Diffusing Essential Oils: Safe and Effective Tips | Nascent Naturals Inc.
There is a new fad to entice consumers to blow through copious amounts of essential oils. They're called electric diffusers, atomizers, nebulizers or any other contraption that will force essential oil into the air at warp speed. So why am I writing about this? Because so many of you have asked for my opinion; that's why. So here are my thoughts….
The first issue I will refer to as "The flippant, flagrant, overuse of essential oils as fragrance". Diffusing synthetic fragrances into the air via plug-ins, diffusers and motion sensing gadgets has been around for many years. This practice has come under a lot of scrutiny due to the hazardous phthalates and other chemicals forced out into the air with the fragrance.
This method of use has spilled over into the aromatherapy world. People who dislike synthetic fragrances now seem to think that it is perfectly fine to emit massive amounts of essential oils into the air in the same manner because they are "natural". While certainly healthier than synthetic fragrance, it is still potentially harmful and actually, well, unnecessary. Essential oils are not synthetic fragrances and not meant to be used this way. Yes, many of them smell great, but most are composed of complex chemicals that have therapeutic and medicinal purposes which can be achieved with a diffusion lasting just a few minutes, a few times a day.
As a comparison, most essential oils are comprised of easily one hundred or more naturally occurring chemicals with both medicinal and aromatic properties; however, due to their complex nature, they are volatile, unstable and easily start to degrade or oxidize when exposed to the air for any length of time. Most essential oils maximize their effectiveness in about 15 minutes. If heat is added, count on about half that time. This is a basic fact of chemistry with essential oils. Even the best quality essential oils will start to oxidize relatively fast.
Conversely, fragrances tend to be aromatic compounds that may have originated in an essential oil but are now produced in a laboratory. Phthalates, petrochemicals and other polymers may be added to keep the fragrance vibrant but are spread into the air as well. These are very stable and could last most of the day but possess no medicinal or therapeutic properties. If you are using what you think are essential oils and they are lasting a significant amount of time, you may be using fragrances and not know it.
Your olfactory system and lungs will accept the intake of any aroma for a short length of time before some form of odor fatigue may set in in along with the potential for some adverse reactions such as headaches, dizziness, hyperactivity or coughing. This is particularly true of children, people with breathing ailments like bronchitis and asthma or even those with epilepsy, brain cancers or head injuries.
I would never question the effectiveness of essential oils as inhalants or diffusing them into the air. I've been teaching and researching this for many years. There are many well documented studies authored by some pretty impressive scientists representing many respected Academic institutes worldwide. Results which are proven to help or support many issues such as inducing sleep, relieve pain, focus attention, help with memory, regulate blood pressure, influence moods and behaviours, soothe cough and cold, restore negative ions, reduce free radicals, repel mosquitoes and so much more.
This is precisely why you should not be casually using them as air freshener or saturating the airspace in your home or work all the time just because you like the aroma. Some skill and knowledge are required to achieve such results.
For example, just a few drops of an essential oil in a child's room once a day is more than enough to deal with minor colds and congestion. Bombarding your kids with essential oils all the time also does not allow their immune systems to develop properly or spring into action when necessary.
Diffusing too much essential oil to relax before going to bed can actually cause the opposite reaction of stimulating the brain even if it is an essential oil with sedating properties.
Your pets, in particular cats can be adversely affected as well. Felines do not have the ability to metabolize essential oils topically or via inhalation so you must be careful. Many stories are circulating lately about the safety of diffusing oils around cats with a few reported claims of deaths shortly after diffusions began. Whether there is any validity to this remains to be seen, but if your pets have been adversely affected, you are diffusing too much.
I also do not understand the apparent need for some to inundate others with their interpretation of aromatic bliss. Yes essential oils are natural, but they are still a chemical cocktail that our lungs and brain must process. Regardless of natural, many people don't want to be blasted with a strong aroma of any sort when they walk into a room. Some are just too polite to mention.
I work with essential oils all day on a large scale. I have to make sure safety protocols are in place for me and my employees. Knowing this, I have walked into many places such as health centres, retreats and homes where I was shocked by what was floating around the rooms. If someone like myself who is accustomed to large amounts of oils can be overwhelmed, what does that say about how it's affecting others? MSDS (material safety data sheets) which are available for all essential oils, clearly state that you need proper room ventilation when using them in any capacity. Sudden exposure to any strong aroma can trigger an asthma attack or epileptic seizure if the person is predisposed to any aroma sensitivities. Something to consider if you are using them in a clinical or health setting.
My second issue with diffusers is the lack of training and understanding of essential oil choices. Since diffusers seem to be an entry level for those seeking to start using essential oils, some more care and caution are necessary.
There have been many documented cases recently about the excessive diffusion of some rather harsh oils such as cinnamon which have had an adverse effect on children. There was a recent situation at a daycare in Idaho whereby one of the employees was diffusing cinnamon or something like it in the air while the children set down for an afternoon nap. Upon awakening, the children reportedly had dilated pupils, headaches and nausea along with a few staff members. The fire department was called since carbon monoxide was suspected. It was determined that the combination of the strong aroma of cinnamon in a poorly ventilated space for an extended period of time was the culprit.
This speaks to a poor understanding of essential oil use as anyone with a sliver of training should know better, especially where children are concerned. Cinnamon is to be used thoroughly diluted and only in small amounts for even the healthiest of people. There are many other oils which, when diffused in excess amounts during the day can be quite overwhelming to anyone's lungs and particularly hazardous to those with breathing problems. Eucalyptus, peppermint, rosemary, ti-tree all come to mind. I know what you're thinking; "but these oils are supposed to be good for respiratory problems"; yes they are but not by forcing them into someone's lungs all day. We actually absorb significant amounts of essential oils into our bloodstream via the lungs; something that was thought to be inconsequential not long ago.
Please don't give the excuse that you need to diffuse the oils all day for clearing the air, disinfecting, restoring negative ions etc. A few shots of oil in the air throughout the day is more than enough. Beyond that, you are just pushing expensive air freshener into the room. Yes expensive! Most fragrance and potpourri synthetic mixes cost between $5-20 for a 250-500 ml bottle and will last a long time. Many essential oils can cost $5 -20 for a 15 ml bottle with insanely higher prices for pure jasmine, rose and other precious oils which can easily exceed $100.00. Since you only get about 300 drops out of a 15 ml bottle, that's pricey and unnecessary.
