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In Helen Hunt Jackson's poetry, the most powerful moments are allegorical. That is, they depend upon a philosophical understanding of human experience in which one story, whose particulars are homely, human, and transient, stands in for a second story. For Jackson, this second story's claims aspire to the claims of religion and give access to what is eternal, immutable, and thus not at risk.
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The mess at Segunda continues. The competition committee rejected a preliminary report from a judge that was asking to give the game to FC Fuenlabrada as a defeat. For now, everything remains frozen, including the playoff.
On Thursday it was known the preliminary report from the judge that was handling the case CF Fuenlabrada at the Spanish Federation (RFEF). The judge reported that there are enough evidences to believe that the Madrilenian club committed several faults that could meant a punishment.
What called the attention is that the precaution measure proposed by this judge was to give the three points of the game to Deportivo. Normally a precaution measure is an action that tries to protect the integrity of all the parties involved, which could be to freeze an action like playing a football game.
But in this case, in a very unusual decision, the judge suggested an action that punishes CF Fuenlabrada. For many analysts, this suggest that the judge is convinced of the severity of the actions of CF Fuenlabrada. But one day later the competition committee rejected this precaution measure.
Now the analysts believe that the competition committee made this decision in order to be more cautious as they want to avoid further demands. At the same time, the competition committee rejected the petition of La Liga about playing the game on August 2. This also indicates that the final resolution from the competition committee could take weeks.
And theres no time to continue waiting, the situation remains complicated at Segunda División, because the playoff remains frozen. CF Fuenlabrada are seventh at the standings with the option to jump one place if the get a point in the game with Depor, for this reason the playoff cannot be played as the four participants arent decided yet.
The LFP was hoping to end the playoff by August 15, nut the deadline will hardly be fulfilled. Now theres even a petition of CD Leganés in order to stay at Primera instead of the third promoted club from Segunda. In the case of Deportivo, the options of staying at Liga SmartBank are passing through the demotion of CF Fuenlabrada or to see all the parties involved, including CD Numancia, reaching an agreement to extend the number of participants to 24 for next season. About this possible scenario, the competition committee requested to La Liga and the Sporting Council for Sports the option of accepting a league with 24 participants.
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The 2003 Oscar race gathered steam last Thursday evening when a couple hundred select New Yorkers were treated to a special advance screening of The Hours, Paramount's highly-touted big-screen adaptation of Michael Cunningham's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel starring Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore. The majority of the post-show buzz focused on Kidman, whose stunning transformation into homely British writer Virginia Woolf left the standing room only crowd utterly speechless save for the words, "And the Oscar should go to... "
Believe it or not, Kidman who netted her first Academy Award nod for last year's movie musical Moulin Rouge nearly backed out at the 11th hour. "I was very, very frightened, because [I thought], 'If this doesn't work, I'm really going to have egg on my face,'" the 35-year-old actress tells TV Guide Online. "But [director] Stephen Daldry just said, 'Be bold.' And he basically took my hand and guided me."
Actually, Daldry who helmed 2000's beloved ballet drama Billy Elliot did more than that: He summoned make-up artists to fit Kidman with a long false nose. And from that point on, all signs of the former Mrs. Tom Cruise vanished. "The minute the nose went on, you saw a completely different actor," marvels screenwriter David Hare, who adapted Cunningham's novel for the screen. "By putting on the nose, Nicole ceases to be pretty. And by losing pretty, she gains everything."
Cunningham downplays the physical side of Kidman's metamorphosis. "It is helped by a wig and a plastic nose, but that's only one percent of it. It's all about what she was able to do," he maintains. "I think Nicole, if anything, exceeded my vision of what Virginia Woolf might have been like. I can't believe how good she is."
Gossip queen Liz Smith one of the media power mongers invited to Thursday's Hours preview singled out Kidman in her syndicated newspaper column Monday. "It is rare for a hugely sexy, young and adorable superstar to transcend fame and publicity and disappear into a character, but Nicole has done it," she raved. "Her physical impersonation alone demands recognition, because you forget all about Nicole Kidman while watching [the film]."
Kudos of a more official nature will likely be showered on the Aussie superstar come February, when Oscar nominations are announced. Like a kid awaiting the arrival of St. Nick, Kidman admits a second consecutive nod would be a fantasy come true. "As a kid, I watched the Oscars," she says. "I sat in the living room in my dressing gown and would watch it from Sydney. I think what's so beautiful about the Oscars is they let you dream. If I got nominated, I'd be thrilled."


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The author went on a business trip to the capital city of Canada, Ottawa from 13 to 18 June, 2018, an opportunity that came about as the result of becoming a President of the Japanese Association for Canadian Studies[1] which is a regional research association on April 1, and being scheduled to participate in the Annual General Meeting of International Council for Canadian Studies.[2] Although it was not made because I had anticipated representing the Private University Research Branding Project of Chuo University "Comprehensive Analysis on Diversity of Legal Systems in Asia-Pacific Region and Convergence towards Establishment of the Rule of Law," it was a great opportunity to think about legal research from a comparative perspective and furthermore expressing the research in English which are the core part of research branding.
That's why I would like to introduce the current progress of work in the above-mentioned research branding project, while introducing the experiences gained from visiting Canada.
In the above-mentioned research branding project, English is a common working language. This is based on the fact that, in reality, the only language that can be utilized as a common language by countries in Asia and the Pacific is English. However, the problem is that the English language in the fields of jurisprudence and actual practice of law has been connected with British law throughout its development. British Law was propagated later in England's colonies, and many countries and regions still apply it today after making modifications to suit each society, while keeping its basic characteristics intact, which makes it safe to say that it has become a borderless legal system. We often see the expression Anglo-American Law, but this expression was modeled by America after the global widespread of British Law adaption. However, in reality, legal systems that have common characteristics while also having some variations exist, such as English-Canadian Law, English-Hong Kong Law, and English-Australian law.
Meanwhile, the law of Japan was heavily influenced by laws of the United States especially after the Second World War, but the core principles of that legal system was derived from laws in Germany and France, which are known as "Civil Law." As a result, a considerable degree of major discrepancy in legal systems exists between the English-Canadian Law and Japanese Law. The problem with this is, when trying to interpret Japanese laws in English we often face situations where a corresponding system simply doesn't exist, or a similar system exists but varies in essence or in principle.
