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Film Review: Everybody's Everything Captures All the Conflicting Sides of Lil Peep
This conceptually curious documentary offers a moving eulogy for a young life lost
Sebastian Jones, Ramez Silyan
Dan Caffrey
November 18, 2019 | 12:00pm ET
The following review was originally published as part of our coverage of the 2019 South by Southwest Film Festival.
The Pitch: Sebastian Jones' and Ramez Silyan's documentary about Lil Peep (born Gustav Åhr) covers the rapper's entire life, which was cut far too short when he died of a fentanyl-Xanax overdose in November 2017. Through a wide-ranging slate of archival footage and interviews with his friends, family, and collaborators, Everybody's Everything depicts a performer who, like all of us, had many conflicting, coexisting sides to him. He was extroverted yet insecure, explosive yet vulnerable, depressed and yet endlessly ambitious.
"I know it hurts sometimes, but it's beautiful": Many documentaries about older musicians with longer legacies have had to skimp on the behind-the-scenes clips over the years, simply because there weren't as many available. But like all of the artists in the emo-rap genre he helped pioneer, Lil Peep practically grew up on the Internet. Even if there wasn't a trove of home movies readily at the filmmakers' disposal, he had already filmed much of his own life, well before he'd start broadcasting it on social media. The juxtaposition between Peep at home as a kid, and a not-much-older Peep cast out in front of the world, is both fascinating and heartbreaking.
In an early scene, his fiercely devoted mother Liza Womack (who also executive-produced) films him as a toddler — his striking brown eyes, his namesake, blazing into the camera. Later on, we see Instagram videos from shortly before Peep's death, by which point he'd taken too much, loved too much, and felt too many people leech off his success. By then, those same eyes had taken on a pleading vacancy.
iLoveMalick: This overwhelming collapse of time takes on even greater weight within the film's framing device. Instead of traditional narration, we hear Lil Peep's grandfather — the historian and Rhodes Scholar John Womack — read letters of assurance to his late grandson. Whenever Womack ponders Peep's place in the universe, the nature of creativity, and the afterlife, the documentary feels reminiscent of Terrence Malick, who also served as an executive producer.
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Different eras continue to converge elsewhere in the music of Peep and his respective Gothboiclique and Schemaposse crews. Each collective cranked out audiovisual media at an impressive rate, often sampling indie and nu-metal music popular right before they were born and filming music videos on old VHS equipment. Because of the wormhole nature of the internet, sounds and styles from disparate decades are able to collide. There's a profundity in this overlaying of time and space, even if the music remains abrasive and profundity was never any of the artists' explicit intent.
"I ain't never gon' answer it": Unsurprisingly, Everybody's Everything feels most conventional during its talking-head interviews, an aesthetic shared with almost every other music documentary out there. There's of course nothing wrong with conventionality, but the standard Q&A conversations don't bring nearly as much heat as the home videos, concert footage, and musings from Lil Peep's grandfather. That's largely because many of his loved ones are still in the process of grieving, of trying to find a single logical explanation for his mental health issues: his self-suffocating generosity, his estrangement from his father, the parade of hangers-on in his life. As with any person who's died far too young, there's still the desperation to find answers.
But when the film shows rather than telling, it's clear that there are no easy answers for this kind of tragedy. How does one tie such a loss back to any one thing? There's far more resonance when we get glimpses into Lil Peep's actual, active life, as opposed to just hearing about it. Toward the end, there's an extended shot of the rapper walking down the street while a delicate, acoustic version of "Walk Away As the Door Slams" plays. At times, Peep seems cheery. At others, he seems contemplative, maybe a little lost. He was probably all of those things, and so much more that we can't see on camera. As a viewer, it's these undefined moments that feel the most painfully authentic.
The Verdict: At its core, Everybody's Everything embraces several conventions of the typical rock-doc. But its wealth of archival footage and flirtations with big-picture philosophizing result in several tiny moments of transcendence.
Where's It Playing? Everybody's Everything is now playing in limited release.
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The Walpersberg is a sandstone mesa on the west bank of the Saale near Kahla in Thuringia, Germany, formed around 60 million years ago. It is notable for formerly housing the REIMAHG-A aircraft factory, an underground facility for the production and assembly of the Messerschmitt Me 262 fighter jet during World War II.
The Walpersberg was referred to until the 15th century as Walpurgis Mountain. There is some evidence of ancient settlements in the surrounding Saale Valley, dating from the Middle Palaeolithic period.
Since the Middle Ages, three quarries on the Walpersberg have provided sandstone for local communities, often used as foundation material for houses. Evidence of these quarries can still be seen today. On the southern slope of the Walpersberg, buildings and artificial terraces were built for growing grapes for the purposes of wine production, although production declined in the 17th century.
A trade route ran over the mountain, known as "Green Street". From the 18th century the route became known as the "Gothic Street", due to the fact that it was a connection road to the Castle Friedensstein in Gotha.
By the late 19th century there was a thriving porcelain industry in nearby Kahla, and sand containing kaolin (a constituent material of porcelain) was found at the Walpersberg. Excavation began in 1897 by Kahlaer Porzellanwerke AG, creating a tunnel system extending 20 km.
In 1944, a construction project was commenced by Nazi Germany to convert the former sand mines at the Walpersberg to a bomb-proof underground factory for the production of the Messerschmitt Me 262. To achieve this, the existing tunnel system was extended to 30 km by the use of over 12,000 forced labourers from Italy and Eastern Europe, and a further 3,000 skilled workers. Conversion of the former sand mines into the aircraft factory led to construction of a runway at the top of the Walpersberg, with the first aircraft taking off on 21 February 1945. Eventually only around 20 or 30 completed aircraft left the facility prior to the end of the war.
Following destruction of much of the structure by the Soviets, the remaining galleries under the Walpersberg were used as storage space for a fruit and vegetable warehouse during the 1950s. Later, from the 1960s, a part of the Walpersberg mine system was used by VEB Geological Research West for the storage of core samples.
From 1974 until 1989, the Walpersberg was part of East Germany's Department of Defence storage complex KL-22, with ammunition, weapons, and other military supplies being stored there. The Bundeswehr later used the property until 1997, at which point high operating costs necessitated closure of the facility.
Every year, around the 8th May, ceremonies take place in the communities surrounding the Walpersberg to commemorate the 2,000 forced labourers who died at the Walpersberg. It is a tradition that former forced labourers of REIMAHG from abroad attend these ceremonies.
In the Kahla town museum, an exhibition dedicated to the "REIMAHG" factory, the camps, forced labor and the liberation by the US Army can be visited (www.kahla.de).
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Asda refuses to remove sack threat for thousands of staff over compulsory contracts
Up to 12,000 could lose their jobs because they are unable to agree to the terms of a new deal, the GMB union claims.
Paul Kelso
Business correspondent @pkelso
Saturday 26 October 2019 06:28, UK
'I feared losing my job - it was gut-wrenching'
Asda has declined a last-ditch request from unions to remove the threat of dismissal from thousands of staff who will be sacked if they fail to sign compulsory contracts by the end of next week.
The GMB union estimates up to 12,000 of more than 100,000 affected Asda employees could lose their jobs because they are unable to agree to the terms of the new deal, known as Contract 6, which demands greater flexibility from workers.
Asda said the "overwhelming majority" of employees have signed and claimed the deal is in the best interests of employees and customers.
A spokesman described the GMB estimate as "unsubstantiated speculation" but would not confirm how many employees are yet to sign.
The retailer, which is owned by US retail giant Walmart, the largest private employer in the world, says the contracts are a necessary response to competition in the supermarket sector and will leave 95% of those affected with higher pay at a cost of £80m.
Image: Angela Leighton and daughter Laura feel they have no choice but to sign
Unions say the dispute is emblematic of a new, less-stable world of work, in which employees' terms and conditions are squeezed ever harder by companies under pressure from online retailers and shrinking margins.
Angela Leighton is typical of those affected. She started working at Asda in 1995.
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"I was only going to do it for six weeks when the kids were little," she said.
One job led to another and another, and nearly 25 years later she is still there, a community champion in the Crewe branch helping to run local charitable work and, for the last seven years, the GMB union representative.
But next week could be her last.
If she fails to sign Contract 6, she will be dismissed on 3 November.
Angela's daughter Laura faced the same dilemma. She started at the supermarket 16 years ago as a holiday job when she was at college.
Now a single mother of two boys, one of whom has ADHD, she juggles a 16-hour week as a checkout operator with childcare commitments.
Image: Contract 6 was first introduced by Asda as a voluntary change in 2017, but in 2019 it became compulsory
Angela often has the kids when she's at work. It's a delicate balance threatened by the new deal that she feels she has no choice but to accept.
"If I don't sign Contract 6 then I'm left without a position and a job, and my children are going to suffer," she said.
Contract 6 was first introduced by Asda as a voluntary change in 2017, but earlier this year it became compulsory.
The GMB, which had initially welcomed the deal, objected, but after three rounds of consultation with staff it was introduced with a deadline of 2 November.
Anyone not signing was put on 12 weeks' notice, free to change their mind at any time knowing that failure to agree by next weekend will put them out of a job.
The biggest problem Angela and Laura have with the new deal is flexibility.
Contract 6 requires staff to be available for any shift demanded by managers, threatening the working patterns of thousands of employees - many of them women - based around children and other care responsibilities.
There are other issues.
Breaks will become unpaid; five out of eight bank holidays must be worked or taken from annual leave; and night-time hours, for which additional pay is due, will be cut from 10pm-6am to midnight to 5am.
In exchange, staff will receive a 79p hourly pay rise, taking basic pay to £9-an-hour, in line with the target national living wage for April 2020.
For Laura, there was an unintended consequence beyond the loss of flexibility.
Making all breaks unpaid turned her 16-hour week into 15-and-a-half hours, dropping her below the threshold for receiving working tax credit for single parents.
Image: A protest against the new contracts for Asda workers
That left universal credit her only other option, and she calculates the half-hour reduction would have cost her £400 a month. She negotiated with Asda and was told she would receive 16 hours work if she signed.
Reluctantly, this week she did.
"I felt pressured, I felt like I had no choice but to do it. It's been really difficult, the worry of having two children as a single parent and potentially not having a job, and this contract potentially making me substantially poorer," she said.
Despite having led union opposition and represented staff in meetings with management at the Crewe store, Angela will probably do the same. Her husband is in remission from cancer, and despite having her leave cut from 33 days plus bank holiday to 29, excluding bank holidays, she feels she has little choice.
She says many colleagues will do likewise.
"The number who haven't signed is dwindling every day and to be honest that's purely the fear factor. They're fearful of not having a job at the end of it. I haven't signed mine but I'm going to have to, otherwise I'm not going to have a job."
A spokesman for Asda said: "Throughout the consultation process on these changes we have taken colleagues concerns and feedback from representatives - including the GMB - on board and have been clear that we understand our colleagues have responsibilities outside of work and we will always help them balance these with their work life.
"We have been clear that we don't want any of our colleagues to leave us and whilst the vast majority of colleagues have chosen to sign the new contract, we continue to have conversations with those who have chosen not to, to try and understand their concerns.
"It is vital that we make sure we are prepared to adapt to the demands of our market. Change is never easy, but we are determined that Asda remains a sustainable business for its customers and colleagues - now and in the future."
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The 2020 Hosted Travel Agent Fee Report [+Infographic]
By Mary Stein
We have good news. With the collaborative efforts between organizations like ASTA (American Society of Travel Advisors) and our host agency friends, travel advisors turned out in droves for Host Agency Reviews' (HAR's) 2020 Travel Agent Fee Survey.
How large are droves? Honestly, I'm fuzzy on those details. I'll just get specific and say that HAR received over 1,000 responses to our 2020 survey! We received so much great data that we're creating content specific to certain travel agent segments.
First up: The hosted travel agent.
86% of our survey respondents were hosted agents. Who were these hosted agents?
Here's a sneak preview:
This is just the beginning, and we can't wait to dig in and answer questions about how factors such as industry experience, niche, agency model (and much more) impacted fees.
If infographics and articles aren't your thing, we've got a video recap that just might do the trick for you:
But hold the phone. After our survey closed, a weird thing called COVID-19 happened (you may have caught wind of this). Never in the deepest folds of my brain did I imagine an impact of that magnitude would hit the travel industry.
So here's the deal. We're going to take a deep dive into hosted agents most current fee-charging practices. But please keep in consideration that this data captures a moment in time before the pandemic. Next year, we'll look at how COVID-19 may have impacted fee-charging practices.
Stay tuned for HAR's Independent Travel Agent Fee Report! It's just around the bend!
Infographic: Hosted Travel Agent Fee Report Overview
Per usual, we're serving up data, multimedia style. This infographic offers a visual summary of our survey. Some might call it the Mona Lisa of infographics (or maybe that's just me).
Great data! But don't jump ship, because we have a lot more info to come.
⭐ HAR ARTICLE HIGHLIGHTS: ⭐
Fee Survey Primer
How Many Hosted Agents Charge Fees?
What Service Fees do Hosted Agents Charge (and How Much?)
What Consultation Fees do Hosted Agents Charge (and How Much?)
Agency Models of Hosted Agents, and How it Relates to Fees
Experience and Likelihood to Charge Fees
Hosted Agents Who Do Not Charge Fees
Hosted Fee Survey Takeaways
A Glossary of Terms
Our survey explored every nook and cranny of fee charging practices. But before we dive into results, let's make sure we're all on the same page when it comes to definitions.
In our survey, we explored two types of fees:
Service Fees: Typically flat fees per transaction/ segment of a trip (i.e. car, rail, air, hotel, change fee etc.).
Consultation Fees: Commonly pertain to time/expertise used to plan, research, or book a trip and/or support clients during their trip.
Additionally, in this report we're going to throw around words like median, mode, and interquartile range (the scariest one, in my opinion).
I understand you probably didn't get into the travel industry because of your love for statistics, or for an added edge in your Scrabble game. But don't worry, all you need to do is click on the word and you'll be taken to a short lay-person-friendly definition. You can try it right here! Interquartile range.
See? So easy. Okay, back to our regular programming.
Let's cut to the chase: 52% of hosted agents reported charging a fee and 48% charged no fee. The amount of fee-charging hosted agents increased 5% from our prior fee survey results in 20181. *High five!* to valuing their time and expertise!
52% of hosted agents reported charging a fee, a 5% increase from the prior survey.
Among the 52% of hosted agents who charged a fee:
In 2020 there was an increase in the percentage of hosted agents who charged in each of the three fee categories including; a 4% increase in agents who charged service fees, and a nominal 1% increase among those who charged a consultation fee and among those who charged both a service and consultation fee.
This indicates that, overall, the types of fees hosted agents charged hasn't changed much since 2018.
Why Do Hosted Agents Charge Fees?
To better understand agents' motivations for charging fees, this year we asked travel agents, "Why do you charge fees?"
Here's the top 4 reasons hosted agents charged fees in 2020 (agents were allowed to select more than one choice, so the combined results are over 100%):
Hosted agents' primary motivation for charging fees was to value their time and expertise, leading the second most common response by 36%.
If you're curious to dig into why you might consider charging fees, we have a ton of resources for you:
Read here to get a grasp on how to communicate with your clients about the value of booking with a travel agent (rather than online agency).
Do you need a little extra encouragement to charge fees? Check out, "Taking the Plunge: A Travel Agent's Guide to Charging Fees" here.
Read our latest income survey results, "Travel Agent Income Report, 2019," for a big-picture look at travel agent income
42% of hosted agents charged a service fee2. This is a 4% increase from our prior results.
81% of hosted agents who charged fees reported charging service fees, making it the most popular fee category among hosted agents in 2020.
Of the hosted agents who charged fees, 81% reported charging service fees.
What type of bookings did hosted agents charge service fees for?
Here's a list of the types of bookings and the percentage of hosted agents who reported charging for that particular booking type. We also give the median fee, and the interquartile (IQ) range (don't forget to click on word to check out the glossary term!):
How do these results compare to HAR's prior survey? Here's a few points of interest:
The order of the top five booking categories agents charged for was identical to HAR's prior results, with one exception: in 2018, charging for rail was more common than charging for tour packages. (See the infographic for a complete list of 2020 results)
For each of the five booking types except "Rail Tickets," hosted agents reported at a higher rate that they charged fees in 2020 compared to 2018. Domestic air increased by 13%; international air increased by 14%; FIT increased by 8%; tour packages increased by 5%; and rail tickets stayed level at 16%.
The median fees charged for the top 5 bookings were the same as 2018 with two exceptions: Rail ticketing fees increased $3 in 2020, and the median fee for tour packages increased significantly from $63 to $100.
Another notable change from HAR's prior results is that the median charge for booking cruises doubled (from $50 to $100) from 2018 results. (See infographic for details on 2020 cruise fees.)
The data indicates that in 2020, hosted agents trended toward increasing and diversifying the types of bookings they charged for despite a modest increase in hosted agents who reported charging service fees (4%). Hurray!
And while we have you here, it's important to remember that while $30 is the median fee for domestic tickets and $50 for international, that doesn't have to be the case. Take some inspiration from a fellow hosted advisor who sells $775k worth of airfare each year and charges between $50-$500 CAD for each tickets. Learn how he does it in our podcast, Travel Agent Chatter:
The overall percentage of hosted agents charging a consultation fee increased from our 2018 results: 26% of hosted agents reported charging a consultation fee in 2020 compared to 24% in 2018—a 2% increase.3 This modest increase from 2018 follows the same trend as service fees.
However, when compared to service fees, hosted agents were less likely to charge a consultation fee: Among hosted agents who charged a fee, 51% charged a consultation fee. This is 37% lower than those who charged a service fee.
The majority of hosted agents who charged consultation fees reported that their fees varied depending on the type of trip. Below is a breakdown of the percentage of hosted agents who charged for each consultation fees category. When we had enough data, we also included the median low and median high range for those with varied fees4:
Flat fees were the most common consultation fee type. Hosted agents who charged a flat fee increased from 65% in 2018 to 77% in 2020.
The majority of hosted agents charged a one-time flat fee (98%). The remaining 2% reported charging a flat fee per day. While most hosted agents reported charging a varied fee, among those whose flat fee did not vary, the median charge was $125.
Plan-to-Go Fees
This year HAR added a "plan-to-go" fee option to our survey in addition to our usual suspects listed above.
A plan-to-go fee is an upfront payment agents require from clients in order to render their services. The plan-to-go fee—in full or in part—is then applied to the booking if the traveler decides to book through the agent.
29% of hosted agents reported charging a plan-to-go fee.
Plan-to-go fees varied among hosted agents. Among hosted agents who charged a plan-to-go fee:
68% applied the entire fee to the booking
20% applied a certain dollar amount to the booking
12% applied a certain percentage to the booking.
Travel agents run their agencies in diverse ways. Here's a some big-picture data on the business models of hosted agents, how many hours they work, and how these factors impacted their likelihood to charge fees:
Home Based vs Storefront
Agency location had a large impact on the tendency to charge fees. Storefront agencies were much more likely to charge fees, 75% compared to 51% for home based agencies.
Storefront agencies were much more likely to charge fees, 75% compared to 51% for home based agencies.
However, this 24% gap between home based and storefront agents has narrowed significantly from 2018, when there was a 35% difference between the two. In 2020, fewer storefront agencies reported charging fees (75% compared to 80%), opposed to home based agencies who reported at a higher rate in 2020 (51% compared to 45%).
Corporate vs Leisure
98% of hosted agents who completed the survey were leisure agents. These results are equal to those in 2018.
The majority of corporate travel agents charged a fee (92%), marking a much greater likelihood to charge fees compared to leisure agents (92% compared to 51%, respectively).
While 49% of leisure agents reported booking air-only travel, only 64% of those who booked air-only reported charging a fee.
When it came to ticketing fees, corporate travel agents charged more than their leisure counterparts5: Corporate agents' median fee for domestic air was $40 compared to a $35 median fee among leisure agents.
Full Time vs. Part Time
59% of hosted agents who completed our survey worked full time (30+ hours) in 2020, compared to 41% who reported working part-time.
The more agents worked, the more likely they were to charge fees. 60% of full time agents reported charging fees compared to 39% of part time agents.
Fee Practices According to Niche
An agent's niche also had strong influence over fee charging practices. In 2020, the top 5 niches to charge fees were:
The top 5 niches were the same in 2020 as they were in 2018, but their ranking changed6: Groups moved up to 2nd place (from 5th in 2018). Luxury fell from 2nd to 3rd, and destination specialists dropped from 3rd to 5th.
While ocean cruises was the most popular niche among hosted agents, ocean cruise agents were unlikely to charge a fee, ranking second to last of 14 different niches. Disney agents were least likely to charge fees. (See our full infographic for complete details on niche and likelihood to charge fees.)
ASTA Membership & Likelihood to Charge Fees:
Industry engagement had a strong correlation to charging fees. 51% of hosted agents reported belonging to a travel association. Among the agents affiliated with a travel association, 98% belonged to ASTA and/or ASTA-SBN.
Hosted agents who belonged to ASTA were more likely to charge fees, 61% compared to 52% overall.
In our 2020 Fee Survey, 54 years was the median age reported by hosted agents, and 5 years was the median years of experience reported.
Experienced hosted agents7 were much more likely to charge fees than new agents. Only 40% of new hosted agents reported charging fees compared to 57% for experienced hosted agents.
Below, the chart compares experience to the likelihood to charge fees. The trend is similar to prior years' results, with more agents charging fees as they gain experience.
While this report focuses on hosted agents, it's worth noting that new independent agents were much more likely to charge fees than new hosted agents. However, the gap between hosted and independent agents narrowed as hosted agents gained experience.
Among respondents who reported charging no fees, 92% were hosted agents. Here are the top reported reasons hosted agents did not charge fees in 2020 (agents were able to select more than one choice):
Client attraction and retention was the primary reason that hosted agents didn't charge fees. This varies from the 2018 results, when hosted agents were more concerned with their experience level8
Age also was a determining factor in likelihood to charge fees. With exception of the 70+ age demographic, agents were more likely to report charging (services) fees as their reported age increased9.
Do Hosted Agents Plan to Charge Fees?
This was the first year we asked about future prospects of charging fees. When asked, Do you plan to start charging fees in the next 12 months?, 13% of hosted agents replied "yes," 42% replied "maybe," and 45% replied "no."
Hosted agents were more likely than independent agents to express an intent to charge fees in the next year.
Wow. That was a lot of data to process! Below are a few survey highlights that illustrate some of latest trends and changes in charging fees in 2020:
5% overall increase in hosted agents who reported charging fees from 2018
3% increase in hosted agents that charged service fees and a 1% increase in hosted agents that charged consultation fees, when compared to 2018
The top 5 bookings to which hosted agents applied service fees were identical to results from 2018. However, in 2020, a higher percentage of hosted agents reported charging in each of the 5 booking categories. This indicates that hosted agents increased and diversified the types of services they charged for in 2020.
Median service fees for tour packages and ocean cruises increased significantly in 2020, 59% and 100% respectively.
Hosted agents who charged a fee were less likely to charge a consultation fee compared to service fees (51% compared to 81%).
Hosted agents who charged a flat fee increased from 65% in 2018 to 77% in 2020
Storefront agencies were more likely to charge fees than their home based counterparts in 2020. While this is a significant gap, it has narrowed since 2018, when storefront agencies were almost twice as likely to charge.
HAR had a lot of help in drawing agents to our survey, and we couldn't have provided this data without them. Who are these good samaritans of the travel industry?
Nexion Travel Group
Oasis Travel Network
Travel Planners International
Travel Quest Network
Uniglobe Travel Center
Outside Agents
Stay tuned because there is a heckuva lot more information to come, including results for independent agents, and a report report that digs into the relationship between demographics and charging fees! We'll keep you posted!
In the meantime, check our complete archive of former fee survey results and resources.
Interquartile Range (IQ): A typical "range" shows us the lowest and highest fee. But the interquartile range helps us remove outliers in order to get a clearer picture of moderate fee-charging practices. This isn't to discount your fee strategy if you charge $1,000 for fee for international air, or if you only charge $2 to grandma Matilda because she pays you (literally) in dimes. It's just to help give a clearer picture of what the "average" hosted agent is charging. For those really nerding out, the Interquartile Range measures the range between the 25th and 75th% percentile. This means the range excludes the data from the lowest 25% and the highest 25%, eliminating the lower and upper outliers and offering a picture of more moderate fee-charging practices.
Median: The median is the middle value in the set of numbers. (That's right, the middle child of data!) We used the median value to determine age and years of experience. This helped us get a clearer picture of the "average" agent, by eliminating outliers that skew the data.
Median Range: When we offer a median range the numbers reflect the spread between the most common lowest fee and the most common highest fee reported by our respondents in our survey.
Mode: The mode is the number that appears most often in a set of numbers. For our purposes, it means that it was the most frequently-occurring response among travel agents who answered the question. We used mode to determine the most common amount charged for certain service fees, in order to give a clearer picture of what the "typical" agent is most likely to charge.
Why no 2019 results? We conducted our 2018 at the end of year and published the results early 2019. After that, we modified our survey schedule, releasing it in Jan. 2020 rather than late 2019 ↩
Of the 42% of hosted agents who charged service fee, over one third (38%) charged both a service fee and consultation fee ↩
Among hosted agents who charged a consultation fee, 62% charged both a service fee and consultation fee. ↩
For varied fees, respondents had an opportunity to input an amount for lowest charge and highest charge. The median low, is the median of all "lowest fee" responses and the median high is the median of all "highest fee" responses. For categories, "Hourly Fee" and "Other," we did not have enough data to provide a median fee and/or a median low and median high range ↩
HAR considers air ticketing the "commodity" item of fees, similar to how people may use the price of milk as a reflection for the overall cost of groceries. ↩
Accessible Travel ranked as the #4 niche most likely to charge a fee, however we did not receive enough data from that segment to provide reliable results ↩
We consider "experienced agents" those with 3+ years experience ↩
This ranked #2 in 2018 for reason not to charge fees ↩
This data excludes hosted agents between ages of 18 and 30 as we didn't receive enough data from that demographic ↩
Mary Stein
Mary Stein has been working as a writer and editor for Host Agency Reviews since 2016. She loves supporting travel advisors on their entrepreneurial journey and is inspired by their passion, tenacity, and creativity. Mary is also a mom, dog lover, fiction writer, hiker, and a Great British Bake Off superfan.
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Dogs are the BEST! That is until they're the worst.
Ok, dog lovers...we've all had a dog or two who have loved to tear open the trash, chew on your shoes, or shred the toilet paper roll while you were away. Heck, sometimes those things happen when you leave the room for five seconds!
And then there's Kira, who not only ripped into the couch, but got inside the cushion to surprise her owner when he got home!
Ha! You can see her tail waging through the leather.


