ST Aerospace Secures New Contracts Worth $460M in 1Q2014

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Singapore, 9 April 2014 ST Aerospace today announced that it has recorded new ordersworth $460m in the first quarter (1Q) of 2014. These contracts cover a wide range of theaerospace sectors suite of capabilities, from airframe, component and enginemaintenance, to cabin reconfiguration and engine wash.

Included in the 1Q2014 contracts is a two-year agreement with a major airline for heavymaintenance of 20 Embraer E-190 aircraft at the aerospace sectors San Antonio facility.The aerospace sector has also signed a contract with Aircalin, New Caledoniasinternational airline for C-level checks on three Airbus A320 and A330 aircraft. This is theinaugural partnership between ST Aerospace and Aircalin the first A320 has since beenredelivered, with the last maintenance check scheduled for completion in third quarter thisyear.

In 1Q2014, ST Aerospace redelivered a total of 249 aircraft for airframe maintenance andmodification work. In addition to airframe deliveries, a total of 10,417 components,66 landing gears and 44 engines were processed, while 2,280 engine washes wereconducted for both commercial and military customers. This includes the redelivery ofone Boeing Business Jet and one Boeing 757 aircraft by AERIA Luxury Interiors,ST Aerospaces VIP completion brand name based in San Antonio, Texas, US. On aircraft capability development, its airframe facility in Guangzhou has startedoperations with the induction of the first two aircraft (an Airbus A320 and Boeing 767)respectively from a Chinese regional airline and an international air carrier. Both aircraftare currently in the hangar for C-level and heavy maintenance checks.

In Singapore, ST Aerospace officially opened its new aviation centre at SingaporesSeletar Aerospace Park (SAP), housing a comprehensive suite of air charter, groundtraining, flight training and support facilities. With an expanded Seletar footprint occupyingover 75,000 sqm, ST Aerospace becomes the second largest tenant and the onlyintegrated aviation service provider in SAP.

In San Antonio, AERIA has acquired a state-of-the-art 3D printer for prototyping and smallproduction of non-structural parts. In addition, AERIAs facility is currently undergoing a14,000-sq-ft expansion, which will see the addition of a new cabinet and upholstery shopas well as an additional building for the design, sales and marketing teams.

In Burlington, ST Aerospaces affiliate company Volant, which specialises in themanufacturing of cabin interior parts, has also added industrial capability and inventorycapacity for the Boeing 777 aircraft to its extensive portfolio of services.

On pilot training capability development, ST Aerospaces training academy was awardedan extension contract to train another 60 cadet pilots for Xiamen Airlines. In addition,Qatar Airways' pioneer batch of cadets has started its Multi-crew Pilot Licence trainingprogramme.

The above developments are not expected to have any material impact on theconsolidated net tangible assets per share and earnings per share of ST Engineering forthe current financial year.

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PPG Aerospace Qualifies Eco-friendly Wash Primer Coatings System to AMS 3095

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SYLMAR, Calif., April 9, 2014 PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG) aerospace business has qualified a new chromate-free wash primer coatings system to SAE Internationals Aerospace Material Specification 3095 for airline exterior paint.

The PPG Aerospace system added to the AMS 3095 Qualified Products Listing has DESOTHANE(R) HS/CA 8800 buffable topcoat applied over new chromate-free DESOPRIME(R) CF/CA 7530 epoxy wash primer and new chromate-free, high-solids Desoprime CF/CA 7065 polyurethane primer.

PPG continues to develop new products with improved performance in eco-friendly formulations for AMS 3095 qualification that meet airline maintenance needs, according to Scott Cavin, PPG Aerospace global coatings marketing manager for airlines and aftermarket.

PPG developed new Desoprime CF/CA 7530 chromate-free wash primer and new chromate-free Desoprime CF/CA 7065 polyurethane primer that not only have reduced VOC (volatile organic compound) levels but also work together to inhibit corrosion on aluminum airframe structures, Cavin said. Having complete systems with AMS 3095 qualification facilitates their selection and use by airline maintenance operations.

