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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Weekly Security Update | Iraq Business News

By Gary Sandiford, Olive Group?s Dubai based assessments manager.? Olive Group is a leading provider of security and technology solutions and has operated continuously in Iraq since 2003.

Overview

Olive Groups Iraq statistics are drawn from multiple sources, including media reporting and direct liaison with in country assets. Included within the statistics are a minority sub-set of serious incidents which may not be purely attributable to insurgent/terrorist groups, such as murder, kidnappings and organised crime activities.

The total number of reported incidents in Iraq for the period 22 ? 28 October 2012 was 115.? This figure sits just below the 2012 weekly average of 116 and is a significant reduction on last week?s figure of 144.? Despite this decrease in incidents, there were a number of high-profile mass-casualty attacks on the 26 and 27 October, likely intended to coincide with the Eid al-Adha period.? However, concerns over the potential for a series of nationwide spectacular attacks did not materialise.? The geographical spread of this week?s activity was in line with activity seen over the previous months, with the north, north-central (less the KRG) and Baghdad areas experiencing the greatest proportion of the incidents.? The southern areas of the country again witnessed low levels of violence.? The next significant date in the Iraqi calendar is the Islamic New Year in mid-November.? While the security focus remains on significant dates and events, the possibility of another series of nationwide attacks outside of specific high profile dates and events cannot be discounted.

Source: http://www.iraq-businessnews.com/2012/10/31/weekly-security-update-21/

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Nexus 7 sales clocking in at close to a million per month

While it was pretty clear that ASUS' Google-partnered Nexus 7 contributed heavily to the Taiwanese maker's healthy Q3 results, there was no official confirmation on its exact sales figures so far. ASUS CFO David Chang has now come clean and told the WSJ that the 7-incher is close to touching the one million per month mark, just about double the rate of sales at its launch. While this number is a fraction of the iPad's sales (14 million in the last quarter alone), it could well go up due to the recent price drop and the addition of new 32GB models to the portfolio. On the flip side, the Nexus 7 is sure to face heat from close rivals, the Kindle Fire HD and the 7.9-inch Apple iPad mini, while the mega-spec Nexus 10 will also entice some buyers away from ASUS' reach.

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Meet SnagFilms Filmmakers: Can We Govern Ourselves? New Doc ...

Despite numerous countries fighting for their freedoms, there are many entities today that exemplify autonomy. British documentarian Ivo Gormley's new documentary "Us Now" explores various real examples of self-government around the globe. The film is available to view now on SnagFilms (and below).

What it's really about: "In a world in which information is like air, what happens to power? 'Us Now' is a documentary film project about the power of mass collaboration, government and the Internet. It is a description of a world going through the greatest social change since the invention of the printing press. 'Us Now' tells the stories of online networks that are challenging the existing notion of hierarchy. For the first time, it brings together the fore-most thinkers in the field of collaborative governance to describe the future of government. 'Us Now' takes a look at how the internet could allow us to do away with politicians and run the government ourselves. It tells the stories of the online networks whose radical self-organising structures threaten to change the fabric of government for ever. If distributed networks of people can run complex organisations such as football clubs, what else can they do? 'Us Now' follows the fate of Ebbsfleet United; a football club owned and run by its fans, Zopa; a bank in which everyone is the manager,?and Couch surfing; a vast online network whose members share their homes with strangers. The founding principals of these projects; transparancy, self-selection, open-participation, are coming closer and closer to the mainstream of our social and political lives. 'Us Now' describes this transition and confronts politicians George Osborne and Ed Milliband with the possibilities for collaborative government as described by Don Tapscott and Clay Shirky amongst others.

On the influence of anthropology: "I studied anthropology and always took photos. So travelling around and documenting things was always what I did, I started filming things with my dad's video camera as soon as I could and

"Many films are polemics or about how everything's going wrong in the world. Hopefully this is a credible argument for how we could all lead more fulfilling lives."

started editing things together when I was about 17. In those days we could only fit about 10mins of SD footage on the computer. But it felt amazingly exciting to be able to manipulate the footage and then spit it back out on to DV tape. I like being able to go to a place explore it for the first time with the video camera, the camera almost justifying your strange questions and presence in some situations, and then to be able to have a document of it that you can show the rest of the world."