Then there is the price of those little machines, all the features and accessories you need to purchase. Some costing hundreds of dollars all the way down to the poorly constructed cheap models pushed out by the big box stores. Caveat Emptor!
I also find that while some parts of a good quality diffuser may be glass or metal which makes it easy to clean, most of the device will be plastic. As you may know, essential oils tend to bond with plastics over time. The diffuser starts to have an odd smell of oxidized essential oils from over use and can't be properly cleaned. This impacts that pure oil aroma you are trying to enjoy which may lead the purchase of a new one.
Make sure you are using pure essential oils. Do not purchase from big box stores. Many of the oils sold at these places have proven to be synthetic. Support small independent essential oil brokers that have experience and connections to sell the real thing and provide proper advice.
Start out slowly with the amount you are intending to diffuse. It is always easy to add more.
Consider the room size. Ten drops of any essential oil diffused in a 10 x 10 room just once or twice throughout the day should be more than enough to achieve therapeutic results.
I don't recommend heat diffusion as the essential oil will degrade much faster. The cooler the oil is, the better when it leaves the diffuser.
Make sure the room is properly vented and or adequate air circulation is available.
Consider who will be inhaling the aromas. Is it children, elderly, people with breathing issues like asthma? Just because someone claims to think it is pleasant does not mean they will not have some side effects now or in the future from breathing in the oils.
Timing is everything. Early in the day you likely will want stimulating oils such as lemon, orange or peppermint. In the evening, more relaxing oils should be on tap such as lavender, chamomile. In a car, they should be stimulating but not overwhelming to keep you focused. You are in a very confined space so just try a drop at a time.
Which oils do you intend to use? Are they aggressive as in cinnamon, eucalyptus, rosemary? Read a little more about these before diffusing. Are they some of the more expensive ones in jasmine or rose? You may choke on the cost of the real thing.
For what purpose are you diffusing the oils? Is it for colds and flu, to relax, relieve stress, aphrodisiac or other mood enhancement etc. Make sure you are using appropriate oil mixtures for desired effect.
Take breaks from aromatic diffusions. Take some days off. When you diffuse again, it will be better appreciated by everyone. Moderation is the key.
You can create your own diffuser or effect with items you have around the home. They won't be conversation pieces and may not compliment your decor, but will be far less expensive, and do the job.
Take a glass of water. Fill it close to the top. Add a few drops of essential oils and put in front of a fan, air vent from your furnace or in front of a vaporizer. It's easy, inexpensive and the glass is easy to clean thoroughly with no residue. Just make sure your pets and small children don't try to take a swig of the stuff.
You can also cut some paper towels, cotton or gauze into thin strips. Add a few drops of essential oil and clip to a fan or air vent. For cars, put a few drops on a tissue and stick it in the air vent. When finished, just put them in the garbage. Cleanup is easy and all residues are easily removed.
Other ways to help purify the air naturally without any scent are to use trays of Himalayan salts or salt lamps, burn beeswax candles or use charcoal air filters.
Oh and if you still plan to buy a diffuser because you must have one, make sure it was not made in a country where child labour laws are non-existent and the workforce is exploited to the fullest, ensuring big profits here. That seems to happen when consumer demand for little appliances like these suddenly spikes. Either that or just wait a while; as with most fad gadgetry, you'll probably be able to pick one up for a few bucks at a garage sale. Ok you can exhale….
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On May 29, The National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) and the U.S. Dairy Export Council (USDEC) asked for further engagement with FDA on ways to facilitate U.S. dairy exports, while expressing concerns that the manner in which the U.S. government is handling shellfish trade would pose a deep concern if that same process were applied to the trade of dairy foods.
At issue is FDA's determination of whether a foreign country has food safety parameters equivalent to the United States, the organizations said. Equivalence is a process by which FDA can recognize other countries' food safety measures as meeting an equivalent level of protection as provided by U.S. food safety measures such as those mandated by the Interstate Shellfish Sanitation Conference or the National Conference on Interstate Milk Shipments.
In a letter sent on May 29 to FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, NMPF and USDEC praised the commissioner's commitment to "unlock economic opportunity … by creating new market access." They also outlined the various ways in which the agency's actions on dairy equivalence would need to differ dramatically from the process followed for establishing bilateral shellfish equivalency to safeguard U.S. consumers while addressing job-constraining foreign barriers to U.S. dairy products.
This spring, FDA published a notice in the Federal Register soliciting comments on its proposed finding that the European Union's food safety system for certain raw shellfish is equivalent to that in the United States. The notice represented the first time the agency has issued an equivalence determination. NMPF and USDEC filed detailed comments analyzing the notice's potential implications for America's dairy industry as FDA continues its ongoing Grade "A" dairy equivalence assessments of New Zealand, the European Union and Canada.
"While we recognize that the U.S. government has international obligations to be responsive to trading partners' equivalency requests while still upholding high U.S. food safety standards, our trading partners likewise have their own obligations to not impose unduly burdensome or trade-distorting measures on U.S. exports," said Jim Mulhern, president and CEO of Arlington, Va.-based NMPF. "As part of the administration's efforts to expand the U.S. economy and grow American jobs, FDA has a responsibility to safeguard our consumers while also working in tandem with our trade agencies to tear down foreign barriers to U.S. products.
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Matt McKnight, chief operating officer of Arlington, Va.-based USDEC, noted another area of the notice that would be problematic were it applied to dairy trade.
"American dairy producers in every state are governed by a uniform dairy food safety program which is overseen by FDA and provides consistently high food safety results for U.S. products exported all around the world, regardless of where in this country they were made," he said. "A dairy export deal that allowed only two states to access a foreign market, as is the case under this shellfish proposal, would create unacceptable commercial inequities in our industry.
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Eight leading universities in the Midlands are joining together to train the next generation of highly-skilled arts and humanities researchers, thanks to funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
The Midlands4Cities Arts and Humanities Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) will result in 460 new postgraduate studentship opportunities across the region over the next five years.
The consortium brings together academic expertise from - the University of Warwick, Birmingham City University, the University of Birmingham, Coventry University, De Montfort University, the University of Leicester, Nottingham Trent University, and led by the University of Nottingham. All eight of the universities in the DTP have also committed to match the AHRC funding.
