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Did you know Trivia - Recent building activity in Iraq has taken place amid growing violence. Contractors operate equipment under the crackle of automatic weapon fire and with the protection of M-1 tanks, Stryker vehicles and Apache helicopters. The workers and engineers in this case are constructing a series of walls to block certain areas of Sadr City, the vast Shi'ite slum in Baghdad.
Dozens of walls have already been built around Baghdad, the southern city of Basra and other Iraqi cities, creating segregated ethnic Sunni and Shi'ite neighborhoods ringed with checkpoints and command posts. The latest flurry of construction activity has little to do with nation building, but rather is more related to a deteriorating security environment.
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Saturday 26 April, 2008 05:22 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - In the 2003 invasion of Iraq, U.S. generals David Petraeus and Ray Odierno could hardly have seemed more different in approach. But they later formed a partnership that helped both land top jobs on Wednesday.
The scholarly, wiry Petraeus had his troops working on politics and economics to revive the northern city of Mosul in 2003 while the giant, shaven-headed Odierno conducted tough combat operations around Tikrit, Saddam Hussein's home town.
Petraeus won widespread praise for his approach while Odierno faced criticism that his tactics drove local people into the arms of insurgents, although he insisted his sector was very different from Mosul and needed a robust approach.
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Saturday 26 April, 2008 03:21 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - Here is my assessment of the current gold share market.
The gold price is taking a much needed correction and bullion corrections are almost always severe and volatile and the shares follow.
Obviously gold coming down could mean less profits and cash flow for companies and this unnerves some holders to sell.
With major investment banks projecting a long term gold price of $700, some portfolio managers that usually invest in GE or IBM are thinking that this may be the start of a major downturn. They are therefore selling.
These managers don’t understand that 95% of the mining analysts have never got it right on the metal prices the 35 years I have been investing in the mines. Analysts are conservative and they are cautious. They are usually from a geology or engineering background. What do they know about global economics? And if they are economists – god help us.
Lot’s of new money has come into the gold mining sector the past year and this is money that is not philosophically tuned into gold as money and most think the Fed can actually manage the currency and printing money is the normal thing to do. They saw gold going up and the stocks having positive momentum and this made sense for them to buy. When this momentum stopped they were ready to sell.
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Friday 25 April, 2008 09:19 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - STARTING as a one-room class for first year Basic Engineering course atop the Silver Shop of the Saint Louis Center elementary building way back in 1953, and known then as the Engineering Department of Saint Louis College (SLC), the Saint Louis University (SLU) College of Engineering and Architecture has steadily grown to one of the most sought after and most populated colleges in SLU.
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Friday 25 April, 2008 05:17 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - We do it with bottles and paper, cardboards and cans.
But when it comes to recycling disposable nappies - and used ones at that - there is undoubtedly a whiff of suspicion.
Nevertheless, a Canadian firm has unveiled plans for a UK first - a processing plant to do just that.
Knowaste - which already recycles hundreds of thousands of nappies in the US - is to open a site in Birmingham later this year
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Friday 25 April, 2008 01:11 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - The NIU Clean Snowmobile Team is doing its part to help the environment.
The team was named the “Rookie of the Year” at the SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge in Houghton, Mich., on March 10-15.
Treasurer Matt Davis said the challenge is for students to modify a snowmobile for better exhaust and noise emissions, while improving its performance characteristics. The long-term goal is to make snowmobiling cleaner for the environment.
For this year’s competition, the team had to convert their current snowmobile to use E85 ethanol.
“Basically, we put a 2007 engine into our old sled and did a lot of mechanical engineering stuff and converted it to E85,” Davis said.
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Friday 25 April, 2008 09:09 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - For the first time in history, the Office of Student Affairs of Seoul National University recently released the career path its 43,694 graduates took. According to the analysis, professor has been the most popular job among SNU graduates for the last 28 years, with 14.4 percent, or 6,295 people becoming academics. The second favorite workplace was the medical sector, where 11.8 percent of graduates are currently working, and the third place went to the legal profession with 7.8 percent. Following the top three were civil servants and teachers, with 5.2 and 5 percent of graduates
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Friday 25 April, 2008 05:08 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - Research by two scientists from the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology in the U.S., suggests that it is feasible to capture and store CO2 emissions at the point of generation from widely distributed, small energy-producing sources, such as vehicles and diesel generators, which account for about two thirds of global CO2 emissions.
The Georgia Tech team’s goal is to create a sustainable transportation system that uses a liquid fuel and traps the carbon emission in the vehicle for later processing at a fueling station. The carbon would then be shuttled back to a processing plant where it could be transformed into liquid fuel. Currently, Georgia Tech researchers are developing a fuel processing device to separate the carbon and store it in the vehicle in liquid form.
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Friday 25 April, 2008 01:06 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - (NAGPUR , India) In what is being viewed as another lapse on the part of RTM Nagpur University, two questions in the Structural Analysis question paper of BE Civil Engineering (Semester IV) are said to be entirely "out of syllabus", while symbols in a third question are confusing for students.
The three-hour examination was conducted on Sunday.
Adding to the students' woes are professors of one of the engineering colleges in the city, who, the students complain, are not co-operating with them. As a result, while students from all other colleges have made a representation to the university through their professors, the students of this particular college have been left in the limbo.
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Thursday 24 April, 2008 09:05 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - Sacramento air regulators have fined an environmental engineering firm $26,340 for polluting the air as it cleaned up the ground beneath a Del Paso Heights gasoline station.
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Thursday 24 April, 2008 05:26 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - Harare - An engineering apprentice with a Harare firm on Monday appeared in court for allegedly breaking into the company's storeroom and stealing electrical copper cables valued at $1 trillion.
