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A Venetian High Renaissance drawing of the head of a woman from the circle of the early Titian or Sansovino was "collaged" at an unknown date by adding the head of a child by the same hand. This converted what was originally an independent image into a Virgin and Child. By photographic means the two sections were separated and now shown alone, to recreate a sense of the original appearance of each head.
The most complete surviving hand-painted Tarot pack from XV-century Italy, missing only four cards, is in part in Bergamo and in part in New York; it is here called the Colleoni pack. It was originally attributed to Antonio Cicognara on the basis of a document now universally recognised to have been spurious. In 1928 the pack was attributed by Roberto Longhi to Bonifacio Bembo; this attribution has been generally accepted. Six of the trump cards are manifestly by a different painter, who is frequently taken to have been Cicognara. This, if true, would be an astonishing coincidence. For reasons of dating, it would imply that the six cards were painted to replace Bonifacio's originals, which had been lost or damaged. They are here argued to have been by Benedetto Bembo, Bonifacio's brother, and are therefore themselves the original cards.
Sebastiano del Piombo's reputation as a portrait painter was well established in the first half of the sixteenth century, as was testified by several sources and by his outstanding portraits as well. For this reason, it is at least surprising that he left no likeness of his best friend and associate, Michelangelo Buonarroti, to whom he was so much obliged. It is here proposed to identify a recently discovered portrayal of Michelangelo as a possible work of Sebastiano's hand, given the strong analogy between this portrait and that of Francesco Arsilli in the Pinacoteca Civica of Ancona, signed by the Venetian painter and presenting the same composition of the Michelangelo. The Florentine artist is represented while showing a book of drawings of anatomical studies, an attribute that identifies for the first time Michelangelo via disegno, a unique and convincing iconography that distinguishes this from other portraits of Michelangelo. Although no documents have yet been discovered to place this forgotten painting securely within Sebastiano's oeuvre, a path is suggested that starts from a reference in the collection of the Duke d'Orléans, at the beginning of the eighteenth century, and continues to a seal on the back of the painting, identified as a custom stamp of the Reverenda Camera Apostolica in Rome. The portrait itself, however, though damaged, is an astonishing document of the two artists' friendship and of the mutual respect between the portraitist and the sitter, conveyed to the viewer by Michelangelo's intense and expressive gaze.
The Beginning of the "second manner": An Engraving for Jacopo Bassano
This essay begins from the coincidence between the publication in Florence in 1504 of the De Sculptura of Pomponius Gauricus and Michelangelo's beginning to work on the cartoon for the Battle of Cascina, which was to have joined Leonardo da Vinci's Battle of Anghiari in the Sala del Gran Consiglio of the Palazzo della Signoria in Florence. Gauricus's varieties of perspective — from above, on the level, and from below — are examined, and it is suggested that the first of these is a justification for the arrangement of space to be seen in Roman battle sarcophagi. A fourth, "superior" perspective is compositional, a metaphorical "brilliance" achieved by the display of skill and ingenuity, especially in figures. This corresponds with the "terrible" style in rhetoric of Hermogenes, appropriate to grand themes such as battles. Michelangelo took the gran maniera invented for the Battle of Cascina to the lofty themes of the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
Titian's Europa (1559—1562) is widely regarded as one of the pinnacles of his poesie, as well as one of the most striking examples of his pittura di macchia. This essay proposes that the special place of this painting may already be suggested in a letter of April 26, 1562, where Titian describes it as the "seal" (soggello) of all of the works he had created for Phillip II of Spain up to that point. This qualifier calls to mind the term "seal" (from the Greek sphragis) used for literary compositions that conclude a cycle with decidedly programmatic goals — to establish their authors' "signatures", affirm their inimitable styles, and express their hopes for the survival of their opus for posterity. Titian's choice of this term may also reflect the status of the myth of Europa among its classical literary authorities. As classicists have long recognized, the ekphrasis on Europa in Achiles Tatius's novel Leucippe and Clitophon announces the power of love as the leitmotif of this narrative. Similarly, in Book 2 of The Metamorphoses, the abduction of Europa provides a kind of conclusion (sphragis) on a series of amorous exploits of the gods. Last but not least, Ovid returns to this myth in Book 6 of his poem in order to restate one of the key ideas within The Metamorphoses — the contest between divine and human ingagno, as well as nature and art. Through a skillful collation of these, as well as other literary (and visual) sources, Titian invokes within his "inimitable" invention a number of these allegorical and art-theoretical facets of the myth of Europa, including its exemplary value as a love-narrative, as well as the idea of paragone between forms of artifice.
The article examines a panel painting showing Ecce Homo, recently recognised as a work by Titian for the Duke Guidobaldo II della Rovere which (based on archival sources) was sent to Urbino by the Duke's envoy in Venice, Giovanni Francesco Agatone, in January 1566. The work was discovered fairly recently in the Poor Clares convent of Casteldurante (Urbania), a town which used to belong to the Duchy of Urbino, and to which the last of the dukes, Francesco Maria II (the heir of Guidobaldo II) withdrew for the last years of his life. Francesco Maria seems to have been particularly fond of the convent, so the donation of the painting to the Poor Clares, as a token of his profound devotion, appears a natural one. The panel, well known in literature, has recently undergone meticulous restoration by Ottorino Nonfarmale. The old varnish, repainting and the remains of a badly executed previous conservation have been removed, revealing a technique fully compatible with that, characteristic of confirmed works by Titian, and thus confirming that the painting is an autograph work by the master of Pieve di Cadore.
The commission for Bellini's painting of St. Francis in the Frick Collection coincided with developments of the Observant movement in the Veneto in general, and, in particular, the refurbishing of the Franciscan convent in the Venetian lagoon on the Island of San Francesco del Deserto. This essay places the painting in this historical religious context in order to establish the meaning of its exceptional qualities of form and content.


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Rupert Murdoch endorses Piers Morgan
Let's have petition to keep Piers Morgan in U.S. We need him, as does CNN.
— Rupert Murdoch(@rupertmurdoch) January 26, 2013
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch, pro-Piers Morgan.
News Corp chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch has issued an endorsement of Piers Morgan, the CNN host who has spent the last six weeks advocating for increased gun control, a cause Murdoch supports.
"Let's have petition to keep Piers Morgan in U.S.," Murdoch tweeted this morning. "We need him, as does CNN."
Though you'd never know it from watching Fox News, Murdoch is a staunch supporter of enhanced gun control. After the school shooting in Newtown, Conn., Murdoch twice called on the President to ban automatic weapons -- also via Twitter.
Earlier this month, the White House responded to a petition launched by Alex Jones, the radio host and conspiracy theorist, calling for Morgan's deportation. "Let's not let arguments over the Constitution's Second Amendment violate the spirit of its First," White House spokesman Jay Carney wrote.
Reached for comment, Morgan simply referred POLITICO to his response to Murdoch on Twitter.
"Maybe a Fox/NYPost campaign?" he wrote.
