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It gives us great pleasure to give you the opportunity to meet our team. We are a young and energetic charity with ambitions to grow in order to provide quality education and support in underprivileged communities. Our committee in Ireland consists of eight individuals who have all visited Calcutta on numerous occasions and are passionate about bringing about real change in the lives of all the young people we help. The committee contains individuals who can draw on their experience from here in Ireland and India to contribute towards Calcutta Connect having the greatest impact possible in the communities we work and we meet regularly to discuss our current and future work. In Calcutta, we are lucky to have an excellent project manager in Baren Mondal who oversees all of our programmes for us throughout the year. Meet our team and those in the key positions in Calcutta Connect.
Chairperson: Brian Kelly
Having first traveled to Calcutta in 2002, Brian has returned to Calcutta on numerous occasions and he travels regularly to Calcutta working closely with the projects we support, our partner organisation and students we support in the city. He completed a Masters in Human Rights in UCD in 2011 having previously done a Degree in Development Studies in Kimmage Development Studies Centre in 2010.
Treasurer: Alan Irwin
Having traveled to India for the first time in 2008, Alan returns to Calcutta each year to work with and grow the projects we support, spending time developing further programmes and working closely with the students in all our centres. Alan completed his degree in mathematics and music technology in N.U.I. Maynooth in 2012 and works in the IT industry.
Secretary: Ian Stuart-Trainor
Ian first traveled to India in 2003 and returned on two occasions since most recently as a group leader of the Coláiste Éanna India Immersion Project 2010. He is also founder and CEO of IST Systems a company specializing in Computer Networking and Hardware.
Emily Lyon
Emily graduated from UCD with an International Bachelor of Social Science in 2015 and completed a Masters in Women, Gender & Society in UCD in 2016. She has volunteered with UCD Volunteers Overseas in the Northeast India project as Student Leader in 2015 and as Team Leader in 2017. She visited Calcutta with Calcutta Connect committee members in 2016, 2017 and 2018. Emily currently works in the development sector.
Alan McMullan
Having first traveled to India as a pupil with the school in 2006, Alan returns to Calcutta regularly to work with the projects and students we support in the city. He spent the summer of 2012 in Calcutta teaching in our schools and assisting with the furtherance of the vocational training programme. Alan completed a Business and Law Degree in UCD in 2011 and recently qualified as a solicitor.
Ciarán Ahern
Ciarán first traveled to Calcutta in 2002 as a participant in the Coláiste Éanna India Immersion Project. He subsequently returned to Calcutta with the school in 2004 and 2008 as a group leader. Ciarán has a Master of Laws from the London School of Economics and currently practices as an employment solicitor in Dublin. In both 2016 & 2018 Ciarán returned to Calcutta to visit the projects supported by Calcutta Connect. Ciarán also serves on the committee of the Law Society's Calcutta Run.
Shay Ferris Shay participated in the India Immersion Project as a student in 2008 and returned as a supervisor in 2010. In 2013 he spent again time in Calcutta working closely with the projects we support and overseeing a number of improvements to our centres. Shay completed his Business Management Degree in 2016 and works for Fire.com as a Business Development Executive.
Emmet Wilkinson
Emmet traveled to India in 2010 as part of the Colaiste Eanna India Immersion Project. He completed his degree in Accounting & Finance and his masters in Accounting in DCU. Emmet works for Ernst and Young as an accountant and he returned to Kolkata in February 2018 to visit the projects supported by Calcutta Connect.
Calcutta Manager – Baren Mondal We have been lucky to know Baren Mondal for a number of years now and he has been a great supporter and advocate of the work we do in Calcutta Connect and has been lucky to have the opportunity to meet our team on different occasions. This year we have been delighted to bring Baren onboard with us in Calcutta Connect and he will now work for us in monitoring the programmes we support in Calcutta and in particular will work closely with us in our programme with PRDS and our student and college sponsorship programmes.
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SmartData Collective > Analytics > R Integrated Throughout the Enterprise Analytics Stack
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R Integrated Throughout the Enterprise Analytics Stack
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The past couple of years have seen a dramatic growth in the use of the R language in the enterprise. R has always been pervasive in academia for research and teaching in statistics and data science, and as new graduates trained in R have migrated to the workplace the demand for R in corporations has become more and more intense.
Database vendor Oracle estimates that "R has attracted over two million users since its introduction". James Kobielus, noted Forrester analyst and predictive analytics expert, recently said in PCWorld that "R has become a real ubiquitous force in advanced analytics. It's everywhere. Enterprise adoption of it has been growing steadily. When we ask our customers what they're using for statistical modeling they'll say SAS or [IBM's] SPSS, but they increasingly say R in the same breath."