What inspired you to make this film? "I felt like I was from a generation that was taught about how socialism had failed, but was witnessing the failure of global capitalism to allocate resources effectively. It seemed there was no credible ideology available to me. The first time I saw Wikipedia I was utterly amazed. It seemed to me to be proof of human's ability to collaborate through disagreement, across geographical boundaries, without financial incentive and without a rigid hierarchy. It seemed like we weren't using this technology, or anything vaguely similar in the most powerful structures that govern our lives. I wanted to explore this."

His outside influences: "We tried to look at big films about ideas: Adam Curtis has been influential on me structurally rather than stylistically. We watched lots of films that had Philip Glass soundtracks and said important things with text on screen. Some of it rubbed off and with some of it we tried to do our own thing."

On the challenge of the idea of the film: "This was essentially a film about power structures, these are essentially invisible, so it was hard to work out how to film them in the way that wasn't really boring. We got really lucky with the football team and happened to film one of the most amazing matches I've ever seen."

What do you think SnagFilms audiences will respond to most in your movie? "Hopefully the sense of optimism. Many films are polemics or about how everything's going wrong in the world. Hopefully this is a credible argument for how we could all lead more fulfilling lives."

What's Next: "I'm making a film about the Kalash, a tribe of about 3000 who live in the mountains between Pakistan and Afghanistan. They play a game of hockey with 200 people on a team and a 5 kilometre pitch. The losers sacrifice oxen and the winners become king. It's a fascinating and beautiful place going through a lot of change. I'm excited about getting the film out there."

[Full Disclosure: SnagFilms is the parent company of Indiewire.]

Source: http://www.indiewire.com/article/meet-snagfilms-filmmakers-can-we-govern-ourselves-new-doc-investigates-true-examples-of-autonomy

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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Women: All you ever wanted to know about promoting yourself | The ...

This past week we focused on WHY it is crucial for women to promote themselves, and?HOW.

Here were our four secrets to getting ahead:

Communicate your achievements
Practice promoting yourself
Track your accomplishments
Nominate yourself for a promotion

We?ve had a lot of great conversations this week on our Facebook page, as well as on Twitter which we wanted to share in a fun, visual way below:

Have anything to add? Share your story or comment below! We always want to hear from you.

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Monday, October 29, 2012

Giants-Tigers tied at 3 after 6 in Game 4 of WS

Tigers starter Max Scherzer was lifted with one out in the top of the seventh. With a runner on second, rookie Drew Smyly retired Brandon Crawford on a flyball and Octavio Dotel got Angel Pagan on a grounder to second to keep the score tied.

Giants starter Matt Cain works a 1-2-3 seventh and we're headed to the eighth tied at 3.

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FOX just showed Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford in the stands, wearing a ski cap and bundled up just like everyone else.

A few hours earlier, Stafford led the Lions to a 28-24 victory at home over the Seattle Seahawks. Play-by-play man Joe Buck points out, for the benefit of fantasy football owners, that Stafford had three touchdown passes (though he didn't to mention that Stafford also ran for a score).

Buck says one thing he knows is that broadcast partner Tim McCarver does not have a fantasy team.

"No, I do not," McCarver says proudly. "I live in real time, not fantasy, pal."

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Delmon Young hits an opposite-field homer to right for Detroit, tying the score at 3 in the bottom of the sixth.

Giants starter Matt Cain appeared to be in great shape after striking out Miguel Cabrera and getting Prince Fielder on a popup to begin the inning. Young, however, sent a spinning slider into the strong wind and there was little doubt it would clear the fence.

Andy Dirks singled and Jhonny Peralta nearly put Detroit up by two with a long drive to left, but Gregor Blanco caught it just in front of the wall.

Fielder is 1 for 13 in the Series.

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Buster Posey's two-run homer in the top of the sixth off Max Scherzer puts the Giants back in front, 3-2.