It is one of 10 new Doctoral Training Partnerships (DTPs) announced by the AHRC.
Commenting on the announcement Professor Penny Roberts, Chair of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Warwick, said:
"The Faculty of Arts is delighted to be part of the AHRC-funded Midlands4Cities Consortium and looks forward to collaborating with our colleagues across the region to provide an excellent doctoral experience for all our students and to prepare them for the next stage in their careers."
Professor Stuart Croft, the University of Warwick's Vice-Chancellor, said:
"I'm delighted the University of Warwick is taking a leading role in training the next generation of researchers through our work with the Midlands4Cities Arts and Humanities Doctoral Training Partnership. Through collaboration with our partners, Warwick will be helping to support innovative research, provide researchers with invaluable skills and further Warwick's commitment to the Arts and Humanities".
The programme offered by the Midlands4Cities partnership builds on the track record of the previous Midands3Cities DTP, which led the way in collaborative postgraduate research, training, joint supervision and partner engagement with organisations in the cultural, creative and heritage sectors.
The Midlands4Cities DTP is expanding on the previous research and training capacity of the Midlands3Cities DTP by adding an additional two partners to its consortium – Coventry University and the University of Warwick. Both institutions build on the group's existing strength across the span of arts and humanities subjects, and deepen disciplinary and interdisciplinary areas such as Art and Design, Classics, English, Music, Dance, Drama and Performing Arts, and Politics.
The Midlands4Cities DTP will include at least 40 Collaborative Doctoral Awards (CDAs) co-designed with non-university partners. The partnership will give students access across all eight institutions to a customised programme of research and employability training, which will enable students to gain vital arts and humanities skills.
The new DTP will have a strong emphasis on collaboration and will work with a large number of non-university partner organisations, including the Royal Shakespeare Company, The British Film Institute, Historic England and museums and galleries across the Midlands, to offer exciting placement and training opportunities to students.
Midlands4Cities will provide expert supervision across its mix of university partners, and additional funding to support cohort events that enable students to develop practical skills, deepen research networks, and path-find professional careers.
Professor Paul Grainge, the Director of Midlands4Cities, comments: "Midlands4Cities is a truly exciting development, expanding the doctoral research community established so distinctively by Midlands3Cities. The addition of two new universities from the city of Coventry, and our active engagement with a diverse range of cultural and creative partners, positions the Midlands as a major regional catalyst of arts and humanities research innovation and skills development."
Professor Edward Harcourt, the AHRC's Director of Research, Strategy and Innovation, said: "The AHRC is delighted to announce its renewed commitment to the Doctoral Training Partnerships model. Our support for the next generation of arts and humanities researchers is critical to securing the future of the UK arts and humanities sector, which accounts for nearly a third of all UK academic staff, is renowned the world over for its outstanding quality, and which plays a vital part in our higher education ecosystem as a whole.
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Career Tips for Difficult Times: Founders' Perspectives
The Wall Street Journal held a virtual Jobs Summit recently where Clara Shih, Founder & Executive Chairwoman of Hearsay was interviewed alongside Kenneth Lin, Founder & CEO of CreditKarma. Michelle Ma, WSJ Assistant Editor, Live Journalism, dug into what they learned from the 2008 recession, which was the time period both Shih and Lin founded companies.
Over ten years later, here we are again. As CEOs who have weathered difficult times and hired their fair share of candidates over the years, they had some excellent advice for those who find themselves unemployed, like so many Americans today.
If you missed the live event, here are the highlights.
Every job teaches a skill
Lin suggested that every job can build your skillset. He shared that he once had a job as a dialer for stockbrokers. This involved a stack of index cards with names and phone numbers on them and dialing all day with the goal of getting those people on the phone. Though it may have seemed like a trivial role, he learned how to be more confident on the phone; a valuable skill.
The lesson? Even a job you may not be excited about is teaching you something. If you end up taking a position that's not perfect to put food on the table, look for what you can learn and make the most of the job you have. Then when you interview for your next role, present what you learned.
Hustle and other top skills in demand, today and beyond
Everyone knows times are tough and what was relatively easy 6 months ago takes real work in today's virtual, budget-conscious world. That's why when Clara's hiring these days she's looking for someone with hustle, which she defines as someone who knows how to get creative, get things done, and take risks. Number two for Shih is empathy/EQ and knowing how to connect with people in a remote setting.
Lin shared that passion is one of his key criteria. When times are tough, what pulls people through is when they love what they do. He said he knows sometimes it'll just be a paycheck, but if you have a choice, pick the job you love.
In terms of skills based on experience (hard skills), Shih suggested that the ability to connect with customers, writing code/engineering, and being able to write (content, copywriting, etc.) are always in demand.
Mine LinkedIn for Hidden Career Advice
Have you been using LinkedIn to re-establish dormant connections and see how the people you admire got where they are? If not, it's time to get your LinkedIn hustle on.
When Ma mentioned that Clara has said LinkedIn is a blessing for job-seekers, Clara enthusiastically talked about the ability to look at the career paths of people you admire and see how they've gotten to where you want to be—what did they study, what certifications do they have, what kind of experience do they have? Take this opportunity to map the next steps you want to take in your career. Then invest in yourself and get the skills you need to take the next steps.
Valuable advice from a mentor
Randy Komisar, a prominent Silicon Valley attorney, executive, and author was a professor of Shih's at Stanford. Like many college seniors, she wasn't sure what she wanted to do once she graduated. When she asked him how to think about her career, he told her that if she wanted a big career in tech, she needed to build up generally valuable skill sets, including these three things:
Ship a new product end-to-end: conception, design, prototype, iteration, shipping, launch, continuous lifecycle
Customer experience skills (sales, account management, etc.)
Learn how to manage people
Resume vs. referral: what's more powerful?
Someone in the audience asked how many people are hired based solely on a resume versus a referral. Shih and Lin agreed here; referrals are preferable. Shih pointed out that this speaks to the importance of networks (another point in favor of re-connecting if it's been a while!), while Lin mentioned that referrals have higher close rates. Shih also noted, however, that a referral only gets someone in the door; they still have to earn the job. Both do extensive reference checks and interviewees speak with multiple people within the company before being offered a position.