With rapid growth of the use of R in the enterprise comes a corresponding increase in demand for enterprise support for R from its users, and demand for integration of R into corporate systems from IT (both areas in which Revolution Analytics provides software and expertise). Most large organizations have a sophisticated infrastructure devoted to data analysis, with an "analytics stack" of software to provide data warehousing and query, predictive analytics, reporting, presentation, and Business Intelligence (BI). As a result software vendors at every layer of this stack have added functionality to integrate R, accommodating demand from both users and IT, and to serve the needs of data-driven business decision makers. Let's take a look at some of the applications within the analytics stack which now provide integration with R.
The Data Layer
The data layer is where the lifeblood of the analysis — the data — is stored and prepared. Especially for high-performance and big-data applications, analytics based in R can benefit from the infrastructure that the data layer provides. The IBM blog has a great post with an in-depth discussion about integrating R with the data layer.
IBM Netezza, the high-performance data-warehousing appliance, is integrated with R (in partnership with Revolution Analytics). R users can use Revolution R Enterprise to run massively-parallel computations in R within the IBM Netezza appliance and implement high-performance, big-data analytics (with high-frequency financial data, for example). [Update: a free webinar on February 29 will describe the integration between IBM Netezza and Revolution R Enterprise in detail.]
Oracle announced last year a forthcoming connection between R and Oracle, which was made available in February 2012. Oracle R Enterprise is aimed at statisticians who are "don't know SQL" and are "not familiar with DBA tasks". It is available as part of the Oracle Advanced Analytics option (priced at around $23,000 per core), and provides a "transparency layer" for with functions to connect to Oracle and use R functionality in the Oracle database. Oracle also maintains the open-source ROracle package which provides similar functionality for open-source R.
Cloudera's Distribution Including Apache Hadoop provides support for R in partnership with Revolution Analytics. This connection makes it possible to manipulate Hadoop data stores in R directly from HDFS and HBASE, and give R programmers the ability to write MapReduce jobs in R using Hadoop Streaming.
IBM BigInsights, the Hadoop platform from IBM, is also integrated with R and Revolution R Enterprise. BigInsight queries can make use of the Map-Reduce construct while running R computations in parallel.
Teradata's Enterprise Data Warehousing platform provides in-database analytics using R via the free teradataR package. This package allows R users to connect to Teradata, create data frames linked to Teradata and to call in-database analytic functions. The Teradata Aster MapReduce Platform also provides integration with R.
Sybase RAP, the edition of the Sybase database for financial data, provides integration with R. Providing the R language alongside Sybase RAP allows for faster algorithm development and extensive backward testing on historical data. Sybase also regularly highlights R integration in its financial newsletters and webinars.
The Analytics Layer
The Analytics layer is where the magic happens: statistical modeling, predictive analytics and custom data visualization. Fed with (usually) structured data sourced from the Data Layer, R is widely used here to categorize, predict, and generally provide insight into corporate data stores. In many organizations, older data analysis tools remain in use, and so interfaces to R have been added provide support for analysts and data scientists who prefer to use R and to fill in the gaps of these legacy tools with modern, high-performance analytics.
Revolution Analytics is the leading commercial organization focused on software and support for R. Its Revolution R Enterprise software extends open-source R with productivity interfaces, high-performance statistical computing, big-data analytics, and enterprise integration of R.
SAS has been a statistical analysis workhorse since the early 70's. Now, with so many graduates in statistics trained in R instead of SAS, SAS has introduced the ability to call R from SAS/IML. (It's also possible to call R directly from base SAS thanks to a free package developed at Roche Pharmaceuticals.) SAS JMP, the point-and-click data analysis package, now also provides support for R.
IBM SPSS Statistics, the popular desktop data analysis software known simply as SPSS before being acquired by IBM in 2010, provides integration to R via the Statistics Programmability Extension module.
RStudio, an open-source software company, provides an integrated development environment for developing code in the R language.
Matlab, a numerical computing language used by engineers, also offers the ability to call R from Matlab on Windows.
Zementis software allows models created with R to be scored on massive data sets using the ADAPA Decision Engine and Revolution R Enterprise.
The Presentation Layer
Data analysis makes the most impact in the enterprise when it can be readily acted upon by decision makers: often, business executives not steeped in the arcana of data warehousing or statistical analysis. As a result, many reporting and business intelligence tools now make it possible to make it possible to incorporate the resuts of analyses generated in R in the presentation layer, in a format tuned to the needs of a business audiecne.
Jaspersoft's business intelligence software makes it possible to incorporate the results of R-based analytics into BI dashboards and reports, via integration with Revolution R Enterprise.
TIBCO Spotfire's interactive business intelligence dashboards make it possible to share results and models from R.
You might not think of Microsoft Excel as more of a spreadsheet than a presentation tool, but it is very widely used on the desktop as a "container" for static and interactive reports based on statistical analysis. While Excel does not have out-of-the-box integration with R, is is possible to integrate R-based computation into Excel spreadsheets via RExcel and Revolution Analytics' RevoDeployR web services API.
R: Integrated throughout the analytics stack
