Bruntwood transforms Leeds office building into Premier Inn

Landmark Leeds building
Hepworth Point has been turned into a new Premier Inn hotel by
commercial space provider Bruntwood, boasting 131 bedrooms and creating
40 new jobs. The new hotel is now open to the public, a year ahead of
the new Leeds Arena in 2013.

The developments are located close to each other on the north side of
Leeds city centre and provide an answer to public calls for the

m-hance launches graduate recruitment scheme to support rapid growth plans

m-hance, the UK’s fast
growing provider of business software solutions to mid-sized
organisations, is launching its own graduate recruitment scheme to
support its rapid growth plans. In partnership with specialist
recruitment firm, Discovery Graduates, m-hance is seeking to recruit
six graduates to be based at its headquarters in Stockport from July
2012.

The successful candidates
will

Advanced Business Solutions launches ‘one stop shop’ mobile business intelligence

Advanced is the first software provider to offer mobile business intelligence inclusive of devices and airtime

Advanced Business Solutions (Advanced), a market leading provider of
business applications and services, today announces the launch of
Advanced Mobile Business Intelligence
(Advanced Mobile BI) in response to increasing demand.

Bechtel selects Active Risk Manager for risk and opportunity management

Active Risk,
developer of Active Risk Manager (ARM), the award winning Enterprise
Risk Management (ERM) software, is pleased to announce that Bechtel, one
of the world’s most respected engineering, project management, and
construction companies, has selected ARM to help manage risks and
opportunities on major projects around the globe.

"Impact 2012" Countdown begins…!

IBM is hosting one of the biggest gatherings of IT experts and international business leadership at IBM Impact 2012 at the Venetian Casino Hotel & Resort and The Palazzo on main Las Vegas Boulevard. The event will start this Sunday April 29 till May 4 and will be visited by 7500 attendees from over 60 countries worldwide including Royal Cyber and other IBM Premier Business partners.

The reasons for attending this year’s IBM Impact 2012 are:

      1.Meet and Greet

As I mentioned above that Impact 2012 will be visited by 7500 attendees from over 60 countries and that’s a huge number! You would get chance to meet your previous customers, prospects, competitors and the industry leaders including IBM leadership and technical experts for one-on-one meetings and sessions to talk away all your organizational problems.

      2.    New Product Launches

IBM and its premier business partners would launch new products and services at this prime event for a greater publicity. You would view the latest technology advancements from IBM Business Partners and get a year’s worth of education from the most experienced business and technology leaders in the world.

      3.    Media Coverage

The event will get extensive media coverage and publicity across television, internet, print and radio. Fifty analysts and 89 members of the press from 40 countries will attend the event that will make it the best-covered Impact conference in five years. You would certainly feel proud being on the event that the world would talk about.

      4.    Learning

Impact 2012 is also an excellent platform for learning about new technological advancements in the world of IBM technologies. Know how you can align your business objectives by participating in the new business program and interactive business agility symposium to navigate today’s economy.

      5.    Prospects & New Networking Opportunities

You also get chance to network with the industry leading professionals and build lifetime contacts that provide you new business opportunities and help you build and maintain greater customer relationships.

      6.    You would be in Las Vegas…

Yes Las Vegas and that’s the most exciting part of the trip, isn’t it? You would be in the Entertainment Capital of the World, an internationally acclaimed major resort city popular for gambling, shopping, and fine dining.

Royal Cyber would also be launching Fusion Commerce, a new product by our WebSphere Commerce team at the event that brings extensive customization and pre-configuration of eCommerce deployment including predictable implementation, faster time to market, lower cost of deployment and rapid ROI.

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Food Industry's New Toolkit Promotes Health At Work

Ahead of World Day for Health and
Safety at Work 2012, the Food and Drink Federation (FDF), has
launched a new, free toolkit for employers to help their employees
lead a healthier lifestyle. 



Dame Carol Black, expert adviser on
health at work at the Department of Health, supported the launch at
Coca-Cola Great Britain's head office in Hammersmith, London. A tour
of the onsite facilities and

Retail Jewellers Set To Benefit From New Initiative That Could Cut The Cost Of Having Bespoke Jewellery Made By 20% Or More

A company renowned for producing
replacement jewellery for the insurance sector is now making its
services available to retail jewellers in a move that could cut the
cost of having bespoke jewellery made by 20% or more.

Albion
Fine Jewellery is an Anglo Indian partnership that has been making
high quality gold, platinum and diamond replacement jewellery by hand
for UK insurers for the last

PBS, Washington Post Puff Rabbi of Master-Race Judaism, Former Head of Reestablished Sanhedrin, Adin Steinsaltz

This advocacy journalism casts a blind eye to Adin Steinsaltz's membership with Chabad Lubavitch and his promotion of Chabad's master-race metaphysics HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE, nor does it mention his former role as Nasi (head) of the reestablished Sanhedrin in Jerusalem or this Sanhedrin's desire to bring all nations under its racist, two-tiered legal system. Steinsaltz's literal Talmud translation transmits the megalomaniacal depravity of the rabbis authentically but none of this is noted. These advocacy pieces endeavor, rather falsely, to cast rabbinic Judaism as a religion of submission to the will of God, rather than the religion which does not wait on God and which makes God a student of the rabbi-gods.

Watch Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz on PBS. See more from Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly.

Also see:

'Noahide' Proselytizing Rabbi Riskin: "The Lubavitcher Rebbe said to me ..."