Is Coconut Oil 'Pure Poison'?
It's been several years since coconut oil was labelled as a superfood and became the oil of choice for everything from cooking to beauty treatments. But the bubble has burst since a recent talk from Harvard professor Karin Michels, in which she labels coconut oil 'pure poison'. So what is the truth behind the story?
The controversial comments were made in a talk titled "Coconut oil and other nutritional errors," by Karin Michels, who is an adjunct professor of epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She uses the word 'poison' several times in the speech, as she warns about the 'superfood' which is very high in saturated fat. "I can only warn you urgently about coconut oil," says Michels. "This is one of the worst foods you can eat."
But is it really, actually poison? In short, no. Karin Michels' statements are based around the high saturated fat content of coconut oil as opposed to other oils, however, the link between saturated fats and heart disease has been questioned in recent years. A widely-circulated report in 2014 stated that the link was 'unproven'. While all fats in your diet should be eaten in moderation, it's important to remember why coconut oil got its label as a 'superfood' (for better or worse) in the first place.
Here are just three of the numerous scientifically established benefits of coconut oil.
Studies show that lauric acid found in coconut oil acts to decrease brain inflammation (1). Research also shows that coconut oil may assist those who suffer from Alzheimer's disease and possibly seizure disorders. One of the reasons for this is because coconut oil contains medium chain fatty acids (MCTs), which are very easily absorbed and then converted into ketones. Ketone bodies serve as an energy source for the brain (2).
One of the benefits of coconut oil is the support it provides for the immune system, acting as a natural antibacterial and antiviral. It's been shown to help fight off candida (3) and inhibit the growth of clostridium difficile (4). Furthermore, research has demonstrated that MCTs found in coconut oil support a healthy gut microbiome (5).
MCTs have been shown to increase how many calories you burn compared to the effects of longer chain fats (6). One study found that 15-30g (one to two tablespoons) of MCTs per day increased 24 hour energy expenditure by 5%, around 120 calories per day (7).
Ultimately, it's a good idea to eat a variety of healthy fats from different natural sources. Good examples include avocado, nuts, seeds, oily fish, olive oil and coconut oil. Obviously, we shouldn't consume excessive amounts of any one of them – variety and moderation are key.
Read next: Is pesto really worse for you than a McDonald's Burger?


