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Olympics spending fuelled Britain’s strongest quarterly growth in five years, springboarding the country out of recession in the third quarter, data showed on Thursday
It provided some rare relief for a government accused of favouring austerity over growth, and may make another stimulus injection of cash from the central bank less likely.
The Office for National Statistics said gross domestic product rose by 1.0 percent between July and September, beating forecasts for a 0.6 percent gain, after shrinking by 0.4 percent between April and June.
The country is not out of the woods, however. It has still not recovered the output lost in the 2008-2009 slump and faces a rough road to recovery as the euro zone – its main trading partner – is heading for recession and global growth drivers such as China slow.
The data was also inflated by temporary factors – ticket sales for the London Olympics and a rebound from an extra public holiday in the previous quarter.
But it was nonetheless better than expected and could prevent the economy from have an overall contraction in 2012.
Sterling hit a one-week high versus the dollar and British government bonds extended losses after the data was released as markets reassessed the chances of more central bank asset-buying stimulus.
A number of economists changed their view in the wake of the growth figures and more upbeat comments from central bankers, which seem to hold high hopes that a new funding scheme for banks will unblock lending and get the recovery going.
“In the absence of a renewed stalling in the recovery, we expect this month’s asset purchases to be the last,” economists at Barclays said in a note.
Any more sustainable recovery could also ease the pressure on the government to ease its austerity plan of tax hikes and spending cuts aimed at erasing a huge budget deficit.
Prime Minister David Cameron, who is trailing in the polls, said the return to growth was a vindication of his policies, though he also struck a note of caution.
“There is still much more to be done, there is a long road to travel,” Cameron said. “But we have got the right approach and we must stick to that approach.
Opposition Labour finance spokesman Ed Balls meanwhile kept up his call for a change of tack. “The complacent thing to do now is simply to wait and hope things will get better,” he said.
Most economists agree that a sustained recovery is far from certain after business surveys have indicated a weak start to the final quarter of the year and one-off factors were the main drivers behind the strong bounce.
The statistics office estimated that Olympics ticket sales accounted for a fifth of the quarterly GDP rise, which followed three consecutive quarters of contraction.
Economists also estimate that 0.5 percentage points were due to the rebound from the output lost due to the extra holiday in June to celebrate Queen Elizabeth’s 60 years on the throne.
The ONS said the British economy had grown by 0.3 percent so far this year, but was still 3.1 percent below a peak in the first quarter of 2008.
Bank of England Governor Mervyn King cautioned on Tuesday that the recovery would remain slow, with threats posed by the euro zone debt crisis and a cooling of the fast-growing economies of India, China and Brazil.
However, two of the nine BoE policymakers struck a note of confidence in newspaper interviews. Paul Fisher and Charlie Bean said the central bank’s new scheme to get credit flowing through the economy showed promising signs.
Investors have already scaled back expectations for another cash boost from the Bank as King said policymakers would think “long and hard” before extending the currently approved 375 billion pounds of quantitative easing bond purchases.
However, there have been signs that the British economy faces grave threats in the months ahead. British factory orders posted a surprise fall in October, a the CBI’s industrial trends survey showed on Wednesday.
WPP, the world’s largest advertising group, cut its revenue outlook for the second time in as many months on Thursday after a sharp slowdown in September in North America and continental Europe hit its third quarter.
Output in Britain’s service sector – which makes up more than three quarters of GDP – rose by 1.3 percent in the third quarter after a 0.1 percent drop in the second quarter. That was the strongest quarterly growth since the third quarter of 2007.
Industrial output was 1.1 percent higher, the strongest rise since the second quarter of 2010. Construction – which accounts for less than 7 percent of GDP – contracted by 2.5 percent.
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The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air #2) (Hardcover)
By Holly Black
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The enchanting and bloodthirsty sequel to the New York Times bestselling novel The Cruel Prince.
You must be strong enough to strike and strike and strike again without tiring.
The first lesson is to make yourself strong.
After the jaw-dropping revelation that Oak is the heir to Faerie, Jude must keep her younger brother safe. To do so, she has bound the wicked king, Cardan, to her, and made herself the power behind the throne. Navigating the constantly shifting political alliances of Faerie would be difficult enough if Cardan were easy to control. But he does everything in his power to humiliate and undermine her even as his fascination with her remains undiminished.
When it becomes all too clear that someone close to Jude means to betray her, threatening her own life and the lives of everyone she loves, Jude must uncover the traitor and fight her own complicated feelings for Cardan to maintain control as a mortal in a Faerie world.
Holly Black is the bestselling author of contemporary fantasy novels, including Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale and the #1 New York Times bestselling Spiderwick series. She has been a finalist for the Mythopoeic Award and the Eisner Award, and the recipient of the Andre Norton Award. Holly lives in Massachusetts with her husband, Theo, in a house with a secret library.
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The Wicked King has satisfying twists and turns, sizzling passions, brutal violence, spies and revels of all sorts--no one brings the intricate courtly politics of Faerie to life quite as well, or with as much intelligence, as Holly Black.
—Shelf Awareness, starred review
*"A heady blend of courtly double-crossing, Faerie lore, and toxic attraction swirls together in the sequel to THE CRUEL PRINCE...Black's writing is both contemporary and classic; her world is, at this point, intensely well-realized, so that some plot twists seem almost inevitable."
*"A rare second volume that surpasses the first, with, happily, more intrigue and passion still to come."—Booklist, Starred Review
*"[A] dangerous journey filled with mystery, betrayal, intrigue, and romance....Larger-than-life action in a kingdom packed with self-centered, evil, and manipulating characters also doles out real life issues."—VOYA, Starred Review
"The plot itself twists, turns, and dovetails perfectly with the assured character development; in this way, Black proves herself a master storyteller writing in the tradition of Megan Whalen Turner."—Horn Book
"An epic saga of palace intrigue and deception."—Entertainment Weekly
"Holly Black is a mistress of well-paced fantasy..."—Austin-American Statesman
"The Wicked King is so fast-paced and intense, you won't be able to put it down."—The Missourian
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"Lush, dangerous, a dark jewel of a book. Black's world is intoxicating, imbued with a relentless sense of peril that kept me riveted through every chapter of Jude's journey. And Jude! She is a heroine to love--brave but pragmatic, utterly human. This delicious story will seduce you and leave you desperate for just one more page."—Leigh Bardugo, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom
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* "[S]pellbinding.... Breathtaking set pieces, fully developed supporting characters, and a beguiling, tough-as-nails heroine enhance an intricate, intelligent plot that crescendos to a jaw-dropping third-act twist."—Publishers Weekly, starred review
* "Another fantastic, deeply engaging, and all-consuming work from Black that belongs on all YA shelves."—School Library Journal, starred review
* "Jude, who struggles with a world she both loves and hates and would rather be powerful and safe than good, is a compelling narrator. Whatever a reader is looking for--heart-in-throat action, deadly romance, double-crossing, moral complexity--this is one heck of a ride."—Booklist, starred review
"This is a heady blend of Faerie lore, high fantasy, and high school drama, dripping with description that brings the dangerous but tempting world of Faerie to life. Black is building a complex mythology; now is a great time to tune in."—Kirkus Reviews
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In this month's issue;
A complete supplement, featuring shamans and spirits in an all new magic system.
The clock is ticking in a short investigation for a patrol of judges.
A new patron for Travellers, that ties into the soon-to-be released Animal Encounters.
New ships for the US Navy by David Manley.
Inspired by the creepiest of sci-fi, the Travellers will confront the Thing in the Pit in this new scenario.
A look at the finer instruments available for clones in the R&D department.
Clockwork & Chivalry
Continuing the look at weapons and armour in this ECW setting.
A look at an attempt to make a new and better breed of human.
Elric of Melnibone
A chance to visit the barbaric half-men of Alofia.
Discover the city of Lof in the Kingdom of Durenor.
Wraith Recon
A look at the petty lords and bandit kings who rule the darker areas of Lorn and Dardarrick, and why they draw the attention of the Wraiths.
Two classic creatures, revitalised and brought back for the current edition.
An introductory scenario that will see players start off as young members of an Orlanthi tribe.
A Call to Arms: Noble Armada
A look at the very latest ships to emerge from the Noble Houses.
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Coal Train effects on Passenger Trains in the Northwest Corridor
On June 15, Transportation Choices Coalition hosted one of its Friday Forums at the downtown Seattle YMCA. The topic was Coal Train effects on Passenger Trains in the Northwest Corridor. This issue arises from proposals to site up to six coal export terminals in Puget Sound, along the Pacific Coast or on the Columbia River. The coal would move to these terminals via rail from the Powder River Basin coal fields in Wyoming and Montana.
The panelists were:
Ross Macfarlane, Climate Solutions
Bruce Agnew, Cascadia Center for Regional Development
Floyd McKay, emeritus professor of journalism, Western Washington University
Here are a few highlights from each panelist’s presentation:
There are practical and profitable solutions for countering climate change, but his organization has decided to oppose these coal export projects.
Coal burning in the U.S. is in free fall. Over 30% of existing plants in our country are expected to close in the next decade and many others are switching to other fuels such as natural gas.
Exports to Asia are needed to maintain coal mining at existing levels.
There are four main issues that need to be addressed: Highway traffic, Marine traffic, the capacity of our rail system, and who pays for the needed mitigation.
We need to channel the enthusiasm of young people lined up against coal export terminals into support for passenger rail service.
Coal exports are a part of the Obama Administration’s goal to double U.S. export.
There are capacity challenges throughout our transportation network.
If we don’t move now on pushing for the 3rd Seattle-Vancouver Amtrak Cascades round-trip we may lose the opportunity because the capacity won’t be there.
Amtrak service may end up as collateral damage if coal train traffic growth increases dramatically, especially if a terminal is built at Cherry Point (near Bellingham).
Will the large ongoing public investment in BNSF infrastructure for passenger train capacity end up being used to provide more freight capacity?
We need to fully analyze BNSF claims that various improvements are needed for expanded passenger train service and not for freight expansion.
A programmatic EIS needs to be done that covers all projects and impacts together, not just a specific EIS for each project.
An expanded report will be in the August/September All Aboard Washington newsletter.
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2 killed, 7 injured in crash involving chicken plant van
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By - Associated Press - Saturday, September 23, 2017
MORTON, Miss. (AP) - Two people killed in a Scott County crash involving a chicken plant van and an SUV have been identified.
WAPT-TV reports the county coroner’s office identified the victims of Thursday’s wreck on Highway 13, north of Morton, as 39-year-old Corley McCorkley, of Louisville and 51-year-old Mikel D. Ray, of Forest.
The Mississippi Highway Patrol says the van, with several people aboard, and the SUV collided head-on about 8 p.m.
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The driver of the SUV and one of the people in the van were killed.
Authorities say of the seven people injured, two were flown to the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson in critical condition. Some also were taken to Scott County Regional Hospital for treatment.
The crash is under investigation.
Information from: WAPT-TV, https://www.wapt.com
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Ski slope planned for southern Scotland
2nd September 2014, by Abi Butcher
Lowther Hills will have 725m of slopes and three drag lifts
A ski club in Scotland is appealing for help moving its ski tow this weekend to a permanent home on Lowther Hill near Leadhills in Dumfries and Galloway.
