LONDON, June 9 /PRNewswire/ --

Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) will display a wide variety of its industry leading global security capabilities and programmes at the International Paris Air Show, including unmanned aerial vehicles, advanced fire control radar, targeting and electronic warfare systems and its airborne early warning and control (AEWC) capabilities.

LONDON, June 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- Consumer Feedback Suggests That the Future Internet Will be 'Messy and Confusing', 'Too Complex' and 'Out of Control' ; 60% of Consumers Believe Liberalisation Will Change the Way They use the Internet, but not for the Better

A new report entitled The future liberalisation of the internet, carried out by The Future Laboratory on behalf of domain name registrar Gandi.net, has found that the geography of the internet is about to change significantly, but that consumers and businesses are not enthusiastic about the prospect.

DUBAI, UAE, June 9 /PRNewswire/ -- The record-breaking auction conducted by Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers in Dubai, UAE last week had an unusual beneficiary: Foresight, a Dubai-based organization that raises funds to help find a cure for blindness caused by hereditary eye disease and also helps improve the lives of people with visual impairment. Southwest Middle East LLC will donate the full proceeds from the sale of an unused Cat skid steer loader at the auction to Foresight. An on-site bidder from the UAE purchased the skid steer loader for US$30,000.

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- Network Now Delivers Comprehensive Communications Solutions to Customers in Poznan, Warsaw and the Region

Level 3 Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: LVLT) today announced it has increased its network presence in Poland, with a new fiber route extending from Berlin through to Poznan and onwards to Warsaw. With the expansion of the route through Poznan, Level 3 now serves 46 of the largest markets in Europe and can seamlessly deliver transport as well as Internet Protocol (IP) services from Warsaw and Poznan to Western Europe and markets across North America.

Paleontologists and some in biology have long believed that modern birds are the direct descendants of ancient, meat-eating dinosaurs.

Researchers at Oregon State University contend they have made a fundamental new discovery about how birds breathe and have a lung capacity that allows for flight – and the finding means it's unlikely that birds descended from any known theropod dinosaurs.

It's been known for decades that the femur, or thigh bone in birds is largely fixed and makes birds into "knee runners," unlike virtually all other land animals, the OSU experts say. What was just discovered, however, is that it's this fixed position of bird bones and musculature that keeps their air-sac lung from collapsing when the bird inhales.

Jellyfish blooms are up almost everywhere and it's going to become a menace.  The reason?   Over-fishing and excess nutrients from fertilizers and sewage, say researchers from The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia's national science agency.

"Dense jellyfish aggregations can be a natural feature of healthy ocean ecosystems, but a clear picture is now emerging of more severe and frequent jellyfish outbreaks worldwide," says CSIRO Climate Adaptation Flagship and University of Queensland scientist Dr Anthony Richardson.

According to a research abstract presented  at SLEEP 2009, adolescent obesity is associated with having less sleep and eduction in sleep could be related to a higher caffeine intake, more hours of technology use and increased symptoms of sleep disorders such as snoring.

Results indicate that children who slept less consumed more caffeine and had more hours of screen time (use of television, Internet, computer and video games). A higher body mass index (BMI) was also associated with shorter sleep duration. More hours of screen time were also associated with higher caffeine consumption. 

There was a time when offshore platforms were secure communities in which production was controlled by closed processes that were isolated from the external world.   Not so today.  With modern integrated operations, offshore-onshore contact is transparent and may of the processes out on the platform are controlled by onshore personnel via networked PCs.

Oil company data security is inadequate, and production systems are at risk of attack by hackers, viruses and worms.

Integration and onshore control has several advantages but a big disadvantage is a fall in information security. When onshore and offshore networks are linked together, the chances of attacks by viruses and hackers increase.

I keep seeing these ads for Acai pills that help you lose belly fat, supposedly used by Oprah.  Sometimes I’m slapped with these commercials saying that you have belly fat because you're very stressed and you should take their drugs, because, obviously, it’s the only solution.  Then I see articles about how there are these magical foods that burn belly fat. 

In a state of confusion and depression, I stumbled into Dr. Robert Sapolsky, a Stanford neuroscientist and author of “Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers", giving a talk at UC Davis about stress and his work. 

After studying the baboons in Africa for about 30 years, he saw that some of the same social structures play a part in their lives.  Humans, and apes alike, are social beings.

Vegetarians must have felt a little left out when hearing stories of startling weight loss by people consuming nothing except bacon and cheddar cheese.

It was only a matter of time before a study came along showing that vegetarians could get thin too.  Of course, the secret ingredient was, as always, participants consuming fewer calories than  they burned.  Again.

But the non-weight benefits are worth discussion.   Overweight individuals who ate a low-calorie, low-carbohydrate diet high in plant-based proteins for four weeks lost weight and experienced improvements in blood cholesterol levels and other heart disease risk factors, according to a report in the June 8 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.