"Conservative Catholic" Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Studies Talmud with Chabad Lubavitch Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz

'Noahide Laws' Ostensibly Against Theft and Murder Rationalize Theft and Murder

Rubashkins Required "Noahide Law" Training for Workers they Abused and Defrauded

Netanyahu's Messianic Fanaticism Precipitating False-Messiah Catastrophe

Cleveland Ohio Lake Catholic High School Welcomes Israeli Military

Lake Catholic High School is owned by the Diocese of Cleveland Ohio which is under temporal and spiritual destruction by Bishop Richard Lennon, a product of Boston 'Catholicism' exemplified in philojudaic mobster, Cardinal Cushing and child-rape enabler Cardinal Bernard Law.

Lake Catholic welcomes Israeli Defense Soldiers

Caitlin Fertal - The News Herald

April 29, 2012

Seniors at Lake Catholic High School had the opportunity to open their eyes and look outside of the world around them Friday afternoon when soldiers from the Israeli Defense Forces stopped by their auditorium.

These soldiers, mostly women, came to share their story of daily life in Israel, as well as what it's like to enter the army after finishing school in their country.

Several commanders and high-ranking officers spoke to students about their mission to help troubled youth in Israel.

Students asked questions, some insightful, some not. Among the questions were "How does Israel view America?" and "Do you have a Twitter account?"

Both questions received a laugh from the soldiers, expressing that America is viewed as a "big brother," and that technology is the same, as Israel is not a primitive country.

Adi Katz, a 22-year-old first lieutenant in the Israeli Defense Forces, talked about what her life is like and how she oversees about 200 soldiers.

When asked what kind of guns they used, Katz explained that the guns weren't the focus of their mission.

"We use ammunition but it's not the main thing we do," she said. "We educate, we do community service in the army, it's not the main purpose of the army to use ammunition, and we wanted you to know this. We wanted to expose you to another side of the army, another side of the world because you don't know the Israeli army, yet."

History teacher James Anderson arranged the visit with hopes of educating students about the world around them.

"Lake County is pretty ... isolated, I love our kids but they're not aware of a lot of stuff, so it's just a good idea to expose them to parts of the rest of the world and another culture that they have no clue about," Anderson said.

"This is a marvelous opportunity to have our kids come into contact with these kind of folks."

Students Shannon Coyne and Maryann Osborne said they felt the discussion opened their eyes to another way of life, especially when they learned that women played an equal role in the army.

"I couldn't even imagine being forced into going into the army before college." Osborne said. "I definitely learned a lot that I didn't know about their country."

Ivan Filipovic said that even though he immigrated from Bosnia when he was 2, he still found his knowledge of other countries to be sheltered.

"Our generation, people in America, we don't really see what's going on in other places," he said. "The stresses that they have to go through every day, we can't imagine."

Osborne explained that although she has thought about life outside of the United States, she hadn't quite had a firm vision until now.

"I think we thought about it before, but we never really understood that much about it," she said. "This really helped us understand more what's going on outside of America, because I think we're really caught up in what's going on in America and what's the new thing to buy, so it really puts everything in perspective to what's going on everywhere else."

Lt. Col. Vered Shochat said she hoped the students understood their message, and would continue to be interested in world issues.

"From the questions (they asked) I realized that they don't know so much ... and I think they learned something," she said.

http://news-herald.com/articles/2012/04/29/news/nh5417624.txt?viewmode=fullstory

... [IDF soldiers] Shochat and Leizerovitch work at Havat HaShomer, an IDF base for at-risk young men and women. The people who come to Havat HaShomer come from backgrounds of crime, drugs or other disadvantages.

Through an intensive 3-month training program, the people at the camp are prepared for military service. (Serving in the IDF is mandatory for the men and women of Israel.)

Havat HaShomer is supported by the Jewish Federation of Cleveland, which organized the IDF's visit Friday along with Lake Catholic Board Member Joseph Compton.

Compton told the Lake Catholic students that he arranged the IDF's visit ... (Jason Lea, Mentor Patch, April 29, 2012)


http://mentor.patch.com/articles/israel-defense-force-visits-lake-catholic

Also see:

'Elder Brothers in the Faith' Incite IDF with Anti-Catholic Blood Libel

"Israel" Hopes Papal Visit Will Help Polish International Image In Wake of Gaza Massacre

Palestinian Christians Urge Pope to Not Lend Credibility and Prestige to Israeli Slaughterers

Will the Pope's 'Pilgrimage' Boost Counterfeit Israel's Image or Destroy His Own?

Benedict's Hasbara Mission

Maronite Christians in Counterfeit Israel Hope Pope Will Ask His Elder Brother Zionists to Return Stolen Land

100% Pure Judaic Racial Supremacism

The 'Holocaust' Stream of Transmission Back from Cardinal O'Connor

Previously we looked at Cardinal O'Connor's role in the 'Holocaust education' racket. Quoting again David G. Marwell, Director of the Museum of 'Jewish' Heritage in NYC:

"John Cardinal O’Connor spoke at the dedication of our Museum and forged our connection with the schools of the Archdiocese, stating that it was his desire that every student from every Catholic school visit the Museum. And since then, thousands of Catholic students and their teachers have come to the Museum ... any recent graduate of a New York Archdiocese school knows ['Holocaust history']."

Cardinal O'Connor was a graduate student at Georgetown University under Jeane Kirkpatrick, who remembered O'Connor as 'the most intelligent student she had ever known in her long years of teaching.'

Jeane Kirkpatrick's best students (see: Alan Keyes) are possessed of a certain rabid kind of philo-Judaic fanaticism. Cardinal O'Connor was no exception.

Jeane Kirkpatrick's husband was Evron Maurice Kirkpatrick who was an aid to Bill Donovan, the head of the OSS largely responsible for producing WWII atrocity psyops which unfortunately have been canonized by the secular and ecclesiastical establishment of the West.

