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Yorkshire Water Demonstrates the Importance of Keeping Jobs Local

BY Rebecca | 1 February, 2017 | no comments

It may not be a policy or practice which the company officially adopts, but judging by the manner in which Yorkshire Water conducts its business, one would assume that this water supply and water waste management company is run by a core staff that is very much part of the local community it serves. This goes a long way in demonstrating the importance of keeping jobs local, a practice which many companies and businesses from all over the world could perhaps learn from.

Uniquely Tailored Services

When a company serves their community on a local level and would then naturally employ people from that community first, their operational methodology falls directly in line with the unique needs of that community and so they can tailor their offering according to those specific need. In the specific case of Yorkshire Water, this is demonstrated through their approach to providing their primary service of supplying water and managing waste water. Where a more globalised business would have perhaps stuck to a generic approach that works to bring in the profits wherever it is they do business, Yorkshire Water takes into account some other considerations which one could say are unique to the areas they serve.

It’s about more than just building and maintaining pipelines or refurbishing reservoirs. The Yorkshire Woodland Cultural Heritage Unearthing Project comes to mind as a great example, with nearly half a million pounds allocated to it.

Being a major landowner in the South Pennines (the company owns 300 hectares), it could very well have been all about maximising profits by building the sort of infrastructure geared towards that, all around the reservoirs situated on that land. Instead, Yorkshire Water could definitely be credited with contributing the creation of more local jobs, whether they employ community workers directly or if they just have a hand in the creation of jobs.

For this particular project a Woodland Heritage Officer was appointed, leading the delegation of representatives of the company and its partners’ commitment to going beyond their normal business and making something like the conservation of their community’s natural heritage a priority.

Cost Savings

Ultimately though, keeping jobs local is a practice which has a great cost-saving knock-on effect. Not all companies were meant to go public and list on the stock exchange and in fact some of the best companies that this world has to offer are privately run. The very best of these follow the old model of society-construction where the services rendered and goods produced are localised. So a localised water company such as Yorkshire Water would prove to be much more valuable to the people of the community it serves because the people can in some cases walk to the company’s offices should they have any problems, queries or suggestions, or indeed if they want to take part in the many community development-geared initiatives the company has to offer.

If water supply was otherwise a nationalised service, there’d probably be a distinct lack of engagement and the basic things needed to be done would perhaps take much longer.

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Whether fraudsters, mob bosses, drug lords, or thieves, the one thing that drives many of these criminals is wealth accumulation. And what do these lawbreakers do with all that illicitly gained money? Most like to spend lavishly on homes, cars, yachts, and other luxury items, such as watches. From infamous gangsters that made their mark on history, to modern-day scammers, here are some watches linked to famous criminals.

Al Capone

One of the most famous criminals in American history, Al Capone, also known as “Scarface,” was the co-founder and leader of the violent Chicago Outfit organized crime syndicate to control the distribution of illegal alcohol during Prohibition. He was finally put behind bars in 1931—not for any of the gruesome crimes he was responsible for, but for tax evasion—only to be released less than a decade later due to his failing health.

The mob boss was known for his decadent lifestyle, and had a particular love for flashy jewelry. In 2017, Al Capone’s diamond, white gold, and platinum pocket watch sold for $84,375. It’s also rumored that the crime boss wore a yellow gold rectangular Rolex Prince watch on a leather strap.

Pablo Escobar

Known as “The King of Cocaine,” Pablo Escobar founded and controlled the notorious Medellín Cartel in Columbia, which monopolized the cocaine trade in the US in the eighties and nineties. Not only was Pablo Escobar the most powerful drug trafficker during his era, but he is also the wealthiest criminal in history, with an estimated net worth of $30 billion when he died in 1993.

In 2013, an auction of goods seized from narcos by the Columbian government was held in Bogotá. One of the lots included Pablo Escobar’s diamond-encrusted yellow gold Rolex Day-Date President watch. While his watch had a pre-sale estimate of $70,000, it only managed to fetch $8,500 at auction—and the buyer admitted that he wanted to melt it down to make another piece of jewelry.

Bernie Madoff

Former financier Bernie Madoff is currently serving a federal prison sentence for executing the largest Ponzi scheme in history, defrauding tens of thousands of people out of tens of billions of dollars over almost two decades. After pleading guilty to 11 counts in 2009, Bernie Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison.

Since his arrest, the US Marshals have hosted several auctions selling off Bernie Madoff’s personal belongings to pay back the thousands of victims who lost fortunes. During these auctions, it was revealed that the once ultra-wealthy Wall Street man had amassed quite the watch collection. Some highlights included a vintage Rolex Oyster Perpetual chronograph “Monoblocco”, a rose gold Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Duo, a white gold Patek Philippe Annual Calendar, a vintage gold Cartier Tank, an IWC Pilot’s Watch on a steel link bracelet, a 1960’s Rolex Submariner, and a Hublot on a black rubber strap.

Billy McFarland

Modern-day scammer Billy McFarland had not just one but two documentaries (Netflix and Hulu) dedicated to his failed Fyre Festival of 2017, which was supposed to be a luxury music festival held in the Bahamas. After hiring some of the most popular influencers on Instagram to promote the event, selling thousands of tickets, and defrauding investors of millions of dollars, the party-goers who flew to Great Exuma island expecting a great time were instead met with serious housing, food, and security issues. McFarland was arrested on charges of wire fraud, and while he was out on bail, he was caught running a separate concert-ticket scam. After being sentenced to six years in prison for defrauding investors of $27.4 million, McFarland is currently serving time at a Federal Correctional Institution in Ohio and was ordered to forfeit $26 million.

