ASMC The Business of Defense

  • Topic: Increased interest in local, sustainable food systems; formulas that support kids' health for the back-to-school season Special guest: Buddy Ojeda is a Certified Nutritionist, health educator and MegaFood's Eastern Regional Educator.

    July 09, 2013
  • A U.S. federal judge said Monday she lacks the authority to stop the force-feeding of prisoners on hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay prison facility in Cuba. But, District Judge Gladys Kessler pointed out the practice may violate international law. She said previous rulings have established that the court lacks jurisdiction to stop the force-feeding of prisoners, but she added, President Barack Obama can resolve the issue quoting from a recent speech where he "criticized" the practice.

    July 09, 2013
  • South Korea said Wednesday that it is considering an offer by North Korea to allow South Korean businessmen to visit a shuttered joint industrial complex in the North and hold talks on possibly removing some of their equipment. The two nations are on very tense footing as North Korea has threatened to attack the South and U.S forces stationed there. The North is also pursuing a new round talk over its nuclear weapons program.

    July 09, 2013
  • A soldier who went missing after his helicopter was shot down during the Vietnam War...was buried at Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors. The remains of Army Specialist John L. Burgess of Sutton Bay, Mich., were buried today in a single casket with the remains of two members of his crew who had been previously identified. They were among five soldiers aboard a helicopter that crashed near the Cambodian border in 1970. Only one survived.

    July 09, 2013
  • The U.S Navy says three coastal patrol boats have arrived at 5th Fleet headquarters in Bahrain to boost its fleet of the rapid-response craft in the Persian Gulf, where U.S. and Iranian forces often operate within close range. The Navy says the new vessels Wednesday bring the total to eight patrol boats as part of plans to have 10 stationed in Bahrain by early next year.

    July 09, 2013
  • Surge protector specifications, bookmark formatting in Adobe Acrobat Pro, virtual machines on iMac (Parallels Desktop 8 vs VMWare Fusion vs VirtualBox), CClearner revealed (application cleaning, registry fixes, etc.), Bluetooth connection reliability revealed, Profiles in IT (Steven Anthony Ballmer, CEO Microsoft), Earth-to-Moon laser communication (NASA demonstration project, deep space next), Microsoft and Google to sue NSA over data surveillance, iPhone trade-in programs (getting better by the day), NASDAQ blames NYSE for 3-hour outage (connection errors created issues, software flaws acknowledged), and compact cassestte celebrate 50th anniversary (first announced by Phillips August 20, 1963)

    July 08, 2013
  • Connecting extra laptop monitors, sending text messages using email gateway, digital photography (RAW vs JPG images, size, features), learning Linux, atomic clocks (time standards, WWVB sync broadcast from Fort Collins), computer time (synced using Internet time servers), Profiles in IT (Eben Christopher Upton, creator of Raspberry Pi computer), Device of the Week (Raspberry Pi, $35 hacking computer), JustDelete.me (delete your online presence with ease), Microsoft CEO to retire (August 2014, stock soars), and teaching to all learning styles is key to student success.

    July 08, 2013