Listen to PNAC signatory Jeane Kirkpatrick (with Frank Gaffney, Richard Perle's understudy) upholding the WWII atrocity propaganda ("lessons of 'The Holocaust") her husband helped to conjure up as justification for never ending 'preemptive' bombings around the globe:

Top UK contact centre outsourcer, Ant, announces new appointment

Richard Snaith, Operations Manager, Ant

Leading UK contact centre
outsourcer, Ant, has announced the appointment of Richard Snaith as
Contact Centre Operations Manager in charge of its business to business
solutions division.

Richard, who has spent his career working for outsourcers including
Ventura, comments; “This is a fantastic opportunity. I have a lot of
experience of

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When A Price Rise Becomes A Price Benefit

The subject of Royal Mail's
price increases has become a hotly debated matter over recent years. On
one hand customers complain about the loss of collections and post
offices. On the other hand few personal customers send much mail, using
modern technologies like email, SMS and Facebook to keep in touch with
friends and family instead. Clip on earring retailer www.make-me-beautiful.co.uk,

Experian reveals mortgage fraud increases for fifth successive year

Experian Identity &
Fraud has revealed that fraudulent applications for mortgages increased
by eight per cent in 2011, marking the fifth consecutive year in which
the rate of mortgage fraud has increased.

Around 34 in every 10,000 applications for mortgages were found to be
fraudulent in 2011, compared to just 15 in every 10,000 in 2006.

Queen Beatrix Makes Chabad Chief Rabbi 'Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau'

This should be read in tandem with:

 The 'Christian' Nobleman/'Court-Jew' Relationship

The Racketeer/Rabbi Relationship 

Masonry: True Noachida; British Israel; Orange Occupation

Netanyahu Mocks the World

"I see myself as a lifeguard, sent [to Holland] by the [Chabad] Lubavitcher Rebbe [Schneerson], keeping Judaism alive ..."

 

Rabbi Jacobs with Queen Beatrix 

[Chabad] Rabbi receives highest Dutch honor from Queen

Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs, Chief Rabbi of the Inter-Provincial Rabbinate in Holland and member made Officer of Order of Orange-Nassau 

Ynetnews

April 27, 2012

Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs, Chief Rabbi of the Inter-Provincial Chief Rabbinate in Holland and member of the [Chabad] Rabbinical Center of Europe, was made an Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau on Friday. The order is one of the highest civilian awards given by the Queen of Holland.

The honor is usually given to princes of other royal families in Europe, diplomats, artists, and social activists. It is the first time in the history of the Dutch Jewish community where a rabbi has received this honor.


Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs, 62, was born in Holland and has served there as a rabbi for over 30 years. The award was given to him for his activities in building bridges in Dutch society, especially for his interfaith and inter-communal work.


As well as his position as rabbi of the Sinai Medical Center in Amtelveen, his activities on behalf of the Jewish community as the Chief Rabbi of the Inter-Provincial Chief Rabbinate and for his activities on behalf of European Jewry as a prominent member of the Rabbinical Center of Europe (RCE), Brussels-based organization representing over 700 European religious leaders and dedicated to meeting the needs of Jewish communities in Europe.

Thanks to these and many other activities, Rabbi Jacobs is a well known personality in Holland and is a highly sought after lecturer and interviewee in the Dutch media. Rabbi Jacobs was at the forefront of the battle which successfully cancelled a proposed law that would have banned shechitah, Jewish religious slaughter.

Dr. Benoit Wesly, Chairman of the Dutch Jewish community of Limburg and Honorary Consul of Israel to the Netherlands, was one of the people who recommended Rabbi Jacobs for the award.

Commenting on Rabbi Jacobs' award Dr. Wesly said: “This is an important day for Jews in this part of the world,” Dr. Wesly said. “The award given to Rabbi Jacobs is an honor for all the Jews in Holland. It gives our community great pride and we thank God and congratulate Rabbi Jacobs and his wife on this great honor."

Rabbi Arye Goldberg, Deputy Director of the RCE, also spoke about his pride upon hearing news of the award. “This award is a true recognition of the important work of Rabbi Jacobs, not just amongst the Jewish community in Holland, but in Dutch society in general,” Rabbi Goldberg said.

“In addition, as a prominent member of the Rabbinical Center of Europe, Rabbi Jacobs helps us facilitate Jewish life across the European continent.”

“This type of award demonstrates that the rabbis of the RCE are doing an excellent job of not just working in the communities but also of representing Jewish causes to European authorities and officials.”

The Order of Orange Nassau was established 120 years ago and given by the Queen of the Netherlands. The award is given every year on birthday of Queen Beatrix. It is given by her representatives to people all over Holland.

The Order of Orange-Nassau is a chivalry order open to "everyone who has earned special merits in society". These are people who deserve appreciation and recognition from society for the special way in which they have carried out their activities. The order is comparable with the Order of the British Empire in the UK.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4221449,00.html

Also see:

B'nai B'rith Papal Knight Rabbi Leon Klenicki Recommends 'Noahide' Tome

Papal Knight Rabbi David Rosen Wants to Make Jesus' Teachings on Pharisaism of No Effect

The Vatican's Knight Defenders of the Talmud 

Another Papal Knight Defender of the Talmud

Energy Companies Supply cold-calling nightmare for businesses

FURIOUS business energy customers have inundated the Energy Advice Line
with complaints about the cold-calling tactics of utility companies –
with some firms reporting up to 30 high-pressure sales calls a day.

Businesses that have just moved premises have complained of being
contacted by callers fraudulently posing as meter “officials” in order
to elicit information to take over their energy

Colortrac - Queen's Award for 2012

Colortrac, a
leading innovator in the field of wide format scanning technology, has
been awarded the prestigious Queen's Award for Enterprise 2012 in the
category of International Trade.

