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For the first time since the Second World War, all three major parties have current or recent experience of government. During a competitive general election, one issue achieved cross-party consensus: the need to secure better government in Britain. There have been calls within Parliament for an independent review of the civil service. GovernUp aims to produce the research to enable politicians to take soundly-based decisions.
The time has therefore come to take a fresh look at:
- The organisation of government;
- The balance between central and local power;
- The role of modern politicians;
- The skills and accountability needed in today's Whitehall;
- The opportunity for technology to transform government and its relationship with citizens.
GovernUp brings together senior politicians of all parties, former civil servants, Whitehall advisers and business leaders in a new project.
Our mission is to analyse the current problems, challenge the terms of debate, and consider the far-reaching reforms needed in Whitehall and beyond to enable more effective and efficient government, with better economic and social outcomes for the British public.


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by John Allen
Dear President Obama,
Remember the boy who was picked up by the ambulance in Syria? Can you please go get him and bring him to [my home]? Park in the driveway or on the street and we will be waiting for you guys with flags, flowers, and balloons. We will give him a family and he will be our brother. Catherine, my little sister, will be collecting butterflies and fireflies for him. In my school, I have a friend from Syria, Omar, and I will introduce him to Omar. We can all play together. We can invite him to birthday parties and he will teach us another language. We can teach him English too, just like my friend Aoto from Japan.
Please tell him that his brother will be Alex who is a very kind boy, just like him. Since he won't bring toys and doesn't have toys Catherine will share her big blue stripy white bunny. And I will share my bike and I will teach him how to ride it. I will teach him additions and subtractions in math. And he [can] smell Catherine's lip gloss penguin which is green. She doesn't let anyone touch it.
Thank you very much! I can't wait for you to come!
Alex - 6 years old
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'Password' still one of the most commonly used passwords
On the 14th of May Mr Stephen Orfei, General Manager at the PCI Security Standards Council presented to the United States House of Representatives Financial Services Committee Hearing.
You can watch edited highlights on video here:
And there are lots of reasons to do so, Mr Orfei spoke clearly and concisely and the messages hit home:
One comment stood out to me. In his opening remarks Mr Orfei said:
"The end game is to devalue [customer card] data so it's useless in the hands of criminals. Simply put, if you don't need it, don't store it. If it's needed, protect it and reduce the [opportunities] for criminals to steal it."
"Our community of over 1000 of the world's leading businesses tackle data security challenges from simple issues - for example the word password is still the most commonly used password - to more complex issues like encryption."
It seems astonishing that in 2015, we're not more aware of the importance of a secure password, particularly in business and point of sale environments. It's a serious point and plays to the main thrust of Mr Orfei's argument throughout his deposition:
"It's a question of vigilance… the physical and logical security… It's about moving away from compliance to a risk based approach."
If many of us are still using 'password' then it's clear, we're not grasping the concept of data security.But what does it take to hit the statistics as a top 10 password? Are we really learning no lessons?
The statistics on most popular passwords are generated from data sets. By the very nature of the information this is not a comprehensive data set. Companies will not pass across all user's passwords on their systems. So, passwords we do know about are often taken from publicly leaked passwords. And this skews what we're looking at. By its very nature, data that has been stolen and then leaked was not the most secure data in the first place.
Actually, according to Mark Burnett, a Security Consultant who works on the most popular passwords list for SplashData, the number of times a particular password has to appear within the data to make it into the top 10 is decreasing year on year.
"In 2014, all it takes for a password to get on the top 1,000 list is to be used by just 0.0044% of all users."
He adds that:
"In 2011 my analysis showed that 8.5% had the passwords 'password' or '123456'. In 2014 this number has gone down to less than 1%"
So, password may still be the second most used password in the world, within leaked data sets,however it does seem that we are starting to learn the lessons which Mr Orfei is trying to teach us: 'password' may still be in the top 10 but it's getting there with far fewer instances. It's a bit like the music charts – it's just easier to get to number one these days and our tastes in passwords, as well as music, are starting to broaden.
For more information on the top password list and how its created see:


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Serving Raceland, Gheens, Lockport, Valentine, Larose, Cut Off, Galliano, Golden Meadow, Leeville, & Grand Isle
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
The following information is based on reports from the Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Office. Those individuals have been booked with, not convicted of, the offenses shown. All accused should be presumed innocent until proved guilty.
Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Office
Roy Caine, 25, 205 Sonny St., Houma. Violation of uniform controlled dangerous substances law, resisting an officer, poss. or dist. of drug para, poss. of marijuana 2nd offense, indecent exposure, indecent or lewd behavior.
Donyal Vergin, 31, 1713 Lynn St., Thibodaux. Fugitive.
Shontell Clark, 36, 174 Lost Bayou Court, Houma. Contempt of court.
Barry LeBlanc, 45, 125 N. Carol St., Lockport. Resisting an officer, simple battery of the infirm, public intimidation (threats).
Lance Gros, 29, 130 Martinez Lane, Thibodaux. Contempt of court.
Teashea Toups, 304 Adams, Raceland. Theft (felony).
Thibodaux Police Department
Brendan Thomas, 19, 309 Foster Dr., Houma. Contempt of court.
Kaci Zeringue, 2229 Bayou Rd., Thibodaux. Theft of goods.
Travon Folse, 18, 433 Triple Oaks, Raceland. Contempt (2 cts).
Shawn Poindexter, 36, 370 Greenville St., Raceland. Contempt (3 cts), no headlamps, resisting, scdtp, dus, fugitive of Terrebonne Parish.
Charles Cunningham, 31, 300 Tudor St., Houma. Theft (felony).
Ricky Smith, 33, 402 Leona St., Houma. SCDTP (felony), aggravated flight from an officer, simple burglary of motor vehicle (6 cts), theft of motor vehicle (felony).
Hakeem Wilson, 20, 151-B Solar Trailer Park, Thibodaux. Contempt of court.
Cory Bourgeois, 23, 112 Camellia St., Thibodaux. Contempt of court.
Lori Ingram, 53, 143 Chighizola Lane, Grand Isle. Theft of goods, poss. of klonopin.
Kaleb Barrow, 22, 336 Triple Oaks, Raceland. PWITD marijuana, contempt of court.
Lance Knight, 34, 1022 Lafourche St., Lockport. Possession of vyvanse, driving on right side of road.
Colby Duncan, 24, 218 Lydia St., Gray. Contempt of court (2 cts).
Jonathan Dupre, 1400 Lacroix Dr., Bayou Blue. Illegal carrying of weapon pen: use weap/violent crime or cds (felony), prod./manuf. of cocaine or cocaine base.
Keith Ledet, 60, 217 Kellie Dr., Houma. Contempt of court (3 cts).
Ryan Guidroz, 31, 2117 Hwy. 182, Raceland. Violation of protective orders
Chad Ayzinne, 22, 985 Hwy. 307, Thibodaux. Contempt of court (2 cts).
Robin Anselmi, 34, 167 W. 45th St., Cut Off. Simple burglary of inhabited dwelling, unauthorized entry of inhabited dwelling.
Devin Billiot, 20, 914 Barataria St., Lockport, 2nd degree battery.
Skylleur Hayes, 21, 948 St. Charles St., Thibodaux. 2nd degree battery.
Derrek Delcambre, 33, 105 Lilac St., Thibodaux. Parole violation warrant.
Larry Pontiff, Jr., 41, 922 East Brule Guillot Rd., Thibodaux. Fugitive of Morgan City.
Candice Dansereau, 24, 145 Alice Dr., Apt. 6, Thibodaux. Contempt of court (2 cts).
Donny Chiasson, 1610 Hwy. 20, Gibson. Simple criminal damage to property, battery of a police officer, resisting an officer.
Carlin Canady, 42, 1541 Stella Place, Marrero. Simple burglary – immovable structure, fugitive.
Golden Meadow Police Department
Keshia Collins, 23, 140 Pierce St., Golden Meadow. Unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, cruelty to the infirmed (felony), theft (felony), unauthorized use of access card as theft.
Arielle Dumas, 28, 1415 Eagle Dr., Thibodaux. Fugitive of Terrebonne.
Ricky Ledet, Jr., 32, 203 Caldwell Rd., Thibodaux. Simple battery.
John Lucas, Jr., 33, 3890 First Lane, Vacherie. Contempt of court.
Brandon Gilton, 30, 208 Violet St., Labadieville. Fugitive (2 cts).
Louisiana State Police
Trina Bergeron, 43, 117 Railroad Ave., Des Allemands. Careless operation, operating a vehicle with suspended license; other offenses, contempt of court (3 cts).
Victoria Gaudet, 30, 127 Yankee Dr., Golden Meadow. DWI 2nd offense, driving on right side of road; exceptions.
Christopher Jackson, 32, 218 Leighton Dr., Thibodaux. Summons (DWI 1st), driving on right side of road.
Kerrill Breaux, 23, 1213 Park Dr., Thibodaux. Violation of probation/parole.
Bruce Hebert, 646 Hwy. 402, Napoleonville. Contempt of court (2 cts).
David Matherne, 26, 101 Blanchard St., Raceland. Possession of xanax, armed robbery, simple battery, false imprisonment, offender armed with dangerous weapon.
Jason Ougel, 23, 326 E. 87th St., Cut Off. Parole revoked.
James Shelvy, 23, 745 St. Philip St., Raceland. Contempt of court (2 cts), violation of probation/parole.
Brian Lawrence, 57, 635 St. Louis St., Raceland. Fugitive of Terrebonne Parish, resisting an officer w/force or violence, resisting an officer.
Catherine Rodriguez, 69, 13491 Adam Templet, Gonzales. Summons (DWI 1st), roadway laned for traffic.
Jason Gilmore, 6142 Tennyson Dr., Baton Rouge. Fugitive of Ascension.
Brandon Gros, 21, 524 N. Holly Rd., Labadieville. Summons (DWI 1st), driving on right side of road.
Roddy Toups, 50, 2232 Hwy. 654, Lot 2, Gheens. Enter/remain after being forbidden – immovable structure.
Shawn Meier, 23, 211 St. Agnes Dr., Bourg. Simple battery.
Bryson McIntyre, 22, 420 Carol St., Thibodaux. Simple battery.
Tanya Gaudet, 24, 720 N. 7th St., Thibodaux. Summons (theft).
Antoine Westley, 19, 136 Belle Isle Dr., Thibodaux. Contempt of court.
Dennis Vizier, 47, 174 E. 134th St., Galliano. Resisting an officer, domestic abuse battery (child endangerment).
Dustin Valverde, 40, 82 Willow Dr., Gretna. Theft, contempt of court (2 cts).
Quentin Mouton, 22, 4661 W. Main St., Houma. Fugitive of Terrebonne Parish.
Cannessa Clement, 28, 118 Central St., Bayou Blue. Contempt of court.
Angela Barrilleaux, 48, 106 W. 23rd St., Larose. Hit and run driving, careless operation, poss. of alcoholic beverage in motor vehicle.
Mark Washington, 22, 407 Carol St., Thibodaux. Violation of probation/parole
Torrenicia Fletcher, 40, 1122 Narrow St., Thibodaux. Domestic abuse battery, enter/remain after being forbidden (immovable structure).
Drew Chiasson, 23, 316 Marcello Blvd., Thibodaux. Summons (DWI 1st), stop signs and yield signs.
Rosemarie Orgeron, 56, 416 Ozia Skyline Dr., Bayou Blue. Aggravated battery w/dangerous weapon, simple battery.
Teddy Boudoin, Jr., 38, 13247 Palm St., Vacherie. Contempt of court, operating vehicle with suspended license; other offenses, driving on right side of road.
Richard Anderson, 36, 3722 Hwy. 1, Raceland. DWI 1st, driving left of center, hit and run driving.
Ricky Legendre, 50, 647 Choctaw Rd., Choctaw. Illegal carrying of weapons, aggravated assault with a firearm.
Thomas Colangelo, 32, 111 Logan St., Des Allemands. Domestic abuse battery.
Mary Votaw, 55, 1302 Bull Run Rd., Schriever. Theft, forgery (13 cts).
Ronald Washington, 55, 123 Foley Ave., Napoleonville. Fugitive of Terrebonne.
Dennis Dill, 35, 5513 Mark St., Paragould, AR. Summons (DWI 1st), nuisance.
Tazmon Tillman, 22, 110 Leonard St., Thibodaux. Theft of goods.
August 21, 2013
Keith Eschete, 25, 150 Circle Ave., Grand Isle. Direct contempt of court.
August 25, 2013
Cory J. Thomas, 30, P.O. Box 1147, Grand Isle. Grand Isle warrant (simple escape and resisting an officer).
August 30, 2013
Henry Trahan, 55, 135 Iris Lane, Grand Isle. Grand Isle warrant (2 cts), contempt of court, Kenner warrant (4 cts), contempt of court.