This has been a hard year and there are lots of smart people out there looking for their next role. Aside from the excellent advice they shared for job seekers, Shih and Lin also shared the truth behind start-up life, which can serve as excellent inspiration to keep going through the tough times. A start up founder and CEO, during a recession or not, gets knocked down over and over again. CreditKarma almost ran out of money three times; Shih cleaned the office along with her CEO/product manager/designer/you name it duties. For 99% of start-ups, it can take years of grit and determination before making it. The big secret? Just keep going!
We currently have a number of open positions at Hearsay, so take a look at the Careers page and let us know if there's a match.
The Key is Context – Unlocking the Modernization of Archiving & Supervision
Why mess with a good thing? Sometimes we hit on something that works so well that it never changes – like Coca Cola. Unfortunately, most things are not Coke and need to evolve. Email-based archiving – particularly when applied to client engagement activities across social and texting – is one of those areas begging to be modernized.
To meet regulatory recordkeeping requirements and standards (i.e., SEC, FINRA, CFTC, FCA and others), firms have long relied on an email-based approach to take delivery of client communications into their archives. Email-based archiving (SFTP) is akin to sending a package – data is stripped down and organized to fit nicely in a box that can be sorted in a similar way with all the other packages. While the approach results in compliance with archiving mandates, it hampers compliance teams, rendering them less effective and efficient. What this approach lacks is context. Activities are delivered into the archive sometimes as they occur – most commonly with a delay – and are siloed by channel, forcing supervision to piece together conversations that are taking place across days, networks, and channels. This approach conjures up images of old police TV mysteries with cork boards and pinned pieces of yarn to connect suspects – it doesn't reflect the technological progress we've made in other areas of financial services.
However, that is beginning to change. As more efficient, modern methods of data transfer have been introduced, some firms are re-examining how this data is being transferred to them. Archiving via API provides full context of digital communications and real time access. They have a thread based on a full view of the interactions between two contacts instead of the legacy structure imposed by an email-based configuration.
With API-led approaches, firms are gaining real-time access to communications in order to bring speed and efficiency to the archiving and review process. We've made investments in Hearsay's Compliance API to offer real-time access to a stream of activities that unlocks integrations with API-led platforms simplifying and modernizing recordkeeping, supervision, and discovery. Critically this offers Supervision teams a unified view of activities across channels to see a full, clear picture, so that the right activities are flagged and remediated.
All this to say that now is the time for firms to consider evaluating whether their archiving processes are as effective as they could be. An API archiving process doesn't require a massive transformation of the existing setup – for example Hearsay's open APIs allow our platform to integrate seamlessly with existing infrastructure bringing more value to your existing compliance foundation. And as you evaluate options, our team stands ready to lend our expertise.
Sometimes, change is a good thing.
My First Day as CEO of Hearsay Systems
Clara and me last week, appropriately socially distanced [Photo by Radu Ranga]
Today is an exciting and very humbling day for me. After five months as Hearsay's COO (all virtual) and working closely with Clara Shih, co-founder and CEO of Hearsay Systems, and the Hearsay Board of Directors, I am honored to take the reins from Clara as the new Hearsay CEO and continue to partner with Clara as Hearsay's Executive Chairperson.
Clara and Steve Garrity founded Hearsay 11 years ago on a belief that the sales and relationship management profession would get upended by the social graph being created on Facebook– fundamentally disrupting the way customers buy, whom they trust, and how they'd want to stay in touch. Over this decade-long journey Clara and the Hearsay team built out a new social selling category, expanded into other key digital channels and developed a platform strategy to better align with customer engagement outcomes. Hearsay also focused on wealth management and insurance sectors and the challenges of providing last mile digital communications in a scalable, compliant manner. Over 170,000 advisors and the most prestigious financial services companies have embraced this vision.
Many Hearsay team members (Chris Andrew, Chief Product Officer and employee #1; Pete Godbole CFO; Robert MacCloy, CTO) and Board Members (Frank Defesche, Jon Sakoda, Bryan Schreier) have been instrumental in this journey and taking the long view toward building the company. I have appreciated their support and counsel over my brief tenure and the support and patience I have received from the entire Hearsay team helping me onboard in a virtual world.
To our team members, customers, and partners, as we start this new phase of our journey together, I wanted to share some of my story with you, why I came here, and what I'm excited to do.
I grew up in Seattle, WA and have been married for 26 years and we have two grown kids. I started as an engineer right out of the University of Washington working at a Bay Area Refinery. I made my way into software and have been blessed to work with many great technology companies (Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft, Taleo), leaders and colleagues across many functions, projects and transformation efforts. My new, favorite capability/strength is the learnings I have gained from the wins and defeats associated with trying to scale a business, incubating new ideas or drive wholesale change initiatives. I hope to fully exploit this capability in my new role.
There are two simple axioms of leadership I try to espouse. First, everyone is a leader. Some of the most impactful people at any company have no direct reports. They muster followership by their energy, enthusiasm, smarts (EQ and IQ), and organizational and persuasion skills. We need to create environments where anyone can lead.
Second, in 25 years, I've learned that accountability and direct dialogue permeate winning teams. If I could wish for two things in any organization it would be a strong culture of accountability/"owning it" and frank, open dialogue on the hard, uncomfortable topics-it's the only way to get fully aligned, build trust, and let the best ideas win. Clara and the Hearsay leadership team share this perspective.
What drew me to Hearsay
There were three fundamental drivers that made joining Hearsay an easy choice.
1. Significant market opportunity: It starts with an unparalleled customer list. In 25 years working in enterprise software, rarely have I seen this quality and quantity of marquee customer relationships, customers who view us as true partners and trusted advisors to help guide them in their digital transformation journey. Hearsay is also a rare product that is both a vitamin and painkiller, as Clara talks about in her Masters of Scale podcast with Reid Hoffman. Many customers start with our compliance platform (painkiller), but then it builds from there into wholesale transformation to deliver a modern customer experience (vitamin). Most importantly, the last decade of digital transformation was about automation and self-service. Validated by the pandemic, the next decade is about authentic engagement at scale– a category Hearsay has established and will fuel its next chapter of growth.
