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The Michael Shearin Group Morgan Stanley, Income and gender equality can boost Hong Kong's economic growth, says IMF's Lagarde
Never one of the boys, Christine
Lagarde has built a remarkable career as an outsider, be it by gender,
profession or language spoken. Peter Wilson meets the ever-elegant, enigmatic
head of the IMF
When Christine Lagarde says Hong Kong should adopt social and economic policies to enrich a broader swathe of society and empower more women, she says it with a passion that one does not expect from the leader of a dry financial body such as the International Monetary Fund.
The tall, charismatic Frenchwoman stresses her economic prescription is based on hard technical research by IMF economists rather than her own idealism or personal views, but she is plainly more fired up by this topic than were any of the men who preceded her as IMF managing director over the past 70 years.
“I am also passionate about drier things [such as] making sure that the financial sector is properly regulated, properly supervised, that we do not let the excesses and the abuses we saw in the early 2000s be repeated,” she says during an interview in a plush suite at the IMF’s offices in Paris. “But … on issues such as inclusion, reduction of inequalities and greener growth, I am personally passionate, yes.”
Governments in Hong Kong and elsewhere should remember, she says, that all the evidence suggests that greater income equality, gender inclusion and “green” growth leads to stronger and more sustainable economic growth.
“Certainly diversification and better inclusion would not hurt Hong Kong,” she says.
On the issue that keeps Financial Secretary John Tsang Chun-wah awake at night – the possibility that our fiscal reserves may, at some point in the far future, dwindle to nothing – Lagarde says the IMF is frustrated by the trend among the governments of developing and “peripheral” economies to stuff full their coffers, rather than using those assets to boost consumption and investment in a way that would help the global recovery.
However, she says, the issue is clouded in Hong Kong’s case by its unusual role as a relatively small but open economy with a large financial sector.
Hong Kong “is such a peculiar economy in many respects [because] it is at the forefront” of many global economic trends and “experiments” in financial management.
THE BENEFITS OF GIVING women greater access to the workforce in general, and then to executive ranks, is a subject particularly close to the heart of Lagarde, who has spent many years as the sole woman at tables of powerful men.
Now 58, the former French finance minister was the first woman to lead a global law firm (in 1999), the first woman to be finance minister of a major industrial nation (2007) and the first woman to run the IMF, where she now oversees US$1 trillion of loan capacity as the lender of last resort to troubled countries. Elegant and with a penchant for Chanel designs and eye-catching jewellery, she is also the only person to have been on the cover of Forbes magazine at the same time as being featured in Vogue.
“It is very distressing that there is in many corners still hostility towards women entering certain fields,” she says.
While she has strived to promote geographical diversity within the IMF, for instance appointing Zhu Min, a former deputy governor of the People’s Bank of China, as the IMF’s first Chinese deputy managing director, Lagarde has also openly favoured women for promotion.
“I have made a point whenever there were equally talented candidates for a position and there was a man and a woman, I have picked a woman.”
In her own case, being a woman at the top of law, politics and finance has meant a life of being “well surrounded but quite lonely”, she says.
Lagarde joined the Chicago-based law firm Baker & McKenzie at the age of 25 after a French firm had told her that it might give her a job but it would never make her a partner because of her gender. As she rose through the ranks in the Paris office of Baker & McKenzie she began to make personal sacrifices that, because she was a woman, raised eyebrows.
Such decisions would barely have been noticed had she been male.
At 39, she was promoted to the firm’s global executive committee, meaning she had to spend half her time in Chicago. Her sons, Pierre- Henri, then nine, and Thomas, seven, stayed in Paris with their banker father, Wilfried Lagarde, from whom she had recently divorced.
Four years later, she became the firm’s president and moved to Chicago, meaning throughout her sons’ teenage years she was in Paris for just one week a month.
In 2011, she told an interviewer, “I had to accept I could not be successful at everything – you draw up priorities and you accept a lot of guilt.”
Speaking to Post Magazine, she notes that men in similar situations come under much less pressure.
“I don’t think [the subject would have arisen] if I were a male, that is true. And I wish some of them would feel a bit more guilty about [making family sacrifices] as well, but I am not sure they do.
