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It is about as far away from the nips and tucks of TV makeover shows and celebrity magazines as you can imagine, but then Dr Ronald Hiles has never had any interest in helping pampered princesses take inches off their thighs or years off their faces.
As he speaks from a clinic on the edge of the sprawling slums of Dhaka, his description of what he has achieved in 25 years of pioneering work is modest, to say the least: "Lying on a beach isn't my idea of a holiday. I prefer to do something useful."
And so, while many of his contemporaries are happy whiling away their summers on the Côte d'Azur, the former president of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons has spent his holidays for the past two decades helping Bangladeshi burns victims to rebuild their lives.
Dr Hiles, 76, has trained a generation of plastic surgeons, and been instrumental in establishing one of the biggest burn units in the world – vital in a country that is estimated to have 1.5 million burns victims a year. But it is the reconstructive surgeon's work with thousands of victims of acid violence, whose faces and bodies are left horribly disfigured after they have been doused in sulphuric, nitric or hydrochloric acid, which has been the most remarkable achievement.
Hundreds of people are burnt with acid every year in Bangladesh – most are women, who are often attacked after refusing marriage proposals, or because of perceived slights or family disputes. With victims unable to afford legal costs and often unwilling to put their families through lengthy trials, few prosecutions result.
Dr Hiles is the leading surgeon for the Acid Survivors Trust International (Asti), a UK-based charity that supports organisations working to combat acid attacks around the world, and has been instrumental in restoring the quality of life of many victims.
While dealing with the survivors of such violent attacks is undoubtedly rewarding, it is also emotionally draining. "One day a woman was brought in who had been gang-raped and had had acid poured on her face and into her vagina. That is going to have an effect on the emotions," said Dr John Morrison, chairman and founder of Asti. Dr Morrison established the first Acid Survivors Foundation in Bangladesh in 1999, which is now home to a 40-bed hospital.
For many who survive acid attacks, plastic surgery is essential to restore vital functions – from saving eyesight, to reconstructing mouths and rebuilding necks that have fused to chests.
"You have to be slightly detached, otherwise you won't be making the best decisions about technique as a surgeon," said Dr Hiles, who was awarded an OBE in 2004 for his services to Bangladesh.
He first visited in 1982, while a consultant at Bristol's Frenchay hospital, at the invitation of a missionary doctor who had complained that plastic surgeons in the country were not skilled enough to perform a simple cleft palate correction.
"I was hooked. Last year a doctor I've worked with operated on 1,800 patients with cleft palates," said Dr Hiles. "That's progress."
Since then the surgeon has travelled to Bangladesh every year, performing countless operations and showing local doctors how to undertake the same procedures. "Ron has been an inspiration," said Dr Samanta Lal Sen, project director at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH). "He taught us to do stitches, do operations, everything. Most of the burns doctors in Bangladesh have been taught by Ron."
Dr Hiles also played a key role in lobbying the government for the new burns unit at DMCH, meeting with both the Prime Minister and his predecessor in the hope of securing more beds and medical equipment.
"People look to Britain for their medical further education," said Barbara Jemec, the chairman of the overseas training and service committee for the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons. "It is much more important that you teach a man to fish than give him the fish – you must pass on as many skills and as much knowledge as possible. There are 280 plastic surgeons in the UK, and a higher proportion than you think do this kind of work abroad."
New figures released last week show that the number of acid violence victims in Bangladesh fell to 165 last year, down from 490 in 2002, when legislation was introduced to make such attacks punishable by death. The fall is partly due to the work of international organisations such as Asti, which launched shocking advertising campaigns showing the effects of acid, gained support from prominent figures such as the Bangladeshi cricket team, and lobbied for legislative change.
While the number of acid attacks may be falling, and treatment for burn victims improving in Bangladesh, the number of attacks reported elsewhere in the world illustrate that this is global problem.
Although the true number is not known, as such crimes often go unreported, the Cambodian branch of Asti saw 118 cases last year. Pakistan saw 142 between January and June 2007, while attacks in Uganda rose from 230 to 275 in 2007. Although UK attacks are rare, earlier this month a London court sentenced a man to life imprisonment for raping a 25-year-old TV presenter before arranging to have sulphuric acid thrown in her face. She was left with severe burns to her face, neck and chest, and has since had 30 operations.
While not statistically significant when compared with other types of violence – such as knife crime – the effects of acid are such that the crime is just as serious.
"The pain was worse than the punishment in hell," said Hasina Attar. "Twice as bad."
Ms Attar was 19 when she was attacked by her family's manservant after a disagreement. Now 24, she has endured eight operations to repair her face, chest and arms, but is still severely scarred. "I was supposed to have another skin graft, but I said no. I didn't want to go through it again."
The work of doctors such as Dr Hiles is clearly radically different to that carried out in smart Harley Street clinics. And many doctors fear that a diet of 10 Years Younger TV programmes and magazines chronicling the work done on celebrities has skewed the perception of what reconstructive surgery can realistically achieve. "People have a Hollywood idea about plastic surgery," said Dr Hiles. "They think that it can change everything."
The bride's story: 'I refused to be sold by my husband'
Ayesha Siddique (Nila), 19, Bangladesh
"I got married when I was very young, just 14, to a distant relative who was in his thirties. I didn't want to marry him, but I was forced to. After we'd been living together for 10 days I found out that he was planning to sell me to someone in Saudi Arabia. I told him that I wouldn't travel to Saudi with him, that I was too young to leave the country and needed to stay and finish my education.
"He was very restless on the night the attack happened. I woke up and saw him sitting on the bed, and asked him what was wrong. He turned around, threw acid in my face, and fled. I can't describe how painful it was. Eventually I was taken to a local hospital by the neighbours, but they didn't give me any treatment.
"After a couple of days I went to the Acid Survivors Foundation hospital, where I had four operations, three of which were done by Dr Hiles.
"My burns are much better now. I'd say there has been an 85 per cent improvement, and I'm comfortable with myself. I'm lucky that my friends and family have been supportive. Studying is still important to me – I was revising for school exams even when I was bed-ridden after the attack. I'd like to be an accountant."
Attacked at a month old: The baby disfigured over an inheritance
A boisterous little boy who loves colouring books, Durjoy was just over a month old when his aunt – fearing she would lose an inheritance to the baby – poured acid into his mouth. It caused such damage that his neck fused to his chest, his lips were almost closed, and he could only be drip-fed. He suffered heart failure after a surgical attempt to reconstruct his mouth in 2006, and has since been taken to Hong Kong for pioneering surgery. His mother, Eti Rand, has said that she just wants him to be normal again.
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Now that Prince William and his wife, Kate, are expecting their first child, the line of succession to the throne will be changing. Day 6 invited author and European monarchy expert Leslie Carroll, whose books include Royal Romances: Titillating Tales of Passion and Power in the Palaces of Europe, to explain how the newest Windsor will fit into England's Game of Thrones.