2. Shared values: Hearsay's values have remained essentially the same since the company was founded–Customer Focus, Kaizen, and Get-the-Right-Stuff-Done (GRSD). For me, Customer Focus is about the big stuff and the small stuff. You need to get the small stuff right in order to earn the right to do the big stuff (be a trusted advisor). I've had many roles throughout my career, from leading M&A at Taleo to CEO of Certent. Each has been an opportunity for me to flex a growth mindset and continuously learn, improve, and grow or put into practice a personal Kaizen approach. Kaizen at a company level and Kaizen at an individual level is the killer combination. Prior to Hearsay, my wife and I took a significant risk in launching a new startup. I learned very quickly no environment demands GRSD more than an early stage company. Everyday you need to be ruthless in how you spend your time and dollars. We had to make some very difficult decisions when we were running low on funds and were fortunate to find a strategic buyer to execute our vision. GRSD has new meaning and purpose given this experience.
3. Opportunity to have an impact: As I got to know Hearsay and got to understand the challenges and opportunities it faces, I realized it is a great match for my diverse set of experiences. More importantly, It's been inspiring to watch how our customers have depended on Hearsay to reassure and guide their customers during the pandemic – which in turn has given our team a new level of purpose and hustle.
What we will do going forward
The pandemic has only accelerated our next phase of growth, as Hearsay's engagement platform is now mission-critical for relationship sellers who can no longer meet clients face-to-face. From Social and Sites to Relate and Actions, Hearsay platform utilization, new deals, and customer expansions are accelerating. Our business is outperforming expectations on nearly every metric.
As we embrace this momentum, there are several concrete actions I will be working with our team to drive 2021 performance and make our vision a reality. First and foremost, we need to fill all key existing and new roles across the organization. We need the right talent in place to execute on our ambition sales and product plans. Second, we need to drive a focused set of initiatives to help deliver customer outcomes. The migration to our new, modern reporting solution is a great example. Third, in the next several quarters we will be launching new integrations that help our customers unlock the value in their CRM, marketing automation, and core systems investments.
In everything we do, we need to continue to lead and collaborate with humility and purpose.
Passing the Torch to Hearsay's New CEO
A heartfelt thank you and exciting news for Hearsay's growth, as I transition to the role of Executive Chairperson! Read on to learn more about Hearsay's new CEO, Mike Boese.
11 years ago today, Steve Garrity and I founded Hearsay Labs on a belief that the sales profession would get upended by the social graph being created on Facebook– fundamentally disrupting the way customers buy, whom they trust, and how they'd want to stay in touch. We came up with the idea for social selling (along with a few other ideas which didn't make the cut), hired some friends and their friends, played a lot of ping pong, and wrote code day and night.
Every day was exciting, nerve-racking, unexpected. I'll never forget the day in early 2011 we stumbled on the need for reg tech. We were in Boston visiting a prospective Fortune 500 customer. Our prospect cut to the chase – she wanted to know whether Hearsay could increase her laptop storage capacity. She turned her computer toward us, and we could see that her desktop was littered with thousands of image files. It turned out that she and her team spent their days manually screenshotting every one of their firm's thousands of financial advisors' LinkedIn profiles every hour in order to comply with FINRA advertising rules. Their laptops were literally running out of space. We left stunned and inspired. Once back in California, we went to LinkedIn HQ and pitched them on the need for a compliance API in order to give access to the millions of users in regulated industries who were being blocked. The rest, as they say, is history. We have never stopped building, innovating, and getting inspiration from customers since.
It's been a thrilling, challenging decade. We've helped 170,000 relationship sellers reinvent themselves in the digital era and enabled compliance teams to scale their workload amidst an explosion of digital communications. We've raised $50 million and expanded to 22 countries while remaining incredibly capital-efficient due to our industry focus. We created social selling as a category, focused to become an industry cloud, acquired a mobile communications platform, then expanded our charter to last-mile omnichannel engagement to allow our customers to drive outcomes across their full client journey, not just social.
Along the way, I've learned countless business, leadership, and life lessons, forged lifelong friendships, and pushed harder, dreamed bigger, and overcome more than I ever thought possible. This last decade has been the journey of a lifetime, and we are just getting started. The first wave of digital transformation in financial services was automation and self-service. Validated by the pandemic, this next wave is about authentic engagement at scale– a category Hearsay has established and will fuel its next chapter of huge growth. As co-founder and CEO, I've always done what it takes to make Hearsay successful. Today I've decided what Hearsay needs to be successful for the next decade is a new CEO.
Mike and me last week, appropriately socially distanced [photo by Radu Ranga]
Last year, after a decade as CEO, the board and I began looking for the right person to lead Hearsay into its next chapter. With our last-mile engagement category established, platform built, and customers aligning their enterprise transformations, Hearsay had entered a new stage in its evolution which required a new skillset– someone with experience threading and scaling cross-functional processes needed to align our growing number of teams and offices around the world. Our COO Mike Boese exemplifies these skillsets as well as our company values, and it's with so much pride and optimism that I announce he will be our CEO for Hearsay's next chapter, which I already know will be our biggest yet. I will step into an executive chairwoman role where I can support from the wings.
Let me tell you about him. With his prior experience leading multiple software companies, combined with his humility and "Day 1" hustle, I knew when I met Mike that he was special. Mike studied engineering at the University of Washington and has helped build some of the most important and iconic software companies of our time– Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP, Taleo. Mike is a former startup founder himself, and has also scaled companies and teams exactly to the next phase of where Hearsay needs to go. Above all, Mike is an incredibly good person, partner, and servant leader deeply committed to our people and customers.
From platform utilization to new deals and customer expansions, our business is outperforming expectations on nearly every metric. Watching how our customers have depended on Hearsay to reassure and guide their customers during the pandemic has given our team a new level of purpose. Thanks to our business performance and Mike's leadership performance, I know in my heart that the time has come to pass the torch. Our future has never been brighter, and I know the company will flourish under Mike's stewardship.
What's next for me? Hearsay will always be my company. As executive chairwoman by day, I'll be helping Mike advise our customers, codify our team culture, continue building out our leadership team. I'll stay on full-time for as long as Mike wants, then transition to part-time. That's the plan for now. Over the next several months, I'll take some time off to recover from the millions of miles I've traveled in the last decade, spend quality time with family, and then figure out what's next.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart to those who have joined and supported me in this startup journey. My initial list was too long to fit in this post, so apologies in advance for this condensed version:
To my husband Dan, thank you for supporting me and making sure I remember to eat and sleep. I love being home with you every day and never want to go back to flying 300,000 miles a year.
