Friday, November 21, 2014
Some 30K video surveillance cameras to be installed in Astana
Around 30,000 more video surveillance cameras will be installed on the streets of Astana on the eve of "EXPO-2017" exhibition, chairman of the board of Astana Innovations JSC Talgat Ashim said at the "Smart Astana-2014" conference.
"Around 30,000 video surveillance cameras will be installed in the streets of Astana on the eve of "EXPO-2017" exhibition," he said. "Around 1,157 video surveillance cameras were integrated as part of our project. All cameras will operate in a single system."
Ashim said that the installation of the cameras started as part of the "Smart Astana" project, Kazinform refers to trend.az.
"But this referred to the pilot zone," he said. "The full-scale measures of turning Astana into a "smart city" will begin in 2015. It is necessary to install 30,000 video surveillance cameras and to cover a housing and communal sphere, transport as part of security."
"These measures will reduce the number of offenses on the streets by 15-25 percent, raise the average speed on the roads of the capital during peak hours by more than 25 percent, reduce the number of accidents by 25 percent, and raise popularity of the city among investors by 50 percent," he said.
INC News, 21/11/2014-via Ak Zhaik
Chevron-led Kazakh oil venture TCO's output slips in Jan-Sept
Output at Chevron-led Tengizchevroil (TCO), Kazakhstan's largest oil producer, fell by 1.5 percent year-on-year in the January-September period to 19.8 million tonnes (158 million barrels), the company said on Thursday. TCO, which develops the mammoth Tengiz onshore oilfield in western Kazakhstan, boosted its output to a record 27.1 million tonnes last year from 24.2 million in 2012.
The company gave no reason for the output decline in the first nine months of this year. Senior Kazakh energy officials said last month that TCO was undergoing planned repair and maintenance work which was due to end this month. TCO's output is crucial for keeping Kazakhstan's oil production at 81.8 million tonnes this year and next. Output at the huge Kashagan oilfield in the Caspian Sea, which was halted due to gas leaks shortly after its launch in September 2013, is unlikely to restart before the second half of 2016. Last month Kazakhstan gave the go-ahead to an expansion project to boost TCO's output to 38 million tonnes by 2019.
Chevron holds 50 percent of TCO, while Exxon Mobil owns 25 percent, Kazakh state oil company KazMunaiGas 20 percent and Lukarco, controlled by Russia's Lukoil, the remaining 5 percent.
INC News, 21/11/2014 - via Ak Zhaik
Peter Baruch confessed two Ukrainian officials joined him in sex-tours in West Kazakhstan
The Ukrainian officials Oleg Lyashko and Sergey Levochkin were involved in the British Peter Baruch’s case, who was condemned in the West Kazakhstan for corruption of minors, azh.kz refers to From-UA.com.
According to mass media, special investigators from the Prosecutor General's Office of Kazakhstan are on their way to Ukraine. They are engaged in investigation of the criminal charge brought against Lyashko and Levochkin. The Ukrainian deputies are suspected of committing sexual crimes concerning minors. Incidents took place in Kazakhstan in 2011-2013, writes the media.
According to the mass media, British citizen Peter Baruch - the consultant of one of the oil and gas companies met Levochkin (as co-owner of RosUkrEnergo) at the business meeting. According to P. Baruch, who is sentenced for 8 years of imprisonment, he was accompanied in his sex-tours around the cities of the West Kazakhstan region by the official Levochkin and the People's Deputy of Ukraine Oleg Lyashko.
INC News, 21/11/2014-Via Ak Zhaik
Man Spotted Trying To Dump Body In River
A murder investigation has been launched after a man was seen trying to dump a body in the River Thames. Officers received a call just before 3am about a man who was believed to be trying to put a body into the river at Deptford Wharf.
A man, who is in his 50s, was later stopped in a car on Evelyn Street, which is around half a mile from the water. In the vehicle police said they found the body of a man in his 20s who had suffered head injuries. The driver has been arrested on suspicion of murder and taken into custody at a south London police station.
see art. in:Body in the river
INC News, 21/11/2014
Zimbabwe stampede after Kwekwe church service
Eleven people have been killed in a stampede after a religious service in a stadium in Zimbabwe, police say. Four people died in the stadium in the central town of Kwekwe, while seven others were declared dead on arrival in hospital, they say. The stampede occurred as thousands of worshippers rushed to leave after the service by popular Pentecostal preacher Walter Magaya. He claims to be able to heal people by performing miracles. Some witnesses accused the police of blocking most of the stadium exits and then firing tear gas as people battled to get through the only one left open.
The police have denied firing tear gas.
Mr Magaya, head of the Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries, told a local newspaper that when he learnt of the deaths, it was "the saddest moment of my life".
See art. in Zimbabwe
INC News, 21/11/2014-via BBC
Russian Orthodox Priests Admits Comet Could've Created Life on Earth
Boldly bridging the gap between faith and science, a Russian Orthodox Church spokesman has voiced backing for the panspermia theory of life origin, which holds that life was transported here from elsewhere in the universe.
"God could have created the world through various means," Moscow Patriarchate representative Vsevolod Chaplin was cited as saying Thursday by the TASS news agency.
"This includes the primary material contained in the bowels of a comet," Vsevolod Chaplin added.
He was commenting on the findings of the first comet landing in history, pulled off last week by the European Space Agency (ESA), which landed the Philae spacecraft on the 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko comet.Philae has found organic molecules — the basic building bricks of life — on the comet, the German Aerospace Agency was cited as saying by the Wall Street Journal.This has given a new boost to the "panspermic" theory of life origins, which posits that life is distributed from world to world by comets and meteorites carrying dormant microorganisms that awaken when landing on planets with favorable conditions — such as Earth.
see art. in:Rosetta and Orthodoxists
INC News, 21/11/2014
EUROPE - Citizen gain – which EU states are granting the most new passports?
Nearly a quarter of new passports handed out in the EU were granted in the United Kingdom, according to new figures. London handed out citizenships to 193,900 people – representing 24 percent of all new passports approved across the EU’s 28-country area in 2012. In all, 818,000 citizenships were granted across the union, with Morroccans and Turks the chief beneficiaries.
The data, released by the European Commission’s statistics office Eurostat, also reveals significant changes in Ireland, Hungary and Sweden
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INC News, 21/11/2014
Il presidente della Repubblica Giorgio Napolitano questo pomeriggio ha fatto una visita privata a Papa Francesco in Vaticano. L’incontro, che non era stato annunciato nelle reciproche agende ufficiali, è durato quasi un’ora e mezza.
La berlina scura del Capo dello Stato italiano, una lancia Thesis scortata dalla polizia, si è infilata nel varco del Perugino pochi minuti prima delle 17. Napolitano sedeva da solo sui sedili posteriori. Si tratta dell’ingresso nello Stato della Città del Vaticano più vicino a Casa Santa Marta, il residence dove risiede Jorge Mario Bergoglio. L’auto di Napolitano è uscita attorno alle 18.20 alla volta del Quirinale.
vedi art.in:Napolitano da Francesco
INC News, 21/11/2014 - via La Stampa
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