So, what watches did the high-life loving fraudster wear when he was still a free man? He frequently alternated between a stainless Breitling Chronomat on a tan leather strap and a solid gold Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore with a matching gold bracelet.

Jordan Belfort

Jordan Belfort, better known as the Wolf of Wall Street, was sentenced to four years in prison in 1999 after he pleaded guilty to securities fraud and money laundering in connection with scams that led to investor losses of around $200 million. However, Belfort only served 22 months and was ordered to pay back $110.4 million thanks to a plea deal he made with the FBI. Belfort’s infamous story was first told through his memoirs, and was later adapted into a Martin Scorsese-directed Hollywood movie where Belfort was portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio.

In The Wolf of Wall Street movie, DiCaprio wore a solid gold Tag Heuer diving watch while playing Belfort. But the real-life ex-con, who has since pivoted to motivational speaker and podcast host, has been spotted wearing a variety of different watches like AP Royal Oak, Hublot Big Bang, and Apple Watch.

Na’aman Diller

In 1983, the Museum of Islamic Art in Jerusalem discovered that over a hundred clocks worth tens of millions of dollars had been stolen from the Sir David Lionel Salomons collection housed inside the museum. The Sir David Salomons collection was considered one of the most important collections of rare clocks and watches, including the famous Breguet “Marie Antoinette” timepiece, valued at $30 million. An admirer of Queen Marie Antoinette commissioned the pocket watch from renowned watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet in 1783 with the stipulation that it be as remarkable as possible. The grand complicated pocket watch, dubbed Breguet No. 160, was only completed in 1827, well after the deaths of the queen and the watchmaker. The Israeli police never figured out who stole the priceless timepiece collection.

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This fabric has a bit of stretch but only crosswise. I decided that I’d try my hand at drafting this one myself. I decided to follow StyleSewMe’s tutorial because I liked hers very much.

I paired it with a black and white body suit that I purchased from H&M before I went on my fast fashion fast.

The peeptoe sock booties are from DSW and the purse is a yardsale find.

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Things He Loved – Caroline Gilfillan

Crabbe Memorial Competition 2015 – First Prize
Adjudicator: Robert Seatter

Her transparency; the clear breath
that ran through her; her nose –

the tidy fold of it, like paper; her innocence:
here was a woman who knew nothing

of ripe figs dripping juice, nothing
of swaybacked donkeys and Herodotus.

Not that she was stupid: she’d grown herself
from her own seeds, like a child raising

mustard and cress on blotting paper.
Like him, she’d been given nothing

and had made something of it.
He liked her will: she’d not buckle

or bend. And he loved the centre of her voice:
sherbet in the lemon. Her eyes, too: bluesky

blue, limpid with chalky loss, a foil
for his, the colour of peat. Most of all

he loved her fastidious ways and words.
Those harridans in black habits had tied her

up in a parcel of plain brown paper
and string he wanted slowly to undo.

Copyright © 2015 Caroline Gilfillan

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In this anthology of creative nonfiction, twenty-eight writers set out to discover what they know, and don't know, about the person they call Mother. Celebrated writers Samia Serageldin and Lee Smith have curated a diverse and insightful collection that challenges stereotypes about mothers and expands our notions of motherhood in the South. The mothers in these essays were shaped, for good and bad, by the economic and political crosswinds of their time. Whether their formative experience was the Great Depression or the upheavals of the 1970s, their lives reflected their era and influenced how they raised their children. The writers in Mothers and Strangers explore the reliability of memory, examine their family dynamics, and come to terms with the past.

In addition to the editors, contributors include Belle Boggs, Marshall Chapman, Hal Crowther, Clyde Edgerton, Marianne Gingher, Jaki Shelton Green, Sally Greene, Stephanie Elizondo Griest, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Eldridge "Redge" Hanes, Lynden Harris, Randall Kenan, Phillip Lopate, Michael Malone, Frances Mayes, Jill McCorkle, Melody Moezzi, Elaine Neil Orr, Steven Petrow, Margaret Rich, Omid Safi, James Seay, Alan Shapiro, Bland Simpson, Sharon K. Swanson, and Daniel Wallace.

About the Author

Samia Serageldin is the author of several books, including The Cairo House and Love Is Like Water, and is an editor of South Writ Large. She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Lee Smith is the best-selling author of over a dozen books, including Dimestore: A Writer's Life and Guests on Earth. She lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina.

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ISBN: 9781469651675
ISBN-10: 146965167X
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication Date: April 1st, 2019
Pages: 264
Language: English


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— Alden Roy to Castiel
in Golden Time

Alden Roy was a djinn who worked as a sheriff in a small town that catered to tourists.

For a number of years, Alden worked as the sheriff of a small town that catered to tourists. He didn't kill more than he needed to, feeding on tourists that passed through the area rather than locals and dumping their bodies in the nearby lake. Alden's actions went unnoticed by hunters.

In 2019, Alden's actions came to the attention of Castiel who was taking a vacation in the town when the body of one of his victims, a young local boy, was found. Posing as an FBI agent, Castiel demanded Alden's cooperation who brushed off the questions and Melly Krakowski's concerns about her missing son. After the sheriff demanded to talk to Castiel's superior, Castiel called the Men of Letters bunker where Dean covered for him and admonished Castiel for not answering his phone. Buying Castiel's cover, Alden agreed to give Castiel his case files from which Castiel learned of the other victims and quickly realized that he was dealing with a djinn.

Castiel began searching for the djinn's lair with the help of Melly, suspecting that her son had been abducted by the monster as his next victim. As the two headed for a nearby mine that Castiel suspected to be the lair, they found Melly's son Caleb who had witnessed Alden dragging a dead body to the lake and tried to record him with his phone, but discovered that he was dealing with a monster. Caleb had run and managed to escape, but broke his phone and injured his leg.