Fox is wishful thinking. The New York Post, maybe not.


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In the CDP, the population was spread out with 24.2% under the age of 18, 7.5% from 18 to 24, 18.3% from 25 to 44, 38.1% from 45 to 64, and 12.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 45.0 years. For every 100 females, there were 100.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 99.5 males. For the period 2010 through 2014, the estimated median annual income for a household in the CDP was $163,796, and the median income for a family was $180,091. Male full-time workers had a median income of $125,760 versus $75,119 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $67,357. About 0.7% of families and 1.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 1.3% of those under age 18.
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Thankfully for us dairy-free eaters, there are a lot of resources and recipes out there on the blogosphere to try. On Sweet Roots, there are recipes for homemade coconut milk mozzarella and cheddar (the cheddar is one of the most popular posts). The recipe below uses cashews as a base. If you are staying away from nuts, you can actually use the homemade coconut milk cheddar to make a nut-free mac and cheese.
I love to experiment but many recipes fall short of my expectations. I want a cheese that is healthy (super processed soy protein isolate? no, thank you) and that will please the palate. Thankfully I have a toddler taste tester to ensure this latter one.
This recipe is derived from this nacho cheese sauce from Tessa the Domestic Diva.
Introducing dairy-free cheeses to a formally cheese eater can be tough. At first, their taste buds might not welcome the nut or coconut derived versions but try and try again!
To make this more nutritious, I like to boil frozen broccoli, cauliflower or peas in with the noodles to add some vegetable.
{Pin it}Vegan Macaroni and Cheese from Scratch
Cashew Cheese Sauce
1/2 cup cashews, roasted and unsalted *
1 1/4 cup water
2 Tb nutritional yeast
1 tsp smoked paprika
2 tsp tapioca flour
1 Tb oats (or any flour of your choice)
1/2 tsp dehydrated garlic powder
1/8 tsp liquid smoke (optional)
Pinch of Salt
Splash of Lemon Juice
2 Tb Extra Virgin Olive Oil (Tessa used a butter substitute but I like using olive oil so feel free to use whichever you have on hand)
2 cups Gluten-free Macaroni or Noodles of Choice (I buy mine from winco)
1. Boil water in a medium sauce pan. Add noodles.
2. Blend all of the ingredients in a blender until completely incorporated. (I like to blend dry first then add water and then oil).
3. When noodles have reached desire doneness, strain and set aside.
4. Add the sauce to the pot and let cook on medium for one minute, stirring a couple times to make sure nothing settles. Add noodles and stir until sauce adheres to noodles and thickens. Serve and enjoy!
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The Global Skincare Devices Market is expected to reach USD 12,799.5 million by 2020, growing at an estimated CAGR of 10.0% from 2014 to 2020, according to a new study by Grand View Research, Inc. Increasing prevalence of skin disorders and skin cancer around the globe is expected to drive skincare device demand. The growing demand of minimal, non-invasive and aesthetic procedures such as skin rejuvenation, skin tightening and body contouring is also expected to be a key driver of this market. In addition, rise in the growth of medical tourism and 'Medspas' in emerging markets such as India is expected to provide growth opportunities to market participants. Presence of cost effective procedures coupled with an abundant presence of English speaking healthcare practitioners are some of factors driving the market in these regions.
Skincare treatment devices dominated the product market with a share of over 92.0% in 2013. Change in consumer lifestyles and their growing willingness to spend on treatments such as liposuction, lasabrasion and Microdermabrasion to make favored body and skin modifications is expected to boost segment demand during the forecast period.
Browse full research report on global skincare devices market: http://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/skincare-devices-market
Further key findings from the study suggest:
- Skin tightening & body contouring segment is expected to grow at the highest CAGR of 12.0% during the forecast period. Rising disposable income of consumers and increasing desire to stay physically fit and attractive is one of the major factors accounting for its lucrative growth.
- The cellulite reduction market is also expected to grow at a significant pace during the forecast period. Growing global prevalence of obesity and the consequent rise in demand for cellulite (fat) reduction procedures is expected to drive segment growth during the forecast period.
- North America was the largest regional market in 2013, accounting for over 44.5% of global revenue due to rise in demand for skincare solutions to enhance physical features as a result of the modern lifestyle and increase in baby boomer population.
- Asia Pacific is expected to grow at the fastest CAGR of over 11.0% from 2014 to 2020. Improved health care facilities and an increasing preference for aesthetics related medical procedures coupled with growing disposable incomes will result in growth in demand for advanced skincare solutions in this region.
- Key industry participants of this market include Solta Medical Inc., Syneron Medical Ltd., Cynosure Inc., Cuttera Inc., Lumenis Ltd., Alma Lasers Ltd., and PhotMedex.
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For the purpose of this study, Grand View Research has segmented the skincare devices market on the basis of product, application and region:
• Skincare Devices Product Outlook
• Skincare Diagnostic Device
• Dermatoscopes
• Image Guidance Systems
• Biopsy Devices
• Skincare Treatment Devices
• Lasabrasion Devices Market
• LED Therapy Devices
• Liposuction Devices
• Microdermabrasion Devices
• Cryotherapy Devices
• Electrosurgical Devices
• Skincare Devices Application Outlook
• Disease Diagnosis & Treatment
• Hair Removal Market
• Skin Rejuvenation
• Cellulite Reduction
• Body Contouring And Skin Tightening
• Skincare Market Regional Outlook
• North America
• Europe
• Asia Pacific
• RoW
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And it was all going so well! Several users - both in our email@example.com inbox and the official Lionhead Forums - say that Fable II has been 'freezing' or locking up at various stages. "as soon as I got into my adult stage in the gypsy camp it froze," said Lionhead Forum member 'Sansight', "Strange freeze too, loud buzzing noise for about a second, then the screen gets all sorts of weird artifacts."There has been some speculation that the recent co-op patch may be the cause of the issues. These are still early reports, though, and it is unclear if there is actually a fault with the game or if this is just a few unlucky gamers with a hardware problem. Please let us know in comments if you have been affected. Lionhead has been contacted for comment. Problems with freezing... [Lionhead Forums]
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Aldo Leopold might call it the new agrarianism
One hundred years ago, a great American conservationist began a job in the Southwest as a ranger with the U.S. Forest Service. Over the course of an influential career, Aldo Leopold advocated a variety of conservation methods, including wilderness protection, sustainable agriculture, wildlife research, ecological restoration, environmental education, land health, erosion control and watershed management. But perhaps most important, he advocated a land ethic.
Each of these concepts continues to resonate, perhaps more than ever as the challenges of the 21st century grow more complicated and pressing. But it was Leopold's emphasis on conserving whole systems -- soil, water, plants, animals and people -- that is crucial today. The health of the entire system, he argued, is dependent on its indivisibility. The force that knits it all together is the land ethic, a moral obligation we willingly assume to protect the soil, water, plants, animals and people living together as one community.
