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Eyes are rolling so hard, you can hear the eyestrain.  Comingsoon.net is reporting that Showtime and The Brothers Weinstein have signed a big-ass 7 year, 95 pitcure deal. Among the mayhem is a pocketful of genre flicks heading to horror hold-out Dimension.  Among them, remakes of Scanners and Piranha (in 3D) as well as Scream [...]

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Boardwalk Pipeline Partners LP (NYSE:BWP) announced that it has signed a 10-year binding agreement with Chesapeake Energy (NYSE:CHK) for natural gas... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

What is one of the biggest opportunities available for real estate and new home sales professionals today?ProspectingYou asked…How could prospecting be an opportunity with the current market conditions? Let me explain.Prospects are the life blood of your business as fuel is to your auto engine.After years of experience in the field I have discovered an alarming trend of the increased number of b

Just a heads up on some of the stuff I am working on and you will see here on Be A Survivor... Book Reviews: Day by Day Armageddon (A Zombie Novel) When All Hell Breaks Loose: Stuff You Need To Survive When Disaster Strikes Build the Perfect Survival Kit Ragnar's Urban Survival: A Hard-Times Guide to Staying Alive in the City Crisis Preparedness Handbook: A Complete Guide to Home Storage and Phy

Boardwalk Pipeline Partners, LP (NYSE: BWP) has priced its planned and proposed secondary offering of 10,000,000 units representing limited partner interests... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Gnomon Workshop-Character Design Pipeline 2Gb | .MOV | ProjectFiles | 135 Minutes of Lecture In this DVD, watch BARONTiERi as he demonstrates the different steps behind the creation of two iconic characters using both Adobe Photoshop® and Autodesk MAYA®. He will then show how to successfully use your imagination under realistic production constraints. BARONTiERi reveals the latest digital ar

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RIA Novosti3 June 2008 Iran intends to build an oil pipeline to run across its territory to pump crude to global markets, Hossein Noghrehkar Shirazi, an Iranian deputy oil minister said on Tuesday. The oil pipeline is planned to run from the Caspian Sea to the Persian Gulf and is expected to pump 1 million barrels [...]

Rockies Express Pipeline, LLC today announced that it has received certification from the FERC for the third and final phase of it's 1,697-mile, 42-inch... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Spills from oil pipelines are serious business, creating significant problems for both the environment and the companies that operate the pipelines. In the past, spills were handled in an emergency fashion, with no coordinated efforts to reduce both their number and their severity. However, all that changed in 1999 with the introduction of [...]

Americans need to pay more attention to Nigeria, for the simple reason that events happening in Africa's most populous country and largest oil producer (unless instability snatches that status away) have global significance. Yesterday, a blast near Lagos, the largest city in the country, occurred when a bulldozer punctured a pipeline. Here's the context: The disaster was the latest in a series o

MISNA15 May 2008At least 100 people were killed by a fire at an oil pipeline in a village near Lagos, said the Red Cross. The fire engulfed a school and several houses; some of which had been evacuated. There is no news as to whether or not some students were … A news by AsianLoveStories.com. [...]

The neuropathic pain market is forecast to double from 2006 to reach over $7 billion by 2016. At this time, the current late-stage neuropathic pain pipeline is forecast to take only 18% of the total market share, highlighting an opportunity for better pipeline drugs that demonstrate improved pain management. The most promising and closest pipeline [...]

There is manifestly more to the proposed Iran-Pakistan-India(IPI) Gas Pipeline than meets the eye. In my previous post, I had reiterated my argument that the pipeline would be a security disaster for India, as should have been clear to informed Indians who, despite the clear risk, have been more than active protagonists of the project.The Times of India of May 12, 2008 carries a very illuminating report about an undersea pipeline being considered to bring gas to India from the Gulf. This pipeline will start from a point in Oman and will terminate in Western India. The project, to be executed by an international consortium, will bring gas not just from Oman but other countries in the gas abundant Gulf region to the closest and biggest market for the commodity. It will thus become a relative

There is manifestly more to the proposed Iran-Pakistan-India(IPI) Gas Pipeline than meets the eye. In my previous post, I had reiterated my argument that the pipeline would be a security disaster for India, as should have been clear to informed Indians who, despite the clear risk, have been more than active protagonists of the project.The Times of India of May 12, 2008 carries a very illuminating

Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Monday that nothing can prevent implementation of Peace pipeline. The Indian foreign minister who is in Tehran to attend the 8th meeting of foreign ministers of the Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional Cooperation (IOR-ARC) said in an exclusive... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was in Delhi this week, said after meeting India's leaders that the proposed Iran-Pakistan-India Gas pipeline will soon be given a final shape by the three nations. Then, almost in the same breath, he admitted that there was a clear link between the deal to sell and send by ship 5 million tonnes of LNG to India and India's decision to vote against Iran at the IAEA governing board in November 2005. That seemingly innocuous statement gave a taste of things to come once India gets hooked to and dependent upon Iranian Gas which is to come in a pipeline flowing through Pakistan.Yet, India's Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon echoed the Iranian President's sentiments on the pipeline, saying that it was a good "doable" project which "has the potential t

