Iraq anti-terror officer, family shot dead

by Posted on May 20, 2012

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Imprisoned star of ‘Reality’ impresses at Cannes

by Posted on May 19, 2012

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Australia to become energy superpower?

by Posted on May 17, 2012

As worldwide energy demand grows, Australia is posed to be a leader in the energy revolution, said Australian Resources Minister Martin Ferguson.

Speaking Monday at the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association conference in Adelaide, Ferguson pointed to a Deloitte report commissioned by the association that says Australia’s combined identified gas resources, excluding shale natural gas, are about 392 trillion cubic feet.

That’s about 184 years worth of gas at current production rates, the minister said.

Liquefied natural gas exports in 2010-11 totaled 20 million tons, for a value of $10.3 billion, he said, making Australia the third largest exporter in the Asia-Pacific region and the fourth largest in the world.

For 2012-13 the country’s exports are projected to grow a further 19 percent to be boosted by Woodside Petroleum’s new Pluto LNG project in Western Australia.

Based on proposed and committed new projects, the minister said, Australia’s LNG production capacity is projected to quadruple, “potentially making Australia the world’s largest producer of LNG.”

APPEA says $89.8 billion of LNG projects have been approved in the country over the last year, bringing to $169 billion the value of the seven LNG developments under construction.

It estimates that a further $329 billion could likely be invested in Australia’s oil and gas sector through 2020.

“While global economic uncertainty remains a threat to ongoing investment, our trading partners continue to show confidence in Australia’s capacity to meet their energy demands,” Ferguson said.

But the report warns that rapid growth of Australia’s oil and gas sector poses challenges for industry and government alike, including a rising Australian dollar that has resulted in increased development costs.

David Knox, chief executive of Australian oil and gas producer Santos and chairman of the APPEA in his speech Monday to the group called on the Australian government to remove regulatory uncertainty or risk losing up to $329 billion in future investments, The Sydney Morning Herald reports.

Noting that the LNG sector is characterized by contracts that are typically decades long, he said success in project delivery was fragile and ”delays and uncertainty at this time risks seeing other projects leapfrog Australian projects.”

In advance of the conference, APPEA Chief Executive Officer David Byers told Adelaide Now newspaper that South Australia’s next big growth area after oil and conventional gas may lie in shale gas.

Byers cited a 2011 U.S. Energy Department report last year that estimates a total of 396 trillion cubic feet of recoverable gas in the Cooper Basin, an amount he said would be enough to power Adelaide for 6,600 years.

South Australia, he said, “is clearly set to play a major role in Australia’s emergence as a global energy superpower.”

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FTC: Skechers deceived consumers with shoe ads

by Posted on May 17, 2012

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The government wants you to know that simply sporting a pair of Skechers’ fitness shoes is not going to get you Kim Kardashian’s curves or Brooke Burke’s toned tush.

Skechers USA Inc. will pay $40 million to settle charges by the Federal Trade Commission that the footwear company made unfounded claims that its Shape-ups shoes would help people lose weight and strengthen their butt, leg and stomach muscles. Kardashian, Burke and other celebrities endorsed the shoes in Skechers ads.

The settlement, announced Wednesday, also involves the company’s Resistance Runner, Toners, and Tone-ups shoes. Skechers made deceptive claims about those shoes, too, says the agency.

Consumers who bought the shoes will be eligible for refunds.

The commission settled similar charges with Reebok last year over its EasyTone walking shoes and RunTone running shoes. That $25 million agreement also provided customer refunds.

Skechers billed its Shape-ups as a fitness tool designed to promote weight loss and tone muscles with the shoe’s curved “rocker” or rolling bottom ? saying it provides natural instability and causes the consumer to “use more energy with every step.” Shape-ups cost about $100.

Ads for the Resistance Runner shoes claimed people who wear them could increase “muscle activation” by up to 85 percent for posture-related muscles and 71 percent for one of the muscles in the buttocks, said the FTC.

The commission says Skechers falsely represented that clinical studies backed up the company’s claims about its toning shoes. The settlement bars Skechers from misrepresenting any tests, studies or research on its shoes in the future.

In Wednesday’s court filing, Skechers says it disputes the charges and is pursuing additional studies.

The settlement is part of a broader agreement also being announced Wednesday ? a settlement resolving a multi-state investigation led by the attorneys general from Tennessee and Ohio and involving more than 40 states.

The company, based in Manhattan Beach, Calif., will provide $40 million for customer refunds in the federal case and $5 million to the states.

Associated Press

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Do You Have The Leadership Trait In You To … – Self improvement tips

by Posted on May 16, 2012

An important aspect of leadership is having the ability to choose the right people for the right job. This is a vital role that leaders will invariably be called upon to perform. In any team sport, a great deal of time is spent in picking the right players for the game. Selection is done keeping these factors in mind as player?s skill, form, the right place in the team and the likely opposition that the team will confront. As in sports, in business too, leaders need to select the right team and players for a particular job, assign them specific tasks in line with their skills and proficiencies. To field a match-winning team, you first need to understand the game to be played and the skills and abilities required to play it. A football team cannot play baseball if you aim to win at the top. Also, you have to place the right player at the right position.