“But that sense of guilt fades away over time. As you age it reduces because children grow up, grandchildren arrive and you sort of reconcile yourself with what you have done,” she says.
“My companion [Marseilles businessman Xavier Giocanti] has two children whom I very, very much love, and one of them has a little boy and is expecting a baby girl, so I regard myself also as a grandmother and I love time with the family.”
When Christine Lagarde says Hong Kong should adopt social and economic policies to enrich a broader swathe of society and empower more women, she says it with a passion that one does not expect from the leader of a dry financial body such as the International Monetary Fund.
The tall, charismatic Frenchwoman stresses her economic prescription is based on hard technical research by IMF economists rather than her own idealism or personal views, but she is plainly more fired up by this topic than were any of the men who preceded her as IMF managing director over the past 70 years.
“I am also passionate about drier things [such as] making sure that the financial sector is properly regulated, properly supervised, that we do not let the excesses and the abuses we saw in the early 2000s be repeated,” she says during an interview in a plush suite at the IMF’s offices in Paris. “But … on issues such as inclusion, reduction of inequalities and greener growth, I am personally passionate, yes.”
Governments in Hong Kong and elsewhere should remember, she says, that all the evidence suggests that greater income equality, gender inclusion and “green” growth leads to stronger and more sustainable economic growth.
“Certainly diversification and better inclusion would not hurt Hong Kong,” she says.
On the issue that keeps Financial Secretary John Tsang Chun-wah awake at night – the possibility that our fiscal reserves may, at some point in the far future, dwindle to nothing – Lagarde says the IMF is frustrated by the trend among the governments of developing and “peripheral” economies to stuff full their coffers, rather than using those assets to boost consumption and investment in a way that would help the global recovery.
However, she says, the issue is clouded in Hong Kong’s case by its unusual role as a relatively small but open economy with a large financial sector.
Hong Kong “is such a peculiar economy in many respects [because] it is at the forefront” of many global economic trends and “experiments” in financial management.
THE BENEFITS OF GIVING women greater access to the workforce in general, and then to executive ranks, is a subject particularly close to the heart of Lagarde, who has spent many years as the sole woman at tables of powerful men.
Now 58, the former French finance minister was the first woman to lead a global law firm (in 1999), the first woman to be finance minister of a major industrial nation (2007) and the first woman to run the IMF, where she now oversees US$1 trillion of loan capacity as the lender of last resort to troubled countries. Elegant and with a penchant for Chanel designs and eye-catching jewellery, she is also the only person to have been on the cover of Forbes magazine at the same time as being featured in Vogue.
“It is very distressing that there is in many corners still hostility towards women entering certain fields,” she says.
While she has strived to promote geographical diversity within the IMF, for instance appointing Zhu Min, a former deputy governor of the People’s Bank of China, as the IMF’s first Chinese deputy managing director, Lagarde has also openly favoured women for promotion.
“I have made a point whenever there were equally talented candidates for a position and there was a man and a woman, I have picked a woman.”
In her own case, being a woman at the top of law, politics and finance has meant a life of being “well surrounded but quite lonely”, she says.
Lagarde joined the Chicago-based law firm Baker & McKenzie at the age of 25 after a French firm had told her that it might give her a job but it would never make her a partner because of her gender. As she rose through the ranks in the Paris office of Baker & McKenzie she began to make personal sacrifices that, because she was a woman, raised eyebrows.
Such decisions would barely have been noticed had she been male.
At 39, she was promoted to the firm’s global executive committee, meaning she had to spend half her time in Chicago. Her sons, Pierre- Henri, then nine, and Thomas, seven, stayed in Paris with their banker father, Wilfried Lagarde, from whom she had recently divorced.
Four years later, she became the firm’s president and moved to Chicago, meaning throughout her sons’ teenage years she was in Paris for just one week a month.
In 2011, she told an interviewer, “I had to accept I could not be successful at everything – you draw up priorities and you accept a lot of guilt.”
Speaking to Post Magazine, she notes that men in similar situations come under much less pressure.
“I don’t think [the subject would have arisen] if I were a male, that is true. And I wish some of them would feel a bit more guilty about [making family sacrifices] as well, but I am not sure they do.
