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Harris Corporation Receives $29 Million Order from Nation in Asia for Falcon III Tactical Radios

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Harris Corporation Receives $29 Million Order from Nation in Asia for Falcon III Tactical Radios

Highlights:

  • New high-frequency manpack radios offer superior data communications capabilities.
  • Radios can transmit large data files, such as images.
  • Agreement highlights Harris’ continued leadership in wideband tactical data communications.

MELBOURNE, Fla. & ROCHESTER, N.Y.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Harris Corporation (NYS: HRS) , an international communications and information technology company, has received a $29 million order to provide a nation in Asia with Falcon III® wideband tactical radios. The radios will provide the country’s armed forces with critical country-wide data communications and improved mission capabilities as part of an overall modernization effort.

The nation is acquiring the company’s new RF-7800H high-frequency wideband manpack and RF-7800W High-Capacity Line-of-Sight radios. The new RF-7800H is the world’s first HF radio with high-speed wideband data capabilities. These advanced capabilities allow users to efficiently transmit large data files such as video images over very long range beyond-line-of-sight links. The radio is 20 percent smaller and lighter and offers data rates that are 10 times greater than other HF radios.

“Our RF-7800H and RF-7800W radios will enable these armed forces to operate with more detailed situational awareness than previous generations of radios,” said Brendan O’Connell, president, international business unit, Harris RF Communications.

Additional information on the Harris Falcon family of radios is available at http://rf.harris.com/capabilities/tactical-radios-networking/default.asp

Harris RF Communications is the leading global supplier of secure radio communications and embedded high-grade encryption solutions for military, government and commercial organizations. The company’s Falcon® family of software-defined tactical radio systems encompasses manpack, handheld and vehicular applications. Falcon III is the next generation of radios supporting the U.S. military’s Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) requirements, as well as network-centric operations worldwide. Harris RF Communications is also a leading supplier of assured communications® systems and equipment for public safety, utility and transportation markets — with products ranging from the most advanced IP voice and data networks to portable and mobile single- and multiband radios.

About Harris Corporation

Harris is an international communications and information technology company serving government and commercial markets in more than 125 countries. Headquartered in Melbourne, Florida, the …read more

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Invisible Children soldiers on with KONY 2012 campaign as warlord is in hiding

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By Perry Chiaramonte

It’s been more than a year since the video “KONY 2012″ went viral on the Internet and brought slacktivism into the public spotlight, but the group missed its goal of bringing murderous African warlord Joseph Kony to justice by the end of last year.

Perhaps overwhelmed by the sheer enormity of the campaign, San Diego-based organization Invisible Children had stumbled in the months after it launched. It struggled to address questions about its funding and expenses and then co-founder Jason Russell had a well-publicized breakdown. But the group is back on mission, with a fresh video and a renewed effort to shine a spotlight on the jungles of the Congo, where Kony, leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army, is believed to be hiding.

“We believe that last year was a monumental success. The goal of the film was to make the crimes of Joseph Kony and the LRA known on a mass scale,” Noelle West, a spokeswoman for Invisible Children, told FoxNews.com. “The international institutions that should be responsible for implementing initiatives that could bring an end to this conflict have not felt enough pressure to provide the necessary resources to do so.”

“We wanted to create that overwhelming pressure, and the KONY 2012 campaign was extremely successful at doing just that.”

Despite the failure to see Kony brought to justice, the group claims to have succeeded on several fronts:

  • More high-ranking members have left the LRA in 2012 than the previous three years combined, and lower-level fighters have defected in record numbers.
  • Killings attributed to the LRA dropped by 67 percent from 2011 to 2012.
  • Two high-ranking commanders of the LRA, Maj. Gen. Ceasar Acellam and Lt. Col. Vincent Binansio “Binani” Okumu, have been caught.
  • In January, the U.S. Congress passed the bipartisan “Rewards for Justice” bill, which was signed into law by President Obama and effectively placed a bounty of up to $5 million on Kony’s head. President Obama also recommitted American Special Forces and authorized more resources to help go after Kony last April.
    And, Invisible Children claims, Kony is feeling the heat. As a result of the campaign launched against him, the warlord has gone into hiding in the jungles of Central Africa.

“Evidence suggests that Kony is in the border region of Sudan and CAR. Invisible Children donors have been funding the creation and expansion of HF radio networks across the conflict region for the last two years,” West said, adding that Invisible Children has been funding the creation and expansion of HF radio towers across the conflict region for the last two years, which are used to provide early warning to remote communities and record LRA activities and in turn, locate Kony.