In order to make the right choice, you first need to simplify the broader team goals into specific, individual tasks. You can write down the task list and rank them in the order of priority. You then have to analyze the competencies required to undertake each task. Weighing the competencies of each team member and assigning tasks that matches their competencies, will help you in selecting the right candidate for the right job.

However, more often you will find that a person may excel in certain areas but may be found wanting in others. Or you may find an employee at a lower rung exhibiting similar skill power. You may find such gaps and overlaps, revealing the need for providing training in those areas where they are deficient. Having back-ups for important tasks in case you lose key people, and ensuring to have a diverse team than with similar background are other critical factors involved in the process of selection.

Thus it will be obvious to you that recruitment is often an elaborate process that begins with advertising, screening resumes, administering test, interviewing candidates, selecting the best candidates and giving them needed training. But the whole set of tasks can be made simpler by using Mind Map.

Using Mind Maps you can clearly outline

the specific job position under a main heading and note down all the tasks that the job entails under it. You can then explore at length the traits that will be required for each of the tasks relating to the job assignment. You can use particular color to distinguish fundamental abilities/traits from the general qualities.

Similarly, you can frame a simple outline on those skills and traits for testing the candidates. Highlighting these in a different color, you can decide on the possible methodology that will best bring these out from the candidates, in order to make a proper evaluation. You can then have the basic criteria, not just in terms of test ranking, but also in the soft skills that the candidate brings in, such as communication abilities, confidence level, attitude, disposition, etc.

Matching the hardcore competencies of a candidate with the soft skills, you can set a minimum standard to be eligible for interview. Ranking the candidates on all criteria and choosing the best among them can be greatly facilitated by using Mind Map. Utilizing symbols you can group all those candidates revealing the need for training, and those excelling in most areas for direct task handling.

When you integrate all these entire process of recruitment into one major Mind Map, you will, at a glance, gain a comprehensive picture of the full procedure involved. You will have complete grip over your recruitment process of picking the right person for the right job. Whenever you have new thoughts or ideas on a particular aspect, you can easily incorporate them and comprehend the links and associations between the various stages of recruitment. All these and much more are possible with Mind Map. Mind Map helps you to fine tune your recruitment process and ensure you are on the right track to pick the right candidate for the right job.

About the Author:

Dr. Vj Mariaraj is a Mind Map enthusiast and has been using Mind Maps for the past twelve years. He has created over 5650 Mind Maps. To learn more about mind mapping send an email to freemindmap@aweber.com . He is the founder of BusinessBookMindMap.com that creates Mind Map Summaries of Businees Books. To learn more visit http://BusinessBookMindMap.com/mind-map.php?ea=14

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BlackBerry 10′s predictive keyboard gets transplanted with Octopus Keyboard for jailbroken iOS devices

by Posted on May 15, 2012

BlackBerry 10's predictive keyboard gets transplanted with Octopus Keyboard for jailbroken iOS

RIM’s latest on-screen keyboard effort may bear a passing resemblance to Swiftkey, but it also has us itching to see how the rest of the BlackBerry 10 UI will turn out. It looks like we’re not the only ones, as Octopus Keyboard aims to bring the same slick prediction interface to jailbreaking iOS users. Swiping up will access suggested words depending on which letters are pressed, while the keyboard will also memorize new vocab like the iOS original. You can see how it works in real life — and gauge whether it’s worth the jailbreaking rigmarole — in a quick walkthrough video after the break.

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Eat Your Own Brain (and Live to Tell About It) [Video]

by Posted on May 15, 2012

The Edible Chocolate Brain is perfect for the narcissist in love with their own intellect. They merely have to spend a chunk of time in an MRI tube, and from that data, Inition can create a 3D model of a brain which is then fed to a 3D printer to forge a 3D mold. Equipped with a steady supply of chocolate a confectionary brain was formed. Not only is someone’s mind brilliant, it’s also delicious. [Inition via Laughing Squid] More »


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Apple’s iPad WiFi + 4G renamed ‘iPad WiFi + Cellular’ across many of its online stores

by Posted on May 14, 2012

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Remember Apple’s new iPad WiFi + 4G? Well, forget that moniker, as this variant of the company’s latest slate has been quietly re-dubbed as the iPad WiFi + Cellular. As noticed by 9to5Mac, the change occurred within the last “24-48 hours” across many of Apple’s region specific webstores, including (but not limited to) those for the US, UK, Australia, Canada and various countries in Asia. If you’ll recall, in many regions the best you’ll get out of the slate is HSPA-connectivity, even though the slate is also equipped for LTE — something that Apple itself had considered good enough to market it as 4G despite offering refunds to customers in Australia who (like many others) couldn’t officially partake in its LTE. Interestingly, 9to5Mac also notes that a similar change hasn’t made its way over to the iPad 2, which still has its cellular-equipped variant named, iPad 2 WiFi + 3G. We’re reaching out to Apple for comment, so stay tuned. In the meantime, feel free to hit up the source links below for more insight.

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