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AlertID™ today announced that everyone who lives, works in and/or visits the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex can now receive crime advisory alerts through AlertID. Las Vegas, Nevada and Palo Alto, California (PRWEB) June 11, 2013 AlertID™ today announced that everyone who lives, works in and/or visits the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex can now receive crime advisory alerts through AlertID. Using information from trusted law enforcement officials and the community, AlertID provides...
Texting Awareness Foundation responds to an article explaining the importance of safety to make sure individuals don’t text and drive. Bohemia, NY (PRWEB) June 11, 2013 On June 11, 2013, the Texting Awareness Foundation responds to an article which discusses the importance of summer safety. The Texting Awareness Foundation believes it is imperative for drivers to exercise caution when deciding whether to get behind the wheel. It is equally important that individuals, whatever they do,...
Food Safety Exchange, sponsored by Mettler Toledo, to be held June 11-12, at Hilton Indian Lakes Resort in Bloomingdale, Ill. (PRWEB) June 11, 2013 Russell Associates’ CEO Jerry Van Oort and VP of Information Services Tom Doheny will be co-presenting a best practice case study on mobile inspection and audit technology. They will be informing Food Safety Exchange attendees about a case study based on food plant use of inspectiTRAC™, a mobile inspection, audit and observation system...
New York personal injury law firm Block O'Toole & Murphy, LLP discusses the tragic Upper West Side Manhattan accident that claimed the life of an innocent 4 year old girl, and offers guidance to pedestrian accident victims based on the firm's years of experience. New York, NY (PRWEB) June 11, 2013 A horrible tragedy occurred last Tuesday, June 4, 2013 on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, when a four year old girl who was walking on the sidewalk with her grandmother near her...
XACT Telosolutions, a premier call center solution center in the United States, has chosen to strategically place its workforce across United States to ensure client satisfaction in the wake of recent natural disasters and other damaging weather events. Unity, ME (PRWEB) June 11, 2013 XACT Telesolutions, provider of traditional and web-based call center solutions, has presence in all four time zones of the continental U.S. to protect its clients' businesses from natural and...
MONTREAL, June 11, 2013 /CNW Telbec/ - Earlier today, the Transportation Safety Board (TSB) issued its investigation report on the derailment of VIA passenger Train 92, in Aldershot, Ontario, on February 26, 2012. Further to its review of the report and specifically, its three recommendations, the company's President and Chief Executive Officer, Marc Laliberté issued the following statements: "The report demonstrates a thorough review of circumstances surrounding this tragic...
ATLANTA, June 11, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Small Business Administration announced today that federal economic injury disaster loans are available to small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, small businesses engaged in aquaculture and most private non-profit organizations of all sizes located in Florida as a result of the excessive rain, high winds, hail, lightning and tornadoes on May 2-5, 2013. (Logo:...
Addition of fire testing equipment allows ATI to test to ASTM E 119, UL 10B/10C, among others YORK, Pa., June 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Architectural Testing, Inc. (ATI) announces the latest addition to their suite of fire testing equipment, the Large Scale Vertical Furnace. This new apparatus expands ATI's scope of fire performance standards to the following: ASTM E 119 - Standard Test Method for Fire Tests of Building Construction and Materials, UL 10B - Fire Tests of Door...
Urge House To Take Action Without Delay WASHINGTON, June 11, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Last night, June 10, 2013, the U.S. Senate passed a five-year Farm Bill by a strong vote of 66-27. Following the vote, Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) President Dennis Slater issued the following statement: "On behalf of America's equipment manufacturers, we congratulate the Senate on working in a bipartisan manner to pass this long-term Farm Bill, and in particular we thank...
NASA Tropical Storm Yagi is not expected to make landfall in Japan, but NASA satellite imagery showed that the storm was just south of the big island. NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over Tropical Storm Yagi on Tuesday, June 11 at 04:10 UTC (12:10 a.m. EDT/1:10 p.m. Japan local time) and the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS instrument captured a visible image of the storm. The image showed that clouds associated with the northern fringes of the storm were draped...
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The red fruit bat (Stenoderma rufum), also known as the red fig-eating bat, is a species of leaf-nosed bat that is native to the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. It prefers a habitat within tropical or subtropical arid forests. There is little known about this species and most of the recorded information about this species has been gathered from a population in the Luquillo Mountains. It holds three subspecies, including Desmarest's Red Fruit Bat. The red fruit bat prefers to roost in...
Coral reefs are submerged structures consisting of calcium carbonate secreted by corals. Coral reefs are colonies of small animals found in marine waters that enclose few nutrients. The majority of coral reefs are constructed from stony corals, which then consist of polyps that come together in groups. The polyps are like small sea anemones, to which they are very closely related. Unlike the sea anemones, coral polyps secrete hard carbonate exoskeletons which provide support and protections...
The Texas Blackland Prairies are a temperate grassland ecoregion that is located in Texas that stretches roughly from the Red River in North Texas to San Antonio in the south. This area covers an area of 19,400 square miles, consisting of a main belt of 17,000 square miles and two islands of tall grass prairie grasslands located southeast of the main blackland prairie belt; both the main belt and the islands stretch northeast/southwest. It hosts many different eco-regional organisms....
The Persian Gulf is located in the western part of Asia between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula. It’s an addition to the Indian Ocean. The Gulf was the focal point of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War, which each side assaulted the other’s oil tankers. In the year 1991, the Persian Gulf again was the background for what was known as the “Persian Gulf War” or otherwise known as the “Gulf War”, despite the fact that this disagreement was mainly a land conflict, when Iraq raided Kuwait...
Nuclear fallout, or just simply fallout, known also as Black Rain, is the residual radioactive material that is propelled into the upper atmosphere after a nuclear black or a nuclear reaction that is conducted in an unshielded facility. It is so called because it "fall out" of the sky after the explosion and the shock wave have passed. It most commonly refers to the radioactive dust and ash that is created when a nuclear weapon explodes, but such dust can also come from a damaged nuclear...