Courtroom of Supreme Court of Canada
For instance, during my business trip, I used the interval time of the international conference to go on a guided tour to Supreme Court of Canada, which I haven't been to for a while, and there I had a rather intriguing experience. The tour took nearly an hour, and the number of participants was as small as 10. The guide was a current law student at a university in Canada, so he welcomed any questions about the legal system of Canada, and received many enthusiastic questions. An old American who apparently looked like a lawyer asked the most number of questions (By the way, I was probably the second). What I found most interesting was the discussion on the differences in Canada's and America's legal systems regarding application of "double jeopardy."
In front of VERITAS statue at Supreme Court of Canada
In Japan, this concept is translated as "Niju no kiken (二重の危険)," which means that "Citizens are required to bare the risk of criminal prosecution for the same offense only once. (They are not liable to accept a second prosecution). In the United States, it is combined with the application of the system when a trial judge grants acquittal at the first trial (or a verdict of "not guilty" in case of a jury trial), the government side (prosecutors, etc.) cannot appeal. While in Canada, appeals from the government side are allowed. "Canada doesn't have double jeopardy then?" the American lawyer responded directly after hearing that "Government can appeal." However the guide answered, "We do have it." As a matter of fact, the provision exists in Section 11, Item h of Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in Constitution of Canada. It states that "Any person charged with an offence has the right … if finally acquitted of the offence, not to be tried for it again and, if finally found guilty and punished for the offence, not to be tried or punished for it again." The wording "finally" here is interpreted to allow an appeal by prosecutors. In the end, the student guide and the lawyer winded up speaking privately, while I stood nearby listening. Although the American lawyer understood the difference in legal systems, he was not convinced, saying, "This is not double jeopardy."
This trivial experience made me realize once again that from the differences between legal systems, untranslatability can exist even for the U.S. and Canada whose legal systems are derived from the same British law and which share a common English language.
In the lobby of Supreme Court of Canada
Actually it can be said that the exact same problem occurs in Japan. Article 39 of the Constitution of Japan provides "何人も、実行の時に適法であつた行為又は既に無罪とされた行為については、刑事上の責任を問はれない。又、同一の犯罪について、重ねて刑事上の責任を問はれない." And its official English translation is "No person shall be held criminally liable for an act which was lawful at the time it was committed, or of which he has been acquitted, nor shall he be placed in double jeopardy."[3] Thus, the second sentence "重ねて刑事上の犯罪を問われない" (shall not be criminally liable for the same crime twice.) was not translated directly, but was expressed as "nor shall he be placed in double jeopardy." That part's translation is considered attributable to the fact that the draft prepared and presented to Japanese side by General Headquarters during the process of creating the Constitution of Japan had already included double jeopardy. Japan is also like Canada in that appeals from prosecutors are allowed, so if the above-mentioned American lawyer had seen that provision he would have probably screamed "this is not double jeopardy." From the Canadian Law's perspective, the double jeopardy in Canadian law and that in Japanese law can be said to be theoretically a common system.
Currently, research branding project led by the author is conducting surveys to compare diversities in laws of data privacy, international transactions, and conflict resolution including its cultural background in the 6 jurisdictions: Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia. The process includes sending questionnaires to overseas research partners, and getting the responses. The language used for this is unified to English, which brings with it the difficulties of handling the English language.
The second year of the project in 2017 was rather focused on collecting basic information such as the provisions of statutes, so there were no major problems. However, work in the third year is about conducting case studies, and there exists the problem of untranslatability. For example, in the field of data privacy, we created a scenario based on a real case that happened in Japan. We then ask what possible legal actions and social responses might follow if a case with a similar scenario occurred in a different jurisdiction. In the first place, making a problem with a Japanese social structure fit into a scenario in English is a difficult challenge in itself.
Concretely, when providing a scenario about "illegal transfer of personal information to third parties regarding transactions among enterprises of Keiretsu (an affiliated companies)," firstly, expressing the concept of Keiretsu becomes a problem to begin with. In newspapers for example, it's even expressed as "Keiretsu" often, but there should be some ingenuity in finding out how to express it in a way that's easy to understand. However, that is not the essence of the problem. Keiretsu is one actual form (but typical) of business combination in Japan, but because actual forms of business combination in each jurisdiction are expected to vary in economic, social, and legal form, it is necessary in the scenario to indicate that a problem pertaining to "Keiretsu" (business combination) can occur in Japan, and then imply the actual situation in each jurisdiction in response. By including such points in the scenario in English, it is required that responses in English from research partners allow research partners from jurisdictions other than said jurisdiction to also understand background circumstances in said jurisdiction.
Actually, the ongoing research is targeting 3 jurisdictions using the common law system, and 3 jurisdictions using the civil law system. Another problem is that research partners from the former 3 jurisdictions use English as a language to present their own country's laws, while research partners from the latter 3 jurisdictions do not. As a matter of fact, researchers from the latter 3 jurisdictions including Japan are aware of the entailed difficulties to represent one's country's laws in English, so discussions about how to express one's country's laws including the cultural backgrounds and use English expressions as an intermediate language rather than English as the language of common law are becoming more apparent. However, as English is the legal language for the former 3 researchers, they don't seem to be fully aware of the untranslatability of English from their countries to English for other countries, as well as relativity of English legal expressions. The conversation above between the American lawyer and the Canadian student as well as the American lawyer's conclusion is probably a typical example of that.
This trip to Canada confirmed that this research has a diversity of methodologies.


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OAKLAND, Calif. (CN) – A fund raiser for the 6 high school students expelled from a Louisiana school sued the ABC Radio Thursday saying s a radio host defamed him and by saying the money he raised "has not been going where it needs to go" and calling him "shady."
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Ever since they were first discovered and explored in 1709, the ancient cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum have excited the historical imagination of the West. "Antiquity Recovered" presents thirteen diverse essays that trace how perceptions of the past have changed over the course of three centuries of excavations. The essays range in subject from a reassessment of the contents of the library at Herculaneum's Villa of the Papyri, to the symbolic appearance of the ancient world in such classic films as Roberto Rossellini's "Voyage in Italy" and Jean-Luc Godard's "Contempt".
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Editor's Note
A number of very large and significant platform industries are converging on a common opportunity – to create and grow consumer commerce. Payments capabilities certainly underpin this convergent trend. Yet increasingly, the power in the world of payments is shifting to commerce enablers and generators, who are highly present in consumers' daily lives, and with whose platforms consumers are highly engaged.
