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New FEMA Flood Maps Needed But Funding Is Slashed
2013-05-27 18:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: As the United States grows warmer and extreme weather more common, the federal government's flood insurance maps are becoming increasingly important. The maps, drawn by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, dictate the monthly premiums millions of American households pay for flood insurance. They are also designed to give homeowners and buyers the latest understanding of how likely their communities are to flood. The government's response to the rising need for accurate maps? It's slashed...
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ON Semiconductor Awarded Title III Government Funding for Development of Advanced ...
2013-05-22 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Working in cooperation with SRI International and Ball Aerospace, the companies will develop a monolithic CMOS image sensor meeting the STELLAR specification<br /> <br /> PHOENIX, Ariz. – ON Semiconductor (Nasdaq: ONNN), driving innovation in energy efficiency, has collaborated with SRI International and Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. to secure funding for the Defense Production Act Title III, Advanced Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) Focal Plane Arrays (FPA) for ...This story is related to the following:Sensors, Monitors and TransducersSemiconductors | Image Sensors | Pressure Array Sensors
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United Kingdom: Oxford University won't take funding from tobacco companies. But Shell's OK
2013-05-14 08:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: In 1927 the French philosopher Julien Benda published a piercing attack on the intellectuals of his day. They should, he argued in La Trahison des Clercs (the treason of the scholars), act as a check on popular passions. Civilisation, he claimed, is possible only if intellectuals stand in opposition to the demands of political "realism" by upholding universal principles. "Thanks to the scholars," he said, "humanity did evil for two thousand years, but honoured good." Europe might have been lying...
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Ecopetrol Approves Additional Funding For The Modernization Of Its Cartagena Refinery
2013-05-14 03:29:01| Jewelry - Topix.net
Ecopetrol S.A. announced that its Board of Directors approved the allocation of an extra US$502 million for the modernization project of its Cartagena Refinery in 2013.
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Peter Thiel leads $6M funding round for TransferWise
2013-05-14 01:55:52| CNET News.com
The peer-to-peer online currency exchange, which seeks to use the Internet to make it easier to transfer funds among currencies, has transferred more than $195 million since its founding in 2011. [Read more]
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