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200 more volunteers sought for large-scale disaster drill Antelope Valley Press
This story appeared in the Antelope Valley Press on Tuesday, October 3, 2006. Organizers of a large-scale disaster drill planned for Tuesday, Oct. 10, are hoping for another 200 volunteers to sign up by Thursday, the deadline day for registration.
Sitaram Ayurveda wins award 'Small Scale Entrepreneur' Award New Kerala
Kochi, Oct 3: Kerala-based Sitaram Ayurveda Pharmacy Ltd (SAPL) has been selected for the Small Scale Entrepreneur National Award 2005, a company release said.
Google opens full scale New York office Reuters via Yahoo! News
Google Inc. has consolidated 500 of its advertising and engineering staff into a single location in the fashionable former meatpacking district of lower Manhattan, the company confirmed on Monday.
Ohaus FD Food Scale Used for Culinary Instruction PR Web
The Ohaus FD Food Portioning Scale is gaining popularity as the benchmark scale for world-class pastry and dessert instruction. (PRWEB Oct 3, 2006)
ALL BUSINESS: Cost cuts mirror CEO fears AP via Yahoo! News
It says something about the current state of the economy when Credit Suisse's bankers must scale back on color photocopying and ConAgra Foods Inc. dumps a buffet always offered to shareholders at its annual meeting.
Air attacks dim Sri Lanka peace talk hopes AFP via Yahoo! News
Sri Lankan air raids against Tamil Tiger rebels dimmed prospects of early peace talks between the two sides despite fresh attempts by Norway to avert a return to full-scale war, officials said.
Sri Lanka delays talks but rules out war to end ethnic bloodshed AFP via Yahoo! News
Peacebroker Norway has struggled to bring Sri Lanka and Tamil Tiger rebels to the negotiating table and avert full-scale war as Colombo sought to delay any talks until at least the end of the month.
As hedge funds proliferate, risks spread to non-investors USATODAY.com via Yahoo! News
Look behind any major financial scandal these days, and chances are good you will find a hedge fund. The sheer scale of the money flowing into these funds - which make bets for or against various stocks, commodities, currencies, loan portfolios and other assets - is troubling.
UN agency says won't scale back Hamas govt contacts Tiscali
GAZA (Reuters) - The American head of the U.N. agency aiding Palestinian refugees said on Wednesday her agency will not scale back contacts with the new Palestinian government and will meet with Hamas leaders as part of its aid work.
Google Opens Full-Scale New York Office InformationWeek
The company is leasing around 300,000 square feet of office space, consolidating 500 employees into one location.

SCALE Student Coalition for Action in Literacy Education
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill based network of college students, adult learners, administrators, literacy practitioners and community partners
The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale
Descriptions of different strength hurricanes with links to specific storms.
Quarks to Quasars, Powers of Ten
For some other standards used in these pages, check out my Scales page. Finally, I have purposely limited the use of bells and whistles, since I'd like to
EUROPA - Environment - Health
European Commission - Environment - Health. EUROPA > European Commission > Environment > Policies > Health, Contact | Search on EUROPA
UCMP Web Time Machine
Geologic time scale with links for each time interval.

Quarks to Quasars, Powers of Ten
For some other standards used in these pages, check out my Scales page. Finally, I have purposely limited the use of bells and whistles, since I'd like to
EUROPA - Environment - Health
European Commission - Environment - Health. EUROPA > European Commission > Environment > Policies > Health, Contact | Search on EUROPA
UCMP Web Time Machine
Geologic time scale with links for each time interval.
GEOLOGICAL TIME SCALE
Absolute time measurements can be used to calibrate the relative time scale, producing an integrated geologic or "geochronologic" time scale.
The Fujita Scale of Tornado Intensity
The Fujita Tornado Intensity Scale is used to rate the intensity of a tornado by examining the damage caused by the tornado after it has passed over a
The Torino Impact Hazard Scale
Note: the Torino Scale was recently revised according to this recent publication:. Morrison, D., Chapman, CR, Steel, D., and Binzel RP "Impacts and the
SCALE Home Page
The SCALE group is developing technologies for future high-performance low-power The SCALE (Software-Controlled Architectures for Low Energy) project is
Map Scales, Fact Sheet FS105-02, (February 2002)
Selecting the appropriate scale depends on the size of the sheet of paper and the The US Geological Survey (USGS) publishes maps at various scales.