On 27 November 2007 Cessna announced the new Cessna 162 would be made in the People's Republic of China by Shenyang Aircraft Corporation, which is a subsidiary of China Aviation Industry Corporation I ( AVIC I ), a Chinese government-owned consortium of aircraft manufacturers.

Bus service across the bridge is provided by the Dumbarton Express, run by a consortium of local transit agencies ( SamTrans, AC Transit, VTA and others ) which connects to BART at Union City and Caltrain at Palo Alto and California Avenue.

Dartmouth serves as the host institution of the University Press of New England, a university press founded in 1970 that is supported by a consortium of schools that also includes Brandeis University, the University of New Hampshire, Northeastern University, Tufts University and the University of Vermont.

In Tallinn, a coat-of-arms resembling the flag is found on several buildings and can be traced back to the middle of the 15th century where it appears in the coat-of-arms of the " Die Grosse Gilde ", a sort of merchant consortium which greatly influenced the city's development.

The Great Lakes Colleges Association ( GLCA ) is a consortium of 13 liberal arts colleges located in the states around the Great Lakes.

BAA is owned by FGP TopCo Limited, an international consortium led by Ferrovial, which also includes Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and GIC Special Investments.

Its production is regulated by a quality consortium that recognizes qualifying products with distinctive mark.

International Organization for Standardization ( ISO ) is a consortium of national standards

In Ontario, the Midwifery Education Program ( MEP ) is offered by a consortium of McMaster University, Ryerson University and Laurentian University.

OpenGL is managed by the non-profit technology consortium Khronos Group.

Object Management Group ( OMG ) is a consortium, originally aimed at setting standards for distributed object-oriented systems, and is now focused on modeling ( programs, systems and business processes ) and model-based standards.

China continues to develop its telecommunications infrastructure, and is partnering with foreign providers to expand its global reach ; 3 of China's 6 major telecommunications operators are part of an international consortium which, in December 2006, signed an agreement with Verizon Business to build the first next-generation optical cable system directly linking the United States and China.

Created by law in 1988, it is managed by a consortium, the Consorzio per la gestione de Parco, to which Ferrara and Ravenna provinces belong as well as nine comuni: Comacchio, Argenta, Ostellato, Goro, Mesola, Codigoro, Ravenna, Alfonsine, and Cervia.

Telefónica is a supporter of the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV ( HbbTV ) initiative ( a consortium of broadcasting and Internet industry companies including SES, OpenTV and Institut für Rundfunktechnik ) that is promoting and establishing an open European standard for hybrid set-top boxes for the reception of broadcast TV and broadband multimedia applications with a single user interface, and has run pilot HbbTV services in Spain.

The air force is equipped with Alpha strike jets built by a German-French consortium.

The Hague Academic Coalition ( HAC ) is a consortium of those institutions.

Morgan is approached by a Mars-based consortium to develop the elevator on Mars as part of a massive terraforming project.

Founded by Tim Berners-Lee at MIT and currently headed by him, the consortium is made up of member organizations which maintain full-time staff for the purpose of working together in the development of standards for the World Wide Web.

The gene rich regions of several chromosomes have been sequenced and made available at http :// www. wheatgenome. info, and a fully annotated sequence is being assembled by a global consortium ( IWGSC http :// www. wheatgenome. org /), including members of this team.

TRIUMF is run by a consortium of sixteen Canadian universities and is located at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

A huge air shower experiment called the Auger Project is currently operated at a site on the pampas of Argentina by an international consortium of physicists, led by James Cronin, 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics of the University of Chicago and Alan Watson of the University of Leeds.

The Center for Urban Science and Progress ( CUSP ) is an applied science research institute which will be a partnership of top institutions from around the globe, led by NYU and NYU-Poly with a consortium of world-class universities including: The University of Warwick, Carnegie Mellon University, the City University of New York, the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, and the University of Toronto.

The show was produced by HBO with uncredited association by The Geffen Film Company and Warner Bros. Television ( all part of a production consortium officially called Tales from the Crypt Holdings ).

Consortium is a word that comes from the Latin consortium meaning association or society, from the word consors meaning owner of means or comrade.

From the first half of the 14th century the Venetian galere da mercato (" merchantman galleys ") were being built in the shipyards of the state-run Arsenal as " a combination of state enterprise and private association, the latter being a kind of consortium of export merchants ", as Fernand Braudel described them.

: Available to any individual engaged in the administration of sponsored programs in a college or university, a teaching hospital or not for profit hospital an independent not for profit research institute, or an organization wholly organized and administered by a college or university or a consortium of colleges and universities, or an association or society with individual or institutional members predominantly from colleges and universities.

The scope was expanded taking into account subsequent developments such as the plan of Government of Tamil Nadu to set up a 1, 880 mW LNG power project in association with a private consortium, a large petrochemical park and a naphtha cracker plant.

The Anti-Phishing Working Group ( APWG ) is an international consortium that brings together businesses affected by phishing attacks, security products and services companies, law enforcement agencies, government agencies, trade association, regional international treaty organizations and communications companies.