As you can see, for organizations who need to create advanced analytics applications, R is integrated throughout the analytics stack: for data access, for presentation of results, and of course for the statistical analysis process itself. This degree of integration by so many companies is indicative of the level of demand for R throughout the enterprise. As the leading provider of commercial software and support for R, Revolution Analytics supports R users througout the organization, helps IT departments integrate Revolution R Enterprise throughout the analytics stack, for high-performance and big data applications based on the R language.
DavidMSmith February 28, 2012
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SPORTS | SOCCER
Duke women's soccer routs No. 3 West Virginia on the road to avenge 2016 losses
Kayla McCoy's two goals in the second half broke the game open against third-ranked West Virginia.
Photo by Chronicle File Photo | The Chronicle
By Meredith Cash
Last year, West Virginia was Duke's Achilles' heel. The Blue Devils lost 3-1 on their home turf in September before falling 1-0 to the eventual national runners-up in the Elite Eight of the NCAA tournament, squandering a chance to avenge their 2015 national title loss to Penn State.
Needless to say, No. 11 Duke still had scores to settle heading to Morgantown, W.V., for a matchup with the third-ranked Mountaineers Friday night.
And settle the score it did.
The Blue Devils dealt West Virginia a convincing 4-0 loss Friday at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium, marking their sixth straight win and their third straight shutout. The Mountaineers—who beat the then-No. 1 Nittany Lions last week—had not dropped a decision by four goals or more since losing 5-0 to Penn State in August 2011.
Duke junior Kayla McCoy led the winning effort with two goals in the second half, classmate Kat McDonald notched her first career goal in the 38th minute and senior captain Imani Dorsey scored her sixth goal in as many games. McCoy—who sat out most of last season with a ruptured Achilles' tendon—cited the Blue Devils' history as a motivating factor in Friday's rout.
"Everybody had those games in the back of our head, knowing that last year we weren't able to do what we wanted to do and what we believed that we could do with those games," McCoy said. "We just came out tonight and we were wanting it more than ever and believing in ourselves more than ever, too. We just wanted it more than West Virginia did and we were able to work harder than they did and we were able to pull it off."
The contest opened as a back-and-forth affair, with both sides notching three shots through the opening 20 minutes and the Mountaineers (4-2-0) taking three corner kicks to Duke's one. McCoy threatened West Virginia goalkeeper Rylee Foster early with two on-target header shots, but the sophomore—who owned the seventh-best goals against average in the nation last year—deflected both attempts.
It wasn't until the 29th minute that Dorsey sent a long shot from outside the 18-yard box past Foster and into the right-side netting to put the Blue Devils (6-1-0) on the board. The Elkridge, Md., native leads Duke with 13 points on the season and has been the primary offensive sparkplug for the team.
"When I feel like I have a good shot, then I'll take it, and that's what I felt like tonight, and it just worked out perfectly," Dorsey said. "The fact that we're finding these opportunities and are able to work with each other when we're counterattacking is making us better and better. Knowing that we were able to produce more goals tonight was huge."
After Dorsey opened the scoring for the Blue Devils, it did not take long for the floodgates to open. Less than 10 minutes later, McDonald carried the ball nearly 30 yards upfield to the top of the box and drove a hard shot into the bottom left corner of the net.
The Raleigh, N.C., native—who has seen increased playing time since sophomore Mia Gyau was sidelined for the season with ACL and MCL tears—helped Duke close the first half with a comfortable lead and all of the momentum. Her first goal as a Blue Devil could not have come at a more welcome time for head coach Robbie Church.
"When [Imani] hit that ball, it looked like it just relieved everybody and we just relaxed a little bit," Church said. "We started moving the ball around. Kat's goal was huge at the end of the half. She's probably not had a bigger goal. That was huge."
Although Duke had a significant lead heading into the final 45 minutes of the contest, a squad as talented and resilient as the Mountaineers could have easily pulled their way back into it.
But the Blue Devils had other plans. Just 7:27 into the period, senior defender Schuyler DeBree lofted a ball into the box for McCoy to run onto. The Lincolnwood, Ill., native chipped the ball over Foster and just inside the right post.
Her second goal came less than 10 minutes later from similar range. McCoy charged the box and punched home a feed from sophomore striker Ella Stevens through the scramble and into the back of the net. McCoy—who led the team in scoring last year before injuring herself against Boston College Sept. 17—is primed to return as one of Duke's top offensive weapons this season with four goals and two assists through seven games.
"We knew it was coming. We knew it was coming the whole time," Church said. "[Kayla's] a real professional. She prepares and she just works and continues to work. And she's a goal scorer. Goal scorers are eventually going to score goals, and tonight she just stuck with it."
With No. 21 Utah and a grueling conference schedule on the horizon, the Blue Devils could not have found a better time to fit all the pieces together. They will host the Utes riding a wave of momentum before beginning ACC play next week.
Friday's victory should put Utah and the rest of the college soccer community on high alert. Duke has once again proven itself to be a serious title contender.
"It's a big statement, and it says we can go and play with anybody in the country, home or away," Church said. "I'm sure people will look at this and raise some eyebrows."
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package uk.nhs.careconnect.ri.database.entity.practitioner;