“But that sense of guilt fades away over time. As you age it reduces because children grow up, grandchildren arrive and you sort of reconcile yourself with what you have done,” she says.
“My companion [Marseilles businessman Xavier Giocanti] has two children whom I very, very much love, and one of them has a little boy and is expecting a baby girl, so I regard myself also as a grandmother and I love time with the family.”
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Investigator Education at Koyal Group: What Credentials Are Needed to Become an Insurance Investigator?
Work.Chron.com
Insurance investigators research and verify claims to make sure no fraud or cheating is involved. They search records and databases, conduct personal interviews and inspect damaged vehicles, property and buildings. They also write reports of their findings and cooperate with other investigators and law enforcement professionals. Although investigator jobs often require only a high school diploma, many hiring managers prefer candidates with relevant work experience or education. Some investigators must be licensed.
High School
Insurance companies usually require a high school education or the equivalent for insurance investigator jobs, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Take speech classes or join the debate club in high school to develop the interviewing skills you will need as a future investigator. Take courses in English and writing to prepare for the report-writing component of an investigator's career.
College Training
Some insurance companies prefer to hire investigators with college degrees, although no degree is mandatory. The desired degree varies with the type of claims work. For example, an engineering degree is useful for investigating claims in factories, while an accounting degree equips you to investigate business fraud. A bachelor's degree in criminal justice is another path to the job of insurance investigator. A criminal justice program provides a legal background plus the necessary skills in research, investigation and critical thinking.
Experience and On-the-Job Training
Insurance companies often give hiring preference to applicants with relevant work experience, as police officers or private investigators, for example. Previous experience as an insurance claims adjuster or a firefighter can also help you get an investigator position. These jobs develop the interviewing and research skills needed for investigating claims for possible fraud. Insurance companies also provide on-the-job training for new insurance investigators. New hires usually begin work on simple cases under an experienced investigator before moving on to more difficult assignments.
Licensing
Licensing requirements for investigators vary from state to state. In some states, an investigator working as an insurance company employee doesn't need a license. However, private investigators doing insurance company work as private contractors normally need licenses. In some states, the only requirements for a license are passing an ethics test and paying a fee. Other states require completion of an educational program or an examination on insurance investigating. Some states also require continuing education. In most states, you must pass a background check and be free of felony convictions.
Certification
Insurance fraud investigators can qualify for optional certification as Certified Fraud Investigator through the International Association of Special Investigation Units. To become certified, you need a minimum of a bachelor's degree plus relevant work experience. You also must agree to a code of ethics and pass an examination. Continuing education units are required to maintain your certification.
Insurance investigators research and verify claims to make sure no fraud or cheating is involved. They search records and databases, conduct personal interviews and inspect damaged vehicles, property and buildings. They also write reports of their findings and cooperate with other investigators and law enforcement professionals. Although investigator jobs often require only a high school diploma, many hiring managers prefer candidates with relevant work experience or education. Some investigators must be licensed.
High School
Insurance companies usually require a high school education or the equivalent for insurance investigator jobs, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Take speech classes or join the debate club in high school to develop the interviewing skills you will need as a future investigator. Take courses in English and writing to prepare for the report-writing component of an investigator's career.
College Training
Some insurance companies prefer to hire investigators with college degrees, although no degree is mandatory. The desired degree varies with the type of claims work. For example, an engineering degree is useful for investigating claims in factories, while an accounting degree equips you to investigate business fraud. A bachelor's degree in criminal justice is another path to the job of insurance investigator. A criminal justice program provides a legal background plus the necessary skills in research, investigation and critical thinking.
Experience and On-the-Job Training
Insurance companies often give hiring preference to applicants with relevant work experience, as police officers or private investigators, for example. Previous experience as an insurance claims adjuster or a firefighter can also help you get an investigator position. These jobs develop the interviewing and research skills needed for investigating claims for possible fraud. Insurance companies also provide on-the-job training for new insurance investigators. New hires usually begin work on simple cases under an experienced investigator before moving on to more difficult assignments.
