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Briefs: BWH grows in Middle East; Deutsche Hospitality residences in Doha
June 20, 2022 - Categories: Hospitality News, Hotels: News,
BWH grows Middle East portfolio: BWH Hotel Group plans to open four hotels in the Middle East this year — three in Saudi Arabia and one in Dubai. The four properties include the 118-room Best Western Plus Quruyyat City Center in Qurayyat, Saudi Arabia; the 160-room Best Western Plus Tabuk City Center in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia; the 201-room Best Western Ajyad Makka in Makkah, Saudi Arabia; and the 600-room Best Western Plus Academic City in Dubai International Academic City. With 16 properties open and 34 in the pipeline, the group plans to grow to 50 hotels in the region within a few years.
Steigenberger Residences Doha in Doha, Qatar
Deutsche Hospitality residences in Doha: Deutsche Hospitality has signed a management agreement for the Steinberger Residences Doha in Qatar. Slated to open in 3Q22, there will be 278 furnished apartments complementing the newly opened Steigenberger Hotel Doha – both owned by Sheikh Abdullah bin Abdulrahman bin Saoud Al Thani. The residences range from one-, two- and three-bedroom units and feature a rooftop swimming pool. The serviced apartments will be connected to the retail facility of the master development.
Kaylan Hospitality sells Hilton Garden Inn: Kaylan Hospitality has sold the 154-room Hilton Garden Inn in Lynnwood, Washington, for US$31.8 million (US$206,493 per room) to a joint venture between Olympia, Washington-based Palma Investments Co. and HMS Management.
Marriott in Nashville refinanced: Knighthead Funding, Greenwich, Connecticut, has provided a five-year first mortgage loan of US$37.6 million to refinance the 204-room Marriott TownePlace Suites in Nashville, Tennessee. The non-recourse loan refinances the in-place construction loan for the hotel, which opened in October 2020, and is one of Marriott's most recent extended-stay, all-suite properties in the market. The hotel exceeds ADR and occupancy projections year-to-date.
Direct booking gains ground in Europe: In HOTREC's biannual study on the European distribution market, results for 2021 show that hotels' reliance on OTAs remained almost at the same level as 2019 during the pandemic episode, while direct bookings increased significantly. The share of OTAs in 2021 was 28.8%, while direct bookings increased to 55.2% (an 8-percentage point increase over 2019).
NFT sales helps plastic waste collection: Hotel Lancaster in Paris said that the sale of its new Sustainable NFTs has generated sponsorship to recover 15,000 kg of plastic waste in Sao Paulo in Brazil. Each NFT in the collection removes 1,000 kg of plastic waste. This follows the launch of the hotel's partnership with Green Mining, where the reverse logistics start-up provided recycling data to embed into a collection of NFTs, which were available for sale and linked to a luxury experience in one of Paris' hotels. Half of the NFTs were sold since it launched less than a week ago on Plastiks, a marketplace which uses smart contract NFTs to upgrade the commercial value of recovered plastic waste. Along with the artwork of the hotel room where the guest will be staying, the NFT will contain the Plastic Recovery Guarantee that certifies that plastic has been removed from Brazil.
IHG removing single-use bath amenities: IHG Hotels & Resorts will collaborate with Unilever to stop using single-use bathroom miniatures and replace them with bulk amenities in more than 4,000 hotels. It will start with IHG Essentials and Suites Collection properties, including Holiday Inn and Holiday Inn Express in the Americas and EMEAA regions, and in Staybridge Suites, avid hotels and Candlewood Suites in the Americas. This is estimated to save almost 850 tonnes of plastic annually in IHG's Americas region. The roll out of the full-size products in IHG's mainstream brands, which represent almost 80% of IHG's portfolio, comes after the recent launch of bigger size bathroom amenities in InterContinental Hotels & Resorts properties. In 2019, IHG committed to replace bathroom miniatures with larger-size amenities across all its brands by 2030.
Resource hub to train Ukrainian refugees: The Sustainable Hospitality Alliance has launched a resource hub and a set of guidelines for hotels to support the recruitment of refugees from Ukraine and internally displaced people. The guidance will also aid hotels in providing accommodation for people in transit, while the curated resource hub will provide links to job opportunities and access to training resources to enable refugees to reskill themselves. A significant part of the guidance and trainings for hotels will be on ethical recruitment amid the increased risk of human trafficking caused by displacement. The group has included experience and expertise of members of the Sustainable Hospitality Alliance, including Accor, Four Seasons, Marriott International, IHG Hotels and Resorts and Radisson Hotel Group.


Saturday, August 6th marked the new Hvan's debut at New York's own Museum of Modern Art.
Over 500 cups of Pure Black were served in less than 2 hours. The Modern, Cafe 2 team as well as The MoMA committee where thrilled to see the positive feedback they received from the event.
Also, Almondine provided Haiti-Blue forest macaroons for the first 100 visitors, which were quickly snatched up.
Sad to have missed out? Next weekend the van will be featured again–Saturday, August 13th from 2-4. Come by and say hello!