This month's business section article will explore the potential role of online and social media, remote commerce mobility and mobile network devices in the coming convergence. (Note: Portions of this article have appeared previously in the author's lectures for PYMNTS University).
The business of managing payments has become more than just the processing of transactions and the movement of money. For a host of commercial enterprises, payments have become the cornerstone of engagement with their customers, the foundation of predicting customer intent and the linchpin of linking the participants of a networked business in deeper engagement with each other and with the network sponsor. Perhaps most importantly, payments have become a central engine in the monetization of network participant activity across a range of industries.
The new value exchange paradigm in the payments business is informed by interlinked processing platforms and networked business models. This new payments paradigm is one in which convergent ecosystems and the developers that serve them engage in tying together their service capabilities and business models to deliver uniquely valuable and differentiated value propositions to their common customers. Consumers have begun to expect that they can, and will, navigate the full commerce continuum – from the moment they decide they actually want something to the moment they have and are using it, through a singular interface and seamless interaction. They want access to the full range of interactions in real time, from anywhere. Consumer demands are driving the industries who serve them to converge on commerce, and the meeting point for them all is mobile.
Convergent Ecosystems
Electronic payments have become an essential component of business model growth for a host of ecosystems. In retail, competition for facilitating consumer access to deposits among the key traditional players in payments is robust. Retailers have been building payments businesses of their own to deliver deposit access services and payments capabilities directly to consumers in a form of "back to the future" payments management. Only today, instead of private label credit, they are delivering debit payments. While investing resources in controlling the evolution of payments provided by others, retailers are converging on commerce opportunities of their own. Increasingly, that convergence point includes information, payment and mobility.
As they converge on commerce opportunities, major physical location retailers are discovering what eCommerce retailers have known for some time: Building and managing commerce engines may be one of the most important investments a retailer can make to drive new sales, retain customers and control costs. As online retailers built checkout functions to streamline and simplify consumer purchase processes for eCommerce, they learned that payments facilitation through checkout engines can build a strong portfolio of registered consumer identities and transaction histories. In rapid evolution, major eCommerce payments players – both retailers and checkout engine specialists – have begun to drive their customer portfolios and commerce engines into other applications and adjacent ecosystems. Most prominent among these is the convergence of remote "online" commerce with remote mobile information access, with payment investments following closely behind.
For a long time, online advertisers have been seeking the holy grail of new media advertising – the ability to tie an advertising message tightly to a consumer profile and then to prove the consumer acted on the message make a purchase. Online advertising networks learned in the first phase of their explosive growth that the combined power of bringing advertisers and consumers into a networked environment – and bringing better information to each of them in the process – was a powerful catalyst to the revenue growth of the online advertiser. Revenues poured into new media from the "old" channels because of the richness of information about consumers that a new media platform could provide to an advertiser. Matching the right message to the right consumer at the right time drove exponential growth in online media platforms from inception.
While some of those media platforms have stuck with the tried-and-true online advertising network model, others have extended their platform into innovations and investments that are designed to link online messages to online, and hopefully offline, purchases. Investments in checkout engines, mobile device information and advertising platforms and in mobile marketplaces populated by identity management and checkout functions are all focused on driving commerce. With checkout engines and mobile investments, online advertisers are finding a way to divine customer pre-purchase intent, enrich the shopping experience with the information necessary to motivate a purchase, and most importantly, execute the payment transaction at the end of the advertising cycle that proves return on marketing investment to the advertiser. In their efforts to close the marketing-ROI loop, enlightened online advertising platforms are converging on mobile commerce to cover the last mile from digital marketing message to physical transaction sale.
Social media platforms have built large and diverse populations of heavily engaged users who interact on the platform across a wide range of activities, interests and uses. Operating from an "open platform" model of development and distribution, social media networks have become the new darlings of the Tech Age in both their explosive growth of participants and the level of that participant engagement. Consumer share of time online is shifting dramatically from online advertisers to social media platforms, and a host of businesses have taken note. Gaming companies, marketers, advertisers and consumer services application developers have all gravitated to these large distributed networks and their open platform models.
Social media managers are investing in commerce engines to help maintain and extend that user engagement into the commercial transactions that have begun to grow from participant interactions on the platform. Of perhaps greatest interest, the profile of social media users is one of high engagement and remote access. The largest share of social media sessions now takes place through a mobile device, and that share is growing. As social media platforms converge on commerce opportunities in their business, they are increasingly converging on mobile platforms in response to the highly mobile engagement of their participants.
Meanwhile, mobile operators and broader mobile ecosystem participants are converging on commerce as well. Mobile operators are engaged in one of the oldest and most well-understood network platform business models – networked telecommunications. As a result, they are very familiar with the strong fundamental dynamics of driving participants into a networked platform, and once they are there, building as many ways for them to interact as possible. Recently, mobile operators have seen the core revenue and profit growth of telephony challenged by the very ubiquity of access and use in their core businesses. Rollover minutes and all-you-can-eat data plans have challenged the consumer revenues operators' need to cover the massive capacity investments they've made – and one would argue losses they've seen – to carry the online advertiser and social media platform traffic consumers demand.
With a core business under siege, mobile operators have watched the major ecosystems listed above begin to converge on commercial opportunities at the intersection of their respective industries. The mobile operators have looked down to find themselves standing, quite literally, at the crossroads. Almost every business model in which the other ecosystems are currently investing has, at its core, a mobile execution of information or value exchange that serves as the catalytic cornerstone of the innovation.
Loyalty and Location-Based Services
As online advertisers and marketers work to deliver customer-acquisition and marketing solutions to their packaged goods and retailer clients, they are increasingly looking to remote mobile communications as the way to deliver timely, relevant and local information to consumers seeking purchase opportunities. Mobile solutions for retail marketing began with the delivery of basic information-only functions through the mobile devices – typically Web-enabled smartphones. Store locator and location mapping services were the first functions delivered to the market, helping that jittery, caffeine-deprived consumer find the nearest Starbucks location for a much-needed fix.
It didn't take long for marketers to conclude that, if it was possible to help a consumer find a retail location, it might not be such an alarming stretch to drive the consumer from where they are to that retail location with a promotional message or the promise of a benefit. So the business of mobile device location-based coupons was born. In a networked world, in which consumers walk around with smart devices that can be located in space, retailers have jumped at the opportunity to deliver proximate promotions to consumers that communicate and locate benefit for them. Business models, like Foursquare, depend on this capability to deliver local and relevant marketing messages to consumers. Innovators, like shopkick, use this same capability to drive consumers into retail stores, using location services to prove to the retailer that the consumer was there and providing a benefit to the consumer in the process.