As Castiel asked if Caleb had gotten a good look at the monster, Alden showed up and stated that Caleb unfortunately had. With his gun drawn, Alden stated that he tried not to kill more than he had to, but he had to get rid of Castiel and Caleb. Castiel drew his angel blade and stated that Alden wouldn't hurt Caleb and Melly. Making his tattoos reappear, Alden shot Castiel in the heart, only to be shocked when Castiel was unharmed and the wound healed. Unimpressed, the Seraphim advanced on the djinn, disgusted with how it was always men in authority taking who and what they want with no care for who they hurt believing that their power would protect them. Though Alden shot Castiel again at point-blank range, he was again unharmed and stated that Alden's power would not protect him from Castiel before easily disarming the djinn and knocking him to the ground. As Alden watched in fear, Castiel stabbed him several times in the chest with his angel blade, killing the djinn.

Castiel subsequently dropped Alden's body in the lake and healed Caleb's injury. The encounter with Alden inspired Castiel to return to helping people rather than remaining on his vacation.

Powers and AbilitiesEdit

As a djinn, he was a very powerful monster.

  • Hallucinogenic Touch - The djinns' main ability by touching someone, they can induce a series of delusions on the mind of their target, typically causing them to enter in an unconscious, dream-like state. Inside it, a person can re-live their deepest dreams and desires, over and over again, akin to an endless loop. These delusions can also be induced in a more mild fashion, leaving the person awake, but at the risk of having them break on a mental level due to the mix of reality and illusion. This is eventually fatal to them if they aren't given an antidote. There is also an offshoot race of Djinns, who when inducing the delusions, trap people in a dream world of their greatest fears, and feed off it. When touching their targets, they usually leave a blue mark in the shape of a handprint on the victim. If the victims are strong enough, they can break free of the delusions. Another person can also enter them through dream walking. The offshoot version of djinn's poison cannot be countered by the antidote, or possibly needs a different antidote as they are a slightly different race. The only way for the victim to wake up is to let go of their fears.
    • Pyrokinesis - When they activate their hallucination ability or feeding on their victims they form blue psychic-flames around their hand. This may also be the same energy that illuminates their eyes when using their powers.
  • Telepathy - They can read people's minds and learn their greatest desires or fears.
  • Super Strength - Djinns are notably stronger than humans, able to easily over power them.
  • Super Speed - Djinns can move incredibly fast, able to suddenly appear and ambush others.
  • Super Senses - A particular type of Djinn that feeds on fear instead of human blood, can smell human fear and can track their prey by following their scent.
  • Invulnerability - Djinns can only be killed by a silver knife dipped in Lamb blood, or extreme brain damage.
  • Shapeshifting - Djinns can change their form to pass as humans. Alden was able to cause his tattoos to disappear and reappear at will.
  • Immortality - Djinns possess a longer life span than humans and can potentially live forever.
  • Super Agility - Djinns are more agile than humans, while waiting to attack Dean three hid in a tree like birds.

He presumably possessed all the regular weaknesses of a djinn.

  • Silver and lamb blood - A silver knife dipped in lamb blood can kill a djinn.
  • Seraphim - He was no match for Castiel in combat.
  • Angel Blades - Castiel was able to kill this djinn by stabbing him several times in the chest with an angel blade.

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Why do my images take a long time to upload?

Are you trying to place an Image Enhancement or Video Slideshow order but it seems to be taking a very long time for files to upload to our system? Here's what can cause this and what to try to fix it.

What affects the upload speed?

If your images are taking ages to upload, it's likely you have a low upload speed but there are some other things to consider...

  • The speed of your internet connection
  • The number of images in the order
  • The size of the images in the order
  • Where your files are located i.e. what computer drive
  • Antivirus software (particularly Avast, Bitdefender and ESET)
  • Firewalls
  • Browser extensions, toolbars and plugins e.g. ad blockers like 'Adblock'

How can I check my upload speed?

  1. Visit speedtest.net and click 'Go' to test your upload and download speeds.
  2. Take a screenshot of the results and email it to support@elementsproperty.co.uk.

What is a recommended upload speed?

Upload speed is measured in Megabits per second (Mbps). According to a 2018 Ofcom study, the average upload speed in the UK is 6.2 Mbps.

An upload speed of 2 or 3 Mbps will be fine for sending your images to us, but even this is a little on the slow side. Anything below this and your order will take a long time to upload.

Contact your ISP (Internet Service Provider) to see if they can unthrottle your upload speeds!

What other things can I try?

  1. If your files are on an external hard drive or USB stick, move them to your local drive before uploading.
  2. Make sure your files aren't open in another program while uploading.
  3. Disable any suspect browser extensions before uploading.
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  5. If you're on a corporate network, check with your IT person if there are any limitations for using certain websites like ours. Ask them to contact 0330 808 1616 or email support@elementsproperty.co.uk to discuss further.
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Hardware debugging

I bought a hifiberry dac recently and started setting it up with a pi.

Now I am at a point where my pi + hifiberry passes all the tests in the faq*, but unfortunately I get no sound out of it :(

I am looking for suggestions. What I find is:

1 - There are no visible defects in my soldering;
2 - There is continuity between pins on the two boards wherever common sense says there should be;
3 - There is one case where two adjacent pins have continuity, which could indicate a short, but I can't see anything wrong and this may be by design (is it?)

*On the software side, "aplay -l" does show the right output, and aplay will run without error on a wav file. The pi's on board audio produces sound in this case, but the hifiberry does not produce sound.

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To support customers from all regions, as well as with varying requirements for date ordering the ProWeb Portal can be configured to show the date in three different formats.