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Sometimes you might recognise you're under stress when you feel you're being pushed beyond your stress management coping skills, and sometimes you might not even know about it. Determine the causes of stress in your lifestyle. Various individuals have their direction of dealing strain and panic, and for many people, singing is the optimal/optimally stress relief.
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There are various self-help methods available to assist reduce stress. It can be very dangerous to your health, it can cause all kinds of health problems, like high blood pressure, heart problems, eating disorders, alcoholism, and so on. You cannot control all things, and stress isn't a controllable feeling. Whenever pressure gets so much a portion of our lives that everything stresses us out, however, we have an inclination to acquire less done rather than getting more done.
Study how you react to stress. Stress is the source of many illnesses. An excessive amount of stress can be damaging to our capacity to produced just the most suitable amount can help us to raise and become much better.
In such instances, the best method to manage stress is to accept things since they are. It is probably the cause of the majority of problems in our lives. One way to decrease the stress of issues like debt is to concentrate on and celebrate the remedy to an issue.
Stress is a tough term to define. It is a normal by-product of ambition. Internal stress is the most frequently seasoned kind of pressure and is among the most significant types of stress to comprehend and manage. Natural weight isn't necessarily a poor thing, and it was constructed into the body to be able to give us the prospect of working harder on the situation which demanded it.
If you'd like to have the ability to manage your stress effectively, there are a lot of different matters that you can do which can help you in this respect. Stress can lead to a lot of health issues, anxiety, depression, heart difficulties, and the list can go on. In conclusion, it is a growing problem, and it may get worse before it gets better. If you are accustomed to associating stress with something which causes you to worry really, you've been thinking about the stress the incorrect way. Stress is also found in the origin of many stomach issues like constipation or diarrhoea that may lead to severe conditions like stomach ulcers. Strain and anger affect your total wellbeing and could result in serious physical and mental wellbeing problems in the long run. Tension and Anger ManagementYoga and meditation are discovered to be rather useful in managing strain and anger.


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Lunch on Wednesday
By popular demand our radnor miles restaurant is open every wednesday lunch and offers the best of local produce with fresh ingredients at a fantastic price.
£8.45* for main course lunch
£4.25* for starter or dessert course
£1.50* for tea or coffee
Special price £15.95* for 3 courses lunch with tea or coffee
Below is an example Wednesday Lunch menu. Menu changes every week.
*Above Prices include VAT and subject to change.
To Start
Chef's Homemade Soup of The Day
Chicken Cesar Salad and Garlic Croutons and Parmesan
Smoked Loch Fyne Salmon and New Potato Salad
Crumbed Goats Cheese, Crispy Lettuce and Walnuts
Roast Leg of Welsh Lamb with Rich Pan Gravy
Salmon Fish Cakes, Wilted Spinach and Celeriac Remoulade
Free Range Chicken Breast, Seasoning and Gravy
Spinach and Ricotta Tortellini, Tomato sauce and Garlic Bread
Warm Bread and Butter Pudding
Baileys Chocolate Mousse and Berries
Lemon Posset and Biscotti
Fresh Fruit Salad and Cream
Pre-booking recommended to avoid disappointment. If Christmas Day or Boxing Day is on Wednesday a different menu format and price will be running. Does not include private room hire. We welcome private groups for Wednesday lunch; prices and availability on application.


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Hollywood producer Milchan confirms he was Israeli spy
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Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan, who made hits such as Pretty Woman, L.A. Confidential and Fight Club, confirmed on Monday longstanding rumours that he worked as a spy for Israel, buying arms on its behalf and boosting its alleged nuclear programme.
The Hollywood producer behind thrillers "Fight Club" and "L.A. Confidential" knows something about keeping dangerous secrets himself. Film tycoon Arnon Milchan has confirmed he once bought alleged nuclear technology while working as an Israeli spy.
"I did it for my country and I am proud of it," Milchan told Israeli's investigative television programme in an interview aired on Monday.
Rumours about the billionaire producer's double-life as a spy have been circulating for years, but he had not directly acknowledged them until this week.
In a 2011 unauthorised biography, authors Meir Doron and Joseph Gelman revealed that Milchan was an agent for Israel's top-secret Lekem intelligence group until the mid-1980s.
His work, which included running front companies for Israel's intelligence services and purchasing components to build and maintain the country's nuclear arsenal, began in Israel and followed him, at least in part, to Hollywood.
"When I came to Hollywood I detached myself completely from my physical activities to dedicate myself to what I really wanted: filmmaking,'' he told Israel's Channel 2. "(But) sometimes it gets mixed up.''
The producer, who made blockbusters "Pretty Woman", "Heat" and "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" also said other big Hollywood names were connected to his clandestine affairs.
Milchan's name was first linked to Israeli spying as far back as 1985, when aerospace executive Richard Kelly Smyth was indicted for illegally smuggling nuclear arms "triggers" out of the United States.
Smyth, who eluded US prosecutors for 15 years, had shipped the devices to Israel via one of Milchan's companies.
Israel's Lekem agency was disbanded in 1987 after it was connected to the spying scandal for which civilian intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard was sentenced to life in prison.
(FRANCE 24 with AP)