A system using a Desothane topcoat, Desoprime CF/CA 7530 wash primer and Desoprime CF/CA 7065 primer has VOC levels more than 60 percent lower than a standard system, Cavin said. In addition, Desoprime CF/CA 7530 wash primer has good washability, and it is formulated for electrostatic application. Desoprime CF/CA 7065 primer has resistance to fingerprints.

Application trials of the new PPG Aerospace wash primer and polyurethane primer at a major aviation maintenance operation demonstrated application benefits, low odor, sandability and surface contamination resistance, Cavin said.

He said the PPG system qualified to AMS 3095 has undergone independent laboratory testing that confirms performance.

PPG Aerospace is the aerospace products and services business of PPG Industries. PPG Aerospace PRC-DeSoto is the leading global producer of aerospace sealants, coatings, and packaging and application systems. PPG Aerospace Transparencies is the worlds largest supplier of aircraft windshields, windows and canopies.

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Atheism, Agnosticism, and Perfect Belief: The Parameters of the Jewish Conceptions of God – Video

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A panel discussion about Jewish belief in God. Facilitated by Prof. Joel Gereboff of Arizona State University. Members on the panel are: Rabbi Pinchas Allouche of Congregation Beth Tefillah...

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Gloria Arroyos stem cell therapy doc blamed for cancer patient’s death

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A doctor offering stem cell therapy may face charges for the death of a cancer patient who allegedly underwent treatment similar to that administered to former president and incumbent Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

This was after it was found out that she is not a licensed doctor in the Philippines.

A report on GMA News TV's "News To Go" on Wednesday said a complaint has been filed against Dr. Antonia Carandang-Park at the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) by Bernard Tan, who claims that his daughter, Kate, died after going through the said alternative treatment.Cancer patient Kate Tan received stem cell therapy from Dr. Antonia Carandang-Park, Gloria Arroyo's doctor.

Park owns the Tagaytay-based Green & Young Health and Wellness Center where Arroyoburdened by persistent trouble with her cervical spinesought treatment in 2012.

In an interview with GMA News, Tan said his daughter, who had Hodgkin's lymphoma (a type of cancer of the blood), was given "the same treatment that [Park] did with Gloria," which included "juicing diet, vegetable diet... acupuncture coffee enema, at 'yun na nga, stem cell."

Stem cell therapy introduces new adult stem cells into damaged tissue in order to treat disease or injury.

"Ang sabi niya, 'Give me three months, magaling na 'yan,'" Tan told GMA News. He added that his family was easily convinced to take their daughter to Park's wellness center because "Presidente na ng Pilipinas ang pumunta doon."

"Siguro naman na-scrutinize na nila 'yan, na-background check na nila 'yan," he said. "Kumbaga, 'yung credibility no'n, nag-build up na."

Kate was fed nothing but bananas and vegetable juices for three months, and had eight rounds of "embryonic" stem cell treatment, he said.

However, the 23-year-old lost even more weight, prompting the family to seek the assistance of a different doctor. Kate had eight rounds of 'embryonic' stem cell treatment, her father Bernard Tan said.Seven months later, in July 2013, Kate passed away.

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Stem Cell Institute Public Seminar on Adult Stem Cell Therapy Clinical Trials in New York City May 17th, 2014

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New York, NY (PRWEB) April 09, 2014

The Stem Cell Institute, located in Panama City, Panama, will present an informational umbilical cord stem cell therapy seminar on Saturday, May 17, 2014 in New York City at the New York Hilton Midtown from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm.

Speakers include:

Neil Riordan PhD Clinical Trials: Umbilical Cord Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy for Autism and Spinal Cord Injury

Dr. Riordan is the founder of the Stem Cell Institute and Medistem Panama Inc.

Jorge Paz-Rodriguez MD Stem Cell Therapy for Autoimmune Disease: MS, Rheumatoid Arthritis and Lupus

Dr. Paz is the Medical Director at the Stem Cell Institute. He practiced internal medicine in the United States for over a decade before joining the Stem Cell Institute in Panama.