The Lowther Hills Ski Club is building a clubhouse, 600m drag lift for intermediate skiers and beginner’s area with two 11m portable ski tows on the slopes of Lowther Hills. It is the first permanent structure near the village — apparently the highest in Scotland — that has been home to several portable ski tows since the 1960s.
“There’s always been some sort of uplift in the area, but it’s never been on a permanent basis nor run by the same people,” said club chairman Anjo Abelaira. “Last year we ran our portable tow on Leadhills Golf Course as well as on Lowther Hill. We’re moving that to Lowther and building permanent facilities and equipment in one place.”
He added: “There will be a proper tow, with proper snow fencing, with a proper clubhouse, with toilets, all promoted and operated by one organisation. It’s organised skiing. We are finally turning into what people call a ‘ski centre’.
The volunteer-based, family-friendly club plans to offer around 20 ski days per year and although planning permission has not yet been officially granted, Mr Abelaira said: “Pre-application discussions were held with the planning authority and, in principle, no major obstacles to the development could be found.”
If successful, he hopes to open in December the only permanent lift-served ski terrain in southern Scotland. But Mr Abelaira is keen to avoid the overcrowding seen at other ski areas in Scotland and the north of England. Rather than simply selling day tickets to anyone, the new ski area will operate more like a golf club, with only 400 people on the slopes at any one time — and priority given to members.
Membership is a modest £35 and will not only give free use of the lifts when the hill is open, but also discounts on day tickets at other Scottish ski resorts and from selected suppliers of equipment, clothing, and travel.
There are currently 200 memberships to the club available, for more information visit skiclub.lowtherhills.com
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ITunes: Now With Ringtones
Author: Scott GilbertsonScott Gilbertson
Steve Jobs has just announced that the iTunes Store will now sell ringtones for the iPhone at $.99. Apparently you need to first buy the song for $.99 and then pay another $.99 to convert it to a ringtone.
It's slightly better than traditional ringtones, which come in around $2.50 according to his Steveness, however there are plenty of ways to get free ringtones to an ordinary phone — something that isn't easy on an iPhone. The iTunes interface for creating a ringtone certainly sounds simple, there are about half a million songs available as ringtones and they're marked with a bell icon. You then select which 30 seconds of the song you want to use and that's it, the song syncs to the phone. Once it's on the iPhone, you can either use it as a global setting or for a specific contact.
But truth be told, Apple is late to its own game here. There are already hacks that will let you add your own ringtones without too much trouble. We looked at one method a while back and there's even an application, iToner, from Ambrosia Software that makes the process dead simple.
iToner, which retails for $15, allows you to add ringtones to your iPhone via a simple drag-and-drop interface. Depending on how many ringtones you buy from the iTunes Store (or if paying for a song twice just doesn't sit well with you), iToner could be the better way to go.
The Apple announcement is still rolling, with new iPods being unveiled as we speak. Head over the Gadget Lab to stay abreast of the news.
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Exclusive: See David Lloyd's Ballsy, Bullish Cover of New Occupy Comics
Image: David Lloyd
As Occupy Wall Street's populist uprising enters its second year Monday, V for Vendetta artist David Lloyd gifts Occupy Comics' second issue with a ballsy cover that brings new meaning to the phrase "bulls on parade."
Take a look at Wired's sneak peek at the cover image above, and you'll probably catch our drift. The image comes courtesy of Lloyd, whose art merged with Alan Moore's lasting narrative of politics and panopticons in V for Vendetta and turned the now-ubiquitous Guy Fawkes mask into an icon of social revolution.
"It's a perfect image to capture Round Two of Occupy," said editor Matt Pizzolo, who's releasing Occupy Comics: Art and Stories Inspired by Comics with Bad Religion's Brett Gurewitz and 30 Days of Night's Steve Niles through their recently launched indie publishing house, Black Mask Studios.
"While the first issue took a very intellectual approach to the movement, these stories strike at the emotional and spiritual heart of the movement," Pizzolo added. "The timing is perfect, because as year two begins there is a lot of soul searching about what the movement means and how it can evolve."
Round two is certain to be more difficult, now that the Occupy movement – as well as Anonymous and other upstarts wearing Guy Fawkes masks – have become a part of our cultural lexicon. It's getting hard to tell if NYPD posters like this are real or straight outta V for Vendetta's surveillance dystopia.
"I was massively impressed by the great camaraderie and strength of will [the Occupy movement] showed in New York last October when I went to see what they were doing, and I hope that they can somehow survive all the blows they've suffered since then," said Lloyd in an e-mail to Wired, in which he wished the protesters luck. "They've got a hard job to do and it's not going to get any easier."
Lloyd is joined in Occupy Comics' second issue by Pulitzer nominee Matt Bors, Obama's terrorist pal Bill Ayers, Molly Crabapple (who was arrested Monday during an Occupy protest in New York), Patrick Meaney (director of Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts) and more. Hard and virtual copies are available Monday from Black Mask Studios, and will hit comics stores in early 2013.
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Major League Soccer invite is FC Cincinnati's 'happily ever after' -- but there's more to the story
Posted: 9:32 PM, May 29, 2018
By: Laurel Pfahler | WCPO contributor
<p>Cincinnati soccer fans celebrate on Fountain Square with the announcement from MLS that FC Cincinnati will become a major league franchise. FC Head Coach Alan Koch greets the fans from the stage at Fountain Square.</p>
FC Cincinnati coach Alan Koch sat down with his players Tuesday morning to discuss the thing no one was supposed to be talking about yet: The worst-kept secret in the city since last week's team release informing media of a major announcement regarding the future of soccer in Cincinnati.
Koch left that meeting feeling like everyone was more at ease. Finally, a cloud of uncertainty was lifted.
Hours later, Major League Soccer made it official that FC Cincinnati would be joining its ranks and beginning play in 2019.
"In many respects it became a lot easier today," Koch said. "I think the cloud that has hovered over our players every day for the last six months now is finally gone. There is no uncertainty. We know this club is in MLS; we know this club is in MLS in 2019. Now, it gives the players a carrot to show what they can do to earn a spot on that roster."
Koch came to FC Cincinnati in December 2016 to be a part of building a club for MLS. He joined the staff as an assistant and scouting director, then was thrust into the head coaching position early in the preseason last year to replace John Harkes. It was a position he was glad to assume, and he received a contract extension last summer.
FCC's rise to national and global notice with its stunning attendance figures and Cinderella run to the 2017 U.S. Open Cup semifinals helped Koch recruit a roster featuring some of the best talent in the USL.
As center back Forrest Lasso said earlier this season, every lower-division player in the U.S. wants to sign with FC Cincinnati for the chance to play in front of the best crowds in the country. Now, they get to enjoy witnessing firsthand the club's rise to MLS while continuing to work to bring a USL trophy to the Queen City.
Going into this weekend's game at New York Red Bulls II, FCC sits in second place in the Eastern Conference, moving down from first place after Saturday's loss to Louisville City.
"Special day in this special city," Lasso wrote Tuesday on Twitter. "But it's also a new week and time to get back to work. Can't be the best if you aren't willing to outwork the rest."
Players were not available to speak to media Tuesday but were in attendance at the announcement and after-party at Fountain Square.
Midfielder Nazmi Albadawi had tweeted out, "Hey @fccincinnati fans anyone want to hang out this afternoon? Should be pretty fun I think."
Captain Dekel Keinan wrote on his Twitter account: "What a great day for the city of Cincinnati, our club and our amazing fans! Proud to be part of it."
Praise for the fans is nothing new from FCC players and coaches, who regularly thank the crowds in interviews and post-game press conferences. Although the promotion to MLS provides the team with opportunities to potentially play and coach at the highest level, FCC kept Tuesday's announcement focused on what it means for the city that supports it.
FCC averages almost 25,000 fans per game this season and regularly outdraws MLS games.
"This club and this city truly deserve this," Koch said. "We've all witnessed what's been happening in the city, we've all witnessed the fans that are showing up for every single game, and it's truly remarkable, and obviously Major League Soccer made a great decision today."
Broadcaster Tommy Gelehrter, the "Voice of FC Cincinnati," was still digesting the reality of the club's invitation less than three years after the USL announced Cincinnati was joining the then-third division league on Aug. 12, 2015.
It's hard to believe the team will be playing at the MLS level this time next year.
"Honestly it's a little hard to digest it all," Gelehrter said. "So much time and effort has been put into it. I joked with (FCC president and general mananger) Jeff Berding over the last year, 'How do you do sleep? How do you eat? How do you remember everything you have to deal with?'
"It kind of hit me today when I showed up at Rhinegeist this morning and saw the MLS logos all over. It's a testament to this city and this community, the way the fans and supporters have come together and shown their love for the sport and their club and their city. When you put those things together, something really magical happens. Three years removed from having meetings at Jeff Berding's kitchen table because there were no offices at that point, there was no structure, there were three or four employees, and we were getting ready for our USL announcement and now three years later, here we are. It's incredible."
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By Wendy C. Fries
From the WebMD Archives
You may have heard of "functional foods" -- bread, margarine, yogurt, and even eggs that have nutrients added to help your heart.
You can get these nutrients from the foods that naturally contain them: vegetables, fruit, whole grains, fish, and healthy fats. But the typical American diet can sometimes fall short. So now they're added to some foods that don't normally have them.
Three that are added to many foods are plant stanols or sterols, fiber, and omega-3s. Here's a look at what they do for you.
Plant Stanols and Sterols
What are they? Plant stanols and sterols are found in fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds. Their structure is a lot like cholesterol. But they block cholesterol in your digestive system, so less cholesterol moves into your bloodstream to clog your arteries.
How much do you need? Getting 2 grams of either plant stanols or sterols daily can bring down bad cholesterol (LDL) by 5% to 15% in a few weeks. If you already eat butter, margarine, or oil-based spreads, switching to one with extra plant stanols or sterols might be a good move, says Christine Gerbstadt, MD, RD, author of Doctor's Detox Diet. It's easy to overdo fats, though, so eat these margarines and oils in moderation.
What is it? Fiber is naturally in plant foods: fruits, vegetables, beans and other legumes, and whole grains . Food scientists have created powdered fiber with no real flavor. It's added where you'd never expect to find it: in hot dog buns, sugary cereals, even yogurt. On the label it may be called inulin, maltodextrin, polydextrose, or chicory fiber. It often comes from different sources than the dietary fiber in oats, whole wheat bread, or bran cereal.
How does fiber help the heart? It's well-known that fiber can bring down your cholesterol level. Eating enough fiber can also lower your chances of developing heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and obesity. The problem is that most people don't get enough.
"Fiber added to bread or cereal can be a good thing," says Susan Moores, MS, RD. But scientists don't know whether adding refined fiber to foods will give you the same health benefits as eating fiber naturally found in foods. The best bet is to follow a healthy diet that includes foods that are naturally high in fiber: beans, vegetables, and whole grains, Moores says.
How much fiber do you need? Women need about 25 grams of fiber daily, while men need about 38 grams a day. Your body needs two kinds of fiber. Soluble fiber, which slows digestion, can be found in beans, nuts, and grains including oats. Insoluble fiber, which helps food pass through the body, and can be found in vegetables and whole grains.