"You can't change the laws of succession, meaning that you can't leap frog it," Carroll said. "Queen Elizabeth can't decide arbitrarily you know, 'Charles, I never really liked you very much, William is going to be the next king.' So after Queen Elizabeth, we have Charles, after Charles we have William, and if William has a baby, assuming that the law in parliament will change and that the first baby -- whichever it is, boy or girl, will inherit the throne -- baby X will then become king or queen after William."
And what if it's twins? Carroll said the future crown will rest on the head of whichever child the doctors pull out first.
Prince Harry, currently third in line for the throne, will be pushed back to fourth.
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March 01, 2012
It's turning out to be quite the week for health fraud stories.
On Tues., federal officials arrested a Texas doctor and six associates in a home health care scheme that allegedly bilked Medicaid and Medicare out of a whopping $375 million. Here's a nice detail from the story by New York Times reporter Katie Thomas:
It was so brazen, (prosecutors) said, that it involved registering homeless people for home health care services they never received.
Today, the New York Post's Bruce Golding vividly reports on another high-profile series of health fraud arrests (you can read a more measured account here):
A brazen gang of Russian crooks was busted today for allegedly running a record-setting, $275 million fraud that exploited New York's "no-fault" auto-accident law.
The ring -- dubbed the "No-Fault Organization" -- worked with a "cadre of corrupt doctors" to set up more than 100 phony medical clinics across the city, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said.
Time to consult the thesaurus for alternatives to "brazen?" Perhaps.
But the two stories should pique your interest in what's going on with health fraud enforcement at the national and state levels – and what might be happening in your own community
The Texas arrest of Canadian doctor Jacques Roy may have been sweet vindication for U.S. Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius. She announced earlier this month that the feds in 2011 recovered $4.1 billion in fraudulent Medicare payments, in part by relying on an expensive new computerized Medicare fraud detection system that has been heavily criticized for its high costs for its lack of performance.
Want to look into possible health fraud cases in your community? Antidote blogger William Heisel has written extensively on this topic, and I've listed some of his key posts below.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Boston joined the race to host the 2024 Olympics, instantly claiming the favorites tag as the United States look to land their first summer Games since 1996.
It is not so much what the city is offering that gives it an edge at the start of the two-year race but rather the timing of its candidacy and improved ties between U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) chiefs and the International Olympic Committee.
Germany will bid with either Hamburg or Berlin while Rome has also confirmed it will campaign for the biggest sports event in the world with a decision set for 2017.
But Boston looks to be the city to beat as it seeks to bring the Games back to the United States some 28 years since the Atlanta 96 Games, with IOC President Thomas Bach welcoming what he said was a strong candidacy.
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Today, DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) testing provides forensic experts with a powerful and an effective tool to identify criminals and exonerate innocent individuals. (1). DNA testing (also known as DNA profiling or DNA typing) involves analysis of DNA samples taken from individuals. These samples may include hair, semen, blood, or any other cell and tissue from human body. Results of this analysis provide unique identification of every person, as biological information contained in DNA is unique to every person excluding cases of identical twins. In criminal investigations, DNA analysis involves comparison of DNA samples collected from a crime scene with DNA samples taken from suspected individuals or DNA information stored in electronic databases. (1) A match between the two samples demonstrates culpability of the individual associated with DNA samples. Various legal aspects characterize DNA profiling and use of DNA evidence in courts of law. These legal aspects address issues surrounding DNA analysis during pre-trial, presentation of DNA evidence in courts, and post-conviction DNA typing.
DNA Analysis during Pre-trial
Legal features of DNA typing during pre-trial address issues, such as preservation of DNA samples as well as crimes and suspected individuals considered appropriate for DNA typing. (2). During criminal investigations, law enforcement agents are required to do DNA tests of samples collected from crime scenes. This involves collecting and typing DNA specimens including semen, blood, hair, or saliva found in scenes of criminal activities. Federal and state statutes also require the agents to preserve the analyzed DNA samples in electronic databases to facilitate comparison between these samples and those taken from suspected individuals. For example, Maddux observes that the DNA Identification Act of 1994 requires federal agents to store results of DNA tests from crime scenes in the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS). (3). This database combines results of DNA analysis from the National DNA Index System (NDIS), the State DNA Index System (SDIS), and the Local DNA Index System (LDIS). Combination of these databases facilitates inter-state exchange of DNA information, which makes it easier for the federal and state criminal investigation officers to effectively identify and arrest criminals. However, the types of crimes and individuals for which preservation of pre-trial DNA test results is allowed varies from some states to others.
Majority of state statutes including Minnesota, California, Virginia, and Texas comply with the Federal DNA Act, which governs DNA analysis during pre-trial period. As Regensburger observes, the act stipulates people who should submit DNA specimens, appropriate criminal activities for DNA typing, agents who should do DNA tests, and acceptable use of the DNA test results. (4). It restricts the analysis to all individuals charged, arrested, or convicted of particular forms of criminal activities including misdemeanor crimes and felonies. It also requires discarding of DNA samples of arrestees who have been found innocent. The act stipulates that only state agencies, federal agencies, and other accredited agencies can perform the DNA analysis. It also restricts exchange of information stored in DNA databases among these agencies. The information can only be used for criminal investigations or civil trials. DNA tests facilitate determination of culpability or innocence of suspected individuals in criminal investigations. In civil trials, they are used to determine identity or paternity of parties to a dispute. However, some states including North Carolina and Kansas prohibit DNA typing of arrestees. They only mandate their law enforcement agencies to collect, test, and preserve DNA specimens of individuals charged or convicted of felonies and misdemeanor crimes.
Despite the various benefits of use of DNA tests in criminal investigations, critics argue that the analysis violates the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. (5). DNA testing helps law enforcement to effectively identify individuals involved in criminal activities. It also minimizes likelihood of wrongly incriminating or convicting innocent people. In addition, it presents a valuable tool for determining and addressing recidivism associated with particular crimes in a region. However, DNA testing encroaches into privacy of individuals, as the process can give information not related to the criminal act under investigation. For example, Maddux notes DNA profiling can show predisposition of individuals to particular health conditions, such as genetic and lifestyle health problems. (3). In addition, DNA typing can be done without knowledge of the affected individual, which violates rights of individuals to reasonable seizures and searches. However, in many cases, courts have held analysis of DNA samples of individuals without their consent does not infringe on the Fourth Amendment.
