Sunday, April 29, 2012

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:

Friday, April 27, 2012

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

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Review: The Lady a compelling, heartbreaking, informative film

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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 ...



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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

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

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The report also lists the offense as Ć¢€œaggravated batteryĆ¢€ 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.


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Monday, April 23, 2012

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

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

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April 23 (Bloomberg) -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc., which is investigating possible bribery in Mexico, told employees that the  »

Sunday, April 22, 2012

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

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Backpacking across Europe, 20 years past prime

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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 ...



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Friday, April 20, 2012

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.

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

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.