Examples of satellite constellations include the Global Positioning System ( GPS ), Galileo and GLONASS constellations for navigation and geodesy, the Iridium and Globalstar satellite telephony services, the Disaster Monitoring Constellation and RapidEye for remote sensing, the Orbcomm messaging service, Russian elliptic orbit Molniya and Tundra constellations, the large-scale Teledesic and Skybridge broadband constellation proposals of the 1990s, and the proposed LEO global backhaul constellation named COMMStellation ™.

Specializing in disaster relief, Operation Blessing was involved in relief work following the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake ( Indonesian tsunami ), OBI is also a national member of the National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster ( NVOAD ), Combined Federal Campaign ( CFC ), Christian Service Charities, Christian Service Organizations of America ( CSOA ), the Global Compassion Network, the Virginia Trucking Association, and the American Trucking Associations ( ATA ).

In 2008, Legarda was appointed as UNISDR Asia Pacific Regional Champion for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation, and she participated in the Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction, the BBC World Debate: ‘ Prevent or React ’, and the Forum on the Human Impact of Climate Change in Geneva, Switzerland.

He is also the author of " The Battle for the Ninth Ward: ACORN, Rebuilding New Orleans, and the Lessons of Disaster " published on the sixth anniversary of Katrina on August 29, 2011, and editor of " Global Grassroots: Perspectives on International Organizing ," also released in the summer of 2011 by Social Policy Press, which lists him as its publisher.

The School of Health Sciences and Practice also offers graduate certificates in the following areas: Global Health, Public Health, Certified Health Education Specialist ( CHES-accredited ), Industrial Hygiene, Management of Long-Term Care Facilities, Children with Special Health Care Needs ( Center on Disability and Health ), and Emergency Preparedness ( Center for Disaster Medicine ).

In 2009, he published The Real Global Warming Disaster, described by The Observer as " the definitive climate sceptics ' manual ".

In the Autumn of 2009, he published The Real Global Warming Disaster.

* Climategate to Cancun: The Real Global Warming Disaster Continues ... ( with Richard North, 2010 ), London: Continuum.

* The Real Global Warming Disaster

This has since been quoted by many sceptics, including Benny Peiser and Christopher Monckton, and is listed at the top of the front page of Christopher Booker's The Real Global Warming Disaster.

The publishers of The Real Global Warming Disaster, The Continuum International Publishing Group, have apologised for the reference to that quotation, confirmed ( in addition to Booker's confirmation ) that it will not be repeated, and have agreed to place a corrigendum in any further copies of the book.

In an article which appeared in The Sunday Telegraph on 20 February 2010, Christopher Booker purported to correct the misquotation contained in The Real Global Warming Disaster but this article contained yet further inaccuracies.

* It has pledged to match up to $ 250, 000 in donations to the Hurricane 2005 Relief Fund from GM and GMAC employees through the company's Global Aid Disaster Relief website.

UNISDR leads the preparation and follow-up of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, establishment in 2006 ( GA resolution 61 / 198 ).

Other areas of work for UNISDR includes issuing the Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction every two years, supporting countries in monitoring risk trends and the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action, and leading global campaigns on disaster risk reduction for safer schools, safer hospitals and safer cities.

* WHO Global Alert and Response Disease Outbreak News: Shigellosis

Adherence to this pledge is monitored by the Global Trade Alert, providing up-to-date information and informed commentary to help ensure that the G20 pledge is met by maintaining confidence in the world trading system, detering beggar-thy-neighbour acts, and preserving the contribution that exports could play in the future recovery of the world economy.

Entitled " Global Alert for All: Jesus is Coming Soon ", it was a fundamentalist religious tract claiming that " this world's history is coming to a climax.

CSLP restructured in 1975, with some activities moved to other portions of the Smithsonian to become the Scientific Event Alert Network, and eventually the Global Volcanism Program.

The service is approved for use under the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System ( GMDSS ), meets the requirements for Ship Security Alert Systems ( SSAS ) defined by the International Maritime Organization ( IMO ) and is the most widely used service in fishing Vessel Monitoring Systems ( VMS ).

In 2009 Telenor R & I was merged with Global Coordination team, and is now part of the executive entity Telenor Business Development-headed by EVP Morten Karlsen Sørby.

There they elected a Membership Panel, and delegates to the Global Greens Coordination ( GGC ).

The arrival of solid-state electronics, the Global Positioning System, satellite communications, and increasingly small and powerful computers and LED displays, have dramatically changed the cockpits of airliners and, increasingly, of smaller aircraft as well.

The Global Positioning System ( GPS ) provided a smaller and cheaper means of quick and accurate fixation for target acquisition devices.

Bluetooth provides a secure way to connect and exchange information between devices such as faxes, mobile phones, telephones, laptops, personal computers, printers, Global Positioning System ( GPS ) receivers, digital cameras, and video game consoles.

The United States Department of Defense conducts global biosurveillance through several programs, including the Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System.

From the Global Positioning System to electric power generation, electrical engineers have contributed to the development of a wide range of technologies.

The ECMWF model is primarily used as comparison against the Global Forecast System, which is based in the United States and is run by the National Centers for Environmental Prediction.

FAO has carried out projects in over 25 countries and inter-agency missions in nearly 60, scaled up its monitoring through the Global Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture, provided policy advice to governments while supporting their efforts to increase food production, and advocated for more investment in agriculture.

FAO ’ s Global Information and Early Warning System ( GIEWS ) monitors world food supply / demand and provides the international community with prompt information on crop prospects and the food security situation on a global, regional and country-by-country basis.

U. S. Air Force Senior Airman runs through a checklist during Global Positioning System satellite operations.

The Global Positioning System ( GPS ) is a space-based satellite navigation system that provides location and time information in all weather, anywhere on or near the Earth, where there is an unobstructed line of sight to four or more GPS satellites.

GPS modernization has now become an ongoing initiative to upgrade the Global Positioning System with new capabilities to meet growing military, civil, and commercial needs.

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* Global Production System aka Trans-national Production System ( TPS )

Gravitational time dilation in the Earth's gravitational field has been measured numerous times using atomic clocks, while ongoing validation is provided as a side effect of the operation of the Global Positioning System ( GPS ).

Geocaching is an outdoor recreational activity in which the participants use a Global Positioning System ( GPS ) receiver or mobile device and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called " geocaches " or " caches ", anywhere in the world.

* GPS – Short for Global Positioning System, also occasionally refers to the receiver itself.

It is essentially the basis for geodetic positioning by the Global Positioning System and is thus also in extremely widespread use outside the geodetic community.

GSM ( Global System for Mobile Communications, originally ), is a standard set developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute ( ETSI ) to describe protocols for second generation ( 2G ) digital cellular networks used by mobile phones.

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