After Leopold's death in 1948, however, the idea of a whole system seemed to break into fragments, beset by a rising tide of industrialization and materialism. Fortunately, a scattered but determined effort is now under way to knit the whole back together, and it's beginning where it matters most –– on the ground. Leopold's call for a land ethic is the root of the "new agrarianism," a diverse suite of ideas and practices based on the bedrock belief that genuine health and wealth depends on the land's fertility.
In Latin, agrarius means "pertaining to land." This resurgent movement includes a dynamic intermixing of ranchers, farmers, conservationists, scientists and others who aim to create an economy that works in harmony with nature. The approach starts with producing food locally while caring about the health of the land; it extends to rehabilitating watersheds, restoring riparian habitat, raising cattle without damaging the land, encouraging biodiversity and protecting open space.
The spiritual mentor of this hopeful effort is, of course, Leopold, who asked us to feel "the soil between our toes." That means the same today as it did decades ago: We human beings need an intimate understanding of how the land actually works. As Leopold said, we need to develop a sense of individual responsibility for the health of the land.
"Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal," he wrote, and "conservation is our effort to understand and preserve this capacity." In other words, the new agrarianism is ecological, blending scientific understanding of land health with local knowledge. One of its goals is to build resilience, the ability to handle shock and change -- an excellent idea for the 21st century.
Agrarianism is also economic. Unlike environmentalism, which never developed an economic program to go along with its goals of land preservation and human health, agrarianism is a practical retort to industrialism. It confronts our profit-first economy, the source of most environmental ills, and thereby gives the average American an alternative to participating in an unsustainable model of endless growth. And it is more than theoretical, as evidenced by the many examples of good stewardship across the nation.
Third, the new agrarianism walks the talk of a land ethic. It encompasses a concern for soil, plants, animals and people, striving for a harmonious balance among all.
"There is only one soil, one flora, one fauna, and one people, and hence only one conservation problem," Leopold wrote in his wonderful book, A Sand County Almanac. "Economic and esthetic land uses can and must be integrated, usually on the same acre."
Perhaps just as important, the new agrarianism sparks joy. It requires care and affection and love and laughter to succeed, including affection for one another. Although it is difficult to quantify how big this movement is today, it is easy to explain why agrarianism is on the rise: We are all agrarians now. We have to be: Our health depends on what we choose to eat and where we obtain our food, how we produce our energy and how we choose to use it, where our water comes from and who benefits from sustainable practices. All of these concerns are rooted in the land.
As we edge deeper into the challenges of the 21st century, the issues of resilience, coexistence, food and hope could not be more important.
Courtney White is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). He is the executive director of the Quivira Coalition, which hosts its 8th annual conference Nov. 4-6 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The theme is "Living Leopold."


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Rumour: "Crucible" movie is Oblivion designer's console RPG
According to this Kotaku rumour, the leaked movie everyone thought was a first look at Silicon Knights horror The Crucible on Sunday is in fact a new console RPG from developer Big Huge Games and Oblivion designer Ken Rolston.The footage emerged as part of the Intellisponse leak. Sega has now denied it's The Crucible.The site's […]
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Leaked video of The Crucible... isn't
MTV's just posted a quote from a Sega rep saying that the supposed video of The Crucible – the Silicon Knights horror – gleaned from Intellisponse's site this weekend, is nothing of the sort."That video is not the game that Silicon Knights is creating for us. I have no idea if it is a game […]
Intellisponse rumour round-up - lest we forget
Intellisponse, a market research firm, last night got "internetalised" in a rather brutal way, causing a flood of rumours on unannounced games. We're mindful that some of you don't have to convince your wives and husbands that writing nonsense about spacemen and pretend cars in the middle of the night is "necessary", so here's everything […]


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Connected Financial Services
Understanding your customers using the right connected financial services strategy.
Banks need to be where their customers are, as and when they want to complete a financial transaction or have a financial need. Insurers need to support their customers in situations where they need help, advice, or insurance. If these needs happen online or in (digital) stores, then financials must be able to deliver their services on the spot when possible or they need to be connected to the customer journey.
ATMs remain very important for customers because 'cash is still king' in many countries and it offers a fallback to mobile payments. However, the increase in mobile and online payments has put pressure on the current ATM model. Going forward, the ATM will either be seen as a digital contact point that includes a range of other services, or it will be a white-label service capable of supporting all banks with an interface look and feel that changes according to the banking customer at the machine.
Today, one of the biggest struggles facing financials is interaction and the level of engagement. How can they stay relevant and close to the customer if the customer doesn't visit a branch anymore and all communications are done through digital channels? Banking and insurance services are no longer the sole domain of financials, other companies are now providing services. With financials under increasing pressure from new fintech and bigtechs who are taking over the most profitable parts of the business, financials are looking for new ways to engage customers and develop their role through customer channels and ecosystems.
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Everyday financials collect huge volumes of customer data which is held in internal siloed systems, new engagement platforms, mobile applications, and old legacy systems.
Connecting the dots to create a real-time 360-degree customer view is challenging. However, it's a necessary part of delivering the right services, communicating the right messages, selling additional services, and dealing with compliance such as anti-money laundering. Making data available, improving its quality, and combining and storing it is crucial to supporting customer insights from online channels and developing new data-based service offerings - i.e virtual advisors that can recommend and advise based on data.
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The Gates, ABC's entry into the fast-growing world of vampire television, was sorta fun. A few moments stood out, however: the whole "smelling Rhona Mitra's mouth" scene, and the naked werewolf action. Clips and spoilers below.
So yeah, The Gates wasn't a revolution in television brilliance, but as a bit of enjoyable fluff to watch after True Blood, it wasn't bad. A former top cop from Chicago who shot a guy and had to retire moves to a weird, exclusive gated community where everyone's a vampire, a werewolf or a witch. And the not-terribly-subtle message of the pilot is that Chicago Cop Guy faces the same challenges in his marriage and relationships that the vampires and werewolves do. Because he's a monster too, just like they are. Whoa. It's just that he's the type of monster known as "tough cop," and he can't change his nature, any more than the other monsters can.
Again I say, whoa.
But that's not what you're here for. You already witnessed the wonder of Rhona Mitra's husband smelling her mouth in the clip above (to determine whether she's sucked a guy's blood, which she has.) Now here's the scene, from the end of the episode, where one of the werewolves sees his sorta-ex-girlfriend talking to another guy, and wolfs out, only to have another werewolf pounce on him and wrestle him, naked to the ground:
(Oh, and lest you feel skeevy about staring at a naked werewolf who's supposedly in high school, the actor, Colton Haynes, was born in 1988 and is about to turn 22.)
And here's the other great werewolf scene, where those same werewolves discuss whether they should run together as a pack, while standing very close and staring into each other's eyes:
Anyway, it's not exactly Art, but it's fun, and maybe we'll keep watching it. What do you think?


