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UK Gov to host sanctions webinar

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Open General Licences - clarification on recent changes by the Export Control Joint Unit.

Webinar : 16 March at 11:00 GMT.

Publication:

Sanctions In Action

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UK GovTech needs a kick in the backside

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If you are issuing a notice about technology, the least you can do is make sure your own tech works when recipients click on a link in the notice.

CoNet Section:

IT & Communications

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It's back - one of the early signs of a housing bubble and bust

If you are a fan of Alan Greenspan, look away now. That's what he did when the first shoots of the housing bubble were evidenced - and then said he wouldn't have known anyway because the data at the US Fed was too recent. Except that it wasn't - it was simply parochial. The data was there - the Fed didn't think about it. And now, here is is again.

BIScom Subsection:

Home loans

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The most dumb-f**k marketing ever.

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Here's a moron of the first order. You want to sell us financial services and then you put a demonstrable lie front and centre in your pitch.

Thanks for the best laugh of the morning, you idiot. And yes, your IP address has been blocked from our entire server system.

CoNet Section:

Marketing / Sales

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Is your website blocked from China?

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It's a valid question - indeed, not only businesses outside China need to know if their sites can be accessed by the world's largest (apparently) biggest on-line population but people within China need to know whether the site they can't reach is blocked or there is some other reason.

Here's a handy short list of services that will help.

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Knowledge, belief and suspicion - doing deals behind the curtains.

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In 1992, some "old masters" were stolen from Lincoln's Inn in London, one of the Inns of Court where barristers are made and Judges are born. It naturally aroused outrage in legal circles which, like Olympic rings, overlap with government.

FCRO Subsection:

Learning

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"ASIC's ongoing efforts to improve standards across the financial services industry."

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It's there. In plain sight. In the body of the press release from the Australian Securities and Investment Commission. It's a statement that ASIC, having been found, damned by its own words and those of the industry, wanting in its supervision of the Financial Services Landscape, is taking the gloves off. It's not going to stand for any more poor compliance. It's going to make "ongoing efforts to improve standards across the financial services industry." So this case is going to be spectacular, isn't it?

BIScom Subsection:

Enforcement

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English High Court blocks LHR runway three

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It's being claimed as a victory for climate change activists but it's far, far more than that.

CoNet Section:

Aviation

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US Democratic Party grandees discuss who to declare for.

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Bryan Edwards

Thu, 27/02/2020 - 11:31

Publication:

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It's not fake news: it's fake everything. It's satire and it's fiction.

The US Democrats are trying to choose someone to run in an attempt to be President. The number 1 and number 2 of the secret committee that actually makes the decision are meeting in in a shed behind a Gentlemen's Club in a small settlement in the Nevada desert.

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Safeguarded v protected

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Don't say that:

safeguarded

Do say this:

protected

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F1: wobbly wheels and sandbagging - the value of pre-season testing.

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Testing is just that. It's not racing, it's not practice. It's one step before final shakedown. And it's one step up from running a highly sophisticated video game a.k.a. a simulator. Before the car arrives at the track, teams have buckets of data. Then, sometimes literally, the wheels come off.

CoNet Section:

Motorsport

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Differ v Defer

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Don't say that:

Defer when you mean differ

Do say this:

Differ when you mean defer

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Wells Fargo to pony up USD3,000 million in penalties

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Wells Fargo & Co and its subsidiary Wells Fargo Bank, N.A, have escaped prosecution, at least for the time being, by agreeing to hand over USD3,000 million to various agencies and departments of the US Government. It all started when the company decided it needed more account holders. Normal banks advertise or put young people on the streets with flyers. Wells Fargo had a different and shorter route - it would just create accounts for people, even if they hadn't asked for them. And that's not the full extent of what the bank is paying.

BIScom Subsection:

Management

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Reoccur v recur v happen again

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Don't say that:

reoccur

Do say this:

happen again

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