* Robert Sheets is the former director of the National Hurricane Center in Coral Gables, Florida.

As late as August 31 it had been projected by the National Hurricane Center that the hurricane would remain at Category 3 or above on September 1, but in the event the center of Gustav made landfall as a strong Category 2 hurricane ( 1 mph below Category 3 ), and dropped to Category 1 soon after.

* 1961 – The United States National Hurricane Research Project drops eight cylinders of silver iodide into the eyewall of Hurricane Esther.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Louisiana, and surrounding area, the New Orleans Hornets of the National Basketball Association temporarily relocated to the Ford Center, playing the majority of its home games there during the 2005 – 06 and 2006 – 07 seasons.

AAI Corporation subsidiary Aerosonde Pty Ltd. of Victoria ( Australia ), designs and manufactures the 35-pound system, which can fly into a hurricane and communicate near-real-time data directly to the National Hurricane Center in Florida.

National Steel Car had turned out Avro Anson trainers, Handley Page Hampden bombers, Hawker Hurricane fighters and Westland Lysander army cooperation aircraft.

On September 2, 2005, the 1st Battalion, 134th Field Artillery ( Ohio Army National Guard ) arrived at the National Guard armory in Poplarville to assist the community and Pearl River County in recovery efforts in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

National Hurricane Center track forecast of Lili from September 30, 2002

They were officially recognized by the National Hurricane Center in 1972.

In 1972, the National Hurricane Center ( NHC ) finally designated these storms as subtropical cyclones in real-time, and updated the hurricane database to include subtropical cyclones from 1968 through 1971.

* On September 2, 2005, the 1st Battalion, 134th Field Artillery ( Ohio Army National Guard ) arrived at the National Guard armory in Poplarville to assist the community and Pearl River County in recovery efforts in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

* Tropical Prediction Center ( National Hurricane Center )

The ASPCA provides relief services for the domestic animal victims of natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina, where the National Outreach department collected donations to provide supplies ; coordinated volunteer efforts ; deployed rescue teams to recover abandoned pets ; provided temporary shelter to displaced animals ; and reunited pets with their owners.

::-NSSP National Severe Storms Project and NHRP National Hurricane Research Projects established.

National Hurricane Center runs out of names from its standard list and uses Greek alphabet for the first time.

* National Security: With the recent events of our world, such as 9-11, Hurricane Katrina, and others it has been deemed essential that we have in place a dedicated network with ample spectrum for crisis communication.

The scale was developed in 1971 by civil engineer Herbert Saffir and meteorologist Bob Simpson, who at the time was director of the U. S. National Hurricane Center ( NHC ).

The U. S. National Hurricane Center classifies hurricanes of Category 3 and above as major hurricanes ( although all hurricanes can be very dangerous ).

The National Hurricane Center ( NHC ), located at Florida International University in Miami, Florida, is the division of the National Weather Service responsible for tracking and predicting weather systems within the tropics between the Prime Meridian and the 140th meridian west poleward to the 30th parallel north in the northeast Pacific ocean and the 31st parallel north in the northern Atlantic ocean.

This was the chief reason for a so-so sales outlook given by two-thirds of 56 builders polled by the National Housing Center.

The American Film Institute operated the National Film Theatre in Washington D. C .' s Kennedy Center until 1998.

Prior to Kennedy Center, it screened films in the auditorium of the National Gallery of Art.

Ayurveda, Chinese medicine, Homeopathy and Naturopathy are cited as examples The term appears to have entered into usage through the National Institute of Health's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine ( NCCAM ), which began to employ it as a substitute for alternative medical systems as a way of differentiating widely comprehensive systems of medicine, such as Ayurvedic medicine, from specialized alternative approaches.

* Bacillus thuringiensis General Fact Sheet ( National Pesticide Information Center )

* Bacillus thuringiensis Technical Fact Sheet ( National Pesticide Information Center )

Map of the human X chromosome ( from the National Center for Biotechnology Information | NCBI website ).

** National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center ( NBACC ; Projected: 2008 )

The name " Branch Davidian " is most widely known for the Waco Siege of 1993 on their property ( known as the Mount Carmel Center ) near Waco, Texas, by the ATF, FBI, and Texas National Guard, which resulted in the deaths of their leader, David Koresh, as well as 82 other Branch Davidians and four ATF agents.

* National Energy Research Science Computer Center article on Santer ( starts page 38 )

The General Social Survey from the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago and the Saguaro Seminar at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University are examples of national community development in the United States.

* National Climatic Data Center

( Certified Elections / Registration Administrator ), the highest level of certification available for election administrators, conferred by the Election Center, the National Association of Election Administrators.

* Species Profile-Cane Toad ( Bufo marinus ), National Invasive Species Information Center, United States National Agricultural Library.

On October 15, the CIA's National Photographic Interpretation Center reviewed the U-2 photographs and identified objects that they interpreted as medium range ballistic missiles.