Colortrac sales of their SmartLF large format scanners and SmartWorks
software achieved a substantial and sustained increase in export
earnings over a three

Gigantic, rare Wide-Angle Lens with a £100,000 Price Tag Goes On Sale at Grays of Westminster

The rare Nikon fisheye
lens is said to be able to ‘see behind itself’, it weighs 5.2kg and
measures 171mm in length with a diameter of 236mm

One of the few 220º Nikkor fisheye lenses ever made is now
available for purchase and is looking for a buyer at London’s Nikon-only
reseller, Grays of Westminster.

Nikon stunned the photographic world at

Where there's a Will...

‘People must be able to write a Will with confidence, not fear,’ according to a report from the Legal
Services Board which calls for Will Writers to be regulated to improve
standards. A Will is a document in which a person declares their
intention as to what should happen to their estate after their death.
The Chairman of the Legal Services Board, David Edmonds, said “Making a Will is

The No.1 Traveller airport lounge at London Gatwick Airport’s
North Terminal is today celebrating an award for offering the Best
Business Facilities of any airport lounge in the world. The lounge has
been honoured in the Priority Pass Lounge of the Year Awards, decided by
the members of Priority Pass, the world’s largest independent airport
lounge access programme.

Jonathan French, head of

Insight UK and Webroot to Simplify Security Checks for Businesses Across Europe

Cloud Service Provider to
deliver Webroot® SecureAnywhere™ Business – Endpoint Protection to its
customers across the European market
Security checks are to become faster, more efficient
and more effective in the months running up to London 2012. As a result,
a new streamlined checking process has been created by a partnership
between cloud computing service provider Insight UK and security

FreeAgent launches iPhone app for financial record-keeping

FreeAgent has launched a
unique record keeping iPhone app designed to help self-employed people
and very small businesses in the UK to stay on top of their finances and
tax commitments.

FreeAgent, a leading online accounting software
provider, has developed the app - called Earnest - after being tasked
by HM Revenue & Customs to create a

73 per cent of UK organisations do not have document management integrated into CRM

Version One survey reveals demand for CRM-integrated document management

A worrying survey by document management software
company, Version One, reveals that 73 per cent of UK organisations do
not have document management functionality integrated into their
customer relationship management (CRM) system. Version One surveyed 126
managers from a cross-section of UK private, public and third

Marketo Announces Finalists for 2012 Revenue Performance Management (RPM) Excellence Awards

“Revvies” Recognise Outstanding Achievement, Leadership in Companies Leveraging Innovation to Accelerate Revenue Growth
Marketo, the fastest-growing provider of
Revenue Performance Management (RPM) solutions, today announced the
finalists for its second annual Revenue Performance Excellence Awards.
The “Revvies” recognise and celebrate

IFAD supports reframing of rural poverty for #rioplus20

Written by Clarissa Baldin

©IFAD/Susan Beccio

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has provided the Reframing Rio initiative with US$100 thousand to help ensure that rural poverty and the challenges faced by poor women and men living on 500 million smallholder farms are front and centre leading up to Rio+20.

Reframing Rio is a multi-media project designed by tve, Inter Press Service (IPS) and the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) to enhance global awareness and mobilize efforts towards the urgent need of a sustainable world leading up to and beyond Rio+20. In addition to IFAD’s contribution the project is also supported by the EU and 9 other organizations.

The project aims to help focus public and political debate on how a green economy can contribute to poverty reduction and sustainable development. The project will make use of written media, documentaries and short films covering a range of issues related to sustainable development to engage audiences in the discussion.

By sponsoring the Reframing Rio project, IFAD is able to ensure issues that affect smallholders are included in the discussion. Rio + 20 is an opportunity to change the food and agriculture system so that smallholders in developing countries can be included.

The world’s poor rural people and especially farmers of the 500 million smallholdings play a key role as providers of food and livelihoods. Smallholders supply up to 80 per cent of the food consumed in a large part of the developing world, with much of that produced by women, and yet smallholder households are often vulnerable to health and nutrition challenges. As managers of vast areas of land and natural resources, smallholders are both victims and drivers of environmental degradation, and need support to scale up sustainable practices.

The upcoming United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) promises to be a historic milestone for global sustainable development.  IFAD is working together with partners including the Rome-Based Agencies, farmers’ associations and indigenous peoples groups to ensure that smallholders will be empowered to contribute and participate to their full potential.

More on the Reframing Rio project will be posted here soon, so keep an eye on our blog.

Find out more on IFAD’s engagement in Rio+20.

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Centrix Software and Juriba join forces to help enterprises design and deploy Windows 7 projects, faster

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Centrix Software, a
leading provider of workspace computing solutions, today announced a
technology alliance with Juriba, a global developer of business
intelligence solutions for enterprise desktop transformation.

The

SugarCRM Expands its Channel Partner Programme,

SugarCRM,
the world’s fastest-growing customer relationship management (CRM)
company, today announced that the company has further expanded its
award-winning SugarCRM Open+ Partner Program,
strengthening its commitment to the channel and further positioning
partners for success. The program changes include new business planning
and support to help partners drive more revenue, the formation

WebSphere Commerce Feature Pack 4

IBM WebSphere Commerce Feature Pack 4 brings to you several new enhancements to improve your ecommerce sales. The new WebSphere Commerce feature pack 4 includes powerful new storefront capabilities to deliver a smarter shopping experience for your online customers.

These functions are performed using a customized and integrated package to create and manage precision marketing campaigns, promotions, catalog and merchandising across all sales channels, allowing you to centrally manage your multi-channel marketing strategy.