In the case of the State vs. Christian, the Iowa Court of Appeals upheld a previous court ruling that convicted Peter Christian of two counts of sexual abuse. (6). In the initial trial, Emily had returned to her home while drunk. Consequently, she forgot to lock door to her house and fell asleep in a couch while watching television. Aware of Emily's condition, Christian entered into the house and engaged in sexual intercourse with Emily without her consent. Suspecting sexual abuse, Emily's friends took Emily for medical checkup. The examining physician forwarded some samples and Emily's personal effects to Iowa Department of Criminal Investigation for DNA profiling. After comparing the test results with information in SDIS, the department found that Christian was involved in another sexual assault within the state. After learning that Christina would be present in a job interview, the department sent an undercover agent the interview. The agent collected a water bottle that Christian used during the interview. DNA analysis on the bottle resulted in a match between test results and information obtained from profiling of samples taken from Emily and her personal effects. Consequently, Christian was arrested and convicted of the two counts of sexual abuse. However, he appealed against the ruling, arguing that the DNA evidence infringed on its privacy because it was obtained without his consent. In its ruling, the Iowa Courts of Appeal ruled against Christian's submission, arguing that seizure and search of an abandoned property does not violate a person's right to privacy.
Use of DNA Evidence in Courts
During trial, legal facets of DNA typing provide guidelines for presenting related evidence in a lawfully admissible manner. They mainly deal with who should present the DNA evidence and standards of admissibility of the evidence. In comparison to other forms of scientific evidence, judicial presentation of DNA evidence is governed by the Federal Rules of Evidence. This statute stipulates that only forensic experts in a relevant field should submit scientific facts regarding a case under consideration. This implies that only experts on DNA testing can participate in submission of DNA facts in a court of law. The experts are required to show methods used to collect DNA samples, types of DNA analysis used, and procedures used to draw inferences during the tests. Courts rely on two legal standards to determine admissibility of the submitted DNA evidence: the Frye standard and Daubert test. (7).
The Frye standard bases judicial admissibility of DNA evidence on universal acceptability of type of testing applied to analyze samples. This test was adopted from a 1923 court ruling in the case of Frye vs. United States. (7). This ruling argued against admissibility of evidence taken using a blood pressure-based lie detector on grounds that the technology was not widely accepted in the relevant scientific community. Under this standard, courts require forensic experts to demonstrate relevancy of methods used to collect and profile DNA samples, as well as procedures used to make evidential conclusions. Today, this standard is still used in presentation of evidence relating to DNA samples in state courts. However, the Daubert test remains the widely used admissibility standard today in both federal and state courts.
In 1993, the U.S. Supreme Court in case of Daubert and Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals Company annulled use of the Frye standard in federal courts. (8). The plaintiff (Daubert's family) sued the defendant (Merrell Dow Company) in a District Court. In its submission, the family argued the company's drug that the mother had been taking while pregnant had caused birth defects to their two children. The family's expert witnesses presented scientific evidence showing that the drug was known to cause birth defects in animals. In defense, the company's expert witnesses submitted scientific evidence that indicated that although the drug resulted in health problems in animals, it had no known effects on humans. Based on the Frye test, the District Court ruled in favor of the company, arguing that the plaintiff failed to prove wider acceptance of their evidence in the relevant scientific field. Dissatisfied with the ruling, the family appealed in the U.S. Supreme Court. However, the Supreme Court held that the 1975 Federal Rules of Evidence succeeded the Frye standard.
Based on these rules, the court upheld the initial ruling by the District Court. In its ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court held that scientific evidence should not only be relevant to appropriate scientific community, but also rationally reliable. It adopted five principles to guide federal courts in determining acceptability of scientific evidence. (8). First, it required the methods used to obtain the evidence to be testable. Secondly, it required the methods to have passed through peer review to ascertain their relevancy. Other principles included universal acceptability of the methods and accompanying technology; existence of standards to govern application of the methods; and presentation of possible error rates associated with the methods. These principles, known as the Daubert test, replaced the Frye test as the guidelines for judicial presentation of scientific evidence. In determining acceptability of DNA evidence, both federal and state courts today require forensic experts to demonstrate testability, acceptability, reliability, potential error rates, and existence of standards of techniques and technologies used in doing the DNA tests.
Post-Conviction DNA Profiling
Legal aspects in post-conviction DNA typing provide convicted individuals with a legal framework to request DNA tests if they are not satisfied with court rulings. These aspects address circumstances in which DNA profiling is allowed. Chambliss observes that in more than 40 states, convicted criminals are allowed to apply for post-conviction DNA tests if they have exhausted all possible opportunities for appeal without success. (9). The statutes also allow prisoners to apply for the tests if the analysis is likely to incriminate other individuals. However, the aspects limit the DNA analysis to certain crimes and evidence that, in comparison to pre-trial DNA typing, vary from state. For instance, the Title 17 (Chapter 28) of South Carolina's criminal code limits DNA typing after conviction to murder, manslaughter, sexual assault, armed robbery, robbery with violence, and other related crimes. (10). This statute only allows analysis of DNA evidence that was used originally to convict the individuals applying for the analysis. Other legal differences include preservation of post-conviction DNA evidence; agents allowed to conduct the analysis; and individuals or agencies responsible for settling expenses incurred during the profiling. Other states including Massachusetts, Alaska, and Alabama, prohibit DNA profiling after conviction of suspected individuals.
Legal aspects underlying use of DNA typing in criminal justice system address issues surrounding DNA analysis during pre-trial, presentation of DNA evidence in courts, and DNA typing after conviction. In pre-trial, these features address collection and preservation of DNA samples as well as crimes and suspected individuals considered appropriate for DNA typing. During criminal investigations, law enforcement agents are required to do DNA tests of samples collected from crime scenes and store them in electronic databases. In addition, the Federal DNA Act, which governs DNA analysis during pre-trial period, stipulates people who should submit DNA specimens, appropriate criminal activities for DNA typing, agents who should do DNA tests, and acceptable use of the DNA test results. Legal aspects in post-conviction DNA typing provide guidelines on circumstances under which convicted individuals can request for DNA tests if they are not satisfied with court rulings. During trial, the legal facets mainly deal with who should present the DNA evidence and standards of admissibility of the evidence. Like any other scientific evidence, courts frequently use the Daubert and the Frye standards to determine acceptability of DNA evidence submitted by forensic experts.
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She left Pixar in 2007 to get her MBA from The Presidio Graduate School.
Having worked in entertainment and media she was all too aware about the gender gap & now with an MBA in social justice & social sustainability, she began to think about how these two worlds would combine?
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'The way women and girls are presented isn't the way they exist in society. We started to think about the direct effect on their psycho development, self esteem & self empowerment.
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This is now the 3rd year of Camp Reel – What differentiates you from the rest?
''We aim to give girls pragmatic life and work experience and an understanding on a strong work ethic, these skills will be necessary in order to break into this industry.