Marco Scutaro led off with an infield single and, one out later, Posey reached out and pulled a changeup down the left-field line for his third home run of the postseason.

Posey was actually out in front on a changeup, but he got the barrel of the bat to the ball and lofted it down the line.

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Brandon Crawford just made another terrific play at shortstop, barehanding a grounder that deflected off Giants starter Matt Cain and making an accurate, off-balance throw to get speedy rookie Quintin Berry at first.

That prevented Miguel Cabrera from coming to the plate with two runners on in the fifth. Instead, he'll lead off the sixth.

Tigers lead 2-1. Both starting pitchers still in the game.

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Tigers still lead 2-1 in the bottom of the fifth and Omar Infante leads off with a broken-bat single.

Very light rain falling at Comerica Park.

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The Tigers just got some help from the elements ? perhaps their first break of the entire Series.

A strong gust of wind blowing out to right field carried Miguel Cabrera's two-out drive into the seats for a two-run homer in the third inning.

Detroit is up 2-1, its first lead in the Series and the first time the Giants have trailed in 57 innings since Game 4 of the NLCS against St. Louis.

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Save for the back-to-back extra-base hits that gave the Giants their lead, Tigers starter Max Scherzer looks pretty sharp on nine days' rest.

He's using his changeup and he got a big out when cleanup hitter Buster Posey flied out with runners at the corners to end the top of the third inning.

There was talk that Scherzer was dealing with a sore shoulder down the stretch, but he's pitched well in the postseason. This is only his third start, and he was held to a total of 11 innings during the first two. But he racked up 18 strikeouts in those two games and compiled a 0.82 ERA.

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Strong defense has been a huge part of the Giants' success in this Series so far. First baseman Brandon Belt made an excellent pick when third baseman Pablo Sandoval short-hopped a throw in the third.

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Sandoval singled in the third for his 24th hit this postseason, one shy of the record for a single postseason held by Marquis Grissom (1995), Darin Erstad (2002) and David Freese (2011).

If the Giants finish off the sweep tonight, Sandoval is a sure-fire bet to win World Series MVP.

___

Detroit wastes a leadoff single in the bottom of the second by Delmon Young, one of the few Tigers hitters pulling his weight so far.

Prince Fielder is 1 for 12 in the Series.

FOX reporter Erin Andrews ? and most of the fans around her ? are bundled up in the stands.

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San Francisco has taken the lead in the second inning for the second consecutive night.

Hunter Pence hit a ground-rule double to left-center with one out and Brandon Belt followed with a triple deep into the right-field corner.

Knowing how much trouble his team has had scoring runs, Tigers manager Jim Leyland brought the infield in and that decision saved a run when Gregor Blanco grounded out to second base. Belt held at third.

Ryan Theriot flied out to end the inning. Giants 1, Tigers 0.

Theriot is the DH for the first time in his career.

___

The temperature at first pitch was 44 degrees, with a stiff wind making it feel even colder.

Once again, runs could be hard to come by.

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Believe it or not, the World Series could end tonight.

Seems as though it just started.

San Francisco ace Matt Cain will be on the mound at chilly Comerica Park as the Giants go for a four-game sweep of Detroit and their second championship in three years. First pitch coming up at 8:15 p.m. EDT.

Cain has already pitched a pair of clinchers in this postseason, earning the win in Game 5 of the division series against Cincinnati and Game 7 of the NLCS against St. Louis. A victory tonight would mark the perfect finish for Cain ? who pitched a perfect game in June against Houston.

Max Scherzer gets the ball for the slumping Tigers, who are hitting .165 in the Series after getting shut out in each of the past two games.

The only major league team to overcome a 3-0 deficit in the postseason was the 2004 Boston Red Sox, who rallied past the rival New York Yankees in the AL championship series.

