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4th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland participate in the transfer of lead security authority of Lashkar Gar District Centre to the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF).

A few nice National Security images I found:

4th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland participate in the transfer of lead security authority of Lashkar Gar District Centre to the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF).
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The Highlanders, 4th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland Battlegroup (4 SCOTS BG) stand to attention for General Abdul Wardak, Defence Minister of Afghanistan during the Transition ceremony to mark the transfer of lead security authority of Lashkar Gar District Centre to the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF).

NNSA technicians brief Administrator Tom D’Agostino
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Technicians from NNSA’s Y-12 National Security Complex brief Administrator Tom D’Agostino on a USAF C-17 on February 14, 2012.

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Afghan National Army troops prepare for an inspection by their leadership and visiting coalition leaders April 24 at Camp Shoraback in Helmand province. Lt. Gen. David Rodriguez, commander of ISAF Joint Command, and Maj. Gen. John Toolan, commander of II Marine Expeditionary Force and Regional Command – Southwest, visited the Afghan soldiers after a meeting with the leaders of the camp. The Afghan troops are constantly training and operating throughout the region to fight back the insurgency and restore stability to their province. (U.S. Army photo by Staff. Sgt. Brandon Pomrenke)

Posted on April 18, 2012 by , 1 comment

North Carolina Department of Transportation Selects Activu for New, World-Class, Multi-Agency Joint Forces Headquarters

North Carolina Department of Transportation Selects Activu for New, World-Class, Multi-Agency Joint Forces Headquarters











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Rockaway, NJ (PRWEB) March 15, 2012

Activu® Corporation, a leading provider of IP-based visualization and collaboration solutions for mission-critical command and control center environments, is pleased to announce that it has designed, built, installed and commissioned a turnkey large-scale visualization system at the Statewide Transportation Operations Center in the State of North Carolina’s Joint Forces Headquarters (JFHQ) building in Raleigh, North Carolina.

The Joint Forces Headquarters brings together staff from North Carolina’s departments of Transportation, Highway Patrol, National Guard and Emergency Management under one roof for coordinated routine and emergency operations. Specifically, at the facility’s new Statewide Transportation Operations Center (STOC), the North Carolina Department of Transportation is co-located with the Turnpike Authority and NC DOT’s Incident Management Assistance Patrol. The new 236,000 square feet building features state-of-the-art technology, equipment and network infrastructure, and facilities such as a 400-seat auditorium, a dedicated media briefing room, a large situation room and multiple breakout and conference rooms.

Activu’s secure, Internet Protocol (IP) and open standards based visualization and collaboration solution is as an integral part of the state’s Triangle Expressway Intelligent Transportation (ITS) system and allows the NCDOT to easily share information from 400 closed circuit television cameras, over 600 vehicle detectors and 5 roadway weather information systems with other agencies at the JFHQ and beyond. This sharing, where all stakeholders see exactly the same information, improves situational awareness, helps develop a common operating picture and significantly improves the quality and speed of decision-making which, in turn, helps the DOT fulfill its mission of safely and efficiently moving people, goods and services. Activu’s software accommodates NCDOT’s legacy analog infrastructure, bridges it with newer network and mobile technologies, and offers operators a single point of control.

“Activu is delighted to be a part of this initiative. We strongly believe that North Carolina’s state-of-the-art integrated Joint Forces operations center is the wave of the future because it underscores the profound importance of inter-agency cooperation for effective monitoring and emergency response. We also believe that the opportunity and scale of inter-agency cooperation at this center will help us improve and expand our own product capabilities.” said Paul Noble, Activu CEO.

About Activu

Activu is the leading provider of highly secure, scalable and robust IP-based visualization and collaboration solutions for mission critical command and control center environments. Our solutions enable sharing, annotating, and analyzing real-time visual information across the network, and across display devices from large video walls to mobile devices – to develop a Common Operational Picture (COP), improve Situational Awareness (SA) and accelerate decision-making. Learn more.





