We also offer mentorship – The opportunity to interact with the likes of Brenda Chapman (who won an Oscar for Brave), Jill Coltman Director of DreamWorks & story supervisors from Pixar.
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"I want to overcome the notion that you have to be best friends with everyone, so teams work on being respectful to one another, using language that is heard, hearing criticism in a constructive way – which they were all fine with!
They establish rules they want the group to follow, they feel more connected, get a sense of responsibility to one another – write a contract and sign it''.
Camp Reel is a 5 day summer camp, $475 per week – 9am-5.30pm and there are a lot of financial aid options, over 40% of campers have received financial aid.
''It is really important to me that anyone who wants to attend camp –can attend. By the end of the week the feel they have achieved real life skills. Each group writes / shoots /edits their own film. The weekend post camp is a film festival – 250 people audience. They stand up, introduce their own films and manage questions and answers just like they would at any other film festival. Many of the girl's films have been entered into film festivals and a lot have been accepted''.
Camp Reel attracts such a diverse range of backgrounds-the groups have to work together – how do the kids benefit from this?
''It presents opportunity to work with people they may not have worked with before. I don't mean just the professional mentors, I am talking about girls from different backgrounds, they get to see where the Venn diagrams of their lives over lap. Two people, different backgrounds, working on one thing together, makes for a pretty amazing end result! If you have two people from the exact same back ground – the result is the media we have currently! If only 16% of decision makers are women that means the other 84% of decisions are being made by pretty much the same type of person.
It's not particularly creative and as someone with an MBA would know, it's just bad business for you to ignore 50% of the market.
On the street we all look different, different backgrounds and religious beliefs. I turn on the television and I don't see that represented. It's one thing as an adult to have a fully formed frontal lobe to see that, but our young people are seeing that and thinking maybe they shouldn't make the choices they are thinking of. Extracting themselves from the game of life before they even know the rules – it's amazing to see in one week at Camp Reel what happens when these girls are given opportunity and see where their leverage points are to create change. They just need to know that it is possible and it's not being shown that it is. I am concerned the lack of innovation that that will continue to foster if we don't do something about this now''
I personally read the Camp Reel press release and it really hit home for me. They showcase a young girl that observes she is not represented on TV – I get it. It was moments like this that lead me to create Wear Your Voice magazine. I look in a magazine and I am not represented either.
So here I am trying to change the world one Wear Your Voice moment at a time
I asked Esther one last question
We would love to give Camp Reel more voice – what would you say to a WYV reader?
'Take up space – we are told in every magazine and or piece of media or boardroom there is no room for us.
-Stand tall
-Look people in the eye
-Allow yourself to be vulnerable
-Don't be afraid to make mistakes
– Don't be afraid to ask questions
We are going to create our own magazine, we are going to create our own media and the way we do that is to put one foot in front of the other and to do that you need to STAND UP!''
Nicely said Esther. Bravo!


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Since sales and marketing really determine what happens in the United States
Sale: The exchange of property or services for a determined amount of money .1
- Goals of sales
- What do you want the customer to do?
- What steps are involved in this process?
- Closing
- Types of closes
- Assumptive close
- Forced choice close
- Ben Franklin close
- Other types
- Who cares?
- Salesperson
- Why?
- Customer
- Why?
- Assumptive close
C Other people or organizations D. Government
- Marketing
- Differential Advantage
- Customer Val ue
- Selectivity & Concentration
- 4 Ps
- Sales
- Sales Questions to be answered in the process of selling
- Who B. What
- When
- Where
- Why
- F. How
- Sales Dos & Don'ts
- Sales Questions to be answered in the process of selling
- "I don't know but I'll find out and get back to you ."
- KISS method D. ASSUME
- Questions
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 1973.
Sale Defined: The exchange of property or services for a determined amount of money.
In every sales transaction we have a goal: A SALE. Sales is the process of reaching that goal. To achieve this goal a salesperson has to go through various steps a process which results in a sale. The steps include but are not limited to: establishing rapport and trust, presenting the features and benefits of the product, finding out which benefits are most important to the customer, and establishing value for these benefits.
Rapport is the "warm up" portion of the sales call. This is the time when the salesperson will ask you if you saw the football game last Sunday or if your hobbies include hunting and fishing. He is trying to establish some common ground on which he can relate to the customer. The salesperson is saying to the customer, "See, we are both alike. You have reason to believe what I say." Ifyou are at the customer's location (or home) one good thing to do is to look around and see what the customer displays. What picture is hanging on the wall? Which trophies or awards are displayed? From these items all people, including a salesperson can tell what is important to the customer as a person. He is telling you what he feels is his identity . If you genuinely know about, or are sincerely impressed with anything you see it is good to tell the customer so. The customer will realize that you are interested in HIM not just yourself. One final aspect of rapport is "likability". A good professional salesperson always is likable. Ifyou ever encounter a good professional salesperson in most cases you will like him. It doesn't matter what product he is selling ,you still like him. He is selling hi mself. This skill is difficult to teach but is important since the final buying decision is often based on emotional rather than objective criteria.
In order to establish trust for the salesperson sales organizations often use their size and their reputation. "Hi, Mr. Adams my name is Kevin Clark. I'm with XYZ Electrical Supply. We're the largest electrical supply house on the East Coast." The implication here is that if the company is so large they must be doing something right You as the customer have reason to trust what the salesperson says unless you think or know that the company grew very large by not telling the truth. To counteract the credibility problem salespeople often bring up their company 's reputation very early in a sales call. "By the way Mr. Adams, XYZ won the Associated Building Contractors award for customer excellence in 1994." In this case the customer has even more reason to trust the salesperson if he knows who the Associated Building Contractors (ABC) are. Ifthe customer does not know who ABC is, often the salesperson will tell him, again trying to give the customer reason to trust him. Ifyou cannot establish trust then the customer has no reason to believe the rest of your presentation and you as a salesperson will
be wasting your time. What kind of sentence would you put together to establish trust for PACE Electric?
Feature and benefit selling is a well established sales method. Products have features which provide the customer benefits. "Mr. Adams XYZ's huge buying power allows us to purchase every item at the best quantity discount from suppliers (feature). This means, Mr. Adams, that you will get the best price on everything we sell (benefit). What are the features and benefits of
PACE Electric? As a salesperson one has to be sensitive to the customer's feelings about what you say. Ifyou present a feature and benefit which provokes a question or a nod that may be the feature which is important to the customer. A salesperson must be aware of the customer's changing attitude and focus on the aspects of his presentation which are important to the customer.
Once the salesperson knows which feature(s) of a product are important he then must establish that these features have a value to the customer. "Mr. Adams, if you could get the best price on all your electrical supplies what would that be worth to you?" The salesperson doesn't necessarily want to answer this question himself but rather let the customer answer and convince himself that the product is valuable to him. Ifthe customer does not do this readily the salesperson then has to jump into the discussion and point out why the product feature is important. "Think of how much money you could save if you got the best price on all your electrical supplies Mr. Adams."