Joseph Kony is one of the most notorious guerrilla leaders in the world. He’s been accused by government entities of abducting children to become sex slaves and soldiers. It is estimated that he recruited 66,000 children to become soldiers in the cult-like LRA. Kony was indicted for crimes against humanity in 2005 by the International Criminal Court located in the Hague.

Jason Russell, …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Fox World News

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New trial results support treatment with Inspra (eplerenone) within first 24 hours of symptoms, in a

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New trial results support treatment with Inspra (eplerenone) within first 24 hours of symptoms, in addition to standard therapy, in patients with acute STEMI without heart failure.


Primary Composite Efficacy Endpoint Met in REMINDER trial

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Pfizer Inc. (NYS: PFE) today announced results from the REMINDER trial showing statistically significant risk reductions in the primary composite efficacy endpoint. The composite endpoint was defined as the time to first event of cardiovascular (CV) mortality, re-hospitalization or extended initial hospital stay due to diagnosis of heart failure (HF), sustained ventricular tachycardia or fibrillation, ejection fraction (EF) ≤40% after 1 month, or an elevation of BNP/ NT-proBNP after 1 month.

The results were presented for the first time during the Late Breaker Clinical Trial session at the 62nd Annual Scientific Session of the American College of Cardiology in San Francisco today.

The REMINDER trial was a randomized, double-blind trial, involving 1,012 patients with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) without a history of HF or EF <40% and without signs of HF. Patients received, preferably before myocardial reperfusion, either eplerenone (25-50 mg OD) or placebo in addition to standard therapy. Treatment was initiated within the first 24 hours of symptom onset (preferably within first 12h).

The REMINDERtrial demonstrated a statistically significant 42.9% relative risk reduction in the primary endpoint with p < 0.0001 (95% confidence interval [CI] 0.439, 0.742) in patients with acute STEMI when eplerenone was initiated within the first 24 hours of onset of symptoms. Overall, the adverse events reported in the REMINDER trial were consistent with those already known for eplerenone, primarily hyperkalemia.

Eplerenone is not approved for use in the patient population studied in the REMINDER trial in any market.

The improvement in outcome was mainly driven by a significant reduction of the BNP / NT-proBNP biomarker component at 1 month. BNP/NT-proBNP has been shown to be an important marker for short- and long-term prognosis in patients with myocardial infarction in the presence or absence of preserved ejection fraction. An elevation of BNP / NT-proBNP after 1 month was observed less frequently in the eplerenone group 81(16.0%) than in the placebo group 131(25.9%) (adjusted HR, …read more
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Mixed Results For Spironolactone In Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction

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By Larry Husten, Contributor Although the mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists (MRAs) spironolactone and eplerenone (Inspra, Pfizer) have been shown to be beneficial in patients with heart failure (HF) with reduced ejection fraction (EF), their role in heart failure patients with preserved EF has not been tested until now. Now the results of the Aldo-DHF (Aldosterone Receptor Blockade in Diastolic Heart Failure), published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, demonstrate that although the treatment works as expected to improve diastolic function in this patient population, no clinical benefits were observed in association with these changes. …read more
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Linux

Need spaces in line after few charcacters

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By mirwasim

This is my header
HJKLName00014200012000000600424618201 after head 201 I am looking for 382 space.total wc will be 421 then
can you tell me how can I accomplish this

we are performing some more actions in script, which is working fine..but this part I need help.please suggest where changes need to be made. I think in printf statement

nawk ' NR == 1 {
HF = substr($0,1,15);
HC = substr($0,16,6);
HR = substr($0,22,14);
HE = substr($0,36,3);
HS = substr($0,39,382);
} /COOLTV/ {
R = $3;
sub(/0+$/,x,R);
HC -= 2;
HR -= R;
getline; next;
} !/COOLTV/ {
print $0 > "newfile";
} END {
printf "%s%06d%014d%d", HF, HC, HR, HE, Hs > "header";
} ' $1

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Observation Units For Heart Failure Could Reduce Unnecessary Hospitalizations

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By Larry Husten, Contributor Two new papers published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology propose that most heart failure (HF) patients who present to the emergency department (ED) don’t need to be hospitalized and can be safely managed in an observation unit. Currently, the vast majority of HF patients who show up in […]
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