Mobile Marketing and Advertising ROI
Taking the application of mobile services one step further, progressive advertisers and marketers have begun to revolutionize their industry by deploying a combination of the following: 1) online advertising to stimulate consumer demand, 2) promotional messages delivered to mobile devices, and 3) registered payment products identified from the point of sale. Although the advertising industry has already seen one revolution as media spend moved from physical print to online media platforms, it is clear that another revolution is coming.
Online media and search companies have created a large and growing technology-driven segment within the advertising industry by providing enriched data about consumer-use profiles and search activity to marketers. At the same time, these companies are providing relevant pre-purchase information to consumers in search. This simple innovation has dramatically changed the landscape for advertising and marketing, creating a fast-growing, multibillion dollar emerging media advertising sector practically overnight. Right along with it, the online advertising sector has created a legion of specialist marketing and advertising advisors to help online properties and product merchandisers spend millions in fees to optimize their performance on new media advertising platforms. Specialist advisors have created an industry to help marketers with refining techniques for search engine marketing management, optimizing organic and inorganic search engine performance, increasing referential links to improve search results, updating/refreshing frequently to enhance relevance, optimizing performance in social media platforms directly and indirectly, etc. All of these tools may improve advertising performance on a new media platform, but they don't necessarily take full advantage of the change in the commerce landscape that converging remote and mobile technologies create.
New Media? Or Old Media?
Funny enough, the new media and the new advertising industries have begun to look a lot like the old ones. Is an online search engine fundamentally different from a print magazine in any way other than the media platform it rides and the level of detailed subscriber/searcher information it can provide? Yes, an online search engine can tell an advertiser much more about the people who saw an ad or searched a keyword than a print magazine can say about the behavior of a subscriber. Also, those keyword searches can lead to website links that may ultimately generate commerce. But do they? And how can you tell? Is the online advertising industry simply the old advertising industry dressed up for today's marketplace and technology? Do these new tech platforms truly generate sales in a way you can prove? Is there any way to show that advertising investments online generate sales in stores in a way that is tangible rather than theoretical or inferred? Granted, asking this question here in Silicon Valley is a near heresy. To be fair, emerging media marketing platforms have never been in a position to prove a link between online search and offline sales, until the rise of mobile.
As revenues in the emerging media advertising industry have grown and as the information about consumers has become much more sophisticated, online advertisers have begun to realize that they may finally be in a position to grasp that brass ring on the advertising/marketing merry-go-round. Perhaps they can finally prove that a marketing or advertising message to a consumer actually resulted in a sale. As online advertisers have come to realize that this close-the-loop opportunity stands squarely in front of them and that it comes with an enormous upside potential in revenues, they have begun to invest in solutions that will help them tie online browsing to offline buying. In particular, Google, the leading online advertiser, has invested in building and deploying a mobile platform to take marketing and advertising messages into the consumer's hands and to tie those messages and discounts to registered card products to prove return on investment to its advertising clients.
Strong forces are at work to drive commercialization across a constellation of network businesses, all of whom appear to be headed on a collision course for a central space where they plan to create commerce. Retailers, eCommerce merchants, online advertisers, social media companies and mobile operators are all converging to provide payments capabilities and transaction processing to their network participants. As they converge, the forces of information, alias management, location-based services and mobility shape the solutions they have begun to build and deploy.
Loyalty provision, mobile marketing and remote payment capabilities are the leading solutions beginning to emerge from commerce convergence now underway. All of these solutions are tied, in some way, to the underlying trend of mobility among consumers – mobility in access to information, mobility in the locus of consumer demand and fulfillment and mobility in the provision of payment.
Which Ecosystems Are Driving?
It's difficult to predict winners and losers in the coming convergence, and it is not necessarily very informative to try to do so. All of the major ecosystems will grow, change and benefit from the coming convergence of their businesses on mobile commerce creation. Retailers will find ways to stimulate a consumer's interest, locate that consumer in time and space and drive him into a retail store to stimulate a purchase. eCommerce merchants will continue to drive consumer registration into, and adoption of, checkout solutions as they work to migrate those solutions to the mobile Web. Retailers will begin to facilitate remote commerce transactions over mobile devices in that place where consumers time-slice their lives and multitask their days through a tiny, glowing interface in the palm of their hands. Online advertisers will find a way to further segment and profile consumers on the basis of service engagement, online media consumption, search activity and interest. Social media platforms will continue to work their way toward commercialization of the high level of engagement and activity that consumers exhibit in their environments, taking advantage of the referential benefits to be gained by inferring consumer behavior from the groups to which they belong and the associations they make. In all of this, the mobile operators, platform managers and other mobile ecosystem participants who build, deploy and manage the devices and networks on which everyone else's business model success depends are working overtime. They're working to ensure that they have commerce provision capabilities of their own to bring to that middle place in which they find themselves and to which it seems an entire galaxy of industries is headed.
So, how will the players and solutions in the mobile convergence landscape evolve, and what may be the implications for the payments ecosystem in that convergence? How will this play out for the existing payments businesses and established players? We won't debate whether they will remain relevant. It is almost certain that payments networks and processors, financial institutions and third parties will all continue to exist and provide payments functions of some form in the marketplace.
But what will become of the traditional payments business as the industries it serves become increasingly networked themselves, and as their business models develop to depend more and more on the execution of payments transactions? Will payments as we know them today continue to be independent, branded, distinct functions provided to consumers by financial institutions? Will the payments that matter most to these converging ecosystems, and therefore to their customers, still be managed independently by payments specialist companies? Will payments become a hidden execution function buried inside a new consumer-facing brand and capability? Will the branded global network payment of today evolve to become but a component, or "ingredient" brand, of someone else's business solution, tied more closely to a piece of a much larger non-payment ecosystem?
So What Becomes of Payments as an Industry?
The answer to this question depends greatly on how payments systems integrate into new ecosystems. Their survival depends not on their fitness so much as on – to quote Charles Darwin – how "adaptive" the payments systems we know and use today are to integrating within the businesses of other industries and ecosystems. Why is this? For one thing, our current payments systems are to some extent victims of their own success. As revolutionary as the ability to access funds electronically from anywhere, at any time, for just about anything seemed at the time it first broke onto the scene a few decades ago, this capability is now taken pretty much for granted by the vast majority of payments participants. All of us expect transactions from our payment cards to work flawlessly, all the time, everywhere. We play straight past it.