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Q: Read contacts not working My app can read contacts from tablet ok, but can not read from phone device, so what is the reason? and my app using 'ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_VCARD_URI' to read contacts to VCard format. I have read/write permission in manifest file.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

A:  public  void getAllContacts(ContentResolver cr) {

    Cursor phones = cr.query(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI, null,null,null, null);

    while (phones.moveToNext())
    {
      String name=phones.getString(phones.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.DISPLAY_NAME));
      String phoneNumber = phones.getString(phones.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER));

    }

    phones.close();
 }

use this code for read all contact.

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Q: Track webpage downloading progress I'm using this piece of code for VB.NET to download the text from a website:
Dim Str As System.IO.Stream
        Dim srRead As System.IO.StreamReader
        Dim req As System.Net.WebRequest = System.Net.WebRequest.Create("http://www.example.com/file.txt")
        Dim resp As System.Net.WebResponse = req.GetResponse
        Str = resp.GetResponseStream
        srRead = New System.IO.StreamReader(Str)

It is just a text file, and is rather small, so it downloads really quickly. But I do believe that in the future the file will become considerably large. Is there a way to track the downloading progress from the above method?

A: You can find the total length of your find in the ContentLength property of your WebResponse object. Once you have that, it's pretty easy to report progress based on the data you read from the GetResponseStream.


Thus, until further notice, the Hawks remain the team to beat led by a trio of athletes who won two events at the state-qualifying meet.
Junior Jasmine Thomas, who is the reigning state champ in the 100 meters, claimed regional titles in the 100 (12.50 seconds) and 200 (25.80). She hopes to strike gold in both events at state.
Meanwhile, senior N'Dia Harris, a transfer from Shawnee Mission West who sat out the state meet last spring, harbors similar goals after winning the long jump (17 feet, 2 inches) and triple jump (36-1 1/2) at the regional meet.
"It was hard not to compete last year, and it's my last season now, so I want to go out really big and strong at state," said Harris, who took up the triple jump only last month.
Finally, distance specialist Brenna McDannold knows that the title chase is wide open, thanks to defending 1,600 and 3,200 champion Alli Cash's injury, a stress fracture that prevented the SM West senior from competing at the regional meet.
"It definitely feels open for anybody to come and get, but it will feel a lot different without her," McDannold said. "We've all known for a couple of years now that Alli was going to be pretty dominant, so we all expected her to win.
McDannold also said the stakes will seem a bit higher and the butterflies will be more intense without Cash in the state field.
Gardner Edgerton's girls also flexed some muscle at the regional meet with senior Danie Plank, a three-time state champion, winning the javelin (147-9) despite a midweek injury.
Fellow Trailblazers senior Cassie Wait, a two-time state champion, won the pole vault (12-4).
Plank and Wait posted the top regional marks and will be the favorites to snag gold during the state meet, which begins Friday and wraps up Saturday at Wichita State's Cessna Stadium.
Olathe South senior Chris Coleman (200, 22.08); Olathe South sophomore Tanner Green (400, 49.43); SM Northwest senior Jackson Barbour (800, 1:54.07); Blue Valley senior Colton Donahue (1,600, 4:14.89); SM Northwest junior Connor McDonald (3,200, 9:46.05); Olathe North junior Kai Shean (high jump, 6-10); Olathe East junior Caelan Neal (triple jump, 45-8); Olathe South junior Braden Smith (discus, 178-6, and shot put, 57-6). Plus, Olathe South 400 relay (42.17), SM Northwest 1,600 relay (3:20.90) and SM North 3,200 relay (8:05.52).
SM East senior Emma Vickers (400, 58.04); Olathe Northwest freshman Cameron Gueldner (3,200, 11:08.10); SM East senior Grace Pickell (high jump, 5-6); Plank (javelin, 147-9) and Wait (pole vault, 12-4) along with Olathe East 3,200 relay (9:50.96).
SM South senior Jake Caldwell (400, 48.8) and St. James Academy 3,200 relay (8:03.88).
Bishop Miege sophomore Ashanti Hutton (200, 25.44, and 400, 57.09); Mill Valley senior Emily Brigham (long jump, 19-4, and pole vault, 13-1) along with St. James Academy 1,600 relay (4:06.01) and St. Thomas Aquinas 3,200 relay (9:58.48).