Once value has been established the salesperson has to "close" the deal. This means the salesperson must ask for the order in some way otherwise no sale will take place unless the customer says "Can I please buy from you?", which rarely happens. Closing has its own set of skills and is made easy if the salesperson follows the previously mentioned steps. Basically, what the salesperson needs to do is get some form of commitment from the customer. This can
range from signing on the dotted line to a handshake. For a sales call to be considered successful the salesperson must get a commitment to buy from the customer.
Closing the Sale: Obtaining a commitment to buy from the customer.
Closing a sale has been raised to an art form in the U.S.. There are many different ways to close a sale. Once you as the salesperson have obtained a commitment for a sale it can be considered closed. In some situations the sale is not considered closed until the company has been paid and sales commissions are not paid until that time. Furthermore, if the situation arises that a refund must be given to a customer the sale can be "unclosed" and the salesperson's commission taken away or "charged back" Sales organizations often have the problem of decided when a sale is a sale. For our discussion we will consider the initial close of a sale. This is the one which should "stick" most of the time unless your company is doing something unusual or wrong.
l . Assumptive Close: Assumes the customer wants the product. "When would you like us to deliver your fixtures Mr. Adams?" This close works best when the customer is already sold on your product. It can be considered inappropriate or "pushy" if the customer has not yet made up his mind.
- Forced Choice Close: This close is a variation of the assumptive close, however, gives the customer the illusion that he has a say in the buying process (Which he does!). "Would you like that 300 SL in red or gold, Adams?" The forced choice close assumes that the customer wants the item but gives him a choice about a relatively minor product feature.
- Ben Franklin Close: This close is fairly complex and requires some skill. On a blank sheet of paper the salesperson makes a column for advantages and disadvantages of buying a product. He then ask the customer why he would like to have the product if he were to buy it. The
salesperson then writes down all the positive reasons, given to him by the customer for buying. The salesperson can help the customer along by reminding him what he liked about the product if the customer is reluctant it reluctant to speak. "Remember Mr. Adams, you said that you liked
the Bose stereo system in the 300 SL. What else did you like?" After writing down the reasons for buying the product the salesperson then asks, "What are the reasons against buying the 300 SL, Mr. Adams?", and then he SHUTS UP! The customer is then forced to remember why he might not want the product. Ifthe customer is normal and has an average memory he will be excited about why he should buy the product and have trouble remembering why not to buy it. If the customer does remember why he should not buy the product the salesperson has "isolated"
the objections to the sale and now knows which objections he needs to address in the remainder of his presentation. An additional trick to this process is for the sales person to quickly dismiss most of the objections before writing them down. So once again the salesperson has a long list of advantages and a short list of disadvantages for the customer to buy the product. At this point the sales person can say, "Mr. Adams, based on what you told me here today it looks to me like you really should own a 300 SL. Ifyou wait one minute I'll see if we have one in stock.". This close is useful when selling a high ticket or complex item such as a service upgrade.
Basic Principles of Marketing: 1. Differential Advantage: One's differential advantage is that feature or features of one's product which the customer cannot (or believes he cannot) obtain anywhere else. 2. Customer Value: What is the value one's customer is getting from the differential advantage. In electrical service work a customer value might be reduced downtime. THERE MUST BE SOME CUSTOMER VALUE (PERCEIVED OR REAL) FOR A
PRODUCT TO BE SUCCESSFUL. 3. Selectivity and Concentration: Once one has determined that the differential advantage has a value to the customer one must decide who, our
of the broad array of players in the marketplace will have the most use for the product. Once this market segment has been determined it is important to concentrate marketing efforts on this segment.
Another useful analytical tool in marketing is analyzing one's marketing strategy using the 4 P approach . The four Ps of marketing are Product , Price, Place, and Promotion (Sales is one type of promotional strategy .).
Product: This phase of analysis focuses on what your product is, i.e. developing a product that meets the needs of the marketplace (Market Approach) , or finding a market segment which has use for your existing product (Product Approach) . This phase encompasses R & D including market research, use of outside consultants, and development of a prototype for testing . (In PACE's case for service work this would be development of a prototype service agreement.)
Price: Pricing is a factor which can help determine the success or failure of a new venture. Clearly, one wants to cover costs and make a fair profit , however, other factors also influence price. First, price can be associated with quality of work. For example, would you go to a Dentist who charged $5.00 per filling? In addition, regardless of cost the marketplace often determines price. For example, if the going rate for electrical service work is $45.00/Hr. then PACE is limited to prices within a range of this number, i.e. PACE should not charge $20.00/Hr. even if PACE could make a profit at this figure since not only will this offering be seen as a poor quality product but PACE will leave "money on the table". Similarly, If PACE charges
$65.00/Hr. for service work PACE may give the perception of high quality to the marketplace but could also be underbid by competitors who have the same differential advantage as PACE.
Place: This phase of market analysis is used more frequently by companies with a physical product to sell, i.e. a copier, a car, or some sort of widget. Nonetheless it is useful to consider PLACE in performing a market analysis for PACE. Since PACE is in a service business the electrical service product is produced as it is consumed and therefore cannot be inventoried for sale at a future date. This fact gives rise to the concept of PLACE for electrical service work. To determine PLACE here one must ask the question, "Where is electrical service work actually sold?" "How is an electrical service contractor obtain?" Since perhaps the decision to use an electrical service contractor is made at the company's or homeowner's location at the time the need arises the idea of PACE stickers at a site makes good sense.
Promotion: Once all the other questions have been answered one is ready to consider promotion of the product. This phase can include advertising, sales, telemarketing, couponing, etc.. In selecting a promotional vehicle one must keep in mind: I . How decisions to buy are made in the marketplace and 2. where the product is in its product life cycle (New or existing product). The information one learns about the marketplace during the first 3 phases of market analysis will determine the best promotional vehicles to choose. In other words there is an appropriate time
for using every promotional vehicle in the marketplace.
In sales and marketing it is often very important to ask the question, "Who cares?" when making a statement of fact . Ifa PACE Electric service technician says to a customer, "We are going to put in a 200 amp service in your home." Who cares? and Why should they care?
Customers typically care about the end result of a job. That is, they care if their refrigerator, air conditioner, and electric oven all work at the same time. The customer may not care that it takes a 200 Amp service to make this event happen. So when speaking to a customer about electrical work it is important to let him know what the end result of your labor will be. It is only necessary to go into the details of electrical work when something unusual or different needs to be done. In this case it is important to explain to the customer why he should care about what you are saying. The last statement goes back to feature and benefit selling. The customer cares
about the 200 amp service (feature) only because it makes his appliances work properly (benefit). The customer should care because he will get the result he wants based upon your solution to his problem. He may not care what you have done if his electrical service does not work!