Collen Muzembe (22), who is attached to Craster International in Willowvale, is being charged with unlawful entry and theft. He was granted $5 billion by Harare magistrate Mrs Doris Shomwe who remanded him out of custody to May 5.
As part of the bail conditions, Muzembe was ordered to report twice every week to St Mary's Police Station, on Mondays and Fridays,
and to reside at his given address until the matter is finalised.
(we decided not to quote the exchange rate - as it is changing so rapidly)
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Thursday 24 April, 2008 01:24 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - An Arizona branch of a major defense contractor is locating a new engineering center in South Florida.
General Dynamics C4 Systems said Tuesday it was opening a technology and engineering operation in Broward County, Fla.
C4 Systems is the Scottsdale-based information technology arm of General Dynamics Corp. (NYSE: GD).
C4 spokeswoman Fran Jacques said the Florida center will employ at least 100 and will open within 60 days. She did not disclose the exact site where the GD center will be located. Broward County includes the city of Fort Lauderdale.
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Thursday 24 April, 2008 09:22 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - In celebration of Earth Day, here is a collection of some wonderful, crazy and strange engineering for solar powered devices. From solar powered bikinis to solar powered wheelchairs, they all accomplish one thing, making Earth a little more green. Happy Earth Day.
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Thursday 24 April, 2008 05:21 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - Los Angeles, CA - Dream Machine Engineering announced the new price-point for their exclusive RMS "SuperFast" line of Supercharger kits for BMW's today. When the bulletin came across our desk we had to call and doublecheck the offer.These kits are recognized industry-wide as the standard of excellence. With a dedicated pulley system and easy to install assembly, DME simply makes better boost. Thanks to Osh Minelian and his Dream Team, the high price of horsepower just plummeted.
During their SuperCharger event this price is across the board for all the models listed.
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Thursday 24 April, 2008 01:19 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - HOUSTON -- What can you make with an astronaut issued sock and a dose of engineering savvy? An expandable table with a vacuum system that will filter and collect crumbs on board the International Space Station.
The project was assigned to engineering classes at Clear Creek High School as part of the HUNCH program. High Schools United with NASA to Create Hardware was developed to promote engineering in high schools. Several Houston area schools were asked to present designs for a table. Clear Creek engineering students came up with a reverse air hockey table and were awarded the design challenge.
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Wednesday 23 April, 2008 09:18 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - BEIJING, -- Some local banks will add rear-view mirrors to their cash machines in a bid to improve security.
A representative of Shanghai People's Congress, Bo Haibao, suggested the move. He proposed the plan at congress sessions each of the past two years.
"I suggest the ATM machines should have rear-view mirrors so that card users can be more prepared for any password peepers or possible attacks from behind," Bo told Shanghai Evening Post.
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Wednesday 23 April, 2008 05:04 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - BEIJING-- General Motors Corp has opened a new Energy Research Center in Beijing over the weekend, part of GM's new collaborative strategy to strengthen its engineering and development of new energy models on the world's second largest auto market.
The China Automotive Energy Research Center (CAERC) is jointly set up by GM, its Chinese partner Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp Group (SAIC) and Tsinghua University, one of China's leading engineering colleges.
It will be the first professional research institution in the area of automotive energy in China and will support the development of a national automotive energy strategy through comprehensively cooperation between government, industrial partner and academic expertise.
GM and SAIC will jointly invest more than 6 million U.S. dollars within five years in the center.
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Wednesday 23 April, 2008 01:08 PM |
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Did you know Trivia - Mumbia India is in talks with Belgium to develop a "Green Channel" between two of the most important ports in the respective countries on the back of rising trade between the two nations.
"Custom officials from both sides have met. Belgium is keen on the green channel. We are waiting for the Indian government's nod," an official said.
The Green Channel is being planned at the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), which handles 60 percent of the country's container cargo, and port of Antwerp in Belgium, the fifth largest port in the world.
Once the Green Channel agreement is signed, then the customs' clearance of one country would be honoured by the other country that would result in quick clearance of cargo.
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Wednesday 23 April, 2008 09:06 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - The possibility that car drivers could one day wear a special cap to warn when they are showing dangerous lapses in concentration is raised today.
Scientists and engineers have found that it is possible to tell if a person is likely to make a mistake up to half a minute before they are even aware they have made it.
The discovery suggests that one day employees could monitor the brain of a person doing a monotonous but important task, such as monitoring nuclear plant safety, driving or piloting a plane, to improve safety.
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Wednesday 23 April, 2008 05:05 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - Scientists and engineers have completed the first stage of an ambitious plan to drill down into an earthquake-generating region near Japan.
The project saw holes bored 1.4km into the sea floor, producing 3D images of stresses inside the quake zone.
The Nankai Trough produced major lethal earthquakes and tsunami during the last century.
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Wednesday 23 April, 2008 01:24 AM |
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Did you know Trivia - A local town has been hit by a hurricane and you have been sent there as a disaster relief engineer. How do you respond, given time and budget constraints?
Thirty five civil engineering students of the College of Science and Technology (CST) in Kharbandi were placed in just such a scenario at a day-long “Rapid Response Engineering Challenge” event organized by SNV on April 16.
Divided into groups, students were made to play the role of registered engineers in restoring a disaster struck area: “Hurricane Mitch in Honduras”.
Each group had to build a pipe work system to carry water to refugees across a stretch of ground in a simulated disaster situation. Students coordinating within their group had to plan and design their ideas on worksheets and maps within a given time period.
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Tuesday 22 April, 2008 09:22 PM |
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