The new WebSphere Commerce Feature pack 4 includes new features such as:

• Mobile Commerce Extensions
• Facebook Integration
• Precision Marketing Enhancements
• RESTful Services

Here I would be explaining you these new features in more detail:

Mobile Commerce Extensions


With the increasing usage of shopping over mobile and smart phones, WebSphere Commerce Feature Pack 4 brings Mobile Commerce extensions which enable your users to browse your online store, view side by side product comparisons, promotion codes, check product availability from the inventory, receiving marketing messages and store location information online via online maps, all from their smart phones. They could also check status of their orders, track orders and make money transactions.

Facebook Integration


Facebook is the most powerful platform for social marketing used by millions of people around the world. A product or a service recommendation by a friend affects buying behavior of millions of potential customers.  Realizing this importance, WebSphere Commerce new feature pack includes Facebook integration that includes a ‘like’ and ‘send’ buttons on the home and product pages, ‘activity feeds and an option to Connect to Facebook to use Facebook protocol for user authentication and authorization.

Precision Marketing

Precision Marketing allows you to create, execute and analyze your marketing campaigns across multi-channels through powerful analysis tool that enable you to create and measure your marketing strategies across segments, products, channels and brands. It automates your marketing strategies by allowing you to create personalized content based on location, customer behavior and preferences. It allows you to influence your customer purchases and recommend promotions. See IBM Unica for more.

RESTful Services

Representational State Transfer (REST) is a framework used by WebSphere Commerce to develop RESTful applications on web, mobile, kiosks and social applications. These services are used for data mapping, code generation, creating and retrieving user data and generating representation for explicit media types such XHTML and ATOM feeds.

Following Royal Cyber on Twitter and Facebook will keep you plugged, into the latest news & happenings about WebSphere Commerce. You can also keep a check on this blog for more posts by our WebSphere experts. Know more about Royal Cyber Fusion Commerce

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Revector wins two Queen’s Awards for Enterprise

UK-based specialist in detecting and eliminating mobile network
operator fraud, Revector, has won two prestigious Queen’s Awards for
Enterprise. The company has been rewarded with Queen’s Awards for
Enterprise in Innovation and in International Trade.

With a 315% growth in overseas earning since 2009, the company has
entered 37 new markets in the last three years. Revector has worked with

Figures show online estate agency is outselling traditional estate agents

Low fees estate agents, eMoov.co.uk,
which sells property exclusively via the 25 largest property websites,
has announced that at 27.2%, its sales versus sold figure is
significantly outperforming the latest RICS sales-to-stock ratio, which
sits at 23.3%* across several thousand high street estate agency
members.

Capitalising on the fact

JT and Stream Communications join forces to deliver the first strategic pan-European M2M service

The first effective and
reliable pan-European machine to machine (M2M) mobile network service is
to be rolled out between a Tier One mobile network operator and a
leading M2M market specialist.

JT, the leading telecommunication provider for the Channel Islands has
announced a joint partnership and strategic agreement with Stream

"At the start of something big": Sir Roger Gale MP applauds the opening of SelectSpecs new shop in Westgate, Kent

-The Worshipful Mayor of Margate, Councillor Iris Johnston, officially opens new shop-

Online spectacles and sunglasses giant SelectSpecs
celebrated its move onto the high street with a Grand Opening at its
new shop in Westgate-on-Sea in Kent, on Friday 20 April, 2012. To honour
the occasion Sir Roger Gale MP attended the event and The Worshipful
Mayor of Margate, Councillor Iris Johnston,

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Two more countries on board! Anderman Ceramics
adds another two countries to its growing list of those covered. With
customers all over the world, now it’s time for Anderman Ceramics to add
Hungary and Greece to its growing list of countries supplied to.
The constant growth of Anderman Ceramics reinforces its leadership as a worldwide supplier of advanced technical ceramics!

"Be games ready" call for hauliers

Hauliers have been warned
they will need to remain compliant with the London Lorry Control Scheme
despite changes to the Excluded Road Network (ERN) during the Olympic
and Paralympic Games.

London Councils, speaking at the ‘Get Set for 2012’ Freight Planning
Conference, stressed the urgent need for hauliers to check if their
current approved routes are still valid and if they need updating

'Holocaust Survivors' who Tell the Truth

also see:

BUCHENWALD: A Dumb, Dumb Portrayal Of Evil

Buchenwald Psychological Warfare Operation Documented

Pentagon's 'Yom HaShoah' 'Holocaust' Liturgy and Ritual for 2012

To aid in decoding this Synagogue and State fraud I have interspersed comments and links in the text below of the Pentagon's 'Yom HaShoah' 'Holocaust' Liturgy which Secretary of 'Defense,' Leon Panetta recited at the Pentagon for the 'Holocaust' high holy day, 'Yom HaShoah' 2012. Panetta was one of the scoundrels who foisted this psychological warfare holy day on the people of the U.S. for the purpose of covering over Allied WWII atrocities against the Christian civilians of Europe and Japan and justifying the massive expenditure in blood and treasure that propped up and continues to prop up the Judaic Imperium. Panetta can be counted upon to wage never ending 'preemptive' war to "prevent another 'Holocaust'" which is always right around every corner of the Greater Counterfeit Israel project.

Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta assists [Counterfeit] Israel's Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, as they light candles during a Holocaust Remembrance Observance held in the Pentagon Auditorium Thursday, April 19, 2012

Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta piously places his hand over his heart as he listens to the national anthem during a Holocaust Remembrance at the Pentagon, April 19, 2012. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, third from right, joined Panetta for the event. 

Yesterday, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta joined Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak in commemorating the victims and survivors of the Holocaust at an event marking Yom HaShoah.


[Excepts from] the Secretary's remarks are below as Delivered by Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta, The Pentagon Auditorium, Washington D.C., Thursday, April 19, 2012 Holocaust Remembrance Day Observance:

Today we pause to remember and honor six million souls who were murdered not because of anything they had done, but because of who they were. They will always be in our memory, they will always be in our prayers, and they will always be in our hearts.