import uk.nhs.careconnect.ri.database.entity.BaseResource;
import uk.nhs.careconnect.ri.database.entity.codeSystem.ConceptEntity;

import javax.persistence.*;

@Entity
@Table(name = "PractitionerSpecialty")
public class PractitionerSpecialty extends BaseResource {

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
    @Column(name="PRACTITIONER_SPECIALTY_ID")
    private Long myId;

    @ManyToOne(fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
    @JoinColumn(name = "PRACTITIONER_ROLE_ID",foreignKey= @ForeignKey(name="FK_PRACTITIONER_SPECIALTY_PRACTITIONER_ROLE_ID"))
    private PractitionerRole practitionerRole;

    @ManyToOne(fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
    @JoinColumn(name="specialty",foreignKey= @ForeignKey(name="FK_PRACTITIONER_SPECIALTY_SPECIALTY_CONCEPT_ID"))

    private ConceptEntity specialty;

    public Long getId()
    {
        return this.myId;
    }

    public ConceptEntity getSpecialty() {
        return specialty;
    }

    public PractitionerRole getPractitionerRole() {
        return practitionerRole;
    }

    public PractitionerSpecialty setPractitionerRole(PractitionerRole practitionerRole) {
        this.practitionerRole = practitionerRole;
        return this;
    }

    public PractitionerSpecialty setSpecialty(ConceptEntity specialty) {
        this.specialty = specialty;
        return this;
    }
}

