Australia’s new policy of resettling refugees in Papua New Guinea was already having a deterrent effect on boatpeople, Immigration Minister Tony Burke said Monday as angry protesters condemned the plan. …read more
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A group of armed soldiers broke down the gates to a hospital in the Papua New Guinea capital Port Moresby and began indiscriminately attacking people, leaving a medical student seriously injured, according to police.
The incident at the Port Moresby General Hospital on Sunday was condemned by police Commissioner Simon Kauba who blasted the soldiers for attacking “the very people they have sworn to protect and defend”.
“This is totally uncalled for and unacceptable behaviour by members of a disciplined organisation,” he said in a statement.
“I condemn this action in the strongest possible terms and will ensure that it is thoroughly investigated and those responsible will face the full force of the law.”
The assault occurred just hours before Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd arrived in Port Moresby for talks with his counterpart Peter O’Neil, which are expected to focus on the Pacific nation’s chronic law and order problems, among other issues.
Kauba said the soldiers arrived at the hospital in a truck armed with guns, machetes and iron bars and smashed down the gates before beginning their attack. At least six shots were fired.
Reports said it was payback for an alleged assault by medical students on two soldiers during a dispute over the use of an ATM at the hospital on Friday night.
Police brought the matter under control, Kauba said, but the attack left a dental student seriously injured and considerable damage to hospital property.
Crime and lawlessness in poverty-stricken Papua New Guinea is a serious concern throughout the country, including the capital where last month four Chinese nationals were hacked to death, with one reportedly beheaded and the others dismembered.
Papua New Guinea recently passed harsh new laws reviving the death penalty as it grapples with a wave of violent crime, particularly against women, which has drawn international condemnation.
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By MarketNewsVideo Goldcorp Incorporated (GG) maintained its monthly dividend of 5 cents per share. Shareholders of record at the close of business on Thursday, April 18, 2013 will be entitled to receive payment of this dividend on Friday, April 26, 2013. …read more
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Filed under: Investing
PAA Natural Gas Storage Declares Distribution on Limited Partner Units
HOUSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)– PAA Natural Gas Storage, L.P. (NYSE: PNG) today announced a quarterly cash distribution of $0.3575 per unit ($1.43 per unit on an annualized basis) on all of its outstanding common and Series A subordinated units. The distribution will be payable on May 15, 2013 to holders of record of such units at the close of business on May 3, 2013. This distribution is equal to the quarterly distribution paid in February 2013.
PAA Natural Gas Storage is a publicly traded master limited partnership engaged in the development, acquisition, operation and commercial management of natural gas storage facilities. The Partnership currently owns and operates three natural gas storage facilities located in Louisiana, Mississippi and Michigan. The Partnership’s general partner, as well as the majority of the Partnership’s limited partner interests, is owned by Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. (NYS: PAA) . PNG is headquartered in Houston, TX.
PAA Natural Gas Storage, L.P.
Roy I. Lamoreaux, 713-646-4222 – 800-564-3036
Director, Investor Relations
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PAA Natural Gas Storage Completes Successful Pine Prairie Open Season
HOUSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)– PAA Natural Gas Storage, L.P. (NYSE: PNG) today announced the successful completion of a non-binding open season for firm storage capacity at its Pine Prairie Energy Center facility. In response to the open season announcement that requested bids for firm storage capacity with a starting date of April 1st during 2015, 2016 or 2017, Pine Prairie received non-binding bids for an aggregate of 12.5 Bcf of firm storage capacity. The bids were from a diverse set of customers, highlighting the facility’s appeal across geographies and customer classes.
Located in south Louisiana, the Pine Prairie Energy Center is one of the largest salt dome gas storage facilities in the United States. Pine Prairie is a high-deliverability facility with the authorization and capability to receive and inject up to 2.4 Bcf per day and to withdraw and deliver up to 3.2 Bcf per day. Pine Prairie is directly connected to eight large-diameter interstate pipelines and provides storage and balancing services to customers from the Northeast, Midwest, Southeast and the Gulf Coast. Pine Prairie‘s interconnectivity allows customers access to major supply basins throughout the United States, and the facility’s significant deliverability and proximity to major existing and developing demand centers along the Gulf Coast positions it to provide critical balancing services to a variety of end use customers, including electric power generators, the growing petrochemical market and major LNG exporters.