Omega-3s
What are they? Omega-3s are a "good" kind of fat found in fish like salmon, tuna, cod, sardines, anchovies, herring, and trout. They're also found, in lower amounts, in nuts and seeds like walnuts, almonds, and flax.
How do they help your heart? Eating enough omega-3s helps protect your arteries from the sticky plaque that can cause a heart attack or stroke. Omega-3s also protect against a dangerous abnormal heartbeat, and they can lower unhealthy blood fats called triglycerides.
The best heart benefits, though, come from two kinds of omega-3s found mostly in fish: DHA and EPA. Plant foods have a different type of omega-3 called ALA.
Most foods you see in the store with added omega-3s -- cereal, pasta, soy milk, yogurt, margarine, and eggs -- use ALA, which may not help your heart as much as the kind found in fish. Also, many of these foods don't have enough omega-3s, Gerbstadt says.
How much omega-3 do you need? The American Heart Association advises people to eat fish at least twice a week to get enough omega-3s. A 4-ounce serving of salmon has 2 grams of omega-3s. If you have a heart condition, ask your doctor if you need higher amounts of omega-3s.
Remember, most of the nutrients you need should come from whole grains, fruits and vegetables, low-fat dairy, fish, and lean meat. No one knows whether fortified foods can provide all the health benefits you get from the complex mix of nutrients in whole foods. Your doctor or a dietitian can let you know what would be best for you.
WebMD Feature Reviewed by Laura J. Martin, MD on December 24, 2012
Elaine Magee, RD, MPH, nutritionist, R&DE Stanford Dining, Stanford University; author, Food Synergy, Rodale Books, 2008; author, Tell Me What To Eat If I Suffer From Heart Disease, New Page Books, 2010.
Christine Gerbstadt, MD, MPH, RD, author, Doctor's Detox Diet, Nutronics, 2012.
Kerry Neville, MS, RD.
Susan Moores, MS, RD, nutritionist, St. Paul, MN.
Tufts University School of Medicine: "Omega-3 Fatty Acids."
University of Delaware, Cooperative Extension: "Calcium."
American Heart Association: "Calcium, Dietary," "Fish and Omega-3 Fatty Acids."
University of Maryland Medical Center: "Vitamin D."
National Institutes of Health: "Dietary Supplement Fact Sheet: Vitamin D," "Your Guide to Lowering Your Cholesterol With TLC."
Joslin Diabetes Center: "Lower Your Cholesterol with Plant Sterols and Stanols."
U.S. Department of Agriculture: "Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2010," "Why Is It Important to Eat Grains, Especially Whole Grains?"
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XML Europe 2004: Refactoring XML
Eric van der Vlist
The European XML conference (XML Europe) took place last month in Amsterdam. One of the presentations was titled "refactoring XML" and, without going that far, one of the main recurring themes was certainly refactoring the uses of XML.
Six years after the publication of XML 1.0, many people wonder if there is still room for XML conferences and if it isn't time to devote ourselves to XML applications. XML Europe 2004 proved them wrong and has shown that it's time to use the experience we have gained to optimize the use of XML. This will require important simplifications, a good deal of refactoring, and many more XML conferences to share our progress.
Web Services are Still Web Services
Jeff Barr, Web Services evangelist at Amazon.com, opened the conference by presenting the strategy and the realizations of Amazon.com in the domain of web services. In a very pragmatic way, Amazon.com is fulfilling the vision of the "extended company" we were trying to sell when I was working at Sybase, 10 years ago.
This is also the dominant vision in web services marketing presentations and you all know the picture: in a world increasingly competitive and specialized, organizations have to open their IT systems to their partners and customers so that they can use it and finally contribute to the benefits of the "extended enterprise".
To fulfill this vision, we might have thought that the full pile of web services standards (all those "ws-*" documents) was required but Jeff Barr's presentation proved us wrong. Despite a very wide scope of features of Amazon.com's web services, covering much more than the catalog including selling and buying, the interfaces have been designed for simplicity.
These services are available either as SOAP or REST (that is, XML over HTTP). Much simpler, REST web services can be tested using a web browser. They account for 80% of the actual requests. In my view this is confirmation of the continuity between the Web and web services. Before anything else, web services are, as their name indicates, services accessible on the Web. They belong to the Web, and that's what makes them so interesting.
The Importance of Notation
Steve Pemberton followed with a second plenary that turned out to be a brilliant digression -- almost impossible to sum up -- on the impact of tools and presentation on the content. Did you know that the texts written on paper with a pen are typically shorter and of better quality than ones written using a text processor?
This phenomenon doesn't spare computer scientists. The notations used to write documents have a major influence on the quality and the content of these documents. Those notations can't and shouldn't be totally hidden by tools from the users' view: as they are not all using the same tools it would be a design flaw to rely on the tools to hide the flaws of a notation.
Pemberton stressed that we should use the power of our computers to make our lives easier; that we should have no hesitation to use notations that are simple and readable even if not XML. It isn't an "X" in its name that makes a notation good. After all, parsing is easy, and there is no reason to reject simple text formats easily transformable to XML.
Isn't that the reason for the success of the compact syntax of RELAX NG and the many different Wiki formats?
If You Like SVG, You'll Love SVG 1.2
Currently a W3C Working Draft, SVG 1.2 is a major update of SVG. Robin Berjon presented what's new in SVG 1.2. SVG 1.2 is a consolidation of things that, in the preceding versions, often required JavaScript coding. SVG 1.2 should thus notably limit the use of JavaScript in SVG documents.
The feature that has most impressed me is definitely "sXbL", which enables the display arbitrary XML documents as SVG through a transformation. The transformation language defined for that purpose is easier than XSLT and bi-directional so that modifications applied to the resulting SVG are brought back into the original XML.
JavaScript fans will be happy to learn that SVG DOM has been improved with some brand new features to access the properties of pictures (such as metadata, size and even access to pixels), as well as with new network functionality. According to Berjon, SVG 1.2 is "not just a nifty 2D language but rather the graphical interface to all things XML".
Have a REST
We return to web services with Paul Prescod's presentation, which compared two REST implementations, Amazon.com and Atom.
As expected from a defender of the REST architectural style, Prescod's presentation started with a moving speech in favor of REST: "the document is what matters"; "we need resource oriented architecture rather than SOA [service oriented architectures]"; "XML is the solution to the problem, not the problem"; "the emphasis should be on resources" and "there should be a seamless web of information resources".
The comparison between the two implementations focused on the impact of their contexts on a touchy choice: the choice of the identifiers. As mentioned earlier, the purpose of Amazon.com's web services is to open its IT system to partners and customers and that vision stays very egocentric. Amazon.com is the center of the extended enterprise.
In this context, the identifiers used by those web services are the identifiers used in Amazon's databases, and the products are identified by centrally assigned "ASIN" numbers. On the other hand, Atom is a fully decentralized organization and uses URIs which are by definition "universal" and do not require any centralized administration.
Although the difference may seem to be minimal, that choice means that Amazon.com's web services couldn't easily scale to become distributed between different organizations while Atom is natively designed to do so.
Saxon's Internals Revealed
Michael Kay described the XSLT and XPath optimizations performed internally by SAXON. He claims that, despite what we may have thought, the optimization techniques used for XSLT 1.0 (which doesn't have any schema related information) and XSLT 2.0 (which may rely on the schema of the source documents) aren't fundamentally different, even if some of them can be more effective with XSLT 2.0 .
The reason why the benefit of schemas for optimization purposes is so limited is that the source documents and the XSLT transformations by themselves already provide most of the information needed to perform the optimizations. Thinking about it, it occurs to me that it should have been obvious since my Examplotron has shown that instance documents can be considered schemas. Similarly, Kay explained that type information can be inferred from XSLT 1.0 transformations. For instance, if a parameter is initialized as "1" and later used to feed another parameter after being incremented, it is easy to guess that this parameter will always be an integer.
If you needed a reason for using XSLT 2.0, you'll have to look for another one.
The PSVI Exposed
The Post Schema Validation Infoset (PSVI) is the set of information gathered at validation time. This set is sparsely described in the W3C XML Schema recommendations and the PSVI remains for most of us a very abstract concept.
Elena Litani proposed a description of an API defined by the Xerces project to expose the PSVI as well as the schema components through DOM or SAX. Published as a W3C Note, this API is currently implemented by the Java and C versions of Xerces and gives a read access to the schema components and PSVI information items associated with elements or attributes from instance documents.
Formal Logic to Rescue
One of the problems with W3C XML Schema is that, unlike RELAX NG, it doesn't rest on a mathematical model that would have provided a coherent and ambiguity free formalism. Henry Thompson proposes to define logics to describe both the relations between schema components and the relation between schema components and instance documents. These logics consist of a syntax (or "sentential form"), a model, and an interpretation that relates the syntax to the model.
Although presented differently, I found this approach similar to what is presented in the specification of RELAX NG. The approach has been very beneficial to RELAX NG and is definitely a path worth following.
Beside the fact that the models are different -- which is to be expected, since they describe languages with different semantics -- Thompson insists on the need to give formal definitions of the three components of these logics, while RELAX NG has kept the third component (interpretation) as plain English in its specification. In that respect, I think that Thompson's proposal can be seen as a generalization of the RELAX NG approach and that it should be applicable to other languages.
Thompson lists many potential benefits and applications of this approach: a formal description is a normative reference that doesn't tolerate the ambiguities found in natural language prose. It should be possible to generate readable specifications from this formal description, and tools able to process these grammars should be able to check their coherence and provide reference implementations which, though probably very slow, may be able to distinguish between different human interpretations of the logic.
RELAX NG and XSL-FO
The XSL-FO recommendation doesn't provide any schema or DTD to describe its vocabulary, so Alexander Peshkov proposes a RELAX NG for XSL-FO. Comparing the usage of several schema languages (including XSLT) to validate XSL-FO documents, he concludes that RELAX NG is far superior to the other alternatives and even suggests to use NRL (also known as DSDL Part 4) to validate the XSLT transformations that produce XSL-FO documents.
The main limitation encountered with RELAX NG during the development of this very complex schema is the inability to classify errors between severe errors and warnings. Peshkov wants to work around this limitation by performing two validations: one against a lax schema that will report only severe errors and another one against a strict schema that will also report warnings.
Interestingly, this is a feature that I am using in the editorial system of XMLfr and that I propose to include to DSDL Validation Management.
Ontology Driven Topic Maps
After a reminder of what Topic Maps and ontologies are, how they overlap but are also complementary, Bernard Vatant described a proposal for using OWL/RDF to define constraints on Topic Maps.
The idea isn't really new since using OWL (or its predecessor DAML+OIL) on Topic Maps had already been proposed by Nikita Ogievetsky at Extreme Markup Languages 2001 and by Eric Freese at XML 2002. These previous proposals were based on an explicit translation of Topic Maps in RDF and, although this translation seems simple enough that I proposed a first draft in early 2001, the RDF and Topic Map communities have not reached a consensus on this point.
To avoid this most controversial point Vatant said that his proposal isn't yet another RDF serialization of Topic Maps, and he has cautiously chosen to rely directly on URIs that seem to be the common denominator between the two communities. He proposes to use OWL/RDF to define constraints on Topic Maps topics, associations, roles and other "knowledge objects" manipulated by a Topic Map and identified by their URIs without attempting to explicitly model what these knowledge objects are in RDF.