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So 15 days after replacing my Galaxy S6 original battery with S7 Edge one, I have gathered some stats, that might give you an idea just how much improvement you can expect.
So I am using GSam Battery Monitor to track my battery life.
You can see that the averages per complete charge show a very degraded battery – just bellow 17 hours on average with just 1h 38m of SOT.
This was a busy day, so only 2h48m SOT, however about 4 hours of Spotify listening over bluetooth.
After the holidays came, I began using the phone very heavily, so my averages became very different.
Here I have some heavy Christmas redditing and browsing.
After New Years' Eve, although my averages were much lower, because of heavy usage and frequent charging, I am very confident that the battery is calibrated and performing as expected. Here is a day with about 1 hour of navigation, almost 4 hours of Spotify streaming over Bluetooth, a little bit of Reddit and Facebook + half an hour of calls.
EDIT 18.06.2017: After a little bit over half an year, I am using my phone heavier than ever and haven't noticed any substantial degradation in the battery life.
My Averages Per Complete Charge are very low, but that's expected since I am using my phone with it's screen constantly turned on during the day, sitting at wireless charger, streaming Spotify over bluetooth.


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Human rights Israel News Report Palestine Prisoners
Palestinian Detainee Continues Hunger Strike For Seventh Day
The Palestinian Detainees' Committee has reported, Saturday, that detainee Bashir Abdullah Khatib, 56, who has been imprisoned for 31 years, started a hunger strike seven days ago, protesting being denied medical treatment.
The detainee, from Ramla city, is facing various issues with his teeth, gums and mouth, but has been denied medical treatment, even though his condition has been ongoing for several years.
The Committee stated that the detainee, held in Nafha prison, is also protesting the administration's refusal to give him meals that he can eat due to his condition.
It added that Bashir is now threatening to escalate his hunger strike, by refraining from drinking liquids, especially water, should the prison authority continue to ignore his legitimate demands.
It is worth mentioning that Khatib, a married father of five (three daughters and two sons), and a grandfather, was taken prisoner on January 01, 1988, and was sentenced to a life term, which was defined by 35 years in prison.
Israeli Soldiers Open Fire At Farmers, Shepherds And Fishermen, In Gaza
Gunmen Assassinate A Palestinian Security Officer In Lebanon


