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  • Manholes subject to sewer inspection (Columbia Daily Tribune)A private engineering firm will begin inspecting sewer manholes in central Columbia this week. Steve Hunt, the city?s sewer engineer, said TREKK Design Group of Kansas City tomorrow would begin inspecting the condition of the sewer access points and whether water is entering them from the street.


  • A Plan To Fix Harrisburg's Roads (WGAL via Yahoo! News) Harrisburg's engineer Joe Link thinks Harrisburg's streets are in bad shape. And he has a plan to fix deteriorating roads in the city


  • Trusted Resource for the Working RF Engineer (Planet EE)LitePoint Corporation has released its IQmax-100 one-box manufacturing test solution for WiMAX.


  • Students win 2nd place in national engineer contest (Reno Gazette-Journal)Alpine Living Tahoe Adventure (ALTA), a project designed by students from a Sparks school, recently won second place in a national competition challenging middle schoolers to engineer a city of the future. The Nevada Christian Home School team also won an award for best essay.


  • The Bad Plus Add New LP (CMJ)Jazz trio the Bad Plus have applied their genre-bending algebra to a fifth LP, due May 8 and titled PROG (Heads Up International). Determined to keep their students inquisitive, the Plus enlisted Tony Platt (the engineer who built those slabs of guitar in Back In Black ) as producer.


  • EpiVax wins NIH grant for better Botox (BizJournals)EpiVax Inc. of Providence, R.I., has received a grant to re-engineer botulinum toxin (Botox), a protein that is primarily known for its use in smoothing wrinkles but which is also used as a treatment for movement disorders categorized as "dystonias," such as Parkinson's disease and cerebral palsy.


  • A record 19th loss for sound engineer (AP via Yahoo! News) Sound engineer Kevin O'Connell didn't take home an Oscar on Sunday night but he did put his name in the academy record book ? for most Oscar losses, 19, without a win.


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