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Here's Why It Doesn't Matter If North Korea Is Actually a Nuclear Threat
by The Organic Prepper · Published August 3, 2017 · Updated August 3, 2017
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Here's Why It Doesn't Matter If North Korea Is Actually a Nuclear Threat by Daisy Luther – The Organic Prepper
Those who believe that our own government is perfectly willing to commit an atrocity and then blame it on someone else tend to deny threats when they're brought up consistently by the media. Let's take the North Korea nuclear menace, for example.
I've been writing about the rising threat from North Korea for a long time and each time I publish a piece about their missile capability or some outrageous offense, it never fails that someone pops up and says, "North Korea doesn't matter. The government is just making them the bad guy so the US can take military action and the people will support it."
But in truth, that's the part that doesn't matter if you are a firm believer in false flags. Here's the definition of false flags, if you're unfamiliar with the concept:
The contemporary term false flag describes covert operations that are designed to deceive in such a way that activities appear as though they are being carried out by entities, groups, or nations other than those who actually planned and executed them…
…Proponents of political or religious ideologies will sometimes use false flag tactics. This can be done to discredit or implicate rival groups, create the appearance of enemies when none exist, or create the illusion of organized and directed persecution. This can be used to gain attention and sympathy from outsiders, in particular the media, or to convince others within the group that their beliefs are under attack and in need of protection. (source)
By now, everybody knows that the governments of the world are playing Game of Thrones and even the shocking brutality in that show is nothing compared to the things that we don't know about happening right now during this "civilized" era.
Will we get nuked?
If North Korea is being painted as the nuclear wild card – and it is – what we really need to consider is not so much, "Will North Korea nuke us?" as "Will we get nuked?"
You have to read between the lines.
With this much hubbub, it seems like it's building up to something. It is entirely possible that we could see a nuclear attack occur on American soil.
And here's why I say North Korea doesn't actually matter:
When you see that bright flash of light followed by a mushroom cloud on the horizon, will knowing the source of that cloud be the thing that saves your life or will knowing the steps to take to protect yourself be the deciding factor of whether you live or die?
In the heat of the moment (no pun intended), it simply doesn't matter who is responsible.
Of course, later on, the culprits should be called out and dealt with appropriately. I'm not saying that false flag operations for power and political gain are acceptable. They are heinous and cowardly acts.
But that isn't the point I'm trying to make. The topic of this article is survival, not blame.
In the midst of an event, the source doesn't matter.
Every time there is a mass shooting and people begin trotting out the "false flag" plotlines, I urge people who wish to be prepared to look at the occurrence and not the source of it. Here's why.
If you are crouched behind cover, racking the slide of your concealed carry firearm, will you care if the shooter is a black ops guy or a genuine crazy person in the heat of the moment? Nope. You will be focused on surviving, hopefully being able to take out the target before other people are hurt, and protecting your family. It won't matter whether you're in the midst of a false flag operation until later, after the lead is no longer flying.
Do you think the people in the tower on September 11th were saying, "I'll bet the US government is behind this so they can pass some Draconian legislation" or "We have to get the heck out right now because a plane just hit our building and it's on fire?" I'm just guessing here since I don't personally know any survivors, but my money is on the fact that they were figuring out how to survive the imminent threat.
It's the same thing with a nuclear strike. During the attack, what matters is accepting the fact that it happened, figuring out what to do, and taking action to survive.
You have to heed the warnings.
This isn't an exercise to make you live in fear, but instead to make you live with awareness.
If the constant theme is that North Korea is planning to nuke us, but you really doubt that the responsible party will be Kim Jong Un and company, then that leaves you with "someone is planning to nuke us."
Pay attention to that part and use it to help you get prepared.
It's just like any other potentially "fake news." You can nearly always find a grain of truth at the bottom of it.
News over the past week seems to mean that the sky is the limit with regard to the nuclear capability of North Korea. In the middle of the week, the concern was that Alaska, Hawaii, and parts of Canada were at risk. By Friday, however, a successful ICBM launch occurred that experts claimed proved a missile bearing a nuclear warhead could be launched by North Korea and strike as far into the mainland United States as Chicago.
Yesterday, it was reported that the United States had observed "highly unusual" submarine activity.
…what's most concerning for U.S. security is North Korea's new "Sinpo-class" ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs). Based on Russian ballistic missile submarines, the Sinpo-class carry North Korea to the next level of submarine warfare. The challenge posed by SSBNs is their disruption of an adversary's confidence in detecting and destroying nuclear weapons before they can be used. While the U.S. tracks North Korean submarines, sometimes, as in 2010 when a North Korean submarine sank a South Korean corvette, they slip through the net. (source)
This means that coastlines and US naval operations could be at risk.
As well, last night, North Korea undertook a missile launch test from a completely different location, one with a direct line to China. What this tells us is that they may have many different places to launch and that taking out their nuclear headquarters may not be as simple as dropping a bomb on Pyongyang.
According to Park Hwee-rhak, a professor at Seoul's Kookmin University, the location of the launch "is in mountainous terrain close to the border with China, so it is difficult for the US to hit it with a preemptive strike." (source)
But that wasn't the only unsettling news. Jeffrey Lewis wrote for the Daily Beast:
They tested from a surprise location deep inside North Korea, near the Chinese border where it would be hard to strike. And they did it at night when satellites that rely on optical images are useless. (That's not every satellite, but it is a good number of them.) This looks like a test from an operational missile base. You know that Washington Post report that the missile will "will have advanced from prototype to assembly line" sometime in 2018? Surprise! (source)
According to Lewis, this means that they could have an unknown number of other hidden military bases. That means that taking out Pyongyang wouldn't get the desired results of shutting down their nuclear program and that attacks could be much more difficult to predict or notice.
This isn't to say that false flags never occur.
Please don't take this the wrong way. I am not denying that false flags occur. Some have been so blatant that only the most stubbornly cognitive dissonant people can argue it.
I'm not saying that a nuclear strike will or will not be the work of North Korea, or that it will or will not be a false flag.
What I'm saying is that the warnings about a nuclear threat are real, regardless of the actual source of that strike. Disregard those warnings at your own peril, because if nukes start dropping you need to know what to do.
Go to this article to learn what you should do in the event of a nuclear strike. If you aren't at Ground Zero, this is very survivable. And it isn't going to turn our entire country into some horrific nuclear wasteland where you have to decide whether or not to eat your neighbors. It would be a truly devastating disaster, but it wouldn't be what you see in the movies.
What are your thoughts about this?
Do you believe North Korea is a real threat or that this is all a Machiavellian, media-assisted plot to start a war? Are you concerned about the potential of a nuclear strike? I want to hear what you have to say in the comments below.
Please feel free to share any information from this site in part or in full, leaving all links intact, giving credit to the author and including a link to this website and the following bio. Daisy is a coffee-swigging, gun-toting, homeschooling blogger who writes about current events, preparedness, frugality, and the pursuit of liberty on her websites, The Organic Prepper and DaisyLuther.com She is the author of 4 books and the co-founder of Preppers University, where she teaches intensive preparedness courses in a live online classroom setting. You can follow her on Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter
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Please feel free to share any information from this site in part or in full, leaving all links intact, giving credit to the author and including a link to this website and the following bio. Daisy Luther is a single mom who lives in a small village in the mountains of Northern California, where she homeschools her youngest daughter and raises veggies, chickens, and a motley assortment of dogs and cats. She is a best-selling author who has written several books, including The Organic Canner, The Pantry Primer: A Prepper's Guide to Whole Food on a Half-Price Budget, and The Prepper's Water Survival Guide: Harvest, Treat, and Store Your Most Vital Resource. Daisy is a prolific blogger who has been widely republished throughout alternative media. On her website, The Organic Prepper, Daisy uses her background in alternative journalism to provide a unique perspective on health, self-reliance, personal liberty, and preparedness. You can follow her on Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter
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The Meratus Mountains is a collisional orogen/suture marking the collision of Schwaner and Paternoster continents. The collision took place in the Early-Middle Cretaceous. Presently, the mountain is a basement uplift separating the Barito from the Asem-Asem and Pasir Basins. The origin of the Meratus uplift has been debated. Many authors considered that the uplift related to compression due to collision of micro-continents to the east of Sulawesi and/or rifting of the Makassar Strait. Recent seismic data in the Makassar Strait however, oppose this idea. We propose a new mechanism of the Meratus uplift based on tectonic interpretation of gravity and magnetic studies. The Meratus Mountains is rootless. It is thin allochthonous oceanic slab, submarine volcanics and deep-sea sediments overlying thick subducted Paternoster continent. Due to its buoyancy relative to upper mantle, the Paternoster continent broke off its oceanic front and started to exhume in Late Cretaceous time. The exhumation of the Paternoster continent has uplifted the Meratus suture and effectively formed a subaerial mountain separating the adjacent basins in the Mio-Pliocene. This mechanism of continental exhumation provides a model for the origins of other collisional uplifts in Indonesia such as : eastern Sulawesi, Central Ranges of Papua and Timor.


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Brasílio Ramos Caiado (Goiás, 8 de agosto de 1929 – São Paulo, 23 de setembro de 2006) foi um médico, fazendeiro e político brasileiro membro de tradicional família atuante no estado de Goiás.

Dados biográficos
Filho de Brasil Ramos Caiado e Noêmia Rodrigues Caiado. Médico formado em 1958 na Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, integrou o Clube da Lanterna ao lado de figuras como Carlos Lacerda. Em sua cidade natal fundou um hospital batizado com o nome de seu pai e foi diretor do Hospital São Pedro de Alcântara. Eleito prefeito de Goiás para um mandato de cinco anos em 1960, ingressou na ARENA em apoio ao Regime Militar de 1964 e por essa legenda foi eleito deputado estadual em 1966. Líder do governo Otávio Lage, foi presidente da Assembleia Legislativa de Goiás no último ano de mandato.

Eleito deputado federal em 1970, disputou um novo mandato em 1978 quando foi reeleito, porém licenciou-se do mandato a fim de assumir o cargo de secretário de Justiça no governo Ary Valadão. Reeleito pelo PDS em 1982, votou contra a Emenda Dante de Oliveira em 1984 e no ano seguinte apoiou Paulo Maluf no Colégio Eleitoral. Ao fim do mandato desfiliou-se do PDS e abandonou a política dedicando-se a atividades privadas.

Seu pai foi governador de Goiás e senador pelo respectivo estado durante a República Velha.