Light snacks will be served afterwards. Our speakers and stem cell therapy patients will also be on hand to share their personal experiences and answer questions.

Admission is free but space in limited and registration is required. For venue information and to register and reserve your tickets today, please visit: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/stem-cell-institute-seminar-tickets-11115112601 or call Cindy Cunningham, Patient Events Coordinator, at 1 (800) 980-7836.

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Is the increased risk of death due to alcohol intake greater for women or men?

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Contact: Vicki Cohn vochn@liebertpub.com 914-740-2100 Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News

New Rochelle, NY, April 9, 2014The increased risk of death associated with alcohol intake is not the same for men and women. A study that compared the amount of alcohol consumed and death from all causes among nearly 2.5 million women and men showed that the differences between the sexes became greater as alcohol intake increased, as described in an article in Journal of Women's Health, a peer-reviewed publication from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. The article is available free on the Journal of Women's Health website at http://www.liebertpub.com/jwh.

In the article "Effect of Drinking on All-Cause Mortality in Women Compared with Men: A Meta-Analysis," Chao Wang and coauthors, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical Sciences (Beijing, China), modeled the relationship between the dose of alcohol consumed and the risk of death, comparing the results for drinkers versus non-drinkers and among male and female drinkers. Females had an increased rate of all-cause mortality conferred by drinking compared with males, especially in heavy drinkers.

"While alcoholism is more common in men than women, female drinkers face greater risks to their health compared with male drinkers," says Susan G. Kornstein, MD, Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Women's Health, Executive Director of the Virginia Commonwealth University Institute for Women's Health, Richmond, VA, and President of the Academy of Women's Health.

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Journal of Women's Health, published monthly, is a core multidisciplinary journal dedicated to the diseases and conditions that hold greater risk for or are more prevalent among women, as well as diseases that present differently in women. The Journal covers the latest advances and clinical applications of new diagnostic procedures and therapeutic protocols for the prevention and management of women's healthcare issues. Complete tables of content and a sample issue may be viewed on the Journal of Women's Health website at http://www.liebertpub.com/jwh. Journal of Women's Health is the official journal of the Academy of Women's Health and the Society for Women's Health Research.

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Genetic circuits: Bacterial ‘FM radio’ created

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Programming living cells offers the prospect of harnessing sophisticated biological machinery for transformative applications in energy, agriculture, water remediation and medicine. Inspired by engineering, researchers in the emerging field of synthetic biology have designed a tool box of small genetic components that act as intracellular switches, logic gates, counters and oscillators.

But scientists have found it difficult to wire the components together to form larger circuits that can function as "genetic programs." One of the biggest obstacles? Dealing with a small number of available wires.

A team of biologists and engineers at UC San Diego has taken a large step toward overcoming this obstacle. Their advance, detailed in a paper which appears in this week's advance online publication of the journal Nature, describes their development of a rapid and tunable post-translational coupling for genetic circuits. This advance builds on their development of "biopixel" sensor arrays reported in Nature by the same group of scientists two years ago.

The problem the researchers solved arises from the noisy cellular environment that tends to lead to highly variable circuit performance. The components of a cell are intermixed, crowded and constantly bumping into each other. This makes it difficult to reuse parts in different parts of a program, limiting the total number of available parts and wires. These difficulties hindered the creation of genetic programs that can read the cellular environment and react with the execution of a sequence of instructions.

The team's breakthrough involves a form of "frequency multiplexing" inspired by FM radio.

"This circuit lets us encode multiple independent environmental inputs into a single time series," said Arthur Prindle, a bioengineering graduate student at UC San Diego and the first author of the study. "Multiple pieces of information are transferred using the same part. It works by using distinct frequencies to transmit different signals on a common channel."

The key that enabled this breakthrough is the use of frequency, rather than amplitude, to convey information. "Combining two biological signals using amplitude is difficult because measurements of amplitude involve fluorescence and are usually relative. It's not easy to separate out the contribution of each signal," said Prindle. "When we use frequency, these relative measurements are made with respect to time, and can be readily extracted by measuring the time between peaks using any one of several analytical methods."

