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Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 8:35 am Post subject: Britain feared annihilation by Soviets |
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U.S. President Jimmy Carter watches UK PM James Callaghan speak at a 1979 meeting in Guadeloupe.
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Papers released by the National Archives, under the 30-year rule, reveal that Royal Air Force fighter jets only had
sufficient ammunition for two days of combat and the Royal Navy would fail to defend the country from Russian submarines.
The army would have been too over-stretched to cope with a widescale campaign of sabotage and subversion by Soviet special
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Prime Minister James Callaghan called the situation a "scandal" when he discovered the scale of the problem and demanded
resignations among the military.
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could do little until the Tornado fighter plane became available in the mid-1980s along with other military hardware.
TheWoW Gold, problem became clear when senior intelligence officers warned in late 1977
that, in the event of a conventional war, the Russians could unleash up to 200 bombers and 18 submarines against the UK.
The assessment of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was that British forces would be unable to cope.
"UK forces cannot match the threat postulated by the JIC assessment," the chiefs noted in January 1978 in a document marked
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operations for only two or three days.
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also from mines; the most serious deficiency is in numbers.
"The wow gold,army in the UK would, until mobilization is complete, have insufficient
forces to meet its commitments; after mobilization of the reserves, a process taking between 15-20 days, the Army would be
able to counter the currently assessed Soviet land threat during the initial stages of the war but, lacking supporting arms
and logistic support, it would be inadequate to deal with any more significant threat, including sabotage or subversion on a
wide scale."
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Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 9:16 am Post subject: Pakistan urges India to pull back troops |
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An Indian border guard stands on duty at the India-Pakistan Wagah Border Post crossing.
Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said in a statement made to state television Tuesday that India should
withdraw its security forces to peacetime positions and deactivate air bases near the border. In return, Pakistan would pull
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back its troops as well, Qureshi added.
But India's External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee took issue, saying New Delhi hadn't done anything to escalate the
situation between the nuclear-armed neighbors.
"We have not escalated any tension between India and Pakistan, so where is the question of de-escalating it?" Mukherjee told
reporters.
An Indian army spokesman denied Saturday that any troop mobilization was taking place but told CNN that the army was watching
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But Pakistani authorities insist they have information to show Indian troop movements along the border.
Reports on Friday that Pakistan had redeployed military resources on its
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eastern border with India raised concerns last week.
An World Of Warcraft gold,official in Pakistan's Foreign Office said Pakistani troop
movements were in response to Indian troop movements and any scale back would follow the right signals from India.
CNN National Security Analyst Peter Bergen said a Pakistani official told him 20,000 soldiers had been moved from the
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Afghanistan border toward the Indian border. That amount, he said, was not significant, as Pakistan has a very large army.
Singh said no communication had been received from Pakistan about troop movements, but added thaturl the Indian army was always on alert.
India accuses Pakistan of harboring militant organizations and claims 10 attackers involved in World Of Warcraft gold,last month's Mumbai attacks trained at a terrorist camp in the Pakistani-controlled part of
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Militants age of conan gold, launched a coordinated strike against luxury hotels, a
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people.
India has criticized Islamabad for not doing enough to counter terrorism, and it has accused elements within the Pakistan
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government and military of complicity in fueling terrorism in the region.
Since the division of the subcontinent in 1947, India and Pakistan have fought three wars, including two over the disputed
territory of Kashmir -- now wracked by an 18-year, bloody separatist campaign that authorities say has left at least 43,000
dead.
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Dreams of flying. Dreams of flying represent feelings of freedom that may result from an instance when you overcame wow power leveling a limitation or obstacle. Usually, children have more flying dreams than adults, Norris said, because children are more open to their possibilities, and adults have often accepted limitationimposed by society.Teeth falling out. Food in a dream is symbolic of knowledge because food nourishes the physical body and knowledge nourishes maple story mesos the soul. Teeth are a means to break down food or knowledge. When your teeth
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Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 1:12 am Post subject: Digital propelling copier businesses to broaden scope |
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In an effort to provide one-stop shopping for their customers, the nation's largest copier companies are enlarging
the scope of their businesses by purchasing systems integration and document services firms. By acquiring firms
that can integrate digital copiers into computer networks and service those networks, as well as provide printing
services on large projects, the firms are hoping to capture business that would typically be outsourced. "It
allows us to provide a lot more solutions for a wider range of client applications," says Bob Raymond, sales
manager for Ikon Office Solutions in San Antonio. "The goal is to be able to provide a one-stop shop," says
Michael Fitzgibbons, president and chief executive officer of Felco Office Systems Inc., a company owned by Tampa,
Fla.wow power leveling,-based Global Imaging Systems Co. "Instead of
being able to provide a portion of their needs, we're looking to provide a whole turn-key program." Several years
ago, national business machine firms such as Ikon, Global Imaging and Danka Business Systems plc began purchasing
independent copier sales and service companies in an effort to provide competitive prices and technologically
advanced products to their customers. But as more copiers have become digital - and more customers are aiming to
hook up their computer systems to their digital copiers - copier firms are stepping in to service that market.