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No Hands To Hold and No Legs To Dance On
by Louise Medus , , Gill Swain
Loving and living - a Thalidomide survivor's story. While the battle for the compensation of Thalidomide victims was raging in the 1970s, former Labour MP Jack Ashley asked in a parliamentary debate how Louise, then 11 years old, could look forward to "laughing and loving with no hand to hold and no legs to dance on". This is a survivor's story, a triumph of the human spirit over adversity.
Louise was born Louise Mason, a victim of the devastating drug Thalidomide. Born without arms and legs, she is the daughter of David Mason, who single-handedly held out against the drug company, the legal establishment and all the other parents of Thalidomide victims in the high-profile fight for proper compensation for the victims. As she was photographed with her family and appeared on television meeting celebrities during the battle, few people realised that she did not live with her wealthy parents and three siblings at their spacious North London home but was being brought up in an institution, Chailey Heritage in Sussex. In fact, Louise had never gone home from hospital and, for the first five weeks of her life, her mother didn't even see her.
This is a survivor's story, a triumph of the human spirit over adversity. Louise married John, a partially sighted man, and had two beautiful children. She was devastated when she discovered that he was having an affair with their carer. She also had to undergo a kidney transplant, the first Thalidomide victim to do so. She has worked, been an active disability rights campaigner and has now found new love, with Darren, a fellow Thalidomide victim who was born without arms.
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Fencing Forum > Fencing Events & Major Competitions > Leon Paul Junior Series > LPJS Arnold Epee - Anyone going?
View Full Version : LPJS Arnold Epee - Anyone going?
Only if you actually enter!
I *did* enter... anyway you said it would be fine for me to bring the thing on Monday :tongue: I vividly recall that conversation.
yup yup. I have some you can have.
Have to introduce urself, Meneldil.
Ask fnork who i am. She can tell you. Assuming you know fnork?
*is yet to meet Moppet* Just wave some skittles/chocolate around and she'll probably present herself quite quickly.
Hehe, no one knows me. Seriously. Must work on that!
hmmm. I might be able to help you at a larger comeptition. I know a few people now.
A cloak of anonimity can be a good thing at times, especially those ones where you are fencing like a nugget.
That would be... yeah all of the time. I think people probably vaguely recognise me but don't know who I am or what I'm doing here.
Will you be the Arnold, Moppet?
Assuming I can rely on you at least for that then :tongue: I g2g bedtime!
Yeah, i'll be there. will probably stick a sheet of forum stickers over my bag. That way ppl from the forum will know its me.
Cool, I'll look out for you... Um, if you hear anyone being addressed with a strange, polish/german-sounding first name, that'll be me.
ANyone got an idea how big the BE U15 will be?
I did stick the stickers on the wall, but it was on the sand-blasted climbing wall and they fell off pretty quickly.
:grin: :grin: :grin: Hehe. Just got back from Arnold, carrying my gold medal and a satisifed grin. I annoiyed a fair few people don't ya think Menedil? Hehe. Beware I'm doing the Warwick too, hopefully see you there, if so.....don't beat me please!
Champion of Blakcpool U15....Oh uh sorry *coughs* MiniMelia.
P.S. It was very well run with enough space too. The numbers weren't huge but were quite big in some age groups, well done to the Thorntons.
Well done Rhys! (I think that's how it's spelt, isn't it?) I wish I could have stayed to the end... How did you beat Paul Aldcroft - didn't he give you some troubles in the poules? :grin: And how close was the final with Ben?
Results are on the LPJS website.
Well done to you though Menedil, nice result in the end, and well fought Ben!
Seeya at the Warwick in a couple of weeks?
Lol. Yeah seeya in two weeks m8.
I'm going to try the same at the Warwick, but I've got what no epeeist has got; AN EXCUSE FOR LOSING! hehe.
'I'm a foilist' :grin: Will never fail.
Hehe. Good luck at the Warwick Meneldil.
Good luck at the Warwick Meneldil.
Lol I will! It probably won't last long! Lol.
Seeya at the Warwick then Louis.
*sighs* your soooooo immature! Lol. I was emailing Duellist trying to find out how much ti would cost to get that face painted on my old mask lol.
My spelling was pretty good in that one lol.
Well done Caz. You gonna try your luck at the Warwick too? I am.
Hehe only joking mate. You should be proud! Your a good fencer dude.
Anyway, I'll seeya in a couple of weeks mate.


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Besides giving the possibility of combining professional occupation and cultural enrichment, this type of course is an excellent way of backing and reinforcing the Spanish acquired "in daily live" and helps to optimise the knowledge directly acquired by students in the street. It may also be an optimal tool for those foreign residents in Nerja and neighbourhood aiming at passing official exams in Spain such as DELE.
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package org.vaadin.exampleapp.views;

import java.beans.PropertyChangeEvent;
import java.beans.PropertyChangeListener;

import javax.annotation.PostConstruct;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Scope;
import org.vaadin.exampleapp.data.Person;
import org.vaadin.spring.navigator.VaadinView;

import com.vaadin.data.Item;
import com.vaadin.data.Property.ValueChangeEvent;
import com.vaadin.data.Property.ValueChangeListener;
import com.vaadin.data.Validator.InvalidValueException;
import com.vaadin.data.fieldgroup.FieldGroup;
import com.vaadin.data.fieldgroup.FieldGroup.CommitException;
import com.vaadin.data.util.BeanItem;
import com.vaadin.data.util.BeanItemContainer;
import com.vaadin.navigator.View;
import com.vaadin.navigator.ViewChangeListener.ViewChangeEvent;
import com.vaadin.ui.Button;
import com.vaadin.ui.Button.ClickEvent;
import com.vaadin.ui.Button.ClickListener;
import com.vaadin.ui.Field;
import com.vaadin.ui.HorizontalLayout;
import com.vaadin.ui.TabSheet;
import com.vaadin.ui.TabSheet.Tab;
import com.vaadin.ui.Table;
import com.vaadin.ui.VerticalLayout;
import com.vaadin.ui.VerticalSplitPanel;

@VaadinView(name = "")
@SuppressWarnings("serial")
@Scope("ui")
public class PersonView extends VerticalSplitPanel implements View,
		ValueChangeListener, PropertyChangeListener {

	@Autowired
	private PersonPresenter presenter;

	private final Table personTable = new Table();

	private final VerticalLayout formContent = new VerticalLayout();

	private final BasicDetailsForm basicDetailsForm = new BasicDetailsForm();
	private final AddressForm addressForm = new AddressForm();
	private final SkillsForm skillsForm = new SkillsForm();

	private final FieldGroup binder = new FieldGroup();

	private PersonModel model;

	private TabSheet tabs;

	private Button addBtn = new Button("+", new ClickListener() {

		public void buttonClick(ClickEvent event) {
			presenter.addButtonClicked();
		}
	});

	private Button removeBtn = new Button("-", new ClickListener() {

		public void buttonClick(ClickEvent event) {
			presenter.removeButtonClicked();
		}
	});

	public PersonView() {
		VerticalLayout top = new VerticalLayout();
		top.setSizeFull();

		HorizontalLayout toolbar = new HorizontalLayout();

		toolbar.addComponent(addBtn);
		toolbar.addComponent(removeBtn);
		toolbar.setSpacing(true);

		top.addComponent(toolbar);
		top.addComponent(personTable);
		top.setExpandRatio(personTable, 1);
		addComponent(top);
		personTable.addValueChangeListener(this);
		personTable.setSizeFull();
		personTable.setSelectable(true);
		personTable.setImmediate(true);

		tabs = new TabSheet();
		basicDetailsForm.setCaption("Basic details");
		tabs.addComponent(basicDetailsForm);

		addressForm.setCaption("Address");
		tabs.addComponent(addressForm);

		skillsForm.setCaption("Skills");
		tabs.addComponent(skillsForm);

		tabs.setSizeFull();
		formContent.addComponent(tabs);

		HorizontalLayout buttonLayout = new HorizontalLayout();
		buttonLayout.setMargin(true);
		buttonLayout.setSpacing(true);

		Button saveBtn = new Button("Save changes", new ClickListener() {

			public void buttonClick(ClickEvent event) {
				presenter.saveClicked();
			}
		});
		buttonLayout.addComponent(saveBtn);