Licensing
Licensing requirements for investigators vary from state to state. In some states, an investigator working as an insurance company employee doesn't need a license. However, private investigators doing insurance company work as private contractors normally need licenses. In some states, the only requirements for a license are passing an ethics test and paying a fee. Other states require completion of an educational program or an examination on insurance investigating. Some states also require continuing education. In most states, you must pass a background check and be free of felony convictions.
Certification
Insurance fraud investigators can qualify for optional certification as Certified Fraud Investigator through the International Association of Special Investigation Units. To become certified, you need a minimum of a bachelor's degree plus relevant work experience. You also must agree to a code of ethics and pass an examination. Continuing education units are required to maintain your certification.
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Westhill Consulting & Employment Top 10 Job Search Tips
http://www.westhillconsulting-career.com/blog/2014/03/06/top-10-job-search-tips/
Is your job search off to a slow start or getting stuck? Here are some quick time-saving job search tips that will help your hunt for a new job go smoothly.
Be Prepared. Have a voice mail system in place and sign-up for a professional sounding email address. Consider getting a separate email account to use for your job search, so you can stay organized. Put your cell phone number on your resume so you can follow up in a timely manner. This job search toolkit will help you get everything you need set for your job search. Westhill Consulting & Employment Australia has some good tips for finding work in countries such as KL Malaysia, Jakarta Indonesia, Beijing China, Bangkok Thailand and many more.
Be More Than Prepared. Always have an up-to-dateresume ready to send – even if you are not currently looking for work. You never know when an opportunity that is too good to pass up might come along. If you’re not on LinkedIn yet, create a LinkedIn and start making connections who can help you job search.
Don’t Wait. If you are laid-off, file for unemployment benefits right away. You will most likely be able to file online or by phone. Waiting could delay your benefits check.
Get Help. Utilize free or inexpensive services that provide career counseling and job search assistance such as college career offices, state Department of Labor offices or your local public library. Many libraries provide workshops, programs, classes, computers and printers you can use, and other resources to help you with your job search. Here’s more on getting job search help at the library.
Create Your Own Templates. Have copies of your resume and cover letter ready to edit. That way you can change the content to match the requirements of the job you’re applying for, but, the contact information and your opening and closing paragraphs won’t need to be changed. Microsoft Word users can download free templates for resumes, cover letters and email messages which can be personalized for your own correspondence.
Review Samples. It’s always a good idea to look at sample letters and resumes to get ideas for your own job search materials. Take a look at our collection of resume, cv, and letter samples.
Use Job Search Engines. Search the job search engines. Use the job search engine sites to search the major job boards, company sites, associations, and other sites with job postings for you – fast. You will be able to search all the jobs posted online in one step.
Jobs by Email. Let the jobs come to you. Use job alerts to sign up and receive job listings by email. All the major job sites have search agents and some websites and apps specialize in sending announcements.
Time Savers. Strapped for time? Consider getting professional help writing or editing your resume.
References Ready. Have a list of three references including name, job title, company, phone number and email address ready to give to interviewers. Print a copy of your reference list and bring it with you to interviews. Here’s how to create a list of references.
Use Your Network. Be cognizant of the fact that many, if not most, job openings aren’t advertised. Tell everyone you know that you are looking for work. Ask if they can help.
Get Social. Social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter can be a good way to get job listings before they are listed elsewhere. Plus, you can promote your candidacy using the social media tools that are readily available for free for job seekers and companies are increasingly using social media for recruiting. Here’s how to get started with social networking.
This tip isn’t a time saver, but, it will broaden your online job search resources.
Don’t Stop. Don’t limit your job searching to the top sites like Monster or CareerBuilder. Check the smaller niche sites that focus on a particular geographic location or career field and you will find plenty of job listings. Networking works, too. Tap into your network of contacts to see who might be able to help you with job leads or a referral.
For more information:
http://www.westhillconsulting-career.com/blog/
http://westhillconsulting-career.blogspot.com/
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Westhill-Consulting-Employment/496648630414940
Is your job search off to a slow start or getting stuck? Here are some quick time-saving job search tips that will help your hunt for a new job go smoothly.
Be Prepared. Have a voice mail system in place and sign-up for a professional sounding email address. Consider getting a separate email account to use for your job search, so you can stay organized. Put your cell phone number on your resume so you can follow up in a timely manner. This job search toolkit will help you get everything you need set for your job search. Westhill Consulting & Employment Australia has some good tips for finding work in countries such as KL Malaysia, Jakarta Indonesia, Beijing China, Bangkok Thailand and many more.