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Country Spotlight: Going Off Piste in South Korea
From staggeringly beautiful islands to the vibrant culture, bustling cities, and 'Korean Wave' phenomenon, South Korea is a destination on the rise.
South Korea attracts travelers from across the globe, domestic travel represented 70% of total tourists in 2017, and international tourist arrivals have doubled in the past decade. China currently dominates the international market, accounting for 36% of visitors in 2017, due, in large part to China's unstoppable enthusiasm and love for Korean culture.
Ranked as the fourth richest city in the world in 2017, with a GDP of $779.3 billion, South Korea's capital city, Seoul is the tourist hub, welcoming the majority of international tourists through Incheon Airport.
Jeju Island, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is the crown jewel of South Korea. Listed as one of the 'New 7 Wonders of Nature', this volcanic island boasts white sand beaches, tropical national parks, crystal clear waterfalls and incredible vistas. A key feature of Jeju is Hallasan, a dormant volcano, which rises 1,950 meters above sea level.
70% of South Korea is mountainous and Gangwon-Do Province boasts many of the country's most spectacular ranges. With an altitude of 1,438 meters at the Yongpyong Resort, it's an ideal winter sports destination. This year, Pyeongchang, a county in Gangwon-Do, plays host to the 2018 Winter Olympics. South Korea may not seem the obvious choice for winter sports, but what the country lacks in tradition they make up for in efficiency: small-scale, contemporary resorts, an ever-expanding winter sports offering, and exceptional snowmaking.
Click here to view WATG Strategy's Tourism Overview
Whether you're interested in the Winter Olympics, après-ski, or would like to visit the South Korean pistes once the games are over, here are two WATG-designed, snow-filled destinations to check-out:
Konjiam Resort, Gyeonggi-Do
Located in Gyeonggi-Do, 40 minutes from Seoul, the Konjiam Resort is one of the most luxurious ski resorts in South Korea. The year-round resort boasts the largest ski slopes in the Province, 476 boutique suites, a destination spa, and the Hwadam Botanical Gardens.
Unique features of the resort include an ecological stream flowing through the resort, a wine cellar housing 90,000 bottles of wine and the Konjiam Arboretum, which accommodates 3,700 species of plants and about 20 themed gardens.
Oak Valley Resort, Gangwon-Do
Located in the strikingly beautiful Wonju, the largest city in the mountainous Gangwon-Do, the 3,900-acre Oak Valley resort boasts spectacular views of the local area and comprises an alpine ski village, nine ski slopes, three golf courses, and residences.
WATG has been active in South Korea for more than three decades and has created some of the country's most celebrated developments, including the Shilla Jeju; Hyatt Regency Jeju; Paradise City, South Korea's first integrated resort; and the Lotte Hotel, Jeju.
The Shilla Jeju
The Southern Californian-inspired oceanside resort, comprises 429 luxury guestrooms, indoor and outdoor pools, a poolside bar, and a rooftop deck providing a 360-degree view of the beautiful island of Jeju. The lobby features a skylight, allowing light to flood the interior and illuminate the indoor pool. Our recent renovation of the outdoor Shilla Jeju pool features in Jay Park's official music video for his hit single, 'Drive'.
Hyatt Regency Jeju
Classically Korean, located in a prime position overlooking the Pacific Ocean, the Hyatt Regency Jeju is a luxury 224-key, five-star hotel. The hotel's design draws inspiration from the island's indigenous architecture, the main building crowns a dramatic cliff edge offering a full 360-degree vista of the island and Jungmun Beach.
Lotte Hotel, Jeju
The elegant 500-key Lotte Hotel emanates Korean hospitality. The hotel's design draws inspiration from historic European castles, and the majority of the rooms offer spectacular views of the picturesque gardens and the Pacific Ocean.
Paradise City, Incheon
The newly opened Paradise City showcases Korea's rich cultural, social and commercial identity in the country's first integrated gaming and entertainment resort. The ambitious design for the 330,000 square meter project includes a 711-key, five-star hotel; 103-key boutique hotel; entertainment and shopping plaza; premium spa; convention facilities; and Koreas' largest casino.