While their application may be inspired by electronics, the UC San Diego scientists caution in their paper against what they see as increasing "metaphorization" of engineering biology.

"We explicitly make the point that since biology is often too intertwined to engineer in the way we are accustomed in electronics, we must deal directly with bidirectional coupling and quantitatively understand its effects using computational models," explained Prindle. "It's important to find the right dose of inspiration from engineering concepts while making sure you aren't being too reliant on your engineering metaphors."

Enabling this breakthrough is the development of an intracellular wiring mechanism that enables rapid transmission of protein signals between the individual modules. The new wiring mechanism was inspired by a previous study in the lab on the bacterial stress response. It reduces the time lags that develop as a consequence of using proteins to activate or repress genes.

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UC San Diego researchers develop bacterial ‘FM radio’

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Contact: Kim McDonald kmcdonald@ucsd.edu 858-534-7572 University of California - San Diego

Programming living cells offers the prospect of harnessing sophisticated biological machinery for transformative applications in energy, agriculture, water remediation and medicine. Inspired by engineering, researchers in the emerging field of synthetic biology have designed a tool box of small genetic components that act as intracellular switches, logic gates, counters and oscillators.

But scientists have found it difficult to wire the components together to form larger circuits that can function as "genetic programs." One of the biggest obstacles? Dealing with a small number of available wires.

A team of biologists and engineers at UC San Diego has taken a large step toward overcoming this obstacle. Their advance, detailed in a paper which appears in this week's advance online publication of the journal Nature, describes their development of a rapid and tunable post-translational coupling for genetic circuits. This advance builds on their development of "biopixel" sensor arrays reported in Nature by the same group of scientists two years ago.

The problem the researchers solved arises from the noisy cellular environment that tends to lead to highly variable circuit performance. The components of a cell are intermixed, crowded, and constantly bumping into each other. This makes it difficult to reuse parts in different parts of a program, limiting the total number of available parts and wires. These difficulties hindered the creation of genetic programs that can read the cellular environment and react with the execution of a sequence of instructions.

The team's breakthrough involves a form of "frequency multiplexing" inspired by FM radio.

"This circuit lets us encode multiple independent environmental inputs into a single time series," said Arthur Prindle, a bioengineering graduate student at UC San Diego and the first author of the study. "Multiple pieces of information are transferred using the same part. It works by using distinct frequencies to transmit different signals on a common channel."

The key that enabled this breakthrough is the use of frequency, rather than amplitude, to convey information. "Combining two biological signals using amplitude is difficult because measurements of amplitude involve fluorescence and are usually relative. It's not easy to separate out the contribution of each signal," said Prindle. "When we use frequency, these relative measurements are made with respect to time, and can be readily extracted by measuring the time between peaks using any one of several analytical methods."

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Facilities Engineering Supervisor Job

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Req ID: 6641

Position Summary:

This position will supervise approximately (10-11) employees. This will include Facility Engineers and support Technicians. The successful candidate will interface with Marathon employees, contractor employees and vendors to optimize facility design, maximize production rates, and focus on optimization to meet reliability goals. Effective teamwork is required by the Engineering Staff as information is gathered and communicated between field personnel and other team members. Work being performed by the engineering staff includes performing engineering studies, evaluations, budget preparation, project engineering/management, troubleshooting, and support to production operations. The Bakken program is ongoing and fast paced. Facility Engineering work will need to be completed and commissioned to meet the drilling development program along with maintaining existing production. A demonstrated commitment to HES standards and policies is a must for the candidate filling this position.

Essential Functions:

Prerequisites:

EDUCATION: Bachelors Degree required, Engineering focus

EXPERIENCE: 10+ years in construction, facility design, and maintenance; project planning experience (preferred)

COMPUTER: MS Office Suite; Microsoft Project or Primavera; TOW; COGZ;

PROFICIENCY: ACAD; KMS (management of change); HYSYS (would be a plus)

COMMUNICATION: Excellent oral and written communication, teamwork, and planning & organization skills

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Behavior change startup Omada Health wins over Andreessen Horowitz in $23M Series B

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Health-tech startup Omada Health promises to help people with health issues change their behavior. And its starting out with a programtohelp diabetes sufferers.