PAA Natural Gas Storage is a publicly traded master limited partnership engaged in the development, acquisition, operation and commercial management of natural gas storage facilities. The Partnership currently owns and operates three natural gas storage facilities located in Louisiana, Mississippi and Michigan. The Partnership’s general partner, as well as the majority of the Partnership’s limited partner interests, is owned by Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. (NYS: PAA) . PNG is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
PAA Natural Gas Storage, L.P.
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Motion Artist 1.0 generates interactive HTML 5 video presentation of comics and more. This full release offers more customization of animation files, tighter recording controls, and better asset editing compared to the July 2012 beta. Motion Artist ($60, buy-only) makes animating images and text relatively easy for comic artists and web designers with imported files. Unlike with Flash, you can’t draw in the program and then animate their creations. The focus is on animating existing image files from other sources.
Motion Artist opens to a default project designed by Smith Micro, showcasing various animation techniques. However, comic artists unfamiliar with using an animation program or film terms might find all the controls tricky to animate their comic pages. Imported PSD files maintain their layers for animation or the user can composite the layers into a single layer. JPG, PNG and Motion Artist vendor Smith Micro‘s Anime Studio are other supported file types.
Motion Artist has three different views: Director, Camera and Panel. Animators will recognize the toolbar and scene list, and the timeline setup with its default of 30 frames per second. Thanks to GPU acceleration, users can play working files back in real time, which assists in editing the video. In addition to using your own video, you can animate panels, text and speech balloons with various effects in Motion Artist.
Comic artists can use difference scenes to cut between comic panels or pages. For example in film, opening credits can be the first scene, followed by the next one of the characters walking into camera view. In comics, it can be moving from one panel to the next or page to page. Motion Artist is set up for multiple scenes, so comic artists can animate individual pages or panels and then cut them together for a single presentation.
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Filed under: Investing
Investors who are willing to put their money behind a young company are putting a lot of trust in the company’s management. That bond of trust can be shaky, because the slightest move that might bring things into question could send investors for the exits, and fast. Along those lines, there may be a storm brewing at InterOil regarding its LNG export facility, and it could cause investors’ confidence to waver. Let’s see what’s going on and whether InterOil can wiggle its way out of it.
Stuck in the middle with you
On InterOil’s most recent conference call, its CEO declared that the company had been granted approval for its 3.8 million-ton-per-year LNG export facility in Papua New Guinea, and that the company was in the process of selecting a partner for the facility. Well, apparently this is news to the country’s petroleum and energy minister, William Duma. Making like a town crier, Duma took out full-page ads in the local papers in protest of this statement.
He wanted to make it clear that the ministry was still holding firm in its position that both the exploration and production and midstream assets needed to be operated by an internationally organized operator with an LNG export history before the government would give its stamp of approval, per the original agreement that was fleshed out in 2009.
This isn’t the first time the two have had a little dust-up. As recently as last May, the government was threatening to terminate its agreement with the company to build the facility because InterOil wasn’t following the original plan of bringing on an internationally recognized operator.
Someone isn’t being completely honest here, but its hard to determine who. From an investor’s standpoint, though, it doesn’t really matter, because the end result is bad news either way. If it’s the company, then it shows that InterOil wasn’t completely honest, which is something no investor wants to hear. If it’s the PNG government, then it’s being obstructive and will slow progress, especially considering the government took a minority interest in its Elk and Antelope fields.
(Pacific) Ring of Fire
The LNG export business in the Pacific region has had its fair share of troubles as of late. Setbacks and delays seem to be happening more often than not. ExxonMobil has experienced multiple delays and budget overruns on its LNG facility in Papua New Guinea, bringing the final tally up about 20% to $19 billion. Similar budgetary overruns at ConocoPhillips‘ Australia Pacific LNG facility in Australia has led the company to sell of some its interest in the project. Despite the interest from other majors to build out natural gas exporting facilities in the region, the headaches these companies have experienced will certainly make others think twice.
