LATFF 2013: Feature Films Announced
Scheduled to run 28 February – 3 March 2012 in Los Angeles, Second Los Angeles Turkish Film Festival will screen four prominent feature films. The Festival will open with the screening of Yilmaz Erdogan’s “The Dream of A Butterfly/The Butterfly’s Dream”. The following feature presentations are Emin Alper’s award-winning film “Tepenin Ardi” (Beyond The Hills) and Ali Aydin’s “Kuf” (Mold), which will get its U.S premiere. The Festival will wrap with Zeki Demirkubuz’s “Yeralti” (Inside), which will meet the audience for the first time through its U.S premiere.
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Turkey’s first national research ship, TÜBİTAK Marmara, which is purposed to observe undersea operations of every kind as well as to conduct oil exploration activities, was put to sea Feb. 17. “Turkey has proved that it is also capable of building research ships, along with freight ships. Hopefully, it will be able to export these ships also,” Science, Industry and Technology Minister Nihat Ergün said during the landing event of the ship in Istanbul. “The studies to be done with this ship will boost our country’s opportunities to benefit from the seas and will create a substantial surplus for our country.” 
At a time when certificate authorities are under attack by cybercriminals, a group of companies has formed an alliance to try to improve the security of the CA infrastructure. Members of the Certificate Authority Security Council, announced Thursday, include Comodo, Trend Micro, Symantec, GMO GlobalSign, Entrust, DigiCert and Go Daddy. Some of the companies have recently suffered compromises of their CA systems. 
Francisco Gonzales of the University of North Texas (UNT) will become the 250th scholarship recipient under TCA's Study Abroad in Turkey Scholarships for American Minority Students. The TCA Study Abroad Scholarship program was established in 2008 to support study abroad opportunities for African American, Hispanic American and Native American students. 
On Friday, February 1, 2013, a suicide bomber carrying a hand grenade and 13 pounds of TNT attempted to enter the US Embassy in Ankara. US Embassy Security Officer Mustafa Akarsu recognized the threat and immediately placed himself between the suicide bomber and the general public he was protecting. The suicide bomber, realizing his plan had failed, detonated the device, killing Officer Akarsu. Officer Akarsu was survived by his widow Yasemin, son Sami (18), and daughter Hilal (14).
By Melıh Abdulhayoglu - Almost everyday we read reports about companies being infiltrated and end users being infected while being “protected” by antivirus products. Its time to own up and tell the world that running Traditional AntiVirus is no longer enough to protect you. I call upon the AntiVirus industry to STOP spreading statements like “antivirus protection that stops viruses and spyware, so you can safely go online and share”.
Turkey will spend $5 billion on smart power grids by 2015 to boost network efficiency, allowing North American companies to expand, the U.S. government said. The U.S. sees “substantial opportunities for closer cooperation between the Turkish government and energy companies and U.S. companies that provide smart-grid technologies,” according to a statement from the consulate in Istanbul, which will hold a conference in the city tomorrow on grid investments. Turkey, forecasting annual power-demand growth of 6.3 percent in the next two decades, has already lured investors including General Electric Co. as its energy industry expands. The country is bucking the trend of most emerging European nations, where retail electricity use trails growth in incomes. 
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Deputy Minister of Science, Research and Technology Arsalan Qorbani announced that Tehran and Ankara plan to establish a joint university in the near future to further expand the two countries' scientific and technological cooperation. "Iran and Turkey's joint university will be set up in Iran's Tabriz city and Turkey's Wan city," Qorbani told FNA on Monday.
Taipei, Feb. 11 (CNA) Taiwan will use Mexico and Turkey as gateways to stepping up trade with the United States and the European Union, so as to reduce the impact of the free trade agreements (FTAs) between South Korea and the two major economies, according to the country's main trade promotion body. The Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) said in a recent document that it will not only set up business centers in Mexico City and Istanbul, but also hold seminars and lead delegations to the two markets to further trade ties.
Kanter came off the bench and scored 17 points (one off his season high), tied his season high with 9 rebounds, while getting a career-best 5 blocked shots in just 17 minutes to help Jazz past Bucks in Energy Solutions Arena on Wednesday. Utah Jazz 100 - Milwaukee Bucks 86. 
SPARKS, Nev., February 5, 2013 – Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) Chief Executive Officer Fatih Ozmen and President and Chief Financial Officer Eren Ozmen were inducted as “Living Legends of Aviation” at the 10th Annual Living Legends of Aviation Awards, on January 18, 2013 in Beverly Hills, Calif. "When the Living Legends of Aviation lost Legends Neil Armstrong and Carroll Shelby last year, the group looked to the future and thought of Fatih Ozmen and his quest to go to space and Eren Ozmen who put her company, Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) on the 'fast track' to growth going from 20 to 2,500 employees in record time," said Danny Clisham, co-emcee of this year's Living Legends of Aviation Awards. 
ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--3M (NYSE: MMM) announced today that the Board of Directors elected Muhtar Kent, 60, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, The Coca-Cola Company, to the Board of Directors, effective April 1, 2013. “He is a talented and proven global business leader, and will bring valuable insight and management experience to the board and our company.”
The family of an American woman murdered while on a photography trip in Turkey is selling her photos to help pay for funeral costs. Sarai Sierra, 33, was found bludgeoned to death near a highway in Istanbul on Saturday. Her iPhone and iPad, the tools she used to share her photos with her thousands of Instagram followers were reportedly missing. 