To my son Blake, it has been such a joy to get to know you deeply, read bedtime stories and tuck you in every night. I'm nervous and excited to be Room Parent for your kindergarten class!
To our current and former team, customers, investors, partners, supporters, believers, thank you for the opportunity to build together. You should feel proud that the company is bigger and will last longer than any individual person. I'll cherish my 11 years as CEO working alongside you and will always carry this experience with me in my heart.
To my co-founder Steve, chief bottle-washer Pete, grumpy cat Robert, EQ coach Barkis, deal magician Tom, and contrarian Chris Hearsay with the yellow backpack, thanks for energizing me with your fiercely original ideas, continuously challenging my thinking and assumptions, and for your incredible GSD, support, and friendship over many years. I couldn't have asked for a better band of misfits to be a part of and grow up with in my career.
To Bryan, Jon, Patrick, and Frank, thanks for your support through thick and thin, and for pushing me to act boldly and think bigger. In 11 years, never was there a wasted board conversation or meeting. You've always come prepared, been on point, and known exactly which parts of the business to push on.
It has been the privilege of a lifetime to serve as Hearsay's CEO. As scary as this decision feels, I know in my heart I'm doing what's best for our future. When the stars align, the choice is clear. I love this company, our team, and our customers, and am so excited for the decade ahead!
Digital Transformation for the "Next" Normal
How Janney Montgomery Scott empowers advisors with a modern, integrated digital marketing hub.
Five Essential Traits of Successful Digital Leaders in Financial Services
One of the most important success factors in any digital effort is strong leadership. Here are the traits we've seen prevail, over and over again.
The financial services industry has changed significantly over the past decade or so. As firms continue to drive digital transformation, Hearsay has had a front row seat collaborating with innovative executives on their digital transformation roadmaps, and we firmly believe that one of the most important success factors in any digital effort is strong leadership. Amongst firms that have thrived, we have consistently seen five traits across successful digital transformation leaders.
1. Agility
If there's one thing digital leaders understand, it's that today's world calls for an agile approach. Technology, competition, and client sentiment change too fast to get bogged down in meetings and/or approval processes that take weeks or months. Add to that a paradigm-shifting global pandemic, and agility solidifies its place – by miles – as the number one most valuable trait in a leader.
Take Prudential Financial for example. The corporate marketing team had been working on a new brand campaign, a deep-dive into the company's mission. The campaign was scheduled to launch in the midst of COVID-19, and the team quickly pivoted their approach. "March 12th, we all met, and we said 'This is not going to be right.' Because it's not about us, it's about them,' said Naveen Agarwal, Chief Marketing Officer at Prudential. Agarwal and team developed a new campaign that focused on hope and the heroes on the frontlines, in just eight short days – from concept to production to launch. Agarwal shared, "I actually think that what [the pandemic] has done is allow large companies to think agile. Not agile as a methodology which is in my mind a small aim; the big aim to me, is when the company starts thinking fast and acting fast."
2. Diverse Knowledge Base
There's often a push in one's career to specialize in a particular area. But running a financial services firm's digital efforts, as CIO, CTO, or CMO, calls for a combination of business and technical skill sets. Brooke Forbes, CIO at Fidelity Investments, agrees, "Digital leadership really embodies the connection between business acumen, technology acumen, and even operational acumen." And Forbes has a career that spans all three.
After starting out in business roles working for technology, software, and consulting services companies, she moved into a COO role managing the operational reporting and sales and marketing forecasting for a particular technology platform.
She jokes, "I fell over the other side of the fence one day [into a technical role] because my boss said to me, 'You know what? I'm going to ask you to run this thing.' And from that moment forward, I found myself in the business of leading development organizations through large scale platform transformations. What I found I loved about it was that I could bring the end user and the business perspective to the conversation. Because it's not technology for the sake of technology, it's technology in the name of what client, business or associate experience or outcome we're all trying to drive. And having that intersection of the conversation I find is where the magic and the innovation really happens."
3. An Insatiable (and Humble) Hunger to Learn
A smart leader knows that though they may have a lot of experience, there is always more to learn. Dontá Wilson, Chief Digital Client Experience and Marketing Officer at Truist (formerly BB&T and SunTrust), went from regional bank president to oversight across all things digital including product research, UX, client experience, analytics, marketing, innovation, and communications. With his primary area of expertise in client relations, he relies on humility and a team of experts to drive strategic digital innovation.
"I have a fantastic team of some of the best and brightest talent in the world. One of the things that I committed to very early on was to […] know what I don't know; to be very open and transparent about [my team] being the smartest people in the room and that I'm going to lean on them to make the critical decisions. But I'm also going to lean on them to teach me and educate me to fill gaps, because I felt it was strategically important."
Wilson walks the walk on this commitment with a once a month 2-hour deep-dive tutorial session, along with a full 'Saddle Day,' where he sits with someone on his team and actually does their job with them looking over his shoulder.
4. Client Centric Viewpoint
No matter how much a leader (or leaders) knows or how much experience they have, today's successful leader must use the client as their compass for every decision made within their organization. Digital leaders need to be thinking about their customer, be it external or internal, at all times.
Wilson's role is a perfect example of that. It has responsibility "for making sure that we show enough care for our clients and that we wake up every day with our client at the center of every business decision that we make," said Wilson.
Wilson shared that the reason it's so important to put clients at the center is because, "client experience is now the differentiator because people have options. There's product and price parity, so you have this competitive, what I call sea of sameness. So you can get price here, you can get product here that's similar to your competition. You build a store here, they can build a store there. Most financial services companies move to what I would call a lake of differentiation. So, smaller than that sea of sameness, and they did it based on the human experience."
5. Understand the Critical Importance of Human Connection
Though Forbes pointed out that she's "in the business of technology," she also emphasized the importance of enabling Fidelity advisors to create a human connection with their clients by putting the client at the center of every engagement. Forbes pointed out that in this "economy of customer choice," it's imperative to let customers guide their own journey. For her, that means providing an omnichannel experience and creating an ecosystem for clients.
