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-- Annual Campaign for College Student Rentals Sure to be a Success -- COLUMBIA, Md., April 8, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- ezStorage Corporation (www.ezstorage.com) announced today the launch of its Click, Store & Score Sweepstakes offering college students and staff an unbeatable offer to experience the best self storage in the industry at a great price. The promotion combines significant savings, a free USB flash drive, a chance to win one of three new Apple iPads and the...
ATLANTA, April 8, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Small Business Administration is reminding small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, small businesses engaged in aquaculture and most private non-profit organizations of all sizes that May 6 is the filing deadline for federal economic injury disaster loans available in Maryland as a result of drought and excessive heat that began on May 1, 2012. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110909/DC65875LOGO) These...
ANNAPOLIS, Md., April 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Solar Wind Energy Tower, Inc. (OTCQB: SWET, the "Company") announced today that the Company had communicated to their shareholders of record in a letter that stated: To our valued shareholders, Our strategic mission is to engineer, design, develop and enable the construction of the most energy efficient and cost effective source of clean power available and a source of energy that will be financially productive without the subsidies...
COLLEGE PARK, Md., April 5, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The $100K ACC Clean Energy Challenge, a business plan competition supported by the Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) encouraging students from universities in the southeastern United States to develop business plans for new clean energy companies, today announces its Elite Eight Plus Two, eight winners from ACC schools and two winners from the at-large non-ACC pool of...
WASHINGTON, April 4, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found the farthest supernova so far of the type used to measure cosmic distances. Supernova UDS10Wil, nicknamed SN Wilson after American President Woodrow Wilson, exploded more than 10 billion years ago. (Logo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) SN Wilson belongs to a special class called Type Ia supernovae. These bright beacons are prized by astronomers because they provide a...
ANNAPOLIS, Md., April 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Solar Wind Energy Tower, Inc. (OTCQB: SWET), (the "Company") announced today that the Company has successfully managed to economize the Tower by reducing expected capital costs and improving projected financial performance. Some of the best consultants in the world have been working diligently towards bringing the first Downdraft Tower to market. The Company recently announced the completion of weather data models that confirm the first...
Programs provide new career advancement opportunities for Montgomery County professionals. Rockville, MD (PRWEB) April 03, 2013 To meet the region’s need for qualified cybersecurity and biotechnology leaders, UMBC will offer two of its Master’s in Professional Studies (MPS) programs in biotechnology and cybersecurity at UMBC at The Universities at Shady Grove beginning Fall 2013. Interested students are encouraged to visit the campus, in Rockville, for an information session on April...
Activists to Prepare & Share "Stone Soup" to Protest FDA's Antiquated Policies on Genetically Engineered (GMO) Foods COLLEGE PARK, Md., April 3, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being released by Occupy Monsanto: Alarmed by the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) outdated and pro-biotechnology industry policies concerning the labeling & safety of GMO foods sold in America, safe food activists will hold the largest protest to date at the FDA to demand...
BMC Software Global Customers Benefit from ANCILE uPerform(TM) Express to Drive Performance ELKRIDGE, Md., April 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ANCILE Solutions, Inc., a global provider of best-in-class learning and performance software solutions to more than half of the Fortune 100, today announced its partnership with BMC Software. Tens of thousands of IT organizations around the world rely on BMC to manage their business services and applications across distributed, mainframe, virtual,...
BALTIMORE, April 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Chesapeake Urology Associates, PA, the premier urology practice in Maryland and the Mid-Atlantic region, has launched a comprehensive website devoted strictly to its Prostate Cancer Care Program. The site, with a URL of http://prostatecancer.chesapeakeurology.com, is an easy-to-access body of information that was built for prostate cancer patients and consumers alike. It provides detail on how prostate cancer is diagnosed, treatment options...
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This past weekend we saw a massive line of storms impact large areas of the country from Iowa to Maryland in what is known as a Derecho. What is a Derecho? The best way to define this weather feature is by describing a large mass of t-storms combining together to form an elongated region of storms which can create intense surface winds that can blow in excess of 60mph reaching well into the 100 plus mph range. These winds are also known as straight line winds. What happens is, as these...
If you live in Annapolis Maryland or the Baltimore Maryland area this is what you can roughly expect to see when it comes to your heating and cooling budget. The above graph shows the situations that occurred during previous phases of all three events such as normal conditions along with EL-Nino and La-Nina. The left side is a normal month of March that shows the Heating Degree Days can exceed 600, while during a EL-Nino phase warming occurs which is represented by the drop in Heating...
Symbol: RHMAM2 Group: Dicot Family: Melastomataceae Duration: Perennial Growth Habit: Forb/herb Native Status: L48 N Synonyms: RHDE3 Rhexia delicatula Small RHFI3 Rhexia filiformis Small RHLA8 Rhexia lanceolata Walter RHMAE Rhexia mariana L. var. exalbida Michx. RHMAL Rhexia mariana L. var. leiosperma Fernald & Grisc. Distribution: County distributions for the following U.S. states are available at PLANTS:AL, AR, DC,...
Symbol: POMA8 Group: Dicot Family: Polygalaceae Duration: Annual Growth Habit: Forb/herb Native Status: L48 N Synonyms: POHA7 Polygala harperi Small Distribution: County distributions for the following U.S. states are available at PLANTS:AL, AR, DC, DE, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, NJ, NY, SC, TN, TX, VA Classification: Kingdom Plantae – Plants Subkingdom Tracheobionta – Vascular plants Superdivision ...
Symbol: LEMA15 Group: Lichen Family: Lecideaceae Growth Habit: Lichenous Native Status: NA N Classification: Kingdom Fungi – Fungi Division Ascomycota – Sac fungi Class Ascomycetes Order Lecanorales Family Lecideaceae Genus Lecidea Ach. – lecidea lichen Species Lecidea marylandensis H. Magn. – Maryland lecidea lichen
