My name is Brian Simpson, and this is my personal blog BrianSimpson.name which will act as a central contact point for all my interests and various businesses, along with world news and the occasion rant and rave from myself.
Jan. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Robert Turner, chairman and chief investment officer of Turner Investment Partners, talks with Bloomberg's Carol Massar about Apple's Inc.'s IPad tablet, unveiled today in San Francisco.
Apple, seeking to revolutionize the publishing business in the same way the iPod transformed the music industry, unveiled a tablet computer starting at $499, a price that was 50 percent lower than some analysts predicted (Source: Bloomberg)
Jan. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Nobuo Tanaka, executive director of the International Energy Agency, and Jose Sergio Gabrielli, chief executive officer at Petrobras Brasileiro SA, talk with Bloomberg's Francine Lacqua and Margaret Brennan about the outlook for oil.
Jan. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Randi Zuckerberg, director of market development at Facebook Inc., talks to Bloombergs Margaret Brennan about the results of the latest Bloomberg Facebook Pulse survey. The survey gives the public an opportunity to react to conversations taking place at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Facebook user surveys and results will be posted on Bloomberg Facebook Pulse screens at the WEF and discussed in panel sessions. (Source: Bloomberg)
Jan. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Peter Voser, chief executive officer of Royal Dutch Shell Plc, talks with Bloomberg's Francine Lacqua about the outlook for oil demand. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Voser also discusses Shell's business interests in Iran, Venezuela and Nigeria.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, 26 January 2010 Two weeks after the earthquake that devastated Haiti, UNICEF continues to reach children with life-saving support, including urgently needed safe water.
Here in the capital, UNICEF is now providing potable water for 235,000 people at hospitals and distribution points around the city. And water distribution is being scaled up significantly. The target is to reach half a million people with a consistent water supply within the next few days.
Safe water is critical to staving off a second wave of disaster caused by disease outbreaks, especially among children.
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United Nations, New York, 16 January 2010:
A United Nations Disaster and Assessment Coordination (UNDAC) team and OCHA (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) coordination teams arrived on the ground in Port-au-Prince on today (15 Jan).
The teams, from the United States, Iceland, Britain, France and China, equipped with jackhammers and sniffer dogs set out to try and reach survivors trapped under the rubble throughout the city.
Rescue team member (Unidentifed):
We are heading to the University at Gonaives which is a university that collapsed with many students inside. So theyve been stranded for the past almost seventy hours and this morning we were still hearing voices and one guy walked out by himself out of the debri. So we need some help to open the concrete and make some opening to get the other people because we just spoke to a few of them and they are still alive.
The team broke through the wood and concrete to try and reach the students.
UNDAC team leader Jesper Lund said that when he spoke with President Rene Preval on how long the search and rescue operation should take place in Port-au-Prince, the president replied, we need to continue as long as the population thinks there is hope.
On Friday, a British urban search and rescue team (USAR) pulled two survivors trapped in the rubble.
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I am Scottish,and trained as an Accountant,(seems a million years ago)and then worked for a Scottish Development Organisation, as a Business Investment Manager, before entering the Oil Industry, as a Business Development Manager and Recruitment Consultant, working for the Major Oil and Gas Companies around the World.
I finally started my own Oil Consultancy and Employment Agency, Alba International, providing Oil and Gas Personnel Worldwide, and have worked all over the World, Including Kuwait.
( I was there during the first gulf war, putting a British Firefighting team into Kuwait)
United Arab Emirates, Russia, Thailand, and opened an office in Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia ,
( During this time, the Malaysian government banned all British Companies working on contracts that nearly bankrupted me - in fact I am still recovering ! )
The Glamour of International Business goes, when you are at the airport wondering whether you have enough money left, to get home!
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