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was in Delhi this week, said after meeting India's leaders that the proposed Iran-Pakistan-India Gas pipeline will soon be given a final shape by the three nations. Then, almost in the same breath, he admitted that there was a clear link between the deal to sell and send by ship 5 million tonnes of LNG to India and India's decision to vote against Iran at

From Red Orbit :   Russia and Greece will set up a joint venture on a parity basis for building the Greek section of the South Stream gas pipeline, the Russian Industry and Energy Ministry reported. The annual capacity of the gas pipeline section passing through Greece should be at least 10 billion cubic meters. Russian Industry and Energy Minister Viktor Khristenko and Greek Development Minister Christos Folias signed a bilateral intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in building and operating the Greek portion of the South Stream gas pipeline following a high level meeting in Moscow on Tuesday. The South Stream project envisions the construction of a gas pipeline across the Black Sea from the Beregovaya compressor station in the Dzhubga area in the Krasnodar territo

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday high ranking Iranian and Pakistani officials are to finalized Peace pipeline project soon. In an exclusive interview with Pakistan's state TV channel, the Iranian president referred to fruitful talks with Pakistani officials and expressed the hope that... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gives assurances to India on the construction of a multi-billion dollar gas pipeline through Pakistan. A news by AsianLoveStories.com. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fasianlovestories.com%2Firanian-leader-upbeat-on-pipeline'; addthis_title = 'Iranian+leader+upbeat+on+pipeline'; addthis_pub = 'asianlove';

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and visiting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will attempt to hammer out an agreement today on a delayed gas pipeline through Pakistan, dismissing U.S. fears the project may finance the Middle Eastern nation's nuclear program. ``There will be a proposed... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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25% Of UK Natural Gas Supply Lost On Forties Pipeline Closure Last Update: 4/27/2008 9:45:10 AM LONDON (Dow Jones)–Natural gas flow from the U.K. North Sea fell by 59 million cubic meters a day Sunday, equivalent to just under a quarter of current demand, after the shutdown of the Forties oil pipeline system, data on the Web site of U.K. [...]

An oil pipeline south of Baghdad has been blown up, causing a large fire and at least eight injuries, Iraqi police say. A news by AsianLoveStories.com. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fasianlovestories.com%2Firaqi-oil-pipeline-blown-up-again'; addthis_title = 'Iraqi+oil+pipeline+blown+up+again'; addthis_pub = 'asianlove';

Keali’i Mamala, a core Hawaiian surfer, eyes the future of his oft-invaded territory from behind the curtain at Backdoor Pipeline. The shooter comments: “This cover shot was taken right before one of the contests. Tt’s pretty tricky swimming with a flash at that size because the water-housing is really large. I got caught by a few [...]

Then Mother Nature finally wakes up. After staying flat and windy for the big international contests this year, a few weeks later Pipeline went into epic mode. Echoing those backside poses of yesteryear (think Bustin Down the Door), Kahea Hart readies his rear foot during this year’s Da Huis Backdoor Shootout at Pipeline. Photo: Sean Davey

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Beijing has stood close to Musharraf, who came to power as a general in a coup in 1999, even as he has become increasingly vulnerable since the defeat of allies in February 18 polls.The two countries have explored proposals to use Pakistan as a pipeline corridor, bringing oil and gas from the Middle East to China.Musharraf told students and academics in Beijing that he had raised the idea, which has been mooted for several years, during talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao.He said a proposed gas pipeline between Iran and India through Pakistan could be expanded to include China. More...

5,000 more BTO flats in pipelineThree-year wait likely, so couples in a hurry will have to resort to resale marketFriday • April 11, 2008AS MORE flats come on stream under the Housing and Development Board's (HDB) build-to-order (BTO) scheme, the board says such units will be its main source of supply in future, and would-be home buyers would have to factor in a three-year wait.This is because construction work on a project under the scheme will only start when a majority of the flats have been booked, so to as to avoid over-building, said the board in a statement yesterday.What this means is that those getting married will now have to start planning early for their housing needs, said property experts. Couples in a hurry will have to buy their flats in the resale market, where sellers h

Engineering and construction major Larsen and Toubro (L&T) on Wednesday said it would complete a 585 km pipeline for evacuation of crude oil from Cairn India’s Rajasthan field by June 2009 in sink with the company’s oil production plans.“We are talking of project completion to merge evacuation of crude that is planned for second half of 2009,” L&T’s president (operations) K Venkataramanan said.Cairn had awarded a Rs600-crore contract to L&T in February for the laying of a heated pipeline for transporting crude oil from Barmer in Rajasthan to Salaya in Gujarat.He said the pipeline would be commissioned by June 2009 and some balance work, including the laying of additional spur lines would be done by December 2009.“There are restoration works of the land that would st

by Surin Murugiah & Risen JayaseelanKUALA LUMPUR: The Securities Commission (SC) has approved 13 applications for initial public offering (IPO) in the first quarter while another seven are pending, said its chairman Datuk Zarinah Anwar.Of the 13, six are heading for the Main Board; three for the Second Board while four are Mesdaq companies. They have a collective market capitalisation of RM35.6 billion while their IPO exercises would raise a total of RM1.5 billion.Speaking at a briefing on the SC’s 2007 Annual Report, Zarinah said while the market was sensitive to global uncertainties, there would still be growth in the capital markets this year.“We are optimistic of our market fundamentals but it is nevertheless exposed to global uncertainties and it is hard to predict. But judgin