If there’s anyone who should be happy about this news, it’s Apache and Chevron . Both of these companies are the joint owners of the Kitimat LNG export facility in British …read more
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Skanlite 1.0
(KDE Graphic Tool)
Skanlite is an image scanner application for KDE 4.
changelog:
1.0
– Fix “save crash” when libksane returns an odd number sized buffer in 16 bit mode
BUG: 314108
– Save sequence number across sessions
BUG: 202432
– Add option to set sequence-number. Do not open “first image” dialog after settings dialog has been canceled.
BUG: 310687
BUG: 310688
BUG: 310689
0.9
– (Fix regression) Base suggested file name on previous name.
– Remove the save without asking and keep the ask for first, because you probably want to see where the files go anyways the first time around.
You can also download Skanlite from download.kde.org/stable/skanlite/
0.8
– Save scanner options on exit and restore them on next start.
– Add option to disable automatic selection of scan area(s).
0.7
-Fix save file name regression.
0.6
– Fix compilation problem.
– Fix save window size bug.
0.5
– Add 16 bits/color support for PNG images.
– Save window size on exit.
– Fix the “Remember last saved image path/type” regression.
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Converseen 0.5.3
(KDE Graphic Tool)
Converseen is an open source project written in C++ with the powerful Qt4 libraries.
Thanks to the Magick++ image libraries it supports more than 100 image formats.
You can convert an unlimited number of images and / or create thumbnails
to any of the most popular formats: DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PDF, PhotoCD, PNG, Postscript, SVG, and TIFF.
With Converseen you can save your time because it allows you to process more than one image with a mouse click!
Converseen is very simple: it features a very simple user interface without strange options.
With converseen you can:
Carry out a single or a multiple conversion.
Resize one or more images.
Compress images for your web pages.
Converseen depends on Qt4 and Magick++ libraries.
If you appreciate this work and would like to support the project, you are welcome to donate money via Paypal: http://converseen.sourceforge.net/#donations
Converseen is available for the following platforms:
changelog:
0.5.3 – 2013-02-12
– Now it works with ImageMagick >= 6.8.0
– Added russian translation
0.5.2 – 2012-11-12
– Fixed a bug with the overwrite option on Windows
– Updated the german translation
0.5.1 – 2012-07-02
– Fixed a bug with density/resolution settings
– Updated translations (Hungarian, Czech, French, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish)
0.5 – 2012-06-05
– New and highly optimized graphical user interface
– Improved thumbnail generation
– Possibility to resize different image formats without changing the destination formats
– Possibility to choose a background color when converting images to formats that don’t support alpha channel like jpeg files.
– Possibility to override transparency with an arbitrary color
– Improved conversion process
– Now, at the end of the conversion process, the destination folder(s) can be opened with a click
– All the interface attributes are automatically saved
– Fixed the bug with dotted filenames
– Both tif and tiff formats can be opened
– Other GUI improvements
– Various bug fixed
0.4.9 – 2012-01-31
– Fixed a bug with special characters
0.4.8 – 2012-01-10
– Fixed a bug in picture previewer
0.4.7 – 2011-12-01
– Optimized GUI for small screen resolutions (netbooks)
– Fixed overwriting with upper suffixes
– Now the window geometry is saved
0.4.6 – 2011-09-13
– Fixed a bug with the overwriting option
0.4.5 – 2011-09-12
– Modified the code to work in Windows
– Added Turkish translation
– Added support for Cmake
0.4.3 – 2011-08-03
– Added service menu for Kde
– Fixed overwriting with upper suffixes
– Added Spanish (Chile) translation
0.4.2 – 2011-06-28
– Fixed overwriting dialog when the renaming option is enabled.
0.4.1 – 2011-03-10
– Improved picture previewer
– If the output folder doesn’t exists it will be created
0.4 – 2011-02-11
– Added thread support to image conversions.