To edit your format, log in to the portal and then navigate to 'Update User Details'

Select the required date format from the drop down box. The text next to the box will display today's date in the style selected.

To save your preferences, click 'Update'

So that the grids and data can be updated you will be signed out, when you log in again all dates will be shown in the new format.

Please note that this change will not affect the date format on PDF certificates, as for legal reasons these must stay the same as originally issued


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demo not working

I am trying to use available demo for ios platform but it is not working at all. Please help

Hi Pragya,

The Wikitude Native SDK is for computer vision only and does not support any geo AR functionality. To build a Pokémon Go like application, you have to use the Wikitude SDK with JS API.

Best regards,

Hello Wikitude,

Thanks for your suggestion and I find the demo is working. However, being iOS developer I want solution for iOS. The demo I run was in javascript just to look that would it solve my purpose. And yes the POI is working the way I want.

Pleas help me for the iOS native solution as I do not understand JAVASCRIPT.

My application functionality is just similar to pokemon go I am just showing cubes rather than 3d images.

Please help me

Thanks in advance.

Hello Andreas

Thanks for your response. let me try and get back to you

Hi Pragya,

You need to add the `CoreMedia.framework` to your project. You can find an updated version of our documentation in our beta download section.

Best regards,

: i am following this document

 for integrate wikitude

 still getting errors

 when BITCODE Enable

an when BITCODE disable

We are still getting issues with the native Ios SDK. We want SDK for location service based augment reality just like pokemon go application and also providing by you.

We need to show 3D cubes/objects on the way when user is moving on the street and tapping on the 3D cube/objects will generate required action. Please help us for same.

Hello Pragya,

Could you please download our latest version of our native API from the beta channel here? There was an issue with some missing libraries that we have fixed now so this could be the cause of your problem as well.

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WiSE periodically offers programs for the broader population of graduate students in STEM, in collaboration with the Graduate Student Organization (GSO) and/or the Graduate School, as well as STEM-related departments and colleges across Syracuse University. These programs are open to students of all genders with a particular emphasis on students who identify as women and/or as members of underrepresented groups.

For example, a full-day Scientific Writing Workshop was held in collaboration with the GSO in January 2020, helping participants from a broad range of STEM disciplines improve their science writing for audiences within the academy and beyond. Other communications-focused sessions for STEM graduate students have been held in the past.


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The One That Got Away…

The one that got away

In 2010 I was lucky enough to supervise a trip to America. With 58 students and 7 other staff, we visited three cities – New York, Philadelphia and Washington D.C. and as we were only there for a week our itinerary was jam packed with as many sightseeing opportunities as we could possibly could manage. (We actually ended up being stranded in D.C. for an extra week after the volcanic explosion in Iceland grounded all flights, but that’s another story).

In New York, we went to the Museum of Modern Art, which I was really excited about. During our visit we saw that there was a retrospective taking place, during which Marina Abramović, a Serbian artist performed a thought-provoking piece named ‘The Artist is Present.’ Sitting in silence, she invited viewers to sit directly opposite her at a table. Anyone and everyone could participate, but nothing would be said if they chose to do so. Intruiged, some of our students joined in and sat down for a few minutes. I noticed that after each person left the table she would close her eyes until the next sat down.

A few weeks ago, a story about the performance appeared on Facebook, and I instantly clicked on the video because of the memories I had of it. What I saw moved me very deeply… Continue reading


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About Us

Swindon Cycle Campaign works in partnership with public, private and voluntary sector organisations to contribute to the increase in numbers of people cycling in the Borough of Swindon.

Key objectives include:

1.      Raising the profile of the importance of cycling for health and the environment.

2.      Campaigning for the improvement of existing routes and infrastructures and the provision of new routes and opportunities to develop cycling.

3.      Educating and informing Swindon residents about the benefits of cycling.

4.      Supporting existing cycling programmes to develop.

We achieve our objectives by: ·

  1. Providing a forum to represent and be a ‘voice’ for the views and concerns of all cyclists in the borough.·
  2. Creating links and networks with other cycling groups and seek representation at a strategic level within the Swindon Borough Council
  3. Having a social media presence offering cycling information relevant to the people of Swindon.
  4. Working with Swindon Borough Council and all relevant local authorities to create cycle friendly pleasure route maps to allow cyclists an opportunity to see the Borough and its environment by cycle.
  5. Applying for funds to create opportunities to develop our objectives.
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How to do Chest Expander

Back to Exercises

Difficulty: Easy

Impact Level: Low Impact

Target Body Parts: upper back, chest, shoulders

Stand up tall with your feet set at hip width. Raise your straight arms out wide to shoulder height, palms face down. Then, keeping your arms at shoulder height, bring them in, across your body until they cross over each other. From here expand your chest and open your arms back out as wide as you can. Each time you repeat the movement change which arm is on top of the other when they cross over in the middle.

How to make Chest Expander easier

For an easier option, try out Chest Expansion stretch.

How to make Chest Expander more challenging

Add some light dumbbells in your hands to amp this one up. Or if you have some resistance band material that is long enough, hold one end in each hand so that your muscles have to work harder to open your arms out wide against the elastic resistance of the band.

Once your shoulders and chest feel stronger from this exercise, move on to our Wall Push-Ups to keep challenging yourself.

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Download the 2020 Competition Conditions of Entry - Including Entry Fees (PDF)

2020 Competition Timetable

Monday AM, 17th June 2019 Entry Form with Conditions of Entry goes up on-line.
Monday AM, 22nd July 2019 Storage Facilities open for recieving Judging samples.
Monday AM, 2nd September 2019 Entries Close - or upon receipt of 2,000 entries.
Monday PM, 16th September 2019 Deadline for delivery of Judging Samples.
Monday 7th - Friday 11th October 2019 Judging takes place.
Friday 25th October 2019 Provisional Award & Trophy Winners advised.
Friday 8th November 2019 Deadline for delivery of Promotional Tasting Stock.
Early November 2019 Confirmation sent to Award and Trophy Winners.