Take nothing away from the Giants' pitchers, who have certainly been sublime. But let's be honest, unless Detroit can mount a major comeback, this Series will go down as a dud.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/giants-tigers-tied-3-6-game-4-ws-022207182--mlb.html

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Iveco Presents LNG, CNG Vehicles in Brussels ... - LNG World News

Iveco Presents LNG, CNG Vehicles in Brussels, Belgium

Iveco has presented its natural gas range at the ?European Natural Gas Summit 2012?, an event focused on the natural gas vehicle market, held in Brussels the 24 and 25 October.

Iveco is European leader in the production and marketing of natural gas vehicles, that represent an important advantage both in economic and in environmental terms.

The company has a full range of CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) vehicles, from 3,5 t for the Daily Natural Power to the 12-16 t for the Eurocargo, to the 40 t for the Stralis CNG. An Iveco Stralis LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) version completes the range.

The company has long been committed to researching and developing new solutions in the sector of natural gas vehicles, with 12.000 units circulating in private company and public sector fleets, of which 5.000 Daily, 2.000 vehicles in the medium and heavy range and 5.000 buses.

?Natural gas vehicle technology is a priority for Iveco,? said Alessandro Mortali, Senior Vice President Heavy Range at Iveco. ?We have early understood the importance of methane as an alternative energy source. CNG and LNG are mature technologies, delivering low-impact transport solutions: CNG vehicles are ideal for urban missions, LNG vehicles allow the use of natural gas in regional and national distribution?.

The CNG technology guarantees considerable advantages from an environmental point of view, such as lower CO2 emissions, less particulates emissions and reduced levels of noise. In addition, the LNG system also enables a reduction in vehicle weight, allowing an increase in load-carrying capacity.

The use of natural gas-powered vehicles presents an economic advantage for vehicle operators compared to Diesel fuel. A Stralis LNG delivers a reduction in TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) of up to 12% on a regional delivery mission, over an average distance of 80.000 kilometres a year, for five years.

The Iveco Natural gas vehicles are recognized by important fleet operators. Coca-Cola Enterprises Ltd, following impressive results of a year-long trial, has taken delivery of an additional 14 gas powered Iveco Stralis 6?2 rigid trucks. Moreover, Sydeme, the public company in charge of the management of domestic waste in Moselle-Est (France), has recently renewed its fleet 34 new natural gas vehicles, among which three Daily and 25 Stralis.

A full range of Natural Gas Vehicles

Daily Natural Power

The Daily Natural Power is equipped with an FPT Industrial CNG engine of 136 HP (100 kW) with three way catalytic converter, using a stoichiometric (with chemically correct air-fuel ratio) combustion regime that brings characteristics of reliability and durability and ensures exhaust emissions well below the limits required by the European EEV legislation in force.

This system can detect the composition of the gas used and is able to adapt the actual air/fuel ratio accordingly, in order to maintain low emissions without sacrificing performance. The positive ignition results in engine noise significantly lower than that of a Diesel equivalent, so that these vehicles are particularly suitable for night-time use in urban centres, without requiring additional sound insulation measures.

Eurocargo CNG

The Eurocargo Natural Power is available in versions with gross vehicle weight from 12 to 16 t, special 6 cylinder 200 HP engine for CNG and 9-speed manual gearbox. The CNG Eurocargo has by far the lowest environmental impact among internal combustion engine: no sulphur, hydrocarbons or particulate at the exhaust; CO2 emissions lower up to 20% compared to Diesel engines of equal performance.

Stralis CNG

The Stralis CNG is equipped with the Cursor 8 CNG engine, with a 7.8 litre displacement. The Stralis CNG range covers applications from 18 to 26 t with configurations of two and three axles, 4?2 and 6x2x4, the latter having a trailing positively steered axle with pneumatic suspension.

It is ideal for urban missions and night time delivery. It is equipped with the new automatic Allison 3200 gearbox with a hydraulic torque converter and 6 speeds and includes an integrated primary auxiliary brake.

Stralis LNG

The Stralis LNG Natural Power is ideal for regional and national distribution missions, such as fuel transportation. One of the key benefits of the LNG technology is that it guarantees a much greater range for vehicles, that can reach up to 750 km. The vehicle is equipped with Cursor 8 natural gas engine with a power rating 330 HP, manual gearbox, production line Intarder and EBS. It is built for applications carrying between 18 and 40 tons.