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This is a collection of files related to liberty, the right to bear arms, and the like. It contains mostly ancient philosophy rather than fast breaking news. The issues discussed here have been discussed for centuries or millennia, and the newest facts and newest arguments on these issues are mostly few decades old
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"[...] it is the right of anybody and everybody – of any one man, or set of men, no less than another – to repel injustice, and compel justice, for themselves, and for all who may be wronged, [...]"
"If anyone maintain that men ought to be compelled by fire and sword to profess certain doctrines [...] it cannot be doubted indeed but such a one is desirous to have a numerous assembly joined in the same profession with himself; but that he principally intends by those means to compose a truly Christian Church is altogether incredible."
Sir B. Brodie, after observing that man is a social animal (Psychological Inquiries, 1854, p. 192), asks the pregnant question, "Ought not this to settle the disputed question as to the existence of a moral sense?" Similar ideas have probably occurred to many persons, as they did long ago to Marcus Aurelius.
"What, then, is law? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense.
Each of us has a natural right [...] to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. [...]
[...] Thus, since an individual cannot lawfully use force against the person, liberty, or property of another individual, then the common force – for the same reason – cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, liberty, or property of individuals or groups."
we must assent to a maxim which will make the hair of protectionists stand on end -To break, to spoil, to waste, is not to encourage national labor; nor, more briefly, "destruction is not profit."


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The Rev's Autopsy Inconclusive
An autopsy is inconclusive as to the cause of death for Avenged Sevenfold drummer Jimmy "The Rev" Sullivan.
Orange County sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino said Tuesday that the coroner's office ordered toxicology, microscopic and laboratory tests to help determine why Sullivan died. It's expected to take several weeks to get the results of the tests.
Sullivan was found dead in his Huntington Beach home on Monday.
Avenged Sevenfold formed in Huntington Beach in 1999 and won Best New Artist at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2006. According to their MySpace page, the five-man metalcore band was working on their fifth album.
In a statement, the band called Sullivan "one of the world's best drummers," and "our best friend and brother."


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Ex-UFC Star Rousimar Palhares -- We Don't Want Him Either ... Says Bellator CEO
Ex-UFC Star Rousimar Palhares We Don't Want Him Either ... Says Bellator CEO
The CEO of Bellator MMA wants nothing to do with disgraced UFC fighter Rousimar Palhares -- telling us the UFC's decision to fire him this week was spot on.
In case you missed it ... Palhares was axed less than 24 hours after his Wednesday night fight against Mike Pierce at Fight Night 29 in Brazil -- where R.P. held onto an ankle lock way after the bell rang, for the second time in his UFC career.
Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney says he's not interested because, "Risks already exist for the courageous, world class fighters who enter the Bellator cage; without adding further unnecessary risks into the mix."
Sucks for Rousimar -- since a handful of former UFC stars have made the switch to Bellator like Rampage Jackson and Tito Ortiz ... who fight on Pay-Per-View later this month.
Bjorn adds, "Fighter safety is paramount to me and my team."
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - If the new U.S. Congress that convened on Thursday turns out to be less confrontational, more willing to reach reasoned, bipartisan compromise, less ... well ... on steroids, there could be a reason.
A record number of women were sworn in as members of the 113th Congress as a result of elections last November 6.
The 80 women members of the House of Representatives are joining a total of 20 female senators - a record crop for both chambers, which have been dominated by men - white men - from the time the first U.S. Congress was seated in 1789.
The 100 women of the 113th U.S. Congress - out of 535 members - will be thrown into a pressure cooker with huge fights already brewing over reducing federal budget deficits, imposing new controls on gun ownership and reforming badly outdated immigration laws and the tax code.
Last month, in the midst of a bitter budget and tax battle known as the "fiscal cliff," two female senators told ABC News that if women were in charge, things would have been fixed much more easily.
"I think if we (women) were in charge of the Senate and of the administration, we would have a budget deal by now," said Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine. "With all deference to our male colleagues, women's styles tend to be more collaborative," she said.
Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill agreed. "By nature we are less confrontational and more collaborative," the Missouri lawmaker said. "Not only do we want to work in a bipartisan way, we do it."
This record number of women in the new Congress will get a chance to have their impact. But for the most part, the men will still be in control. Almost all of the top leadership positions in the House and Senate are held by men, as are most committee heads.
The most famous female member of Congress is Nancy Pelosi, the only woman to ever hold the job of House Speaker. The California Democrat served in that top job from 2007-2010 before losing it in a Republican takeover of the House in 2011.
Interestingly, she is often described as having ruled the House with an iron-fist.
Pelosi is being joined by some women with colorful backgrounds.
One of the new members of the House is Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, an ex-Obama administration official and the first member of the U.S. Congress born in Thailand. But she is better known as an Iraq war hero, having lost both of her legs and suffering other wounds.
Another Tammy made history as well on Thursday as Tammy Baldwin, a Wisconsin Democrat, became the first openly gay member of the U.S. Senate and the first female senator from her home state.
For the record: Women serving in Congress are much more likely to be Democrats than Republicans.
Of the 20 female senators - three more than last year - 17 are Democrats. Only Collins, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire are Republicans.
In the House, 61 of the female members are Democrats, up from 53 the previous Congress, while 19 are Republicans, down from 24 last year.
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8 Dumb Criminals Caught Through Facebook
Police busted a Bronx, N.Y. gang Dec. 5 after alleged gang members wrote openly about illegal activity on Facebook and Instagram.
Members of the gang WTG attempted to disguise their language, using terms like "glocc," "swammy" and "hammer" for firearms. But police quickly cracked the code. The 10 suspects, all between the ages of 17 and 27, now face six counts of conspiracy to commit murder, assault, weapons possession and sales, and narcotics possession, reported NYPD.
WTG isn't the first, and most likely won't be the last, to be outed after over-sharing on Facebook. Police departments across the country have amped up their digital presences over the past few years. And some, like the New York Police Department, have even created special social media units with the sole purpose of tracking down criminal activity through the Internet.
This got us thinking: What other criminals have been caught through social media? We compiled a list of some of the most bone-headed, web-based arrests. Take a look below for our top eight.
Any good ones we missed? Let us know in the comments.
And please, if you plan on committing a crime,* at least be smart enough not to boast about it publicly.
*Don't commit a crime.
1. Running From the Cops LOL
Chris Crego of Lockport, N.Y. was arrested for assault in 2009 after a bar fight. When he didn't show up for sentencing, police issued a warrant for his arrest — turns out, though, he'd already fled the state.
It didn't matter. A quick Google search was all it took. Lockport police easily tracked down both Crego's Facebook and MySpace accounts, where Crego had updated his current location to Terre Haute, Ind., his place of employment and — here's the kicker — even his work hours. He had also posted his wanted picture from a newspaper back in Lockport.
2. The Classic "Siphon Gas From a Cop Car and Share It on Facebook" Maneuver
Twenty-year-old Michael Baker, from Jenkins, Ky., was jailed after he posted a photo of himself on Facebook siphoning gas from a local police vehicle.