 Oil prices fell but were poised to move higher Friday after jumping more than $1 a barrel in the previous session when a key Iraqi oil pipeline was bombed.Iraqi oil officials had said that Thursday’s bombing would not cut oil exports from the southern oil city of Basra. But Dow Jones Newswires reported that exports [...]

Lowongan Estimator & Planner | International Offshore Pipeline Engineering CompanyVACANCYVacancy for Project Cost Estimator & Planner (CE&P)International Offshore Pipeline Engineering company, part of a multinational Energy Services group, is looking for qualified and experienced individual to join our professional team in Jakarta as follow :Project Cost Estimator and Planner (CE&P)Requirements :- Minimum 10 years experience in oil and gas industry, with minimum 7 years experience in cost estimating and planning for onshore and offshore pipeline projects.- Degree qualified from a recognised university.- Must have experience of Indonesian and international onshore and offshore pipeline projects.- Must have experience of working for International oil and gas Operators.- Candi

Lowongan Engineering Manager (EM) | International Offshore Pipeline Engineering CompanyVacany for Engineering Manager (EM)VACANCYInternational Offshore Pipeline Engineering company, part of a multinational Energy Services group, is looking for qualified and experienced individual to join our professional team in Jakarta as follow :Engineering Manager (EM)Requirements :- Minimum 15 years experience in oil and gas industry, with minimum 10 years experience in design of offshore pipelines.- Degree qualified from a recognised university.- Must have spent the last 3 years at management level, either in the capacity of Engineering Manager or Project Manager. Candidate shall have proven track record of managing projects within budget and schedule, and managing engineering personnel.- Must have ex

In a major development that could result in a breakthrough, Pakistan has invited India for talks on finalising the $ 7.4 billion Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline deal. "I received an invitation from Pakistan's Energy Minister to visit Islamabad to finalise the transit fee issue so that the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

The Parable Of The Pipeline by Burke Hedges Once upon a time long, long ago, two ambitious young cousins named Pablo and Bruno lived side by side in a small Italian village. The young men were best buddies, and big dreamers. They would talk endlessly about how someday, someway, they would become the richest men in the village. They were both bright and hard working. All they needed was an opportunity. One day that opportunity arrived. The village decided to hire two men to carry water from a nearby river to a cistern in the town square. The job went to Pablo and Bruno. Each man grabbed two buckets and headed to the river. By the end of the day, they had filled the town cistern to the brim. The village elder paid them one penny for each bucket of water. "This is our dream come true!

Cairn India’s efforts to raise the nation’s crude oil output has hit another roadblock with the Rajasthan government stopping work on a pipeline needed to transport the precious commodity to refiners saying it would result in loss of tax revenues to the state.Though Rajasthan is not opposed to crude oil being taken to refineries outside the state for processing, it fears loss of sales tax, in the form of VAT, revenues if the delivery point of the output from Cairn’s Barmer fields is shifted.The state government has stopped work on giving right of user (RoU) for the pipeline being built to transport the oil to Gujarat coast, official sources said.Cairn has asked the oil ministry to shift the delivery point to Salaya in Gujarat where its proposed Rs 12,000 crore pipeline is to terminat

Magellan Midstream Partners and Buckeye Partners have announced they have begun a joint assessment to determine the feasibility of constructing a dedicated ethanol pipeline. The proposed ethanol pipeline system would safely and efficiently deliver renewable fuel ethanol from the Midwest to distribution terminals in the northeastern United States.The proposed pipeline could have the capacity to supply more than 10 million gallons of ethanol per day, enough to meet the needs of millions of northeastern motorists who purchase 10% ethanol blended gasoline or higher ethanol blends such as E85.The pipeline would gather ethanol from production facilities in Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota and South Dakota to serve terminals in major markets such as Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and the New York harbor. The

A Sales Pipeline is a useful concept used by Sales Managers, individual sales staff and the owners of small businesses to quantify the demand for their products and services. Regardless of what you’re selling, by effectively managing your sales pipeline, you can smooth out customer demand and create a more stable sales cycle with more [...]

Pipe Line Management is fundamentally, a time management problem. It begins with answering the following questions. - Are there alternatives to a sales person spending the majority of their time doing demand fulfillment tasks? - How much time should be spent on maintenance accounts? - How much time should be spent [...]