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ClearHealth Quality Institute Seeks Volunteers for Accreditation Committee
Committee to Support Telemedicine and Mental Health Parity Accreditation Programs
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (PRWEB) February 13, 2018
ClearHealth Quality InstituteTM (CHQI) – a new accreditation organization that develops and promotes quality standards in health care by leveraging value-based purchasing metrics – seeks volunteer members to join its new Accreditation Committee.
The CHQI Accreditation Committee will be instrumental in the launch of several CHQI programs this year, including the Telemedicine Accreditation Program, version 2.0, for telemedicine providers, and the Mental Health Parity Accreditation Program, version 1.0, for health insurers. The Telemedicine Accreditation Program – which is being developed in collaboration with the American Telemedicine Association – is slated for launch in March 2018.
The CHQI Accreditation Committee will represent a diverse group of expert stakeholders, including health insurers, regulators, industry leaders, employers, health care providers, and consumer advocates, and will decide whether applicants' confidential submissions meet CHQI's exacting but fair accreditation standards.
"The composition and responsibilities of the Accreditation Committee are at the core of the self-regulation process. The Committee will represent a broad cross section of the health care industry, from providers to consumers," said Joel V. Brill, MD, FACP, CHQI Advisory Board Chair and Chief Medical Officer, Predictive Health. "Through impartial decision-making, the Accreditation Committee will play a vital role in fulfilling CHQI's mission to foster positive change in health care through accreditation."
"The CHQI Accreditation Committee provides an important peer review function to ensure that front-line reviewers apply standards carefully and consistently for each organization," stated Bill Lewis, MD, MBA, CHQI Telemedicine Standards Committee Co-Chair and national telemedicine expert. "Under CHQI policies, each accreditation applicant is treated fairly and may appeal any negative decision, first to the Accreditation Committee and then to the CHQI Advisory Board."
To volunteer for the CHQI Accreditation Committee, or to nominate someone, please email name, contact information and a brief bio to Brooke Byloff at bbyloff(at)CHQI(dot)com by February 28, 2018. The CHQI Accreditation Committee will likely meet at least once a month to review current accreditation applications.
To obtain more information about CHQI accreditation programs, please contact Rob Mikes, Sales Manager, at (410) 696-7634 or via email at info(at)CHQI(dot)com.
ClearHealth Quality Institute's (CHQI) mission is to promote quality-based practices for health plans, providers and other stakeholders across the United States and its territories. Our accreditation and certification programs help assess, track and report on trends to enhance key insurance and provider outcomes. CHQI also offers educational programs, publishes issue briefs and underwrites research to raise awareness of patient safety issues and promote best practices. The organization is governed by an independent board and committee system, which is open to a wide range of volunteer members to ensure transparency and accountability. CHQI provides resources to serve patients, providers, payers, government agencies, and other stakeholder groups. To learn more about CHQI, please contact us at (410) 696-7634, info(at)CHQI(dot)com, or visit http://www.CHQI.com.
@ClearHealthQI
since: 03/2017


Vemeo was initially a small company trading in computers and network equipment. Later on we started providing equipment layout services for data centres. Our experts were in charge of managing client equipment and setting up and supporting network equipment.
In 2010, we started supporting heavy-load internet services. As a result of that service line we setup partnership relations with data centers and backbone providers.
One of Vemeo's main tasks is supporting the high quality products provided by our clients. This requires enormous work in connection with the writing of the software and the maintenance of the settings of our multiple servers. Our servers, which are located all over the world, have a bandwidth capacity which is measured in gigabits. All of this work is performed by a pool of highly qualified employees with long-term experience in this sphere.
Our vast experience, accumulated over years of working in partnership with the world's most established manufacturers and suppliers of software systems, enables us to provide you with high-quality, reliable services. Currently we specialize in the provision of services for improving Internet safety and privacy.
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Over the past 20 years, Beijing-based Edifier has been creating some of the most visually appealing speaker systems in the market. At their peak, over half of the speakers sold into the Chinese market were manufactured by Edifier and, during that time, production moved first to Shenzhen and then Dongguan. Edifier's own site claims that these speakers offer flawless sound and a powerful audio experience with an elegant look. One look at the design of the e25HD tells you that they have already nailed the elegant look – so we began testing to see if the flawless and powerful audio claims are also justified.
With a UK street price expected to come in just over the £160 mark and with the addition of optical support over the older (non HD) version, the Edifier e25HD speakers are not cheap for a set of 2.0s. That said, in a market where people are paying up to £500 for a 'Zeppelin', the Edifiers are also not expensive.
The feature set, stunning looks and optional stalk-like stands mean that these speakers are meant to be seen as well as heard, so general/multi-purpose living room audio is the target market. You can get an idea of the product life cycle from this short video.


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Piret and Quisquater's DFA on AES Revisited
Christophe Giraud and Adrian Thillard
Abstract: At CHES 2003, Piret and Quisquater published a very efficient DFA on AES which has served as a basis for many variants published afterwards. In this paper, we revisit P&Q's DFA on AES and we explain how this attack can be much more efficient than originally claimed. In particular, we show that only 2 (resp. 3) faulty ciphertexts allow an attacker to efficiently recover the key in the case of AES-192 (resp. AES-256). Our attack on AES-256 is the most efficient attack on this key length published so far.
Category / Keywords: DFA, AES
Date: received 13 Aug 2010, last revised 16 May 2011
Contact author: c giraud at oberthur com
Note: Small update to emphasize the contribution of this paper.


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Q: Laravel's Cashier-Paddle Not Working Locally? I've tried to use both ngrok and Expose with the Paddle Sandbox and while the subscription is being created perfectly in Paddle, on the Laravel side, I keep getting the same error:

[2022-05-08 23:23:50] local.ERROR: openssl_verify(): supplied key
param cannot be coerced into a public key {"exception":"[object]
(ErrorException(code: 0): openssl_verify(): supplied key param cannot
be coerced into a public key at
~/vendor/laravel/cashier-paddle/src/Http/Middleware/VerifyWebhookSignature.php:71)

Is there a particular format the public key in .env needs to be in to prevent this error?

A: Use like this ( no need use -----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY----- and -----END PUBLIC KEY-----
"MIICIjANBiuqhiiG9w0BAQEFXAOCAg8AMIIjjgKCAraAyj/UyC89sqpOnpEZcM76
guppK9vfF7balLj87rE9VXq5...EAAQ=="

A: I figured this one out. It turns out that when you're putting your PADDLE_PUBLIC_KEY in .env, you should include everything i.e.
PADDLE_PUBLIC_KEY="-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----
MIICIjANBiuqhiiG9w0BAQEFXAOCAg8AMIIjjgKCAraAyj/UyC89sqpOnpEZcM76
guppK9vfF7balLj87rE9VXq5...EAAQ==
-----END PUBLIC KEY-----"


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Appointment Οf Νew Ιndependent Νon Executive Director
On 25 June 2007, the Board of Directors of EFG Eurobank Ergasias S.A. appointed Mr Spyros Lorentziadis as independent non executive Director. Mr Lorentziadis replaces Panayiotis Lambropoulos who recently passed away, for the remaining term of office of the latter.
Mr Spyros Lorentziadis, 61 years old, graduate of the Political & Economics Department of the Law School of the University of Athens, is a Greek Certified Auditor and served as a Member of the Technical Council of the Institute of Certified Auditors (2000-2005). He started his professional career with Arthur Andersen and became a partner of the Worldwide Organization in 1983. In 1986 he became the Audit Division Head of Andersen's practice in Cairo, Egypt. In 1991 he returned to Athens and in 1998 took over as Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Andersen, Greece. In 2002 he joined, as a Consultant, the Southeastern European Practice of Ernst & Young. In early 2005 he was appointed Executive Management Advisor on matters of Corporate Governance and Financial Reporting to Emporiki Bank, and later on became a member of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Emporiki Bank and of its subsidiaries in the Balkans. He is a member of the Audit Committee of the Athens International Airport/ Eleftherios Venizelos and also a member of the Board of several Non-Profit Organisations which promote the Concept of Voluntary Work and of Gifts and Contributions in Greece.
The appointment will be submitted for ratification at the forthcoming General Shareholders Meeting.


Well, Olivia's secret has been revealed. On the one hand, I am glad that the secret-keeping is over. On the other, the way it came out was heartbreaking. Olivia couldn't bring herself to tell Fitz, so he found out when she was arrested for helping a prisoner get released. How this was traced back to her is unknown. And so, she is in handcuffs, covered in someone else's blood because she was in the hospital saving the life of a client who wanted to die rather than be sent back to his country, and she finally has to tell him what she did.
We don't know what Olivia said to him because the scene was edited with music covering the dialogue and all we see are the facial expressions, which were heartbreaking in and of themselves. From what it looks like, Olivia told Fitz that she had her father released because someone is trying to kill him and he's scared. Not that he blackmailed the impeachment committee to get them to drop the charges on Fitz. Not that she'd changed her mind about doing it and Mellie was the one who actually went through with the plan. And who knows if she even said she was sorry. But as it looked, Olivia made her father's life the most important – he killed Fitz's son, but when Olivia was afraid her father would be killed, she set him free.
Now, everyone was terrified of what might happen when Fitz found out about the betrayal. When Fitz found out that the votes in his election were rigged, he killed Verna! He shut Olivia completely out of his life for ten months and after that continued to say hurtful things to her until she ended up in the hospital. He drank non-stop. And when Olivia left him after his son died, he tried to kill himself. His reaction as we have seen it this far is different. Yes, he is drinking (peep that empty scotch container!), but instead of leaving Olivia on her own, he has her released directly back to the White House. And he has her things moved in with her. When she questions him, he says he is keeping her safe now. He is correct that her apartment is not safe, and with her father on the loose, plus afraid for his own life, she probably isn't safe there. But is Fitz going a little bit crazy?
The earlier part of the episode, with Olivia working behind the scenes with a client that had information that greatly effected whether or not Fitz's peace treaty could go through was the kind of show I would like to see. Fitz can be President, Olivia can do her work as a fixer, and there can be conflict between them based on whether her work is helpful or harmful to his. At this point though, we may just see Olivia fighting to get out of being treated like she is the First Lady, when she didn't want that job. On this show, the White House is a prison, and Fitz just locked Olivia in.
If you watched this episode, what did you think?


