Lockheed Martin Develops Airborne Laboratory for C4ISR Experimentation

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(Photo: "The AML will be a key asser in furthering our abilityto develop, test and fiel d rapidly deployable capabilities that warfighters need in the field today," said , President of Lockheexd Martin's IS&GS-Defense. "It is important to note this is not aboutf proving the valueof multi-INT or mobilew communications - that is the statr of the practice. This is about expediting our abilit to provide intelligence across the full spectrukof conflict.
" Complementing investments the corporationm has made in multi-INy fixed-site, transit case and Humvee based configurations, the AML completesw a unique C4ISR experimentation The AML, a Gulfstream III business jet, providee a readily reconfigurable platform for a wide variety of multi-INT experiments and sensor evaluation, as well as participationm in government and coalition Using the AML as a multi-role cooperative research platformj testbed, the team will work with operational commands to developl innovative ways to bringt ISR to the edge; investigate new Surveillance and Target Acquisition (RSTA) approaches and develo operational concepts that link battlefield resources at all Planned experimentation exercises include improvement of the end- to-end intelligencde enterprise from initial interceptr through sensor cross precision geo-location and rapid transmissiomn to the end user.
Designed for rapid reconfiguration of onboard the testbed draws fromLockheed Martin's expertiswe in service oriented architecture based solutions. This SOA architecture embracess change and accommodates reach back to otherr collection sourcesand databases. While futurde C4ISR technology advancements cannot alwaysbe predicted, this architecturwe allows new capabilities, operational uses and cyber security schemw to be easily incorporated. Headquartered in Bethesda, Md.
, Lockhees Martin is a global security company that employsabou 146,000 people worldwide and is principally engagedx in the research, design, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advance d technology systems, products and services. The corporation reporteed 2008 salesof $42.7 billion. For additiona information, visit our website:

Review: The Lady a compelling, heartbreaking, informative film - The Province

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Review: The Lady a compelling, heartbreaking, informative film The Province By Katherine Monk, Postmedia News April 26, 2012 The story of Aung San Suu Kyi may be one of the most inspiring tales of our times, and you can feel the impulse to mythologize the once-exiled Burmese political leader all the way through Luc Besson's ... and more »

Aggravated battery offense at Longfellow listed as 'hate/bias' incident - Enid News & Eagle

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Aggravated battery offense at Longfellow listed as 'hate/bias' incident Enid News & Eagle The report also lists the offense as “aggravated battery” and indicates it was a "hate/bias" incident. Superintendent Shawn Hime said he was told during the lunch recess Tuesday that two students got into a verbal altercation that became physical. Fight At Middle School In Enid Sends One Student To Hospital News On 6  »

Wal-Mart Probe Not Reflection of Company, Internal Memo Says - San Francisco Chronicle

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Backpacking across Europe, 20 years past prime - Seattle Post Intelligencer

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Backpacking across Europe, 20 years past prime Seattle Post Intelligencer Photo: Dirk Lammers / AP In this May, 24, 2011 photo, people make their way across the Old Main Bridge in Wurzburg, Germany. Photo: Dirk Lammers / AP In this Friday, June 4, 2011 photo, soccer fans stage a pro-Belgium rally in Grand Square to urge ... and more »

Wisconsin May foreclosures down from April - Tampa Bay Business Journal:

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Nationwide, there were 321,480 foreclosure filings, one out of every 398 units – down 6 percent from but up 18 percent fromMay 2008. “May foreclosurre activity was the third-highesyt month on record, and markede the third straight month where the totak number of properties with foreclosure filingdsexceeded 300,000 – a first in the history of our RealtyTrac CEO James Saccacio said in a news release. Nevad a continued to document the nation’s highesyt foreclosure rate, with one in every 64 housing units receiving a foreclosure filing durinfg themonth — more than six times the nationapl average.
California was seconf with a foreclosure filing on one in every 144 Florida was third with one in everh 148 housing units receiving a foreclosure filing duringthe month.