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There are some differences between how women and men's way of performing Salat.
1) Men raise there hands all the way to the ear for Takbeer while women raise their hands only up to their shoulders.
2) In Qayam (the standing posture) Men place their hands below Navel while women place their hands on their chest.
3) Men grasp their wrist while women do not. They only place right hand on the top of left with fingers intact together.
4 ) In Ruku (the bowing posture) Men's back is horizontal while women suppose to bend their back only far enough to touch their knees. Looking from far it will look like a bow arc. They won't flatten their back.
5 ) In Sajdah men's back portion is raised from ground and hands apart from body and fingers of feet twisted while women suppose to be gathered in a way so that all their body parts are close together and abdomen placed over her thighs.Both feet and ankles sticking out to the right. Lower portion of back touching the ground.
6 ) During Jalsa and Qaida (sitting between Sajdah and during Attahyat) men sit on their left ankle and their right foot's fingers are twisted while women sit on floor and their both ankles and feet sticking out towards right hand side.
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Watch Common's Hilarious, Jheri-Curl Enhanced Take On Lionel Richie
Omar Burgess
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Things have gotten off to a fairly serious start for Common in 2015. The Chicago-bred rapper and actor kicked off the year with an Academy Award for his John Legend collaboration "Glory" from the movie Selma. I March, he caught some backlash for appearing on "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" and giving his take on the fractured state of race relations in America. In recent days, Keane University rescinded an invitation for Common to speak at a commencement when the State Troopers Fraternal Association of New Jersey took offense to a 15-year-old song Common made paying homage to exiled Black Panther member Assata Shakur.
Thursday, all of the political rhetoric took a backseat to make room for leather and lots of jheri curl juice. The GRAMMY Award-winning rapper faced off with John Legend on Spike's "Lip Sync Battle," with a rendition of Lionel Richie's 1983 hit "All Night Long (All Night)."
You can view the performance, which Common billed as his debut as "Lionel Rashid," below.
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Domain reports $3.4m net loss after tax following separation from Fairfax
by Vivienne Kelly
Domain has released its first financial results since being spun out of Fairfax, reporting revenue of $112.7m and a net loss after tax of $3.4m in its statutory results.
The results come at a turbulent time for the ASX-listed company, which is majority owned by Fairfax, with executive chairman Nick Falloon using it as an opportunity to dispel any market fears about how the company will perform without embattled former CEO Antony Catalano at the helm.
"Domain has today reported a pleasing first standalone result": Falloon
The Domain separation implementation date was 22 November, 2017, but Falloon highlighted the pro forma – rather than the statutory – results which exclude significant items and are calculated as if Domain has been a separately listed entity for the current and comparative periods.
"Domain has today reported a pleasing first standalone result, with pro forma EBITDA [earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation] growth of 8.7% and a strong underlying performance. It demonstrates the strength of Domain as a separately listed company and the ongoing success of its strategy," he said.
According to these pro forma results, revenue would be $183.3m, a climb of 12.5%. EBITDA would be $56.8m, which is up 8.7% on the comparative period. Net profit after tax however would be $24.7m, which is down 8.1%.
The company is carrying a net debt of $139.4m. The interim dividend for investors will be 4c per share (30% franked), with a payout ratio of 93%. Investors who were registered by 26 February, will be paid on 12 March.
The separation expenses totalled $5.7m in the first half of the 2018 financial year, and $5.1m for the corresponding period in the 2017 financial year.
Domain Group's pro forma performance (Click to enlarge)
Falloon also attempted to impress upon the market the strength of the Domain team and highlight the character traits the company will be seeking in its new leader – following Catalano's resignation and ongoing accusations about the culture he fostered.
"Having stepped in as executive chairman, I can attest to the bench strength of the entire Domain team and their passion, skill and commitment. The business is in great shape with strong underlying momentum.
"The listing of Domain in November 2017 was a tremendous milestone. It was the culmination of the dedication, hard work and support of many – from Domain and Fairfax Media.
"I'm pleased to say the global search is underway for a new CEO. We are searching for an individual who will take Domain through its next stage of growth. We expect the new leader to have execution discipline and relevant experience in driving a growth business and building a great culture. The calibre of the candidates that we are attracting is truly impressive, benefitting Domain's position as a leading real estate media and technology business."
Using the pro forma calculation, the company saw significant growth in digital, but a decline in print revenue.
Domain's pro forma segment results (Click to enlarge)
From the core digital arm of the business, Domain had $128.6m in revenue for the first half of the 2018 financial year – a jump of 22.3%. Had Domain been a separately listed company in the first half of the 2017 financial year, this figure would have been $114.3m.
Print, however, suffered a decline, bringing in $43.0m in H1 FY18, compared to $48.6m the year prior – a decline of 11.6%. Print revenue still accounts for 24% of the company's overall revenue, with Domain saying the print arm was benefiting from a focus on cost efficiency.
"Print revenue declined 11.6% and print EBITDA declined 25.4%. This performance reflects ongoing structural decline, with some offset from cost initiatives," Falloon said.
"Cost initiatives delivered a 6% reduction in expenses year-on-year. There are further cost opportunities in printing and distribution efficiencies."
Revenue from residential listings was up 19.3%, from $72.2m in the first half of FY17 to $86.1m.
Domain also said it was closing the gap with a near parity in listings with competitors.
Domain says it is closing the gap on its competitors
The company is forecasting an increase in pro forma costs of between 12% and 13%. Pro forma costs for the 2017 financial year were $216m.
Domain CEO Antony Catalano resigns
Fairfax unveils details of Domain performance as it looks to start separate trading in November
Vivienne Kelly
Vivienne Kelly is the editor of Mumbrella. Throughout her career she has worked as a journalist and editor across a number of consumer and B2B finance and real estate titles. She has also spent time in public relations across the health, finance and energy sectors.
topics Antony Catalano, Domain, Fairfax, Nick Falloon