If you have any issues with meeting these deadlines please contact us @ and we will do what we can to accommodate.

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Symphony Partners and Customers Showcase Automation and Workflow Breakthroughs at Innovate Asia

SINGAPORE — June 12, 2019 — Symphony Communication Services, LLC, the leading secure team collaboration platform, today celebrated the continued investment in workflow and automation from its customers and partners at its Innovate Asia 2019 conference, held on June 13 in Singapore. Using Symphony’s open APIs, customers can develop customized bots, automated workflows and integrations to extend Symphony’s secure enterprise collaboration capabilities.

Over half of Symphony’s enterprise customers operate bots within their Symphony platform. Many of these partner- and customer-driven automations will be showcased on stage and at the Customer Showcase at the event. To recognize and celebrate incredible customer innovations, Symphony will announce the winners of its Innovation Award at Innovate Asia 2019 as well.

Symphony Customers including BlueFireAI, DCA, J.P. Morgan and UBS Win Innovation Award

The Innovation Award is an honor bestowed upon Symphony customers and partners who transform legacy workflows by developing unique bots, applications or integrations for the platform. Winning entries all represent innovations live in production.

BlueFireAI wins for its RiskSignal integration through its bot Emmalyn, which provides asset managers and investment banks with continual monitoring and alerts about the financial health of companies in which they have risk exposure. RiskSignals pushes alerts to users over Symphony to flag early warning signs of corporate stress and help clients avoid damaging losses. In conversation with Emmalyn, she also allows for historical company deep dives and visualizations that are all seamlessly integrated in Symphony. This allows for access “in workflow” to machine intelligence to gain a more comprehensive view of asset and investment portfolio risks.

“The early identification of unforeseen risks is a big focus in capital markets; machine intelligence using new technologies (machine reading) and new data sources is a big part of augmenting incumbent processes,” said Luke Waddington, CEO at BlueFireAI. “However, it doesn’t matter how much valuable intelligence you produce if it is not delivered well, adopted and actioned. Symphony is an integral workflow for our clients. Using cutting edge collaboration techniques, this makes for an exceptionally strong way to link machine and people-based processes together”.

DCA wins for Project Kairos, a set of bots that automate client orders. The Rutherford bot, used for client identification and onboarding, authenticates Symphony users, then assigns users to the appropriate chat room. The Marie Curie bot then receives and processes trader order workflow from users verified by Rutherford. Together, these two bots eliminate manual processes prone to human error and significantly reduce the error cost associated to order execution whilst also improving accuracy and efficiency.

Kerry Moskos, Director at DCA, said, “DCA’s Project Kairos using Symphony’s API’s has enabled DCA to modify tasks in the direction of a Modern Workplace. Monitoring chat channels over a 24-hour period for trade execution can be extremely costly. DCA’s Kairos demonstrates how powerful real-time monitoring and automating processes significantly improves accuracy and efficiency.”

J.P. Morgan wins for BETSI, its bot for Equity Trading Symphony Integration, built as a buy-side trader assistant for the equity trading desk. A collaboration between the firm’s Asset Management technologists and equity traders, BETSI was launched in Q1 2019 to improve traders’ productivity and operational efficiency by automating communication to both portfolio managers and brokers globally. The team leveraged Symphony Bot technology to integrate broker communications of IOIs and RFQs into Spectrum Trading (JPMAM’s proprietary OMS) as well as streamlining communication of market news to investors. Building on Symphony significantly reduced the cost and time to market from proof of concept to a fully integrated production solution in less than three months.

“The close partnership between Trading and Technology, with investment in technology solutions such as this BOT, has allowed us to streamline trading workflows and address objectives of improving scalability, reducing risk, searching for liquidity and improving communication with portfolio managers,” said Neil Joseph, European Head of Equity Trading for Asset & Wealth Management.

Lastly, UBS wins for its AskUBS chatbot, which answers complex questions around electronic order execution for Sales Traders. Traders can query AskUBS in natural language and receive detailed content on order performance, algo behavior, order status and relevant market statistics, all to assist with refining the client’s execution strategy, in real-time. @AskUBS has decreased the time spent to obtain queries from minutes down to seconds, allowing Sales Traders to focus on other client requirements and make more informed decisions on client executions.

Choo-Guan Yeoh, UBS Head of Equities, South East Asia said, “UBS is very proud to win this innovation award. AskUBS has been developed with clients in mind, has been integrated into our platform, and will continue to expand through 2019 and beyond.”

Symphony Innovate Asia 2018 Partner Showcase

The Symphony Partner Program fosters an ecosystem of over 50 innovative companies who share a common goal of developing workflow and content applications and integrations to extend Symphony. These partners offer complementary business applications to Symphony’s platform, and the following will be showcased at Symphony Innovate Asia 2019:

ADAPTO – ADAPTO enables rich partner collaborations by converting organizational data quickly and at scale, to a consistent format for applications and bots to communicate efficiently with a focus on exception management automation for the trade life-cycle. Backed by a team of prominent advisors from the finance industry, and built on Symphony, Adapto leverages Symphony’s chat capabilities and opens architecture and data security assurance to transform data into meaningful apps and multilateral workflows productively and securely.

