The on line and off line media have been having a bit of a field day with Miss South Carolina’s answer to a question about the lack of geographic literacy in the US. It is hard to do her answer to the question justice, but click on the video below to get the [...]
Continue Reading →Crack Down on the Blood Sport
In case you hadn’t heard enough about the high profile case of Michael Vick, the professional football star who is facing criminal dog fighting charges, he’s back on the front page after the NFL announced his suspension from the league yesterday. While some of us [...]
Continue Reading →Recently I had an editorial forwarded to me from Environment and Planning B titled “Just another private public partnership? Possible constraints on scientific information in virtual map browsers”, authored by Francis Harvey of the University of Leicester (those with access can find the article here). Environment and Planning B is an academic journal [...]
Continue Reading →IED Attacks in Iraq
Is the U.S. winning the war in Iraq? The Bush Administration continues to say yes. Most recently, they are touting a drop in U.S. fatalities in Iraq, stating that American deaths in the war-torn country in July were at their lowest levels since last November and sectarian violence (ignoring [...]
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Lockheed Martin and FortiusOne have inked a deal that allows Lockheed to be an exclusive distributor of FortiusOne technology to the federal sector. From the press release:
Under the agreement, Lockheed Martin will have the exclusive marketing rights for FortiusOne’s products to intelligence, defense and homeland security customers. Lockheed Martin [...]
Continue Reading →With just over 450 days left to elect a new President and another 70 plus to his/her inauguration; the recent turn of events can’t be all that encouraging for conservatives who care deeply about which party controls the three branches of the government.
It would seem, having control of executive branch [...]
Continue Reading →A Typical Day in Iraq
Open the newspaper or turn on the news, and nearly every day there are reports of terror-inspired violence in Iraq. Just today, a deadly car bomb took the lives of 11 and wounded 45 others in an area near the northern city of Kirkuk. Sixty badly decomposed [...]
Continue Reading →The political blogs have been stirring over last weekend’s passage of a bill that expands the government’s authority to eavesdrop on Americans. The administration began pushing for the new legislation in order to better gather information on foreign terrorists. But opponents of the bill say it goes beyond the small fixes that were initially [...]
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New GeoCommons Datasets- Servicio Intervención Inmediata
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