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Did you know Trivia -EL PASO - The Kay Bailey Hutchison Desalination Facility here in El Paso has been recognized as the top engineering project in Texas for 2008 by the Texas Council of Engineering Companies.
The team of Moreno Cardenas Inc. (MCi) and Camp Dresser & McKee (CDM) received the Eminent Conceptor Award for their design of El Paso's inland desalination plant.
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Wednesday 16 April, 2008 08:07 AM |
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Did you know Trivia -There are dozens of places in downtown Naples to grab a beer and socialize, many of which are just a few blocks from Cambier Park.
But a Naples official thinks there’s potential for one more establishment downtown: the Arthur L. Allen Tennis Center’s concession stand.
Community Services Advisory Board Chairwoman Lois Selfon last week threw out the idea of selling beer at the center.
It was the first time anyone has suggested selling beer on city property, City Clerk Tara Norman said. Most conversations in the past have centered around ensuring alcohol is prohibited at city parks, beaches and city-owned recreation sites.
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Wednesday 16 April, 2008 04:05 AM |
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Did you know Trivia -England cricket umpires visited the Marston's Brewery this week to taste its new ale – Old Umpire.
Marston’s will launch the new ale in pubs as a guest ale for June to celebrate its sponsorship of the England Cricket team, ECB, PCA, nine first class cricket grounds, the Test Match Grounds and the Twenty20 Cup.
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Wednesday 16 April, 2008 12:04 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - Southwold (UK)-based brewer Adnams has revealed how a £10m overhaul of its operations has helped vastly improve its green engineering credentials.
Last month, the company posted increased sales and profits in an increasingly turbulent beer market and now its determination to be environmentally friendly has also been highlighted.
The brewing operation now uses a third less energy while rainwater harvesting equipment and solar panels also played their part in cutting costs.
Evidence of the brewery's green improvements were revealed
during a series of visitor days to celebrate the completion of a
major project, which has seen a complete revamp of the Southwold brewhouse and the opening of a new distribution centre at nearby Reydon.
Adnams boasts the result is one of the most modern, energy efficient beer-making operations in the world and has been showing off the improvements to scores of VIP guests.
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Tuesday 15 April, 2008 08:03 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - This weekend the US President George Bush took a two-day visit to Sochi. There had been held the strictest security measures. The day before George Bush arrived several planes with the security guards landed in the city. The planes also contained personal cars for the Bushes, and such great amount of engineering and special equipment that it was decided to rent some extra local transportation.
It was asked to dismantle the back seat in all the rented buses. Instead Americans put there some strange black boxes. Experts suggested that these boxes might contain equipment that either fixed the location and movement of the bus or destroyed the electronic guidance of means of destruction.
An hour before the Bushes arrived in the airport the whole area was penetrated with the US security. Special Forces soldiers were placed almost in every 5 feet of the summer field whereas the snipers occupied the roofs of all the houses nearby.
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Tuesday 15 April, 2008 04:03 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - Police are looking for the owner of a stray turtle that was found swimming in a Tokyo park over the weekend.
The turtle, which is believed to be an alligator snapping turtle, or "wanigame" in Japanese, was spotted swimming in a waterway by a police officer who was on patrol in the Tokyo Metropolitan Oi Futo Ryokudo Park in Shinagawa-ku at around 3:10 p.m. on Saturday.
The police officer captured the turtle and took it to Oi Police Station, which is taking care of the creature.
Police suspect that the turtle, which measures about 16 inches (40 centimeters) long and about 30 centimeters wide, either escaped from its home or was abandoned by its owner
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Tuesday 15 April, 2008 12:01 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - LONGWOOD, Fla. — Teacher Bill Yucuis begins to sweat as he kneels to "fuel" a student's foot-high paper rocket in the sun-baked quad at Lyman High School.
The head of the school's aerospace engineering program flicks on an air compressor and steadies a launch contraption made of white PVC piping. Nine Lyman seniors brace for liftoff.
Yucuis, who is married with two grown daughters, resigned, entered a student-teaching program, then taught math at another middle school in Orlando for six years. He was hired by Lyman High in 2002 to organize a magnet program for aerospace engineering.
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Tuesday 15 April, 2008 08:09 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - Contractors in Nigeria handling various National Integrated Power Project (NIPP)have continued to blame the Federal Government for the engineering short comings noted with the execution of the power projects across the country.
The contractors heaped the blame on the government in the explanations they gave to the House of Representatives probe panel on Energy Sector during its on the spot assessment of the NIPP contract sites in the south-east of Nigeria.
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Tuesday 15 April, 2008 04:08 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - Lightolier has introduced Alcyon HID ceramic metal halide track lighting. Employing the latest miniature lamp and electronic ballast technology, Alcyon HID delivers the highest performance accent and flood lighting in an architectural wireless design. Alcyon HID fixtures are available in cylinders, flood lights and step spots, and are suitable for a variety of retail, commercial and architectural applications.
Lightolier, the leader in interior lighting for over a century, has introduced Alcyon HID ceramic metal halide track lighting. Employing the latest miniature lamp and electronic ballast technology, Alcyon HID delivers the highest performance accent and flood lighting in an architectural wireless design. Alcyon HID fixtures are available in cylinders, flood lights and step spots, and are suitable for a variety of retail, commercial and architectural applications.