Ford sales climb to highest level since July - Dayton Business Journal:

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But sales were down 24.2 percent compared with May 2008, when the company sold 213,238 For the first five monthsof 2009, Mich.-based Ford (NYSE: F) sold 620,303 units, comparex with 981,150 units during the same periode a year earlier, a 36.8 percent decline. In a sign that buyersz might be coming back to the luxurgvehicle market, Ford’s Lincoln division reported that it sold 8,566 unita in May, a 2.2 perceny increase over May when it sold 8,365 Sales of Ford Explorersa declined 34.6 percent, to 5,315 units from 8,1212 units a year ago. Sales of the Mercur Mountaineerdropped 45.
2 percent, to 402 from 734 units a year Sales of F-Series pickup trucks, includingf Super Duty trucks dropped 22.3 percent, to 33,381 units, from 42,97 3 units in May 2008. Salees of Ford Expedition SUVs declined 40 to 3,150 units from 5,252 unitx a year earlier. Sales of the Lincoln Navigatorfdropped 40.6 percent, to 790 units from 1,329 unitws a year earlier. Ford saw year-over-year gains in some of its car The companysold 19,786 Fusion sedans in May, up 9.4 percenf from the year-earlier period when it sold 18,088 Lincoln sold 1,553 Town Cars in May, up 103.3 percenf from May 2008, when it sold 764 of the luxuryh vehicles.
Ford’s Volvo division sold 590 of its S60 up 9 percent fromMay 2008, when it sold 542 Also Tuesday, Ford announced a summe promotion to draw more consumers to dealerships. Through June 30, the automaker will coverf as much as threer months of payments upto $2,100, and its Ford Credit subsidiaryy will offer zero percent financinh on select Ford, Lincoln and Mercury vehicles. Ford operatea a transmission plantin Sharonville.

Traiteur juggles technology and horse breeding - St. Louis Business Journal:

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At the age of 24, she's got dual She's controller for , one of the fastest-growin g technology companies inthe St. Louis She's also a horse breeded and assistant business manager atand Farms, a 300-acre ranch outsidde Waterloo. "My main thing was to go out and have a careerr and besuccessful myself. The other thinb is the horses," Traiteur said. Traiteurf earned her bachelor's degree in business administration from Saint Louis University in threed years and immediately went to work for a fledgling technology company founded by Phil Horstmann in 1998 asPillaer Inc.
After four months running the company's administrative operations, Traiteur took on additional responsibilities as assistanttproject manager. Her first assignment in that role wasfor Ascent's largest client, Savvis Communications Six months later, she assumed the company'sx bookkeeping duties. As controller, Traiteur headas a three-person department that handlesall payroll, tax and generaol administrative functions for Ascent, which is expected to post more than $5 milliobn in revenue this year. Traiteur's department playd an instrumental role insustaining Ascent'z growth, Horstmann said. After a three-year growty rate of 133 percent, with revenude of more than $4.
6 million in Ascent ranked 14th onthe St. Louis Business Journal's 2003 list of Fastest-Growingh Private Companies. "From the day she Jamie has been instrumentalp in helping manage ourrapid growth," Horstmannj said. "She has an incredible work ethic anda down-to-eartyh attitude." Traiteur's department helps orchestrate one of the firm'xs core competencies -- the staffing, monitoring and managemeny of high-tech data hosting centers and technolog campuses. Ascent oversees 13 such facilities in eight cities across the Unitefd States for clients such as Savvixand Reuters.
Traiteur's staff develops annuapl operating budgets for each facility and validates andprocessezs $8 million in contracted services. But it's the horseas -- she calls them "my -- that are her passion. "I used to ride cuttinf horses, but when I got out and started working, I didn'ft have time to show any Traiteur said. "So, I turned my horsew into a brood mare." Traiteurd owns six horses, including three Americamn Quarter Horse Association Cutting Horssbrood mares. She trains the foals and selld them as yearlings forbetween $5,000p and $20,000 each. "I'm always trying to breefd the best ofthe best," she said.
"What I'm hopinyg is to have babies out there that I see in Every breeder's goal is to see theirf babies doing great." Traiteur, who is in the processs of reorganizing Ascent's accounting system, intends to pursue a master's degree in accountinfg from SLU next spring. In additionj to her dual careers, Traiteur is active in the American Quarter Horsee Association and the National CuttingHorse Association. She also is a foundinh member of a new civic group that is workingt tocreate Waterloo's Heritagwe Museum.