– Added a progress …read more
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Papua New Guinea police say they are about to make their first arrests almost a week after a mob stripped, tortured and bound a woman accused of witchcraft, then burned her alive in front of hundreds of horrified people in the South Pacific nation’s third largest city.
More than 50 members of the mob doused the 20-year-old mother with gasoline and then set her alight on a pile of car tires and trash in Mount Hagen last Wednesday. She had been accused of sorcery by relatives of a 6-year-old boy who had died in the local hospital the previous day.
Police spokesman Dominic Kakas on Tuesday said suspects had been identified through witness interviews. He said there will be as many as 50 arrests on charges of murder by Wednesday.
Over the years, TechSmith’s Camtasia has evolved from being the go-to program for software demonstrators to a full-featured education/information video tool. With version 8, Camtasia Studio ($299, 30-day free trial) has not only added new features—including multi-track video editing and embedded hyperlinks—but has been rewritten from the ground up with new optimized code and greater potential impact.
If you watch a YouTube video explaining how to edit in Photoshop, write in Word, or do anything else in a program, that video was very likely created with Camtasia Record, the original core function of Camtasia Studio. Capturing and showing screen-based activity, such as cursor movement, menu choices, and other interface interactions remains quite straightforward. Click the Record button, and everything you do on your computer monitor is recorded, until you click the Stop button. The results are quite smooth, even when capturing complex on-screen media. That’s because Camtasia’s new capture engine is optimized for high-definition video, and can now record at 30 frames per second. (Version 7 had a tendency to slow down to 5-10 frames per second.)
But once you get into the video editor, Version 8 is clearly an entirely new kind of program. The new multi-track interface can import video from other sources, including MP4, MPG, MPEG, WMV, MOV, SWF, BMP, GIF, JPG, PNG, WAV, MP3, WMA and Zipped Library. (However, Camtasia Studio imports only one video and one audio track from a .mov file, rather than multiple tracks. Also, only SWF created from Jing or previous versions of Camtasia Studio can be imported.). You can even display several video windows in a single screen and have them play at the same time. You can name and group tracks. What’s more, batch edits such as animations, zoom/pan, and other effects can be applied to an entire group, saving lots of time and effort.
The Canvas is no longer just a playback view of your project. You can now work directly with any object (including video windows) on the Canvas, clicking and dragging to resize and reposition. When dragging, alignment guides appear to help you line up elements to other objects. However, there’s no single-click command to resize a window that fills the canvas, which would be useful. Anything (video windows, graphics, callouts, etc.) on the canvas can be animated over time. In our tests, we were able to create some very slick visuals, such as applying a perspective angle to a video window, using the rotation control. Unfortunately, you can’t apply rotation with interactive clicks and drags, only through a dialog.
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DropIt is a free, open-source utility that processes collections of files according to rules you define. For example, you can set it loose at your Downloads folder, and telling it to sort all of the JPG and PNG files into an images subfolder, but only if they’re larger than 30KB (so you don’t have to save small images). It would then take all the ZIP files and put them in another folder, and delete all of the TMP files. In other words, you just configure a bunch of rules, and DropIt does the rest.
You can use DropIt by dragging and dropping files onto its desktop overlay (hence the name), or have DropIt sit in the background and constantly monitor one or more folders for any changes. Once you have a solid set of rules, that latter option offers a distraction-free way to get rid of file clutter, but only after you make some tweaks to the way DropIt works. By default, DropIt shows a progress bar whenever it’s processing files, and also prompts you when it stumbles upon a file it doesn’t know what to do with.
These behaviors make sense when you manually trigger DropIt, but when you have it running in the background, they can be maddening (imagine seeing a progress bar streak across your desktop every 60 seconds, 15 minutes, or however long the automatic scanning interval you set is). Fortunately, both of these features can be disabled in DropIt’s Options dialog.
For DropIt to be useful, you have to spend time carefully configuring it for your own use. After all, only you know how you like your files to be organized. But with time, it can become a useful file management assistant, sorting and removing needless files in ways that make sense to you.
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