ChartIQ – ChartIQ provides software to help the finance world work smarter. The maker of the industry’s most powerful HTML5 financial charts, ChartIQ also delivers Finsemble, a desktop integration platform that links any financial applications together to create smart, modern desktops. ChartIQ’s solutions are built in current web technology to help firms innovate faster, saving them time and money.

DTCC – DTCC is the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry. The DTCC Exception Manager (DXM) platform allows market participants to publish, manage and communicate on exceptions throughout the trade lifecycle. This exception manager and workflow management centralizes and standardizes exception processing to enable faster resolution and deliver a significant reduction in the number of exceptions.

EarlyBird – EarlyBird is the Safe, Smart Twitter service delivering a full Twitter news service in Symphony while remaining fully regulation compliant – everything is recorded to MiFID II standards, and outbound Tweeting is blocked. Users can follow any Twitter account or set up custom smart searches for financial instruments or global political events. EarlyBird’s popup manager and mobile apps deliver Tweets exactly where and when you need them, while the new, fully integrated Symphony TweetBot will post critical Tweets directly into Symphony shared chatrooms – now including embedded video content.

EFADRIN – EFA is a leading FinTech solutions provider. It has been creating investment research software and financial analysis technology for financial institutions since 2003. Specifically, the EFADRIN platform helps institutional funds and family offices optimise their investment teams by turning existing in-house spreadsheets and documents from manual analysis tools into integral, robust, repeatable processes, saving time and removing human error. EFADRIN’s core financial modelling and portfolio accounting capabilities capture and analyse data from both the front and middle office allowing CIOs and COOs to enhance the accuracy and overall performance of both the team and the portfolio.

ipushpull – ipushpull is a real-time workflow automation platform that connects data and applications. The platform is used across sell-side and buy-side for bilateral and multilateral pre-trade negotiation workflow, such as trade axes and package trades, and operations based workflow, such as reconciliations management. ipushpull improves workflow efficiency by allowing data interoperability between Symphony, Excel, databases, cloud services, trading platforms, internal platforms and APIs. ipushpull was a winner of the Symphony Innovation Award 2018.

ISID – ISID is a technology company supporting and accelerating the digital transformation of society and clients. It continues to generate valuable solutions for the resolution of issues through open innovation initiatives with cutting-edge technologies.

QUICK – Since its founding in 1971, QUICK has developed an information infrastructure that supports Japan’s securities and financial markets. QUICK’s mission is to support the decision making of a wide range of customers, from securities firms and financial institutions to institutional investors, corporations and individual investors. QUICK delivers high-value-added global market information from a fair and impartial perspective.

re:infer – re:infer’s deep learning platform works across pre- and post-trade operations, converting unstructured communications (emails, calls, chats, notes) into structured data in real-time, allowing for analytics and process automation. In the pre-trade environment, re:infer automatically discovers market information, client intent, sentiment, trends and hidden relationships that translate into trading signals for front-office teams. In post-trade operations, re:infer discovers manual processes — quantifying failures, highlighting root-cause drivers of demand, detecting incorrect reference data and enabling straight-through-processing of requests in natural language.

About Symphony Symphony offers a secure team collaboration platform that transforms the way users communicate effectively and securely with a single workflow application. Forging a new path in the industry, Symphony is designed to help individuals, teams and organizations of all sizes improve productivity while meeting complex data security and regulatory compliance needs. Symphony was founded in October 2014 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, with offices in Hong Kong, London, New York, Paris, Singapore, Sophia-Antipolis, Stockholm and Tokyo.

For more information, visit and connect with Symphony on TwitterFacebook and LinkedIn.


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I have been invited to speak at ShowFx Asia on 21 October at 10.15am, as the opening speaker, and I will be speaking on “Trading for a Living with 15 Minutes a Day”.

I will be sharing my journey of how I started with a small trading account and grew it into a multi-million dollar portfolio of stocks, REITs, properties, etc.

I will also be sharing some useful tips on technical analysis, ascending triangle, paper trading, trading plan, etc.

See you all there!

Hi, Spencer here! 😀

After making my first million at 28, and trading & teaching across 60+ countries, I have consolidated my knowledge and experience to create the most comprehensive & practical guides for profitable trading, compiled from thousands of books, websites, courses, and interviews with professionals.

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Last Saturday, I watched the movie “The Big Short”, which was an interesting documentary + comedy + drama about the crash of the US housing markets, which sparked the GFC (Global Financial Crisis) of 2007.

The root cause of the crash was this product called CDOs (Collateralised Debt Obligations), which was basically bad debt repackaged as good debt, leading to more and more leverage. This house of cards collapsed when people started defaulting on underlying loans, leading to a chain reaction.

At the end of the movie, they mentioned that in 2015, the banks started selling a new product called BTOs (Bespoke Tranche Opportunities), which are essentially a rebranded version of CDOs. Sounds pretty grim…

Perhaps it is coincidence, but after watching the movie, I came across a few articles warning of something brewing in China that is “much larger than Subprime”.

A month ago, the founder of Hayman Capital, J. Kyle Bass, sent a letter to investors warning that China has a problem much bigger than the subprime crisis in 2008. He was one of the hedge fund managers who correctly predicted and profited from the mortgage crisis in 2008.

That problem, according to Bass, is the Chinese banking system and its coming losses.

“We have been vigorously studying China over the last year, with the view that the rapid credit expansion in the Chinese banking system will result in significant credit losses that will require the recapitalization of Chinese banks and materially pressure the Chinese currency. This outcome will have many near-term and long-term effects on countries and markets around the world. In other words, what happens in China will not stay in China.” – Kyle Bass

In the investor letter entitled “The $34 Trillion Experiment: China’s Banking System and the World’s Largest Macro Imbalance“, Bass says that China’s banking system has similarities to the US banking system pre-financial crisis—excessive leverage, regulatory arbitrage, and irresponsible risk taking.

