioneer wins Singapore prize
Aircraft makers flock to Mexico
USA Today – Apr 6, 2008
workers lost their jobs. “Very few of those people maybe 15% went back into aviation” said David Athey a former senior engineer at the Virginia plant. “Some people are selling cars some are plumbers. airline Delta sends entire planes to Mexico for maintenance.
PLAYING GD WILL NT ANSWER PRAYERS
New York Post – Apr 6, 2008
Business is only interested in it because of the ability to own and patent life. When someone changes a life form they patent that thing. This means that a seed for a plant that has been genetically engineered can be owned thereby forbidding anybody else to use it without payment. Recently many of the world's smaller seed companies have been bought by large multinational giants so that six seed companies now effectively control a significant amount of the seed market… Business is only interested in it because of the ability to own and patent life. When someone changes a life form they patent that thing. This means that a seed for a plant that has been genetically engineered can be owned thereby forbidding anybody else to use it without payment. Recently many of the world's smaller seed companies have been bought by large multinational giants so that six seed companies now effectively control a significant amount of the seed market. *Environmental impact: GE crops may devastate the environment. We have already seen triple herbicide resistant weeds making it necessary to use highly toxic weed killers exactly the opposite of what GE is claimed to do. Herbicide use has increased since the introduction of GE crops not decreased as claimed.
WEEK IN REVIEW
Washington Post – Apr 6, 2008
What they really wanted was money — $500000 to be precise — for his release. They didn’t get it… Guanyu Lu 19 and Baichuan Shu 20 pleaded guilty to abduction with intent to extort money and face a possible 20 years to life in prison when sentenced in June. Panel Approves Coal-Burning PlantDominion Power Cites Rising Energy DemandA key state commission has given the go-ahead to Dominion Virginia Power’s plan to build a coal-burning power plant in southwest Virginia despite the objections of environmentalists who say the plant would increase greenhouse gases that have been linked to global climate change. A Dominion spokesman said that the plant which could power 146000 homes would meet the rising demand for energy and would have a sophisticated emissions-control system. Alexandria Extends School-Chief SearchThree Finalists Have Already Been NamedIt’s back to the drawing board for the. Without explanation the board has extended its search for a new chief of the 10600-student system.
Business in Wisconsin
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription… – Apr 6, 2008
Waukesha was selected by CRH Greenfield to design and build a manufacturing addition to the Mikkelsen Graphic Engineering building 801 Geneva Parkway Lake Geneva. Health care Medical College of Wisconsin received a $7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to identify targets within the kidney for drugs controlling high blood pressure. Smooth Skin Rejuvenation Center Brookfield has purchased the Active FX Laser a skin resurfacing process. Manufacturing The state Department of Commerce announced: Great Northern Appleton will receive $160000 in technology zone tax credits. The custom packing company plans to use the funds to buy custom-designed equipment that will increase production capabilities… 37 million and create four new jobs. Professional Plating Brillion received $7 million in industrial revenue bonds. The metal finishing assembly and logistical services company will use the funds to expand and equip its Brillion plant and to purchase a new barrel plating line. The total project is expected to cost $8. 3 million and create 32 jobs. Molded Dimensions and L&M Sunset Road Property LLC Port Washington received $3 million in industrial revenue bonds. The maker of rubber and polyurethane mechanical molded parts will use the funds to remodel its 30000-square-foot plant and to build and equip an adjacent 25000-square-foot plant.
Bamboo is pretty practical pervasive persistent
Providence Journal – Apr 6, 2008
who represented the plaintiff. Brent Langdon a software engineer in Sterling Va. spent two years trying to clear 200 square feet of bamboo lodged in the hard Virginia clay at a home he had bought. He used a pickax to soften the roots and applied potent Roundup herbicide. After one exhausting weekend Langdon decided to cut it all down and rented a large commercial chipper to dispose of the remains. The bamboo jammed the machine… Running bamboo not surprisingly is the problem. Depending on the species it can grow up to 80 feet high and 7 to 8 inches in diameter. Bamboo roots tunnel far from the plant and spawn new shoots often dozens of feet from the original stand. Not only does bamboo grow fast it’s virtually indestructible. Bamboo growers claim the plant was the first to re-emerge after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. William Aley an import specialist at the Agriculture Department’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service says he can’t say whether the story is true but confirms that “depending on how deep the heat flash was at a bomb blast the shoots are formidable enough to survive having the above-surface portions destroyed. ”Bamboo which is most commonly found in East and Southeast Asia became popular in the U.
Time to start paying water’s real price
Toronto Star – Apr 6, 2008
if a major polluter ? a municipal sewage plant for instance ? wants to expand raising the likelihood that more phosphorus will get into the Nation River it must either engineer a system to ensure that none does or pay farmers to make improvements to their cattle barns and dairy sheds that have the effect of cutting by four times the amount of pollution their own expansion may produce. Instead of merely protecting the river against additional pollution the exchange serves to reduce the pollution it receives. ? Recycle and re-use. Every community has countless businesses from carwashes and laundromats to metal-working shops that use water… We must use less water whenever we can extracting more work from every drop we do use. We must minimize our vulnerability to extremes of weather. To reduce our risk we must "design in" flexibility and resilient adaptive capacity from the get-go. At every turn we should copy or employ the original and still best example of resilience to climate change: nature itself. And one more thing: any response that would prepare us adequately and in time for the turbulent weather ahead must surely find a way to work with the aspirations psychology and economy of our society rather than against them. Improvements to the water efficiency of industrial processes cropping and livestock practices and our personal sanitation occur incrementally in the small or large innovations each of us makes. They can’t be centrally prescribed any more than one device could solve every industry’s pollution problem.
Water-treatment pioneer wins Singapore prize
San Diego Union Tribune – Apr 6, 2008
“The nicest thing about it it's not just the Singapore government giving this award. It's a very select group of peers international professors and leaders in the water industry” Benedek said. His wife Diana also holds a doctorate in water engineering. Benedek a native of Hungary was a professor of water engineering at McMaster University near Toronto Canada in the 1970s when he concluded that prevailing methods of water treatment were inadequate. For thousands of years Benedek said humans purified water by filtering it through sand and allowing sediments to settle. In the early 1900s water agencies began adding chlorine to kill bacteria. In 1980 Benedek launched Zenon Environmental Inc… The bug cannot be killed by chlorine so the water industry turned to membranes. The technology pioneered by Zenon and Benedek has revolutionized the water-treatment industry said Glen Daigger chief technology officer with CH2M Hill a Denver-based global water-management firm. CH2M Hill is building a water-treatment plant in the Twin aks Valley north of San Marcos that will use membrane technology to treat 100 million gallons of drinking water per day. The livenhain Water District opened a membrane-based plant in 2002. “What Andrew has done is transform the industry in terms of taking technology out of the lab and turning it into a commercial product” Daigger said. “This is exactly the type of activity that needs to be recognized. ”Membrane technology is now used to purify water in many parts of the United States and in Europe the Middle East South America and Asia.