The photo shows Baker flipping the bird while swiping fuel from a Jenkins Police Department squad car. The photo circulated through the town of 2,000, and before long, Baker was charged with theft for unlawful tanking and spent the night in the slammer.
The incident didn't seem to embarrass him or deter his Facebook habit. After he was released, he posted this on his page: "yea lol i went too [sic] jail over facebook."
3. #boobytrap
Two men were arrested in April 2012 for planting deadly, medieval-like booby traps along a popular hiking trail near Provo, Utah.
Benjamin Rutkowski, 19, and Kai Christensen, 21, were tipped off to police after they chatted to each other about the traps through — what else? — Facebook. The men claimed they had set up the traps to kill animals, not people, but the police weren't buying it.
One of the traps in particular was designed to swing a grapefruit-sized rock, armed with wooden spikes, at whoever set it off.
4. Always Log Out
A woman in Martinsburg, W. Va. came home to discover two diamond rings missing. She also noticed that someone had logged into Facebook on her computer — and had forgotten to log out.
The burglar, 19-year-old Jonathan Parker, was easily tracked down and the stolen jewelry was returned.
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Nineteen-year-old Rodney Knight Jr., of Washington, D.C., broke into Washington Post reporter Marc Fisher's home in January 2011. After nabbing a coat, petty cash and a laptop, Knight logged into Fisher's son's Facebook account and posted a photo of himself with the soon-to-be-stolen goods.
Knight's freebie mug shot led to his arrest a few days later. He pleaded guilty to both burglary and carrying a pistol without a license.
D.C. police officer Kyle Roe dubbed Knight the "most stupid criminal" he had ever encountered, the Register reports.
6. Beach Blues
Maxi Sopo was just excited about his vacation to Cancun. Granted, it was more of an "escape from the law" than a vacation — the 26-year-old had just defrauded a handful of Seattle banks out of $200,000, after all. But it didn't mean he shouldn't document his time on the beach for all his friends back home to see, right?
In the midst of all the excitement, Sopo made the rookie mistake of adding a former Justice Department official to his list of friends on Facebook. The result? Less beach bars, more iron bars.
Sopo's constant updates made it easy for police to find him. He pleaded guilty to four counts of bank fraud and was sentenced to 33 months in prison.
7. Be Careful Who You "Like"
A registered sex offender was arrested in Bluefield, Va. earlier this year after an unfortunate "liking" incident gave away his location.
Dyllan Naecher, 29, fled to Virginia after he became wanted in the state of Maryland. In an attempt to keep a close eye on the local police force, Naecher's girlfriend, 22-year-old Samantha Dillow, "liked" the Tazewell Police Department's Facebook page. The "like" gave police direct access to her account, which conveniently included a picture of Naecher. After a bit more digging, Tazewell officers found the pair's address and arrested both the next day.
8. Catch Me If You Can
Convicted thief James Tindell, of Oregon, was tired of the court-ordered drug treatment he had accepted to avoid prison. So naturally, he packed up his bags and left the state — but not without a little virtual taunting.
Tindell, apparently eager to boast about his escape from Oregon, updated his Facebook profile almost constantly as he drove across the country. He directed many of the sneery posts toward his probation officer — "Fresh out of another state," he wrote in one. "Catch me if you can." In another, he avoided all discretion entirely: "I'm in Alabama."
As luck would have it, Tindell was pulled over for speeding in Daphne, Ala. soon after. The officer ran his license and immediately found the warrant that had been issued for his arrest.
Tindell was ordered to reimburse the state $2,600 for his flight back to Oregon and was sent to prison for 30 months, PC World reported.
Images courtesy of Flickr, elhombredenegro; Facebook, Michael Baker; Flickr, jczart; and Flickr, shazwan


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|Epidemiology and Biostatistics in ART
Infertility is a major public health problem worldwide that has been encountered more during recent years. Clinically, a couple is considered to be infertile after at least one year without contraception and without pregnancy (Weinberg and Wilcox 1998; Savitz et al. 2002). Factors affecting fertility can vary in different parts of the world. The epidemiological knowledge about infertility in Iran is sparse; as regards fertility treatment developed substantially during the 1980's and Royan Institute is one of the largest infertility centers in our country. Many infertile men and women from different geographical areas and different ethnic groups throughout the country refer to this center. It is tried to study important variables such as psychosocial, demographic, social, and geographical among others which effect on fertility. Also, the associations between those variables among women and men in ART through epidemiological methodology such as case-control, retrospective cohort or interventional studies are included. Hope that the activities of this group can be effective in providing important data about the epidemiologic and etiologic factors of infertility in this part of the world and can show the priority of future plans for complementary assessment and preventive programs in general population.
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R Cheraghi, MSc
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Andrew Klavan is an unusual combination: He writes detective novels filled with depictions of human depravity, and he's now a Christian. It shouldn't be an unusual combination, because an understanding of man's sinfulness, along with a glimpse of God's holiness, often makes us realize our desperate need for Christ. And yet Christian fiction has a reputation for being too nice to take on vice.
Klavan has written 10 novels, two of which have been made into movies: True Crime, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, and Don't Say a Word, with Michael Douglas. Klavan, a former reporter who has lived on the East Coast and in London but now lives in California, has twice won an Edgar (named after Edgar Allen Poe) for top mystery writing. On his website, andrewklavan.com, he wrote last year, "I became a Christian after some 35 years of thinking and reading everything I could get my hands on from Augustine to Zoroaster."
WORLD: In your latest novel, Damnation Street (2006), you have a sympathetic young Christian saying about her atheistic dad, "The fact that all of these deep convictions of his turned out to be just false made me wonder about the other thing, the God thing. Well, it's a long story." Could you tell our readers something about your starting point and your long path to acceptance of the God thing?
KLAVAN: Well, the thing is, some guys are born where they want to be—Catholic, Jewish, Baptist, whatever. My life has been more like one of those Outward Bound programs where they drop you far from home and you have to make your way back with a piece of string and a matchbook. I was born and raised a Jew and came up in that wonderful secular intellectual tradition that teaches you to analyze everything. God kept coming into my life and I kept disproving Him—I was very good at it!
Fortunately, I could also disprove the foundations of my disproof. Eventually I saw that the pillars of the secular consensus—scientism, materialism, rationalism—were all made of sand. Whereas the deeper I went into the experience of God, the more I found, you know, life in abundance.
WORLD: Life in abundance—and you wrote in The Wall Street Journal in 2004 that "what tipped the scales" for Christianity in your own thinking "was that the presumption of atheism proceeds without respect for the human experience of God's presence." What did you mean by that?
KLAVAN: Right, I think I was writing about scientific materialism. And I love science. It's our great tool for understanding the material world. I think some Christians make a mistake by placing God in opposition to science—it's like pitting Him against His own creation. But by the same token, the greatness of science—the purity of its materialism—is also its limitation. Science assumes that the experience of God is an illusion of the brain, because the physical world is literally all it can see—that's what science is for. But to think that spiritual experience is a mere outgrowth of the body is like thinking an idea is a mere outgrowth of the words that express it. The assumption is patently unjustified.