Rokos won the Enterprise Europe Network Awards 2014 for the New Markets category. Rokos works closely with a manufacture in the Giant Mountains of Bohemia, in the Czech Republic, near Prague. Designer Jim's Grandfather was originally from Prague and he came to England during World War II.
When we were looking for an appropriate manufacturer for the Gauge vase, we reached out to the Enterprise Europe Network office at UCL in London for help.
Few manufacturers had the exceptional craftsmanship needed to produce high quality crystal to our challenging technical specifications.
Aware of the Czech Republic's distinguished glassmaking tradition, Enterprise Europe Network London contacted their Czech counterparts with a detailed brief of the technical specifications and quality required. Enterprise Europe Network colleagues in Prague then used their local knowledge and contacts to identify the most promising leads.
As a result, Glassworks Harrachov - the Czech Republic's oldest glass manufacturer, produced prototypes, and is going on to manufacture two sizes of the vase in three colours.
British designer Jim Rokos said: "I know how incredibly difficult it is to find the right manufacturer and I can only imagine it must have taken a lot of work and brilliance. All my thanks to the Enterprise Europe Network and I can only recommend them to designers looking to find the right match to make their product ideas happen."
Visit een.ec.europa.eu for the official awards winner announcement article.
Visit euronews.com for the full story of Rokos and the Czech Republic crystal glass manufacture.


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Across the nation CREW lists data for 5162 neighbourhoods, and this month Glencoe is number 4035 putting it behind most of Canada .
While the median for Ontario is $349,900 , which means that Glencoe's median price is $144,900 a lot lower than the rest of the province.
If you're looking at investment properties in Glencoe, then you're most likely to find homes with 3 bedrooms on sale this month.
There are 1145 neighbourhoods that have more properties on sale than Glencoe at the moment in Ontario which puts the neighbourhood top 40% when looking at the number of properties to choose from.
Will prices rise across the next year in in Glencoe? There are a number of real estate indicators to consider.
In Glencoe, housing stock has stayed the same over the last three months, which would tend to mean that home supply and demand are equal.
Is Glencoe a good investment prospect? It's never a perfect science, but the data we have given us a number of indicators.


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RCWs > Title 39 > Chapter 39.35D > Section 39.35D.010
Beginning of Chapter << 39.35D.010 >> 39.35D.020
RCW 39.35D.010
Finding—Intent.
(1) The legislature finds that public buildings can be built and renovated using high-performance methods that save money, improve school performance, and make workers more productive. High-performance public buildings are proven to increase student test scores, reduce worker absenteeism, and cut energy and utility costs.
(2) It is the intent of the legislature that state-owned buildings and schools be improved by adopting recognized standards for high-performance public buildings, reducing energy consumption, and allowing flexible methods and choices in how to achieve those standards and reductions. The legislature also intends that public agencies and public school districts shall document costs and savings to monitor this program and ensure that economic, community, and environmental goals are achieved each year, and that an independent performance review be conducted to evaluate this program and determine the extent to which the results intended by this chapter are being met.
(3) The legislature further finds that state agency leadership is needed in the development of preparation and adaptation actions for climate change to ensure the economic health, safety, and environmental well-being of the state and its citizens.
[ 2009 c 519 § 8; 2005 c 12 § 1.]
Findings—2009 c 519: See RCW 43.21M.900.


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Q: how ed=1 in RSA cryptosystem? I fully understand the how the RSA algorithm works, but now I am trying to reason with the formula. I want to know:
why the public key e and the private key d in the RSA encryption have to satisfy the equation ed = 1 mod (p − 1)(q − 1)?
Is it because of the standard modular arithmetic rule where 1 mod anything is 1, or is there a more to this answer?

A: Say you have a message called x and you want to encrypt it with your public key (pq, e). If you encrypt x, you get x^e mod pq. Someone who knows d can get x^(ed) mod pq.
Because ed = 1 mod (p - 1)(q - 1), by Fermat's little theorem, we get that x^(ed) mod pq = x, thus decrypting the message. If ed != 1 mod (p - 1)(q - 1), then the message could not be decrypted.
A link to Fermat's little theorem:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_little_theorem