		Button cancelBtn = new Button("Discard changes", new ClickListener() {

			public void buttonClick(ClickEvent event) {
				presenter.cancelClicked();
			}
		});
		buttonLayout.addComponent(cancelBtn);
		formContent.addComponent(buttonLayout);
		formContent.setVisible(false);
		formContent.setSizeFull();
		formContent.setExpandRatio(tabs, 1);

		setSplitPosition(100);
		addComponent(formContent);
	}

	@PostConstruct
	public void init() {
		presenter.setView(this);
	}

	public void enter(ViewChangeEvent event) {
		presenter.enter();
	}

	public void setModel(PersonModel model) {
		this.model = model;
		model.addPropertyChangeListener(this);
	}

	public void valueChange(ValueChangeEvent event) {
		presenter.personSelected((Person) event.getProperty().getValue());
	}

	public void propertyChange(PropertyChangeEvent evt) {
		if ("persons".equals(evt.getPropertyName())) {
			updateTableContent();
		} else if ("selectedPerson".equals(evt.getPropertyName())) {
			if (evt.getNewValue() == null) {
				hideForm();
				return;
			}

			showForm();

			if (isNewPerson(evt)) {
				personTable.setValue(null);
				BeanItem<Person> item = new BeanItem<Person>(
						(Person) evt.getNewValue());
				item.addNestedProperty("address.street");
				item.addNestedProperty("address.zip");
				item.addNestedProperty("address.city");

				binder.setItemDataSource(item);
				bindFormLayouts();
				return;
			}

			if (evt.getNewValue() != null) {
				personTable.setValue(evt.getNewValue());
				Item item = personTable.getItem(evt.getNewValue());
				binder.setItemDataSource(item);
				bindFormLayouts();
			}
		} else if ("availableSkills".equals(evt.getPropertyName())) {
			skillsForm.setAvailableSkills(model.getAvailableSkills());
		}
	}

	private boolean isNewPerson(PropertyChangeEvent evt) {
		return !personTable.containsId(evt.getNewValue());
	}

	private void showForm() {
		setSplitPosition(50);
		formContent.setVisible(true);
		tabs.setSelectedTab(0);
	}

	private void hideForm() {
		formContent.setVisible(false);
		personTable.setValue(null);
		setSplitPosition(100);
	}

	private void updateTableContent() {
		BeanItemContainer<Person> container = new BeanItemContainer<Person>(
				Person.class);
		container.addNestedContainerBean("address");
		container.addAll(model.getPersons());
		personTable.setContainerDataSource(container);
		personTable.setVisibleColumns(new Object[] { "firstname", "lastname",
				"email", "title", "skills" });
	}

	private void bindFormLayouts() {
		binder.bindMemberFields(basicDetailsForm);
		binder.bindMemberFields(addressForm);
		binder.bindMemberFields(skillsForm);
	}

	public void discardChanges() {
		binder.discard();
	}

	public void saveChanges() throws CommitException {
		clearTabCaptionsFromErrorIndicator();

		for (Field<?> f : binder.getFields()) {
			try {
				f.validate();
				f.removeStyleName("invalid-value");
			} catch (InvalidValueException e) {
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				Tab tab = findTabForField(f);
				addErrorIndicatorToTabCaption(tab);
			}
		}

		binder.commit();
	}

	private Tab findTabForField(Field<?> f) {
		Tab tab = tabs.getTab(f.getParent());
		return tab;
	}

	private void addErrorIndicatorToTabCaption(Tab tab) {
		if (!tab.getCaption().contains("(!)")) {
			tab.setCaption(tab.getCaption() + " (!)");
		}
	}

	private void clearTabCaptionsFromErrorIndicator() {
		tabs.getTab(basicDetailsForm).setCaption(
				tabs.getTab(basicDetailsForm).getCaption().replace(" (!)", ""));
		tabs.getTab(addressForm).setCaption(
				tabs.getTab(addressForm).getCaption().replace(" (!)", ""));
	}
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Courtney Robb Sr not giving up on music
Published:Wednesday | August 29, 2018 | 12:00 AMShereita Grizzle
Courtney Robb, bass player with Byron Lee and The Dragonaires.
Former bass player of Byron Lee and the Dragonaires Courtney Robb Sr says that although he isn't in the best of health, he refuses to give up on music.
When the Sunday Gleaner last spoke to Robb Sr back in 2015, he was distressed about rumours of his death. He had done a Kidney transplant in 2010. He lamented then that despite his numerous health issues, he was still full of life and had a lot to offer to the music industry. He had plans of sharing his vast musical knowledge with the younger generation and vowed to spend the rest of his life fulfilling that purpose.
Fast-forward three years later, and the former soca band member is making good on his promises as he is currently teaching youth in Florida how to play the keyboard and bass guitar.
"I go to church, and I am in the church band, where I still play bass. I also teach young people how to play the keys and bass guitar. I have classes every Wednesday at my home in Palm Bay, Florida," he said, pointing out that at his age, passing on his skills gives him purpose. "I am on disabilities, really, and what I really do now is just go to church and play music. When I am teaching these children how to play an instrument, it makes me happy. These young people seem to want to learn, and so they grasp everything very quickly, and that makes it more fun. They seem to enjoy it, and I enjoy teaching them, but most importantly, the lessons gets them off the streets and keeps them occupied."
Robb Sr, who now has to rely on an oxygen tank to assist with his breathing, says when it comes to teaching, he has no plans of slowing down. In fact, the veteran musician says that he also wants to also share his musical knowledge with children in Jamaica and hopes he gets the opportunity to teach a class here in the near future. "Jamaica is my home, and what I'm doing for children here, I hope to do for children in Jamaica. I'm sure there are a lot of young people who would appreciate the lessons just as much," he said. He continued, "My goal is to set up a school in Jamaica where children with an interest in music can come and learn to play an instrument. I remember how life-changing learning to play an instrument was for me as a child, and I want to impact someone else's life in the same way."
The former Dragonaire, who turned 69 on the 24th of July, is currently being cared for by his wife and daughter. He is keen on leaving a legacy in the music industry and hopes that every entertainer has that goal in mind. He explained that as creative beings, it is very important that musicians leave a strong legacy as they will be remembered for generations to come by the work they put in while they are alive.
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Notre Dame Law Students Raise Funds for South Bend Families in Need
Author: Lauren Love
Not everyone is fortunate enough to have a warm meal for the holidays, but thanks to the Student Bar Association at Notre Dame Law School, 50 families from the YMCA of North Central Indiana will feast on turkeys, stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, cranberries, green beans, sweet corn, cornbread and cookies, just in time for Thanksgiving.
"The SBA Community Service Committee provides several opportunities for law students to give back to the community," said Jacqueline Brousseau, 2L and community service chair of the student organization. "This is the second annual Thanksgiving Basket Drive, and we decided to do this fundraiser because it is such a great way to bring the law school community together to raise money for the South Bend community, especially during the holidays."
Brousseau created a crowd-funding page on the popular site, GoFundMe.com, setting a goal to raise $1,500. In less than a month, and with the help of Notre Dame law students, faculty, and staff, the group exceeded the initial amount raising $1,615.
"NDLS teaches us to be a 'Different Kind of Lawyer,' and giving back to the community is a part of that education and a part of this profession," Brousseau said. "When we are busy with our law jobs one day, we still need to take time to do service and pro bono projects. By starting in law school, we are emphasizing the importance of having a balanced life that includes community work."
Throughout the semester the SBA facilitates a number of opportunities for students to serve the community. The group volunteers weekly at the Volunteer Lawyer Network, an organization that offers free legal services to those in need. The group has also organized the Small Business Pro Bono Project with Mendoza College of Business, where students advise small businesses on legal issues.
In December the SBA will partner with the St. Thomas More Society for a similar initiative. The organizations will collect money via GoFundMe.com, using the donations to purchase a Christmas dinner, warm clothes and toys for a family they've adopted through St. Vincent De Paul. The family has six children between the ages of 1 and 11.


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Q: Moving labels above the rect in d3 I'm very new to d3.js and I tried creating a very simple progress here.
The code is:
var data = [2000, 200]; // here are the data values; v1 = total, v2 = current value

  var chart = d3.select("#container").append("svg") // creating the svg object inside the
    .attr("class", "chart")
    .attr("width", 400) // bar has a fixed width
    .attr("height", 30 * data.length);

  var x = d3.scale.linear() // takes the fixed width and creates the percentage from the data
    .domain([0, d3.max(data)])
    .range([0, 400]);

  chart.selectAll("rect") // this is what actually creates the bars
    .data(data)
    .enter().append("rect")
    .attr("width", x)
    .attr("height", 10)
    .attr("rx", 5) // rounded corners
    .attr("ry", 5);

 var text = [0,200,2000]

  chart.selectAll("text") // adding the text labels to the bar
    .data(text)
    .enter().append("text")
    .attr("x", x)
    .attr("y", 20) // y position of the text inside bar
    .attr("dx", -3) // padding-right
    .attr("dy", ".35em") // vertical-align: middle
    .attr("text-anchor", "end") // text-align: right
    .text(String);

Its rendering the graph. Have some couple of issues here:

*

*For the text, I'm rendering 0 always, but its not visible.

*I want the current value text to be displayed below and start and end should be moved above the markers.

Thanks for the help!