WORLD: As you moved toward Christianity it seems that you were developing characters—Lonnie Blake and Howard Roth in Hunting Down Amanda (1999) and Peter Blue in Man and Wife (2001)—who sacrifice themselves to save others. Did your creation of Christ figures help you to embrace Christ—and how did your movement toward Christianity affect the nature of your heroes?
KLAVAN: The simple answer to the first question is: yeah, absolutely. I only had to read my own stories to see my view of life was increasingly a Christian one. But here's the funny part. Becoming a Christian actually made me less likely to use Christian symbolism and structures in my work because now I see Christ's presence underlying all of life—I don't have to place Him there artistically. Baptism made me more of a realist, more willing to let each character go his own way and tell his own story as he would. I'm a novelist, remember, not a preacher. I trust reality to express Christ's presence, because I think that's what it actually does.
WORLD: Hunting Down Amanda also has Edmund Winter, who shows his nature in this scene: "His tongue snaked over the top of her ear. . . . 'I'm going to teach you who's the master of creation.'" Then in Dynamite Road (2003) you introduce the devilish Shadowman, with his ability to remain unnoticed and his heart set on pure evil. How did your growing Christian belief affect the development of these satanic characters?
KLAVAN: There again, I think what you're seeing is more realism, less theory, less nonsensical psychological overlay. I think a lot of modern novelists think they're going to explain evil to you, really get to the heart of it. And what you get instead is pathologizing rhetoric, characters forced to behave according to the latest fad psychological theory. The more I trust to God's reality, the more I let evil characters just act the way they do in real life. Self-rationalizing, radically egocentric, relishing the anonymity of their power—"satanic" is a good word.
WORLD: Damnation Street depicts Christians in the hostile territory of the University of California, Berkeley, meeting privately and quietly for worship in an unmarked house. The narrator, peeking in from a back window, is shocked: "They were praying. They were Christians. Emma too. Emma was a Christian. I could not have been more shocked if I had looked in and seen her [expletive]. . . . What was she thinking? How could she be possibly be a Christian?" Is that the reaction you get among those who knew you prior to your becoming a Christian several years ago, and how do you think your change will affect your reputation?
KLAVAN: You know, I suspect everyone who sets sail on the sea of faith is a little bit like Christopher Columbus. There are all these people on shore saying, "Are you crazy? You're going to fall off the edge of reality!" And instead, you discover a new world. That said, in my personal life, God has showered me with so many people who love and accept me that the transition was easy. Professionally, in Hollywood and New York, there are still some moments of discomfort. But I'm a hard case—I can handle it.
WORLD: The narrator in Shotgun Alley (2004) criticizes "those ideologues who thought marriage was oppression and sex was rape and men and women should be exactly the same. . . . They were bullies and liars. They lied about history and human nature and statistics." Did your understanding of human nature lead you to a Christian worldview, did your growing religious understanding lead you to oppose the bullies, or both?
KLAVAN: Well, if becoming a Christian meant you understood human nature less, the evidence would be all against it. But, in fact, what you get is a deep, sorrowing, almost unbearable insight yet without anger and without despair. Remember Jesus and the Samaritan woman by the well? That wry, kindly acceptance of her messy sex life that doesn't abandon morality yet doesn't descend into finger-wagging moralism—to me, that's the essence of tough guy fiction—of all good fiction. As for the bullies, feminist and otherwise, I always knew what they were, I've just become less willing to shut up about it.
WORLD: And what about literature professors? Damnation Street has a great riff on academic novels; it concludes, "there were all the usual passages where the languid acerbic eloquence suddenly gives way to a more heartfelt but still acceptably ironic eloquence with which the professor affirms the beauty of this meaningless spark of a meaningless flame that was the life of the imagined soul in the accidental universe, which was really only the novel he was writing, which was this novel, which was this universe and so on." Why do reviewers tend to praise such stuff?
KLAVAN: Because it's like dropping into a warm bath for them. It confirms all their otherwise indefensible ideas. Whenever you hear a reviewer call a novel "Shocking!" or "Disturbing!" or "Radical!" they don't mean it's shocking or disturbing or radical to them! They mean it's going to shock or disturb some conservative evangelical they've invented in their own minds. What it really does is stroke their egos, tell them how wise they are, how perfectly their silly theories reflect life and plumb the depths of art. Something that actually shocked or disturbed them—well, take The Passion of the Christ, for instance—not my favorite movie for purely cinematic reasons—but that really shocked them, and you saw the ugly result.
WORLD: Does the dominance of literary fiction among teachers hurt educational efforts as well? The San Diego Union Tribune in 2004 quoted you as saying, "They tell me you can't get boys to read. But what are they giving them to read? I wanted to bring back hard guys." Do you find middle-school and high-school kids reading your books? What's their reaction?
KLAVAN: Well, of course it hurts education; of course it does. Kids are the first to know when you're lying to them with some politically correct malarky. They may not have the courage or the confidence to oppose it. But they'll just turn away, go somewhere else, play video games where men fight dragons and don't have to be so sensitive and girly. As for their reactions to my work, it's hard to say because the kids who write to me tend to be fans. Whether other kids are reading me and hate me, I don't know. What I hear is always very flattering.
WORLD: Thinking about flattery: A reviewer in the Calgary Herald wrote about Don't Say a Word (1991), "Klavan is no stylist and his characters are far from unforgettable." Recently, Associated Press reviewer Bruce DeSilva stated, "Klavan's writing is masterful, and his characters superbly drawn." Was the initial reviewer wrong, or have you become a better writer over the past 15 years? If so, what do you count as major improvements, and how did you achieve them?
KLAVAN: Clearly the reviewer who attacked me was blinded by sin and possibly on mind-altering drugs as well. I'm joking, of course. I'm a little torn about how to answer because on the one hand, sure, you get better as you go along. You learn how to create emotional effects, when to leave things out, when to spell them out. On the other hand, I've always prided myself on two things: my style and my characters, which I think are both unique in the genre. But when you do something different, there are going to be people like the Calgary guy who don't like it and you have to live with that.
WORLD: One pastor suggests that Christians should be able to say what they're doing because of Christ that they otherwise would not do, and what they're not doing that they otherwise would do. Applying that to writing: What do you think you might do differently in future novels?
KLAVAN: All I can tell you is this. I'm writing a book now—the first novel I've written from beginning to end as a baptized man—and it's so different from anything I've ever done and yet so completely and naturally the product of my personal vision that I can only watch it unfold with a sort of helpless fascination. I believe the reason for that is this: As a Christian, I'm more myself and I see the world more clearly as it is. And the reason for that is, in the immortal words of Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol: "It's all right. It's all true. It all happened."