“What we have come to realize through these discussions is that many have come to their conclusion without fully appreciating the size of the Chinese banking system and the composition of assets at individual banks. More importantly, banking system losses—which could exceed 400% of the US banking losses incurred during the subprime crisis—are starting to accelerate.” – Kyle Bass

Kyle Bass’s Hayman Capital Management has sold off the bulk of its investments in stocks, commodities and bonds so it can focus on shorting Asian currencies, including the yuan and the Hong Kong dollar.

It is the biggest concentrated wager that the Dallas-based firm has made since its profitable bet years ago against the U.S. housing market. About 85% of Hayman Capital’s portfolio is now invested in trades that are expected to pay off if the yuan and Hong Kong dollar depreciate over the next three years—a bet with billions of dollars on the line, including borrowed money.

He even went so far as to give a timeframe: “we think it’s going to be in the next 12-18 months.”

So who are the brave souls who have decided to very openly fight the People’s Bank of China?

Here is a sample: Soros, Bass, Ackman, Druckenmiller, Tepper, Schreiber, Einhorn, Scogging, and Carlyle, Nexus and many more.

As of this moment, all these hedge funds who have taken on the PBOC are winning, because after another massive intervention round on Friday (29 Jan 2016), one which cost the PBOC more billions of dollars from its rapidly dwindling FX reserve pile, the CNH is already significantly weaker: will the PBOC burn through another $10 billion just to teach these hedge funds a lesson even as the market is implying far more pain for the PBOC?

Speaking at the annual Barron’s roundtable, Swiss billionaire investor Felix Zulauf warned that Singapore’s largest banks are at risk of massive capital outflows if the Chinese economy experiences a hard landing, which he expects will happen this year.

He thinks that a crisis of staggering proportions is looming in China, and tiny Singapore will be caught right in the middle of the storm once the disaster finally erupts.

“We are in a down cycle that will end with crisis and calamity. China in today’s cycle is what US housing was during the financial crisis in 2008.” – Felix Zulauf

Zulauf warned that capital outflows in China will continue, prompting regulators to devalue the yuan by as much as 15% to 20% within the year. When this happens, Asian economies which are heavily dependent on China—particularly Singapore—will suffer because Chinese corporates cut their imports even more, while indebted Chinese companies will be placed at greater risk of default.

“I expect the situation the deteriorate to a point where we will witness a banking crisis in Asia that will hit Singapore and Hong Kong particularly hard. It is conceivable that Singapore, which has attracted a lot of foreign capital over the years because of its image as a strong-currency state, will be extremely exposed to the situation in China. Singapore’s banking-sector loans have grown dramatically in the past five or six years. Singapore is now losing capital, which means the banking industry is losing deposits.” – Felix Zulauf

He said that such a situation will cause carry trades to go awry, which will result in steep losses for heavily-leveraged traders.

“I mentioned the potential for a banking crisis in Singapore. I don’t recommend shorting Singapore bank stocks, but rather the EWS, or iShares MSCI Singapore ETF. In this case, an investor will benefit from both declining local stock prices and a decline in the Singapore dollar against the U.S. dollar.” – Felix Zulauf

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35% Campaign update – Elephant traders still homeless

Elephant traders still homeless

Jan 20, 2020 12:00 am

Survey shows two-thirds of current traders have nowhere to go -As Delancey announces its intention to close down the E&C shopping centre, research by Latin Elephant has shown that only around 40 out of nearly 100 independent traders still operating at the centre have been allocated new premises.

Latin Elephant’s interactive map, accompanied by supporting evidence, narrates the decline in trader’s numbers, up to late spring 2019. Latin Elephant’s figures show that there were originally 130 independent traders operating in January 2018, of whom only around 40 will be relocated, if the relocation strategy continues on its present course.

How many traders?

The figure of 130 independent traders (ie traders with less than three outlets) was supplied by Southwark Council in January 2018 and later confirmed by officers at planning committee in July. These include market stallholders and businesses in Hannibal House, the office block above the centre, and all lie within the so-called ‘red-line’ of the proposed redevelopment area. Latin Elephant, with the assistance of petit elephant, then conducted its own survey in December 2018, just before the redevelopment was finally granted planning permission. This found only 97 traders remained indicating a loss of 30 traders over a few months.

In March 2019, Southwark responded to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request, with a database of 79 ‘independent local operators’, eligible for relocation funds as defined by the legal agreement between Southwark Council and developer Delancey; Latin Elephant identified a further 21 independent businesses omitted from this list.

Latin Elephant also consider that 17 more businesses are excluded from relocation funding, simply by the wording of the legal agreement. These includes sub-tenants in Arch 7, on Elephant Road, and small traders in the shopping centre that rent their space through third parties, such as Forum CentreSpace Ltd.

In any event, in March 2019, Southwark confirmed that only 36 of the 79 ‘independent local operators’ had been offered a relocation unit.

Not enough relocation space

Even though Latin Elephant has voiced concerns about the shortage of relocation units on many occasions, both before and after planning approval, only 40 units are being provided on three sites. Latin Elephant identify 12 units in Perronet House, 8 in Elephant One, and 20 in Castle Square.

In addition to these sites Southwark claim that Lendlease’s Elephant Park development (formerly the Heygate estate) offers 1,350 sq m of affordable retail space, but this only equates to eight units, at most. To date, none of the Elephant Park units has been offered to traders affected by the shopping centre redevelopment, according to an FOI response to a Southwark Law Centre question. Thirty market pitches in East St market were also suggested by Delancey in its planning application, but these are nearly a mile away and have never been delivered.