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Scam Letter(s) from Kristina Kamneva to Morten (Norway)
Letter 1
Hi dear Morten
Thank you for your letter. I am really like you and want to know you better.
First, I want tell you little about me and my life. I am live in the small city near Moscow.
Name of my city is Bryansk.
I am work as teacher in the school. I am teach russian language.
I like very much to cook. I can cook very much dishes. Do you like russian dishes?
Also I like to travel. I have been in few countries. USA, Canada, UK, Australia and some countries from Europe. I have been this summer in Norway. Very nice place.
I live alone. My parents dead 2 years ago. So, you can see that I am so lonely in this life.
Therefore I am try to find man for serious relationship. I am 25 years old, so I am ready to marry.
If you have some questions I shall be happy to answer to this.
Tell me more about you. Your life, your work, your free time.
I am waiting for your letter. Sinserely yours, Kristina
Letter 2
Hi my dear Morten
How are you? I hope fine.
I am sent you letter earle, but do not receive your answer.
Hope you still interesting. Becouse I am very interesting in you.
I am happy that I am meet so nice and courageous man like you.
I will be waiting for your letter. Your Kristina
Letter 3
Hi my dear Morten
Thank you for your letter. For me it is was very pleasant.
I do not use any messenger. But we can speak without problem. My english level around 8-9, I think.
I will tell you more about me.
As you know, I am work as teacher. And of course I like childrens.
I am offen have bussines trip to other countries to meet with charitable organization.
We discuse about help for sick children. You can see www.vanyahelp.narod.ru
In the world many sick childrens. I tryed to help this families.
This boy Vanya have hard sickness. Him parents ask about help. I always tryed to help if somebody need in this. I like you very much. I am sure that you have kind heart. I am so happy that I am meet you on the site.
You know, internet is great. Internet helper for people to find others people from others countries.
But internet cannot give all feels and emotions. I cannot write in letter my feeling.
This possible just in real meet. Are you agree with me?
I will be wait for your letter. Your Kristina
Letter 4
Hi darling Morten
I just want to say that I am miss your letter.
Hope you will write me soon as you can.
I will be wait your letter.
Thinking of you, Kristina
Letter 5
Hi darling Morten
Thank you very much for answering my e-mail. I would like to saythat you are an unordinary man and you worth all the best. I like you very much. For me very pleased to comunication with you. It would be great to meet each other somewhere. I want tell you that soon I shall have holliday. It is will be from 1 til 15 of october. So, in this time I shall be free. Maybe we can meet. I can come to you. For me it is not the problem. As I told I have been in Norway. And I have visa valid til 11 of november. You can show me your city, your home. You are nice man. I want to spend this holliday together with you. I think, we shall good spend time. Tell me, what do you think. I will be wait your letter.
Kisses, your Kristina
Letter 6
Hi my darling Morten
It is so pity that when I am open my mailbox and do not find your letter.
Hope you shall write me soon.
I am already miss you. Gentle kiss you, Kristina
Letter 7
Hi my darling Morten
I am so glad that soon I can meet you. I am sure that we shall good spent time. You know, when I was in Norway this summer for me it is was bussines trip. So, I hade no time to see museums or shops. But now I shall visit just you. I hope you shall show me your city. Today I shall go in agency of travel and book tickets on the 8 of october with return tickets on the 15 of october. Tell me please, which airport nearest to you? Can you meet me in airport? Soon as I book tickets, I shall send you all information. I want to ask you, can I stay with you or I need rent hotel?
I am already miss you. Gentle kiss you, Kristina
Letter 8
Hi my lovely Morten. I am very glad that soon I can meet you. I am waiting our meet with impatience.
You know, today I was in agency of travel and wanted to buy tickets to Oslo. For me was surprise that tickets cost so much. From me to you and back cost 770 EURO. I have no so much money. I have taken my salary, but it is just 300 EURO and I have paid for tickets already 250 EURO. I want to ask you, can you help me to pay for tickets, I need 520 EURO. You know, when I am traveling in others countries, for me paying charitable organization. They paid directly to agency of travel. But now I shall visit just you. No one bussines meet. Just I and you. If you have some extra money, can you send it to agency of travel, please. I leave your e-mail in agency. My agent must send to you all information. I am really want to come and visit you. I am serious about our relationship and I hope you are also. I have attached a copy of my passport. Hope to hear from you soon. I send to you address agency of travel. This is very good agency. I am use they in all my trips. Travel Bryansk, 763487, Bryansk, Russia, Polkovaya 23-17, phone +7 4832 8737264, e-mail email@example.com
I kiss you darling, your Kristina
Letter 9
Hi my darling Morten
It is normal price for tickets.
I want to reminder you that I live in Bryansk.
So I need go Bryansk-Moscow-Oslo-Moscow-Bryansk.
Hope to see you this weekend.
With love, Kristina
Letter 10
Hello Mr. Morten
My name is Sergey. I am main manager in agency of travel Travel Bryansk. Today I have speaken with Kristina Kamneva. She buy tickets to Oslo. But she pay just 250 euro for this tickets. Full price with tax 770 euro. She said that other money you can pay. You need to pay 520 euro. As I know Kristina Kamneva long time, I have already give tickets to her. So I hope you shall pay soon as you can. In my agency of travel we work just with cash. As you cannot come in my office, you need send money via Western Union or Money Gram. I send you flight information for Kristina Kamneva. If you have some questions, you can contact me anytime by phone +7 4832 8737264. Information for transfering money: full name Sergey Zavoloko, address Bryansk, Russia, Polkovaya 23, office 17.
With best regards, Sergey
SU 211 Sheremetyevo (SVO), Moscow, Russian Federation
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The Magical Transformation of the Supreme War Crime into a "Miscalculation"
The third anniversary of the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq has brought out the very worst in our national news media. Consider an item on yesterday's Six O'Clock News on BBC1. Diplomatic Correspondent Bridget Kendall declared solemnly:
"There's still bitter disagreement over invading Iraq. Was it justified or a disastrous miscalculation?" (Kendall, BBC Six O'Clock News, March 20, 2006)
How could the war possibly be justified when the 'justification' was said by Tony Blair to be the "serious and current threat" posed by Iraqi WMD? And how can "disastrous miscalculation" be presented as the opposing argument?
Many people, including UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, believe the invasion was "illegal", clearly in breach of the UN Charter.
Many people believe, as did the prosecutors at the post-WW2 Nuremberg trials, that initiating a war of aggression is "the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole". (Quoted, Walter J. Rockler, 'War crimes law applies to U.S. too,' Chicago Tribune, May 23, 1999)
By what right does the BBC airbrush from reality the huge swath of public opinion which sees the invasion as "the supreme international crime"? Why did the BBC adopt the far less damaging description of "a disastrous miscalculation"? The message is that viewers are to believe that our government can be guilty of mistakes and "miscalculations", but not war crimes.
In similar vein, the BBC's World Affairs Correspondent, Paul Reynolds, reported:
"The third anniversary of the invasion of Iraq prompts some melancholy thoughts about how it was supposed to be - and how it has turned out.
"By now, according to the plan, Iraq should have emerged into a peaceful, stable representative democracy, an example to dictatorships and authoritarian regimes across the Middle East.
"The invasion would have been a memory." (Reynolds, 'Iraq three years on: A bleak tale,' March 17, 2006; http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4812460.stm)
Imagine if Reynolds had been reviewing the horror in Kuwait after the 1990 Iraqi invasion - would it have prompted "melancholy thoughts"? Or would such thoughts have suggested that Saddam had been well-intentioned but, alas, in life sometimes things just don't go as planned?
Reynolds would surely have been castigated for suggesting that a murderous, illegal invasion might have been downgraded to a mere "memory", rather than remain a live issue to be addressed and passionately resisted by the international community.
Likewise, the suggestion that Saddam's stated "plan" for Kuwait bore any relation to his actual plan - based on his real, hidden priorities - would have left many a head shaking in disbelief.
Have these reporters and editors no shame? Have they no compassion for the terrible suffering of Iraqi people; suffering in which our government, and a compliant media, is deeply complicit?
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Global plant based milk market set to be valued at $16 billion by 2020.
While the brand is currently not entirely vegan, Nestle's acquisition shows vegan and vegetarian foods need to be taken seriously as we move closer to a meatless world.
Fortune discusses the acquisition here:
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The Formation of False Memory, aka "Lost in a Shopping Mall," E. F. Loftus & J. E. Pickerell, 1995
Reconstruction of Automobile Destruction: An Example of the Interaction Between Language and Memory, E. F. Loftus & J. C. Palmer, 1974
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By making subjectivity a theme of their work, these artists explore the tensions between conceptions of self and society. Essay by Brian Sholis.
In recent decades, those of us attuned to art have witnessed a transformation in the narratives about its history. Scholars have begun integrating into the story of art the achievements of those who, because of gender or skin color or geography or chosen medium, were previously unconsidered or deliberately neglected. At the same time, the modernist notion of art's developmental progression through avant-garde styles has been set aside; now we recognise, even if imperfectly, the multiplicity of every era. These have been welcome developments.
The American historian Daniel T. Rodgers analyzed related intellectual developments through the lens of American culture in his 2011 book Age of Fracture. During the second half of the twentieth century, he noted that:
conceptions of human nature that in the post–World War II era had been thick with context, social circumstance, institutions, and history gave way to conceptions of human nature that stressed choice, agency, performance, and desire. Strong metaphors of society were supplanted by weaker ones. Imagined collectivities shrank; notions of structure and power thinned out. Viewed by its acts of mind, the last quarter of the century was an era of disaggregation.
The disaggregation that Rodgers describes has had a political fallout. The Indian essayist Pankaj Mishra, writing recently in The Guardian, called ours "The Age of Anger." He suggested that what was missing from earlier, more coherent narratives of society was:
the fear ... of losing honour, dignity and status, the distrust of change, the appeal of stability and familiarity. There was no place in [those stories] for more complex drives: vanity, fear of appearing vulnerable, the need to save face. Obsessed with material progress, the hyper-rationalists ignored the lure of resentment for the left-behind and the tenacious pleasures of victimhood.
The economic and political dislocations that revealed these "complex drives," and our relative inability to perceive and think through them, were on the minds of Objektiv's editorial board when we decided to produce two issues about the relationship between art, politics, and subjectivity. The efficacy of art in the political arena is perpetually under question. Yet one position to which art's adherents cling is the value of artists' insights into present social and political conditions. The five of us, to greater or lesser degrees, share that faith; that is partly why we work as artists, curators, editors, and writers. We asked ourselves: what might artists tell us about the conditions in which we find ourselves? The breakdown of master narratives in art and in politics has reminded those in power that the world contains irrepressible multitudes. The art in these pages and in the companion exhibition reminds us that individuals relate to the world from multiple subject positions, and that the influences on those subject positions are being radically reshaped – especially by networked-image technologies. And while there is a sense that the shared public space of politics is currently being overwhelmed by affective content, we are simultaneously witnessing a reinvigoration of the power of the collective and the resolve of communities. By making subjectivity a theme of their work, the eight artists and artist groups included here can help us imagine novel links between individual and collective experience.
Though their art takes varied forms, each artist makes images with – or uses images made by – cameras. For 150 years, the mechanical nature of the medium suggested a particular claim on documentary veracity, on "truth." Today, viewing publics increasingly recognize photographs as subjective, rather than objective, documents. We know that pictures carry the biases of their makers, and that our interpretations of them reflect our biases in turn. New questions have arisen: how do we apportion our attention when our media feeds include traditional journalism, internet gossip, propaganda, fake news, and the opinions of friends and family? What is at stake when subjective criteria and utterances have entered the political environment on an unprecedented scale? These questions connect in fundamental ways with our understanding of the camera as subjective narrator and a technology of perception.
While some works in this issue question how personhood is defined, negotiated and legislated through photographic representation, others reflect on the discrepancy between physically grounded and immaterial ways of existing as humans, and on how deeply embedded we are in other life networks and ecologies. The self is no longer necessarily understood as singular; we acknowledge the extension and molding of subjectivity via screens and technologies and via myriad other practices: consuming, naming, performing, branding, liking, hosting, acting and, of course, recontextualizing.
Consider American artist Zoe Leonard's recent photographs, presented in New York last year in an exhibition titled In the Wake. They depict family snapshots from the period after World War II when her forebears were stateless. The original images, taken as her family fled from Warsaw to Italy to London to the United States over the course of more than a decade, offer scenes of intimacy that contrast with the era's international clashes and their messy aftermaths. Leonard, in re-photographing the originals, opted not to reconstruct lost moments, to close the gap between then and now. Instead, she examines the earlier photographs as printed objects that bear physical evidence of their own histories: we see scratches and other blemishes, edges of paper curling upward. Sometimes, too, Leonard aims her camera from an oblique angle, shrouding the original subject with a splash of reflected light and revealing a wavy postmark. (These objects made the same journeys as their subjects.) She flips one photograph to document its inscription. "It's not that one sees less," Leonard has explained of these works, "but that different information becomes visible."
Leonard's artworks are in the "wake" of the originals in multiple senses. A wake is the path behind a ship marked by choppy waters – a useful metaphor for migrants seeking safe harbor, as the pictures' subjects are doing, or for the compositions, in which the originals "float" against featureless backgrounds. A wake is also the act of keeping watch with the dead, of meditating on lives as they were lived. For every migrant who forged a life in a new home, as did some of Leonard's family members, there are others who could not. And to "wake" is to come to consciousness, to become alert to the world around you when before you were unaware. The narrative emphasis placed on their subjects' statelessness ensures the pictures' relevance in our present moment of geopolitical instability and its attendant migrations. These intimate pictures are linked to – awaken us to – some of the broadest and most pressing social concerns of the day. Many of the original pictures are bounded by thin white borders. By re-photographing them and placing them within this conceptual and narrative framework, Leonard ensures that the meanings they convey are not similarly restricted. We know little about the lives of the people depicted, the knowledge of which remains the province of Leonard and those close to her. But in imagining those stories, empathy compels us to relate at both intimate and grand scales.
In a 2011 interview, Brooklyn-based artist Deana Lawson, whose work one might not readily associate with Leonard's, spoke about family albums:
I think that there is definitely something tragic in the family photograph – it's a fundamentally retroactive idea. We make the image specifically to look back on it, to refer to it later in life. Even in my old family albums, the process of aging – the space between then and now – can be haunting and unstable. How to deal with the idea of projected time in a static medium is an interesting challenge.
Lawson describes the subjects of her photographs as "her family." Given the seeming intimacy of her pictures, the term makes intuitive sense. But she is not related to them by blood; in fact, most are strangers cast for their roles by the artist, who plans each composition and arranges the many details. To date, she has done this work with subjects living in Haiti, Jamaica, Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of Congo, and in various parts of the United States. As the statement above suggests, Lawson uses the visual conventions of family albums merely as a starting point. "In my portrait work," she says, "I am creating ... a theater of the family snapshot."
The metaphor seems particularly apt: her compositions often function like proscenium stages on which her subjects perform their intimate gestures. They are pressed against a wall, or, if outdoors, against foliage or the blackness of night. Lawson usually points her camera directly at them and they stare back into the lens. This interaction feels matter-of-fact, rather than confrontational, and contributes to the pictures' sense of candor. The small dramas that Lawson has scripted are about flesh, kinship, sex, rituals. She is attuned to Black self-fashioning, to traditions of representing Black bodies by non-Black artists, and to the interaction between these aesthetic programs. As the critic Greg Tate has noted, Lawson's work "seems always [to be] about the desire to represent social intimacies that defy stereotype and pathology while subtly acknowledging the vitality of lives abandoned by the dominant social order."
The constructed intimacy of Lawson's pictures hints at a shift in our everyday use of cameras and our approach to photographs. Let's call it "stage awareness." We perform for the camera, as we always have. Then we manipulate our pictures, as has been common since the smartphone revolution. But now we distribute them through channels that do not let us assume the size or makeup of our audience. The dominant form of self-fashioning, thanks to networked distribution, is entirely public-facing; we create versions of ourselves meant for consumption by others both known and unknown. The source material in Zoe Leonard's In the Wake artworks marked significant occasions for a specific set of people. That kind of intimacy no longer characterizes most of our photographs. The fact that they are objects, too, would be unusual now; images are currently printed less often than they are shared across screens. (This is another kind of passage or migration.) Today, we place our immaterial images in public venues and we respond to images by others created expressly to be circulated. We are only beginning to understand what this echo chamber of manipulated images suggests about how we relate to one another.
We know that, in the past, photographs produced for wide distribution were often altered to better reflect cultural norms. (Think of fashion-magazine covers.) Those alterations helped the images' subjects fit more comfortably into networks of economic exchange. If altering our own pictures for others' consumption is now a default practice, then the work of Brooklyn-based Canadian artist Sara Cwynar can help us to understand how the value of images shifts through circulation and across time. Cwynar gathers mass-produced objects and commercial images, often made during the 1960s and 70s, and recontextualizes them in her studio. She nestles physical objects alongside printed photographs of them, or of other materials. Then, through a laborious process of photographing, printing and e-photographing, she creates collage-like images that reflect upon consumer desires and the visual strategies used to stoke them. "Looking critically at not only mass-produced objects but also mass-produced modes of depiction is a kind of political project," notes the artist in an interview in Objektiv 15.
The political implications of our visual rendering of the world is what unites the artists included in our exhibition, although in disparate ways. Sandra Mujinga reflects upon what she terms the "poly-body" in her investigations of the digital self. The collage project ALBUM by Eline Mugaas and Elise Storsveen offers a highly subjective take on photographic representations of gender, sex, and the concept of care. Liz Magic Laser uses the format of the TED Talk in a film installation featuring a ten-year-old actor delivering a monologue adapted from Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground. In this way, her work relates the author's attack on the socialist ideal of enlightened self-interest to contemporary capitalist thinking. Another film installation by Basma Alsharif addresses both the stateless self and mass-mediated representations of trauma on the Gaza Strip. Josephine Pryde speaks of a different form of displacement in her series It's Not My Body, which superimposes found, low-resolution MRI scans of a human embryo in the womb against desert landscapes shot through tinted filters. She engages multiple definitions of "reproduction" and their impact on political debates about subjecthood and a woman's right to choose.
We decided to include one artwork made during an earlier era, namely Zoe Leonard's 1992 text I Want a President. When speaking about it in late 2016, the artist noted how her relationship to its call for a new politics has evolved. "On the one hand, I'm thrilled and gratified that something I made more than twenty years ago might still be considered relevant. At the same time, I am utterly horrified and saddened that these words still have such relevance." She added: "I don't think about identity politics in the same way – that is, I don't think that a specific set of identifiers or demographic markers necessarily leads to a particular political position." Having to acknowledge the uncoupling of political views and individual attributes seems to us a key development during the past twenty-five years. This complicates, rather than negates, identity politics, and the ways in which we produce and respond to images have played an important role in this evolution. Today, individual and collective identities are fluid, and the distances between them fluctuate. The artworks gathered help us to distinguish whether those distances are intellectual, emotional, or psychological. And, if we are open to them, they can illuminate the paths we navigate between self and society.