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Posted on March 19, 2012 by , Reply

Arizona Politicians Join Forces in Bi-Partisan “Democracy Forum”

Arizona Politicians Join Forces in Bi-Partisan “Democracy Forum”











Tucson, Arizona (PRWEB) October 25, 2010

Congressman Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) and Arizona’s Secretary of State Ken Bennett (R) will team up at a “Democracy Forum” on October 30 in Tucson to promote civil discourse on the key national issues of immigration and the economy. Dr. Peter Likins, President Emeritus of the University of Arizona, will emcee the free, public event taking place from 1:30 until 4 p.m. at the Arizona Historical Society/Museum.

At the Forum, Secretary Bennett and Congressman Grijalva, who are from differing political parties, will each present their position on immigration and the economy then the audience will ask questions, discuss the issues and vote on them. The National Student/Parent Mock Election is spearheading the Democracy Forum, which is designed to bring parents, grandparents, children and public officials together in a bipartisan, intergenerational, multi-ethnic forum.

“Recent heated public debates on vital national issues – including immigration here in Arizona – have centered on much hate and vitriol, manifested in public protests, in the media and in our schools. Our forum’s purpose is to counter that trend, exemplifying how bipartisan discussions and disagreement can exist within a content of decency,” said Gloria Kirshner, president of the National Student/Parent Mock Election.

Other event highlights include:

Borderlands Theaters will present excerpts from its hit show “Arizona: No Roosters in the Desert,” a play about four women’s trek toward the American dream.
A patriotic/ historic costume contest for all ages.
Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University, Bruce Mason, will speak about the right to petition the government for a redress of grievances and explore the history of protest movements in America since colonial days.
Dr. Rudy Byrd from the Sons of the American Revolution will explain why Spanish soldiers voluntarily sent parts of their salary to the Revolutionary army and how, records show, teenagers and minorities endured extreme hardships to win America’s democracy.
Video of former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and other celebrities including Morgan Freeman, Reese Witherspoon, and Whoopi Goldberg heralding the Declaration of Independence and current American freedoms.
“We hope that by increasing their understanding of the past and evoking empathy for the current predicaments of their fellow human beings, we can help today’s young Americans envision and work toward the common good, using civil discourse and respect as tools to achieve their goal.

We want to prepare Americans of all ages to pass the torch of democracy – still burning brightly with the values for which the founding fathers fought,” added Kirshner.

The National Student/Parent Mock Election’s Democracy Forum planning committee includes Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett; Congressman Raul Grijalva; Dr. John Pedicone, currently a candidate for superintendent of Tucson Unified School District, vice president of the Southern Arizona Leadership Council and senior fellow at the University of Arizona; Dr. June Web-Vignery, executive director of the Metropolitan Education Commission, historian and author; and Dr. Peter Likins, president emeritus of the University of Arizona. Pearson, the education services and technology company, is a sponsor of the National Student/Parent Mock Election.

The event is free and open to the public, but seating is limited. Please call (520) 797-7590 or email nspme(at)aol(dot)com to reserve a seat.

About the National Student/Parent Mock Election

The NSPME is the nation’s oldest, largest and most successful voter-education project, dating from 1980. Since the first Mock Election in 1980, nearly 50 million young voters have cast their ballots and, in the process, discovered what it means to be an American citizen and the value of citizenship in our democracy. Visit http://www.nationalmockelection.org for more information.