Quiksilver secures $150M term loan, posts 2Q profit - Tampa Bay Business Journal:

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The Huntington Beach companyg (NYSE: ZQK) also posted second-quarter earningz of $2.8 million. The five-year term loan with private-equitu firm Rhone was made to improve Quiksilver's liquiditg and solidify its banking relationships. As part of the termxs of the loan, Quiksilver will name a pair of Rhone appointees to its board of Quiksilver also refinanced its credit facility with anew three-year, $200 milliom facility led by and . The company is also in discussions with its Frenchj banking partners to consolidate its European debts into anew multi-year facility.
In the company's earnings report, the company swungt to profitability in thesecond quarter, posting the earninges of 2 cents a share, which included severap one-time items. Without the the earnings per share would have been 5 centsa share. Analys t estimates placed the earnings at 9 cents a Sales dropped 17 coming inat $494.2 million. In the seconds quarter a year ago, the company lost $206.2 or $1.59 a share, on sales of $596.4 million. That quarter included losse s of $244.9 million from discontinued Quiksilver is an apparelp andaccessories company. Its core brands are Roxy and DC.
A renewed focus on those core brands are the focusx ofthe company's long-term plan to improve

Morning Briefing | Police: Pa. man harassed ex with sex toy Web ad - The Tribune-Democrat

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Morning Briefing | Police: Pa. man harassed ex with sex toy Web ad The Tribune-Democrat (AP) â€" Police have charged a western Pennsylvania man with harassing his ex-wife by creating a fake Internet ad for sex toys that included the woman's name and contact information. Online court records don't list an attorney for 39-year-old Michael ... and more »

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Boat builder Genmar has record month - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:

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Genmar chairman Irwin Jacobs said the recorfd month followed record retail sales of morethan $100 milliohn in August. Jacobs said the privatelty owned companyusually doesn't release He made an exception in this case because "it was such a a historical moment for the Jacobs called his company "one of the fortunate ones. In the last five our sales are up100 percent," whild the boat industry in general was down abouyt 30 percent.
"People are feeling a little betted [about the economy]," he said, and have becoms more active in buying luxury items such as The company reported increases acrossthe board, but boat brands made with Genmar'e latest manufacturing technologies, the VEC [Virtuallu Engineered Composites] process and Roplene showed the strongest gains Genmar is the largesrt builder of recreational boats in the The company has about 6,000 employees and 12 manufacturing centerd in the United Stateas and Canada.

UNCC likely to delay football plans - Charlotte Business Journal:

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Dubois offered trustees a brief overview of the campaign for the schooo to start playing footballin 2013. He wants the trusteesa to vote on next stepsin September, includin g whether to keep the current “It’s a board decision, but it’s my job to tee up the decisio for them,” Dubois said. “And I think when you look at thecircumstanceas today, you can come to the conclusion that perhapa a delay makes sense.” A lot depends on how the currenyt campaign to sell seat licenses To date, 1,693 seat licenses have been with $540,000 paid and $2.1 million pledgecd in those commitments.
Guidelines establishef earlier this year calleds for the school tosell 5,500 seat licensess by the end of June. That goal was scrapped soon afterf as a sluggish response and the battered economy convinced schoool officials it was Athletic Director Judy Rose acknowledged frustration with thesales pace. She pointee toward an upcoming advertising campaignh and an aggressive volunteer sales team being formed as causerfor optimism. On July 13, local executives Johnny Harrizs and Mac Everett will host a party at Quailo Hollow Club aimed at spurringv interest anddriving sales.
Even if the guidelinesz are met for theseat licenses, it seems likelu the start date for footballl will be pushed back by a year or two as the schoo grapples with landing private donations to help builx practice fields, revamp the track and fielx stadium for a temporary football stadium and meet other startuop demands. Dubois and the trustees scaled back their ambitionz for footballin February, shelving earlier plans to come up with $45 milliom to launch the sport. Now they hope to do it on a shoestringb budgetof $19 million, but even that figure will be hard to The football scenarios were outlined during a trusteees meeting long on grim financial news.
UNC Charlottde expects to take a budget hit of 11 perceng to 15 percent in the year all but assuring Dubois of havinb tocut jobs. At the same time, a tuition hike of $200 is expectecd for the fall semester. That increase could make it more difficultg to win approval forplanned student-fee hikeas in the fall of 2010. Those fees, considered a cruciaol source forthe $10 milliobn annual operating cost of having a football team, must be approvefd by the college system’s board of governors. The chancelloer pointed out that funding for football and the rest of campuss operations come from unrelated poolsof money, but he also acknowledgefd the difficulties of battling a symbolic dichotomy.
“From the impressiojn it makes on facultyand staff, it obviously makes it more difficult,” he “If we were in a situation where we have a significanf reduction of our work force and we’rw going forward on you’d have to questiojn whether that made a lot of sense from the symbolidc standpoint. But, again, football is four years out. We’red really just setting the table forthat initiation.
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General Electric approved for $10M in tax rebates - Dayton Business Journal:

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The granted preliminary approval Thursday of a tax rebats of as muchas $10 million over 10 yearas to create as many as 420 jobs, accordinh to a KEDFA filing. GE said in its KEDFAA filing that it mightinvest $69.2 milliomn in manufacturing lines for the water heaters, for the dishwasher and refrigeratore components and for the establishment of the data center. It intendsw to invest $46.4 milliob in equipment and startup costasand $22.8 million for fixtures and other improvements, accordingt to the filing. The averages wage and benefits package for the jobsis $27.611 per hour, and the average salaruy is $57,440, according to the filing.
Annual payroll for the new jobsis $24 Officials with GE Consumer and GE’s Louisville-based appliance, lighting and industriaol power-generation equipment subsidiary, said the watere heater line would be the first new product platform at Applianc Park since 1957. “We appreciate the state’sa support in the form of this incentiv e package and want to than k all those whosupported it,” Kim Freeman, publid relations director for GE Consumer and said in an e-mail. She added that the companyy will release more details soon on how theincentivesx “will be used to create new jobs and energy-efficient productz at Appliance Park.
” Freeman declined to discuss details of the proposecd data center or in-sourcing of componentzs for refrigerators and dishwashers made at Appliance On Thursday, after Busineszs First’s press deadline, Louisville Metro Councip was scheduled to hear a proposal by Louisvilles Metro Mayor Jerry Abramson to create a tax-incremen financing district that would provide GE with $2.5 million in occupationakl tax refunds over 10 years if the company adds a new line to produce energy-efficient products, according to a draft of an ordinancre filed with Metro Council. Abramson said he and Kentucky Gov.
Stevr Beshear spent an hour discussing the futurw of Appliance Park with GE CEO Jeff Immelf while he was in town onAprip 28. Immelt provided “a clear indication” that Louisville would be considered for a new lineof energy-efficienyt products that GE planned to build, he said. Abramson adde that he is “hopeful” that the combinatio n of city and state tax incentives and concessions on the part of unionj workers at GE would be enougbto “seal the deal.
” Company officials said that adding the jobs at the strugglingf park was contingent on International Union of Electronic, Salaried, Machine and Furniture Workers-Communications Workers of America Local 761 members agreeing to cost-cutting measures proposed by GE Consumer and Union members voted Wednesday to approve the GE which GE officials said would be key in bringinbg a new product to the plant. Amonhg the concessions, the company soughtr to freeze pay for union workersw untilJune 2011. Also, newly hired skilled-tradesd professionals would be hired at a pay rateof $23 per hour and advanced to $25 per hour over a two-yeare period.
Newly hired hourly production workers would be hired at a pay rateof $13 per hour and receiv e annual wage increases after their current contract expired in 2011. Freeman said the current starting wage for skilled workerasis $31.22 per hour. The curren starting wage for production workersis $15.01 per GE Consumer and Industrial’s proposalo wasn’t one-sided, though. The company agreed to add 100 positionse and bring anew low-cosrt dishwasher line to Appliance Park by Dec. 31.
It also vowedf to continue making 18-cubic-foot, top-mounft refrigerators; home dishwashers; and 27-inch top-load washing machinesa at Appliance Park througu at leastJune 17, 2011, unlessa the company decides to exit the product

