Category: Journal ISSN 1078-1935

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Sepp Hasslberger: One Planet One Engine

05 Energy, Commercial Intelligence, Earth Intelligence
Sepp Hasslberger
Sepp Hasslberger

The Cyclone Engine; USES ANY FUEL with NO ENGINE MODIFICATIONS

After last weeks story on the Raphial Morgado and MYT™ Engine I Thought I would do a series on other innovative engine technologies. The Cyclone engine may only have average fuel efficiency, but does have many advantages over conventional engine technology. These include reducing emissions, and the ability to run on any type of fuel without any modifications,  It can be converted to a heat engine harvesting waste heat.

To date, Cyclone has over 1,000 hours of running (on fuel!) and testing of the engines, They have achieved verified thermal efficiencies above 30%, and is very close to putting the first of these engine models into small-scale commercial production.

cyclone-engine-3Popular Science magazine named the clean, green Cyclone Engine as the 2008 Invention of the Year.  the engine’s inventor and company CEO, Harry Schoell has followed a path that would be a good example for many investors and researchers. “In less than a few years he has systematically undertaken the development and building of a company in a very professional way. i am not endorsing the technology but the processes of how to take something from the drawing board to market. There is still a ways to go, but progress is being made as will be illustrated in the following press release.

Read full article (technical details and more).

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SmartPlanet: Marijuana Next Great US Industry?

Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence

smartplanet logoIs marijuana the next great American industry?

By | November 8, 2013, 9:11 AM PST

The legal U.S. marijuana market is projected to grow 64 percent to $2.34 billion by 2014 and exceed $10 billion by 2018, making it one of the fastest growing industries in the country, according to ArcView Market Research.

The pace of growth is even expected to eclipse the expansion of the global smartphone market, ArcView Group CEO Troy Dayton said in the company’s second State of Legal Marijuana Markets report released this week.

The recent legalization of marijuana use by adults in Colorado and Washington is largely what’s driving the market expansion. Adult use in Washington and Colorado is projected to add $359 million and $208 million to their respective markets in 2014.

Fourteen more states including Alaska, Oregon, Hawaii, Maine, California and Arizona are expected to adopt legal adult use laws in the next five years, which would accelerate the market’s growth rate, the report says.

California is already the largest state market at $980 million, according to the report. And the state doesn’t even have an adult use law on the books. California only has a medical marijuana law.

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Marcus Aurelius: WaPo (Carter/Barno) on Military Isolation

06 Family, 11 Society, Cultural Intelligence, Military
Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius

Invite your attention to following generally overstated (IMHO) article and my accompanying comments in yellow-highlighted red. 

Happy Veterans' Day

How the military isolates itself — and hurts veterans

By Phillip Carter and David Barno, Published: November 8

Phillip Carter and retired Lt. Gen. David Barno are veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, respectively, and senior fellows at the Center for a New American Security.

In Afghanistan and Iraq, the wire ringing our bases divided two starkly different worlds. Inside the wire, life revolved around containerized housing units, cavernous dining facilities, well-appointed gyms and the distant but ever-present risk of a falling rocket or mortar round. Outside the wire, Afghans and Iraqis tried to live their lives amid relative chaos. They didn’t fully understand what we were doing there. And when we ventured out, we struggled to navigate their world.

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Penguin: Stonewalling Fukushima – a Betrayal of the Public Trust

06 Family, 07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Proliferation, 08 Wild Cards, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Corruption, Government, Officers Call
Who, Me?
Who, Me?

Think of the vastness of the evil of covering up this baby (headlines by country, plus streaming — truly shocking):

http://enenews.com/

Almost a complete blackout across the board when we there should be a national mobilization of state and local civil officialdom including schools to begin the measured precautions to protect our kids, particularly on the West Coast.