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PayIt's the big day at BofA.
Bank of America bonus day: Big disparities after huge hiring
by Sarah Butcher
Last year was a big year for recruitment at Bank of America. In the words of CEO Brian Moynihan, hiring managers spent the first half of the year "sort of overachieving," which - combined with a drop-off in exits, meant the bank ended up with more staff than anticipated. In European fixed income alone, it added 60 external hires in the first six months; in Moynihan's words, hiring in macro happened "continuously" last year.
Today is the day that all that the impact of all that hiring becomes clear. It's BofA bonus day, and early indications are that there are some pretty big disparities in compensation. BofA declined to comment on its bonuses, but on the bank's macro desks in particular, headhunters say there are signs of high peaks and low troughs as awards are heavily differentiated. "There are people whose bonuses are very good, and others whose are very bad," reflects one headhunter.
In investment banking, Financial News reports that bonuses were down 30%, but that in equity capital markets and leveraged finance they're down 50%, although zeroes were not common. This is perhaps surprising given that BofA isn't planning to make redundancies, but to rely on staff attrition and zeroes are one way of galvanizing this.
BofA is under pressure to pay its investment bankers after they did relatively better than rivals. However, it's also under pressure to pay its fixed income professionals after a strong Q4 when revenues increased 50%. Last year's heavy fixed income hiring may temper its generosity.
At other banks, sales and trading bonuses appear to have declined less than expected. At Goldman Sachs, insiders say the markets bonus pool was eventually down around 15%, and that traders were treated better than sales. In trading, Goldman bonuses were typically down 5-15%; in sales, the decline was more like 20-50%. BofA people who benchmark themselves to this may still get to feel pretty good.
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Many of us at EAT.PRAY.MOVE have experienced profound benefits from the practice of meditation. From stress reduction to healing chronic illness to dealing with injuries, we have all found it a necessary tool in our wellness regime. One of the most passionate advocates for this practice is Jen Carter, a yoga and meditation teacher for the "Mindful Movement" EPM retreats. We sat down with her to demystify meditation and share her experiences.
Jen, how long have you had a meditation practice?
I started meditating about five years ago after an accident. I wasn't able to work while I was recovering, so I found the practice to be a relief from not only the physical pain, but also the mental "mind chatter" that I experienced when I wasn't as busy as I had been while working.
Most people don't start a meditation practice without some sort of external motivator, be it stress, illness, etc. What created that need for you?
The accident was definitely the trigger for me to start meditating, but now I view meditation as a necessary part of my daily routine. I would skip brushing my teeth before I would skip meditating for at least a minute in the morning! I often tell my students to try to think about meditation as "cleaning the mind" just like they would think of brushing their teeth before leaving the house.
When you started, what style or form did you use?
When I first started, I had no idea what I was doing. I just went on Youtube and found free guided meditations that I would listen to. Once I realized the benefit, I wanted to learn more, so I just googled different ways to meditate. I then enrolled in a meditation teacher training course. That course was the life changer for me. Before that class, I had never meditated in a group, so I didn't realize the power of the collective consciousness in meditation. Meditating alone is powerful, but meditating in a group is amazing!
What change has it created in your life?
Meditation has created profound changes in my overall happiness, ability to deal with stress, my mood, my cravings, ability to visualize and manifest, the list goes on and on. I seriously can't imagine how I ever lived without meditation!
I meditate every morning for at least 30 minutes before I go out into the world. The first thing I do when I get up is have a cup of hot water with lemon. That enables me to quickly use the restroom, so I'm not distracted by the urge during meditation. I also put my little chihuahua in his crate, so he doesn't come and jump on me. I use a yoga bolster to sit on with my legs crossed. A bolster isn't necessary for everyone, but I have found that sitting on the bolster helps keep my legs from falling asleep. If you don't have a bolster, you can always sit in a chair with your feet firmly planted, legs uncrossed. I sit up tall with an elongated spine, so that energy can flow freely up and down the spine.
What kind of meditation do you teach on retreats?
I really try to keep it simple whenever I teach meditation. There are so many styles of meditation, but I have found that whatever works best for the individual is the best form! The most important thing for me to relay when I am teaching meditation is that we do keep it simple, so that we can incorporate it into our life daily. I do like to spoil our guests on the retreats with yoga nidra!
What do you wish people knew about meditation?