Be More Than Prepared. Always have an up-to-dateresume ready to send – even if you are not currently looking for work. You never know when an opportunity that is too good to pass up might come along. If you’re not on LinkedIn yet, create a LinkedIn and start making connections who can help you job search.
Don’t Wait. If you are laid-off, file for unemployment benefits right away. You will most likely be able to file online or by phone. Waiting could delay your benefits check.
Get Help. Utilize free or inexpensive services that provide career counseling and job search assistance such as college career offices, state Department of Labor offices or your local public library. Many libraries provide workshops, programs, classes, computers and printers you can use, and other resources to help you with your job search. Here’s more on getting job search help at the library.
Create Your Own Templates. Have copies of your resume and cover letter ready to edit. That way you can change the content to match the requirements of the job you’re applying for, but, the contact information and your opening and closing paragraphs won’t need to be changed. Microsoft Word users can download free templates for resumes, cover letters and email messages which can be personalized for your own correspondence.
Review Samples. It’s always a good idea to look at sample letters and resumes to get ideas for your own job search materials. Take a look at our collection of resume, cv, and letter samples.
Use Job Search Engines. Search the job search engines. Use the job search engine sites to search the major job boards, company sites, associations, and other sites with job postings for you – fast. You will be able to search all the jobs posted online in one step.
Jobs by Email. Let the jobs come to you. Use job alerts to sign up and receive job listings by email. All the major job sites have search agents and some websites and apps specialize in sending announcements.
Time Savers. Strapped for time? Consider getting professional help writing or editing your resume.
References Ready. Have a list of three references including name, job title, company, phone number and email address ready to give to interviewers. Print a copy of your reference list and bring it with you to interviews. Here’s how to create a list of references.
Use Your Network. Be cognizant of the fact that many, if not most, job openings aren’t advertised. Tell everyone you know that you are looking for work. Ask if they can help.
Get Social. Social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter can be a good way to get job listings before they are listed elsewhere. Plus, you can promote your candidacy using the social media tools that are readily available for free for job seekers and companies are increasingly using social media for recruiting. Here’s how to get started with social networking.
This tip isn’t a time saver, but, it will broaden your online job search resources.
Don’t Stop. Don’t limit your job searching to the top sites like Monster or CareerBuilder. Check the smaller niche sites that focus on a particular geographic location or career field and you will find plenty of job listings. Networking works, too. Tap into your network of contacts to see who might be able to help you with job leads or a referral.
For more information:
http://www.westhillconsulting-career.com/blog/
http://westhillconsulting-career.blogspot.com/
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Westhill-Consulting-Employment/496648630414940
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Don’t have an appetite for risk? Settle for multi-cap schemes
Don’t get shocked if you hear demeaning remarks coming from
your financial advisor next time like you are better off in a multi-cap fund if
you don’t have the stomach for mid or small-cap funds. Today many advisors are playing it safe as
they were facing a regular complain about the abysmal performance of small- and
mid-cap investments from their clients.
What they were informing the clients are to try to find refuge in multi-cap funds if they can’t stomach volatility in small- and mid-cap schemes. The fund manager in a mutli-cap scheme has the liberty to change between market caps basing on the market circumstances and nothing like small and midcap schemes. westhill consulting
While the multi-cap cap category has retuned around 3%, the mid- and small-cap category has returned around 0.1% in the past one year. ”The mid- and small-cap category has a tendency to underperform the broad market at regular intervals.
For instance, the category is in the chucks in the same one and three-year periods. It has returned positively only in the five-year period,” says an investment consultant, who doesn’t want to be named. As per Value Research, a mutual fund tracking firm, the mid- and small-cap category has given a negative return of 2.6% in the three-year period.
Nonetheless, it has delivered around 18.8% in the five-year period. “Some clients just can’t be convinced that these schemes still have the potential to deliver superior returns, as they may lead the next rally.
That is why we started telling them to stay away from mid- and small-cap schemes and opt for multi-cap schemes,” he adds.