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What's changed over the past 10 years within financial services marketing?
A couple things have changed. First of all, new forms of marketing have emerged. If you go back 20 or 30 years ago, you'll see more traditional forms of advertising or marketing. It was really about outbound marketing, where marketers placed ads and messages in media—like tv, radio, prints—that were really designed to get people's attention, create awareness, and perhaps create affinity that drove them to take action in branches predominantly.
What changed, of course, was the internet and digital channels. But you know what's funny is that to a large extent, marketing itself didn't change. It was still outbound. You just placed banner ads on portals and other media sites that generated a lot of traffic, but that was still dominated by trying to create awareness, affinity, and action that took place somewhere else.
So that was the traditional form of marketing or advertising.
What's changed over the past 10 years or so is the emergence of a new form of marketing, what people call inbound marketing, where use search engine optimization, blogs, and social media to drive people to the websites to interact and engage. It created a different form of marketing.
That's one way that marketing has changed.
What's complicating factors today is that another new form of marketing is emerging and should be emerging. I think of it as activity-based marketing. That is, marketing in the context of the activity that the consumer or the prospect is performing. Now, at it's most basic level when you go into a fast food restaurant and that cashier says "Would you like fries with that?" That's a form of activity-based marketing. They're marketing to you in the context of ordering food. It's not very sophisticated, it's not data-driven, but at its most basic level that's activity based marketing.
Now, for example let's talk about what USAA does with its car buying service, or its auto-circle app. When you download this mobile app that you use to check car inventory across dealerships, you can see a comparison of cars, read people's reviews, and access the carfax information. Then you can use the app to go through and actually apply for the car loan and buy the insurance. What you really find is that the experience is a new form of marketing. It's a new way for USAA to engage, to create awareness of their products, to engage their members in the car loan and insurance buying processes.
There are also new ways of engaging and new ways of creating data about how people actually shop. We might look at using Zillow to do that. You're using this in the home buying process, but companies like Chase have developed apps like My New Home, which accesses the realtor data based, tracks the homes you're buying, shows you where they are, tracks these things, and ultimately drives you to the mortgage brokers. Interestingly, I don't think they're actually driving people that apply for the mortgages online, but they could be in doing that.
In addition, a fintech company up in my neck of the woods in the northeast has developed an app that they call a wedding planning app that banks can white label. Say you've got a young Gen-Y couple that just became your customers. Maybe they'll be getting married. Do they have any clue what they're getting themselves into? Absolutely not. So they download an app that helps them track all the purchases that they have to take care of, tracks the invitations, all the providers. But here's an opportunity because it's white labeled by a bank, to actually push debit and credit cards. Maybe they can push a loan that they need to meet all the expenses. It's a different form of marketing because it's contextual, in the context that the consumer is executing or performing. But I think this is something that many traditional marketers don't really have a strong grasp on. So what's happening is lots of new forms or maybe not lots of new forms, but new forms of marketing are emerging and making it tough for a lot of financial services or bank marketers in particular to really keep up with this and understand how to allocate their resources to all these new opportunities.
So is this new form of marketing similar to making segments? I mean, it sounds like this could be a different way of thinking, where you're talking about activities rather than personas? Or are they synonymous?
Well, there is some segmentation that kind of applies here at a couple of things.
First, from a life-stage perspective, the examples I gave were probably millennial-driven in terms of buying cars, buying homes, having babies, getting married kind of stuff. But you could apply this to retiring as well. What do you do when you're retired? The challenge there is that from a demographic perspective around usage, the older consumers, those who are on the cusp of retiring, are probably a lot less dependent on mobile devices. Maybe still dependent on online and desktop computing, but that makes for a very different set of experiences that the marketer has to design for. And also there's the question of whether or not they're really well positioned to attack that market, versus let's say wealth management or asset management providers.
The second aspect of the segmentation here is that not every Gen-Y or millennial wants these kinds of things. It tends to be the segments who are more engaged in the management of their financial lives. It actually tends to be those who are more highly educated, and if not affluent today, clearly on the path to becoming more affluent. So that makes it more attractive from the bank perspective that these are the future affluent customers. But really are these segments are more engaged in the management of their financial life. That is still not a majority of consumers by any stretch of the imagination, but I will say this: if you look generation by generation, it's a much higher percentage of millennials who are more engaged in the management of their financial lives at 25 or 30 than previous generations were at those ages.
I know this is going to be hard for you to believe, but I'm actually in my mid-50s. I know, it's hard to believe. But 30 years ago I didn't care about this kind of stuff. Today's millennials should care more about this stuff, and even though they're not particularly good at managing their financial lives, they do care more about it. So giving them the tools to engage them I think is one way that marketing is really changing today in bank marketing.
That's interesting. So what is the biggest obstacle getting in the way of executing these ideas?
I'm not sure that you can pin this down to one obstacle. There are a bunch of obstacles here.
One obstacle is clearly resources. Now, if you are a megabank, you probably don't actually have the resource limitation problem. Marketing spend at these megabanks is in the billions of dollars, and they have plenty of money to throw at this stuff. But they still have a challenge in getting stuff executed in a very complex organization where there's always competing priorities. Mid-sized financial institutions are much more challenged in terms of how they build this stuff. Many financial institutions in the mid-sized range are highly reliant on their core vendors, who are quite frankly behind in the development of a lot of these things because of where their roadmaps are.
Another obstacle is that many banks still believe in the branch as the core, central driver of relationships. I think it's tough for a lot of executives who have been in the industry 30, 40, even 50 years to make that mental shift to say, "Wait a second, you can build relationships with technology."
One of the best quotes that I've seen was from the guy who started Commerce Bank back in the 70's. Vernon Hill. Back in the early 2000's when everybody was investing in online banking, even before mobile banking, his bank was not making big investments in online banking, and some newspaper or magazine asked him why not. His answer was very telling. I never forgot it. He said, "because nobody wants a relationship with a machine." And I looked at that and I said, "That's all well and fine, but guess what, buddy? No one wants a relationship with a brick."
It's not about the relationship with the brick, and it's not even about the relationship with the person. How many Apple fanatics are there out there. Do they know anybody who works at Apple? How many loyal Amazon fans? Do they know anybody who works at Amazon? It's not about the people, it's about the capabilities that can very well be provided through technology. But this is a mental shift for a lot of bankers. They're still hanging onto the idea that it's about people, and only people can deliver the relationship. This is part of the challenge in the industry.
So it sounds like you're proposing a cultural shift. Is that right? Are you saying that to get through these obstacles, financial institutions need to reframe the way they think about appealing to their consumers?
Well, they need to reframe the way they think. Is that a cultural shift? I don't know. I'm always kind of hesitant to go down that route because then everyone would just say, "Oh... it's a "cultural shift." It generally takes some instigators, some trouble makers within an institution, who go out and try some things, experiment, get some small successes, build it up until the institution can see that there are ways to do this that are different from the traditional approaches.
Do you need wholesale cultural shift to do that? No, I think the wholesale cultural shift comes over time as people learn that there are different ways of doing things than how it was done. I think if you come at this from the perspective of needing a big cultural shift, then you're not going to get there because you're putting the wrong objective out there. The objective is not to achieve cultural shift. The objective is to achieve business success. Drive relationships, drive business.
Let's wrap up with a final question. What should banks and credit unions be keeping their eye on as we move into the future?
Not that nobody else has said this before, but it's really about mobile and the usage of mobile devices. Mobile has become rapidly ingrained in consumers' behaviors. Whether the branches die or not is not the point. The point is that the predominant channel of engagement is the mobile device. And what does that mean from a delivery perspective? It doesn't mean shutting down the branches. It means building out more and more capabilities to the support that device as the primary point of interaction.