A: For displaying any text above the rect you have to move it down a bit.
Regarding the texts, you can set different anchors...
.attr("text-anchor", function(_, i) {
   return ["start", "middle", "end"][i]
})

... and different vertical positions using the index:
.attr("y", function(_, i) {
    return i === 1 ? 36 : 10;
})

Here is the updated code:

var data = [2000, 200]; // here are the data values; v1 = total, v2 = current value

var chart = d3.select("#container").append("svg") // creating the svg object inside the
  .attr("class", "chart")
  .attr("width", 400) // bar has a fixed width
  .attr("height", 30 * data.length);

var x = d3.scale.linear() // takes the fixed width and creates the percentage from the data
  .domain([0, d3.max(data)])
  .range([0, 400]);

chart.selectAll("rect") // this is what actually creates the bars
  .data(data)
  .enter()
  .append("rect")
  .attr("y", 18)
  .attr("width", x)
  .attr("height", 10)
  .attr("rx", 5) // rounded corners
  .attr("ry", 5);

var text = [0, 200, 2000]

chart.selectAll("text") // adding the text labels to the bar
  .data(text)
  .enter()
  .append("text")
  .attr("x", x)
  .attr("y", function(_, i) {
    return i === 1 ? 36 : 10;
  }) // y position of the text inside bar // padding-right
  .attr("dy", ".35em") // vertical-align: middle
  .attr("text-anchor", function(_, i) {
    return ["start", "middle", "end"][i]
  }) // text-align: right
  .text(String);
.chart rect:first-of-type {
  color: #fff;
  stroke: #3994b6;
  fill: white;
}

#container {
  padding: 30px
}

text:first-of-type {
  fill: #3994b6;
  font-family: sans-serif;
  font-size: 12px;
}

.chart rect:nth-of-type(2) {
  color: #fff;
  stroke: transparent;
  fill: #3994b6;
}

text:nth-of-type(2) {
  fill: #a8d4e4;
  font-family: sans-serif;
  font-size: 12px;
}

.chart rect:nth-of-type(3) {
  color: #fff;
  stroke: transparent;
  fill: #3994b6;
}

text:nth-of-type(3) {
  fill: #a8d4e4;
  font-family: sans-serif;
  font-size: 12px;
}

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Red Bull Formula 1 driver Pierre Gasly admits the laptime set by the Ferrari of Charles Leclerc was out of reach for him on the penultimate day of pre-season testing in Barcelona.
Leclerc clocked a 1m16.231s on the softest C5 compound on Thursday, and his effort stands six tenths clear of what anyone else has managed in testing in 2019 so far.
Gasly recorded a 1m17.091s on C4s for fourth-quickest on the day before his programme was ended early by a big crash at Turn 9.
Asked after the session whether he could've matched Leclerc's lap, which is only a half a tenth down on Lewis Hamilton's pole time from the 2018 Spanish Grand Prix, Gasly responded candidly: "Honestly, no.
"[Ferrari is] really fast, some good pace. We tried to focus on ourselves and not focus too much on the others.
Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas likewise suggested on Thursday that Ferrari is currently in a league of its own, and reckoned his team and Red Bull are closely matched.
Asked whether he thought Red Bull was second in the pecking order behind Ferrari, Gasly said: "I'd rather not get ahead of myself, as we haven't seen what Mercedes can do yet.
"Hamilton had a very strong lap [1m18.097s] on mediums [C2].
Despite this assessment, the Frenchman stressed he was happy with the pre-season performance of both Red Bull and its new engine partner Honda.
"We will work on the areas we need to improve because we saw all the teams have good performance but I think the package in general is pretty good.
"I think the car, the package we have at the moment - the chassis, the engine - made a good step, reliability was good overall, we have good performance.


This fantastic cabin makes the perfect getaway for a large family or group wanting to enjoy a lovely vacation near the Yuba River and Nevada City, one of California´s gold rush towns in the northern part of the state. The spacious home boasts three main bedrooms. The huge master room is furnished with a large king-size bed and also has two twin singles. The second room boasts two queen beds, and in the third, glampers will find one queen-size bed and a twin single. In addition, the loft area of the accommodation is furnished with two twin singles, one double mattress bed, and a double futon mattress. Two full bathrooms service the accommodation, both with a combination tub and shower and in addition, there is also a half bath. The main living area of the cabin is a huge open plan space with a large lounge area, complete with a comfortable sofa suite that surrounds the cozy fireplace, the perfect place to unwind on a cooler evening. There is a dining area that will comfortably seat up to ten guests for a communal meal, and the kitchen is fully stocked with all the amenities and utensils that a group of glampers would require for an easy, self-catering vacation.
Glampers will find their cabin fully equipped with all of the facilities they would desire for a comfortable and relaxing getaway. The accommodation is fully heated and has a wood burning stove to enjoy. Linens, towels, and bedding are all included at the cabin and there is a washing machine and clothes dryer for guests to make use of if they require. Wi-Fi is installed in the accommodation so guests can always stay connected and there is a computer, and a phone for guests to use if needed. Off street parking is available at the accommodation and there is space for a boat, RV or trailer also. A star feature of this accommodation is the fantastic hot tub that glampers can enjoy relaxing in and taking in the lovely scenery.
This glamping destination is packed with fantastic activities to keep everyone entertained. The city boasts great dining opportunities with live theater and plenty of outdoor activities. There are tennis courts and ballparks in the town as well as great sports to go swimming and hiking. The region, being famed for its gold mining history, has lots of museums to visit and a day trip to the Yuba River or Deer Creek offer opportunities for glampers to try their luck and have a go at panning for gold. In the winter, guests can also enjoy snow sports such as skiing, cross-country skiing, and snowboarding and in the summer months, hiking, biking, and walking are popular. Glampers can also while away a relaxing afternoon fishing or even windsurfing.
A refundable damage deposit of $350 is required at this glamping rental.


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Orlando Bloom and James Corden Join Paul W.S. Anderson's THE THREE MUSKETEERS
by Brendan Bettinger May 23, 2010
Last we checked, Orlando Bloom had been offered the "bad guy" role in Paul W.S. Anderson's upcoming adaptation of The Three Musketeers. It seems it met his English standards, as Bloom has signed on for the role of the Duke of Buckingham. Fellow Brit, comedian James Corden, followed suit and will portray the servant Planchet. Bloom and Corden join a cast that already includes:
Christoph Waltz — Cardinal Richelieu
Logan Lerman — D'Artagnan
Matthew MacFadyen — Athos
Ray Stevenson — Porthos
Luke Evans — Aramis
Milla Jovovich — M'lady De Winter
Mads Mikkelsen — Rochefort
Hit the jump for more on how the race to the big screen is shaping up between this Summit/Anderson version and the competing Doug Liman adaptation of the swashbuckling novel over at Warner Bros.
With this much casting done, it looks more and more likely that Bloom and Corden have hopped on board the adaptation that will hit theaters first. Variety reports that Summit has slated a summer 2011 release in the U.S. for their Musketeers, and sold out all international rights this past week at Cannes. Meanwhile, casting is either not yet underway or tightly under wraps for the Liman-directed Musketeers. Warner Bros. has not thrown in the towel yet, with a planned fall start date for their production.
Here's the synopsis for the original Alexandre Dumas novel via Amazon:
A historical romance, The Three Musketeers tells the story of the early adventures of the young Gascon gentleman, D'Artagnan and his three friends from the regiment of the King's Musketeers – Athos, Porthos and Aramis. Under the watchful eye of their patron M. de Treville, the four defend the honour of the regiment against the guards of Cardinal Richelieu, and the honour of the queen against the machinations of the Cardinal himself as the power struggles of seventeenth century France are vividly played out in the background. But their most dangerous encounter is with the Cardinal's spy, Milady, one of literature's most memorable female villains, and Dumas employs all his fast-paced narrative skills to bring this enthralling novel to a breathtakingly gripping and dramatic conclusion.
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Australia to test for 'mateship'
The Australian government citizenship test is expected to be used later this year.
The test is said to be a part of a push to promote Australian values [AP]
The government has produced 200 questions, with 20 questions chosen at random for each person wanting to become a citizen.
Candidates could be asked to give the year of European settlement, name the colours on the flag or write down the first line of the national anthem.
The tests are similar to those in Canada, the United States and Britain, and according to Kevin Andrews, the immigration minister, "it emphasises that those becoming a citizen in Australia have an overriding commitment to Australia, to our laws, to our values and to our community".
Under new immigration laws, immigrants must spend four years in Australia instead of three to become citizens.
Andrews has also said that citizenship applicants should understand English.
Andrews said: "Whether it's to be able to work or whether it's to be able to mix effectively and be part of the broader Australian community, then an understanding of the English language is important.
"We are trying to encourage people to learn English because we think that is the way they will achieve their aspirations."
Australia is a nation of immigrants, with one in four people born overseas.
The citizenship test is expected to be used later this year.
Source: News Agencies
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Facial recognition taken to court in India's surveillance hotspot


