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MONDAY: EPA Administrator to Attend National League of Cities Congressional City Conference
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy will speak on a panel at the National League of Cities’ annual Congressional City Conference on Monday moderated by NLC President and Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker addressing climate change and infrastructure needs. EPA is collaborating with state, local, and tribal partners and working with business, industry and ...
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Registrants should get ready to comment on substance evaluation draft decisions
In 2014, Member States have been evaluating 51 registered substances under the substance evaluation process. If further information is needed to assess the safety of the substance, they have prepared a draft decision. The deadline for submitting a draft decision to ECHA was 26 March 2015. ECHA has now received draft decisions on 40 substances, and registrants should get ready to give their ...
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Climate change: the challenge of finding the funds needed
Most people would agree that climate change needs to be tackled, but it is less clear where the money needed to do this should come from. MEPs discussed the issue with their national counterparts on Monday 30 March during a hearing on the climate conference that is due to take place in Paris in December this year. National MPs agreed that their work starts now to ensure their governments prepare ...
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The in-house days at Pieralisi go on
The in house days organized by Pieralisi Group at the headquarters in Jesi continue to raise interest among the millers. Last Friday 15th May it was the turn of the association CO.N. Millers from Abruzzi together with a delegation of POG Cooperative of Caprino Veronese. The customers, welcomed by the President, Gennaro Pieralisi, were accompanied by the North-Central Italy Sales Manager, ...
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TUESDAY: Administrator McCarthy Holds Press Briefing on U.S.-China SandED Joint Session on Climate Change
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy and U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz will provide a briefing for media following the Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) Joint Session on Climate Change at the U.S. Department of State. Administrator McCarthy will discuss the important domestic actions EPA has taken as part of President Obama’s ...
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Bakker Oilfield Supply Coevorden B.V. finishes prestigious Soundwall project TAQA Bergermeer
After a period of 2.5 years, the TAQA project Bergermeer is almost finished. In week 26 Bakker Oilfield Supply Coevorden B.V. (BOS) started to rig down the Soundwall which surrounded the last phase of the TAQA Project. The final part of the rig down and the transport of all the equipment from BOS will be finished in week 28. During the final stage of the project, a total of 650 meters of ...
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The Focus-Abengoa Foundation and Loyola Andalucía University sign an agreement to offer internships in Abengoa for undergraduate and graduate students
Seven different kinds of internships will be available under this agreement The Focus-Abengoa Foundation and Loyola Andalucía University today signed a new agreement under which both undergraduate and graduate students of Loyola Andalucía University will have the opportunity to enter professional internships in Abengoa. This program aims to complete the training of students for ...
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Litter picker aids New York City park trash cleanup
In the summer months, city parks encounter additional visitors and the garbage they leave behind. Especially after holidays and events, park maintenance can become a large-scale effort. Trash cleanup often requires large crews and many days to complete. The Barber LITTER PICKER can get the job done quickly, restoring the grass, paved, and soil-covered surfaces of parks back to their initial ...
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Concert/event cleanup with barber litter picker
Large concerts, music festivals, and events that take place on grass fields, parking lots, and other potential performance venues can generate millions of dollars by drawing colossal crowds. However, this also means that the people create large amounts of garbage, much of which never makes it into trash cans. Especially during longer festivals, trash can pile up quickly. The LITTER PICKER has ...
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Meet new International Lining Technology hire Sviatoslav Russky
International Lining Technology would like to introduce our new estimating assistant Sviatoslav Russky. He is working part-time as he is currently a senior at the University of Nevada, Reno earning a bachelor’s degree in geophysics with a minor in statistics. He will join the office full-time in May when he graduates. Russky will be supporting the estimator and project managers. Job ...
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An NDC delegation visits the operational base of the Italian Central Security Operations Service (NOCS)
On Tuesday 19th April, a delegation from the NATO Defense College (NDC), led by NDC Middle East Faculty Director Col Giuseppe Morabito (ITA A), visited the operational base of the Central Security Operations Service (NOCS). The aim of the visit was to have a general overview of the objectives and operational equipment of the NOCS. The group was composed of Course Members from the NATO Regional ...
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16th International Kyiv Week
The 16th edition of the annual International Kyiv Week, jointly organized by the NATO Defense College (NDC) and the Ukrainian National Defence University (UNDU), with the support of NATO School Oberammergau (NSO), officially began on Monday 18 April 2016 at the National Ivan Cherniakhivskyi Defence University. The inaugural speech by the Commandant of the UNDU, Lieutenant General Vasyl Telelym ...
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Microsoft Flow: Meet the New Face of Workflow
Flow is one of Microsoft's newest products. If you have an Office 365 license, you should be very interested in Flow as it has a lot of both power and potential. In this post, I'll go through what Flow can do for you, explore what's cool, and what can be improved. As a SharePoint consultant, I'm often faced with integrating different systems. "How can I get data from X into Y?", "I wish I knew ...
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GIS and Technology Applications for Transportation Planning and Analysis
Learn about new trends and real-life practical applications from regional planning and economic development organizations. Presenters will discuss one transportation model based upon economic modeling and forecasting, as well as land use allocation modeling from a regional sustainability project, along with how GIS was used to support analysis of a region’s bicycle route planning efforts, a ...
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The U.S. Department of State’s Anti-Human Trafficking Guidance: What You Need to Know [WEBINAR]
Anti-human trafficking compliance and risk management programs are fast becoming essential initiatives, particularly for companies with U.S. Federal Contracts captured under the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR). The release of this framework emphasizes that it is time for companies to develop due diligence programs that help them assess and mitigate risks in their supply chains. The recently ...
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Senior Course 128 graduation, with an address by Air Marshal Sir Christopher Harper
On 22nd July, the NATO Defense College celebrated the graduation of Senior Course 128. With 74 high-ranking officers and civilian participants from 31 different countries from across the Atlantic Alliance and partners graduating, this major event was attended by Course Members’ families as well as the College Flag Officers, Faculty and Staff. The Senior Course is the NDC’s main ...
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Nominations sought for IAIA’s 2017 awards
The International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) is accepting nominations for its 2017 awards. The winners will be recognized at IAIA’s 37th annual conference in Montreal, Canada, 4-7 April 2017. Additional award information and online submissions can be found at http://www.iaia.org/awards.php. Nominations are due 11 September 2016. You do not need to be an IAIA member in order to ...
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IFAT India in Mumbai
From Sept. 28th to 30th, we were in the west of India at the exhibition IFAT India. The IFAT India is the leading environmental trade fair in India for water, sewage, refuse and recycling. Because of the great number of visitors to this fair, Mumbai offered the ideal platform for an intensive exchange with business partners and customers. Furthermore, the trade fair offered the opportunity to ...
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SC 129 Transatlantic Link Field Study: Washington (2)
The final events of the visit to Washington DC for SC 129 involved briefings and question and answer sessions with the Rev. Adam Russell Taylor, Lead for the Faith-Based Initiative in Global Engagement at the World Bank, and Mr Patrick Cirillo, Principal Assistant to the Secretary of the International Monetary Fund. Taking place at the IMF headquarters, the briefings presented the history, role ...
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Group Controller wanted!
We are looking for a Group Controller to work at our office in Lempäälä, Finland As the Group Controller, your responsibilities include financial accounting i.e. production of monthly consolidated statutory accounts for the Group in accordance with IFRS and FAS, financial eeporting, analysis, and tax; reviewing and developing of all financial reporting systems to ensure a high ...
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