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Despite the best of intentions, the only prizes we came away with last night were raffle prizes. We entered three teams for the wine and wisdom quiz, came first on a round that had neither points nor prizes and those on the neighbouring table were joint third. We got told off for having our tables too close together, the wine ran out and they changed the format from last year - obviously worried our pillaging team would run away with the prizes again. There is always next year. However, our B team (pictured above) broke the table they were sitting at and Mr Loggins cut his finger, spilling blood and red wine all over the floor, so maybe not. This is the man who is a dab hand with a chainsaw. Luckily, the ever-ready Mrs Sheepwash had a pack of plasters in her cavernous handbag.
Mr St John has been seen in the village wearing smart, long trousers. Dark cords, apparently. This is a revelation because, whatever the weather, he always wears shorts. We understand his Lady Friend prefers long trousers, which is a bonus really because there is no danger of him being de-bagged in the village square as he was once when putting up Larry the Landlord's flag during the World Cup. It was like something hanging up in a butcher's shop window. Screams could be heard the entire length of the village as various women fled for cover.
My neighbour appears to have traded in the odd-job talents of our friend Nobby for a younger, fitter model. Mrs Posh-Totty's husband, MDF Man, is currently in situ, so a number of ladies are all finding time to call in for cups of tea every now and then so they can swoon at his six-pack and biceps. The swooning has to be done surreptiously as we would not want to annoy his rather attractive and assertive wife.
We had a restless night this weekend as an all-night motor rally passed by our windows. Local opinion is such that next year we plan on putting out stingers.
Highlights this week include the Boat Show, the film Australia at the local, restored cinema, a massage and a one-man play looking at the humorous side of Thomas Hardy. The latter should be a very short show. Oh, and there is also a 40th birthday that might be worth gatecrashing. Celebrity Farmer, please take note. After all, he did turn up uninvited to our New Year's Eve bash.
That's about it
Love Maddie x
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I trust arrangements are in place to confirm the first sleepover of Mr StJohn and his Lady Friend, it can't be long. It's bound to happen surely.ReplyDelete
Reuben, I reckon it's already happened...Watch this space.ReplyDelete
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The in between part is still a little fuzzy, but he can tell you that, at some point or another, his head got chopped off and shoved into a freezer in Denver, Colorado. Five years later, it was reattached to some other guys body, and well, here he is. Despite all logic, hes still 16 and everything and everyone around him has changed. That includes his bedroom, his parents, his best friend, and his girlfriend. Or maybe shes not his girlfriend anymore? Thats a bit fuzzy too
Listen Travis Coates was alive once and then he wasnt. Now hes alive again. Simple as that
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Highly recommend this book, and not just for teens. The message that comes out of this is life at any age, and love at any age is confusing and special.
Not overly teen-y. Not overly angst-y. (Not super sad either!)
Not just your average Teen "Sick Lit." Travis Coates' head goes in the deep freeze for 5 years and when he wakes up, his head is attached to someone else's body. What happens when you wake up from a very long sleep? People move on, things change, but you're still in 10th grade. Funny and moving.
Imagine coming back from the dead! Travis's head is reattached to a new teen body, five years after freezing it on his deathbed. His parents, girlfriend, and best friend have all aged. Everything is just different enough to be weird! Great book if you like quirky, realistic reads with a twist of sci-fi, that make you ponder.
I had high hopes for this one. I love weird contemporaries. But for some reason I just did not connect with this story. I liked the narrator and I understood the thought behind this novel. What would it be like to come back 5 years after you died? It's a great premise with lots of opportunity for great emotional revelations. But, much like his previous release, Where Things Come Back, I feel like there was not enough substance for the amount of book. There were some good vignettes, but that could not carry the whole book.
Final recommendations: if you like slightly weird contemporary, unrequited love, impossible circumstances
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"Travis Coates is back from the dead, but he still can't get a life. As a terminally ill 16-year-old, Travis had agreed to have his head cryogenically frozen, thinking he'd be revived in the far future. Instead, it's only five years later when he wakes up with his head attached to a donor body. Though Travis is grateful, adjusting to his new reality is confusing: his gay best friend Kyle is back in the closet, his girlfriend Cate is engaged to some other guy, and he's still stuck in high school while everyone else has moved on. If you appreciate angst sprinkled with humour, don't miss this "satisfyingly oddball" (Kirkus Reviews) coming-of-age story." Teen Scene May 2014 newsletter http://www.libraryaware.com/996/NewsletterIssues/ViewIssue/515e7532-4038-4168-8725-1036f63eb05a?postId=06aaa369-dd80-4052-98aa-98302d9e4c06
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ISS Moving to Score Cards for Equity Plan Evaluations
Institutional Shareholder Services has proposed substantial changes to its voting policies for the 2015 proxy season that will give institutional investors greater flexibility in the way they evaluate companies' equity plan proposals. The new policies provide for more nuances with the implementation of a "scorecard" approach that gives weight to various factors beyond plan cost.
