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Newsletter for Wednesday, April 25th, 2012
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Today's Stories
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All Points Blog
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The Board of Regents next week will consider state Education Department recommendations to make the global history and geography exam optional. Instead, students could take an additional math, science or vocational exam, starting with freshmen who enter high school in
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NRO Principal Deputy Director Betty Sapp will head the National Reconnaissance Office. She'll be the first woman to do so and will take on the post after current head, Bruce Carlson, steps down. AOL Defense obtained an e-mail by Sapp on Friday that indicated her new role.
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The current debate in Washington, D.C. regarding cybersecurity legislation (Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA.) focuses on the protection of critical infrastructure such as the national electricity grid and our financial banking system.
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The Space Enterprise Council of TechAmerica, a lobbying organization in Washington, D.C., is hosting a forum on the state of commerical remote sensing and specifically on the status of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's EnhanceView contract. The forum will be held Friday
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The Guardian shares a map and evaluation of French wine over the past three decades. Mayfair-based Berry Bros and Rudd, wine merchant to the Queen, provides the data that include quailty ratings and suggestions as to what to do with each vitage (drink, lay down, etc.). It's a very
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Channels
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Sponsor Zone
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LAR-IAC is a collaborative body made up of Los Angeles (LA) County agencies, local municipalities, and educational institutions that cooperatively pool funding resources to support the acquisition of geospatial data for the LA County region. The LAR-IAC data is the most...
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Last year, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck just miles from Haiti’s capital city of Port-au-Prince. More recently, massive earthquakes have also struck Christchurch, New Zealand and Japan’s east coast, shocking and devastating local residents and providing a...
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All business needs information to make decisions and never more so than in our ever-changing world. Providing the right information at the right time is never going to be a simple task.
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Oracle Spatial 11g, an option for Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition, provides advanced spatial capabilities to support geospatial applications, location-based services, and enterprise spatial information systems. Oracle Spatial extends the core location...
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Press Releases
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ESRI Canada
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Avenza Systems Inc.
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KOREM inc
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MundoGEO Group
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Astrium
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TomTom
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bluesky International Limited
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Ubisense
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NASA
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COM.Geo Conference
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Jobs
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