This is enough to check if a Topic Map "commits" to an ontology, i.e. if all its classes, associations, roles and occurrence types are defined in the ontology and the assertions made in the Topic Map are consistent with the ontology. As minimal as it may appear to be, this proposal allows one to use all the expressive power of OWL and RDF Schema to express constraints on Topic Maps, and this goes well beyond the features envisioned for TMCL, the language that's currently being specified to express constraints on Topic Maps.
Test Driven XML Systems
The complexity of XML systems is often aggravated by the weakness of associated test tools; the interdependency between the various components and resources involved (instance documents, schemas, transformations, programs, etc.) makes their evolution very perilous. Brandon Jockman proposed to improve all that through a better practice of test suites, especially where schemas and transformations are involved.
To validate schemas, he suggests using sample documents. That's nothing less than inversing the role of schemas and instance documents: in this new scenario, the instance documents validate schemas. That's an idea with which I have been playing for a while and although I like it, I think that it can also add to the burden of maintaining consistent systems as we'd need to migrate both the schema and the sample documents. If we work with sample documents which, again, is the basic idea behind Examplotron, why not generate the schema from the samples instead of checking that it matches the samples?
Semantic Blogging
Steve Cayzer proposed a more semantic approach to blogging. If adequate user interfaces encouraged weblog authors to add more metadata to their blogs, semantic blogs would be created in which it would be much easier to search and navigate.
Crawling the Semantic Web
Search engine bots or crawlers play a fundamental role in the Web and the Semantic Web also needs crawlers. Matt Biddulph described his Semantic Web crawler that relies on the rdfs:seeAlso term, which is to the Semantic Web what hyperlinks are to the Web.
Beyond lessons drawn from his implementation, tests and advice to authors of RDF documents to facilitate the job of Semantic Web crawlers, Biddulph elaborated on points that are specific to the Semantic Web: the possibility to store the result of the crawling in distributed databases, the need to store not only the RDF triples but also information on the sources, the necessity to manage the level of trust associated to the resources, and the possibility to use OWL to facilitate the integration of assertions using different identifiers for the same subjects (which is the common case with FOAF).
Uniting RDF and XPath
Adapting XPath to navigate graphs instead of trees was one of the hot and novel topics of Extreme Markup Languages 2003 with proposals from Steve Cassidy, who suggested adding new XPath axes, and Norman Walsh, who presented a tool that generates limited tree views from RDF graphs.
The new proposal by Damian Steer and its reference implementation based on SAXON is different from both since it lazily expends a RDF graph into local trees when the access to the nodes is first made. For instance, if "A" is linked to "B" which is linked to "C" which is linked back to "A", the XPath expressions "B/C" will navigate from "A" to "C" if "A" is the context node and "C/A" will navigate from "B" to "A" if "B" is the context node.
Applications using this mechanism need to check that they do not produce endless loops ("B/C/A" loops back to "A" when "A" is the context node) and XSLT as harmless as the classical identity transformation would produce an endless loop. Applied to RDF, this mechanism allows access to RDF "nodes" using XPath expressions that become independent of the syntactical variations of the XML syntax used to express the RDF graph.
Modernising Semantic Web Markup
The detractors of the XML serialization of RDF complain that it's more a macro-language to generate triples than a syntax for expressing triples. As if foreshadowing Steven Pemberton's call that "parsing is easy", a number of non-XML formats have been proposed for RDF, including N3 (by Tim Berners-Lee) and Turtle (by Dave Beckett) that are "real" syntaxes to express triples.
Dave Beckett, who pleasantly warned us "I can't stop myself inventing syntaxes", proposes "Regular XML RDF" (RxR) which is an XML serialization for RDF triples at the complete opposite of the XML syntax for RDF and follows the RDF data model.
Since the RDF data model is about describing a graph composed of triples made of a subject, a predicate, and object, the elements of the RxR vocabulary are "graph", "triple", "object", "predicate" and "subject". RxR is (almost) as simple as that. It appears to be an ideal syntax to represent in a simple, easy to read and almost canonical fashion a RDF graph in XML. But we must note that RxR documents are much more verbose than the RDF/XML syntax: sometimes a macro language can be beneficial.
The abstract of Steve Newcomb's presentation left me curious what it was about. It was a presentation of the conclusions of a study done for the European Commission regarding R&D in the area of electronic publishing. Its conclusions are rather optimistic and enumerate a number of reasons why Europe could become a key player in the revolution of the publishing industry that is currently under way.
Steve Newcomb urges us to improve the dialogue between IT developers and the purveyors of knowledge and content: given the importance of this revolution, "cost saving isn't the vision" and content publishers need to be involved in the decisions. This should result in the improvement of the "smartness" of the content ("smartness" in that context being the "ability to participate fully at the semantic level to the intelligent space"). This smartness is, of course, welcome to use Topic Maps to express itself.
Noting that this effort needs a banner to be advertised and that the banner "Semantic Web" can't be used since publishing is not restricted to the Web, Steve Newcomb suggests that we rally behind the term "smart document".
ebXML Registries
EbXML registries as described in the joint OASIS and UN/CEFACT ebXML registry specification, also published as an ISO 15000 standard, provide a highly generic distributed storage system that is independent of the other ebXML specifications. Even when they are used in a complete ebXML system to store documents such as CPP (Collaboration Protocol Profile), BP (Business Process specification) or Core Components, they have no specific knowledge of the semantics and properties of these documents and treat them as opaquely as they would a JPEG image.
The purpose of the presentation of Farrukh Najmi was to show how ebXML registries could be used as CMS to store documents for publication on the Web. After brief presentations of what CMSes are, on one hand, and ebXML registries on the other hand, Najmi did a tour of the main features of ebXML registries (publication, research and management, document life cycle management, metadata, notification, security and federation) to explain how they might be beneficial to implement a CMS.
Refactoring XML
That's Alex Brown who took the challenge to bring out this controversial subject. Among his complaints against XML are its verbosity (most of the features that could keep SGML documents concise have been suppressed from XML), the "attribute question", a data model (the XML infoset) more complex than it should be with the variety of its types of nodes.
Claiming that a good design is elegant, minimal yet complete and separates data from presentation, Alex Brown notices that XML isn't elegant (the attribute question "smells bad"), isn't minimal, and doesn't separate the data, the XML infoset, from the syntax, which is imposed. To fix that, he proposes to define a new profile of SGML, simpler than XML that would keep a compatibility with XML and would get rid of DTDs, PIs, comments, CDATA sections, attributes and namespaces. This proposal doesn't seem to have convinced the many W3C members attending the session, some of whom voiced objections during the Q&A session.
XHTML/RDF
The last presentation was by Mark Birbeck, who proposed an XHTML 2.0 syntax for representing RDF triples recently published as a W3C Note. It's achieved by allowing "meta" elements and attributes pretty much everywhere in XHTML documents. Birbeck has shown how different combinations of these element and attributes could provide a flexible way to express RDF triples.
This work appears to be moving on at a fair pace and the principal remaining issue seems to be how to bind assertions to a fragment of a page: the current proposal relies on "id" attributes in a way that hasn't fully convinced me. The challenge is important since the goal is to reconcile XHTML and RDF.
The State of XML
The closing plenary was given by Edd Dumbill and was published in last week's issue of XML.com. Dumbill had chosen to pick the most important topics and comment upon them in detail; both the choice of these topics and his comments were in sync with the recurring theme of "refactoring the use of XML". Six years after the publication of XML 1.0, there are still many interesting things to discover, even in the "lowest" layers of the architecture and XML conferences still have an important role to play.
Other resources about XML Europe 2004:
Cafe Con Leche (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday)
The State Of XML (XML.com)
The party's over (Edd Dumbill)
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What are Cryptocurrencies - Are they a bubble ready to burst?
Topic: Investor Insights 4 December 2017
The cryptocurrency market was almost unheard of just last year, but in a matter of months it has exploded in popularity and is now valued at over £560 billion. But as more and more investors scramble to jump on the cryptocurrency bandwagon in the pursuit of big gains many experts have predicted that the cryptocurrency bubble will soon burst and its value fall like a rock.
But what is cryptocurrency? Is it the next big thing - or is it a dangerous bubble that’s ready to burst?
Since the launch of Bitcoin in 2009, there have been thousands of variants of cryptocurrencies created - such as Ethereum and Litecoin, with each offering a new, digital form of currency as an alternative to the traditional currency and banking model were transactions are handled either through exchanging cash or via electronic transfers. However, cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, take on the responsibility of keeping track of transactions, and remove the need for banks.
Cryptocurrencies essentially work by following a 3-stage process.
1. The cryptocurrency network collects all of the transactions made during a set period through a process called ‘mining’.
2. The collected transactions are then stored in a list, called a ‘block’ and wrote into a general ledger.
3. The general ledger is essentially a long list of blocks, known as the ‘Blockchain’. Whenever a new block of transactions is completed it is added to the ‘Blockchain’ and made public so everyone’s transactions are updated at the same time.
These processes basically provide the safe exchange of money and ensure that the currency is used only once to make a purchase.
There are more than 1,000 cryptocurrencies
While Bitcoin has long been dominant in the cryptocurrency scene, it is certainly not alone. Since its launch in 2009 Bitcoin has remained the front running cryptocurrency but it has inspired many other digital currencies like Ethereum and Litecoin, who are its closest rivals in terms of popularity. But what’s the difference?
Ethereum: is probably the second most well-known cryptocurrency. It allows users to do more than just use it as a virtual currency. It enables the transfer of assets such as houses, cars, shares, and other property owned with a real-world value.
Litecoin: was one of the first cryptocurrencies to emerge after Bitcoin’s initial release. It has a much shorter processing time - about 2.5 minutes compared to Bitcoin’s 10-minute timeframe. Litecoin provides more tokens and a different mining algorithm, but to date it hasn’t taken off the same way as Bitcoin has.
Investors have achieved gains of 2,550%
The astronomic rise of the cryptocurrency market has led to the creation of over 1,000 different types of cryptocurrencies with a combined market value that exceeds £560 billion. But the first on the market and still the most popular of the cryptocurrencies is Bitcoin, who has a value alone that accounts for almost half of the cryptocurrency market.
The past 12 months has seen Bitcoin’s value skyrocket from £540 a year ago to an astonishing £14,310 today (18 December 2017), which represents a return of over 2,550%.
To put the enormity of bitcoin’s growth into context - if you had invested £37,730 purchasing Bitcoin 1 year ago your investment would now be valued at an astounding £1,000,000.
Why has it become so popular & should we be worried?
The recent rise of cryptocurrency has baffled a lot of economists. However, some analysts suggest that the 25-35 age bracket, who are the biggest spending consumers, have grown up in a world driven by digital technology and the allure of having an online virtual currency that is secure, anonymous and not centralised or controlled by a bank, has resonated with them.