"Whether these changes are better for companies really depends," says Deborah Lifshey, a managing director at independent compensation consultancy Pearl Meyer & Partners. It's important that companies and their boards understand how proxy advisory firms evaluate equity plan proposals if they want to win say-on-pay votes during the coming proxy season.
In a comment letter to ISS, Pearl Meyer & Partners is recommending that plan cost continue to be "the most heavily weighted factor, as it provides a company the opportunity to set their share request in the most predictable way. At the end of the day investors care more about dilution than ISS-unfavorable plan features or grant practices."
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The pay ratio rule is not something that directors will be able to ignore, said Sharon Podstupka, a Vice President at Pearl Meyer & Partners.
According to Podstupka, it is important for companies to show how their pay ratios were calculated and why their pay is fair and reasonable. The important thing is that the company "tell a story" and "tell that story well," she said.
Pay ratio disclosures might take up a lot of space in proxy statements, and it is important for a company to understand that their proxy is not just an external communication tool to shareholders, but also an internal communication tool, according to Podstupka.
October 17, 2014
Pay Ratio Disclosure "Explosive" Issue for Employees
The long-awaited pay ratio disclosure rule could be an "explosive" issue for employees when they discover how their pay compares with their colleagues', not just with the CEO, board members were warned by panelists at the 2014 NACD Board Leadership Conference. At issue: while CEO compensation levels are generally well known at public companies, problems may arise when employees start to compare their pay to the median across the company.
Therefore, companies need to be prepared for questions over the pay structure when the pay ratio disclosures are made public, said Sharon Podstupka, vice president at Pearl Meyer & Partners, at the NACD event. Managers might also benefit from training in how to discuss compensation, she said.
"We know that trust is eroding," said Podstupka. "Fifty percent of the workforce does not believe they are being paid fairly compared to internal peers. That's a product of not enough transparency about how that works."
Boards were advised to head off a potential backlash from disgruntled workers by being clear and candid about how companywide compensation fits in with the organization's overall strategy.
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What's in a name? Plenty if it's the name of the position you hold at your company.
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Each year, Pearl Meyer & Partners, a compensation consultancy based in New York City, publishes a study of job titling practices. In 2014, they found that 80% of companies surveyed use job titles to accurately reflect the corporate hierarchy and more than 92% use them to define an employee's role. However, only 37% use them to attract prospective employees.
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"Once they have this title, people may wonder 'Sally now has that job title. Is she being promoted? Did she just do a really good job?' You don't want to have something that's going to create any kind of confusion or possibly any bad feelings," Dionne says.
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Nearly half of executives (42.7%) feel there isn't enough detail in the information they receive about incentive pay, according to a new study by the compensation consulting firm Pearl Meyer & Partners. Conversely, only 8% of directors say the same, and the gap in understanding could lead to missed targets and misplaced priorities.
"There's a lot of attention around disclosures and proxies for say-on-pay reasons, but you don't really hear much about the complexity of how you're going to talk to your executives about the very same thing," says Sharon Podstupka, vice president of executive compensation communication at Pearl Meyer [& Partners]
"We know that poor communication leaves things open to interpretation," says Podstupka. "If executives responsible for driving results aren't clear about what the goals are and what they can do to affect specific metrics, it's highly likely that performance results over the long term are going to suffer because people aren't focused on the right things."
According to Podstupka, developing a communication strategy for incentive pay can help companies meet performance goals.
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According to Mark Rosen, managing director at Pearl Meyer & Partners, there's been a rise in the use of relative shareholder return (TSR) as a metric for aligning executive pay and performance driven by standards used by shareholder advisory firms. While useful, it is more of an outcome-based measure. By defaulting to relative TSR as an incentive measure, many companies miss the opportunity to employ incentive metrics that capture executives' success in driving business strategies and leadership initiatives—key aspects of performance that are critical to the creation of long-term shareholder value.