"If you really have the mindset that it's an ecosystem, the ability to leverage a channel at any given point in time thoughtfully, with personalization in mind for that client experience, it gives organizations and those serving their clients, be it advisors or other kinds of roles, a lot of flexibility and scale. [It also allows you] to deliver the human touch in a really omnichannel way, and platforms like Hearsay really give you a lot of power in that," she shared.
Agility, a love of learning, customer centricity, a broad range of knowledge, and the belief in the power of human connection have made certain leaders stand out while driving digital transformation. And as the pandemic crisis drove waves of change through many aspects of business, it forced the acceleration of digital transformation. This disruption tested and challenged the agility and adaptability of leaders across the globe. Are there other traits you think will be important for leaders going forward? We'd love to hear from you! Use #FSDigitalLeaders and @HearsaySystems on Twitter.
Hearsay Summit 2020: Delivering a Human Client Experience in Extraordinary Times
A big thanks to each of the 500 marketing, distribution, and compliance leaders who joined us at the annual Hearsay Summit – for the first time ever, virtually! We were thrilled to have a highly engaged audience and incredibly insightful presentations from our customer and partner speakers.
A few of our key takeaways were published by ThinkAdvisor, if you missed the event or want to share it with colleagues. I've also highlighted a couple of my favorite moments below, in both written and sketch format.
Digital is a Permanent Priority
Kathryn Lattuca, leader of Emerging Experiences & Analytics at the Royal Bank of Canada, participated in our keynote presentation, and she shared that although they've been putting in very long hours over the past month, they are seeing some silver linings. The acceleration that occurred due to COVID-19 set the stage for a more seamless digital workflow. She believes the following positive changes are here to stay:
A stronger partnership between compliance and marketing to more quickly triage new content and better manage how and what is distributed
A focus on providing customers a seamless experience into digital entry points
Empowered advisors leveraging digital channels to build deeper relationships with clients, at the right time, on the right channel
This sentiment that while COVID is temporary, the changes to behavior and digital acceleration we're experiencing as a result are not, was a theme throughout the event.
"Approachable Authorities" – The Importance of the Last Mile
Naveen Agarwal, Chief Marketing Officer at Prudential Financial, coined a wonderful term for advisors and agents, approachable authorities. Prudential's purpose is "making lives better by solving the financial challenges of our changing world." Naveen shared that Prudential's advisors and the last mile communications with their clients are critical to fulfilling Prudential's purpose, since their role is to really listen to clients. He explained, "We believe that, especially when it comes to complex decisions, when it comes to things where people have to be reassured, we think about what it means for you. Without that last mile it would be impossible to help the customer in the deep way that we want to. It's critical for us that we get the last mile really nailed."
To learn more, the full resources from the event are available on our Summit website.
Mobile Security – Protect Against Mobile Attacks in the Field
In today's multi-device mobile landscape it is more difficult than ever to find the right balance between delivering enterprise apps securely and giving advisors the flexibility they need to get their job done compliantly.


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The 'Avengers' Cast: Then vs. Now
Michele Bird
Michele Bird Published: April 24, 2019
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If you're a fan of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), then you know the end is drawing near (at least for some characters, presumably) with the release of Avengers: Endgame on April 26. Fans have been anxiously awaiting the premiere — many purchased their movie tickets weeks in advance and fan theories are already swirling social media on how everything will come together for the three-hour action-packed film.
The Avengers franchise first made its debut in 2008 with the release of Iron Man and has been non-stop ever since. From there we've met some of our favorite crime-stopping heroes, including Thor, Hulk, Captain Marvel and more. We've laughed at the hilarious antics of Ant-Man and Groot. Not to mention, we've seen the rise of kick-ass female superheroes like Black Widow, Captain Marvel and Gamora.
Like every other MCU fan, no one is truly ready to see the end of an era. To celebrate the release of Avengers:Endgame, we've caught up with your favorite characters to see where their MCU journeys initially started versus where they are today. Take an Avengers-style walk down memory lane, below.
The 'Avengers': Then and Now
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"Glory" is a song by American rapper Jay-Z featuring his daughter Blue Ivy Carter (credited as B.I.C.) and background vocals from Pharrell Williams. Produced by The Neptunes (Williams & Chad Hugo), it premiered on Jay-Z's official website LifeandTimes.com on January 9, 2012, two days after his wife Beyoncé gave birth to the couple's first child Blue. "Glory" impacted US urban contemporary radio stations on January 17, 2012. The melodic hip hop is an emotional homage to Jay-Z's baby girl and wife. Lyrically, "Glory" is about the experience and the happiness of becoming a father for the first time. It also details the heartbreak the couple suffered over a previous miscarriage. The song opens with Blue's first heartbeat, and includes a sample of Blue's cries towards the end. The song contains samples from "The Most Beautifullest Thing in This World", written and performed by rapper Keith Murray.

Background
On January 7, 2012, Beyoncé gave birth to her and Jay-Z's first child, Blue Ivy Carter, at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York. Two days later, Jay-Z released "Glory" on his social website LifeandTimes.com. Produced by The Neptunes, the song was composed in honor to Blue Ivy Carter, who is credited on it. It impacted US urban contemporary radio playlists on January 17, 2012.

Composition and lyrical interpretation
"Glory" is an emotional hip hop song dedicated to Blue Ivy Carter and Knowles, as Jay-Z sings "You're my child with the child from Destiny's Child." Lyrically, it features Jay-Z experiencing the overwhelming joy of fatherhood for the first time, "The most amazing feeling I feel / Words can't describe what I'm feeling, for real / Baby I'll paint the sky blue / My greatest creation was you." Describing Blue as "the most beautiful thing in this world", he promises to keep her happy — in contrast to his own troubled childhood, which was marred by the departure of his dad, Adnis Reeves.
 Jocelyn Vena of MTV News commented that the concept of the song revolves around the glory of fatherhood.

"Glory" opens with Blue's heartbeat, followed by a rap verse: "The most amazing feeling I feel, words can't describe what I'm feeling for real / Baby, I paint the sky blue, my greatest creation was you". As the song progresses, Jay-Z reveals that the baby girl was conceived in Paris, a day before Knowles shot the cover artwork for her fourth studio album 4 (2011). It also details Jay-Z's and Knowles' pregnancy struggles, including a miscarriage Knowles suffered previously, shown in the lines: "False alarms and false starts, all made better by the sound of your heart", and "Last time the miscarriage was so tragic / We was afraid you'd disappear / But nah baby you magic". In reference to Aaliyah's 2001 passing, Jay Z also urges Blue to exercise safety, with the lyric, "Just make sure the plane you're on is bigger than your carry-on baggage". At the end of "Glory", Blue Ivy Carter can be heard crying.