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KaR-Tel Launches IoT Services throughout Kazakhstan with Cisco Jasper Control Center
DNA Selects Cisco Jasper to Enable IoT Connectivity
Entel and Cisco to Bring IoT Services to Businesses Throughout Peru
BARCELONA, Spain (Mobile World Congress) – February 28, 2018 – Businesses throughout Peru will be able to leverage the Internet of Things (IoT) to deliver new revenue-generating services to their customers, thanks to Entel Peru and Cisco. Entel Peru B2B has selected the Cisco Jasper Control Center automated IoT connectivity management platform to enable its customers and strategic business partners across every industry to run agile businesses with IoT services.
Three Group Launches IoT Services Globally with Cisco Jasper Control Center
BARCELONA, Spain (Mobile World Congress) – February 28, 2018 – Cisco and the Three Group today announced the global availability of the Cisco Jasper Control Center automated IoT connectivity platform for all companies looking to deliver IoT services to their customers on the Three Group networks.
Cisco NB-IoT Platform Now Commercially Available Worldwide, Making it Practical and Profitable for Companies to Deliver Connected Services via Low Cost, Low Power Devices
BARCELONA, Spain (Mobile World Congress) – February 27, 2018 – Cisco today announced that Cisco Jasper Control Center for NB-IoT is now available worldwide, making it the first commercially available global NB-IoT platform. When used in conjunction with the Cisco Jasper Control Center IoT connectivity management platform, enterprises will be able to manage both NB-IoT and cellular devices.
KaR-Tel Collaborates with Cisco Jasper to Deliver IoT Services throughout Kazakhstan
Cisco Jasper removes obstacles to IoT implementation with multi-tier IoT platform
Cisco Jasper Introduces Automated Mobility Management Platform
Telenor Norway and Cisco Collaborate to Deliver Enterprise IoT Services
Three Group signs Global Internet of Things Connectivity Partnership with Cisco Jasper
Cisco Jasper and Jupl Introduce Wearable to Empower Seniors with Independence and Safety
KT and Cisco Jasper Launch Global IoT Services Platform for Businesses in Korea
Cisco Jasper Supports NB-IoT to Enable Massive-Scale IoT for Low Power Devices
MyHonda Connected Car Platform Leverages IoT from Cisco Jasper and Bright Box to Deliver Customized Driving Services
Businesses Throughout Taiwan Can Now Deliver IoT Services with Asia Pacific Telecom and Cisco Jasper
Entel and Cisco Jasper to Enable IoT Services for Businesses Throughout Chile
Santiago, Chile, and San Jose, CA – January 11, 2017 – Businesses throughout Chile will be able to leverage the Internet of Things (IoT) to deliver new revenue-generating services, thanks to Entel Chile and Cisco. Entel, Chile's largest telecommunications company, has selected the Cisco Jasper® Control Center IoT connectivity management platform to enable customers to rapidly transform their businesses with IoT services.
Hong Kong Businesses Can Now Launch Global IoT Services with SmarTone and Cisco Jasper
Hong Kong and San Jose, CA (11 January 2017) – SmarTone, Hong Kong's leading telecommunications service provider, and Cisco today announced the launch of Internet of Things (IoT) services in Hong Kong. This partnership enables businesses in any industry to leverage the SmarTone mobile network and the Cisco Jasper managed connectivity platform, Control Center, to deliver new services and increase revenue.