Unfit database

Delancey has also a legal obligation to maintain a database of vacant retail properties and make it available to eligible traders. Even though Southwark Council says on its regeneration webpage that properties are in the borough and within one mile of the shopping centre, petit elephant found that as of June 2019 many did not meet these criteria. Moreover, many demanded rents between £50,000 and £100,000 per annum, which Latin Elephant has already submitted are beyond the means of small-sized businesses. The whole list of 54 relocation units in the database is here.

So, the best-case scenario is that less than half of all independent traders within the red line have been relocated to premises that might be more or less suitable for their businesses, with all other traders looking at options some distance away and/or too expensive.

Not enough money

Another obstacle to successful relocation is the cost of moving, fitting-out new premises and re-establishing the business. The relocation fund provided by Delancey stands at £634,700, with a vague commitment to an unspecified greater amount, after ‘all claims have been properly assessed’ and ‘taking into account genuine trader hardship’. This averages out at a £17,630 per trader, given thirty-six traders and a very modest £8,034, given 79 traders. In fact, the costs will of course vary, according to size and other needs. By way of example, one business was quoted £121,000 including VAT, for the fit-out works of a 65 sq m unit at Elephant Park.

Feeble enforcement from Southwark Council

The trader’ relocation strategy was inadequate from the start, with too little space to move to and too little money to do it with, but it has been made worse by ineffectual enforcement by Southwark Council.

The relocation process is effectively controlled by Delancey and, in the case of Elephant Park premises, fellow developer Lendlease. Both developers have obligations to provide affordable retail premises to shopping centre traders, under their respective legal s106 development agreements with Southwark Council. Southwark therefore has the power to take action if it thinks that these obligations are not being fulfilled. Traders complain that this is indeed the case, with shopping centre traders not fitting the retail profile required by Delancey and Lendlease for the new Elephant developments. Southwark Law Centre has taken up the case of one trader, refused premises because of the nature of their trade.

Even those traders who have been allocated space have justifiable complaints about its size, cost and position – all critical factors for successfully continuing business. In particular, there are complaints about Perronet House. Despite being owned by Southwark Council, who is thus the traders’ new landlord, both the service charges and rent will be higher there than those for Castle Square, the relocation site owned by Delancey. For example, the rent of a 26 sq m unit on the ground floor in Castle Square is £6,768 per annum, plus £2,256 of service charge (£8 per square foot), while Southwark Council offers a 25.7 sq m unit in Perronet House at an average of £7,645 over 5 years, with an ‘estimated’ service charge of £3,047 (£11 per sq ft).

What information does Southwark Council hold?

Several FOI requests have been made to Southwark, in pursuit of information about the traders’ relocation. The latest request is for information about which traders have succeeded in their relocation requests (thirty-six in number), those refused (28 in number), those who have left the Elephant and Castle, plus the 130 Elephant traders initially identified by Southwark, back in January 2018. Perhaps unsurprisingly this request has been refused, on the grounds that it would prejudice the commercial interests of unspecified third parties; an appeal has been made against the decision.

A bad tale continues

An Evening Standard article, enthusiastically endorsed by Southwark Council leader Peter John, tells the shopping centre redevelopment story that developer Delancey wants the world to believe in – new homes, new jobs, ‘funky street food’. Through their diligent research Latin Elephant and petit elephant tell a different story; one of neglect and broken promises. The independent traders, their families, customers and the social fabric they have built over many years is being pulled apart to enable Delancey and Southwark’s idea of a bright future.

But it is not too late for Southwark to partly redeem themselves – the traders need more space and more money for their relocation fund. Delancey (and Lendlease) are well able to provide it. Delancey’s anticipated profit from the shopping centre redevelopment is at least £137.1m.

The Up the Elephant campaign will be holding a stall on Saturday, 25 January 11.30pm just outside the former Charlie Chaplin pub, on the New Kent Rd side of the shoppin centre.

There will also be a demonstration, organised by the Up The Elephant campaign, in support of the traders’ deputation to Southwark Council’s first assembly meeting of the year on Tuesday 28 January Southwark Council Head Offices, Tooley St 6pm – everyone who wants a fairer, inclusive regeneration at the Elephant is welcome.

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Claire Tries Vintage!

Me attempting to model for my camera whilst it balanced on my window!

I put my Scarlett & Jo dress with some grey wedge heels from New Look

Now that I’m getting back onto the dating scene, I’ve been rummaging through my rather unflattering wardrobe and decided I need to start dressing with some style to feel more confident and attractive!

Thankfully, Scarlett & Jo have come to my rescue, by sending me this beautiful dress from their new Spring Romance collection for Evans.

The new collection celebrates Scarlett & Jo’s one year anniversary, and the range has a vintage 1940s and 50s theme, ranging from tea dresses to retro prom dresses, all of which seem to flatter my mummy curves!

This beautiful dress is their black retro wrapfront midi dress, which features a retro, swirled pattern, and I can tell it has been well made from its gorgeous, thick fabric, to it’s lovely empire seam detail. It has back ties for underneath the bust, and even small shoulder pSAM_0622ads to help create the classic hour-glass figure I crave so much!

I love this midi-length dress, as it covers the tops of my arms, and reaches my knees (two areas I prefer to hide), and it has a very flattering cut.  The only thing that would make it look better would involve me growing a decent-sized cleavage to suit the v-shaped, plunging neckline (plastic surgeons please feel free to get in touch).

Scarlett & Jo say their mission is to “inspire and express both personality and confidence” and I think they’ve achieved this with the spring romance range. I feel that confident in this dress that I intend to wear this to my first dating experience this week, and I’m already eyeing up others in this fab collection for my future dates!

To see reviews of other dresses in the range on Scarlett & Jo’s website.

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