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Pakistan it seems is trying every subtle trick in the book to get India to take the Iranian gas which will flow in a pipeline to India through 704 kilometers of Pakistani territory in the states of Baluchistan and Sind. As per a news item in The Indian Express, China has said that it was interested in importing the additional gas originally meant for India if India did not join the project. Is not that rider strange? It is fine by China if India gets the gas through Pakistan but China will need it only if India did not want it! Why are both the Chinese and the Pakistanis being so considerate to India’s energy needs? I had, in an earlier post, brought out at length the grave security risks that India would expose itself to if it agreed to the proposed gas pipeline being touted a

A Sales Pipeline is a useful concept used by Sales Managers, individual sales staff and the owners of small businesses to quantify the demand for their products and services. Regardless of what you’re selling, by effectively managing your sales pipeline, you can smooth out customer demand and create a more stable sales cycle with more [...]

At a wave like Backdoor Pipe, the trick is to find a crease that gets you in. Once committed, just follow the curves until you see the light. Unknown tunnel rat, diggin’ it. Photo: Nathan Smith

Oil Minister Gholamhossein Nozari here Wednesday assured that it would not be possible to put Nabucco gas pipeline into operation without Iran, dismissing it as uneconomical."If Nabucco pipeline comes on stream, Iran will be the sole option for supplying its gas as the country is the world's second-largest holder of natural gas," said the minister, however adding other companies could also provide some part of the project's gas.National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company (NIORDC) Managing Director Mohammadreza Ne'matzadeh had already announced that Europe had no way out but to satisfy its energy needs by transferring Iran's gas via Turkey's Nabucco pipeline.This Entry Continues »"Europe's need in Iran's gas supplies through Nabucco pipeline which passes through Turkey is inevitable," he said, adding European countries needed Iran's gas while Iran, for its turn, was in need of the EU market, stressing that such a trade deal would yield many political

PetroNeft'subsidiary, Stimul-T has signed a protocol of intent which defines the details of an infrastructure sharing agreement with OAO ANK Bashneft, the operator of two Licences with producing fields in the Khanty-Mansiysk Oblast located immediately northwest of PetroNeft's Licence 61.This agreement will enable PetroNeft to tie-in to the Bashneft pipeline at the Lukpaiskaya pumping station under a simplified custody transfer scheme. The Lukpaiskaya pumping station is located only 60 km from the Lineynoye and West Lineynoye Oil Fields. The new route is over flat terrain and no longer requires a major river crossing. Bashneft will then transport the crude to the Aleksandrovskoye (Strezhevoi) custody transfer station where it will enter the Transneft pipeline for export outside of Russia or for domestic sales.READ MORE... The tariff for this operation will be calculated based on actual costs in proportion to the transferred amount, but will not exceed the Transneft tariff for a simi

India has expressed confidence that the work on the proposed dlrs 7 billion Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) Gas pipeline project will start by March next year as it is hopeful of finalising a transit fee agreement with Islamabad before that.India is confident of starting work on the 2,775 km long IPI project by end of March 2008, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas Secretary M S Srinivasan told reporters in Coimbatore, Friday, Indian national TV news portal reported here.Talks with Pakistan to iron out differences on the transit fee issue were stopped due to political developments in that country, he said, adding that negotiations would be resumed soon.READ MORE... India has already discussed the issue of gas price and transportation charges with Pakistan and only the transit fee issue remained to be solved.Srinivasan expressed confidence that the issue would be solved and the project would begin by March next year.After holding bilateral talks with Pakistan, there would be trilateral disc

India has expressed confidence that the work on the proposed dlrs 7 billion Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) Gas pipeline project will start by March next year as it is hopeful of finalising a transit fee agreement with Islamabad before that.India is confident of starting work on the 2,775 km long IPI project by end of March 2008, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas Secretary M S Srinivasan told reporters in Coimbatore, Friday, Indian national TV news portal reported here.Talks with Pakistan to iron out differences on the transit fee issue were stopped due to political developments in that country, he said, adding that negotiations would be resumed soon.READ MORE... India has already discussed the issue of gas price and transportation charges with Pakistan and only the transit fee issue remained to be solved.Srinivasan expressed confidence that the issue would be solved and the project would begin by March next year.After holding bilateral talks with Pakistan, there would be trilateral disc

Abhimaan 2 in the pipeline!The buzz has been around for long that Amitabh Bachchan has been toying with the idea of a sequel to Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s Abhimaan.Now it is learnt that Pawan Kumar Jain (who produced the original movie) will be making Abhimaan 2 with the Bachchan clan!The sequel reportedly will have Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan playing parents to Abhishek Bachchan. Aishwarya Bachchan will play her real life role (she plays Abhishek’s wife).When Pawan Kumar Jain approached Bachchan Sr with the idea, the actor agreed that the producer should find a director who is good with family dramas.Vipul Shah is being cited as the first choice for director’s role.Stay tuned in! Source: feeds.feedburner.comAbhi-Ash spend a day with HIV affected kidsStar couple Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has recently been making a lot of public appearances together, be it at award functions, wedding of close friends or just a day out. Yesterday evening however, the