* The National Chiang Kai-shek Cultural Center Official Site

He was hired by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics at the Ames Research Center, where he worked through 1951.

In September 2005, as part of its campaign to demonstrate that the military allowed open homosexuals to serve when its manpower requirements were greatest, the Center for the Study of Sexual Minorities in the Military ( now the Palm Center ), a reported that army regulations allowed the active duty deployment of Army Reservists and National Guard troops who claim to be or who are accused of being gay.

" Dublin " refers to Dublin, Ohio, where the work originated during the 1995 invitational OCLC / NCSA Metadata Workshop, hosted in by Online Computer Library Center ( OCLC ), a library consortium based there, and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications ( NCSA ).

* National Conflict Resolution Center ( NCRC )

Earthly station's satellite dish of the National Institute for Space Research, in Cuiabá.

Estimates are produced by Brazil's National Institute for Space Research ( INPE ) for the entire Brazilian Legal Amazon by visually interpreting satellite imagery from the Landsat Thematic Mapper.

In 1962, on leave from the university, Singer was named as the first director of meteorological satellite services for the National Weather Satellite Center, now part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and directed a program for using satellites to forecast the weather.

Warning, however, that the NASA satellite images indicated the Arctic may have entered a " death spiral " caused by climate change, Professor Mark Serreze, a sea ice specialist at National Snow and Ice Data Center ( NSIDC ), USA, said: " The passages are open.

The Allies had acknowledged the legitimacy of the Polish Provisional Government of National Unity, which was about to form a Soviet satellite state.

Following pressure by the American Rocket Society, the National Science Foundation, and the International Geophysical Year, military interest picked up and in early 1955 the Army and Navy were working on Project Orbiter, two competing programs, the army's which involved using a Jupiter C rocket, and the civilian / Navy Vanguard Rocket, to launch a satellite.

Turkey will build new military / intelligence satellites including a 0. 8m resolution reconnaissance satellite ( Project Göktürk-1 ) for use by the Turkish Armed Forces and a 2m resolution reconnaissance satellite ( Project Göktürk-2 ) for use by the Turkish National Intelligence Organization.

The National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service ( NESDIS ) was created by NOAA to operate and manage the United States environmental satellite programs, and manage the data gathered by the NWS and other government agencies and departments.

Today the Glasnevin site is the headquarters of the National Botanic Gardens of Ireland which has a satellite garden at Kilmcurragh in county Wicklow.

In 1982 Jaruzelski revitalized the Front of National Unity, the organization the Communists used to manage their satellite parties, as the Patriotic Movement for National Rebirth.

Belonging to AT & T as part of a multi-national agreement between AT & T, Bell Telephone Laboratories, NASA, the British General Post Office, and the French National PTT ( Post Office ) to develop satellite communications, it was launched by NASA from Cape Canaveral on July 10, 1962, the first privately sponsored space launch.

In 1976, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) published a classification that added a fifth physical category, cumulonimbiform, in recognition of the unique and often complex structures of cumulonimbus clouds that are often more readily descerned by satellite photography than by surface observations.

Broadcasters are mainly government-controlled ; the state-run Tunisian Radio and Television Establishment ( ERTT ) operates 2 national television networks, several national radio networks, and a number of regional radio stations ; 1 TV and 3 radio stations are privately-owned and report domestic news stories directly from the official Tunisian news agency ; the state retains control of broadcast facilities and transmitters through L ' Office National de la Telediffusion ; Tunisians also have access to Egyptian, pan-Arab, and European satellite TV channels ( 2007 )

* National Portrait Gallery, London, with satellite galleries in Denbighshire, North Yorkshire and Somerset

* The National Cancer Institute at Frederick ( NCI-Frederick ) a satellite facility of the NCI

TV3 satellite on display at the National Air and Space MuseumThe payload was a 1. 36 kg aluminium sphere 152 mm in diameter, nearly identical to the later Vanguard 1.

Mikołajczyk offered a smaller section of land, but Stalin declined, telling him that he would allow the exiled government to participate in the Polish Committee of National Liberation ( PKWN and later " Lublin Committee "), which consisted of communists and satellite parties set up under the direct control by the Soviet plenipotentiary Colonel-General Nikolai Bulganin.

The first of the Delta IV launch vehicles to fly from SLC 6 successfully lifted off at 8: 33 p. m. PDT on June 27, 2006 when a Delta IV Medium + ( 4, 2 ) rocket lofted NROL-22, a classified satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office, into orbit.

Encouraged by conversations between Richard W. Porter of General Electric and Alan T. Waterman, Director of the National Science Foundation ( NSF ), Rosen on November 27, 1954 completed a report describing the potential value of launching an earth satellite.

National Indigenous Television, funded by the Commonwealth of Australia, is produced in Sydney and broadcast via Imparja Television's existing satellite capacity.

Approval for the revised National DTT plan and the new Saorsat satellite service was announced by the Minister for Communications at the end of July 2010.