Service technicians (salespeople) want to ask "Who cares?" when dealing with customer satisfaction. A satisfied customer can lead to repeat business for the service technician as well as for PACE Electric. A satisfied customer could very likely call and say, "Mr. Service Manger , you did my service upgrade and now I want to put in a ceiling fan. Could you send Ken Adams he did a good job last time." Service technicians needs to care if the customer is happy with the solution to his electrical problem since not only payment for the work done then, but for
payment for future work is derived from a satisfied customer. In other words a customer has dollar value beyond just the one job we do for him in the present. A service technician also might care if a customer is satisfied because the service technician takes pride in his work and wants not only the money but the recognition that he has done a good job.
Other people care how a customer is treated and if he is satisfied. It is often said in sales that one satisfied customer may tell 1 or 2 others about the good work PACE Electric did for him but one dissatisfied customer will tell 10 or 20 other people about his bad experience with PACE. Think of yourself out for the evening talking with the guys about your experiences over a beer. Do you normally say, "Boy I the salesman I talked to at DEF Motors was really helpful to me when I was out car shopping." Or do you say more frequently, "That pushy bastard at XYZ Motors tried to make me buy a car." How many of your friends would you send to XYZ Motors in the last case? How many acquaintances or barroom buddies would you send? If you are normal you will probably tell a lot more people how bad your experience with XYZ was than how good your experience with DEF was.
The government cares about customer satisfaction as well. This fact has lead to lemon laws for cars, waiting periods for certain types of sales (e.g. aluminum siding), and regulation of the telemarketing industry. If a dissatisfied customer is so inclined he can report you to the attorney general and you as a service technician and PACE electric will be asked to explain why the customer is unhappy.
There are six basic questions which arise in all sales transactions. They are: Who, What, When , Where, Why, and How. These questions must be answered by the salesperson during the course of a presentation and close in order for the sale to take place. Consider a service upgrade from 50 Amps to 200 Amps.
Who needs it? A homeowner who wants to run several electrical appliances at once.
This question relates to the selectivity and concentration portion of marketing theory. Ifone homeowner needs something there are probably others with the same needs.
What does he need? A service upgrade. This question relates to the product section of marketing theory . Is a service upgrade to 200 Amps what the customer needs? Could he get by with 150 Amps. Does he need any other electrical work done in order to solve his problem. The service technician in this case serves as a product development specialist to present products to the homeowner which will solve his electrical problems . Remember to keep in mind feature and benefit selling when presenting new ideas (products) to the customer.
When does he need it? This is up to the customer but from a salesperson's point of view he needs it as soon as possible since the salesperson will generally not get paid until the sale is made. From the customer's point of view he needs the service upgrade when he wants to run his air conditioner, electric oven, and washer-dryer at the same time. Ultimately the customer needs the work done at his convenience.
Where does he need it? First of all the customer will need a service upgrade at his home. He may need other work done at other locations (e.g. summer house, garage, tools shed). This question relates to the place portion of marketing theory. The customer may need electrical work done in the future at his home so it is a good idea to attach PACE Electric stickers to his
electrical panels if you have worked on them. This is the place where a decision about future electrical work is likely to be made.
Why does he need it? He needs it to solve the problems created by his desire to run several appliances at one time. A customer may also need service work done because his house is old and needs new wiring or because the people who built his home did not plan for the customer's future electrical needs. As a salesperson the service technician always wants to know why a customer wants something so that the service technician can propose innovative solutions to problems and possibly get more work.
How will the job be done? The service technician will install new equipment, efficiently,
neatly , correctly and professionally. There is nothing which annoys customers more than calling a contractor and having to call back because some problem arose with the contractor's work. A service professional will always consider how he does a job not only to solve the customer's electrical problem but also with consideration to the customer's needs (i.e. not having the electricity turned off during dinner, cleaning up around your work site.)
ATTITUDE!!! Attitude is the most important aspect of sales. There are some basics which are part of any successful salesperson's attitude. First, you, the service technician are a professional. You have quality service and skill to offer the customer. You are neat, clean and courteous to the customer. You conduct yourself in a professional manner. Second, you care about your customer's needs more than anything else except your own personal safety. You want to know how you can make this person happy he chose PACE electric and that PACE electric sent you on the job . Ifyou keep these attitudes in mind you can derive any sales techniques you care to use
to further your sales goals.
KEEP YOUR WORD!!! This means do what you say you will do when you say you will do it. Customers don't mind delays as much when they are informed of them in advance. Don't tell your customer you will have the work done today then tell him later on that you can't finish until tomorrow. Tell him up front how long the work will take. You may even want to leave yourself some extra time so that you will be prepared if any unforeseen circumstances arise during the
job . Ifyou do not know the answer to a customer's question DON'T B.S.. Tell the customer you don't know but will find out for him and get back to him, then do it! These behaviors tell the customer that you and PACE Electric are professional and care about him. Ifyou keep your word the credibility problem discussed in THE GOALS OF SALES will be solved.
KISS YOUR CUSTOMERS KISS stands for Keep It Super Simple. Don't overload your customers with a lot of technical jargon which he will not understand. He is paying you to understand it and solve his problem. That is what he wants!
DON'T ASSUME If you are unsure of a customer's wishes with respect to your work ask. To ASSUME makes and ASS of U and ME. Get it?!


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Ogden watched this little vignette with extreme interest. the girls didn't look any younger of course, but they were displaying the same energy and easy rapport of an eleven and twelve year old.
Today was just a much more obvious and sudden personality change for Barbara. Six months ago she wouldn't have cared if she had ripped Lillian's entire head off. Today the sight of one small clump of hair that she had pulled out had brought her to tears.
Barbara's apparent about face today had come as a shock to Ogden. He didn't realize that her personality had been gradually changing over a three month period since she started coming to the theatre. it was probably an accumulation of smaller events that made Barbara less irritable, less haughty, and just a little more likable.
He had been experiencing some personality differences himself, but to a lesser degree.
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The theatre reconstruction was a different atmosphere entirely. By the second day he had met and learnt the trade speciality of each man. He now knew all their names and what section of the restoration they were involved in. He had even brought a sandwich to the work site and had lunch with the foreman a couple of times. He knew exactly what he wanted done to restore the theatre.
Ogden sat on the grass and leaned his back against the brick wall of the annex. He watched the girls go through the box and compare notes on how they had spent their twelfth year of life.
He smiled at how well the two girls seemed to be getting along now. He missed his wife Margaret terribly just then. Their lives would have been so different if she had lived. He'd been dreaming about her a lot since he bought the theatre.