We have encouraged companies to customize incentive designs to their specific business needs by retaining internal performance metrics (or introducing them if they were not used before), such as operating earnings, EBIDTA or return measures (ROIC/ROE), and using TSR as an additional performance measure or modifier. In such cases, actual incentive payouts under the plan might ultimately be adjusted upward or downward, respectively, based on whether relative TSR is above median, suggesting the targets were set too high, or below median, suggesting the targets were not sufficiently rigorous. Such an approach provides a broader and more sensitive perspective on aligning executive pay with performance.
The Washington PostJune 22, 2014
Washington CEO Pay Rose 7% Last Year as Compensation Benefited from Stock Gains
Total pay for Washington's highest-earning executives rose nearly 7 percent last year as compensation packages benefited from healthy gains in share prices. Analysts say the benefit of a roaring stock market has been two-fold for Washington leaders. Executives are increasingly being judged on the performance of their company's share price (as opposed to metrics such as revenue or income, which were often used in the past), and they are receiving more of their compensation in stocks and options.
"Performance-share plans are on the rise," said Jannice Koors, managing director at Pearl Meyer & Partners, a New York-based executive compensation consulting firm. "As companies have good years, you start to see some really big numbers."
The Charlotte ObserverJune 13, 2014
Median Perks Package Down, But Jets, Cars and Lavish Payouts Still Abound
Boards of North Carolina companies provided their CEOs with perks ranging from jet travel and car allowances to supplemental retirement plan contributions and physicals. Even so, the median perks package fell 22 percent last year, to $83,333.
Some companies have cut back on perks such as club dues, said Mark Rosen, a Charlotte-based compensation consultant with Pearl Meyer & Partners. "If you go back a few years, you'll see a lot more golf club memberships," he said. "It's just harder to justify why we should be subsidizing that for someone who makes a decent living."
Other perks, such as physical exams for executives, make sense, Rosen said. "We want to make sure the executives are taking care of themselves," he said.
The Wall Street JournalJune 5, 2014
Investors Close Golden ParachutesNonbinding Votes Seek to Limit Stock Rewards for Executives After Mergers
Golden parachutes are falling out of favor amid investor and regulatory scrutiny of rising executive pay, especially perks that aren't tied to a company's performance. Since 2011, shareholders have had a say in how much executives are paid, including golden-parachute payments. "Say on pay" votes are now required by the Securities and Exchange Commission, and while they aren't binding, boards are under pressure from regulators and shareholder-advisory firms to consider investor views when crafting executive-pay packages.
As a result, "we're certainly seeing a more conservative approach by companies" to change-of-control payments, said Dan Wetzel, a managing director at consulting firm Pearl Meyer & Partners.
Cash severance payments, which once commonly exceeded three times an executive's annual salary and bonus, have been trimmed. Other perks have all but disappeared. One such example are gross-ups, which obligate a company to pay the high taxes levied on corporate perks, in effect letting the executive take home the full amount. Just seven of the 50 largest U.S. companies allowed tax gross-ups in 2012, down from 21 companies in 2006, according to Pearl Meyer & Partners. Mr. Wetzel said the number is likely lower now.
WorkforceJune 2, 2014
A Bonus Onus: Peek at Peers
Long-term incentives are the largest component of a typical executive compensation package, and by mid-2013, total shareholder return (TSR) was the most prevalent performance metric for long-term incentives at the 250 largest U.S. companies. However, when reviewing the structure of long-term incentive plans for senior executives, both business cycle and the manner in which a selected peer group company makes its money are also important considerations.
"Absolute goals are still far more common, but relative goals are gaining in popularity," said Peter Lupo, managing director at pay consultants Pearl Meyer & Partners. But the review shouldn't end there, Lupo said. Companies also need to review their competitors. Historically, compensation committees have looked at companies similar in size based on revenue. But Lupo said two other criteria are more important: business model and cycle.
Business cycle is particularly important for a company whose cycle involves peaks and valleys. If it peaks when companies in its peer group are in valleys, then its performance comparisons would be skewed. A company also wants to make sure the firms in its peer group make money the same way as it does, otherwise they could perform differently.
San Francisco Business TimesMay 15, 2014
At the WomenCorporateDirectors Global Conference - Here's a Concept for Corporate Boards: Pay CEOs Fairly and Save Yourselves from Controversy
Beyond branding, the biggest concern facing board members is how to determine executive compensation — a procedure that is often skewed when committees set salaries based on incorrect or poor benchmarks. There are a lot of outside influences involved in the process, including everything from the input of advisory firms and institutional investors to regulatory actions and even activist shareholder activities, noted Melissa Means, a managing director at Pearl Meyer & Partners.