Dhruva Raj Chatterji, senior investment consultant, India, Morningstar Investment Management, says mid- and small-cap category is meant only for investors with a higher risk appetite. “This segment was badly hammered in June-July and also in the last year. It also didn’t recover in the recent rally that started sometime in September-October. That is why the performance of these schemes looks very bad from a three-year perspective,” he says. “The category always tends to suffer more in a bad market.
But they also give exceptional return in a particular year.” His prescription — investors without a higher risk appetite, stomach for volatility and longer investment timeframe should stay away from the mid- and small-cap sector.
What they were informing the clients are to try to find refuge in multi-cap funds if they can’t stomach volatility in small- and mid-cap schemes. The fund manager in a mutli-cap scheme has the liberty to change between market caps basing on the market circumstances and nothing like small and midcap schemes. westhill consulting
While the multi-cap cap category has retuned around 3%, the mid- and small-cap category has returned around 0.1% in the past one year. ”The mid- and small-cap category has a tendency to underperform the broad market at regular intervals.
For instance, the category is in the chucks in the same one and three-year periods. It has returned positively only in the five-year period,” says an investment consultant, who doesn’t want to be named. As per Value Research, a mutual fund tracking firm, the mid- and small-cap category has given a negative return of 2.6% in the three-year period.
Nonetheless, it has delivered around 18.8% in the five-year period. “Some clients just can’t be convinced that these schemes still have the potential to deliver superior returns, as they may lead the next rally.
That is why we started telling them to stay away from mid- and small-cap schemes and opt for multi-cap schemes,” he adds.
Dhruva Raj Chatterji, senior investment consultant, India, Morningstar Investment Management, says mid- and small-cap category is meant only for investors with a higher risk appetite. “This segment was badly hammered in June-July and also in the last year. It also didn’t recover in the recent rally that started sometime in September-October. That is why the performance of these schemes looks very bad from a three-year perspective,” he says. “The category always tends to suffer more in a bad market.
But they also give exceptional return in a particular year.” His prescription — investors without a higher risk appetite, stomach for volatility and longer investment timeframe should stay away from the mid- and small-cap sector.
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THERAPIST AND PRACTITIONERS: Westhill Consulting Rooms
THERAPISTS & PRACTITIONERS
CHRISTINE BACHMANNCRISTIANA BATTISTUZZITONI BIAGIVERENA BRECKNERANNE CASIMIRDR SUSAN CHANTRELLJONATHAN CONWAYEVELYN COONEYSUSAN COWAN-JENSSENJEANETTE GLASSEREINAR JENSSENWENDY JONESSUSANNA KESTERJASNA KOSTICPAUL LEVRANTSAMANTHA LINDUPRUTH LIPMANTHE LONDON PSYCHOTHERAPY AND TRAUMA CENTRECATHERINE MCCABEMARK NEVINMARSHA NODELMANDR COURTNEY RASPINDR MORTON SCHATZMANPAULINA SLATERDR JOANNE STUARTDELMA WALSHDR ALBERT ZANDVOORT
Welcome: Westhill House HighGate Consulting Rooms
http://www.consulting-rooms.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1&Itemid=2
The consulting rooms are located in West Hill House, a quiet building in Swain's Lane, set back from the road. Swain's Lane is one of Highgate's most charming streets. It is within 50 metres of Hampstead Heath and with easy access to bus, train and underground. Local restaurants and cafés add to the friendly, village atmosphere.
Full-time receptionist and support staff
Purpose-built for individual and group psychotherapy
Architect-designed and elegantly furnished
All lighting and heating supplied from renewable sources
Soundproofed
Fully ventilated
Entryphones to all rooms
Waiting areas
Rent by hour or session
Daytime, evenings and weekends, 7 days a week
Broadband free of charge
CHRISTINE BACHMANNCRISTIANA BATTISTUZZITONI BIAGIVERENA BRECKNERANNE CASIMIRDR SUSAN CHANTRELLJONATHAN CONWAYEVELYN COONEYSUSAN COWAN-JENSSENJEANETTE GLASSEREINAR JENSSENWENDY JONESSUSANNA KESTERJASNA KOSTICPAUL LEVRANTSAMANTHA LINDUPRUTH LIPMANTHE LONDON PSYCHOTHERAPY AND TRAUMA CENTRECATHERINE MCCABEMARK NEVINMARSHA NODELMANDR COURTNEY RASPINDR MORTON SCHATZMANPAULINA SLATERDR JOANNE STUARTDELMA WALSHDR ALBERT ZANDVOORT
Welcome: Westhill House HighGate Consulting Rooms
http://www.consulting-rooms.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1&Itemid=2
The consulting rooms are located in West Hill House, a quiet building in Swain's Lane, set back from the road. Swain's Lane is one of Highgate's most charming streets. It is within 50 metres of Hampstead Heath and with easy access to bus, train and underground. Local restaurants and cafés add to the friendly, village atmosphere.