Oil prices soared by $4 a barrel yesterday, forcing a promise from the US government to dip into its emergency reserves after a dramatic explosion in Minnesota killed two repair workers and forced... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Oil prices soared by $4 a barrel yesterday, forcing a promise from the US government to dip into its emergency reserves after a dramatic explosion in Minnesota killed two repair workers and forced the closure of a vital pipeline from Canada that carries a fifth of American crude imports.The price of West Texas Intermediate blend for January delivery hit $95.17 a barrel, reversing two previous days of heavy falls, and will heap more pressure on OPEC ministers meeting in Abu Dhabi next week to increase the cartel's production.The fatal accident on the pipeline, operated by the energy transportation group Enbridge, disabled a link that carries crude oil from Saskatchewan to the Chicago area. Four separate conduits on the pipe were completely shut down for a while but two were reopened later.The US energy department sought to reassure the oil markets by saying it had 63.5m barrels of reserves in the midwest. "Oil from the strategic petroleum reserve is available to alleviate a severe supp

Greece and Turkey on Sunday inaugurated a pipeline that will pump natural gas from the Caspian Sea to Europe, easing the continent's dependence on Russian energy supplies and boosting ties between... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Greece and Turkey on Sunday inaugurated a pipeline that will pump natural gas from the Caspian Sea to Europe, easing the continent's dependence on Russian energy supplies and boosting ties between old rivals. Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and Costas Karamanlis, his Greek counterpart, shook hands in a symbolic meeting on a bridge over the river Evros, or Meric in Turkish, which separates the two countries. "We are forming a bridge as an energy transit country," Erdogan said in a speech at a ceremony held at Ipsala on the Turkish side of the border. The project marks another step forward in boosting ties between two former foes, creating energy partners out of two NATO members who came close to war as recently as 1996. The pipeline will eventually carry around 12 billion cubic meters of gas a year -- 3 bcm for Greece and the rest for re-export to Europe -- from Azerbaijan's Shah Deniz field. The European Union is backing the Greek-Turkish project as it seeks to diversify its en

An explosion set a gas pipeline ablaze and killed 28 workers in eastern Saudi Arabia, the Saudi national oil company Aramco said on Sunday. "The fire broke out while contractor workers where linking... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

An explosion set a gas pipeline ablaze and killed 28 workers in eastern Saudi Arabia, the Saudi national oil company Aramco said on Sunday. "The fire broke out while contractor workers where linking a new pipe" to the pipeline during maintenance late on Saturday, Aramco said in a statement.It said 28 workers, including five Aramco employees, had died in the fire, which was put out early on Sunday some 30 kilometres from its Hawiyah gas plant.The company did not specify how many people had been injured in the blaze, or give the victims' nationalities."The company is taking all necessary measures to guarantee the continuation of the normal gas output," it said. Saudi Arabia's national oil company, Saudi Aramco is the world's largest oil producer, located on the country's east coast. The Hawiyah plant produces 310,000 barrels of ethane and NGL daily.Via: The PionnerTags: Aramco, Saudi Arabia, gas pipeline

Reports have surfaced on the net that there may (we use the term ‘may’ advisably) be a parental timer on its way for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 gaming console allowing parents to enforce strictly regulated, timetabled ‘games time’ for their children – though, at the time of writing, we are unable to substantiate the rumour (regardless of what is being purported as being proof to back up the speculation). The Speculation stems from a Teamxbox member going by the psudomin of ‘xgdfaith’ who claims that, having purchased a copy of Guitar Hero III Keychain the package came with a pamphlet that described the features of a parental timer that is (allegedly) due to become available via Xbox Live in December 07. According to the apparent pamphlet the timer is ‘a simple tool that lets you manage how much time your kids spend on their Xbox 360.’ It goes on to say that you can ‘manage in daily or weekly increments’ and that the supposed tool will ‘become available in December

“Although Dara won’t receive cash from the deal, becoming a publicly traded company gives it the option of raising money down the road by issuing new shares. In addition, said Franco, the deal also gives Dara another drug for its pipeline — talabostat. Although it was a bust as a treatment for lung cancer, Dara intends to examine its potential to treat other cancers.” “Dara has also invested in three development-stage companies to date, an unorthodox business strategy for a drug-development company. Its investment in Medivation, a San Francisco biotechnology company that subsequently went public, led to Dara’s private shareholders receiving stock worth $25 million. Once Dara becomes publicly traded, however, it plans to retain any gains from investments rather than distribute them to shareholders. “We need to build the value of the stock for shareholders,” Franco said. Mike Duffy, a Point consultant and former senior vice president, said

View Upload your ownIn ITIL V3, the customer is more into focus then technology. In V2, customer and his satisfaction were important on a declarative level, but minimum effort was made to point out methods, the whats and hows to improve the customer satisfaction.In the age of V2, more palpable problems were of technological nature. Also, primary concern, especially in non-IBM IT communities was IT organisation, processes and procedures. So the main hub of all stories was the infamous CMDB, an organisational gadget with a techie name. Now, the IT mindset is of a grown up, and we turn to what and how we are doing it. Following this thread backwards, we conclude that the main question is Why. We design services according to a market demand, for some of our present and future customers. So why should a customer by a service, why would he buy it from us, what are our competitive advantages, how are we going to charge for the services, what resources do we have... These are some of the st