My goal in life is to spread the word on the SIMPLICITY of meditation! I often hear that people don't meditate because they can't sit still and their mind wanders! The funny thing is that that is pretty much everyone! The whole practice is called a "practice" for a reason. Sometimes my mind will wander for 29 out of the 30 minutes that I am meditating. It is that 29th minute when I notice that my mind is wandering that is the sweet spot. Every time you notice your mind is wandering, you just bring your focus back to the breath! Over time, it will wander less and less as your mind becomes stronger and stronger. Just think about your brain like a muscle you are trying to strengthen. You don't get a six pack of abs overnight, but with a daily practice of sit-ups, slowly over time, you will get stronger and stronger! When you look back 6 weeks, 6 months, and 6 years later, you will be amazed at the transformation you have made!
Thanks for sharing your journey with us, Jen!
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Welcome aboard the Baltic Charisma!
There are more than 1200 passengers on tonight's cruise from Sweden to Finland. The staff is ready to open up the bars and restaurants as soon as the ship has left Stockholm. The vibrations from the engines makes the bottles clink softly against each other on the shelves of the tax free shop. The large buffet tables are being filled with foods from all corners of the world. Four security guards are preparing for night fall, tasked with maintaining order in the utter chaos that can be wreaked by drunk passengers crammed into a space they can't leave.
Everything is routine. Baltic Charisma has followed the same route every day, year after year since 1989. But on this particular cruise, there are two passengers unlike any the Baltic Charisma has ever seen.
In the middle of the night, all communications with the outside world are suddenly cut off. Baltic Charisma's autopilot is steering her towards Finland, but everyone on the bridge are dead. As long as the ship keeps moving, it's impossible to put the life rafts in the water.
There is nowhere to run. Nowhere to hide. And there is no way of knowing who you can trust. Because when this sort of evil starts spreading, it's impossible to stop.
With Blood Cruise Mats Strandberg follows up the success of the Engelsfors Trilogy with an exciting horror novel. Just as in the Engelsfors Trilogy, he mixes social realism with the supernatural. Relationships are tested. Ordinary people are forced to become heroes. But what happens this night can also bring out the worst in people.
Mats has called the horror novel Blood Cruise "Stephen King at sea". The novel is being translated into several languages, and movie rights have been sold to Silvio Entertainment.
My mother died a few weeks after I had finished the first draft of Blood Cruise. All things considered, we had a good last couple of days while she was in the hospital. We talked a lot. She told me she had been worried that she would become ill before I had finished writing my book. It was a very typical thing for my mother to worry about while she suffered through pains that I can't even imagine.
And then she was gone. It was not unexpected, but still difficult to believe. I planned the funeral and my own upcoming wedding at the same time. Life was upside down, inside out. And I had the Blood Cruise script to return to. The thought of working felt completely absurd. Even more absurd to be working on a novel where I killed characters that I loved, where I let blood spray through the corridors, unleashed chaos upon people who did not deserve it. Honestly, I was afriad I couldn't do it. That it would feel wrong, in the middle of my own sorrow and loss. Instead, the opposite happened. Horror saved me and became my refuge, like so many times before.
In a way, my love of horror has a lot to do with my mother. When I was a kid in the 1980s, horror movies were strictly forbidden in our home. Of course, this only made me more interested. Back then, I thought it was just the guys in hockey masks and the cannibals and the evil clowns that both scared me and appealed to me. But today, as an adult, I can look back and see that there were other things that also attracted my child self to horror.
In hindsight, the 80s might seem like a silly, pastel tinted, bubble gum-chewing decade. But it was also a dark and scary time to grow up; there was aids, Chernobyl, the cold war, the assassination of our prime minister Olof Palme. And the whole time, my mother's illness lurked in the back of my mind. It made me hyper-aware of death, of how easily a body can break. Horror gave me an outlet for all these unspoken feelings. I could be scared in a way that was safe. I got an adrenalin rush, followed by catharsis.
Despite the forbidden nature of horror movies, my parents let me read whatever I wanted. I was ten when I discovered Stephen King and Dean R Koontz. Reading those brick-like novels was like staring the monsters in the face. I felt stronger and braver for each new story I devoured.
Ever since then, horror is my way of escaping from general anxiety. Horror goes straight for the reptilian brain. Makes me lose myself like nothing else. And something similar happened when I went back to Blood Cruise.
To edit is to take control of the world you've created. I sat there with my Excel documents on the character's clothes, cabin numbers, favourite expressions. I searched for loose ends and tied them up. But most of all, I used my own anger and heartache and worked them out through my characters. Once again, I lost myself in a horror story. Only this time, it happened to be a story I created. Blood Cruise became my refuge. It was my actual real life that was the difficult part.
I have my mother to thank for a lot. She taught me how to read, and she gave me the courage to write. She was my biggest fan, and I dedicated the book to her.