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Q: How do I increment my count field of my document from logstash? I want to update one field of my document/log in elasticsearch from logstash.
My logstash conf file
input {
    http {
    host => "127.0.0.1" # default: 0.0.0.0
    port => 31311 # default: 8080
  }
}

output {
  stdout { codec => json },
  elasticsearch {
        action => "update"
        bind_host => "127.0.0.1"
        bind_port => 9200
        document_id => "ET00009682"
        index => "in12"
        type => "event"
  }
}

I want to increment my count field by one how do I specify that in my output of logstash.
Note: I know to update i need to use this script
"script" : "ctx._source.count += 1"

but I am not sure where to place it in output of logstash?
Kindly help
thanks

A: you can do it with the conf:
output {
  stdout { codec => json },
  elasticsearch {
        action => "update"
        bind_host => "127.0.0.1"
        bind_port => 9200
        document_id => "ET00009682"
        index => "in12"
        type => "event"
        doc_as_upsert => true
        script => "ctx._source.count += 1"
        script_lang => "groovy"
        script_type => "inline"
  }
}

A: You Need to use the metric filter where you have a counter : https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-filters-metrics.html
filter {
  metrics {
    meter => [ "thing" ]
    add_tag => "metric"
  }
}

You will receive a field name : thing.count which will be your count field

A: So what i did was fired a curl request from output of logstash to achieve this.