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LangeTwins Sauvignon "Musque," the perfect summer refreshment
Summer officially arrives in three scant weeks (June 20, 2012). What will you be drinking?
In a region fast becoming known for its variety, from Albariño to Vermentino, there is one Lodi grown wine that has become the dependable mainstay for its exceptional quality – purely as a wine, and also for its palate soothing taste – as well as reliably great price: the Sauvignon Blanc cultivated by fourth and fifth generation Lodi growers, the Lange family.Continue »
Phillips Farms hosts star winemakers & press at historic Bechthold Vineyard tribute
Last week Wednesday, May 23, 2012, Phillips Farms, the agricultural arm of Michael-David Winery, hosted a gathering of eight other stellar winemakers and ten influential wine journalists in a vineyard walk and tasting of wines from Lodi's oldest – and perhaps, most revered – vineyard: the Bechthold Vineyard.Continue »
The WINE in 2 WATER benefit concert at Jessie's Grove (June 2)
June 2, 2012: The WINE in 2 WATER Benefit Concert & Wine Tasting at Jessie's Grove Winery
Dancing Fox winegrower/proprietor and restaurateur Gregg Lewis has combined efforts with a counterpart, Greg Burns of the historic Jessie's Grove Winery, and numerous volunteers throughout the Lodi community, to present WINE in 2 WATER: a concert, wine tasting, art and wine auction benefitting the Bear Creek Water Project and Living Water International.Continue »
Photo-reminiscings of 2012 ZinFest & Vintner's Grille
We'll go dancing in the dark
Walking through the park and reminiscing…
- Little River Band
Enthusiasm was brimming during Lodi's 2012 ZinFest, taking place under the gargantuan Weeping Willow trees of Lodi Lake Park.Continue »
Many wines other than Zinfandel at 2012 Lodi ZinFest
Lodi crushes about 40% of California's entire crop of Zinfandel each and every year, and there are more pre-1960 plantings of Old Vine Zinfandel (mostly, still growing on their own rootstocks!) in the Lodi AVA than anywhere else in the state.
Therefore, Lodi Wine Country's biggest, yearly spring celebration in Lodi Lake Park is called ZinFest, but make no mistake: ZinFesters will be able to taste many more wines other than Zinfandel at this year's ZinFest.Continue »
Musical zinsations at the 2012 Lodi ZinFest
It's all about the lush, juicy wines, good eats, the incredible greens and blues of Lodi Lake Park, and last but not least, the music at the 2012 ZinFest that will add up to memorably fine event in Lodi Wine Country this coming Saturday, May 19.
Start with Snap Jackson & the Knock on Wood Players, a mesmerizingly fun, toe tapping, hand clapping, high energy acoustic trio from Stockton. This three man hurricane will be walking around the Lodi Lake Park grounds, zapping ZinFesters with their roux of Americana, Bluegrass, Soul, & Old Time.Continue »
Rous Vineyard's immaculate perfection, with help from St. George
One of Lodi's most highly regarded Zinfandel growths over the past dozen or so years has been the 10 acre vineyard owned and meticulously farmed by Craig Rous. Rous Vineyard is located in the heart of the "eastside" of Lodi's Mokelumne River AVA – a level pocket of some 30 feet of porous sandy loam soil, built up by millenniums of overflow from this major waterway, pushing down from the Sierra Nevadas – and Mr. Rous himself holds the position of Director of Operations & Planning of the Kautz family's Bear Creek Winery.Continue »
The chefs' slate at 2012 ZinFest Cooking School
It's all about foods we love to eat with Lodi's lush, juicy wines under the 2012 ZinFest Cooking School tent this coming May 19 in Lodi Lake Park.
The Cooking School will start off at 1 PM with Chef Fabrice Dubuc of Wine & Roses Hotel, Restaurant & Spa – which has been rated among the Top 10 Most Romantic Inns by American Historic Inns – who will be demonstrating the pissaladiere of his native Southern France.Continue »
Ironstone's astounding Petite Sirah from little known Sloughhouse appellation
Of the seven sub-appellations – officially called American Viticultural Areas (i.e. AVAs) – within the greater Lodi AVA, the Sloughhouse AVA (officially recognized in 2006) is among the least known, despite its incredible potential.Continue »
Experience terroir, the cutting-edge, chocolates & cheese at ZinFest Wine School
There will be some fascinating 30 minute seminars offered at the 2012 Lodi ZinFest, taking place underneath the Wine School tent. You can
- Learn all about Lodi terroir by connecting up the dirt with wines grown in it,
- Experience a do-it-yourself Old Vine Zinfandel blending seminar,
- Meet a Master Sommelier and "Grape Goddess," and discover her secrets of enjoying wine with chocolates,
- Go on a guided tour of Lodi's latest, greatest, most exciting and adventurous wines with the reviewer for one the most widely read wine magazines in the world,
- Or savor the perfect Lodi grown wines for five award winning cheeses handcrafted by San Joaquin Valley's acclaimed Fiscalini Farmstead Cheese.


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The decision on establishment of the State Enterprise "State Scientific and Technical Center for Nuclear and Radiation Safety" (SSTC NRS) within the State Nuclear Supervision of Ukraine, which performed at that time the functions of the state regulatory authority in nuclear energy use, was approved by Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No. 52 dated 3 February 1992. SSTC NRS started its activity on 19 March 1992 after the state registration in the local executive authorities.
In accordance with Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No. 354-r of 9 August 2001, SSTC NRS was subordinated to the State Nuclear Regulatory Committee of Ukraine (SNRCU).
According to the decision of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine the Public Board of the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate on Ukraine has been established on the 18th of February 2011.
There are the following preconditions to establish a specialized scientific and technical organization to support nuclear and radiation safety regulation in Ukraine:
SSTC NRS is an enterprise, created on the basis of state ownership, it has a status of a legal entity, keeps its independent balance, bank accounts, and a seal with its title and a logo.
SSTC NRS scientific and technical activity is performed according to SNRIU tasks and is aimed at improving the regulatory framework, state reviews on nuclear and radiation safety and research in the center's activities.
To arrange efficient scientific cooperation between organizations of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the State Nuclear Regulatory Committee of Ukraine (SNRCU), create conditions to improve efficiency and further development of SSTC NRS scientific and technical potential, according to joint Order of SNRCU and the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NAS of Ukraine) No. 612/192 of 25 November 2008, SSTC NRS was given the rank of dual subordination, namely – SNRCU, according to the legislation, administers the property possessed by SSTC NRS, and NAS of Ukraine carries out scientific and methodological guidance of the SSTC NRS activity. In terms of the center's scientific activities, SSTC NRS is incorporated to the Department of Nuclear Physics and Power Engineering of the NAS of Ukraine.


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For the 2016/17 Season, the Club will launch a 'Supporters Player Fund' to boost the budget.
Many Clubs run similar schemes and it brings the players and supporters even closer.
With such a strong finish to last season and the core of that squad committing to the new season, hopes are high for a successful campaign.
We've all learnt over the last few months that performances on the pitch are a catalyst for growth – so this season we will focus on the pitch.
The off pitch support FaST have provided in previous years has been fantastic, but this season the Club have asked FaST to lead this proposal and this will be voted on at their next meeting.
We also hope that all supporters will feel willing to support the scheme and contribute whether through FaST or directly.
Further information on the 'Supporters Player Fund':
• A solitary player will be named as the "Supporters Funded Player". This new player has been nominated and subject to paperwork will be announced shortly.
• Funds donated either through FaST or paid by standing order will be solely used to fund the named player and will not be used for any other purpose.
• Standing Orders can be set up monthly from as little as £10 per month.
• If an excess is funded a second player will be nominated and announced.
• At the end of the season the player will sign his home shirt which will be framed in the main Bar under the "Supporters Funded Player" banner.
• Should the player leave the Club a replacement player will be nominated.
We are all very excited for the new Season and hope many of you will get behind this new scheme.
Further details will be announced in due course with the proposed player.
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An odd-looking little airplane's first flight in Austria on Oct. 31 was something of a milestone for aviation. That 20-min. flight from Wiener Neustadt East Airport was heralded as the first in the world by an aircraft with multi-engine hybrid-electric propulsion. The modified Diamond DA40 piston single represents the latest step down a rapidly unfolding path from very light, short-range battery-powered electric aircraft to hybrid- and distributed-electric regional aircraft ...
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Cozy Summer House Merges Scandinavian and Belarusian Design
Minsk-based Zrobym Architects completed the design of a summer house in the village of Raubichi, Belarus. The 731 square-foot wooden cabin was envisioned as a cozy retreat for the client's mother.
"Trying to execute all the wishes of the customer, we have embodied a small, cozy space in the project of a cottage, which will be comfortable enough for living in old age," the architects explained. "A return to traditional forms of construction and reflection of classical Belarusian housing in a modern style became the main concept when designing the building."
As you step inside, you will be surrounded by a harmonious, comfortable setting. Extensive wood cladding, wooden beams and a modern wood burning stove make this place feel like a genuine mountain retreat.
Large windows bring nature inside and fill the place with natural light. The bottom level hosts the open plan living and kitchen area, a beautiful master bedroom and a bathroom. A stairway takes you to the attic, with plenty of room for a bedroom or work space. The minimalist furniture arrangements are said to reference Scandinavian asceticism.
Have a look at the video below for a short virtual tour!


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N°1 on TripAdvisor in Zurich, Geneva, Lucerne, Basel, Bern, Interlaken
Free Walk Switzerland is the nonprofit umbrella organisation of the free walking tours associations across Switzerland.
Free Walking Tours are informative and entertaining tours at no upfront cost. As the tour are offered tip based, you get to determine what the tour was worth. All guides are local volunteers who love their cities and will share their insight knowledge with you.