An Energy business involved in the oil and gas industry is immediately seeking highly motivated and experience professional to fill position: PIPING / PIPELINE DRAFTER Requirements:· Senior High School.· Have minimal 5 years experience in oil & gas industry.· Experience and good knowledge of pipeline/piping engineering & drawings.· Familiar with drawings procedures and alignment drawings.· Must have experienced with AutoCAD all versions.Please send your CV and resume to yan@enerkon.co.id

An Energy business involved in the oil and gas industry is immediately seeking highly motivated and experience professional to fill position: PIPELINE ENGINEER Requirements :- Bachelor degree from Mechanical - At least 5 years experience in Engineering department in oil & gas industry and must have experienced with Pipeline engineering.- Perform to prepare piping / pipeline engineering works (design basis, specification, drawings, calculation sheet, procedures, data sheets, etc). - Have responsibility to preparing piping/line pipe, data sheet & engineering drawing based on process design requirement, specification, standard and code and review design routing pipeline (alignment sheets), calculation, etc.Please send your CV and resume to yan@enerkon.co.id

The second section of the Iran-Armenia gas pipeline, Kajaran-Ararat, and its security zone will cover 197.4 km with the territory of 987 hectares. Such decision was made at a session of the Armenian government on September 27.As REGNUM is told at the press office of the Armenian government, due to the resolution, the ministers of power engineering, environmental protection and agriculture, the head of the state property register, the heads of administrations of Syunik, Vayots Dzor and Ararat regions were ordered to examine within two months and present proposals to the government to change categories of the territories lying under planned gas pipeline route, about imposing limits to use of the territories and about compensations to owners of the territories.Being guided by environmental interests, the government also instructed to prepare proposals on possible changes in the route of the pipeline if necessary. To observe the time limits of constructing the Kajaran-Ararat section, the g

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Iran and Pakistan have finalized a deal on gas pipeline project and agreed to sign draft agreement and a letter of understanding by the end of October, Iranian representative said on... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, armchair journalists and strategists have promulgated the concept that a new Great Game is afoot in Eurasia. This time, the prize is not land but access to the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Iranian and Pakistani experts have started talks on the $ 7.4 billion Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline in Tehran without the participation of India, who says it will not attend the tri-nation meetings unless transit fee issue is resolved with Islamabad.Iran had called a meeting of technical experts and lawyers from the three nations during September 24-26 to exchange views on the gas-supply contract that India and Pakistan, as consumers, would have to sign with fuel supplier Iran. Officials of the three countries were to then discuss the issue on September 27.New Delhi and Islamabad have reached a broad understanding on the transportation tariff payable to Pakistan for wheeling natural gas through the 1,035-km pipeline segment in that country.The new round of talks aims to finalise the text of contract on the pipeline in the presence of Pakistani experts, media reported on Tuesday.Iranian and Pakistani experts discussed the project yesterday and continued negotiations on Tuesday.Ahmed Mokh

Estonia will not allow the construction of the Nord Stream gas pipeline to go ahead in its economic waters, Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet said on September 20. "We decided long ago that we would say 'no' to this construction," Paet said in an interview on Estonian television. "There have never been disagreements on this issue in Estonia - we will never allow the construction of this pipeline in our economic waters in any case," Paet said."Nord Stream is evidently not needed, because in four or five years Russia will no longer be a gas exporter. With its rapidly thinning reserves of gas, Russia won't even be able to meet its own domestic demand. Or are we to suppose that Russia will export its gas and leave its own people without energy?" Estonian President Toomas Ilves said in an interview with the newspaper Postimees two weeks ago.Nord Stream is planned to carry natural gas between Vyborg, Russia, and Greifswald, Germany, through a pipeline across the Baltic Sea bed. It is a

The final post on the trade pipelines and shenanigans in my high stakes league. Carl von Clausewitz, in his amazing book On War, discussed one of the key theses in understanding war. He wrote that with the potential unlimited application of force, one side is compelled to respond in kind. Without limits, what occurs is a a race to the extremes. If one side uses force without compunction, the

Dick Dale wasn't nicknamed "King of the Surf Guitar" for nothing: he pretty much invented the style single-handedly, and no matter who copied or expanded upon his blueprint, he remained the fieriest, most technically gifted musician the genre ever produced. Dale's pioneering use of Middle Eastern and Eastern European melodies (learned organically through his familial heritage) was among the first in any genre of American popular music, and predated the teaching of such "exotic" scales in guitar-shredder academies by two decades. The breakneck speed of his single-note staccato picking technique was unrivalled until it entered the repertoires of metal virtuosos like Eddie Van Halen, and his wild showmanship made an enormous impression on the young Jimi Hendrix. But those aren't the only reasons Dale was once called the father of heavy metal. Working closely with the Fender company, Dale continually pushed the limits of electric amplification technology, helping to develop new equipmen