Itis a digital therapeutic, and they deliver weight loss over an Internet connection, Balaji S. Srinivasan, a partner at investorAndreesen Horowitz,toldVentureBeat in an interview.

The company, whichis announcing a hefty $23 million in new funding today,takes landmark behavioral science research and turns it into programs that use various digital technologies to help people who are at risk for or suffering froma particular health issue.

Its first program, named Prevent, aims to help people at risk of Type II diabetes through weight loss, a proven way to prevent or reverse the diseasein many cases.

The 16-week program is based on the Center for Disease Controls National Diabetes Prevention program, and consists of an online portal as well as a digital scale containinga cell chip (meaning it doesnt need to be connected to Wi-Fi). At the beginning of the program, participants are put into cohorts of 12 or so peers and are given a health coach. They receive resources, advice, and notifications through the online portal and app, and use the digital scale to report their weight regularly.

The company is using software to put people out of their bad habits and put them in a group with good habits, saidSrinivasan.

Using technology to apply behavioral science on a large scale is really at the core of Omada Health. And thats not an easy challenge, according to Omada chief executive Sean Duffy. If you think of all the ingredients you need to really help someone, its really hard to scale up face-to-face programs for the millions of people that need them, he said in an interview with VentureBeat.

The company has already been testing its Prevent program with partnering organizations such as hospitals and health insurance providers, but it plans to use its new funding to double down on its sales to make the program available more widely, as well as to begin working on some potential future health areas, though it has yet to pick its next one.

Andreesen Horowitz led this second round of funding for Omada, with Kaiser Permanente Ventures and existing investors such as U.S. Venture Partners and The Vertical Group also chipping in. Srinivasan will be joining the companys board.

This deal is actually Andreesen Horowitzs first major investment in a health-tech company, according to both Duffy and Srinivasan.

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UCLA/RAND community research team win prestigious translational science award

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Contact: Kim Irwin kirwin@mednet.ucla.edu 310-794-2262 University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences

A team of community leaders and researchers from UCLA and RAND has been awarded the 2014 Joint Team Science Award in recognition of a 10-year effort to conduct community engaged, population-based translational science to improve care for depression in low-income areas.

The Joint Team Science Award, given by the Association for Clinical and Translational Science and the American Federation for Medical Research, was established to acknowledge the growing importance of interdisciplinary teams to translate research discoveries into clinical applications to achieve public health impact. The award will be presented on April 10, 2014, at the association's annual meeting in Washington, D.C.

The UCLA/RAND and community translational research team included interdisciplinary scientists and area stakeholders from South Los Angeles, downtown L.A. and Hollywood working in partnership, contributing expertise to develop a collaborative approach to science development and implementation, as well as an evidence basis for the added value of community engagement and partnership.

The team included the National Institute for Mental Health (NIHM), the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health and 40 other health and advocacy agencies, including Healthy African American Families II, QueenCare Health and Faith Partnership and Behavioral Health Services. More than 100 academic and community leaders, such as ministers and representatives from child welfare agencies, barbershops and beauty salons, food banks and homeless shelters, participated in the project, said principal investigator Dr. Kenneth Wells, a senior scientist at RAND and a professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA.

"It's absolutely wonderful to get an award that recognizes the efforts of so many people. It really does take a village to affect change," said Wells, who also is a professor-in-residence in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. "We showed that with community leaders and scientists working together we can improve mental and physical health and reduce homelessness, as well as provide relief for those suffering from depression."

Participating scientist Dr. Bowen Chung, an assistant professor-in-residence of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA and an adjunct scientist at RAND, said the study on depression may be the first ever to show community engagement can provide "measurable added value."

"We were able to show that high quality science and high quality community engagement are not mutually exclusive endeavors," Chung said. "We were also able to show that, when everyone in a community works together to address a health issue like depression, we can learn how to develop new effective and innovative approaches to provide support for people with depression that healthcare systems and doctors could never develop by themselves."

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