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I'm SO super excited to say that I have won the One Lovely Blog Award (how cool is that!). I feel very much fresh out of the box as I only entered this beautiful blogosphere 2 weeks ago – so, thank you so much for every like, comment and follow so far and I am loving seeing what everybody else is doing and feeling a part of this awesome community!
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Thank you so much to Sam at Love, life & Happy Ever After for nominating me – it is a great honor 🙂 I love the fact that her blog focuses on a variety of different life topics, all interesting, thought provoking or inspirational. I highly recommend checking out her blog!
I've been informed that these are the rules for accepting the award:
- Thank the blogger who nominated you (thanks Sam!!)
- Link the post to their page (done :))
- State 7 random facts about yourself (hmmmm…interesting, I have to think about that)
- Nominate those that you feel are deserving of this award (no problem!)
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- I have 2 dogs and they take up so much of my time that I'm considering starting up a blog about them.
- Some of my favorite music is by Michael Bublé, Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Runrig (right, so that makes great sense right? Jazz, alternative rock and Celtic rock!)
- I'm Danish but live in New Zealand.
- If I could choose a super power (okay, three) it would be flying with the speed of lightning, super strength and duplication/re-absorption like the Multiple Man. That way, I could clone myself, fly around to save the world from environmental destruction, visit my family as often and as long as I wanted, and be home in time for dinner!
- I love shooting games and manicures (although, not done at the same time)
- I have a borderline obsession with stationary of all sorts and can spend hours looking at filing systems and different colored post-it notes.
- I'm a natureholic – anything outdoors has got my name on it.
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Welcome 2016!
You will see and hear a great deal about how to make 2016 your best year ever, how it's gonna be so awesome, and you're gonna be so great! Oh, dare I forget famous : )
I'll assume you're sensing my sarcasm. I do like new beginnings, I do find the beginning of a new year some what fascinating, I get a small charge internally. My welcoming 2016 has very little to do with me, having said that, I will accept anything positive and good that comes my way. But the truth is, some things will not be good, and some things will not go the way I wish or want them to. The same will most likely happen for you. So learn from the negative and teach your positives, and maybe even give it away.
We do tend to apply the new year thing to our personal desires, dreams, and sometimes goals. After all, we all want more, we all want many good things to happen, so we have this overwhelming amount of hope and the turn of each year, and we should! But not for personal reasons, I believe we have huge problems to solve, not just for me, but for all of us, we need to think terms of all, just you or me. If we focus on the great good, how all can benefit, the odds are many of the dreams and desires will come to us, because we took our eyes off us and put them on those around us.
Today we think of the future in terms of technology rather than in real-time, hands on things, helping those less fortunate than ourselves, sacrificial giving, putting others before yourself. I remember my parents telling me that when they were teaching me about sharing with others. When I speak of the future, or the future of business, the core value in my heart is about how we all benefit, we all gain a greater sense of worth from whatever is being built, designed, invented, and that we all have some sense of an ROI (Return On Investment). So let me begin….
This year, this new year called 2016 will be the year of Virtual Reality, many will be consumed by it. It will be a huge draw for sure, the amusing side of it will keep you coming back for more. The unknown, and the possibilities will be the bigger deal. Like most things, for every equal good, there is an equal bad. Much of that will reveal itself before the year's end. There will some really interesting applications for VR, Real Estate comes to mind immediately, it will be the end of QR Codes.
I also plan to continue my studies on the future of business, what does it look like, what does it mean to you the business owner, and how can you truly apply and understand the Open & Free Business Model. I have said it many times, the Open & Free Business Model is not about working for free or giving away everything, it's a much bigger way of thinking. The idea is about the future, your future clients and customers, and yes many have told me it will never work…..many are proving me right, and I have shared many stories here on this blog of how many are participating in the model without realizing that's what they are doing.
There is so much to share, and so much to talk about, it will never ever be put to paper or a blog fast enough, or clear enough….you have to get involved, and learn how to change the way you think about business in 5 – 10 years, more importantly, in the next 3 – 5 years. You already know there is a shift taking place, and many of you are resisting it, fighting tooth and nail to keep doing what you've always done, and thinking the same way year in and year out. Enough of me lecturing, I encourage you to take baby steps, learn something new about the Open & Free Business Model everyday, I'll help you wrap your brain around it. I'm planning webinars, workshops, public speaking events, and if all goes well a book you can sit down and work through.
So welcome 2016, but do it for everyone that is a customer of yours, a client, and friend, a neighbour, do it for others, not just for you. Use your influence and hope for others, that's what it's truly for, you'll be just fine if you practice. Always ask yourself the question, How many people are better off because you lived? Imaging the great things you'll invent, the great things you will do to make the world a better place. I challenge you to welcome 2016 with that mindset, with that heart.
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Melbourne's The Avalanches have been getting more than their fair share of hype of late, and their debut single on XL goes some way to explaining why. A deliriously upbeat, luminous slice of dance-pop, 'Since I Left You' is about as sunny a record released in March can be.
The sound, dreamy and dislocated and seemingly derived from acres of overlooked 70's vinyl, is similar to their excellent remix of Badly Drawn Boy's 'The Shining'. Think druggy flutes, a skippy beat and a xylophone tinkling somewhere underneath and you're halfway there. All in all, a disposable single to warm the soul, and one that further raises expectation of their soon to be released debut album.
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Bank aims to serve the Internet banking needs of 2 million customers by 2016
December 11, 2012, Ho Chi Minh City
Saigon Thuong Tin Commercial Joint Stock Bank (Sacombank) has announced its partnership with Infosys, a global leader in consulting and technology, to implement the new generation Finacle e-banking & mobile banking solution. The Bank will install Finacle's consumer e-banking, corporate e-banking and mobile banking solutions. The solutions will enable the bank to develop sophisticated Internet banking products and services with faster roll out times, targeted at improving customer satisfaction. It will also help influence customer loyalty through unique personalization capabilities, industry-leading security features and intelligent customer insights that will drive the adoption of online banking.
Given Vietnam's relatively high Internet usage rates and strong willingness among customers to adopt new technology, Sacombank envisages an addition of several million e-banking customers over the next few years. The bank, therefore, required an e-banking solution that would offer both flexibility and scalability to support its expansion plans, while improving customer experience. The bank chose Finacle's new generation solution for its extensible architecture and unique persona-driven features.
Finacle's e-banking solution will enable Sacombank customers to use advanced online functions and services such as personal financial management, liquidity management and online L/C. Corporate clients, in particular, can submit payment orders via mobile phone after the e-banking system upgrade that is scheduled for December next year. This is in addition to the current Internet and mobile phones-based services such as intra-bank and bank-to-bank transfers, utility bill payments, term deposit purchase, airlines ticket purchase, prepaid card top up, etc.