With all of the nefarious dealings going on, clearly I couldn't sit on my hands. So here is the first of my two moves in response. Clearly after the slew of trades going on I had a few options. The first is to just cry about the whole thing and do nothing. Since I am not Bud Selig crying about stadium financing, this wasn't an option. I had to deal. There was no way for me to even respond to

The decision to change the route of the North European Gas Pipeline (a.k.a. Nord Stream), which is being built by the Gazprom-controlled Nord Stream AG, may slow the project and increased its expense. Poland has suggested that it be given a second ecological assessment. Formally, Poland has no right to demand that, but it influence Sweden, and the pipeline passes through the waters of that country's economic zone. The initial ecological assessment cost more than $50 million. Polish authorities have used the change in the Nord Stream route as an excuse to press another claim against it. On Friday, the office of the Polish Minister of Economy Grzegorz Wozniak released an official statement by him. “We demand that repeat conciliation be begun in connection with he convention on possible influence on the environment,” the minister's statement reads. That is the Pole's response to the change announced last Tuesday in the route of the pipeline near the Danish island of Bornholm. Th

Further to my post last week More Real Estate Hurdles Coming Soon for Investor in China, comes the even more ominous China Daily story China tightens rules on foreign property investors. According to the article: China is tightening its grip once more on foreign investors in Chinese real estate, banning them from borrowing offshore in the latest effort to tame property prices and cool the economy. The new rule, set out in a circular from the State Administration of Foreign Exchange , could squeeze foreign investors who take advantage of lower interest rates outside China. 18 months ago, I actually was working on a case that had offshore structure and financing through low interest loans in the States.  With the appreciating RMB, the client was looking at not only a RMB appreciation that would offset the interest payments, their leveraged return was significantly higher (double digit difference) than if they had leveraged in China. This was a result of interest rates in the U.S. bei

It comes as no surprise that the collusive traders discussed in my prior article had a trade pipeline. This collusive trade was just the beginning. One item that became apparent in the aftermath of the collusive trade addressed previously was the continuation of a two year trade pipeline between two good friends. The problems this year were a continuation of last year. Last year they weren't as

The oil revenues generated by BTC in its first year of operation have already had a significant impact on the Azeri economy, whose gross domestic product grew an extraordinary 41.7 percent in the first quarter of 2007. BTC is also having an impact on the USA; in May the EIA reported that since the beginning of the year, the USA. Readd More ...

Fifteen years after the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union, a covert Cold War has sprung up over the issue of developing the energy assets of the Caspian, with Russia and the United States once again at odds.Both sides have had successes and failures, and the shadow conflict is not destined to end anytime soon. The case of Azerbaijan epitomizes both the promise and peril of developing Caspian energy.At issue is the exploitation of a vast reserve of oil and natural gas. In May 2007 the U.S. Energy Information Administration projected that by 2015 Caspian basin energy production could reach 4.3 million barrels per day, concluding that in addition to the region`s proven reserves of 17 billion to 49 billion barrels, comparable to Qatar at the lower estimate and Libya on the high end. The region could contain an additional reservoir of hydrocarbons up to 235 billion barrels of oil, roughly equivalent to a quarter of the Middle East`s total proven reserves.Nor is oil the only energy

Fifteen years after the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union, a covert Cold War has sprung up over the issue of developing the energy assets of the Caspian, with Russia and the United States once again at odds.Both sides have had successes and failures, and the shadow conflict is not destined to end anytime soon. The case of Azerbaijan epitomizes both the promise and peril of developing Caspian energy.At issue is the exploitation of a vast reserve of oil and natural gas. In May 2007 the U.S. Energy Information Administration projected that by 2015 Caspian basin energy production could reach 4.3 million barrels per day, concluding that in addition to the region`s proven reserves of 17 billion to 49 billion barrels, comparable to Qatar at the lower estimate and Libya on the high end. The region could contain an additional reservoir of hydrocarbons up to 235 billion barrels of oil, roughly equivalent to a quarter of the Middle East`s total proven reserves.Nor is oil the only energy

Further to my post last week More Real Estate Hurdles Coming Soon for Investor in China, comes the even more ominous China Daily story China tightens rules on foreign property investors. According to the article: China is tightening its grip once more on foreign investors in Chinese real estate, banning them from borrowing offshore in the latest effort to tame property prices and cool the economy. The new rule, set out in a circular from the State Administration of Foreign Exchange , could squeeze foreign investors who take advantage of lower interest rates outside China. 18 months ago, I actually was working on a case that had offshore structure and financing through low interest loans in the States.  With the appreciating RMB, the client was looking at not only a RMB appreciation that would offset the interest payments, their leveraged return was significantly higher (double digit difference) than if they had leveraged in China. This was a result of interest rates in the U.S. bei