However, although the technology behind cryptocurrency has been lauded and its overall function praised it has been claimed by Garrick Hileman, a researcher at the University of Cambridge’s Judge Business School, that investors simply buy cryptocurrency as a speculative investment, attracted by massive price gains. But this is potentially a major problem because if there are more people investing in cryptocurrencies to achieve monetary growth than there are consumers who are looking to use it - then there is simply no value to it. This is because in a market where investors rush to sell there will not be enough consumers willing to purchase. Therefore, with no liquidity, the perceived high value of the virtual currency will simply tumble and crash.
As a result, some banks say they are worried that a collapse in cryptocurrencies would have a knock-on effect on investments by individual investors in other asset classes. Deutsche Bank said in a report on Dec. 7 that a cryptocurrency crash - and the impact it could have on retail investors’ confidence - was one of the biggest risks to markets in 2018.
What about hackers?
Another critical risk for bitcoin, and all cryptocurrencies, is the potential for a cyberattack. Four years ago, Mt. Gox, which was handling about 70% of bitcoin's trading volume at the time, was hit by a crippling cyberattack. In the bankruptcy filing from Mt. Gox just months later, it cited the theft of 850,000 bitcoin (worth over £5 billion today) and cash. In the two years following this cyberattack, bitcoin wound up losing more than 80% of its value.
Today, cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex handles around half of all trading volume for bitcoin and while they have extensive safety features if they were to be hit with a cyber-attack, the potential carnage it would cause could be significant.
Should you invest in cryptocurrency?
The cryptocurrency craze has created both fear and excitement but it is currently significantly more volatile than investing in shares, equities or any other asset class for that matter.
Cryptocurrencies can go up or down by 25% in a matter of minutes or hours - and in a span of just five months, Bitcoin, the most popular digital currency, endured three bear-market-like crashes of 38%, 40%, and 29%, respectively.
Cryptocurrency markets are wild and fast. You could watch one particular virtual currency jump 1,000% in a day just to watch it lose that same 1,000% the next.
Many of bitcoin's wild price swings owe to retail investors' piling into or bailing out of bitcoin based on the latest news, and It wouldn't take much for investor sentiment to shift and send bitcoin's value plummeting.
The head of the Financial Conduct Authorities (FCA) Andrew Bailey, said: “If you want to invest in Bitcoin, be prepared to lose all your money. That would be my serious warning.”
The bottom line is, even though the growth of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies over the past several months has generated huge returns for investors the fact is, the risks they pose are just too great for most investors to take a gamble on.
So, unless you are a high-risk investor who can afford to lose everything that you are willing to invest in cryptocurrencies then, for now at least, it is best to stick to less volatile and more predictable investment opportunities.
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From corporate world to media, women entrepreneurs have outshined in all spheres. The new generation of business women is not just the contributor but frontrunner in every domain whether you talk of dealing with economic pressures or business risks. We studied some of these women across the globe and created this list of the most empowered business ladies in the realm of technology-based businesses. This list of women entrepreneurs is diverse due to the varied businesses but one thing that binds them together is their passionate urge to lead.
Following are the success stories of women entrepreneurship that make rounds globally:
Leah Busque:
Founder and CEO of TaskRabbit
Leah Busque started her career with IBM as a software engineer. After working there for seven years, her passion for technology forced her to build a platform that could utilize her potential. The idea of creating TaskRabbit came when she herself was in a situation where she had no time for buying food for the dog. This was when she envisaged her dream platform which could connect neighbors to help each other in such situations. After coding for almost a season, she created RunMyErrand, the initial name of TaskRabbit.
It was in 2008 that this portal was launched with 100 runners and Leah Busque finally joined the league of female entrepreneurs. A bachelor of science in Mathematics and Computer Science, this young capitalist today leads TaskRabbit, a venture that has recently secured $38 millions of funding.
Her Popular Quotes:
“It’s easy to get distracted when the competitive landscape gets crowded and new companies are popping up all the time. But don’t worry too much about what’s happening externally.… A company is only as good as the team behind it.”
“Stay focused on what you’re doing well and what your company is doing well”
Tory Burch:
CEO, Chairman, Tory Burch LLC
A designer, founder, philanthropist and a business woman, this New York-based entrepreneur has an inspiring success story. The style was something she learned, seeing her parents from the very first days of her childhood. Her small stint with Benetton gave her firsthand experience, but further experience came across while assisting the Yugoslavian designer, Zoran, who she joined after completing graduation. In addition to designing, she also managed advertising & PR profiles later while working with Vera Wang, Polo Ralph Lauren and Loewe.
The point to take the big entrepreneurial step came in her life only when she felt that the working woman inside her is feeling unfulfilled while she was busy raising kids and playing a wife. After gaining diverse experience from all sources, she finally borrowed $2 million from Christopher Burch, her husband to start her own brand, ‘Tory Burch’. Her fashion label is currently valued at $3.5 billion and is among the top fashion brands.
“I’ve paid my dues. ‘Ambitious’? I take that as a compliment. But I’m only ambitious about my career. Socially, all I need is my friends and family.”
“I heard and tried not to listen to a lot of negativity. The noise and negativity were just the sidebar.”
Sophia Amoruso
CEO of Nasty Gal
Sophia Amoruso is a young woman entrepreneur who owns online fashion store, Nasty Gal. At the age of 31, she is a multimillionaire running business worth millions. Nasty Gal began on eBay when Sophia started selling vintage fashion and managed everything from purchase to marketing. It was in 2008 only that she took the big step to launch Nasty Gal as an independent fashion e-store. Just within a year, the company shifted to its own warehouse in Berkeley. Gradually the staff and sales increased too and made Nasty Gal, the fastest growing retailer of 2012 (As per INC magazine). Currently, Nasty Gal serves 550,000 customers in over 60 countries.
“Don’t chase dollars. Pursue an interest, develop an intimate knowledge of some cultural sphere and then figure out where there are problems or inefficiencies within that subset of society.”
“I partner with my customer.”
Caren Maio:
Co-Founder, Nestio
Caren pursued BA in Publishing & Branding from New York University and worked with the big brands like Nike and The Wall Street Journal. Nestio is an online portal that makes apartments search easier. The company was founded with two of her friends in 2011 and is acknowledged as a rapidly growing online business.
Inc Magazine has ranked Caren among “the fifteen women to watch” in technology sphere. Her passion for technology & real estate is the biggest reason behind the impressive growth of this real-time residential listings website. Caren is a go-getter who enjoys her work more than anything else and inspires young females of US to take their first step as an entrepreneur.
“I’m not afraid to admit that I know what I don’t know, and hopefully in doing so, will be able to build the strongest team possible and bring complementary skill sets together.”
Amy Jo Martin:
Author & Entrepreneur, Founder- Digital Royalty
Amy Jo Martin owns Digital Royalty, a social media & education company for businesses and individuals who want to establish their brand identity. She started her career with an advertising house, and made her way to touch newer heights. Soon after, she held the position of Director of Digital Media and Research in NBA’s Phoenix Suns. She went on to found Digital Royalty in 2009.
Amy has received several accolades for her book, ‘Renegades Write the Rules’. The book got so popular that New York Times called it the Best Seller. Forbes has rated Amy Jo among the most powerful women on Twitter (she has more than 1 million followers). She also contributes to Harvard Business Review, Huffington Post and Sports Business Journal. Whether it is Twitter, business, writing or travel, Amy makes it special with her clear goals and passionate soul.
“Confidence and empowerment are cousins in my opinion. Empowerment comes from within and typically it’s stemmed and fostered by self-assurance. To feel empowered is to feel free and that’s when people do their best work. You can’t fake confidence or empowerment.”
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Toothpaste: It's something most people use every day, but rarely give much thought to — except, perhaps, when choosing from among the dozens of brands that line the drugstore shelf. Is there any difference between them? What's toothpaste made of… and does it really do what it promises on the box? To answer those questions, let's take a closer look inside the tube.
The soft, slightly grainy paste that you squeeze on your brush is the latest in a long line of tooth-cleaning substances whose first recorded use was around the time of the ancient Egyptians. Those early mixtures had ingredients like crushed bones, pumice and ashes — but you won't find that any more. Modern toothpastes have evolved into an effective means of cleaning teeth and preventing decay. Today, most have a similar set of active ingredients, including:
Abrasives, which help remove surface deposits and stains from teeth, and make the mechanical action of brushing more effective. They typically include gentle cleaning and polishing agents like hydrated silica or alumina, calcium carbonate or dicalcium phosphate.
Detergents, such as sodium lauryl sulfate, which produce the bubbly foam you may notice when brushing vigorously. They help to break up and dissolve substances that would normally be hard to wash away, just like they do in the laundry — but with far milder ingredients.
Fluoride, the vital tooth-protective ingredient in toothpaste. Whether it shows up as sodium fluoride, stannous fluoride or sodium monofluorophosphate (MFP), fluoride has been conclusively proven to help strengthen tooth enamel and prevent decay.
Besides their active ingredients, most toothpastes also contain preservatives, binders, and flavorings — without which they would tend to dry out, separate… or taste awful. In addition, some specialty toothpastes have additional ingredients for therapeutic purposes.
Whitening toothpastes generally contain special abrasives or enzymes designed to help remove stains on the tooth's surfaces. Whether or not they will work for you depends on why your teeth aren't white in the first place: If it's an extrinsic (surface) stain, they can be effective; however, they probably won't help with intrinsic (internal) discoloration, which may require a professional whitening treatment.
Toothpastes for sensitive teeth often include ingredients like potassium nitrate or strontium chloride, which can block sensations of pain. Teeth may become sensitive when dentin (the material within the tooth, which is normally covered by enamel, or by the gums) becomes exposed in the mouth. These ingredients can make brushing less painful, but it may take a few weeks until you really notice their effects.
What's the best way to choose a toothpaste? The main thing you should look for is the American Dental Association (ADA) Seal of Acceptance on the label. It means that the toothpaste contains fluoride — and that the manufacturer's other claims have been independently tested and verified.
But once you've chosen your favorite, keep this bit of dental wisdom in mind: It's not the brush (or the paste) that keeps your mouth healthy — it's the hand that holds it. Don't forget that regular brushing is one of the best ways to prevent tooth decay and maintain good oral hygiene.
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Study: Professional and marital misconduct are linked
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Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have discovered a definitive connection between marital infidelity and professional misconduct — regardless of the profession of the individual involved.
The study took a look at four different categories of people: financial advisors, people who had ultimately been convicted of white collar crimes, police officers and highly placed executives. The researchers focused on those who had used the now-infamous Ashley Madison website that encouraged marital infidelity under the mantra “Life is short. Have an affair.” In total, researchers looked at 11.235 different people.
The results of the study? In short, those professionals who used Ashley Madison’s services were more than twice as likely to end up in trouble for professional misconduct.
What does this mean? Well, researchers and psychologists will probably be sorting out all the implications for a while, but it basically indicates that someone willing to skirt the “rules” in their personal life may also be willing to skirt the rules of their professional life as well. The same moral attitudes that allow someone to mentally justify cheating on their spouse may, for example, allow them to grift a little from a client or an employer or ignore the legal rights of a criminal suspect.
Researchers did suggest that creating a corporate culture that eliminates sexual misconduct in the workplace — or maybe stressed morality in general — could help eliminate some instances of professional misconduct. There’s a lot to be said for that idea. When someone is surrounded by a corporate culture that tends to cut corners or sees the rules as something to be bent (if not outright broken), it can easily lead to a “Why not?” attitude.