In fact, the first time that he had dreamt about her in years was the day that he saw the For Sale ad for the theatre. In his dream, Barbara was five years old, his career at the theatre was taking off, and Margaret was as happy as he was.
He was going through the morning paper when he saw the ad on the front page. That was highly unusual. Advertisements had their own section buried somewhere inside the paper. A real estate ad had no business being on the front page.
The moment he saw the picture in the ad, he knew it was the same theatre that had played such an enormous part in his life before he became famous. He called the number immediately.
There was something very strange about that phone call too. Gordon had gotten that call although the electricity and phone lines to the annex had been out of service for three days.
There had been a lightening strike to the power pole outside the annex the very day Gordon had submitted the ad. Gordon didn't own a cell phone then because he couldn't afford it, so the land line was his only access to the outside world.
He hadn't gotten any calls about the ad, because no one could get through. Ogden had been out of town the first two days, and the ad had been buried way back in the ad section. The day Ogden came home, the ad was right on the front page, due to the inexperience of a new person in the advertising department.
Gordon hadn't spoken to Ogden for fourteen years when he made that initial call. He didn't know if Gordon would even accept his offer considering the way they had left without really discussing it, or even saying goodbye.
There was a very good reason for his abrupt departure back then, but he couldn't tell Gordon about it at the time. He could probably tell Gordon everything now, since the statute of limitations on the whole sordid business had ended years ago.


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I recently got into a pursuit with a cop on i5 i went by him at about 145 and he started a pursuit and i jumped up to 180 and he discontinued the pursuit. Now here's the question I got what I deserved for being a fool I crashed and got hurt pretty bad spent a week in the ER. I was told i would be charged with wreckless driving and eluding yet it's been over a month and I have not recieved any notification via Mail and i was never ticketed at the time of the accident just taken to the hospital. Is it safe to say he felt I got enough punishment and didnt file a ticket? How long do they have to file and summon me? Lastly How long would i be looking at I have 1 prior it was a computer hacking crime which i got Fed time for but other than that i have a clean record.
If the high speed driving and the chase went through 2 different counties you could be charged with Reckless Driving and Attemt to Elude in either or both counties. You do not indicate how long ago the federal conviction was but if within the last 5 years it would definitel count against you. Either county has up to 2 years to file Reckless Driving and up to 3 years to file Attempt to Elude. If convicted of Reckless Driving you are facing up to 364 days in jail and up to a $5000 fine. If you are convicted of Attempt to Elude as well as the Reckless Driving you are facing a standard range sentence of 2-5 months. Either offense carries license suspension as well. Given the fact scenario you have laid out, you will likely be charged in one of the counties. Consult with an expereinced criminal defense attorney in private and discuss what if anything you can do now to help your case. To protect yourself, do not discuss the scenario further over the internet.Ask a similar question
It most counties the police reports are sent to the prosecutor. The prosecutor reviews the information and decides if to files a criminal complaint and what charges to file. Because these agencies are busy it is not uncommon to be charged many months after the incident (the Statute of Limitations for filing charges is 2 years from the date of the incident for a misdemeanor and 3 years for the felony).
Under the facts you mentioned, you almost certainly will be charged AND the prosecutor is very likely going to come after you aggressively. Don't wait for the State to take action, get a lawyer now and start doing damage control as soon as possible!Ask a similar question
You won't be charged with "wreckless driving". You did cause a wreck. You will be charged with reckless driving, among other crimes.
You "jumped up to 180". Driving at that speed on public streets is incredibly stupid and dangerous. No prosecutor is going to let you off.
"i was never ticketed at the time of the accident just taken to the hospital". The officer and many other persons likely were too busy saving your life to worry about writing tickets at the time. However, you can be certain that the officer filed his reports afterwards with recommendations that criminal law charges be filed against you.
If you had alcohol or other drugs in your system, you will be looking at more charges.
It would not be unusual if the prosecutor charges you with all criminal law charges for which the prosecutor thinks you can be convicted of.
You should stop discussing the specific details of the incident with anyone but your attorneys. Anyone else may not have any privilege to assert to decline to testify against you in court.
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I basically agree with the above…well, the two attorneys above the above. You're gonna get charged.
I don't see multiple felony charges in different counties at the same time. While Thurston and Pierce could file at the same time, generally, one would be dismissed without prejudice so that the other county could proceed. At least that's what's happened in similar cases I've defended. Without Prejudice means the county could file later as long as there's no double jeopardy violation.
If you're charged in Pierce County, your case would be prosecuted by either Tim Jones, or Mark Sanchez. They're both honest, hard-working, professionals. They don't pull any punches, but they don't play games, either. I'm not sure who's handling eludes in Thurston County these days as I haven't defended one down there in a while.
Start interviewing criminal defense lawyers now. The cop who chased you probably couldn't hate you more even if you choked out a bunny in front of a group of first graders. Cops hate "eluders" and riders, but they really hate riders who elude. I can guarantee you that the police are interested in seeing you go to jail.
I've attached a link to the Washington Sentencing Guidelines. Attempting to Elude is on page 207. Feel free to contact any of the attorneys on this page with any other questions.
Thanks so much for the help and yes the cop was very hateful and mad when he found me He called me a effin peice of sh*t and kept screaming "F*Ck you" when i tried to explain myself. On this eluding page i have 1 prior for conspiracy to damaage a protected computer im on federal supervision for this so the only thing i can see that will add points to this guideline is possibly 1 point for that do you think that means im probably looking at 3months max for the eluding charge? I was also just summoned to thurston county for reckless driving the state patrol officer that impounded my bike filed that charge and i just recieved it. Thanks so much for the help.
would also like to add i have a clean driving record this my first incident
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Since releasing Report Builder almost two years ago, we've found that many users run into difficulty at some point with filtering on totals. A classic example of this is, "show me a list of customers with more than $5000 in Accessory sales." "Accessory sales" is a typical slice-and-dice filter, because it just eliminates detail or measure values (sales). It means, "include only the sales for products in the Accessory category." "More than $5000", on the other hand, is not a typical slice-and-dice filter. It means, "include only the customers for which the sales total is more than $5000." In other words, the filter does not eliminate detail or measure values (sales), it eliminates groups instances (customers) based on a detail or measure total.
Filtering on totals can be very handy at times. It is possible in an Excel PivotTable using the "Value Filters" context menu on the row or column labels (try it — it's fun). It eliminates items from the row or column axis based on the value totals at the outermost level. Filtering on totals is also possible at any level in Report Designer by adding group filters, although this is not always recommended, since it may mean requesting much more data in your query than your report really needs to display.