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/10/how-to-protect-yourself-from-fukushima-radiation.html

See also:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/how-to-protect-yourself-from-fukushima-radiation/5356177

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Spanish Dancer: Business Plans as Microsoft Fiction

Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Ethics
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Innosight

Business Plans and Other Works of Fiction

Scott D. Anthony

The purpose of a business, Peter Drucker famously said, is to create a customer. Yet, rather than creating customers, many innovators create a fantastical piece of what you might call Microsoft fiction.

This hit home for me during a recent client project. I was working with a team that had been tasked by the company’s CEO to develop a new venture in a promising market space. Its three members had been working for about six weeks. They’d conducted detailed research, talking both to prospective customers and numerous industry experts. And then they used Microsoft’s most popular products to produce what they thought was a business plan. But it actually was a kind of fiction built in three chapters: an Excel spreadsheet with sophisticated analyses showing breathtaking financial potential, a PowerPoint document blending facts and figures with compelling videos and pictures, and a Word document summarizing all of it in prose so lucid Malcolm Gladwell would shed a tear.

Still, it isn’t a business until you create a customer. After listening to the team describe its work, I asked a simple question: “Who is your first customer?”

The team turned to page 12 of chapter 2 of their Microsoft fiction, proudly displaying a PowerPoint slide citing detailed demographic figures. The slide said that 60% of the target market would be 18-to-34-year-old males with annual incomes within a certain range.

So I asked the question again. Instead of summary facts and figures, I wanted the team to be very precise. What is the customer’s name? Where does he live? What does he look like? What are his hopes, dreams, and aspirations? What does he love? What drives him crazy? How would the team’s idea fit into his life?

Read the rest at Harvard Business Review.

Scott Anthony is the managing partner of Innosight.

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Worth a Look: Esplorare Internet – Manuale di investigazioni digitali e Open Source Intelligence

Intelligence (Public), Worth A Look
Book Home Page
Book Home Page

Autore: Leonida Reitano

Collana:Giornalismo Investigativo

Formato:14 x 21 cm

Pagine:264 + Cop. in brossura

Disponibile dal 20 novembre 2013

Lingua:Italiano

ISBN:978-88-7381-514-3

Questo è il primo manuale italiano rivolto all’utilizzo professionale della rete Internet per ricavare informazioni su fenomeni sociali e criminali, persone fisiche e giuridiche, profili individuali e collettivi. Un manuale per i giornalisti d’inchiesta, ma che torna utile a tutte le professioni aventi a che fare con l’investigazione.

La metodologia illustrata è l’OSINT (Open Source Intelligence, analisi delle fonti aperte) che comprende diversi ambiti disciplinari combinati tra loro (strumenti di hacking della rete, uso avanzato dei motori di ricerca, utilizzo dei portali di investigazioni digitali, tecniche di analisi investigative per valutare il materiale e proiettarlo su strumenti di elaborazione grafica dei dati) e ricorre a diverse fonti (mezzi di comunicazione di massa, dati pubblici, file multimediali, dati provenienti da database con informazioni istituzionali o da database a pagamento con informazioni di provenienza editoriale).

Attraverso l'analisi delle fonti aperte su Internet è possile ottenere informazioni significative pur partendo da pochissimi dati. L'indirizzo di un sito web, un'email, un semplice curriculum vitae possono diventare delle miniere di notizie e dettagli informativi. In un mondo aperto come quello di Internet, documenti, dati e  informazioni saranno sempre più messi a disposizione degli utenti della rete. Conviene essere preparati e pronti allo sfruttamento di questa immensa risorsa.

In Italia il giornalismo investigativo è in piena espansione. Dal lato televisivo, per esempio, ci sono programmi come Report, Inchieste di Rainews24, Presa Diretta. È quindi il momento più adatto per lanciare sul mercato editoriale una collana giovane e agile, con nomi di spicco ma anche con esordienti in grado di realizzare inchieste di qualità: nasce così la nuova collana giornalismo investigativo, frutto dell’incontro tra l’AGI (Associazione di Giornalismo Investigativo) e Minerva Edizioni.

English translation of above, below the line.

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