The market opportunities for these vehicles are particularly strong in the food and beverage sectors, fuel transportation, among logistics operators and firms engaged in night-time delivery, where the reduction of noise levels is guaranteed by spark ignition engines. On average, the noise reduction for natural gas fuelled Stralis vehicles is between 3 and 6 decibels compared to a vehicle with the same power rating running on Diesel.

LNG World News Staff, October 29, 2012; Image: Iveco

Source: http://www.lngworldnews.com/iveco-presents-lng-cng-vehicles-in-brussels-belgium/

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Sandy: East Coast braces for epic hurricane, ?life-threatening? storm surge

Waves crash into a pier in Nags Head, N.C., Oct. 27, 2012. (Gerry Broome/AP)

"Superstorm." "The Perfect Storm." "Frankenstorm."

Whatever you want to call it, the East Coast is bracing for Hurricane Sandy, an epic, "rare hybrid storm" that is expected to bring a life-threatening storm surge to the mid-Atlantic coast, Long Island Sound and New York harbor, forecasters say, with winds expected to be at or near hurricane force when it makes landfall sometime on Monday.

According to the National Hurricane Center, the Category 1 storm was centered about 260 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras, N.C., and 395 miles south of New York City early Sunday, carrying maximum sustained winds of 75 mph and moving northeast at 10 mph.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg ordered the mandatory evacuation for low-lying coastal areas, including Coney Island, the Rockaways, Brighton Beach, Red Hook and some parts of lower Manhattan.

"If you don't evacuate, you're not just putting your own life at risk," Mayor Bloomberg said. "You're endangering first responders who may have to rescue you."

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the suspension of all MTA service, including Long Island Railroad and Metro North, beginning at 7 p.m. Sunday. New York City Public Schools will be closed on Monday, the mayor said.

[Related: Superstorm could impact 60 million]

Sandy is expected to continue on a parallel path along the mid-Atlantic coast later Sunday before making a sharp turn toward the northwest on Monday--with coastal New Jersey and New York City in its projected path.

But the path is not necessarily the problem.

"Don't get fixated on a particular track," the Associated Press said. "Wherever it hits, the rare behemoth storm inexorably gathering in the eastern U.S. will afflict a third of the country with sheets of rain, high winds and heavy snow."

(Weather.com)

A tropical storm warning has been issued between Cape Fear to Duck, N.C., while hurricane watches and high-wind warnings are in effect from the Carolinas through New England. The hurricane-force winds extend 175 miles from the epicenter of the storm, while tropical storm-force winds extend 520 miles--making Sandy one of the biggest storms to ever hit the East Coast.

"We're looking at impact of greater than 50 to 60 million people," Louis Uccellini, head of environmental prediction for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, told the Associated Press.

"The size of this alone, affecting a heavily populated area, is going to be history making," Jeff Masters wrote on Weather Underground blog.

[Also read: Big storm scrambles presidential race schedules]

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie ordered a shutdown of the state's casinos.

"I can be as cynical as anyone," Christie said on Saturday. "But when the storm comes, if it's as bad as they're predicting, you're going to wish you weren't as cynical as you otherwise might have been."

Similar emergency evacuations were being mulled by state officials in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and even Maine.

"This is not a coastal threat alone," said Craig Fugate, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said during a media briefing early Sunday. "This is a very large area."

Forecasters also fear the combination of storm surge, high tide and heavy rain--between 3 and 12 inches in some area--could be life-threatening for coastal residents.

According to the National Hurricane Center summary, coastal water levels could rise anywhere between 1 and 12 feet from North Carolina to Cape Cod, depending on the timing of the "peak surge." A surge of 6 to 11 feet is forecast for Long Island Sound and Raritan Bay, including New York Harbor.

The storm surge in New York Harbor during Hurricane Irene, forecasters noted, was four feet.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/sandy-hurricane-east-coast-nyc-forecast-142549538.html

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Thursday, October 25, 2012

Shark Falls from Sky Onto Golf Course?

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