Generally speaking, when things leak, it's not good. And when things leak slowly, it's typically even worse.
Your financial services business is losing revenue and profits in the same way, through a wide range of seemingly small inefficiencies, poor procedures, misalignments, and human errors in your compensation system. These leaks are often written off as an annoyance, rather than a problem that needs immediate fixing. But over time, the losses pile up and reduce your bottom line.
How Big a Problem is Revenue and Profit Leakage?
Profit leakage – in this context – erupts from the unintended (or unnoticed) loss of revenue from your business and poorly optimized operations, resulting in a significant loss in overall profitability.
In our experience, profit leakage is a considerable and often overlooked problem in the wealth management industry and has root causes that are behavioral, structural and operational. Behavioral causes stem actions that are induced, usually unintentionally, by the compensation, metrics and sales management program. Operational causes are often the result of business complexity and fragmented business processes. Finally, structural causes relate to the design of the business model and/or the technology tools that support it and insufficient or unreliable data to fuel it.
Each of these areas contribute to significant loss in revenues and profitability impacting the firm on a recurring basis and accumulate over time, if not properly addressed.
We've identified the following 25 ways in which your compensation system and procedures are likely allowing profit to leak out of your wealth management business.
TAKE our 3-minute ICM Profit Leakage Survey and find out if your wealth advisory business is leaking profit.
1. Compensation plans are not supportive of corporate goals and objectives.
When compensation and reward structures are not supporting your firm's business strategy and performance objectives, this results in suboptimal organizational performance and therefore impairment of profitability. Failure to align the actions (and results) of the salesforce to the corporate objectives of your firm in a timely and effective manner is a drag on top-line performance.
2. Compensation plans are inconsistent or not aligned across business units.
Business units that are meant to cooperate will be more successful when there is alignment of measurement and reward. Bringing multiple compensation regimes into alignment across multiple lines of business is difficult, but critical to avoiding counterproductive activities and organizational friction. Aligned measurement and compensation makes execution smoother and ensures focus is on value creating activities.
3. Not measuring the profitability of compensation plans.
Not measuring (or inadequately measuring) the profit performance of the compensation regime hides profit drains. Failure to measure compensation program performance is typically caused by lack of adequate data or the absence of organizational accountability for performance and compensation performance ROI.
Compensation program changes are often needed to enhance alignment with corporate objectives, to address shifts in the market and to respond to changes in the business or conduct of staff. Every day that passes between the decision to change the program and the implementation of the changes represents leakage through lost sales and service focus, decreased rep/advisor satisfaction, sales and service efforts contradicting company investments and operational burden. Compensation programs must be easily updated or replaced. Time-consuming requirements for custom programming or technical intervention is costly a warning sign that your compensation regime is not nimble enough to optimally support your business. Don't accept when the capabilities (or lack thereof) in the compensation system stand in the way of rewarding for the right customers, the right revenue, or the right performance standards.
Firms that allow their compensation plans to become too complex over time ultimately find them becoming less effective – and then they swing back to a more simple structure. Focused and easily understood are the key design considerations. Overly complex plans make it difficult to be sure that everything is correct, and paid out appropriately to the right participants. The errors that spring from complex plans are themselves so complex that they can only be resolved by implementing time-consuming and costly manual adjustments.
The sheer number of plans in use is not, in and of itself, a problem. However, how these plans relate and how they are managed can be a problem and can cause considerable errors and excess compensation. Plans should be easily create, named, managed, understood and retired, as necessary. Poor process and oversight in plan selection, deployment and management can give rise to the wrong compensation plan or the wrong rules being deployed which results in compensation errors, reporting inaccuracies and contributes to significant leakage that can compound over time. A clean and organized user interface, logical workflows process and efficient oversight processes mitigate many costly errors.
Ideally a full and completely granular view into plan set-up, input data and calculations is available to business leaders, managers and advisors. A lack of this visibility complicates the process of finding and reconciling errors and resolving disputes. This wastes valuable advisor, front office and operations time and erodes trust which impairs revenue and adds costs.
Each discrete product (or security) must be associated to a classification that aligns with the compensation program. Frequently this means that several new products or securities may need to be assigned within the classification each day. While frequently supported by an automated process, a individual typically makes the ultimate assignment using a manual process, that often lacks proper decision-making and validation controls. Inconsistencies in product assignments can potentially have a large impact on compensation over time and can be very time consuming to correct. For organizations with multiple lines of business where products may be classified a number of times and in a variety of different ways, these errors have a habit of multiplying.
Where complicated layer split or sharing arrangements are required, it is not unusual for gross payout and/or minimum house rates to be inadvertently ignored when rules are set-up. This can result in over-allocations across multiple payees.
Packaged products have a tendency to cause complications in incentive compensation programs. The revenue and end customer information can be difficult to integrate and improper controls and poor communication between systems and complex fee payment structures can result in mismanagement of trailer-based revenues. Common examples are the mishandling of trailer revenue where they are meant to be rebated back to the end customer, or where certain asset types are to be treated differently in fee-billing. Incorrect fees payment can easily be processed, which can result in over-billing the customer and potentially overpaying the advisor. These often go unnoticed for extended periods of time, and their impact (both financially and reputationally) can compound.
In the case of some alternate investments, the firm receives both a sales commission and marketing fee, and must control how these are managed. Without proper classification rules and attribution processes, the marketing fee (which is frequently not shared with the rep) can get incorrectly lumped into the gross production number used for payout, thereby increasing the payout to the rep and cost to the firm.
11. Poor control of minimum commissions or fees.
Hard floors related to commissions and fees need to be properly implemented otherwise they become a soft floor. Claw backs for violation of hard floors should be automated or at a minimum the subject of transparent workflow involving reporting escalation.
12. Lack of proper management of discounts.
The compensation regime is typically used as a tool to manage discounting of services, or more accurately the profit impact of those discounts. Certainly other price and discount controls can be considered, however in the dynamic relationship management environment in financial services – and especially wealth management – compensation is frequently the first and last line of defense. Without adequate controls within the compensation system, rules may not be capable of properly stopping (or limiting) discounting behaviors resulting in potentially both loss of revenue and also additional payroll expense.
Expenses can only be recovered via a compensation system when they make their way into the system. In general, regular recurring expenses have a reasonably robust process related to their identification, set-up and reporting. As a result, they are generally captured properly and recovered via the compensation system. We do recommend at least an annual expense audit. Unfortunately, the one-time or infrequent charges, which can originate from a variety of sources, and in different formats, are easily overlooked. An email, voice message or even a scribble on a note pad are easily lost or misplaced resulting in lost recovery.
Unfortunately, the hard truth about payment errors is that firms are always told when someone is underpaid, but rarely told when they are overpaid. An accurate, rules-based, compensation system with strong reporting capabilities will significantly minimize these overpayments.
Transaction that are cancelled and rebilled can contribute to leakage. Typically this arises where the (re)processing doesn't completely address 'undoing' all data that would have resulted from the existence of the erroneous transaction. The most common example is inadequate tracking of compensation or reward tier threshold impact. This can result in significant operation complexity or work to resolve it or can lead to potentially material compensation errors (i.e., overpayment).
A configurable tool that can accurately calculate and verify the fees being charged to the firm by their Clearing and Custody partners, firms are not able to easily identify incorrect fees, erroneous calculations, fees owed by advisors and/or where over-billing situations arise. For firms with multiple lines of business, the impact is magnified.
Unfortunately the data and reporting on mutual fund assets and revenues pales to that on many other financial products and services. Managing incomplete or inaccurate trail information just to support reconciliation to anticipated or expected revenues consumes valuable time. Additionally, a lack of clarity can result in incorrect allocations and calculations that can easily go unnoticed for months. At the root of this problem is asymmetrical information and the use of a variety of partial 'fixes' for that lack of symmetry. For example, fund holding and trailer information is commonly obtained from multiple sources – direct from the fund company, from industry data consolidation sources, in-house databases and frequently augmented through manual entry where there are delays in data availability.
Without the ability to apply adjustments (e.g., clearing fees or E&O charges) at the right point in the compensation process (typically gross vs. net), incorrect payouts and overpayment situations will occur.
Many expenses are collected and managed via offline processes either in the distribution network or finance department (e.g., Registration, FINRA & SIPC costs). These processes tend to be arms-length from the compensation system because many systems can't support that particular type of expense. Many of these expenses should be borne, in whole or in part, by the advisors. As a result of the system disconnects, these expenses are at risk of being entered incorrectly or bypassed altogether.
Reviews of activity are required on a periodic basis. A compensation system that does not offer detailed audit tracking (and reporting) of changes makes it very difficult and time consuming to find, identify, and manage changes made in error. Additionally, poor audit reporting typically means that other functions – such as compliance and finance – have to rely on operations for investigations.
A system with automation gaps, poor tools for permanent resolution of errors or that relies on the manual upload of a number of files each day can expose compensation operations to highly variable peak loads. Maximizing data source integrations, rules based decision-making and processes to enable 'one-and-done' permanent problem resolution mitigate peak load variance and enable a consistent and optimized staffing model. This reduces volume based errors, unintentional omissions caused by uncertainty as to who is responsible and excess staffing costs.
Mid-period events, such as when a new rep is onboarded, challenge systems to support the proration of the related revenues and expenses. It can also impact how average and trailing production levels are determined. The resultant need for manual calculations and adjustments adds workload burden and introduces errors.
23. Disconnect between fee billing and compensation systems.
Billing and compensation systems should function symbiotically as they rely on information in each system to enable the other. When billing and compensation systems don't "talk" properly, manual changes applied in one system are not routinely reflected in the other. For example, a compensation solution that cannot adequately track the metrics required by the billing team (such as waivers, thresholds, volumes, etc.), results in incorrect billing and compensation distributions.
Complicated termination procedures can easily result in overpayment of incentive compensation. For example, when there is a lag between when an action is taken (such as terminating a rep in the compensation system) and when that action should have been taken, this can lead to payout that incorrectly includes extra days of active time. Depending upon the effort required to correct it, these issues can sometimes go unnoticed (and not corrected) creating an overpayment to the rep and a loss to the firm.
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My west coast bestie Kisha Madrid was in town and invited me to an event she was working on and so I obvi wanted to go support and hang. Not that it was a hard sell: Art, sneakers, Mariah Carey and charity... Of course being the "PR girl" who's running the event you only get to whiz past your friends with a wave and a smile (been there...) but she did an amazing job.
Hosted by Nick Cannon, the Project Canvas Exhibit and Auction Gala had many a fab celeb and artist including; Ellen DeGeneres, Mariah Carey, CeeLo Green, Kris Markovich, Lee Quinones, Mr. Brainwash and amazing student artists paint sneakers for auction to benefit the Urban Arts Partnership.
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Soldiers seized AAC drone used in monitoring polls — Sowore
By 'Kunle ADEBAJO	 On Feb 23, 2019
Omoyele Sowore, AAC Presidential Candidate
PRESIDENTIAL candidate of the Africa Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has accused the Nigerian military of shooting down a drone used by members of his party to monitor elections in Ondo State on Saturday. The drone is still in the custody of the soldiers.
Sowore, who cast his vote earlier in Ese Odo Local Government Area, said about four shots were fired at the aircraft in his hometown by soldiers who emerged unexpectedly.
"About four soldiers came from nowhere and started shooting at the drone and when we got the drone out of harm's way, they traced the drone to our car and tried to arrest the drone operator after having forcefully collected the drone," he narrated to SaharaTV.
"They are still in possession of our drone, making it difficult for us to monitor the most difficult part of our area. They claimed it is an order from above to shoot down the drone. When we asked where the order came from, they couldn't tell us who, they just kept going back and forth. At a point, they said they have orders to ask me to come with them and I said I am not going anywhere, that they had to show an arrest warrant. And they said no, it was not an arrest; but they said they wanted to arrest the drone operator. I told them it is not possible.
The presidential candidate said no law was violated by the drone operators. He added that the soldiers themselves later agreed to this, but they insisted they have orders to take the drone to the police station.
"We said since no offence was committed. It is my personal property and I am using it to ensure Nigeria gets a free and fair election. And they admitted that it served the purpose because immediately they saw the drone, people who were trying to make trouble in that particular vicinity ran into the bush," he said.
"In fact, what they are afraid of right now is the fact that the drone caught them shooting at it. That's their major worry; so that's not our problem because they ought not to have been shooting indiscriminately.
"I told them they have no business coming near a polling unit, and the drone was specifically used to monitor polling units: four of them in my vicinity. Police officers who were at the polling units saw the drone and they didn't have any problem with it until the soldiers came and started shooting."
The ICIR has observed that AAC was not the only organisation that deployed drones in monitoring general elections on Saturday. Media organisations, such as Channels TV, also used a drone to film voting processes.
However, in May 2016, the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) announced a ban on launching Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RUA) or Unmannsed Aerial Vehicles (UAV), otherwise known as drones, without prior licensing from the NCAA and Office of the National Security Adviser.
It was argued then that the deployment of drones with security clearance has led to "predictable safety concerns and security threats." Babagana Monguno, the National Security Adviser (NSA), reiterated the regulation in October, at the General Security Appraisal Committee Meeting at the Office of NSA in Abuja.
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CovidMealsforIndia.com is an initiative to connect Covid-19 patients who can't cook and require daily home-cooked meals to home chefs, volunteers, tiffin services, and delivery kitchens, who can provide these meals. It has been initiated by Chef Saransh Goila who curated a Pan India Google spreadsheet with details of various home chefs, tiffin providers, cooks, and restaurants that were crowdsourced through social media platforms like Instagram and Twitter. Several volunteers who had already curated regional food services lists have also contributed selflessly to this list.
Chef Saransh said, "I believe there is hope in this list, there is life. I must admit this is the most precious excel sheet I've worked on in my life. It's not been easy to read messages where kids are looking for meals for parents who are stuck without help or kids who are stuck alone and don't know how to recover solo or an entire family looking for food providers to meet their needs. What I've realized is that for every person who wants help one person is reaching out to help."
Fastor, a retail-tech company, joined hands with Chef Saransh Goila for his wonderful social initiative. Team Fastor is helping in digitizing the whole platform for the food suppliers and the covid patients to easily access and get the meals delivered to them as soon as possible. Karan Sood, CEO & co-founder of Fastor said "We are extremely grateful to have joined hands with Chef Saransh in this noble initiative during these tough times for our nation. Being an innovative technology startup in the food & retail sector, this becomes our responsibility to create a center point of relief for millions affected across India. We've created a platform that connects the COVID-affected families with the suppliers of their locality. All the state-wise data have been converted digitally to make the process easy for the users.
To which Anmol Wadhwani, CMO & Co-Founder added, "Currently as we all know how social media has been a contact diary for most of the information for the affected patients from plasma to oxygen cylinders to tablets which is helping save lives. But the basic necessity of food supply has been a questionable thing for many families because eating healthy food is as important as the medicines and due to this initiative we are making it possible to reach as many people as we can at this time."
The registration is a simple 3-step process where the user can search their locality, find suppliers nearby and place their orders on Whatsapp. Many of these services were already supplying meals to quarantined families. By being part of a consolidated list, they aim to help patients locate services in their area easily. The list started with focusing on metro cities that were most affected by the second wave, such as Mumbai, Delhi, and Ahmedabad, but are now widespread across the country. These meal services come at a time when high-rises and housing societies are seeing a surge in cases.
Within 48 hours of starting the campaign, Chef Saransh was able to receive an exhilarating response, and A-listers like Priyanka Chopra, Katrina Kaif, Sonam Kapoor, etc. have promoted the initiative on their social media platforms as well to amplify it digitally. They are hoping that their small initiative will help India recover better and come back stronger.
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Initial suggestions that this was a 1993 ex-Ecurie Ecosse / David Leslie car have now been discounted, with evidence to suggest it is in fact an earlier chassis.
Thought to be one of the cars built by Dave Cook Racing for the 1991 Vauxhall BTCC team and driven by John Cleland and Jeff Allam. The following year the 2 ex-works cars were sold to Ecurie Ecosse - one driven by David Leslie, the other shared by Bobby Verdon-Roe and Alex Portman. It is not known who drove which chassis.
In 1993 the car was sold to Ian Khan, who drove it in the BTCC under the Tamchester Team Maxted banner. Khan returned to the BTCC in 1994 but withdrew half way through the season.
The car would re-appear in the late 1990s/early 2000s in the Formula Saloon Championship in the hands of Keith Philips.
Little is know of the car's subsequent history until it was acquired by John Hammersley some 5 years later. By this stage the car had been reduced to a rolling shell - the previous owner based near Croft circuit had intended to turn it into a rallycross car.
The car remained in storage until it was sold to Nariman (Naz) Hosseinian in June 2007, and has been undergoing restoration since then.
In August 2017, the car was acquired by Dan Furr, editor of Performance Vauxhall magazine.