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Interested in making your vacation memorable? Interested in swimming with some beautiful dolphins? More and more people desire to take part in this delightful pastime as the intelligence and personality of dolphins becomes more clear. Although it's probably not the first thing you think of, swimming with dolphins in Scotland is totally possible, and it's a great way to make a vacation even more special.
The best time to see dolphins in Scotland is during the summer, but they can still be seen year-round. The dolphins you are mostly likely to see are bottlenose, rissos and the common dolphin, although you might see others as well. If you want to avoid crowds, fall or spring might be best, although you won't see as many dolphins.
Although the dolphins are wild, there are still some areas they're expected to be, and the locals will know where to find them. By purchasing a ticket for a boat ride that is accompanied by swimming with the dolphins, through one of several adventure places in Scotland, you are sure to find somewhere to swim with the dolphins. Some websites, like www.scotland.org.uk/stag/activities/Daytime_Activities, list the activities, including swimming with the dolphins, by city so that you can find the activities and their location easiest. Some places also include prices.
Check the prices, which vary from 50 to 165 euros, the locations and what else the trip includes. Is it just swimming with the dolphins, or is it an eight-hour boat ride that includes swimming with the dolphins for the same price? Boat rides are common for many swimming with the dolphins adventures, although they are not included for all the trips. Make sure you get the best trip available that includes all the things you want.
As dolphins are wild, unpredictable creatures, it's important to follow all of the instructions provided by those you're swimming with. Instructors, trainers and drivers are all trained and know what they're doing. Since you don't want to get hurt or hurt the animals, it's important to follow rules and abide by their boundaries.
Without startling the dolphins or jumping on them, enjoy your swim with the dolphins. Make sure someone's taking pictures--you never know when you'll have the opportunity to do it again.


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My daughter and part of her family visited Sunday, or was it Saturday? I know they were here because they took several photos of me with Baby Christopher. I held him briefly, just long enough to let them take the requisite shots. Doesn't he look angelic?
As soon as I took Christopher, I realized he was too heavy for me. Besides, he immediately had a big BM and his mom took him back. Then I remembered why I was happy when my children outgrew diapers. Connie told me the other great-grandmother they visited before they reached me wouldn't hold him. At 101, she is too weak. Child rearing is definitely for the young.
We discussed the feasibility of my taking the train from Alexandria to Culpeper where they would meet me should I decide to visit via rail. You would have to spend the night, Connie said, and sleep in Amelia's room.
Doesn't she have cats? Yes.
Now I love cats, however, I have air purifiers throughout my house and my GP has me on Singular owing to breathing issues, so I don't think the train trip will happen anytime soon.
Besides, in July, Connie and Bill are spending their vacation in Utah and will be out-of-town. I reminded Connie she and I have Mormon ancestors buried in Woodruff in Rich County Utah. They were some of the first settlers. Arriving there after great-uncle George fought for the Union (Maine Infantry) during the Civil War, they purchased land from the Ute Indians. George is buried there with several members of his extended family.
Our good news here in VA:
1. Former extremely popular Governor Robert McDonnell was set free by the Supreme Court yesterday. Seems the former US Attorney General may have overstepped his authority to prosecute.
2. The Annie Casey Foundation listed VA in their top-tier of places to raise a child. Minnesota is number one, of course, and poor old Mississippi is last. Garrison Keillor was correct, all the children are above average at Lake Woebegone.


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Britain's most senior prosecutor last night questioned whether the government's controversial proposal to detain terror suspects for up to 42 days without charge was even directed at "a real problem".
Sir Ken Macdonald, the director of public prosecutions, renewed his opposition to the proposal, telling MPs that he had "managed quite comfortably" within the current 28-day limit. He revealed that no suspect had actually been held longer than 14 days in the last nine months.
The DPP's firm stand, five months after he first raised concerns about the issue of 42 days and despite an intense campaign by the home secretary, Jacqui Smith, is bound to fuel a rebellion that already threatens Gordon Brown's position. He was backed by the former attorney-general, Lord Goldsmith, who was scathing about the proposed parliamentary "safeguards" and warned that they would be seen as another attack on the Muslim community.
The DPP told MPs yesterday: "For our part as prosecutors, we don't perceive any need for the period of 28 days to be increased. Our experience has been that we have managed comfortably within 28 days. We have therefore not asked for an increase in 28 days. It is possible to set up all sort of hypotheses ... Anything is possible - the question is whether it's remotely likely."
Macdonald added that it was "a question for parliament whether this is directed against a real problem or not".
He dismissed a new plea for the extension from the Metropolitan police commissioner, Sir Ian Blair, saying prosecutors were "better placed" than the police to judge whether or not there was sufficient evidence to charge a suspect.
Sue Hemming, the head of the Crown Prosecution Service's counter-terrorism division, said the need to hold terror suspects for longer than 14 days had only been necessary on three occasions since the 28-day limit was introduced in 2005. She added that nobody had been held for longer than 14 days since the attacks on London and Glasgow nine months ago.
Macdonald made it clear that if parliament passed the legislation he would operate it and confirmed the government's view that it did not breach the European convention on human rights.
The Commons committee examining the counter-terror bill in detail also heard Goldsmith's attack on the proposed parliamentary scrutiny of the home secretary as "not a great deal of safeguard". Goldsmith, who left the government less than a year ago, said: "Are you going to ask parliament to simply trust the secretary of state? The case has not been made out for that extension and I can't personally support it.
"It is also counter-productive, because it sends a message to particularly the Muslim communities that we are down on them, and misguided young men might take it as justification for taking up arms, as they see it, against us.
"We have had and the police have had, significant plots to investigate. But in none of those cases, and I looked hard at them when I was in government, would it have been of help to have a period of longer than 28 days."
The Met commissioner, however, insisted the police were "pushing at" the limit on holding terror suspects without charge and said there had been 15 foiled plots since the July 7 bombings. "Sooner or later, and maybe sooner, something is going to happen to make that insufficient," he warned.
Two more Labour MPs who backed 90 days in Tony Blair's 2005 Commons defeat - Mohammad Sarwar and Mark Todd - came out in opposition to 42 days yesterday. A leaked memo at the weekend suggested Labour whips feared that at least 50 government MPs would back a revolt. The home secretary has held one-to-one meetings with backbenchers all year.


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The Lutheran Schools Partnership
Before working with Nichols, 18 separate Lutheran schools throughout northeast Indiana conducted their student-recruitment and marketing efforts individually. The schools rarely worked together and often competed against one another for students and teachers. Nichols came alongside The Lutheran Schools Partnership to help change the culture.
The first step was to create a single, unifying brand for The Lutheran Schools. Nichols positioned all of the schools as safe places where students receive high-quality, faith-based education. Next we created strong annual marketing campaigns that sold the overall benefits of a Lutheran education. We made the most of a modest budget by developing multi-channel advertising campaigns that reached potential students and parents on a variety of marketing platforms.
Nichols also helped all of the schools to plan and organize open houses to launch their annual enrollment cycles. Each school received individualized marketing tools consistent with The Lutheran Schools branding, including customized posters, postcards and other materials. Today, The Lutheran Schools Partnership continues to act as a unifying force to strengthen all participating schools.
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As W.B Yeats described in his poem 'Easter, 1916':
Wherever green is worn,
Are changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.
The mill was sold to Benton Properties for €42m in 2004 and was to be redeveloped for apartments and offices. Big parts of the property are protected with various listed warehouses and houses on the site.
Thanks to the 2008 crash, the value of this property dropped by 84% from €61m in 2007 to €9.9m in 2009. Development plans were still being discussed in 2010 when Benton Properties went bankrupt.
With a €2bn budget available to them, it is speculated that NAMA will continue with the original redevelopment plans in an attempt to recoup their original expenses.
three milling plants operated by Odlums."
Crossguns bridge: the Royal canal.
Water rushed roaring through the sluices. A man stood on his dropping barge, between clamps of turf. On the towpath by the lock a slacktethered horse."
has been delayed indefinitely."
Abandoned Ireland explores the Bolands Mill, history and present, as well as hundreds of other historic Irish sites: http://www.abandonedireland.com/bm.html
Wikipedia explains the Easter Rising 1916: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Rising
and the Irish War of Independence, 1921: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_War_of_Independence
See the whole of W.B. Yeats' poem Easter 1916 here: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/172061
NAMA takes over the Bolands Mill: http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/toxic-bank-takes-control-of-historic-bolands-mill-site-26857106.html
NAMA explains itself: http://www.nama.ie/about-us/
Read about Phibsboro: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phibsborough
Read about Ulysses here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_%28novel%29


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Posted: Apr 15, 2014
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (Blugolds.com) – Due to poor weather conditions predicted for Thursday, the UW-Eau Claire men's and women's tennis matches against the College of St. Scholastica (Minn.), originally scheduled for Friday, April 4 and then postponed to Thursday, April 17, have now been cancelled.
The Blugold men are currently 12-7 this season while the women are 13-3. Both teams will still play this weekend, the women on Friday at home against UW-River Falls while the men will be at UW-La Crosse for three matches over two days to wrap up the regular season.
2013-14 Women's Tennis Schedule