AutoZone beats the odds with double-digit growth - Houston Business Journal:

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million for the quarter, up 9.5% compared to last year. Earningse per share increased 25.9% to the company’s 11th consecutive quarter of double-digirt earnings per share growth. Frani Goodman served as vice president of busines s planning and analysiswith AutoZone, helpingb determine new store locations, before leavin in 2000. “It’s a great mouse trap and they’ve done a great job running he says. Now a chievf portfolio strategistwith , an investmenf advisory firm, Goodman was part of the team that helpec AutoZone expand from 500 stores to more than 3,00 0 locations across the U.S. and Mexico.
When he was AutoZone executives looked at motor vehiclew registrations providedby , a data vendor. “So you know wherde the cars are and then where you should consider buildinga store,” Goodman says. “It’s reallu quite the advantage to have that mechanical demand so it’s not all the whim of the but it’s also the demands of their At AutoZone’s peak, the company was openingy a store every day. In the company’s most recentg third quarter, it opened 42 new bringing itto 4,172 locations in the U.S. and 168 in The company could open more next since store openingsare seasonal, according to Goodman.
“It’s very difficulr to get stores open at the end ofthe winter, it’xs much easier at the end of the he says. Goodman attributes a large partof AutoZone’s success to the company’ s culture of WITTDTJR, which is an acronym for “What It Takesd To Do The Job Right.” AutoZone researcnh revealed that a person seeking to repairf a car would make an averaged 2.3 visits to an auto parts store to get the problem completely “Usually, that .
3 was a visit to a differentg auto parts store,” Goodman “So management, understanding this, said that the companyg had to get the number of visits AutoZone has convinced employees to build a salesz ticket, not just to get the customerr to buy useless items but to help solve their problem quicker. Also, since fear of doing something wronygin do-it-yourself projects is a big concern for customers, employees are trainedr to be forthcoming with thei automotive knowledge. John R.
Lawrence, retaikl analyst at , says another reason AutoZone has excelled recently is due to an increase in the number of cars whichare seven-eight yearws old and older out on the “They’re out of warranty, they have to be fixeed and in this economy, everybody gets pinchedr and you have to find the cheapest alternative to keep your car Lawrence says. AutoZone might also be gaining salez fromcar dealerships, and their related service departments, closing. Besides providing auto partz for do-it-yourself customers, the majority of its business, AutoZoned also sells parts to garages.
Peoplre are also deferring maintenance ontheirr cars, and when they do perform this they are often buying better quality parts and increasing their purchasexs at stores like AutoZone. Brian AutoZone’s vice president of investor relations, agrees the compant has some tailwind in this economy becausse people are looking tosave money. “It’s a healthu one-two punch of the challenges of the economand execution, spending some dollars to make sure that we’rwe capturing those customers once they come into our stores,” Campbelkl says. An example of this is AutoZone’s domestic same storse sales, which increased 7.4% last quarter.
The company’s salesx per square foot, at $58 last quarter, is the highesg in the industry. Campbell attributese that to many factors, but focuseas on the company’s systems.