President General Pervez Musharraf said on Monday Pakistan is going ahead on the Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline project despite its opposition.He was speaking at a special programme, attended by a select group of people drawn from different walks of life, "Aiwan-e-Sadr Say" (from presidency) to mark the 60th independence anniversary of Pakistan.Pakistan will celebrate Independence Day on Tuesday.President Musharraf dispelled the impression that Pakistan is doing everything on the behest of others. He said Pakistan is pursuing policies in country's interest and the Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline project is one of the examples.He said Pakistan has good relations with Tehran.He said that all policies of the government are pro-Pakistan and not being dictated by any other state.The President said he saw everything from Pakistan's point of view as Pakistan comes first.He quoted many examples where government adopted independent policies which were in the best interests of the country.H

Further to my post last week More Real Estate Hurdles Coming Soon for Investor in China, comes the even more ominous China Daily story China tightens rules on foreign property investors. According to the article: China is tightening its grip once more on foreign investors in Chinese real estate, banning them from borrowing offshore in the latest effort to tame property prices and cool the economy. The new rule, set out in a circular from the State Administration of Foreign Exchange , could squeeze foreign investors who take advantage of lower interest rates outside China. 18 months ago, I actually was working on a case that had offshore structure and financing, and through low interest loans in the States, and the appreciating RMB, the client was looking at not only a RMB appreciation that would offset the interest payments, their leveraged return was significantly higher than if they had leveraged in China. This was a result of interest rates in the U.S. being lower than in China,

I’ve recently picked up a couple of non-financial income trusts: Inter Pipeline and Boston Pizza Royalty Income Fund. Inter Pipeline Fund You can read about Inter Pipeline in my How To Pick Pipeline Trusts post, where I highlighted their key assets as well as their strong and growing free cash flow. Interestingly, The Vancouver Sun has an article on Not enough pipeline for surging oil production, regular says. The National Energy Board said the pipeline industry may face a capacity crunch as oil output this year rises to 2.9 million barrels a day, nine per cent more than in 2006. Almost all new Canadian oil comes from the oilsands region of northern Alberta, where more than $100 billion worth of projects to exploit reserves are planned or underway. Boston Pizza Royalty Income Fund Onto Boston Pizza Royalty Income Fund, this is my very first restaurant investment. The fund owns the Boston Pizza trademarks and licenses them to a private corporation, Boston Pizza International (BP

You want  the perfect headline that will inflame every terrorist wannabe in the Arab world? Here it is:  U.S. checking possibility of pumping oil from northern Iraq to Haifa I’m not making this up. Haaretz reports: The United States has asked Israel to check the possibility of pumping oil from Iraq to the oil refineries in Haifa. The request came in a telegram last week from a senior Pentagon official to a top Foreign Ministry official in Jerusalem. The Prime Minister’s Office, which views the pipeline to Haifa as a “bonus” the U.S. could give to Israel in return for its unequivocal support for the American-led campaign in Iraq, had asked the Americans for the official telegram. The new pipeline would take oil from the Kirkuk area, where some 40 percent of Iraqi oil is produced, and transport it via Mosul, and then across Jordan to Israel. The U.S. telegram included a request for a cost estimate for repairing the Mosul-Haifa pipeline that was in use p

On Saturday 28 July 2007 a leak occurred in Santos’ Moonie to Brisbane oil pipeline (MBP) in the Brisbane suburb of Algester. Approximately 205 cubic metres (1,300 barrels) of liquids (crude oil and water) has been removed from the site. Santos has worked closely with emergency services and the Queensland Environmental Protection Agency to contain and remove the oil, and to provide support to affected households. The MBP has been shut in and that part of the pipeline in the vicinity of the incident has been further isolated.The majority of surface oil has been recovered and storm water drains in the area have been cleaned. An investigation into the cause of the incident has commenced and the leak site will be excavated for investigation early this week. Santos has mobilised alternative arrangements for the trucking of crude oil production while the pipeline is repaired. The production impact of the incident is not material for Santos. Santos maintains appropriate insurance coverage f

On Saturday 28 July 2007 a leak occurred in Santos’ Moonie to Brisbane oil pipeline (MBP) in the Brisbane suburb of Algester. Approximately 205 cubic metres (1,300 barrels) of liquids (crude oil and water) has been removed from the site. Santos has worked closely with emergency services and the Queensland Environmental Protection Agency to contain and remove the oil, and to provide support to affected households. The MBP has been shut in and that part of the pipeline in the vicinity of the incident has been further isolated.The majority of surface oil has been recovered and storm water drains in the area have been cleaned. An investigation into the cause of the incident has commenced and the leak site will be excavated for investigation early this week. Santos has mobilised alternative arrangements for the trucking of crude oil production while the pipeline is repaired. The production impact of the incident is not material for Santos. Santos maintains appropriate insurance coverage f

Virgilio Mauricio Viana, the environmental secretary of the state of Amazonas, says the state pushed Petrobras to carry out an independent environmental study with the local university, and then simplified the language into a document copied 5,000 times and distributed to locals.