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Oregon flies to No. 1 spot in the ESPN.com/USA Softball Collegiate top 25
Oregon secured the top spot in the poll for the first time in program history.
OKLAHOMA CITY -- A series win against then-No. 1 UCLA helped launch the Oregon Ducks (34-4, 8-1 Pac-12) to the top spot in the ESPN.com/USA Softball Collegiate Top 25 for the first time in program history the Amateur Softball Association (ASA) of America and USA Softball announced on Tuesday. The Ducks received 18 first-place votes, while Alabama (35-5, 14-1 SEC) and Florida State (38-4, 15-2 ACC) each received one vote.
Prior to taking on Pac-12 rival UCLA, Oregon hosted UC Santa Barbara for a double header with the Ducks collecting two wins against the Gauchos (2-1, eight inning and 10-4). Heading into the weekend series with an undefeated Pac-12 record, Oregon kept their conference record flawless as they took game one of the series 9-7. Oregon continued their offense streak in game two as Kailee Cuico hit a three-run home run and a grand slam to propel the Ducks to a 12-4 (five inning) win, clinching the series. UCLA bounced back in the series finale, besting the Ducks 6-1. Despite claiming the final matchup, UCLA (34-4, 9-3 Pac-12) fell two spots to No. 3 this week.
A 3-0 shutout over then-No. 11 South Alabama (30-6, 8-2 Sun Belt) and a sweep of Southeastern Conference foe Arkansas was enough to launch Alabama up two spots to a No. 2 ranking this week. The Crimson Tide shutout Arkansas 8-0 (six inning) in game one, allowed just one run in a 12-1 (five inning) run-rule in game two before narrowly edging the Razorbacks 4-3 in the final matchup of the series. This marks Alabama's fourth sweep in SEC play as the offense collected 24 RBI off 31 hits while the pitching staff allowed just four runs off 12 hits.
Michigan (39-6, 9-0 Big 10) climbed one spot to No. 4 this week after a dominant offensive performance at home in which they outscored opponents 30-1. Michigan started the week with a 10-0 (five inning) shutout against Detroit before their Big 10 matchup against rivals Ohio State. Michigan bested the Buckeyes in game one behind Haylie Wagner, who continued her dominant performance in the circle as she pitched a complete, 1-0 shutout. In Saturday's doubleheader, the pitching staff continued to stifle the Buckeyes, giving up just one run on five hits in a 10-0 (five inning) and 9-1 (six inning) sweep.
Falling three spots to No. 5 this week is Tennessee (32-5, 9-3 SEC), who went 1-2 against an unranked LSU squad. A three-run walk off home run by Bianka Bell handed the Lady Vols a 7-4 loss in game one while costly errors by Tennessee's defense resulted in an 8-4 Tigers victory in game two. Tennessee took the final matchup 9-0 (six inning) behind ace Ellen Renfroe, who shutout the Tiger offense and allowed just three hits. Tennessee's bats also came alive in the series finale as they scored nine runs off nine hits, including a two-run home run in the first inning by Madison Shipman and three-run shot in the sixth by Annie Aldrete.
Rounding out the top 10: Arizona State (35-6, 9-3 Pac-12) remained No. 6 this week following a sweep of California; Florida State moved one spot to No. 7 after a perfect 5-0 week, including a 3-2 (eight inning) win against then-No. 7 and in-state rival Florida; dropping one spot this week is No. 8 Florida (34-8, 8-7 SEC) who dropped their matchup against Florida State and swept then-No. 19 Auburn; up one spot is No. 9 Arizona (32-8, 7-5 Pac-12), who produced a 3-0 performance on the week against then-No. 24 Stanford; No. 10 Washington (22-10, 2-6 Pac-12) fell one spot despite picking up an 11-0 (five inning) run-rule in their sole matchup of the week against Seattle.
Falling out of the top 25 is last week's No. 24 Stanford (24-14, 1-8 Pac-12) and No. 25 South Florida (29-11, 3-3 AAC), who were both 0-3 in conference play last week. Joining the top 25 this week is No. 24 South Carolina-Upstate (36-4, 15-2 Atlantic Sun) and No. 25 Northwestern (22-9, 5-4 Big 10). USC Upstate rejoins the top 25 for the first time since Week 4 of this season while this marks the first appearance in the top 25 for Northwestern since the preseason poll in 2012.
Leading the top 10 this week is the Pac-12 Conference, which boasts five teams, while the SEC is represented by three teams and the Big 10 and Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) are represented by one school apiece. In all, eight conferences are represented in the top 25 with the SEC leading with eight, the Pac-12 with five, the Big 10 with four, the ACC, Big 12 and Sun Belt with two each and one school from both Conference USA and the Atlantic Sun.
The ESPN.com/USA Softball Collegiate top 25 Poll is voted on by coaching representatives from 10 Division I Conferences in the 15 ASA/USA Softball Regions as well as members of national and local media who consistently cover Division I Softball across the country.
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Author/s : Craig J. Johnston, Richard Evers
Publisher : Wrox
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One of few Blackberry books available, "Professional Blackberry" has much of its content aimed at hosting BES servers and integrating handhelds while the other offerings concentrate on the handhelds themselves and largely treat the server as a black box.
There is still a little time taken to cover features on the handheld such as developing Java applications and using the Plazmic Media Engine for enhanced content, but these are provided as the last two chapters. While they are fine as an introduction, you will need to look for other sources for developing your own content for the Blackberries.
There is a lot to know, and setting up any server is a complicated business, so I have to admit I was a little surprised by the size of the book. At around 300 pages with a third dedicated to appendices, it lacked the depth I was expecting in many areas. The coverage of the combinations of backend possibilities had plenty of useful information, but they were all mixed together and would be difficult to refer to if you were only interested in a single set up.
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