As consumers, we are now driven by the solutions that solve the challenges that surround payments: What's new out there that I didn't know about? Is someone going to make me an offer on it? Where can I buy it? Is the product a good one? What do my friends think? And who is that texting me while I'm in the checkout line?
Payments companies would do well to heed the lessons taught by the explosive participant and revenue (and, not to mention, valuation) growth of a new generation of network businesses – social media platforms, online advertisers, search engine marketers and group discount organizers. Many of them were born in the past decade or so, have grown users dramatically and have done so by delivering unique value and services to consumers and businesses. These new online media and marketing platforms drive a range of business models in which they: connect advertisers to their marketing targets; deliver Web search and e-mail functions; build and deploy insanely great consumer electronics devices that are networked into a holistic platform and marketplace; create streamlined checkout processes tied to predicting what you might like to buy next and then deploying that capability for others; and build platforms on which you can publish everything you like about yourself, chat for seven hours a day or raise virtual crops with your friends.
Payments are a critical function for all of these businesses as they commercialize the core activities on their platforms. Yet payments are only a piece of the puzzle. The easier a non-payments ecosystem or platform can integrate your payment capability, the greater the chance that the commercial activity generated by that platform will come to you. The drivers of commercialization tomorrow may well be the new consumer engagement networks and not the payments businesses themselves.
Going Mobile
In this environment, as major ecosystems converge on commerce opportunity, payments companies will need to make themselves available to and flexible for integration into the business models that drive convergence. For payments businesses, that means that opening the edge of a payments platform is not just a good idea but rather is critical to the ongoing relevance and growth of the core payments franchise. This means becoming more present in consumers' daily lives and in their end-to-end view of commerce by becoming less independent and more connected to others' business models. It may well mean that to become more essential to the new commerce engines, a traditional payment vehicle may need to become far less visible to the consumer who uses it.
In any event, one thing is for certain in the coming convergence of major ecosystems on the central opportunity of consumer commerce creation: Mobile will be the linchpin.
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Discussion about amendmends for TG Land Cover and Land Use
Find attached a first proposal for for amendments to the TG for Land Cover and Land Use.
Austrian proposal for amendments to the TG for Land Cover and Land Use.
Following changes are described in detail in the attached dcument
TG Land Cover
AT001: Change relationship between LandCoverDataset and LandCoverUnit from the specialized association type "aggregation" to a normal association link.
AT002: Add the association role name dataset to the association LandCoverDataset – LandCoverUnit
AT003: Change the multiplicity for association role name dataset from 1 to 1...*
TG Land Use
AT004: Change the multiplicity for association role dataset from 1 to 1……*
AT005: Change the multiplicity for association role name "member" from 0 to 1...*
This document is only a first idea sketch and should serve as a basis for discussion.
With the hope to initiate a fruitful discussion
Best regards.
Dear Roland, I revised your proposals
About AT-001, 002, 003, I agree, these changes would simplified the implementation of WFS and GMLs for Land Cover theme.
About AT-004. As I understand, the reason to propose the change of multicity from the dataset side, is because a land use polygon can be in more than one dataset because does not change in the time period of the datasets. The idea is good and implementable, but would carries with more implications. At the moment the considerations for (LU or LC) datasets are 'status layers' from one particular datetime. Status layers ease the user interpretation, publication by webservices, etc. In summary… allowing (LC or LU) polygons in more than one dataset we would open a discussion about publication of 'status layers' dataset or 'temporal continuos' dataset in INSPIRE.
About AT-005, LU data is hard to be implemented in some cases, data can be addressed but not digitalized, or historically described at least only by the dataset and not by the polygons. From my side, I'm ok to accept multiplicity 1..*, if there is a consensous by the INSIRE community.
Dear Roland, Julian, all,
Many thanks for initiating this discussion.
Regarding AT-001, 002, 003 I would have agreed with you a few months ago. However, at this point, I'd actuallyprefer to be even more radical and suggest to drop the whole LandCoverDataset feature type as the same information can be derived from the LandcoverUnits or can be recommended to be put in the metadata. What do you think? Would that be too radical :)?
Short note from back in the cheap seats - where would you provide the information on nomenclatureDocumentation?
To my understanding, this is the only relevant bit of information added by the LandCoverDataset. At present, seems the only accepted codelist is Corine; however, if other nomenclatures are used, some information on the nomenclature should be provided somewhere (I'd recommend adding a reference to LandCoverNomenclature from LandCoverObservation, while making LandCoverNomenclature a featureType (otherwise cannot be referenced via OWS))
Kathi & all:
Precisely, the nomenlatureDocumentation information is the most relevant, if not the only relevant. bit of information added by the LandCoverDataset and there is already a reference to the values of the nomenclatureCodelist from the LandCoverObservations in the LandCoverVector model. Assuming that the definitions of the code list values would be better in place that they are at the moment, I suppose this would meet most of the needs or do you disagree?
You can extend this code list with any values. It's not only aimed for CLC: http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/codelist/LandCoverClassValue
Examples of extensions by EEA and Eurostat can be found for example here if you search for 'land cover' or 'urban atlas': https://dd.eionet.europa.eu/vocabularies .It would be great if these could somehow be linked to the INSPIRE Code list register, so that they could be more easily found for reuse.
I actually had a thorough look at all the existing LandCoverVector implementations on the INSPRIRE Geoportal and several of them haven't implemented the LandCoverDataset part at all, only the LandCoverUnit part. All of the examples I've looked into the nomenclareDocumentation is just pointing to an URL of a document (all actually not working..), which cannot be resolved by a machine anyway, I suppose. The alternative to provide nomenclatureDocumentation as an 'embeddedDescription' hasn't been used - and this option cannot be used without an update of the ISO LCML standard, which may take years. But also in this case perhaps its enough to have a separate XML with a link from the metadata.
So in order to make implementation and use easier:
1) the nomenclatureDocumentaion information could be put in the metadata (suggestion below) for easier implementation and maintenance, or
2) go for the suggestion by Austria/Roland to "Change relationship between LandCoverDataset and LandCoverUnit from the specialized association type "aggregation" to a normal association link."
In option 1) one could put a link to the document describing the used nomenclature (PDF or XML) in the metadata for example here:
/gmd:MD_Metadata/gmd:dataQualityInfo/gmd:DQ_DataQuality/gmd:report/gmd:DQ_DomainConsistency/gm d:result/gmd:specification
What do you think?