The compensation packages at other companies also come into play, she said. "There is a lot of pushback on selecting the right peer company to compare yourself to, but boards need to remember that is just a piece of information," said Means.
Means argued that boards need to realize that just because a peer company may pay its CEO $500 million, that shouldn't automatically become the magic number for their own CEO. Instead, she emphasized that boards need to gauge factors such as how a company has performed relative to its peers.
AgendaMay 5, 2014
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What the Hughes brothers have come up with is, to borrow another phrase from that bygone age, a penny dreadful.
A visionary sort of horror movie should ponder three words: "Bram Stoker's Dracula."
The only note of authenticity in the movie comes from Ian Holm, playing the royal physician. What is this nuanced performance -- at least until the final fireworks -- doing in this twaddle?
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The smell from the toilet. The only way to be in the room is to open the window in the bathroom. Noisy. Bad luck if the neighbouhrs are loud.
Location was very convenient for walking and taking the metro. We got bumped up to the luxury suites, the room was spacious and quiet.
Breakfast lacked a little variety.
First time in Rome so not much experience with the hotels but if this is 4 stars then I cant imagine what 2 stars hotels are like. Mozart is very small and very very basic.
Excellent & safe location, clean and friendly staff. Lovely breakfast too, with enough varieties for us to go round during our 4 day stay. Helped by very efficient wait staff.
For some reasons, taxis would not drive right up to the hotel entrance along the narrow lane. We were left on the main street, and had to lug our heavy suitcases some distance away. Not any fault of the hotel though. Had to reconnect the wifi every now and then but it worked well.
Location, staff, and ambience
The bed...not good too hard and nosiy if your room backs up to via del corso.
Deliciuos breakfast, great location, friendly and helpful staff
The room next to the bar was less than sound-proof and lacked window (but had doors opening out on a terrace). Intermittent wifi problems.
Excellent location - could walk everywhere in Rome, beautiful roof top garden, free breakfast with wide variety of items, value for the money, friendly staff, nice car service to airport, room was clean and attractive. I would recommend the hotel to friends and would stay here again if I came back to Rome.
Drain in shower smelled a little funny - staff tried to take care of it but the best solution was covering the drain with a wet towel when not in use. Wifi was free but not always dependable in our room.
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Rooms are so small ( even double)that either you can open the closet or get to the bathroom.Floors are marble, which is usual in Rome and it is good in summer, but in November, when not drown, you may catch cold like me. And if the window of your room faces the street via del Grecci, forget about sleep, but you'll learn all the logistics surrounding area restaurants and intimate details of life going on around and that is very authentic. But that is what you came for?
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Cab can't drop you off-restricted streets can take awhile to figure out how to get to the rooftop bar like most European rooms-limited closet space
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The shower was a bit small but nothing impossible.
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1- Printed boarding passes on computers provided by the hotel. The computers are very slow and should probably be updated. On the other hand, it could just be my impatience! 2- It is a long walk to the Spanish steps & the Trevi Fountain. The closest hop-on/hop-off sightseeing bus stop is the Trevi Fountain bus stop.
This is our second visit to the Mozart having stayed there seven years ago. We will return when we are back in Rome. Good location. Helpful staff. Very smooth operation. Rooms are small but comfortable. Rooftop bar is wonderful at dusk.
1. Taxi access is tricky. Advise if arriving or departure by air use the limousine service the hotel offers. Otherwise you may end up hauling your luggage a couple blocks. 2. The bathrooms can be uncomfortably small. 3. Wifi is okay but sometimes very slow
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Male gymnasts are, as a group, far more skilled at landing.
That's partly strength. Partly technique.
Compare Uchimura's soft-as-a-cat landing to this surprisingly typical WAG landing.
What Aliya did on that Beam dismount was to "punch' on landing, instead of bringing impact forces to zero. She had no controlled landing. WAG judges are far too lenient on landing deductions (aside from the stupid 'chest low' rule). WAG gives very little reward to excellent landings.
Dr. George advises the gymnast see the landing as soon as possible. Reduce forces to zero by absorbing over time and distance.
USA WAG has added a 0.1 "stick" bonus for 2014. Let's see if that helps. Gummi points out that the stick bonus may also result in more injuries in competition, especially on twisting landings like Amanar.
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