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DENVER & PRAGUE, Czech Republic -- Intermap Technologies[TM] Corp. has signed an agreement with the Slovak Hydro-Meteorological Institute (SHMU) in Br...
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Michael T. Smith has been promoted to business banking market manager for Greater Maryland by PNC Financial Services Group, of Baltimore. Smith joined the company in 2009 as business banking sales manager. He has held several leadership positions in his 30 years of financial services experience in the Baltimore area. Smith has a bachelor's degree in business administration from Loyola College in Maryland. He is a board member for the United Way of Central Maryland, the Better Business Bureau of Greater Maryland and the Institute of Notre Dame of Maryland.
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General review of the legal activities of the United Nations
Disarmament and related matters
(a) Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation issues
(b) The Biological and Chemical Conventions
(c) Conventional weapons issues
(d) Regional disarmament activities of the United Nations
(e) Terrorism and disarmament
(f) Outer space and disarmament
(g) Human rights, human security and disarmament
Other political and security questions
(a) Membership of the United Nations
(b) Legal aspects of peaceful uses of outer space
(c) United Nations peacekeepers
(d) Peacekeeping operations and other United Nations missions
(e) Action by Member States authorized by the United Nations Security Council
(f) Security Council Committees
Environmental, economic, social, cultural, human...
... for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, the International Astronautical Federaation, the International Institute of Space Law, the International Law Association an...
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... (NTNU) and the Norwegian Meteorological Institute (met.no) have worked together for over 2...
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A couple of years ago, I let my National Geographic subscription lapse because of the magazine's relentless earth worship. But I missed the superb photos, crisp writing and mind- boggling statistics, so I started getting it again.
Boy, am I getting it. After perusing the May issue, I'm once again ashamed to be human. People, people, people! We're carbonizing the clouds! We're wrecking the coral reefs! We're reducing the polar bear's habitat to the size of a McDonald's parking lot! We're scooping sand off beaches to build more McDonald's parking lots!
..., report by the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, which said there is "no evidence for ac...
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Charles Doswell III has been chosen to receive the Sergey Soloviev Medal presented by the European Geophysical Society. Doswell is a senior research scientist with the Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, a joint institute of the University of Oklahoma and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Norman. He is the first meteorologist to be selected for the prestigious award. NOAA is an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce.
The award recognizes work accomplished by Doswell for the most part when he was research meteorologist with the NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory, also in Norman, before his retirement from federal service in January 2001.
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STOCKHOLM - For some reason, Scandinavia is not its frigid self, with unusually warm weather delaying the onset of winter in northern latitudes normally decked in white.
The lack of snow has been bad news for winter sports - World Cup ski races have been dropped, or held on artificial snow, and mountain ski resorts are unable to open.
... Jokinen, spokesman at the Finnish Meteorological Institute. Animals - such as stoats, hares and wil...
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... resource-based activities (Nicaraguan Institute for Municipal Development [INIFOM], 2007) and ther... su elaboracion [Hazard maps for meteorological drought. Technical recommendations for development...
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...'s Copenhagen speech, the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) published a report of Maslowski's ...
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... the urban area were all from a research institute in Ulaanbaatar, who spend the better part of a day...(1989). Meteorological analysis of long-range transport of mineral aeroso...