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# Destination CSV file name
$DestinationFile = ".\result.csv"
# (!) Make asynchronous job
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# Advanced options are properties of CSVExtractor class from ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK used in the back-end:
# https://cdn.bytescout.com/help/BytescoutPDFExtractorSDK/html/87ce5fa6-3143-167d-abbd-bc7b5e160fe5.htm
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            if ($jsonStatus.status -eq "success") {
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                break
            }
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            }
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                break
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"Best Global Brands 2018" – the star shines: Mercedes-Benz is the world's most valuable premium automobile brand
Stuttgart. Mercedes-Benz was able to further increase its brand value and is once again the world's most valuable premium car brand. In the current "Best Global Brands 2018" ranking by the renowned U.S. brand consulting company Interbrand, Mercedes-Benz again climbed places in the top ten most valuable global brands and now is ranked on 8th place. Mercedes-Benz is still the only European brand in the top ten. Compared with 2017, the value of the brand grew by two percent to 48.6 billion dollars. Mercedes-Benz has continually increased its value since 2009.
"It is great news that the value of the Mercedes-Benz brand has further increased", says Britta Seeger, member of the Board of Management of Daimler AG responsible for Mercedes-Benz Cars Marketing & Sales. "Once again we are the world's most valuable premium automobile brand and are thus holding our ground in a field surrounded by big technology and consumer brands. We are delighted that people reward our new products such as the fully-electric EQC, our bold marketing campaigns such as the Grow Up campaign and new dialogue formats such as the 'me Convention'."
The strengths of the Mercedes-Benz brand lie in its long tradition, great innovative strength, the will to constantly reinvent itself and the abiding principle of its founding fathers only to be satisfied with the best. From the invention of the automobile to the largest manufacturer of luxury vehicles and a provider of comprehensive mobility services – Mercedes-Benz always looks for the best answers to the mobility needs of people.
Global study on brand valuation This year marks the 19th time that the annual "Best Global Brands" study has been published by Interbrand. The study is considered by leading CEOs worldwide to represent the competitive benchmark for the value of international brands. The study is designed to identify the world's 100 most valuable brands. Interbrand's brand valuation considers the three aspects "financial performance of the brand's products or services", "role of the brand in the purchase decision-making process" and "strength of the brand in relation to safeguarding the company's future revenue". This method is the first one to be successfully certified according to ISO 10668:2010 – an international standard that defines the basic requirements on procedures and methods for determining the monetary value of a brand.
Mercedes-Benz also occupies first place among worldwide premium automobile manufacturers in the current "Global 500 2018" ranking by the US brand valuation company Brand Finance. 500 brands were examined in the course of this study. Mercedes-Benz is in 15th place (20th place in 2017) as the most valuable European brand, with a brand value of 43.9 billion dollars (a 24 percent increase over 2017). The jury expressly recognized the modernization of the brand, and the marketing and social media activities to reach new, younger target groups.
The complete Best Global Brands ranking can be found under at www.bestglobalbrands.com
Source: Daimler Press Release
Author Prasanth ChunduriPosted on October 10, 2018 October 10, 2018 Categories carsTags best global brands 2018, daimler, daimler ag, interbrand, mecedes benz, top car brands, top car companies, top companiesLeave a comment on "Best Global Brands 2018" – the star shines: Mercedes-Benz is the world's most valuable premium automobile brand
World Premiere: Mercedes-Benz Future Bus CityPilot
The Mercedes-Benz Future Bus with CityPilot made its first public journey on part of Europe's longest BRT route (BRT = Bus Rapid Transit) in the Netherlands. This links Amsterdam's Schiphol airport with the town of Haarlem. This almost 20 km long route is a real challenge for the Mercedes-Benz Future Bus, as it has numerous bends and passes through tunnels and across junctions with traffic lights.
What urban public transport will look like in the future is shown by the semi-automated city bus with CityPilot – it operates even more safely, efficiently and comfortably than conventional buses. Connectivity plus camera and radar systems with data fusion are catapulting the city bus into the future. Mercedes-Benz is showing this spectacular technology on an equally spectacular technology platform, the Mercedes-Benz Future Bus with CityPilot.
The technology of the CityPilot in the Mercedes-Benz Future Bus is based on that of the autonomously driving Mercedes-Benz Actros truck with Highway Pilot presented two years ago. It has however undergone substantial further development specifically for use in a city bus, with numerous added functions. The CityPilot is able to recognise traffic lights, communicate with them and safely negotiate junctions controlled by them. It can also recognise obstacles, especially pedestrians on the road, and brake autonomously. It approaches bus stops automatically, where it opens and closes its doors. And not least, it is able to drive through tunnels.
Just under a dozen cameras scan the road and surroundings, while long and short-range radar systems constantly monitor the route ahead. There is also a GPS system. Thanks to data fusion, all the data received create an extremely precise picture and allow the bus to be positioned to within centimetres. This already works in practice, as demonstrated by the world premiere of the CityPilot on an exacting route covering almost 20 km, with a number of tight bends, tunnels, numerous bus stops and involving high speeds for a city bus.
This semi-automated city bus improves safety, as it relieves its driver's workload and nothing remains hidden from its cameras and radar systems. It improves efficiency, as its smooth, predictive driving style saves wear and tear while lowering fuel consumption and emissions. With its smooth and even rate of travel it also improves the comfort of its passengers.
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Real risk, big impact: What climate change means for real estate
Climate hazards are on the minds of real estate players, and are starting to impact their decision-making.
Alicia Villegas
The covid-19 pandemic has given the real estate industry a lesson in real time about the importance of adapting swiftly to new realities. The next major disruptor is climate change. Given the imminent risks properties face – an estimated 35 percent of real assets worldwide are exposed to climate hazards, according to climate risk data firm Four Twenty Seven – are real estate players taking action?
According to a study from the Urban Land Institute, published in October 2020 and conducted with Chicago-based real estate investment manager Heitman, climate risk is beginning to affect property investors' decisions – mostly when it comes to assets and, to a lesser extent, at market level. What is evident is that, in the last two years, the real estate industry has increased pledges to net-zero carbon emissions, with targets ranging from as early as 2030 to as late as 2050.
"We have seen a huge uptick in the importance of sustainability, and climate change in general, in terms of funding, underwriting, financing and project selection," says Katherine Beisler, head of ESG consulting at real estate consultancy Hollis. "Most of our clients are really concerned about things like the ability to improve the energy efficiency of the buildings that they're stepping into, but also about the costs and the risks associated with a new project."
Property managers are closely watching changes to regulation and legislation, which are driving many decisions around properties' energy use and reduction, to address climate change and de-risk portfolios. "The asset managers and investors that are more at the forefront want to do better than what the legislation requires. They are pushing to reach net-zero targets and looking to influence their tenants to be more energy efficient," Beisler explains.
Italian insurance giant Generali is one of the institutional investors committed to decarbonizing its portfolios to net-zero emissions by 2050 to avoid a global temperature increase above the 1.5C Paris target. Its property asset management arm, Generali Real Estate, is using its building refurbishments to implement energy efficiency measures and, consequently, reduce CO2 emissions.
"We are strongly focused on having a more performing envelope in order to reduce overall energy consumption and carbon footprint, while also using technical equipment powered with green energy," says Paolo Micucci, Generali Real Estate's head of engineering and project management. After the refurbishment of 'The Corner' building in Milan, which was built in 1964, Generali has been able to save energy and costs by more than 60 percent, avoiding 539 tons of CO2 per year.
The Corner, Milan: Generali's refurbishment of the 1960s building has increased energy efficiencies and reduced carbon emissions
Invesco is another property manager that has carried out redevelopment projects in line with a detailed green program during the design and construction phases, with a focus on reducing a building's negative environmental impact. The US-based manager did a redevelopment of a partly historic office building in the prime CBD of Milan, near Il Duomo.
"This included reusing 60 percent of the structural elements of the building, sourcing materials locally and recycling almost 100 percent of construction waste," says Max Kufer, Invesco's head of ESG for private markets.
Photovoltaic systems were also integrated into the roof canopy, while geothermal technology and 100 percent renewable energy was sourced to supply building energy uses, Kufer adds.
Stranded assets
As managers try to mitigate the environmental impact of their buildings, another concern is pushing them to make assets more energy efficient and less carbon intensive: the risk is that inefficient buildings become obsolete, leading to write-downs.
"A major driver for action is the obsolescence of buildings, as they face the risk of becoming stranded assets," says Peter Hobbs, managing director at bfinance. "In the office market, for instance, there's a real polarization between [climate] resilient buildings that perform very well – and which occupiers want to occupy – and the ones that don't meet EPC [Energy Performance Certificate] requirements, or have very poor ESG credentials. The cost of improving those or turning them around is often just too much."
Indeed, costs are significant. Consultancy firm Colliers estimates that, just in Europe, some €7 trillion may be needed to retrofit buildings to comply with emerging ESG requirements. Despite costs, some real estate managers like Generali Real Estate trust green buildings as an effective solution to reduce climate risk and keep the value of assets.
"We believe that, in the near future, the real point of making a building ESG-compliant is not only to add value, but to maintain it," Micucci says. "With climate change becoming more and more relevant, if a building doesn't go in the direction of ESG, the product will become obsolete. And, perhaps, we will get to a point where if the building is not aligned with ESG parameters it is actually losing value."
Real estate managers, particularly in Europe, are paying more attention to sustainable buildings compliant with current – or upcoming – energy performance regulation when it comes to eligible acquisitions, Beisler notes.
"In the UK, for instance, we see that for any building with EPC below B – which will be the minimum according to the future legislation – a client would expect to not pay a top price, because they know that they're going to have to do energy improvement upgrades in the next nine years to reach the level that it needs to be," she says. "We also have a lot of clients that won't buy a building unless it has a very good [sustainable] certification."
Beisler explains that while property managers in Europe are mainly focusing on transition risk and making their buildings more energy-efficient to reduce carbon emissions, in the US property managers are more concerned about the impact of natural disasters on real estate due to climate change, probably due to the increased frequency of climate events compared with Europe.
"The first type of climate risk that real estate investors in the US think about is the physical risk – the risk to their asset because of flooding or other extreme weather events," says Marta Schantz, senior vice-president of the ULI Greenprint Center for Building Performance. "At the same time, transition risk is becoming more and more important, especially as European investors invest in American funds."
"If a building doesn't go in the direction of ESG, the product will become obsolete"
Paolo Micucci
Generali Real Estate
Thus, an increasing number of US investors are incorporating ESG into their due diligence when acquiring and disposing of assets, thinking about assets' long-term physical risk. Meanwhile, their concerns about how upcoming climate policy and stakeholder expectations will affect the asset are gradually gaining strength, Schantz notes.
Some managers have already taken steps to address acute resiliency at properties. For instance, Brookfield's Pier 70, a mixed-use development in San Francisco, built sea-level rise projections into its design, elevating the entire site so that all buildings can withstand the potential rise, PERE understands. Another development from Brookfield, the Greenpoint Landing residential scheme in Brooklyn, is one of the first waterfront projects to deal with post-Hurricane Sandy regulations for developments in flood hazard zones.
"Environmental risks are something we consider closely both at our existing properties worldwide and as a factor when contemplating an investment," says a spokesperson for Brookfield Real Estate.
Divestment decisions
Investors are starting to make decisions on whether to invest, or continue investing, in markets particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, according the above-mentioned ULI report.
"Investors are thinking about their long-term risk in different markets, and while I have not seen any examples yet of a company that has completely divested in an area because of physical climate risk, I have seen examples of firms that have stopped making new investments in a region because of climate risk," Schantz says.
Many investors, meanwhile, are still active in vulnerable markets to climate risk such as New York City, Boston or South Florida, as they have historically been profitable.
"If investors have some risks at some assets, they want to have lower risk at other assets," Schantz says. "In this sense, many are looking more at the portfolio level as opposed to one single asset being deterred because of climate risk in a particular market. They are trying to be more strategic in that way.
"Most investors are not immediately divesting from a region because of climate risk, but many are taking steps to move away from higher-risk regions over time; or pausing any new investments in a region until they have more information to help them better assess and price these risks. Some investors are getting ready to pull out or are already pulling out of some areas because of climate risk – just not immediately, and not abruptly."
Leading real estate investment managers are increasingly recognizing climate risk as a core issue that is beginning to affect their asset decisions in terms of acquisitions and day-to-day management. These investors have increased actions to build asset resilience and to make their buildings more energy efficient and less polluting. Climate-conscious decisions at the market level are incipient, though.
The consensus, according to the ULI report, is that market-scale climate risk assessment will play a role in future investment decisions, mirroring the recent advances in assessing physical risk at the asset level.
What do LPs want?
Institutional investors committing to real estate funds no longer see environmental considerations as 'nice to have' but as fundamental risk factors, argues Peter Hobbs, managing director at investment consultancy bfinance.
"All investors we work with are looking very much at how managers integrate these considerations in their investment decision-making," he says.
Investors are particularly focused on what managers are doing when it comes to carbon reduction goals and energy efficiency, as well as how they're measured and reported, Hobbs explains. They are also paying attention to the manager's internal resources and how staff are trained to mitigate climate risk, he adds.
"Some investors say they won't invest with a manager unless they are a UNPRI signatory. I also know of investors that have come to like a manager, but because of a weak GRESB score, have decided not to invest with them. This illustrates the ways in which ESG factors can influence investors making selection decisions."