The consortium also consisted of John Sinders, an Aston Martin collector ; and two Kuwaiti investment companies, Investment Dar and Adeem Investment Co.

In 1997, Telkom, the South African telecommunications parastatal, was partly privatised and entered into a strategic equity partnership with a consortium of two companies, including SBC, a U. S. telecommunications company.

On April 11, 2008 the Trinitrain consortium announced it would plan and build 105 km two line Trinidad Rapid Railway.

In Germany, bidders paid a total € 50. 8 billion for six licenses, two of which were subsequently abandoned and written off by their purchasers ( Mobilcom and the Sonera / Telefonica consortium ).

The consortium operates two telescopes of 3. 5m and 0. 9m diameters.

On 12 November 2010 the Olympic Park Legacy Company ( OPLC ) announced that the Tottenham Hotspur / AEG consortium had been shortlisted as one of the two preferred bidders to take over the Olympic Stadium after the 2012 Olympics.

The GNP & BR was formed from the merger of two earlier, but unbuilt, tube-railway companies taken over in 1901 by Yerkes ' consortium: the Great Northern & Strand Railway ( GN & SR ) and the Brompton & Piccadilly Circus Railway ( B & PCR ).

In December 1997, Christie's put itself on the auction block, but after two months of negotiations with a consortium led investment firm SBC Warburg Dillon Read, it did not attract a bid high enough to accept.

Much of the practical work of the LCMS structure is as a free employment brokerage to bring the two together ; it also allows the congregations to work together on projects far too large for even a local consortium of congregations to accomplish, such as foreign mission work.

The Claremont Colleges are an American consortium of five undergraduate and two graduate schools of higher education located in Claremont, California, a city east of downtown Los Angeles.

Layton initially said that he was following the rules of the broadcast consortium, while NDP spokesman Brad Lavigne confirmed that Layton had refused to attend if May was present, noting that May had endorsed Liberal leader Stéphane Dion for prime minister, and arguing that her inclusion would in effect give the Liberals two representatives at the debate.

On 30 April 1935 a consortium of two Queensland companies, Evans Deakin and Hornibrook Constructions, won the tender with a bid of ₤ 1, 150, 000.

On 14 July 2005, it was reported that Magma Holdings, a financial group including former Ford Motor Company and General Motors executives, working in conjunction with SAIC, would be making an offer for the assets of both MG Rover and engine maker Rover Powertrain which, if successful, would see at least some production being restarted at Longbridge, and that talks with the other two interested parties – China's Nanjing Automobile Group and Project Kimber ( a consortium of Birmingham businessmen led by David James ) – were still in progress.

As Minister of Finance, Eves also oversaw two controversial privatization initiatives: the long-term lease of the Bruce nuclear generating station to British Energy and the 99-year lease of Highway 407 to a consortium of mainly foreign investors.

In February 1998 the British-French Matra British Aerospace consortium won a contract to supply ASRAAM to the Royal Australian Air Force for use on their F / A-18 Hornets where the improved ASRAAM, the Rafael Python 4 and the AIM-9X were competitively evaluated, with ASRAAM selected over the other two contenders.

Students from Columbia University and the other colleges and universities included in the consortium ( University of Chicago, Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and Vassar College ) can attend classes at the Freie Universität for one or two semesters as external students.

Throughout 1962 the two companies and their respective governments talked about forming a consortium to share development and production costs on similar parts.

Of the two serious bids, the lowest bid was from a consortium of three companies: Silas Mason Co. from Louisville, Kentucky, Walsh Construction Co. of Davenport, Iowa and New York and Atkinson-Kier Company of San Francisco and San Diego.

Sold on again to Shirley Porter's Chelverton Investments, the company almost disappeared completely in 1993, when the Radio Authority failed to renew the company's two licences, LBC Newstalk and London Talkback Radio, awarding the frequencies instead to London News Radio, a consortium led by former LBC staff and backed by Guinness Mahon.

In the event, Grampian was outbid by two challengers ; Channel 3 Caledonia and North of Scotland Television ( the latter of which was ironically the name of the original Grampian Television consortium ).

After the sale of Eircell, Eircom itself was believed to be undervalued and became the subject of a bidding war between two consortia: the E-Island consortium headed by Denis O ' Brien, and the Valentia Consortium headed by Tony O ' Reilly, the chairman of Independent News and Media.

Sky1 started on 26 April 1982 as Satellite Television Ltd., a consortium set up by Brian Hayes, formerly a sales executive at Thames Television, and it was Europe's first ever cable and satellite channel, originally broadcasting from the Orbital Test Satellite aimed to cable operators all over Europe ; Norway and Finland being the first two countries to permit the new service's transmission via cable.

The Tory Reform Group ( TRG ) was formally established in June 1975 from the merger of four like-minded groups: PEST ( Pressure for Economic and Social Toryism ), two separate London dining clubs named the Macleod Group and Social Tory Action Group, and a consortium in Manchester who had already been going by the name the TRG.

In 1940, a consortium of state motor vehicle administrators standardised upon a system of two round sealed beam headlamps on all vehicles – the only system allowed for 17 years.