Filtering on totals is also possible in Report Builder, but (a) there is only limited support for it, (b) it takes some training to ensure you build the right filter, and (c) in the case of RB-over-AS, the performance of the resulting queries will probably be unacceptable. Why is filtering on totals so hard right now? Because in this release RB was primarily designed and optimized for relational/operational reporting. It has a number of innovative and powerful features that are especially valuable in this space (and unavailable in typical OLAP reporting, e.g. Excel). The reverse is also true: some features typical in OLAP reporting have only limited or no support in this release of RB. Filtering on totals is one of those features. There is still a large area of overlap, though (i.e., the extremely common "slice-and-dice" scenario), which is why we offer the option of RB-over-AS. However, users should realize that in this release there will be some challenges/limitations. Specifically, filtering on totals when using RB over AS will rarely result in acceptable performance.
That said, let me go through a couple of examples to help explain what is possible, and what to watch out for.
Example 1: A botched report
The report we want is, "show me a list of customers with more than $5000 in Accessory sales" (same as above). Conceptually this is fairly easy to think about, so many users will assume it must be easy to build. So they'll just follow their nose and build a report that has all the parts they think it needs, then hit "Run" and expect the right answer, like this:
1. Create a new table report using the AdventureWorks sample report model
2. Add Customer->Customer Name to the report
3. Add Customer->Sales Orders->Sales->Sum Line Total to the report
4. Open the Filter dialog
5. Add Customer->Sales Orders->Sales->Product->Product Category to the filter, and set it to "Accessories"
6. Add Sale->Line Total to the filter, and set it to "greater than 5000".
7. Close the filter dialog and run the report
Looks like it should do the job, right? Nope. This report actually returns no data. What went wrong?
Well, there are two problems. The first is that step 5 caused RB to change the primary entity of the report from Customer to Sale, based on the fact that the little checkbox at the bottom of the filter dialog was checked. Changing the primary entity ensures the filter condition will filter all the values added to our report, not just toss out some of the rows. This would be perfect if all we were doing was slice-and-dice filtering. However, we are trying to filter on a total at the same time. This change in the primary entity means that the context of the report filter is now Sale instead of Customer, so the condition added in step 6 means "include only individual sales where Line Total is greater than 5000″ (notice that this change is reflected in the text at the top of the filter dialog, and later in the filter description on the surface of the report). As it turns out, there are no individual sales of a product in the Accessory category where the line total is greater than 5000, so we get no results.
The second problem is that in step 6, we selected Line Total instead of Sum Line Total. This actually doesn't make a difference in this case because of the effect of the first problem, but it was nevertheless an issue because we weren't thinking about the fact that we wanted to filter on an aggregate of Line Total in some other context (Customer), not the individual Line Total value attached to a single Sale. We shouldn't have expected to specify both filter conditions in the same place.
Example 2: Getting it right
This report is possible in RB using the approach described below, and has reasonable performance over a relational database (on AdventureWorks on my laptop, this report returns in <2 seconds). Be warned, however, that for a number of reasons, running a report that uses this approach over AS will have performance ranging from disappointing to tragic.
To do the same report as Example 1 correctly, we need to avoid making Sales the primary entity, because that would keep us from being able to specify a filter at the Customer level. We can accomplish this by applying the slice-and-dice part of our filter directly to the displayed field instead of to the overall report. We can then reuse the filtered field to create a report-level filter condition in the context we want (Customer).
1. Create a new table report based on the AdventureWorks sample report model.
2. Add Customer->Name to the report
3. Add Customer->Sales Orders->Sales->Sum Line Total to the report
4. Right-click on the Sum Line Total field in the table, and choose Edit Formula (the Formula dialog opens)
5. Double-click on the field reference in the formula to expand it
6. Click on the link to add a filter on Sales
7. Add Sale->Product->Product Category to the filter, and set it to "Accessories"
8. Click OK to close the Filter dialog.
9. Check the box at the bottom of the Formula dialog to create a custom field using this formula, click OK, and name the field "Accessory Sales".
11. Open the main Filter dialog
12. Add the new "Accessory Sales" field to the filter, and set it to "greater than 5000"
13. Close the Filter dialog and run the report
Result: A quick 1-page report showing customers with more than $5000 in accessory sales.
So, that's great! Does that mean RB supports any kind of filtering on totals? No. You can filter on totals as long as (a) all the totals are in a single context, and (b) that context is the primary entity of the report.
If you wanted to filter on totals in more than one context, such as "show me customers grouped by territory, but only show customers with > $10000 in sales and territories with > $1M in sales acoss all customers", it wouldn't work, because you need a filter on the sales total for each customer and the sales total for each territory. Note that this isn't possible in Excel either, since it only allows filtering on totals for the outermost group on an axis.
If you wanted to filter on a total in a context other than the primary entity, such as "show me customer sales grouped by territory, but only show territories with > $1M in sales", that wouldn't work either, because you need to show values for each customer (which means Customer needs to be the primary entity), but filter on totals for each territory (which would not be the primary entity). This is possible in Excel, but note that if you add an outer group like Territory in Excel, you actually can't do the report I described above, because it won't let you filter on a total for an inner group.
Another, more common example is when you want to filter on a total at the lowest level of detail in the report, but that doesn't happen to be an entity context, such as "show me monthly sales, but only months with > $1M in sales." This would work if Month were an entity, but chances are it isn't in your report model, and if not, you can't make it the primary entity, so you won't be able to filter on a total in that context (in this case, the primary entity would probably be Sales Order, where Order Date->Month is defined). This is possible in Excel, because it doesn't distinguish between entity groups and value groups.
So, what kind of filters can you do in RB that you often can't do in OLAP reporting? Actually, a lot. RB supports an arbitrary number of filter conditions, "OR" groups, aggregate filter groups (e.g. "customers with any orders where Year=2004"), row filters that don't filter the displayed values (e.g. "show customers and their total sales, but only those with > $1000 sales in the last month), and independently filtered fields (e.g. the "Accessory Sales" custom field we created in Example 2), including those with filters on multiple levels (e.g. "total sales with Product->Category = "Accessories" and Sales Order->Order Year = 2004″). All of these features help deliver a rich and powerful relational/operational reporting experience, which is what this release of RB was primarily designed to do.
Rest assured, however, that improving support for filtering on totals is still a high priority for the product team.


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New research has revealed that more than seven million people have lost a friend as a result of an argument over money. The findings, from ISA provider Scottish Friendly, highlighted that just over one in ten people (15 per cent) no longer kept in contact with a friend following a dispute around finances.
Men were found to be particularly prone to losing their mates, with 17 per cent of men saying that they had cut ties with a friend because of finances as opposed to just 13 per cent of women. In addition, the trend does seem to be particularly prevalent among 'Gen Y' respondents. Indeed, a massive one in three people aged between 24 and 35 (28 per cent) say they have lost friends over money, compared to just nine per cent among those aged over 45.
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