Okay, here's the skinny: Shadow of Mordor is yet another Lord of the Rings game where you don't get to play any of the cool characters from the trilogy. Instead, you're an off-brand ranger. In somewhat cooler news, you get wraith abilities and are all about revenge. In less cool news, the story is supposed to 'bridge' the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, but we already know how Lord of the Rings turns out, so you can't possibly have your revenge on Sauron.
Basically, Lord of the Rings nerds will hate it, much as they hate all things, but it might be cool. The game drops September 30, and really, what else do you have going on?


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Q: PreparedStatement no comprueba si es Null Java Estoy haciendo un programa que busque una matrícula en la base de datos, y que si no la encuentra ejecute una sentencia, y si ya existe la matricula que ejecute otra, pero siempre ( exista o no ) ejecuta la que dice no estar nula. He probado el siguiente código en el ActionPerformed del botón:
try {
            if(cn.BuscarMatricula(txt_Matricula.getText()).wasNull()){
                JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(this, jComboBox2.getSelectedItem());
                //cn.InsertarDatos(jComboBox2.getSelectedItem().toString(), txt_Modelo.getText(), txt_Matricula.getText(), txt_NIF.getText(),reparacion);
            }else{
                cn.actualizarMatricula(reparacion, Integer.parseInt(txt_ID.getText()));
                JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(this, "Actualizado correctamente");
            }
        } catch (SQLException ex) {
            Logger.getLogger(GestionVehiculos.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
        }

Y aquí adjunto el método de actualizarMatricula:
public void actualizarMatricula(boolean enReparacion, int id){
        Connection cn = Conectar();
        Statement st;
        ResultSet rs = null;
        try{
            PreparedStatement pst = cn.prepareStatement("UPDATE vehiculos SET reparacion = ? WHERE id = ?");
            pst.setBoolean(1, enReparacion);
            pst.setInt(2, id);
            pst.executeUpdate();
        }catch(Exception e){
            Logger.getLogger(Conexion.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, e);
        }
    }

buscarMatricula:
public ResultSet BuscarMatricula(String matricula){
        Connection cn = Conectar();
        Statement st;
        ResultSet rs = null;
        try{
            PreparedStatement pst = cn.prepareStatement("SELECT * FROM vehiculos WHERE matricula = ?");
            pst.setString(1, matricula);
            rs = pst.executeQuery();
        }catch(Exception e){
            Logger.getLogger(Conexion.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, e);
        }
        return rs;
    }

Algún motivo de porque siempre entra en el else, exista o no?
No consigo el error, y el log muestra que haga lo que haga intenta parsear el ID que está en el else.

A: Estoy editando mi respuesta. Si no quieres modificar nada en tu Dao (buscarMatricula), también podrías solo modificar una línea de tu front-end, así:
if(cn.BuscarMatricula(txt_Matricula.getText()).next()){
        //lo que haces si encuentras la matrícula
}else{
        //lo que haces si NO encuentras la matrícula
}

Estoy cambiando el wasNull() por el .next(), que es una práctica muy común al obtener tu ResultSet. Es una práctica común dentro del mismo Dao. De hecho se usa if(rs.next()) cuando el resultado que esperas solo es 1 registro (o ninguno) (que es tu caso); y while(rs.next()) cuando esperas varios registros
if(rs.next()){
    //y empiezo a obtener los datos de mi resultSet
    vehiculo.setNombreCampo(rs.getString("nombreCampo"));
}

Como puedes ver éste mismo if, ya lo estarías usando en tu front-End, en el Action-Performed
Saludos!

A: Cuando quiero resolver este tipo de situaciones esto es lo que hago y me funciona muy bien.
public boolean validarRegistro(String Codigo) throws Exception {
                this.Conexion();
                ResultSet rs;
                try {
                    String sql = "select count(*) as cantidad from Tabla where CodCampo = ?";
                    PreparedStatement ps = this.getCn().prepareStatement(sql);
                    ps.setString(1, Codigo);
                    rs = ps.executeQuery();
                    int cantidad = 0;
                    if (rs.next()) {
                        cantidad = rs.getInt("cantidad");
                    }
                    return cantidad == 0;
                } catch (Exception e) {
                    throw e;
                }
            }

Si el registro no existe te devolverá true, teniendo en cuenta esto hacemos lo siguiente.
try {

     if(validarRegistro(Codigo)){
          //Codigo que se ejecuta si NO EXISTE
     }else{
          //Codigo que se ejecuta si EXISTE
}

A: Del Javadoc:

Reports whether the last column read had a value of SQL NULL. Note that you must first call one of the getter methods on a column to try to read its value and then call the method wasNull to see if the value read was SQL NULL.

Es decir, siempre obtienes false porque no ha intentado leer la columna (lo cual tiene sentido si tienes en cuenta que podía haber muchas columnas en el mismo registro, algunas null y otra no, ¿cómo se decidiría entonces wasNull?)
En todo caso la estructura es mala; si solo quieres obtener un valor entonces BuscarMatricula debería devolverte ese valor, y no el ResultSet para que pierda con él (o ocultando así los detalles de implementación al código que llame al método)


I'm tempted to go for the burgundy or the white. Maybe both - because at £29.99 they're hardly going to break the bank! Hmmmmm..... what say you?
They look like they cost the earth but in actual fact they will retail at....... £8.99. With nail polishes increasing in price these days - what's going on there?! - £8.99 isn't all that bad, comparatively. And this is Marchesa we're talking about. With gowns retailing in the thousands, I think I can deal with £8.99.
Each nail design is truly beautiful - a work of art. With an increasing demand for nail art - we've seen diversity from the likes of Ciaté's latest feather nail manicure, shatter effects, nail cavier, Illamasqua's speckle nails, nail wraps... - any form of new nail product that wants to stand a chance in the current market needs to be innovative and stand out. These ones from Revlon + Marchesa sure do and I predict that we'll be seeing a lot of them on blogs, instagram and the alike once on sale.
I'm very excited to see if Revlon and Marchesa continue to work together in the future. There is potentially a cosmetic line in the works - with a focus on eyes and lips - but everything is still very hush hush. If it's anything like the sneak peak of their nail art range [above], then it's all very promising indeed.
I've come down with the flu so my life right about now consists of hot drinks - Lemsip, green tea and hot chocolate - and my bed. It's always important to keep your fluid levels up so I've been eyeing up these lovely sounding hot chocolates from Whittards. Ever tried any of these? I love the idea of having white hot chocolate!
Perfection in dress form. This is the sort of dress you can wear ANYWHERE. Work. On holiday. Drinks after work. A date. You name it. Also perfect for DIY Alice in Wonderland fancy dress if paired with an apron, stockings and heels.


Becoming an artist takes practice. Persistence, even when rejected.
To be a successful author, you need to be business-like about your rights, and gain 'authorpreneurship' skills. Knowing the business of creativity helps fund more quirky and imaginative work.
I keep creating to live more intensively, to continue learning and to see things from different perspectives. I also create in the hope that my stories, whether fact or fiction, will enable others to do the same. I also like the opportunity to meet interesting minds while interviewing for my research.
The income I receive from the Copyright Agency from earlier works is vital, and so is the acknowledgement of the intellectual property which is part of contributing to our culture, in funny – but realistic – stories.
Best known for There's a Hippopotamus on Our Roof Eating Cake, Hazel Edwards writes across media, for adults & children.
Coping successfully with being different or stories from unusual viewpoints are common amongst Hazel's 202 published books.
Hazel has collaborated on adventurous adult non- fiction and Young Adult fiction.
Apart from going on an Antarctic expedition in 2001, she has co-written adventure memoirs including 'Trail Magic; Going Walkabout for 2184 Miles on the Appalachian Trail' and 'Cycling Solo; Ireland to Istanbul' with her son Trevelyan Quest Edwards, originator of the hippo concept.
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