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Tuesday 15 April, 2008 12:06 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - A Sri Lankan court has released a man who was held in custody for 55 years without charge, a report said. Thantriye Emis Singho, 83, was arrested by police in 1953 for carrying a sword in a Colombo suburb. A court sent him to a state-run mental hospital for treatment the sources said. "Although he had been transferred to the cured persons' unit at the hospital, no authority had inquired after him or produced him in court," the newspaper said.
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Monday 14 April, 2008 08:00 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - Pollution is diminishing the fragrance of flowers and accelerating the decline of bees, butterflies and other insects.
Air pollution from power plants and cars is destroying the fragrance and thereby inhibiting the ability of pollinating insects to follow scent trails to their source, a new University of Virginia study indicates.
This could partially explain why wild populations of some pollinators, particularly bees - which need nectar for food - are declining in areas around the world, from California to the Netherlands.
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Monday 14 April, 2008 04:09 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - A New Zealand man charged with assaulting a teenage boy with a hedgehog threw the animal at him from about 5 metres away, a newspaper reported.
"It hit the victim in the leg, causing a large, red welt and several puncture marks," police sergeant Bruce Jenkins told the Herald on Sunday.
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Monday 14 April, 2008 12:07 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - A Serb farmer used an engineers grinding machine to cut in half his farm tools and machines to comply with a court ruling that he must share all his property with his ex-wife, local media reported on Thursday.
Branko Zivkov, 76, told Belgrade daily Kurir he had been ready to give his wife Vukadinka her equal share of everything earned during their 45-year marriage, but was furious at being asked to give away half his farming equipment.
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Monday 14 April, 2008 04:04 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - A former city employee in the Fukushima prefecture town of Koriyama has built a 4-meter (13-ft) long canoe from thousands of used disposable chopsticks recovered from the city hall cafeteria. Bothered that perfectly good wood was going to waste after a single use, Shuhei Ogawara — whose job at city hall involved working with the local forestry industry — spent the last two years of his career collecting used chopsticks from the cafeteria.
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Sunday 13 April, 2008 08:01 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - If the sci-fi predictions of the 1950s had come true, laser-wielding robots might be threatening humans.
Instead, modern-day robots are too busy doing household chores to wage war.
At the Intel Corp.-sponsored Arizona Robotics Competition Friday, student-designed robots worked to prove themselves as future security guards for the home and office.
Engineering teams from the University of Arizona and Arizona State University vied for robotic superiority in the threehour contest at ASU's Brickyard in Tempe.
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Sunday 13 April, 2008 12:38 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - (USA) Sen. Abel Tapia says that critics of Colorado State Fair contracts awarded to his engineering firm must think he has a crystal ball.
As the former chairman of the Joint Budget and Appropriations committees, Tapia, D-Pueblo, said he did approve big omnibus maintenance legislation to fund state projects across Colorado.
But it was many months to a year later, after the state architect prioritized projects and a three-member state fair panel reviewed competitive bids, that Abel Engineering Professionals Inc. won renovation jobs at the Pueblo fair, which Tapia has championed as a hometown legislator.
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Sunday 13 April, 2008 04:36 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - Bateman Engineering is pleased to announce the award of a contract valued at approximately ZAR348 million (US$44.6 million) from BHP Billiton Energy Coal South Africa Ltd ("BECSA") for the supply of two stockyards (stackers and reclaimers for run-of-mine and product coal) as part of the coal handling infrastructure for its Douglas-Middelburg Optimisation ("DMO") Project located in Mpumalanga, South Africa.
The award will be undertaken as a lump-sum turnkey contract. Work is expected to commence shortly and the project is due to be completed by the first half of 2010.
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Saturday 12 April, 2008 08:33 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - [JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP, N.J.] -- What may have been a small artillery shell slammed through the roof of a house in New Jersey Friday, and killed a cat.
Picatinny is the site of the Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center, which conducts research, development and engineering for weapons systems.
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Saturday 12 April, 2008 04:34 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - For the first time in India, an unmanned aircraft built by students of R V College of Engineering will be competing at the International Aerodesign Competition.
Organised by the Society of Automotive Engineering, the competition will be held from April 18 to April 20 in the US. "The participation in the competition is expected to trigger the engineering instincts of students all over India", said Prof. R.S Kulkarni, a team member who is also their staff co-ordinator.
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Saturday 12 April, 2008 12:15 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - Jashaad Gaines sat in the back of the meeting room, head slumped, eyes closed, his body exhausted. In the front of the room, former Notre Dame defensive backs coach Bill Lewis was teaching, unaware of the snoring coming from the back of the room until Chinedum Ndukwe started looking back.
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Saturday 12 April, 2008 08:14 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - Engineers are usually practical people; they deal with the possible. But, when they get their hands on taxpayers’ dollars, they often do too much engineering. Environmentalists are familiar with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ unofficial motto: “We’ve got all this money, let’s build something. Who cares if it diverts a river?”
The Minnesota Department of Transportation isn’t usually as spendthrifty, but its engineers show the same tendency with unnecessarily expensive plans for London Road. The DOT wants to spend $1.5 million to slow traffic on London Road and ease a bottleneck at 40th Avenue East.
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Saturday 12 April, 2008 04:12 AM |
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