Mr. Nguyen Minh Tam, Deputy CEO of Sacombank said: "To keep pace with the development of the banking sector as well as the increasing popularity of the Internet and hence higher usage of Internet banking, Sacombank has set Information Technology - one of the four key strategies – to be the top priority in the Bank's 2011-2015 development period. In order to achieve this key objective, Sacombank has invested heavily on information technology system in the recent years, including e-banking transaction channel. Therefore, this cooperation with Infosys will open up opportunities for Sacombank to further penetrate in the very potential market and to set solid foundation to become the best service and most competitive bank in Vietnam and the region. The objective of this project is to enhance our capability to serve the e-banking needs of more than 2,000,000 customers by 2016 and to allow customers to make almost all banking transactions over Internet."
Mr. Sanat Rao, Vice President and Global Head - Client Services, Finacle, Infosys said: "Sacombank is a pioneer in the Indo-China market for innovation and commitment to excellence and we are privileged to be chosen as the bank's strategic technology partner. Channels, especially online and mobile, are the top innovation priorities and key growth levers for tomorrow's banks. With Finacle's proven channel banking solutions, we are committed to helping Sacombank innovate and engage more consumers in newer ways. This as an exciting opportunity for us and strongly underlines Infosys' capabilities to support banks throughout Vietnam and the ASEAN region."
Saigon Thuong Tin Commercial Joint Stock Bank (Sacombank) was established on 21/12/1991. Sacombank has been a pioneer in expanding its branch network in Laos and Cambodia. Especially, being the only bank in Vietnam to open special branches for women and the Chinese-speaking community. As of 30/09/2012, there are 416 transaction points, including 7 transaction points in Cambodia and Laos. According to the Q3 reports, accumulated profit before tax in 3 first quarters of 2012 was VND 2,107 billion, equivalent to 62% of the plan in 2012. Recently, Standard & Poor's (S & P) highly rated growth prospect of Sacombank and raised the long-term credit rating from B+ to BB-. On the other hand, Sacombank has received many awards from the State Bank and international organizations.
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Tuesday, January 9, 2018
Warm Winter Day & Confident Twosday Linkup
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I'm not really a vest person, but yours looks great! :) Such a good price too! :) I really like your boot liners too, they look so cosy!ReplyDelete
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Hope that the first week of 2018 went well for you and that this week is off to a good start too!
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That vest is great, my mom recently got one like it at Talbot's. It's a great piece because it goes with so much - looks great with your jeans but can also be dressed up. Love it! Ugh, warming up to 20 -30 degrees, God bless, I have no idea what that must feel like. Stay warm!!!ReplyDelete
GREAT vest and love the boots! You look like the cutest snow bunny!ReplyDelete
Such a cute, preppy outfit! Loving those boot lines.ReplyDelete
The dark plaid is one of my favorites and yet I don't own it. Thanks for the reminder to wear a statement necklace with my vest. Happy New Year, Laura!ReplyDelete
Laura, this is the perfect outfit for running errands as a pack mule! I remember those days of hauling babies, diaper bags, strollers in and out of the car, car seats, and everything else. You definitely do get overheated quickly! But at least you look fabulous underneath all the baby gear!ReplyDelete
That vest is such a classic! I love me some layers too. I have one like it, but it's nylon and I don't love that, so I rarely wear it! The tweed version is way better!ReplyDelete
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I like how you styled this lookReplyDelete
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Very cute look! I love that vest and those boots and I have similar and want to recreate this look!ReplyDelete
Vest are one of my faves---especially when they are tweed like this!!ReplyDelete
What a cute vest and great price! I agree with Brooke in that I think it's a classic piece now.ReplyDelete
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Love this snowy look! The necklace was the perfect finishing touch!ReplyDelete
Only another Wisconsin gal considers the 20s and 30s warm and time to ditch the coat! I am so with you girl! I wear my puffer vest more than a winter coat in the winter because I'm basically just dodging from car to building and I get overheated inside with a full winter coat on. Love your vest! So cute!ReplyDelete
I have to dress in layers while I shop too. I can't be bogged down by a heavy coat. Love this look, the blue and green plaid is so fun and I love those hunters!ReplyDelete
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This is such a cute winter look! I love the vest paired with the plaid and Hunter boots. Isn't it funny how temps in the 30s feel like spring after the cold we have been having!ReplyDelete
I am a big fan of vests. And you styled it very well, Laura! Great winter look! Thank you so much for choosing my photo from last the link up!ReplyDelete
Loving your Hunters, lady- I have a bright teal pair that work for spring, but need a pair I can rock in the winter!ReplyDelete
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Hey Claire, happy New year and you look so amazing in this outfit! I hope your New Year is fabulous!ReplyDelete
I went through a phase a few years ago where I really wanted Hunter boots and I'm starting to feel that same urge again! I love the color of yours!ReplyDelete
Love your vest Laura and your green hunter boots look darling with this look.ReplyDelete
Have a great week!
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Such a pretty outfit! I just love those green boots and how it picks up the color in your plaid shirt. I have a herringbone vest and I wear it a lot!ReplyDelete
I have those same Hunter wellies, with the sock liners too—they're the best! Stay warm!ReplyDelete
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Love the statement necklace with the vest, such a pretty combination! XxReplyDelete
So cute Claire- love how you added a statement necklace too!!ReplyDelete
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Wow!! You look beautiful dear <33 Lovely boots :)ReplyDelete
That vest is such a great layering piece! I love the sparkly necklace!ReplyDelete
It has been so cold around here too. I am kind of over it and hoping for some warmer days. I love this vest on you! I was thinking about getting a herringbone patterned one. Sierra~Beautifully CandidReplyDelete
Pretty crazy to consider the 20's & 30's warm but I remember that in MN. You are right, hauling a baby and all that stuff is no joke, I also remember those days. Your vest is perfect and I love the necklace with it. Cute as always!ReplyDelete
I really love that vest, it looks so great on you. The 30s definitely would feel warm compared to the single digits!ReplyDelete
This vest looks awesome on you, and what a great deal!ReplyDelete
I hope you are having a great week so far!
Love that vest - I have a similar one and the style is just so cute. Yay for getting some arm definition, at least there is a perk to all that baby carrying!ReplyDelete
I wear vests all winter long! I'm always cold and it adds another layer. Love this tweed one on you!ReplyDelete
Such a pretty look.ReplyDelete
I love the purple plaid and the red lip combo, it made the outfit pop! cute!ReplyDelete
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Love the outfit! That necklace is so pretty! You look fantastic! That is why I picked a bag that can double as a handbag for diaper bag. It got to be too much to lug around. Although with two littles both needing things from a diaper bag it may be harder to accomplish now.ReplyDelete
I LOVE this outfit so much! Especially the boots! It's so great to be back in the fashion blogger world. So great to see you and your fabulous style! I hope you'll like up with the FAshion Informant this week!ReplyDelete
I love the vest! It finishes off the outfit perfectly, along with the pretty necklace. I need to buy one or two vests to wear at work because it's so cold in the office - I end up wearing my coat all day!ReplyDelete
Emma xxx
I really love this hunters boots trend right now. I think they're sooo cute, and pretty reliable too! Ideal for the thick snow!ReplyDelete
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