... Today we also celebrate the enduring strength of the Jewish people, who overcame this tragedy and built a strong and vibrant Jewish state in Israel. They have flourished there, they have flourished here in America, and indeed across the world, and that too is an inspiration to all of us.

In my faith, the resurrection from the dead is fundamental to our hope and to our faith. In the Jewish faith, resurrection from tragedy is fundamental to their hope and to their faith

... I just had the opportunity to meet with my friend ['Defense' Minister of Counterfeit Israel] Ehud Barak, and we are deeply honored that he was able to join us here today in this observance

... Ehud, I am proud to be your partner, and I am proud to be your friend, and to work with you in continuing to strengthen the U.S.-Israel defense relationship. It is an honor for me to be able to participate in this event with all of you.

Today the world comes together to mark Yom Ha’Shoah – Holocaust Remembrance Day. It was my privilege to have served in the U.S. House of Representatives when we passed a law recognizing the days surrounding Yom Ha’Shoah as a national civic commemoration, a law that also established the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. I believed it was important then when I cast that vote, and it is important today, to mark these days of remembrance, because through commemorations like this, large and small, within families at home, we send a strong message that we will never forget, and that we will never allow this to happen again. That solemn responsibility is shared by us as human beings, by us as Americans, and by us as men and women of the Department of Defense, who could be asked, when the time comes, to act, to make sure that it never happens again.

For the United States Armed Services, these events are not a distant memory. Our modern military was forged in the crucible of World War II. It was forged in the fight against Nazi tyranny. To defeat Hitler we mobilized all of the strength that we could muster, and in that effort we witnessed many of our finest hours as a military and indeed, as a country.

Today we carry forward the proud legacy of men and women of the United States Army who played a vital role in liberating the camps at Buchenwald, Dora-Mittelbau, Flossenbürg, Dachau, and Mauthausen. American forces not only brought freedom to the survivors of Nazi horrors, they also made sure that in its aftermath the world would know what [is alleged to have] happened.

In the days after Allied forces captured the first concentration camps, General Eisenhower, General Patton and General Bradley themselves inspected a camp [that had previously been prepared by the U.S. OSS (the predecessor to the CIA) as a psychological warfare operation], and learned and saw [staged 'evidence' of] atrocities that had [been intended to appear as though they had] occurred. They were, in Eisenhower’s words, atrocities “beyond the American mind to comprehend” [but not beyond the the OSS's imagination to dream up]. Eisenhower ordered every American soldier in the area who was not on the front lines to take the time to tour these [psychological warfare operations the OSS had set up in the] camps, so that they could themselves see what they were [alleged to have been] fighting against, and why they were [alleged to be] fighting. These soldiers became not only liberators, but witnesses to [what is alleged to be] one of the greatest atrocities in history [the purpose of the psychological warfare operation. German civilians were also forced to 'witness' the displays of 'atrocities' staged by the OSS].

The commitment of our forces to the survivors of Nazi atrocities did not end with liberation.  In the aftermath of war, we cared for survivors and we helped reunite families.  We provided physical nourishment, and we provided spiritual nourishment as well.

For example, upon [hearing the Yiddish tall tale that] there was not a single complete edition of the Talmud in Germany General Joseph McNarney, commander of the American zone of Occupied Germany, undertook an effort to print a Talmud for survivors [Hitler was more hostile to the Bible than the Talmud. He did in fact allow printing of the Talmud. Moreover, he did not print Johannes Eisenmenger's devastating, unsurpassed critique of Judaism].

And when American forces discovered enormous caches of looted cultural materials, they set about ensuring that these objects were treated with the greatest respect.

Ultimately, thanks to these efforts, millions of objects and sacred texts were returned to their rightful heirs or held in trust by Jewish successor organizations.

The leader of that effort, a U.S. Army Captain named Seymour Pomrenze, was a hero whose actions embodied the professionalism and dedication of the uniform he wore.

The contributions of American service members like Captain Pomrenze make all of us proud, and we remember them as we come together as a community today to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Though we will always know what good was done and that lives were saved, we must always remember that we were unable to save the six million Jews who perished under Hitler’s cruel reign.

That is a burden that all of us must carry.  Not just the generation of World War II, but every generation must carry that burden.  It is one that we have turned into shared determination, a shared determination to ensure that this never happens again.

Today we renew that commitment.  That is what this day is truly all about.  We do so by coming together to bear witness, just as our service members did more than sixty-five years ago.  In a moment, we will be privileged to hear from Charlene Schiff, who has dedicated her life to making sure that the lives of those who perished in the Holocaust are never forgotten.

Charlene, it is our honor to be witnesses to your story.  And it is our honor to affirm to you that we will never stop fighting in the memory of those who perished – fighting for a better future, and fighting for a world safe from aggression, from tyranny and from injustice.

Out of the darkness that was the Holocaust comes the eternal hope that never again, never again, will we allow that to happen.  I would now like to invite Minister Barak and the Service Secretaries to join me and Charlene in lighting memorial candles.

These candles symbolize unity and hope, and our shared commitment to honor the memory of all those who perished in the Holocaust.


http://www.defense.gov/speeches/speech.aspx?speechid=1664

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by Jeffrey A. Brez

This afternoon at the 6th Global Community-Based Adaptation conference in Hanoi, Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) and IFAD shared their experience in making IFAD’s 2012-2017 strategic planning document for Vietnam climate smart. (these documents at IFAD are known as “Results Based Country Strategic Opportunities Programmes” or COSOPs). IFAD’s portfolio in Vietnam focuses on the poorest rural communities, including ethnic minorities and women headed households, and is now worth about US$257 million, with another USD100 million of investments anticipated over the 2012-2017 period.