Hi Lena, all,
I think dropping the LandCoverDataSet (and for the same reasons the LandUseDataSet) would make sense and safe data providers from issues caused by links to too many members (can cause issues for WFS creation) and by computing the extent (as discussed in this thread).
Are there any news yet on how these issues will be handled?
All the best
Dear Johanna, all,
Thanks for your valuable feedback.
About the handling: There is a list changes which is waiting to be approved by the INSPIRE committee, which contains changes to application schemas etc collected until 2018. Once these changes have been approved, we've been told that a new list of change proposals related to the application schemas, codelists etc will be considered. This list compiled by the Community Forum facilitators already exists, however, it will surely take a while to get it officially approved.
One way to speed up the process to get approval for dropping the LandCoverDataSet and LandUseDataSet feature types would be to publish a working solution and to describe it in a Good Practise document. The acceptance procedure for the Good Practise document is very smooth: they are first discussed and accepted by the MIG-T group, after which they are approved by the MIG.
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Keep Moving and Travel Ur Dreams
Do you want to spend a little more time with me on the road? If you can Keep Moving, you can Travel My Dreams by way of these longer VLOGS. More scenery and sight seeing here than in my other videos.
When entering Switzerland by car, don't forget to buy your Motorway Vignette. It is required to have this sticker if you drive on Swiss motorways. We tried to buy one at the border crossing, but it was unmanned. Fortunately, the first gas station had them for sale. The clerk noticed we were from USA and thought we must be from Colorado… Another one of those days when there is so much beautiful scenery to absorb, it gets a bit overwhelming. Some incredible mountain horizons, green lush valleys, and crystal clear lakes and rivers. And let's not forget the swiss cheese. From our sidewalk cafe fondue splurge to the blocks bought from the market, there was rarely a moment one of us didn't have some cheese in their mouth.. or in Tia's case, mouth and leg. For now, we are just taking it all in, breathing the fresh air, and feeling perfectly relaxed.
Cathy flies WOW Air from USA to Iceland to spend an adventurous week Eldo-exploring with us. This required a quick trip into the big capital city of Reykjavik and of course a stop at the famed Blue Lagoon Spa. A bit of social culture shock for us after four weeks of remote northern Iceland exploration. Elizabeth got Eldo clean and looking her best for Cathy's visit. Our broken windshield gets worse thanks to the heat from a candle, but we decide to wait until returning to mainland Europe to fix it. All in a days drive we see seals, arctic fox, Icelandic horses, beautiful waterfalls, and blue sky fjords. Chocolate chip pancakes and Road Nachos are on the menu, as well as a hot shower splurge. A lot more to see in Cathy's Icelandic Adventure… part two. Coming soon!!
While checking our maps, somewhere south of Bilbao Spain, we decided that a 350 mile eastern detour to Andorra was going to be today's itinerary. Our usual choice to stay off motorways and toll roads turned this into two solid days of driving. Still hours from the Andorran border, the sun setting, we see high on a hillside, the silhouette of a castle. A quick turn into the small gritty village of Quicena and a few miles of bumpy dirt trails and paved switchbacks we somehow arrive at the base of the castle. It is abandoned and in ruins. There is nobody else around. It's eerie silence is only broken by the wings of bats swirling overhead and a few dog barks rising from the valley. We park Eldo just off the narrow road on a flat rock outcrop and walk 100 more yards to the castle. We explore the ruins as the magnificent huge sun sets over Quicena and Huesca. There is a presence here but we don't feel unwelcome. Montearagon Castle, was constructed in the eleventh century by King Sancho Ramirez as both a fortress and monastery. Ramirez was killed by a stray arrow while walking the walls during the siege of then Muslim Huesca. We climb the ancient stairwells, sit in the thick reinforced wall openings, gaze out over the now darkening valleys, and breath in the cool night desert air. We decide to spend the night here. Back at Camp Eldo, we open a bottle of Spanish red wine, tap glasses and toast to the hope of a safe and quiet sleep. We make an offering to untold number of those who may have lived and died here and sacrifice a glass worth of the good wine into the dry red dirt. We rise early the next morning, just as the sun begins to back light the castle ruins. We set up for breakfast even though the morning mist clings on. It's a ritual performed on countless mornings when we have safe camp. Our beloved Quincy table comes out of the spare wheel well, the worn camp chairs come down from the roof, and the dusty rug gets placed on the ground. We inventory our fresh foods and decide what needs to be eaten. The kitchen gear comes out, the coffee beans are hand ground while the water boils. It's not long before the chill of the morning gives way to hot fresh coffee and the morning fog gives way to the rays of sunlight. We are on a Spanish hillside that's seen an eon of sunrises and sunsets. We are living one morning of our life at a castle that has witnessed centuries of lives come and go. We are tens of thousands of miles from where we started, and yet, right at home at our table. Cooking, talking, laughing, sitting, grooming, dreaming, planning, being…. and realizing the significance of the simple rituals that tie all our days and all our lives together. Just another day on the road….
Somehow, we wound up in Andorra. (Note: Country 58 for Elizabeth and 21 for Eldo) Andorra is a sovereign state in the Pyrenees, located between France and Spain. It is the 11th smallest nation and has the world's highest life expectancy, at 81 years. It is only 40km to drive from border to border. We found a great campground within walking distance to the wonderful capital city Andorra la Vella. We paid about 20 euro per night and had heated bathrooms and unlimited hot showers. Included in the price, was a personal kitty, that kept us company throughout dinner and sneakily explored Camp Eldo while we were away washing dishes. We are playing with the time lapse feature on our camera. Enjoy a brief glimpse into the Eldo kitchen set-up and the making and eating of a killer spaghetti dinner. We bought a loaf of fresh baked bread in the camp store for 1 euro. So much of our life is centered around our table, affectionately named "Quincy". The table is constructed from the cover to the spare tire well. The carpeting was melted back to plastic with a propane torch and then painted with a urethane varnish. It is suspended in place with a single rope, and is strong as hell. We recently upgraded to a two burner gasoline fueled Coleman 424 camp stove and love it. We named our day Kitty "Andorra" and found her quite Andorrable.