While we certainly hope that you’ll never find yourself facing an administrative hearing over professional misconduct, just remember that you don’t have to handle it alone — and you probably shouldn’t.
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Global Marketing at Veeam – The Americas
Ziff Davis B2B September 26, 2019 October 8th, 2019
In this thought leadership series so far, we have interviewed leaders who manage global teams about demand generation across countries. Now we will also feature leaders in different countries from the same company, so we can compare and contrast their approaches. Our most recent guest, Brian Bakstran, is Vice President of America’s Marketing at Veeam. He gave us an interesting perspective from the Americas, and in future we will talk to Veeam’s marketing leaders in Europe.
Career and Background
Brian began his career in a number of roles in operations and admin. In the late 1990s when the internet was taking off, he said an opportunity arose at Bay Networks for managing joint marketing with key alliance partners. He enjoyed the experience and has worked in marketing ever since.
We asked Brian about key mentors and he mentioned Don Friedman, who was his CMO at Computer Associates (see our earlier interview with Lynn Teo of Computer Associates). Computer Associates had purchased Concord Communications where Brian was a Senior Director at the time, and he said Don gave him a shot as Vice President of North America Marketing – a pivotal experience in his career.
We asked Brian about thought-provoking book recommendations. He suggested:
AstroPhysics for People in a Hurry by Neil De Grass Tyson. A book to really boggle your brain, as summarized by this quote from the book: “We are stardust brought to life, then empowered by the universe to figure itself out—and we have only just begun.” The book will leave you wondering why the ratio of matter to anti-matter in the early universe tilted ever so slightly from 10,000,000,001: 10,000,000,000, and now everything we see around us is matter.
About Veeam
Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Baar, Switzerland, with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam provides “hyper-availability” solutions to organizations of all sizes. Brian said this goes beyond the typical “backup and recovery” to include true virtualization. He said the company started in the SMB market and dominated the SMB virtualization space. It has since expanded to also cover physical environments, hybrid cloud and cloud from an availability standpoint. He said Veeam is the dominant solution in the “hyper-availability” space, that is, “getting ready for and automating your tools so that your systems do not go down, and if they do, being ready to be back up and running within minutes.” He said what sets the solution apart is that it is “incredibly simple to use and install because it is software defined.” Veeam “doesn’t care what hardware someone has, the solution runs across NetApp, IBM, HP, and Cisco.”
We asked Brian what attracted him to join Veeam. He mentioned his key reasons for joining as:
Culture. Brian said when Peter McKay, the co-CEO of Veeam called him about the opportunity, he talked about a company culture based around people and teamwork. Peter said he looked for and valued people who are “Hungry, Humble and Smart” – the three attributes of the Ideal Team Player as described in the book of the same name by Patrick Lencioni.
Growth. Brian said Veeam is a very fast growing unique company on its way towards becoming a unicorn status $1 billion software company.
Customer Satisfaction. Brian said the product works well and Veeam has a Net Promoter Score of 72, which is in some cases double its competitors. He said that across 280,000+ different customers, there are very few support tickets.
Marketing in the Americas
Brian said that Veeam follows a 100% channel-driven sales model, with 53,000+ partners who service and sell to 280,000+ customers. This includes channel resellers, corporate resellers, and 3 alliance resellers (HP, NetAPP and Cisco). Veeam also partners with 16,000 cloud virtual service providers around the world. To build the market in different geographies, they will work with partners in their alliance around the world to establish joint marketing plans and drive demand with and through the partner community. While the same model holds true worldwide, Brian said that in Latin America the Veeam brand is not as well known and they are just building out the marketing organization there. They will spend more of their budget going to third party events, whereas in North America events do not take as much of the demand generation budget and they can also drive awareness into the market directly based on stronger brand recognition.
“ABM on Steroids”
Brian said that Veeam “started in SMB in Europe, moved up through commercial, and is now doing full court press on the enterprise.” With the ramped up efforts on targeting the enterprise also comes different marketing strategies, messaging and positioning. Brian described their approach to the enterprise as “Account Based Marketing on Steroids.” They have data gathered around large accounts, what they have purchased from Veeam, who the channel partner is, who the competition is, etc. They will also have a lot of data gathered by segment, for example, “for these 80 focus companies in oil and gas, what are their business problems in hyper-availability and the cloud?” They will work closely with their partners to pick, say, the 200 accounts a large partner is already in, and work with that partner on joint offerings. Brian mentioned that the partnership benefits obviously work both ways, for example, many partners would love to have more access to service the 280,000+ Veaam customers.
We learned a lot from talking to Brian and getting his perspectives on marketing in North and South America. Stay tuned for our upcoming conversations with Veaam’s leaders in Europe, which we will be featuring soon.
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The Zoar Outdoor Management Team
Zoar Outdoor was established in 1989 to offer outdoor adventures in the Deerfield River Valley and beyond. Our staff of over 100 consists of friendly professionals from all walks of life ranging in age from 18 - 65 years. Many of our staff are cross-trained in several areas, enabling them to work as a raft guide, kayak instructor or climbing teacher. It is not uncommon to find a high school math teacher, a nurse or a lawyer guiding one of our rafts or teaching in a kayak. The versatility of our team members allows our staff to provide excellent service to our guests and to make each Zoar Outdoor adventure truly memorable.
Bruce Lessels, President, and Karen Blom, Vice President
Bruce and Karen opened Zoar Outdoor in 1989 to introduce people with an adventurous spirit to the incredible rivers and mountains of southern New England. In the years since, they have expanded Zoar Outdoor’s offerings and facilities, but kept their focus on serving guests in a friendly atmosphere that allows the Zoar team to accommodate a variety of people in the many programs Zoar offers.
Before starting Zoar Outdoor, Bruce was a member of the U.S. Whitewater Team and won the bronze medal in C-1 at the 1987 World Whitewater Championships in France and Karen worked as a public health nutritionist. They have both served as board members of the Deerfield River Watershed Association, the US Canoe & Kayak Team and New England FLOW. Bruce is past chair of the Franklin County Chamber of Commerce board of directors and Karen is past President of the Shelburne Falls Area Business Association. Both Bruce and Karen are ACA certified canoe and kayak instructors. Bruce has written several whitewater books for the Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC) including The Whitewater Handbook, an excellent source of whitewater technique information for all levels of canoe and kayak paddlers and Classic Northeastern Whitewater Guide, a comprehensive guide to the best whitewater runs in the northeast region for novices to experts. Bruce and Karen co-authored a book in 2002 for the AMC entitled Paddling With Kids.
At Zoar Outdoor, Bruce is in charge of overall operations, marketing, finance, and business development and Karen is responsible for human resources, special events and public relations.
Janet Burnett Cowie: Director of Paddlesport Programs
Janet oversees our Outfitters Shop and instruction programs including whitewater kayaking, canoeing and rock climbing. She is also our logistics guru for food services and vehicles. Since 1996, Janet's people skills and expertise have helped grow our paddling school into one of the premier kayak programs in the country. Janet has been whitewater paddling since 1983, when she joined the University of Massachusetts Outing Club.
Janet is an ACA Level 4 Whitewater Kayak Instructor Trainer Educator, Level 4 River Canoe Instructor/Level 3 River Canoe Instructor Trainer and Advanced Swiftwater Rescue Instructor. In 2011 Janet received ACA's Excellence in Instruction Award. She helped to organize the first Whitewater Symposium at Zoar Outdoor in 2003 and again in 2009, and continues to be involved with the Whitewater Symposium movement. She received her bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Massachusetts.
Kevin McMillan: Director of Guided Programs
Kevin has been guiding and trip leading for Zoar Outdoor since 1992 and oversees our rafting and livery programs and canopy course. Before coming to Zoar, he worked for several years as an experiential educator with regional schools and as a technical specialist with corporate programs. Kevin was the 1996 recipient of the Massachusetts Office of Travel & Tourism Hospitality Award. His quick wit and excellent people skills combined with his extensive knowledge of the rivers we raft and river rescue techniques ensure that our guests are in good hands when rafting with Zoar Outdoor. Kevin is an ACA river rescue instructor and is a Wilderness First Responder.
Ruben Perkins: Lodging Manager
Ruben has been around Zoar since he was little. He eventually became a Zip Line Guide in 2015. He also worked as an Assistant Lodging Manger before taking on the Manager position. You'll see most likely see Ruben happily checking in on our guests, zipping through the trees or putting his carpentry skills to use. In his spare time, he may be climbing going to the local Mutton and Mead Festival or hanging out with friends and family.
Jacqui Proctor: Sales and Marketing Manager
Jacqui comes from years of sales and marketing experience from working in the art world. She likes to stay involved with our local community and serves on the Marketing Committee and Board for the Greater Shelburne Falls Area Business Association. Jacqui is originally from Cleveland, Ohio, but quickly fell in love with Western Massachusetts. In her spare time, she loves creating artwork, teaching Ukulele, playing soccer, and SUPin' with her dog, Jake. Jacqui also loves taking on the class III and IV rapids on our Dryway trip! Give our office a call, there's a high percentage you'll speak with Jacqui and she's always up to help you plan your next adventure!
Brian Pytko: Rafting Manager
A former high school social studies teacher and baseball coach, Brian started rafting with Zoar Outdoor back in 2000, and took over the Rafting Manager responsibilities in 2009. Forever a teacher at heart, Brian oversees new guide training and development, is an ACA swift water rescue instructor, and even does a little snowboard instructing during the off-season. Brian’s Wilderness First Responder Certification, intuitive river sense, dedication to customer service, and uncanny attention to detail ensures that Zoar’s rafting trips and guided kayaking trips run smoothly and safely.
Rachel Maestri-Hailey: Canopy Tour Manager
Rachel, a former chef and graduate of Johnson & Wales University, comes to Zoar with a background in guest services and the ropes course industry, as well as a passion for the outdoors after a career shift in 2008. Rachel holds several rock climbing certifications with the AMGA and is an avid climber. She spent her seasons before Zoar leading youth and college adventure programs. As the canopy tour manager, she has taken her love of adventure, experiential learning, and creativity to new heights by overseeing the New Guide and Trip Leader Training programs. Her WFR certification, connection to guests, and attention to detail ensure that Deerfield Valley Canopy Tours run in excellence.
Jim Sullivan: Paddlesports Manager
Jim has been paddling the rivers of New England since learning to kayak as a teen near Springfield, Massachusetts. He is an avid river runner, playboater and all around paddler and has run every rapid on the Dryway on a standup paddleboard (upright) at least once! He works closely with Janet Cowie providing leadership in our Paddlesports programs.
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by Sailor Studio | Jul 20, 2018 | Story | 0 comments
“Many of the students expressed how much they had appreciated learning to understand the big picture of the bible and its implications for preaching and teaching ministries.”
In August 2016 Tony Spencer taught African Enterprise’s first ever PTC course in Ghana. In line with recent revisions to AE’s pastor training strategy, the course was planned as preparation for the major mission that was held in the northern town of Kumasi in October 2016. 41 Church leaders and evangelists from churches involved in the mission preparation and delivery were selected to receive training in Biblical Theology 1 and evangelism and follow up using materials from Matthias Media such as 2 Ways to Live and Just for Starters.
