Archive for December, 2009
Executive Protection – Politics of Travel Advisories
December 25th, 2009 | 
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Recently Israel’s Office on Counter Terrorism canceled the travel advisory for India under which Israelis were recommended to 
avoid popular tourist spots and not to congregate at Chabad houses. The travel advisory came after reports of terrorist groups were planning “spectacular violence” in Goa, which was a prime target due to the large presence of tourists from Israel and the United States.
Later the Israel’s Counter-terrorism Bureau issued another travel advisory regarding India, saying that the threat against Israelis was “concrete” and recommended that Israelis refrain from congregating in synagogues, Chabad centers and other popular tourist spots.
Now is the time not to let down your guard when visiting India on executive protection (EP) assignments. There is a well known term known as the politics of travel advisories. This means when a country issues a travel advisory another the other, the country that has the travel advisory against it, losses millions of dollars each month due to canceled hotel, convention, tourist and foreign business bookings. As a political gesture the country after a period of months retracts the advisory and business and terrorism go back as usual.
These steps provides straightforward methods to guard against terrorism. Watch for unusual surveillance of your EP team and your hotel. Keep aware of unattended vehicles suspiciously parked near your hotel or country headquarters. Look out for unauthorized persons loitering in or near your hotel or other suspicious activities. Observe and avoid all unsecure areas of the city. Report all suspicious or unusual activity to the local law enforcement authorities. Do not approach or challenge any person acting in a suspicious manner he may be a suicide bomber or other type of armed radical. Keep safe and God speed.
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Tools From Windows For Freelancers
Hundreds of useful tools and applications are available on windows for freelancers and web workers. Windows being one the major operating systems offers a huge list of utility applications which come for free.
1. Ditto - It is a clipboard manager that lets you save, manage, and retrieve all of the countless clipboards instantly and effectively. It offers some great features such as easy- to-use interface, search and paste previous copy entries, data is encrypted when sent over the network etc.
2. Defraggler -It is a defragmentation tool for Windows that helps in defragmenting individual files or a specific portion of a drive. It also helps in scheduling defragmentation while working or doing important stuff and can be run daily, weekly or monthly.
3. Recuva- Another application for freelancers which helps in recovering files from Windows computer, Recycle Bin, digital camera card, or MP3 player. Alos claims to recover corrupted and damaged files and brings them to the PC. It also lets its users retrieve emails as it supports Microsoft Outlook Express, Mozilla Thunderbird, or Windows Live Mail.
4. Picasa- This photo editing application by Google that allows it users in gathering and organizing the photos and share them with connections. Editing, resizing and retouching your photos, sharing them online with friends and connections.
5. VLC Media Player- It is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DivX, MPEG-1, mp3, ogg, aac ) as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
6. 7stacks- This easy-to-use, free application that allows Windows 7 (and Vista and XP) users have “stacks” of icons in their Taskbar (in 7) or QuickLaunch Toolbar (in Vista and XP). This helps in reducing icon clutter, and combining a group of related icons into a single icon.
7. Notepad ++- Another useful tool that helps in editing text and source code easily. It provides tabbed editing, to easily work with multiple open files. It features include Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding (C, C++, HTML, ASP, java, pascal, css and more), auto-completion, multi-document, full drag ‘n’ drop supported, multi-language environment supported etc.
8. Windows Live Essentials-This application includes Windows Photo Gallery, Movie Maker and Live Messenger are worth downloading. Windows Live Essentials gives instant messaging, e-mail, blogging, photos, and more.
9. 7-Zip- This tool is a host of compression formats, 7-Zip lets uncompress almost any compressed data, and with the unique 7z format, files can be compressed up to 40% smaller than Zip formats.
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