Full-time receptionist and support staff
Purpose-built for individual and group psychotherapy
Architect-designed and elegantly furnished
All lighting and heating supplied from renewable sources
Soundproofed
Fully ventilated
Entryphones to all rooms
Waiting areas
Rent by hour or session
Daytime, evenings and weekends, 7 days a week
Broadband free of charge
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Google acquires Spider.io, An Abney And Associates Technology News
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Google claimed it’s ratcheting up the fight against fraud in online advertising, disclosing Friday that it has bought Spider.io, a London company specializing in ad fraud detection technology.
Google has been investing in ad fraud prevention for years, said Neal Mohan, Google’s Display Advertising VP in a blog post on Friday. The company last year turned down millions of applications from sites looking to join its network because of suspected fraudulent activity, he said.
Now, Google will immediately include Spider.io’s fraud detection technology in its video and display ads products to complement existing efforts, said Mohan.
Spider.io helps preventing display advertisers from being defrauded by networks of hijacked PCs, tablets and phones that generate billions of fake ad views, according to its website.
Currently there are two types of display advertising fraud being committed using hijacked Internet-enabled devices, according to Spider.io.
The first involves the attacker running fully automated browsers on the hijacked devices without the knowledge of the device owners. Those browsers visit ad-laden websites of the attacker’s choosing and simulate mouse movements and ad clicks, Spider.io said.
The second type involves hijacking the browsing sessions of the device owners. That typically takes one of four forms, Spider.io said. The device owner’s clicks could for instance be redirected to websites of the attacker’s choosing, and the device owner may also be shown unexpected pop-up windows. Web pages may also be hidden in pop-under windows under the owners’ active browser windows, and ads could be illegitimately injected into webpages ordinarily visited by the device owners.
The company’s technology prevents hijacked PCs, tablets and phones from being used to defraud online advertisers by identifying the type of automated agent responsible for each individual ad request in real time, according to its website.
Google said it hopes its anti-fraud efforts will eventually improve the metrics that advertisers and publishers use to determine the value of digital media and give all parties a clearer picture of what campaigns and media are truly delivering strong results.
Details of the deal were not disclosed in the blog post. Google did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
Google claimed it’s ratcheting up the fight against fraud in online advertising, disclosing Friday that it has bought Spider.io, a London company specializing in ad fraud detection technology.
Google has been investing in ad fraud prevention for years, said Neal Mohan, Google’s Display Advertising VP in a blog post on Friday. The company last year turned down millions of applications from sites looking to join its network because of suspected fraudulent activity, he said.
Now, Google will immediately include Spider.io’s fraud detection technology in its video and display ads products to complement existing efforts, said Mohan.
Spider.io helps preventing display advertisers from being defrauded by networks of hijacked PCs, tablets and phones that generate billions of fake ad views, according to its website.
Currently there are two types of display advertising fraud being committed using hijacked Internet-enabled devices, according to Spider.io.
The first involves the attacker running fully automated browsers on the hijacked devices without the knowledge of the device owners. Those browsers visit ad-laden websites of the attacker’s choosing and simulate mouse movements and ad clicks, Spider.io said.
The second type involves hijacking the browsing sessions of the device owners. That typically takes one of four forms, Spider.io said. The device owner’s clicks could for instance be redirected to websites of the attacker’s choosing, and the device owner may also be shown unexpected pop-up windows. Web pages may also be hidden in pop-under windows under the owners’ active browser windows, and ads could be illegitimately injected into webpages ordinarily visited by the device owners.