Further exploration of Switzerland and the long Jungfrau Railway ride to the "Top of Europe". At 13,640 feet, The Jungfrau is the main summit of the Bernese Alps and first climbed in 1811 by the Meyer brothers. We hiked along the glacier for over an hour to reach a small cafe. Upon hiking back, we explored an observatory and the inside of the Ice Palace. What trip to the top would be complete without throwing a couple snowballs over the edge of the world. The beauty speaks for itself, so no use trying to describe it. Enjoy the scenery for yourself. The bright sun, cold temperature, and high elevation takes it's toll on all of us, and the railway ride back to valley is the perfect time to catch naps.
Champlitte is a commune in eastern France not far from Dijon and Paris. It's a stop along the Via Francigena Pilgrimage and has history dating back to the Roman Empire. We hike some ruins and visit the Chateau de Champlitte. The cobble streets are narrow and fun to explore. It's a hot day in July and Tia wins the morning's water drinking contest by finishing her 1.5 liters first. Otherwise, typical life on the road scenes here. It's never boring… with interesting signs, historical sights, numerous farm vehicles, fields, and campgrounds. Edlo gets new sparkplugs with the assistance of some huge orange slugs. And what summer day isn't complete without puddle stomping in an afternoon downpour. We love our life.
We find ourselves travelling from Germany and France into Luxembourg and Switzerland. Along the way we enjoy countless miles of beautiful scenery and even more laughs. Camping and cooking are constant activities and with Cameron in charge of the Eldo Cafe, we churn out a lot of our patented Scissor Cut Pan Fried Frozen Pizza. In Luxembourg we get a taste of its hybrid German-French culture and of its own cool language, Luxembourgish. In Interlachen Switzerland, we attend Gauklerfest, a street performer festival. We enjoy shows from Mantega, Muruya, and The Flying Dutchmen; some of the best international buskers. Interlachen is tucked into the Swiss Alps and is the gateway to the Jungfrau, "The Top of Europe". But, for now, we are enjoying the lower altitudes and the endless fields of wheat, corn, and beans. Much more to come…
We boondocked on the streets of suburban Amsterdam before heading to Germany, where we boondocked in a small car park in the forest. Boondocking isn't for the faint of heart, as there is always a chance of getting hassled and kicked out. We utilize it as much as possible while still trying to respect the laws and customs of an area. Cameron adapted to it quickly and was an instrumental part in evaluating places to sleep safely. Enjoy some random road clips as we make our way from Germany to Luxembourg, where we stumble upon the tenth century Vianden Castle, now fully restored after centuries of ruin. The castle was a cool break from the warm summer temperatures. We particularly enjoyed the medieval body armor displayed in the Hall of Arms. Just another day on the road…
The start of a two week mad dash around Europe trying to get Cameron to as many countries as possible all the while reminding ourselves to slow down and enjoy every turbine. Flew from Orlando to Elizabeth City North Carolina, then drove to BWI, Baltimore International in a rainstorm. Packed light, carry on baggage only for the painful WOW Airline flight to Reykjavik Iceland for a quick layover before flying on to Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport. Spent the day and evening roaming the old streets of Amsterdam before spending the night on the street, in Eldo, in front of Christiaan's apartment. Next day we drove both backroads and Autobahn through Germany. We wound up boon-docking that night in the Udemer Hochwald Forest, somewhere north of Dusseldorf. The next day we cross into Luxembourg and hang out in a beautiful field of wind turbines. True geek nirvana. Grocery shopping becomes one of our main daily distractions, as we like to stop in all the local markets and look for the good deals. Today it was amazing, buttery croissants for only 35 cents. Watch more of Cameron's European Vacation to see some amazing sights, find out where else we sleep, and check out our other amazing grocery store bargains! Just another day on the road….
Week 4 finds us beginning the month of May… but jeez, it still feels like winter. Our southern coast exploration continues among more glaciers, black lava beaches, and more seals and reindeer. In the town of Djupivogur we encounter the Eggs of Merry Bay, a tribute to the native birds of eastern Iceland. Considering that chicken eggs in the grocery stores have been priced about 75 cents each, we wonder the value of these large granite eggs. Later that night we find another empty and free campground to relax in. As we exit the south coast and head back north we look forward to returning to the sparsely populated landscape.
Off season camping in Iceland can be a budget saver. Most campgrounds are available to use for free, although facilities may be closed. This one in Stykkisholmur not only had a friendly notice that welcomed us to stay for free, but also had bathrooms open and WiFi available. The golf course next door was busier on the sleet and snow filled the day before. This sunny morning, not a golfer in sight. More windy weather indoor cooking… although it's an unexciting leftover bean and potato stew. Attention: Don't get caught doing your business in the bush… you never know who is watching. In Iceland, you can get cited for littering. A bit of culture shock for us as we end 3 weeks of traveling through the sparsely populated rural north and begin our exploration of Reykjavik and the south coast. 60% of the Icelandic population lives in this region and 95% of all tourists enter and leave from here. In true Eldo fashion, we stumble upon the famed Blue Lagoon…. probably the most visited attraction in Iceland. This geothermal spa is actually water supplied from the local geothermal power station. It's surreal blue and white colors come from the high mineral and silica content. Although it's below freezing out, the water remains about 100F. Further down the road we stumble yet again into another beautiful waterfall. The energy of falling water can't be denied. Look closely at the end.. yes those are surfers waiting for waves in the freezing ocean. Although after watching them awhile, we believe the wind was a greater challenge for them.
Iceland, land of snow, waterfalls, and tunnels. Even in late April, the weather remains extreme and unpredictable. The protection provided to us by our wonderful Jeep "Eldo" is priceless. We've learned a lot about ourselves and our ability to adapt to harsh weather conditions. The wind has remained a constant challenge, the temperatures have hovered at or below freezing, and sunny days have been rare. This video captures a slice of these extremes and some of our adaptive adjustments. Most meals were not only eaten inside the Jeep but also cooked inside. Quite a challenge, but we figured out how to make it work. Despite these challenges, not a day goes by that we aren't awed by the beauty and surprised at the abundance of wildlife. We enjoyed the company of a rather tame and friendly arctic fox that had already shed it's white winter coat for it's thinner brown summer fur. Turns out, this fox was friends with a local dog named Bangsi that lived on the horse farm where we camped. Later that day we found small colonies of harbor and grey seals scattered among the floating sea grass and the newly calved small glacial icebergs.