Many of the students expressed how much they had appreciated learning to understand the big picture of the bible and its implications for preaching and teaching ministries. They seem to be deeply edified in the gospel through the unit which was a great encouragement.
One older man expressed that he felt a new passion to read and study the bible and that he has wasted many years trying to do so without understanding the big picture and basic interpretive skills.
Another student expressed deep concern at the state of Christianity in Australia. He had been kept awake praying for Australia and even contemplating if there is anything he could do, perhaps coming and helping reach the lost.
David Owusu Ansah, one of those who attended the course, was so keen to use his training that he started preaching to prostitutes in the evenings! So far he’s managed to rescue over 20 women from the sex industry who gave their lives to Christ. They are now being housed in a local church and have entered AE’s Women’s Rehabilitation Program where they are learning vocational skills and learning about God’s word.
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The Importance of Prayer in Mission: Kampala
City outreach and stratified evangelism began this morning with our team being invited to speak to the police officers in the Old Kampala Police Headquarters. The mission team arrived as the officers were completing their morning march.
Kampala: A Local Church
When AE Uganda began preparing for this mission over a year ago, they found that there were deep divisions in the local churches and some refused to work together at all. Before we could do effective outreach to the city, we first had to help heal the divisions within the churches.
Salvation in the slums of Kampala
Hundreds of mission volunteers arrived at the Buskenyi Slum in western Kampala to clean the streets as an act of love and service to the community. The streets and gutters were piled high with rubbish and filth, but our team faithfully cleaned and witnessed to the community about Christ’s love.
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Violence and war have left a deep scar on the nations of Africa and on the hearts of many affected most acutely by it. African Enterprise has been challenged during recent years by the number of people who are victims of violence. The need is truly overwhelming.
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Music Habits Tag!
Hello! The awesome Ana Regina @ Diversion 3000 tagged me to do the Music Habits Tag, which was created by Sumedha @ The Wordy Habit. I haven’t done a tag in a very long time (sorry to anyone who’s tagged me in anything!) but since I love music, I thought I’d give it a try!
Tag the creator.
Thank the person who tagged you.
Answer all the questions.
Tag at least three friends.
Do you download songs or stream on apps like Spotify, Wink?
So mostly I stream music on Spotify or occasionally YouTube. I don’t really download songs as such but if I really like an album I’ll buy the CD then transfer the songs from that into my phone.
What’s your current favourite song?
Oooh I think it would have to be between Cheetah Tongue by The Wombats and Everybody Wants To Be Famous by Superorganism. They’re songs I just keep hearing on the radio lately and consequently end up singing or humming along to subconsciously 😂 Ahh but there’s also Wild Love by James Bay that I’m in love with 😍
Last song you listened to?
According to Spotify, Hard Times by Paramore. I actually really love this song so this is also kind of a current favourite (it’s so hard to just pick one favourite eek!)
Who are your all-time favourite artists?
I have quite a few to be honest, the artists that I’ve been “in to” for quite a long time are Catfish and the Bottlemen, James Bay, Bastille and Walk the Moon but more recently I’ve fallen in love with HAIM. Also anyone who knows me will know how stupidly obsessed with the Bee Gees I am. Then there’s bands like Take That who were the soundtrack to my childhood so y’know, should probably include them too.
Have you been to any concerts?
Yes! My first concert was The 1975 a few years ago. Since then I’ve seen Catfish and the Bottlemen (who were amazing) and I went to Leeds Festival for a day last summer, where I finally got to see Bastille (my baes) amongst other artists including Ratboy, Bear’s Den and Kasabian to name a few (you can read all about it here!). This month I’m going to see Eliza and the Bear and Walk the Moon, both of which I’m very excited about!
Do you play any instruments?
I actually learnt to play the guitar and ukulele in year 8 – my mum and sister taught me. Then I tried to self-taught myself piano for a good few years but it was very hard so I don’t really play piano much anymore. However I still play guitar quite often – I can still remember the chords no matter how long I don’t practice for, ukulele on the other hand, I’ve forgotten the chords. Oops. I would like to learn piano properly one day as it’s such a beautiful instrument.
Do you play your songs on shuffle or choose a playlist?
I usually play a playlist. At the moment I have one called “2018 motivation” that I made at the start of the year with a few songs that help to put me in a positive mindset for the year ahead and I’ve just been adding new songs I like ever since. I never really put all my songs on shuffle as I listen to so many genres it’ll jump from musicals to 80s to indie and I’m never in the mood for all those types of music at the same time!
Name one song that you always skip when it comes up on shuffle.
I don’t think there’s any particular song, because it depends what playlist I have on, but sometimes if an older song comes on by an artist I’ve listened to for years and know all the words to, like James Bay for example, I may skip it because I prefer to listen to their newer stuff. However that doesn’t mean I don’t like to reminisce and listen to older music, I’ve just got to be in the right mood.
Do you prefer playing songs on a speaker or listening in ear/headphones?
When I’m studying I’ll use a speaker (well…my laptop or radio) because wearing headphones gets in the way but when I travel to and from college in the bus I always listen to music through earphones (don’t think people would appreciate me having a race on the bus 😂).
Are there any popularly liked songs that you don’t like?
Controversial opinion but: I just don’t like Ed Sheeran’s music?? I know everyone is obsessed with his songs but I’m just not a fan of them. Sorry guys.
Where do you usually find new music? Example through shuffle online, recommendations.
Usually through the radio! I spend a lot of time listening to BBC Radio 1 and Capital FM when I’m studying or on the bus, so usually I’ll hear new songs on their and if I like them I’ll add them to my 2018 Spotify playlist. Occasionally Spotify will play a suggested song that I like, but that’s very rare.
Do you like songs based on tunes/beats or lyrics?
Both! Most pop music I like because of the beat – it’s good to (attempt to) dance along to, but I feel like the quality of most current pop song lyrics is declining. Then there are songs I like because the lyrics stand out to me, even just a line but if I feel a connection to the lyrics, I like the song a lot more. For example at the moment I love the line “let’s leave the atmosphere, disappear” in Wild Love by James Bay.
Name one song that you think everyone should listen to.
I would have to say Falling by HAIM. I mean, all of HAIM’s songs are amazing, but this one in particular always motivates me with it’s repetition of “never look back, never give up” (and their voices are so beautiful, you should just listen to them like seriously).
That’s all the questions – I actually really enjoyed answering them and finding out more about my own music habits.
I’m going to nominate Victoria @ Doodles and Scraps, Jas @ It’s Simply Me Jasmine and Ellie @ The Diary of Ellie
Please don’t feel obligated to do it, and likewise if you’d like to do the tag and haven’t been tagged, please feel free!
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Eve @ Twist in the Taile says:
Ooh this is a great post! I might do this tag at some point, if it’s alright, it seems super fun. I hope you enjoy your concerts, that’s so exciting?!? I’m pretty sure I’ve only ever been to one concert that wasn’t a classical/choir thing and that was Dodie. I’d love to learn the piano someday as well but it’s so difficult. *sweats*
Em is Lost says:
Of course, go ahead! Thank youuu, I can’t wait!!! Oooh nice! Aww I feel you, one day!
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The Yoga St. Louis course syllabus is taught following the methods of B.K.S. Iyengar of Pune, India, as outlined in the following texts. Note that the details of the poses, as taught in class, are not the focus of these books in general publication.
The following texts, if not available at the Yoga St. Louis studio, may be purchased along with many other Iyengar-authored books online at Tools for Yoga.net.
Yoga in Action for Beginners: Preliminary Course, Geeta S. Iyengar, Mumbai: YOG, 2000.
The Yoga St. Louis Intro syllabus is based on this text, the most important text for new students.
It is an illustrated 120 page expanded home practice guide to the RIMYI Introductory Syllabus covering 49 poses with appropriate intermediate stages. The invaluable introductory and concluding remarks provide an overview of how each group of poses fits into the whole. Available at the Yoga St. Louis studio for $20 including tax.
Yoga in Action for Beginners: Intermediate Course-I, Geeta S. Iyengar, Mumbai: YOG. 2013.
An illustrated 120 page home practice guide to the RIMYI Intermediate syllabus covering 53 asanas and 8 pranayamas with appropriate intermediate stages. Available at the Yoga St. Louis studio for $20 including tax.
Light on Yoga, B.K.S. Iyengar, NY: Schocken, 1979.
Classic text includes all the poses, philosophy, extended course outline, inversions, and the therapeutic programs.
Light on Pranayama, B.K.S. Iyengar, NY: Crossroad, 1994
Details yogic breathing, Savasana, and meditation.
Yoga: The Path To Holistic Health, B.K.S. Iyengar, NY/London: Dorling Kindersley, 2001
Details of 23 fundamental asanas, 25 additional prop-modified poses, beginners course, and over 80 illustrated prop-modified sequences for ailments that set the standard for therapeutic yoga.
Yoga: A Gem For Women, Geeta S. Iyengar, Spokane: Timeless Books, 1983
Program for beginners, and also men, use of wall ropes, and recommendations for pregnancy and menstrual problems. Available at the Yoga St. Louis studio for $20 including tax.
Iyengar Yoga for Motherhood: Safe Practice for Expectant & New Mothers, Geeta S. Iyengar, et al, New York: Sterling Publishing, 2010.
The most complete text on the subject. It places practice in the context of Ayurveda, the four stages of life, and astanga yoga. Includes detailed instructions and benefits, for both beginners and advanced prenatal students separately, of the important asanas and pranayamas in the Preliminary Course, that cannot be found in any other text.
Graphically shows how to vary practice with sequences prior to pregnancy, for each trimester, birthing, and for each month post-partum.
Includes use of simple props as well as the Trestler and Wall Ropes for various conditions; and a chapter on anatomy and physiology of pregnancy from both the Ayurvedic and Western viewpoints.
Iyengar Yoga Publications by Other Authors
The following texts, authored by senior Iyengar Yoga practitioners primarily address specific applications of yoga.
Experiment & Experience On the Chair: The Yoga Way, Arun H.S., Bangalore: Prashant Yogashraya, 2014.
Illustrates over 150 adaptations that make even advanced poses doable using a backless chair for support; a blanket, brick, belt, and / or a bolster are occasionally employed.
The title is based on yoga practice as an experiment in refining consciousness based on one’s own experience, as opposed to a system of religious beliefs. The 60 page introduction includes a description of yogic and Ayurvedic principles, tips on learning and teaching, and the precepts of safe practice.
B.K.S. Iyengar, who wrote the foreword one month before his death at age 95, stated that this book shows how “props… can be used to better one’s practice” and “provide the right sense of direction” even “in old age.”
Geeta S. Iyengar’s Guide to a Woman’s Yoga Practice, Vol. 1, Lois Steinberg, PhD, Urbana,IL: Parvati Productions, 2006
Text focuses on how to practice according to the phase of the menstrual cycle: ovulation, flow, pre- and post-menstrual phases.
Hundreds of photos illustrate correct prop setups and adjustments for menstruation — normal flow, heavy flow, light flow, extended duration, short cycles. Includes an 85 page case study of student using six different sequences for her multiple problems.
Iyengar Yoga Asana Alternatives: The Neck and Shoulders, Lois Steinberg, Ph.D., Urbana,IL: Parvati Productions, rev. 2010.