Contact:

Gloria Kirshner

520.742.9943

NSPME(at)aol(dot)com

http://www.nationalmockelection.org

Kate Miller

kate(dot)miller(at)pearson(dot)com

800-745-8489

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Syrian forces fire on protesters

Syrian forces fire on protesters
Syrian security forces fired on anti-government protesters Friday, killing three people and wounding two, an eyewitness said.
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Taliban Suicide Bomb Attack Kills Key Police Official
The police official’s death raises concerns about stability in the region as NATO begins turning over security to Afghan forces in July.
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Iridium CEO Matt Desch Appointed to President Obama’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee
MCLEAN, Va. — Iridium Communications Inc. today announced that President Barack Obama has appointed CEO Matt Desch to serve on the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee .
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Obama Turns To Twitter’s Dick Costolo To Round Out His Advisory Committee
President Obama has decided to appoint Twitter CEO Dick Costolo to his National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee. Costolo will be joining executives from Microsoft and McAfee, as well as Dan Hesse of Sprint Nextel and Ivan Seidenberg of Verizon.
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Posted on May 28, 2011 by , Reply

Diabetic Suppliers Join Forces to Provide Medicare-Covered Diabetes Testing Supplies to Hispanics

Diabetic Suppliers Join Forces to Provide Medicare-Covered Diabetes Testing Supplies to Hispanics










Boca Raton, FL (PRWEB) February 8, 2007

Leading diabetic supply company Freedom Medical Services today announced that they have acquired Boca Raton, FL-based diabetic supplier AM-Med Diabetic Supply.

The acquisition of the 5-year-old Am-Med, which specializes in the Spanish-speaking markets in the United States and Puerto Rico, gives Freedom Medical Services a strong foothold in the Hispanic diabetes market.

“We’re excited about the opportunity to further expand our diabetes supplier offering to the Hispanic diabetes market,” said FreedoMed Vice President of Marketing Lorne Yaffe.

According to the Center for Disease Control, Hispanic/Latino Americans are at particularly high risk for type 2 Diabetes and its complications and are 1.7 percent more likely to have diabetes than non-Hispanics. In 2005, about 2.5 million Hispanic/Latino Americans over the age of 20 had diabetes.

Freedom Medical Services, also based in Boca Raton, FL, is the nation’s leading online mail-order, diabetic medical supply company, offering brand name, Medicare covered diabetes testing supplies delivered directly to the individual’s home.

Freedom Medical Services provides personalized customer service and reduced expenses to those with diabetes, and Medicare covered diabetes testing supplies are delivered at no cost to the patient.

Freedom Medical Services’ benefits include: free delivery directly to patient’s homes, no insurance paperwork to complete, no upfront costs or waiting weeks or months for reimbursement, diabetic supplies delivered at very low or no cost to you, supplier of all the leading national brands. Leading products include: One Touch Ultra, Accu-Chek Compact and Abbott FreeStyle.

About Freedom Medical Services

Freedom Medical Services is a Medicare participating provider and specializes in providing Medicare covered diabetes supplies and we accept Medicare assignment. In addition, we support Private Insurance, Major Medical and Group Health Insurance Plans; we accept most plans in all 50 states with the exception of HMO’s.

For information about our free diabetic supplies and the Hispanic diabetes market, complete a free online application at http://www.freedomed.com or call toll free at 1-800-933-8085 to compete a free application over the phone. For information about the signs and symptoms of type 2 diabetes, please visit http://www.freedomed.com.

Media Contacts: Jay Berkowitz, Ten Golden Rules, Ten Golden Rules, (561) 620-9121, and Lorne Yaffe, Freedom Medical Services, http://www.freedomed.com, (561) 338-4900.

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UN Security Council extends Somalia peacekeeping mission, beefs up forces

UN Security Council extends Somalia peacekeeping mission, beefs up forces
The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday unanimously decided to extend the mandate of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), and beefed up forces by another 4,000 troops.
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Disgust at killing of cop
MINISTER of National Security Dwight Nelson has expressed ‘anger and disgust’ at the killing of Special Constable Dwayne Jackson in Portmore, St Catherine today.
Read more on The Jamaica Observer

Posted on December 23, 2010 by , Reply

Afghan National Security Forces & Coalition forces defend village

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Image taken on 2010-03-13 15:37:49 by The U.S. Army.

Posted on September 30, 2010 by , Reply