Most people consider us homeless. Living in Eldo, our Jeep, and rarely stating put more than a night or two. Having put Eldo on a cargo ship in Panama a month earlier, we find ourselves actually homeless while we wait an agonizing 40 days for her arrival and customs release in Antwerp Belgium. The anticipation builds as we take the express train from Amsterdam to Antwerp Central. Built in 1900, it is considered one of the world's most beautiful railway stations. Despite the reputation and all that beauty, we had no desire to explore Antwerp. We had a long hour walk to reach our shipping agent and hopefully gain custody of our home. The release was relatively easy, at least compared to the dog-and-pony show encountered in shipping her out of Panama. Two weeks holed up in Panama City, numerous official appointments and inspections, and a TON of cash finally got her on that ship. Much to our surprise, upon picking her up, Panamanian customs has totally ripped apart her interior and gone through EVERY noon, cranny, and possession we owned. She was a complete disaster. However, rather than dwell upon the horror we found, we embraced the fact that we had our home back. She started right up and we hauled butt as fast as we could from the bonded Belgium warehouse. Life was finally back to normal. Looking back on it, despite the stress of not knowing if we would ever see Eldo again, we managed to enjoy the chill, historic, and hip city of Brussels. We visited the Royal Palace, which is not actually used as a royal residence. The Grand Place Central Square, surrounded by it's amazing guildhalls and considered THE most beautiful squares in Europe. We woofed down some amazing street food and Belgium Beer. All while living like royalty ourselves thanks to being Hilton Diamond Elite status holders. The luxury and elegance of those Brussels Hiltons, and the pamper and perks of elite status was intoxicating. But, there is no place like home, and we would trade a year of those nights for just one more day on the road in our palace… ELDO!
The sun came out for us for a few hours during week two. In true Icelandic fashion, the highlights of our methodical tour of all Westfjords open roads were too numerous to mention. We visited Dettifoss, the most powerful waterfall in Europe. The impossibly beautiful multi-tiered Dynjandi is considered Iceland's most picturesque, and earned it's name "Jewel of the Westfjords." The breathtaking Latrabjarg bird-cliff is nine miles long and is considered the westernmost part of Europe. It is home to uncountable numbers of gannets, guillemots, razorbills, and in breeding season, puffins. You are warned… "Don't get too close to the edge", as the ground is quite unstable. The miles click by as we snake our way up and back along the narrow fjords. Along the Arnarfjordur road, there are signs warning of sea monsters. The deep blue cold water certainly could be home to the bus size Largarfljot Worm. Due to the constant extreme winds, most of the cooking was done inside Eldo. Today's menu was BBQ sauce glazed chicken wings and pan cooked onion rings. Chicken wings, as it turned out, were our best source of frequent affordable Icelandic protein. We figured out a quick and easy way to pressure cook them before throwing into the hot skillet of caramelizing BBQ sauce. Cliff side Wing and Ring night in Cafe Eldo can't be beat. Just another week on the road.
Flying to Amsterdam from USA with a quick stop in Paris. We agreed that the 6 hour layover was plenty of time to make it from Orly to the Eiffel Tower and back. With just our usual light backpacks as the only luggage, we figured out the best train route, bought our tickets, and took the shuttle train to Antony and the Metro Train to downtown. Then, a few quick blocks by foot, and there we were on the Champ de Mars, gazing up at the beautiful steel latticed tower. Our mission still not complete until we enjoyed some homemade apple pie from Florida and some cookies from North Carolina. As we sat on a wind swept bench, just for a brief moment, the winds subsided and the sky went from dark gray to bright blue. Just another day on the road…
Eldo hits the ground running! We spent the past eight months slowly driving the dirt and gravel side and back roads of Mexico and Central America. It was a rare day we got to open her up to even 55mph…. Now, just hours after liberating Eldo from a 40 day ocean crossing, we find ourselves navigating the German Autobahn. For the most part, speed limits are "advisory" or suggested rates. Really, just about anything goes. As we cruise along at a blazing 70-80 mph in our tired jeep, the sleek Mercedes, BMWs, and Audis scream by us in 100+mph ease. All we can do is hang on tight and laugh….. and, well…. eat some great German meat and cheese while brewing up some long missed road coffee. We missed Eldo too while she was in transit, and it feels so good to be home. Night fall couldn't come quick enough for us to find a safe quiet camp spot to call home for the night. Just another day on the road…..
Haiti, a beautiful country of so many contrasts, so many people, and so much poverty. Despite it all, the people are wonderfully proud, hardworking, and honest. We stayed away from the tourist sanctuaries and drove the streets and roads through towns and villages that were bursting with activity. The chaotic traffic of people, cars, trucks, livestock, and motorcycles seemed to find a cosmic balance. Somehow, miraculously it all worked together. Make no mistake, it was hard travel… but the reward was worth it.
Oh Iceland! You exhaust us with your never ending beauty and overwhelming energy. We arrive just as winter is reluctantly giving way to spring. The extreme weather is painfully cold and windy yet invigorating and inspiring. We have no plans for the next five weeks. Just going to drive the open roads and explore every fjord, cliff, and trail we can find. Keeping in budget is going to be a challenge as prices here are crazy expensive. Keep checking back for weekly updates full of breathtaking beauty, exciting adventures, our best travel tips, and to see just how well we do with our budget. www.travelurdreams.com
Three days crossing the North Sea and Atlantic is not a pleasure cruise. The Smyril Line ferry runs between Hirtshals Norway and Seydisfjordur Iceland. Vehicles and cargo take priority on this cruise and people are a distant third. There are some amenities… a bar, a couple restaurants, and cabins and bunks. Let's not forget the hot showers! Although trying to enjoy a north sea rolling shower is quite an experience. The extremes of this environment are incredibly inspiring though. Cold, harsh gray seas and far distant misty fjords are as breathtaking as the facefull of freezing cold sea winds that slap you hard whenever someone opens a door to the deck. It's still one of the great adventures available. Be sure to say hi to Henrik at Hirtshals Camping in Denmark before or after your journey.


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As it finally got sunny here in Vienna, I went for a walk at the Alte Donau. I wanted some time away from home and my computer and just enjoy the sun, the fresh breeze, and the people enjoying the summer sports. I live quite close by (10m by bike) and I am planning to do this very often this season.
I spent a couple of hours on the docs enjoying the sundown, picturing my outfit, and doing basically nothingJ. For such an activity I choose to wear my beloved and very old pair of white pants together with some green accessorises (blouse, bag and ballerinas), and with the jeans jacket for the windy moments. What places do you recommend to go to here in Vienna during Summer?


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