Mard ifad cba6 presentation - dr hung +roshan cooke - 19 apr2012

View more PowerPoint from IFAD International Fund for Agricultural Development

MARD was represented by Prof. Dr. Trieu Van Hung, Director General of their Department of Science, Technology and the Environment. IFAD was represented by Roshan Cooke, Regional Climate and Environment Specialist for the Asia and Pacific Region.



Dr. Trieu (click above to view his 1-minute video statement) made the point that Vietnam is expected to be among the countries hardest hit by climate change, and that the agriculture sector is one of the most vulnerable. According to the National Climate Change Strategy, from 2001-2010 “damages caused by disasters like floods, storms, flash floods, landslides, inundations, droughts and saltwater intrusion have been significant: 9500 dead and missing people; and an asset loss of about 1.5% of GDP each year.” Given that the majority of Vietnam’s poor women and men live in rural areas and depend on agriculture for their livelihoods – and that agriculture is particularly vulnerable to natural disasters - supporting community-based adaptation is crucial to help buffer their livelihoods.

My colleague Roshan Cooke (in the photo above) explained IFAD’s ambitious approach. The “Climate Smart COSOP,” he said, will ensure that all of the investments that IFAD supports in Vietnam are climate-smart. This will be done through, among others, the following interventions: support to the policy making process to ensure that the climate vulnerability of poor rural communities is effectively addressed through MARD’s policy frameworks; integration of climate change adaptation responses into the provincial level Socio-Economic Development Plan (SEDP) for determining budget allocations; identification of adaptation pathways for diversification of livelihoods; and scaling up of autonomous adaptation actions that rural poor people are innovating.

Several presentations were made and the following discussion was lively. Issues raised included how to address the “surplus of rural population in farming,” how to balance focus between smallholder farming and opportunities in the rural non-farm economy (and beyond), and how to fill the knowledge gap on local level impacts of climate change in rural areas.

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Find out more here about how IFAD is supporting smallholders and poor rural people in Vietnam.

Want to read the IFAD COSOP for Vietnam? You won't regret the time spent. Click here and scroll down to Vietnam 2012. Available in Arabic, English, French and Spanish.

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As we have documented elsewhere, Judaism is by its nature a ghetto religion, even in the best of times. And as these works document, the Judaic 'ghettos' of Catholic Europe were often centers of international trade and moneylending and the civil authorities were oftentimes at the Judaic moneylenders' service as enforcers for collection of debts from Christians. The temporally ambitious, knuckleheaded 'Christian' nobility tended to be fascinated by magic, Hermeticism, Kabbalah, gematria, astrology, etc., etc. which made them easy prey to the rabbis' confidence scams utilizing these vehicles; 'services' for which they were returned many favors contrary to the interests of the Christian population and the Gospel.


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These are invaluable resources generally, but may also come as an aid to those seeking to understand the direction of a certain contingent of traditionalists and the tradition they're attempting to resurrect.

The Racketeer/Rabbi Relationship

Judaism, which requires its men to 'study Torah' all day and cultivates a generally dim view of honest work, is not a self-sustaining system. The money has to come from somewhere to prop it up and fuel its megalomaniacal ambitions. Oftentimes the funding comes from usurers, mobsters, casino owners, drug runners, liquor barons and various racketeers.

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Most Significant Change (MSC) - SCAMPIS Guatemala

In the context of the SCAMPIS Project (www.ifad.org/english/water/scampis/)  has been developed the MSC analysis to complement the quantitative M&E data collection.

During the last SCAMPIS M&E mission to Guatemala “stories” about the most significant change have been collected in the municipalities of  Moyuta, Conguaco, Chiquimula (Olopa, Camotan), San Pedro Pinula.

The story collection is one of the 4 steps identified for the SCAMPIS MSC technique. 

The process of collection have been extremely interesting and rich in terms of stories collects and people involved.

MSC first phase: Stories collection

Around 22 stories on have been collected by kids of the age between 13-16 years old. The story narrated by the project beneficiaries were about the most significant change and the challenges faced during the involvement in SCAMPIS. 

The kids have been trained, so as real “reporters” they interviewed the project stakeholders, they recorded videos and took photos.

The process in each community started with a short ice-breaking capacity building of the kids, to learn how to use the video-camera, the photo-camera and to run an interview.

The kids demonstrated great interest, even if very shy  at the beginning, some of them scared, after the first “interview trial” among us, found the exercise interesting, and going to the field, interview after interview they became quite experts: at the end of the day they were totally independent and capable of managing their own interview (without almost looking at the questionnaires). The activities lasted 1 entire day in each of 5 communities, at  the end of the day all the kids where tired, but at the same time enriched by the experience and owners of a nice diploma.

Most important lesson:

-          LEARN HOW TO ASK. The kids learned something extremely important (for the consultant unexpected): ASKING QUESTIONS. "Kids stay among kids", so usually they are not used to go to adults or old people of the village asking direct and specific questions. They understood that even if it could seem there are enormous distances between them and adults, this distances can be overcome easily.

-          KIDS CAPABILITY The kids demonstrate great capability to “be reporters” few more interviews would have been enough to insure their skills as "local reporters”

-          USE OF TECHNOLOGIES Despite the fact that the kid had never taken a photos or a videos, nor conducted interviews, it has been relatively easy for them to learn. A bit more difficult for them was to deal with the emotional aspect.

-          PRACTICAL LEARNING The kids learned a lot about doing vegetable gardens, natural pesticides, cookings, etc, and considering that they also are involved in school garden, it has been extremely useful for them.

-          At the end of the day a short brainstorming on the understanding of the interview, showed that they understood and stored the stories content.