The company’s technology prevents hijacked PCs, tablets and phones from being used to defraud online advertisers by identifying the type of automated agent responsible for each individual ad request in real time, according to its website.
Google said it hopes its anti-fraud efforts will eventually improve the metrics that advertisers and publishers use to determine the value of digital media and give all parties a clearer picture of what campaigns and media are truly delivering strong results.
Details of the deal were not disclosed in the blog post. Google did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
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You call this support? Your forum is a fucking joke.
Why even have a forum if you don't answer people's queries, don't have a 'forgotten password', and don't reply to keyword queries? What a joke.
Useless.
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Westhill Consulting - Mannento Mori
http://www.quora.com/Anny-Blake/Posts/Westhill-Consulting-Mannento-Mori
I do not know about you, but I love the humor Wojciech Mann.One of the nicest moments of the week this morning "snippets of Activities" in the Trinity before 9TA morning when driving to work listening to Mr. Wojciech przekomarzajacego of Bukartykiem.Yes, it is there established hit "Women like flowers" ... What's interesting every morning, full of smart giggle broadcast editor Mann ends with the words: "Thank you for today, and if all goes well, we will hear on Sunday."
But what does it mean "How everything goes well ..."?Mr. Editor, is less than two days, what's going to happen?After the first moment of surprise, comes reflection: Well, a lot can happen ...
This kind of Memento Mori, you can (and should) be taken literally, but it has a dimension of trade.Are you ready for change?And what if on Monday will no longer be your position?In what state is your resume?Is the date zbierałeś testimonials from clients written on LinkedIn or Goldenline, or only now desperately begin to accumulate contacts?
Or not to be gloomy, what if tomorrow you get to realize a new, very interesting project?What about those things that realizowałeś so far?Is it them who take over?I had a few situations in life when working for many months managed to create something cool, but took care of succession.Sorry had to look that no successor projects are prepared natural erosion and processes without fixed guards become outdated ...
This is actually not such a rare situations.Editor Mann has survived many such stories.Despite the years, is not subjected to the routine, but it is always ready for a change.How to tell Spencer Johnson, author of "Who Moved My Cheese", Editor's always in sweats and sneakers.And you?Are you ready for change?It should be: Memento Mori!
I do not know about you, but I love the humor Wojciech Mann.One of the nicest moments of the week this morning "snippets of Activities" in the Trinity before 9TA morning when driving to work listening to Mr. Wojciech przekomarzajacego of Bukartykiem.Yes, it is there established hit "Women like flowers" ... What's interesting every morning, full of smart giggle broadcast editor Mann ends with the words: "Thank you for today, and if all goes well, we will hear on Sunday."
But what does it mean "How everything goes well ..."?Mr. Editor, is less than two days, what's going to happen?After the first moment of surprise, comes reflection: Well, a lot can happen ...
This kind of Memento Mori, you can (and should) be taken literally, but it has a dimension of trade.Are you ready for change?And what if on Monday will no longer be your position?In what state is your resume?Is the date zbierałeś testimonials from clients written on LinkedIn or Goldenline, or only now desperately begin to accumulate contacts?
Or not to be gloomy, what if tomorrow you get to realize a new, very interesting project?What about those things that realizowałeś so far?Is it them who take over?I had a few situations in life when working for many months managed to create something cool, but took care of succession.Sorry had to look that no successor projects are prepared natural erosion and processes without fixed guards become outdated ...
This is actually not such a rare situations.Editor Mann has survived many such stories.Despite the years, is not subjected to the routine, but it is always ready for a change.How to tell Spencer Johnson, author of "Who Moved My Cheese", Editor's always in sweats and sneakers.And you?Are you ready for change?It should be: Memento Mori!
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Auto copy/paste changes in default preferences to user preferences
Any changes in the default preferences don't actually occur in that file, but are automatically pasted through to the user preferences. This saves on copy/paste time, helps new users deal with how the preference system works, and can automate copying comments through, too.
e.g. editing
"font_size": 10, to "font_size": 12, in the defaults will actually add that change to user preferences, while leaving the default as it was.
It would be helpful to have a small tooltip or something similar notifying the user of this.
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