What's more, since more firms are preparing their documents in-house, business machine firms are working to
provide just-in-time printing services - where they are able to print large quantities of documents for their
clients on a demand basis. The goal, industry officials say, is to have one sales representative selling all the
various office equipment services to the company's customers. To that end, Valley Forge, Penn.-based Ikon recently
renamed its document services unit to Ikon Office Solutions. Last December, Ikon-Night Rider, Ikon's document
services division, acquired Legal Copies International, which owned Alamo Legal Copies of San Antonio. "It's
important that we present our solutions to the market in a unified way so that customers can remember a single
name for all of their legal and business document needs," Lynn Graham, president of Ikon Document Services, said
in a prepared statement released last month. During the second quarter of Ikon's fiscal year 1997 alone, Ikon
purchased 24 companies nationwide - nine systems integration firms, six outsourcing and imaging companies, and
nine traditional office equipment firms. That brings the total number of companies Ikon has acquired in the first
six months of this fiscal year to 47 - 19 in systems integration, 13 in outsourcing, and 15 in traditional office
equipment. (Ikon, then known as Alco Standard Co., acquired Texas Copy in San Antonio in the early 1990s.) Bruce
Ganger, director of digital and color programs for Danka, says that his firm has grown its systems integration and
print-on-demand business internally for several years. However, last September the St. Petersburg, Fla.-based
company purchased the office imaging division of Eastman Kodak. That division was already a top player in the
print-on-demand business. Tom Johnson, CEO of Global Imaging, says the firm has 44 locations nationwide. In the
past eight months, it has acquired two systems integration firms, one of which is the 34th largest in the nation.
Fitzgibbons says his firm currently is holding talks regarding possible deals with some local firms. John Thomas,
president of the San Antonio systems integration firm The Publishing Group, says he has been contacted by some of
the major companies about providing services, but has yet to be approached regarding an acquisition. "They do use
my services," he says. However, Sam Lorimer, vice president of SabreData of Austin, another systems integrator,
says he has seen many of his peers nationwide get purchased or approached by some of the nation's major office
equipment service firms. Of those, he says, Ikon appears to be the most aggressive. "I've seen a lot of peers get
purchased by Ikon," he says. While digital copiers still make up only a small percentage of the market, industry
analysts say it is increasing. Analysts says digital copiers make up less than 10 percent of the installed market.
Digital equipment, which digitizes images electronically instead of using a light source, gears and drums, allows
the use of one machine for various functions, including faxing and laser printing. However, digital equipment is
becoming a larger source of revenues for the business-machine industry. For example, Xerox Corp., which has its
own systems integration division, recently reported that digital sales accounted for 34 percent of its revenues,
according to an industry analyst. "There's a sense that there's a lot of waste in a business environment by having
a printer, fax and a copier," says Kristy Thiese, an analyst with Raymond James & Associates in St. Petersburg,
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(digital) products are here now and there'll be more coming in a year." But while the digital market is still
small, Thiese also notes that systems integration - because it involves servicing equipment - is similar to the
copier service business, making it a good business for the business-machine companies to enter. For example, they
are able to use the same dispatch system they are already using for their copier service people. "It's a similar
business to run to the business they're already in," she says. "It's a good growth business for them." However,
Thiese says that as digital copiers do take over the market, independent copier companies could feel financial
pressure to expend capital to provide systems integrations and other complementary services. Duane Meehan,
president of Office Communications Systems Inc. (OCS), the largest independent business machine firm in San
Antonio, says he saw several years ago that digital copiers would create the need for systems integration and
formed a division to address the need. He is expecting that division to grow. Indeed, Meehan says he was recently
told by a top official of a major copier manufacturer that by the year 2000, no more analog copiers would be
developed by the firm. "Everything they are doing is going to be connectable," Meehan says about copier
manufacturers. "As a dealer, we've had to be fully prepared to sell and service digital copiers." So far, Meehan
says that adding systems integration to his business has helped fuel the firm's growth. OCS has seen its revenues
grow by more than 60 percent over the last three years. |
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SAN FRANCISCO,Jul 31 (Reuters) - Global handset shipments grew nearly 5 percent in the second quarter, the first quarter- on-quarter growth in 9 months, marking a reversal of course for the struggling market, researchers at iSuppli said on Friday.
Worldwide shipments of cellphones rose 4.7 percent to 265 million units in the second quarter compared with the first quarter, helped by strength in the Middle East and Latin America, but were still down 15.1 percent compared with a year ago, according to preliminary data from iSuppli.
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"The market is approaching the bottom," iSuppli analyst Tina Teng said. "In the handset market we are seeing more orders coming in and the top 5 OEMs are projecting positive growth."
Inventory levels have decreased and factories are seeing higher utilization rates, she added.
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Shipments for 2009 are still expected to shrink 9.9 percent year-on-year to 1.1 billion units -- their first annual decline in eight years.
But iSuppli forecast an improving second half, with quarter-on-quarter increases in shipments of 6 percent in the third quarter and 8.3 percent in the fourth quarter.
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The strongest year-on-year performance came from second- ranked Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, which recently updated its product line and saw a 14.4 percent increase in shipments to 52.3 million units.
"There are two areas that are growing right now, smart phones and ultra low-cost handsets for emerging markets," Teng said.
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Third-ranked LG Electronics Inc, which saw growth in the Middle East and Africa and success in the touchscreen market, saw shipments increase 7.6 percent to 29.8 million units. The South Korean handset maker moved up one spot in the ranking.
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Motorola saw second quarter shipments fall by nearly half to 14.8 million units.
Sony Ericsson, which has yet to gain traction with low-cost handsets, saw shipments decline 43.4 percent to 13.8 million units.
(Reporting by Clare Baldwin; editing by Gary Hill and Andre Grenon)
Global mobile market bottoms, grows anew: iSuppli |
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