-          The questions used have been adapted and improved day by day, but still could be improved and adapted to different context. Not all the beneficiaries are able to answer in a extensive way to the questions, and not all the kids have been able to help the farmers interviewed with additional questions (e.g. I explained then to always ask, “why”, “could you give me an example?” this helped but is not enough). This aspect has to be strengthened during the kids training. 

-          An event with the stories and videos will be organized by the educadoras to share the experience with other kids and people of the nearby communities. The material can be used to sensitize other families.

Finally, 10 additional stories have been collected (technicians, educadoras, project supervisor, project coordinator and other stakeholders) to complete the overview of the project in order to understand the most significant change also from the point of view of the strategy adopted and the organization promoting it.

The second phase will be implemented during the next SCAMPIS meeting (23^rd April) at Funcafé central office by the end of April the result of the analysis will be sent to IFAD.

Photos available at this link:  https://picasaweb.google.com/CeciliaRuberto/ScampisGuatemala2012

Videos:  http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA547A54E873204EB&feature=plcp

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Mission accomplished: Convincing indicators to assess impact of networks found? #kmers

Ever since I embarked on knowledge management and knowledge sharing journey, I've been struggling to find convincing metrics to assess impact of KM/KS activities. In October 2009, I wrote this blogpost: "KM search and rescue operation: Looking for intelligent and KM-enabled indicator!" and got some good feedback. But it still was not quite the convincing indicators I was looking for.

What do you I mean by convincing indicators?  I mean metrics that make sense, metrics that show progress, metrics that combine both qualitative and quantitative aspects.

I am not a great indicator fan. I believe indicators detract attention from the bigger scope. They are very much like this faceless street artist.

Nonetheless, the type of business we are in, requires that we measure our activities and show the impact we are making. And ever since when I've been trying to find convincing indicators for KM/KS related activities.

So you can imagine my excitement while reading Collaboration  by Morten T. Hansen  to come across convincing indicators to measure the impact of networks!!! Hansen's book is based on years of research. The book itself is a gem, especially the last chapter where he takes you on a personal journey and acting as coach shows you how to become a collaborative leader.

In this book, Hansen argues that the goal of collaboration is to achieve greater results. He identifies the following as barriers to collaboration:

• not-invented here barrier
• factors contributing to hoarding
• search barrier
• transfer barrier

He makes the case that no collaboration is better than bad collaboration. He argues that for collaboration to happen leaders need to unify people and to do that they:

• must craft a compelling unifying goal that makes people commit to a cause greater than their own individual goals
• should pair competition on the outside of the company with collaboration on the inside. People who unite to compete against a common foe are juiced up by competing and by collaborating
• should not talk competition, but collaboration and collaboration for results

Then he goes on to explain how to build nimble networks and it is in this chapter that I had an aha moment. I finally came across a convincing way to measure the impact of networks.

Hansen starts of by saying:

• too much networking may be distractive
• networking is costly because it takes time and effort to nurture relationships (this is if you are serious about it and want to do it well)
• for networks to be valuable, their benefits need to be greater than the costs
• secret of networking is to build result-based networks based on disciplined collaboration

He then proceeds to say that networks are good for identifying opportunities to take something further and to capture value and in doing so, effective networks need to reduce the collaboration barriers mentioned above. 

Hansen provides a framework with six network rules, which I see as great indicators to measure success of KM/KS networks. The first four are used to assess the impact of network vis-a-vis identifying opportunities and the last two to capture the value of networks.

• build outward, not inward: to overcome the not-invented barrier, networks need to build many more outward ties than inward ones. One of the indicators is to measure how much undisciplined collaboration there is. Is there too much networking, too much butterfly syndrome, jumping from one thing to another without concluding anything?
• build diversity, not size: to overcome search barrier you need to build a network based on diversity. In networks numbers do not count. What is important is the diversity of connections. You need connections that tap into diverse things and diverse people. This is what leads to more innovative products. Hansen challenges us that when we engage in professional relationship we should ask ourselves what diversity does this new contact bring me. He then proceeds to say that disciplined collaboration means adding contacts that bring more diversity into your network. And this too is a great indicator to measure the impact of networks
• build weak ties, not strong ones: now how counterintuitive can one get. And yet, there is so much wisdom in this statement and this too is a superb indicator. Hansen makes the point that weak ties prove to be much more helpful in networking because they form bridges to world we do not walk within. His argument is that strong ties are to worlds we know and he is very right about this. Building weak ties contributes to overcome the search barrier
• use bridges, not familiar faces: good networking means knowing who the real bridges are and to use them. Bridges are typically long-tenured people who have worked in different places and know about a broad range of topics. A successful network needs to have enough people performing bridging role. Using bridges and not familiar faces is another tactic to overcome the search barrier
• swarm the target; do not go it alone: Hansen's advice here is if you believe the target identified in a search may not be forthcoming, enlist the help of others to convince the target. In other words swarm the target with influencers, people who are in position to exert influence and get your contacts to work on your behalf, appeal to common good and invoke reciprocity. If you want to measure the impact of your network, you should ask yourselves, how many times you've turned to your network members and asked them to do something on your behalf and how many times they did it for you. Hansen associates this as a remedy for the hoarding barrier
• switch to strong ties; do not rely on weak ones: he finishes of his six network rules by providing a remedy to transfer barrier and making the point that to ensure easy transfer you need strong ties between team members so that they can trust each other and transfer complicated knowledge, which in KM language translates to good old tacit knowledge

I must say, I am thrilled to have finally found convincing and sound indicators for measuring the impact of networks. I now believe it is possible to find equally good indicators for other KM/KS aspects. The dilemma is whether anyone old person do so, or whether we need another Morten Hansen with years of research experience to come up with equally convincing indicators.

Bets are open!!! And I would love to hear your views and feedback on these indicators.