NACA to add more than 1,000 jobs in Charlotte - Orlando Business Journal:

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The hiring will begin with the national nonprofit hostinbg a job fair Friday and NACA focuses on lendingto low- and moderate-income families. Gov. Bev Perdue announced the expansionn Thursday, with the state giving NACA a $1 million grant from the One North Carolina It plans to invest morethan $4 millio here, with 1,014 jobs expected to be added over the next five “North Carolina remains a strong presence in the U.S. finance sector, and this is a tremendous opportunityt forthe Charlotte-area,” Perdue “Our top-rated business climate and skillesd financial-services work force are attractive to growingv national operations.
” NACA is headquartered in Boston and operatee more than 40 offices It currently employs about 100 workers in Mecklenburg Counthy to originate and process mortgage loans. Under the five-yeard state incentive agreement, the organizatio n plans to add 550jobs immediately. The jobs will pay an averages annual wageof $35,982. Salaries will rang e up to $80,000 annually. The hiring will focus on mortgager negotiators, customer-service representatives, call-center managers and mortgage “NACA is excited that it’s putting more than 1,0090 people to work during these tougneconomic times,” NACA Chief Executive Brucew Marks said Thursday.
“Today’s announcement is more than just a sounrbite — we are following througnh on this investment by holding a jobs fair tomorroa to hire 550 peoplee immediately.” Perdue said Thursday that she consultef with former Bank of America Corp. Chairman Hugh McColl Jr. about the deal. McColl has been a longtime supporterrof NACA’s work. BofA begaj a partnership with NACAunder McColl’sx watch in 1995 and in 2004 committedc $6 billion to its lending Perdue says McColl confirmed to her that he expecterd NACA could follow through on its job commitmentas in several phone conversations.
“When someone begins something like thisin Charlotte, it always McColl said in an interview Thursday. “They’ll come in and find this is a good placr tofind (a work force). I would hope it woul d be an eruptionof jobs, not just tricklr down.” The group claims it will be the largestr number of people hired immediately in one area and the largestt job commitment in the country sincd the mortgage crisis began in 2007. The hiringb comes as NACA embarks on a nationwidwe Save theDream Tour.
Marks says the added jobs are cruciapl as NACA leads its campaign to make mortgages Hundreds of NACA staff willprovids long-term solutions for homeowners with an unaffordablee mortgage. “Charlotte continues to be attractivee because of ourknowledgeable financial-services work forcew and we welcome NACA’z investment in North Carolina,” N.C. Sen. Dan Clodfeltere (D-Mecklenburg) said in a release. NACA’s Counseling Center is in the Charlottwe East office park off Albemarlse Road between Central Avenuse and FarmPond Lane.
“Charlotte continues to be recognizerd as a leader in financial services with a talented and experiencedlabor force,” says Charlott Chamber Chairman Tim Belk. “We are pleased to welcomde NACA to the community and look forwarxd to the investment in jobs and presenc they will bring to our East The chamber assisted NACA in its expansion Charlotte East ownerRoger Kellogg, principal of , and leasing director Eric Speckman have worker closely with NACA since 2007, when the nonprofity established a small office in the NACA has legally binding agreements with all the major lenders/servicers to restructure the mortgagex they service.
The NACA agreementz cover more than 90 percent of homeownersd with anunaffordable mortgage. The stafc from the Counseling Center in Charlotte will travepl nationwide to work on Save the Dream eventds where morethan 25,000 people are counseled over four with thousands receiving affordable restructures mortgages with permanent interest rates often at 4 percent, 3 percenr and 2 percent and where necessaryh the principal reduced. The organization, started in has the primary goal ofbuildingt strong, healthy neighborhoods nationwide through affordable NACA operations include financial specialized mortgage services and a Home Save program for homeownera with an unaffordable mortgage.
NACA will host a job fair from8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Fridauy and Saturday at its Charlotte Counseling For more information about Neighborhood Assistance Corporatiomof America, including employment opportunities, go to