Copiously illustrated manual of how to modify 80 introductory and intermediate poses for upper body misalignments. Teachers will appreciate how the props, invented by B.K.S. Iyengar, are used.
Yoga and Multiple Sclerosis, A Journey to Health and Healing, Loren M. Fishman, MD, & Eric L. Small, New York: Demos Medical Publishing, 2007. $14.95
Eric Small, diagnosed with MS in 1952, began practicing yoga in the 1960’s and studying with B.K.S. Iyengar in 1976. His Adaptive Iyengar Yoga program has been adopted nationally the by the MS Society, as well as, UCLA.
This volume illustrates how to adapt the poses for chair and wheelchair-bound students, as well as ambulatory students of all levels. How the poses work to improve range of motion, reduce spasticity, and improve strength, coordination and balance is explained from the physiological model, as well as from the yogic perspective. It is an eloquent testimonial to the power of yoga to provide hope and healing.
Yoga for Children, A Complete Illustrated Guide to Yoga, Rajiv & Swati Chanchani, New Delhi: UBS Publishers, 1995
Simple instructions that can be read independently by children from second grade on (with adult help to explain the illustrated stories that describe the poses and Yoga Sutras).
A Light on Yoga for children, photos of their two young sons and several adolescent girls illustrate the beginning and intermediate (not easy!) poses. Foreword by B.K.S. Iyengar and articles on teaching children by Geeta Iyengar.
Yoga, The Iyengar Way, Silva, Mira & Shyam Mehta, NY: Knopf, 1990
Well-illustrated program for beginners, and therapeutic sequences including restorative postures. Foreword by B.K.S. Iyengar.
Iyengar Yoga Philosophy Texts
Light on Astanga Yoga, B.K.S. Iyengar, New Delhi: Alchemy Publ., rev. 2008
This is a good companion to Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras. Unconstrained by Patanjali’s format, the first half of the book is grouped by topic, such as obstacles in practice, with detailed examples, analogies and sketches. The second part applies these principles to the relatively brief 29 sutras that comprise Astanga Yoga.
Light on Life, BKS Iyengar, Emmaus: Rodale, 2005
The most complete and easiest to understand explication of the Iyengar approach to practice and teaching. His explanations use the common analogies that he responds with when answering student questions. Available at the Yoga St. Louis studio for $20 including tax.
Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, BKS Iyengar, San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1993
Composed in the 2nd c. B.C.E., this is the first systematic treatise to define the most important elements of yoga theory and practice.
Interpretation with commentary — including expositions on certain key phrases and words that are in no other translations — that apply the Sutras to practice and teaching.
Core of the Yoga Sutras: the Definitive Guide to the Philosophy of Yoga, B.K.S. Iyengar, London: HarperThorsons, 2012.
Organized into fifteen themes, this commentary “restrings” the Sutras by topic, such as purusha and prakrti, and the characteristics and effects of Astanga Yoga. He reconciles Patanjali’s dualism with his ancestral lineage, Ramanuja’s qualified monism of Vishista Advaita Vedanta.
It elaborates on some of the key ideas in Light on Astanga Yoga and Yaugika Manas that were derived from his public addresses (see below), and requires an in depth understanding of Sanskrit terms used in the Sutras.
Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B.K.S. Iyengar from 1959 to 1975, B.K.S. Iyengar, Berkeley: Rodmell Press, [rev.] 2012.
Philosophical quotes from classes, stories, and correspondence from the journal of Noelle Perez-Christiaens, one of Iyengar’s first Western pupils.
It includes excerpts from Iyengar: a Hindu Mystic Drunk on God, Noëlle’s 1976 biography of Iyengar, and photos of the young Iyengar family.
The Tree of Yoga, Yoga Vrksa, B.K.S. Iyengar, Boston: Shambhala, 1989
Teaching, philosophy, therapeutics, and anecdotes.
Yaugika Manas: Know and Realize the Yogic Mind, B.K.S. Iyengar, Mumbai: Yog, 2010.
This text focuses on how the dual manas, mind, becomes polluted, and how to purify it through yoga.
B.K.S. Iyengar shows how astanga yoga is inherent in, and covers all aspects of, sadhana in the Yoga Sutras, from gross to subtle. He links various Yoga Sutras, supported by quotes from the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, the Bhagavad Gita, the Upanisads, Ramanuja, Vaisesika, Vedanta, and Ayurveda.
Elaborating on Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, a prerequisite, he explains how yoga philosophy gives depth to practice, and how practice reveals the depth of yogic philosophy. The volume is well referenced with copious use of transliterated Sanskrit, a five page glossary of terms, 15 tables, and several illustrations. It’s key points were subsequently integrated into Core of the Yoga Sutras.
Chittavijnana of Yogasanas, Prashant S. Iyengar, Pune: RIMYI, 2010.
Chitta-vijnana, consciousness-knowledge, conveys that yoga practice has the capacity to benefit consciousness — mind, ego, intellect — beyond just the gross physical aspects of health. As such, asana practice allows the practitioner to experience the non-dual state of being without the imposition of caste, creed, gender, or status.
Addresses asana in the context of kriya and the nature of action, mudra, meditation, mantra, prana, the five elements, and the trigunas.
Patanjala Yogasutra, Chanted by Pandit Sri S.T. Nagaraj, Pune: RIMYI
Introduction by B.K.S. Iyengar and Patanjali lecture by Geeta Iyengar. Learn to chant the Yoga Sutras following the best articulated recitation I’ve heard. (4 CD set and booklet)
There are many other texts similar to these available from IYNAUS, such as:
Astadala Yogamala (Collected Works), Vols. 1-8, B.K.S. Iyengar, New Delhi: Allied Publishers, 2000-2008.
A fully indexed compilation of lectures, articles, and interview transcripts on all facets of practice and philosophy that explains the thinking behind the Iyengar method of yoga.
Iyengar Yoga Periodicals
Yoga Rahasya, Dr. Rajvi H. Mehta, ed., Mumbai: RIMYI and the Light on Yoga Research Trust
Highly recommended quarterly publication with articles by B.K.S., Geeta and Prashant Iyengar about medical yoga, yoga philosophy, and detailed explanations of highlighted poses, as taught in class. Available by subscription from IYNAUS.
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Effectiveness of education for control of house dust mites and cockroaches in Seoul, Korea.
Kyoung Yong Jeong, In Yong Lee, Jongweon Lee, Han Il Ree, Chein Soo Hong, Tae Soon Yong
Department of Environmental Medical Biology
We evaluated the efficacy of health education in reducing indoor arthropod allergens in Seoul. The mite control measures comprised the use of mite-proof mattress and pillow coverings, regular washing of potentially infested materials, maintenance of a low humidity, removal of carpets, and frequent vacuum cleaning. Cockroach control measures included trapping, application of insecticides, and protecting food. Of 201 homes enrolled in October 1999, 63 volunteers were included in a 2-year follow-up survey between April 2000 and January 2002. Before intervention, the density of mites/g of dust varied greatly; 27.1/g in childrenos bedding, 20/g in adult bedding, 7.2/g on the floors of childrenos bedrooms, 6.8/g in sofas, 5.9/g on the floors of adultos bedrooms, 3.9/g on living room floors, 3.7/g in carpets, and 1.9 mites/g on kitchen floors. The predominant mite species and house percentages infested were; Dermatophagoides farinae 93%, D. pteronyssinus 9%, and Tyrophagus putrescentiae 8%. Comparing 1999 and 2001 infestations, before and after 25 mo of education, mite abundance was reduced by 98%, from 23.7 to 0.57 mites/g of dust. In 1999, cockroaches were detected in 62% homes: 36% Blattella germanica and 35% Periplaneta spp., including 9% double infestations of B. germanica and P. americana. Following intervention, cockroach infestation rates decreased to 22% of houses in 2000 and 23% in 2001. We conclude that continuous and repetitive health education resulted in the effective control of domestic arthropods.
The Korean journal of parasitology
https://doi.org/10.3347/kjp.2006.44.1.73
Published - 2006 Mar
Pyroglyphidae
Dermatophagoides farinae
Periplaneta
Jeong, K. Y., Lee, I. Y., Lee, J., Ree, H. I., Hong, C. S., & Yong, T. S. (2006). Effectiveness of education for control of house dust mites and cockroaches in Seoul, Korea. The Korean journal of parasitology, 44(1), 73-79. https://doi.org/10.3347/kjp.2006.44.1.73
Jeong, Kyoung Yong ; Lee, In Yong ; Lee, Jongweon ; Ree, Han Il ; Hong, Chein Soo ; Yong, Tae Soon. / Effectiveness of education for control of house dust mites and cockroaches in Seoul, Korea. In: The Korean journal of parasitology. 2006 ; Vol. 44, No. 1. pp. 73-79.
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The IRS requires businesses to report payments made to outside contractors on an annual information return called Form 1099-MISC. Companies do not all have the same tax classifications, so it is important to know the status of each company with which you are working. A limited liability company (LLC), in particular, can be tricky to understand, but the IRS makes clear distinctions when it comes to knowing under what circumstances you must issue a 1099-MISC form to an LLC.
Disregarded Entities
There are several types of LLCs, each with a different tax classification. If a company has a single member or owner, it is considered a "disregarded entity" by the IRS for tax purposes. That means the company and the owner are viewed as the same. All income, credits and business deductions are reported through the owner's tax return on Form 1040. As a disregarded entity, a single-owner LLC should receive a 1099-MISC form for business services they perform—unless it has chosen a different filing status.
You can't assume that because an LLC has a single owner, the company is a disregarded entity. LLCs with single owners can elect to be treated by the IRS as either a C-corporation or an S-corporation. If the owner formally makes this choice, then you do not need to issue a 1099. However, you cannot determine a company's tax classification status simply by looking at the company name. To find out the tax classification and legally cover your bases with the IRS, you need to request this information on a W-9.
W-9s
A party responsible for issuing 1099s should keep on file the tax classifications of all vendors or contractors. The IRS designated form for this is a W-9, also known as a "Request for Taxpayer Identification Number." The form asks for the business name, trade name if used and its taxpayer identification number. Box 3 also asks for its tax classification. If the contractor checks the box marked "Individual/Sole proprietor or single-member LLC," then the company is a disregarded entity, and you must send it a 1099-MISC. If it checks any of the boxes stating that the company is treated as a corporation, then you do not send a 1099.
Keep copies of the various IRS documents you obtain or issue for each contractor that does work for your business. Ideally, you should have each contractor complete a W-9 form before they do any work. This avoids any questions or delays when it comes time to issue the 1099-MISC forms at year-end. Also, you must send a copy of each 1099-MISC issued to the IRS. W-9 forms do not need to be filed with the IRS as they are only for your information.
IRS.gov: Single Member Limited Liability Companies
IRS.gov: 2018 Instructions for Form 1099-MISC
Payable.com: 1099-MISC Tax Basics
IRS.gov: Form W-9
Elisabeth Natter is a business owner and professional writer. She has done public relations work for several nonprofit organizations and currently creates content for clients of her suburban Philadelphia communications and IT solutions company. Her writing is often focused on small business issues and best practices for organizations. Her work has appeared in the business sections of chron.com, bizfluent and Happenings Media. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from Temple University.
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