Critical reception
Touré of Time magazine called "Glory" one of the "greatest love songs in hip-hop history". Chris Randle of The Village Voice wrote that the song "sounds humbled and relieved, and soft enough to bear some marks; at certain points, Jay's voice almost seems to quaver." He added that Jay-Z "goes from revealing a past miscarriage to sharing the precise date of conception, as if still ambling through the ward in elated exhaustion." Maura Johnston of the same publication noted that "Glory" was "happy and humbled just like all those shots of new dads in movies; you can almost smell the cigars being lit as Jay tosses off his first (but probably not last) dedication to his daughter, which has as its best line 'You're the child of a child from Destiny's Child.'" SF Weeklys Shona Sanzgiri noted that the "rapper [is] celebrating with a strange mixture of certainty and guilelessness" in the song. She added that "Glory" is a "condensed saga, where the revelations range from somewhat brazen... to somber". David K. Li, Josh Saul, and Tata Palmeri of the New York Post wrote that "the emotional song may win over even Jay-Z's harshest critics". Rob Markman of MTV News praised "Glory" saying that Jay-Z recorded his "most personal thoughts... and then tops things off by adding the crying and cooing bundle of joy to the track, effectively giving baby girl her very first feature". David Marchese of Spin magazine felt that "Jay spouts all sorts of fatherly sentiment on the track". Jody Rosen of Rolling Stone awarded the song with three-and-a-half out of five stars, praising its "lilting Neptunes beat". He further compared the song with "Isn't She Lovely?" (1976) by Stevie Wonder saying that it's "mixing exultant proud-papa sentiments with brand-consolidation braggadocio: 'A pinch of Hov, a whole glass of B.' But the mood is reflective. 'Everybody go through stuff... Life is a gift, love, open it up.'"

Chart performance
The song debuted at number 74 on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart issue dated January 21, 2012, with 1.7 million audience impressions, according to Nielsen BDS. It also debuted at number 23 on the US Rap Songs chart issue dated January 28, 2012. As Jay-Z's daughter, Blue, is officially credited on the song, she became the youngest person in history to have a charted song on any Billboard chart ever.

Music video
The official music video for "Glory" was released on April 16, 2015.

Charts

Release history

References

Jay-Z songs
Song recordings produced by the Neptunes
2012 songs
2012 singles
Songs about parenthood
Songs about pregnancy
Songs written by Jay-Z
American contemporary R&B songs
American soul songs

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Robinhood, in need of cash, raises $1 billion from its investors
Robinhood, one of the largest online brokerages, has grappled with an extraordinarily high volume of trading this week as individual investors have piled into stocks like GameStop.
This photo illustration shows the logo of trading application Robinhood on a mobile phone in Arlington, Virginia on January 28, 2021. (PC-AFP)
Facing an onslaught of demands on its cash amid a stock market frenzy, Robinhood, the online trading app, said Thursday that it was raising an infusion of more than $1 billion from its existing investors.
Robinhood, one of the largest online brokerages, has grappled with an extraordinarily high volume of trading this week as individual investors have piled into stocks like GameStop. That activity has put a strain on Robinhood, which has to pay customers who are owed money from trades while posting additional cash to its clearing facility to insulate its trading partners from potential losses.
Robinhood: The trading app co-founded by Indian-American caught in GameStop storm
On Thursday, Robinhood was forced to stop customers from buying a number of stocks like GameStop that were heavily traded this week. To continue operating, it drew on a line of credit from six banks amounting to between $500 million and $600 million to meet higher margin, or lending, requirements from its central clearing facility for stock trades, known as the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp.
Robinhood still needed more cash quickly to ensure that it didn't have to place further limits on customer trading, said two people briefed on the situation who insisted on remaining anonymous because the negotiations were confidential.
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Robinhood, which is privately held, contacted several of its investors, including venture capital firms Sequoia Capital and Ribbit Capital, who came together Thursday night to offer the emergency funding, five people involved in the negotiations said.
"This is a strong sign of confidence from investors that will help us continue to further serve our customers," Josh Drobnyk, a Robinhood spokesman, said in an email. Sequoia and Ribbit declined to comment.
Investors who provide new financing to Robinhood will receive additional equity in the company. The investors will get that equity at a discounted valuation tied to the price of Robinhood shares when the company goes public, said two of the people. Robinhood plans to hold an initial public offering this year, two people briefed on the plans said.
Robinhood's emergency fundraising is the latest sign of how trading in the stock market has been upended this week.
An online army of investors, who have been on a mission to challenge the dominance of Wall Street, rapidly bid up the price of stocks like GameStop, entrapping the big-money hedge funds that had bet against the stocks. Some of these individual investors have reaped huge profits, while at least one major hedge fund had to be bailed out after facing huge losses.
Robinhood, which is based in Silicon Valley, has been key to empowering the online investors. Adoption of the app has soared in the pandemic as the stock market surged and people took up day trading in the void of other pastimes. The company has drawn in millions of young investors who have never traded before by offering no-fee trading and an app that critics have said makes buying stocks feel like an online game.
Without fees, Robinhood makes money by passing its customer trades along to bigger brokerage firms, like Citadel, who pay Robinhood for the chance to fulfill its customer stock orders.
In May, Robinhood said it had 13 million users. This week, it became the most-downloaded free app in Apple's App Store, according to Apptopia, a data provider.
Critics have accused the company of encouraging people to gamble on stock market movements and risk big losses. Brokerages including T. Rowe Price, Schwab and Fidelity have imitated Robinhood by lowering their trading fees to zero. Many of them were also hit by the crush of trading this week.
Robinhood has had no trouble raising money over the last year, drawing $1.3 billion in venture capital backing and boosting its valuation to nearly $12 billion. Its other investors include venture capital firm DST Capital, New Enterprise Associates, Index Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz.
Yet the company has faced many issues, including fines from regulators for misleading customers. Last March, it raised more money after its app went down and left customers stranded and nursing big losses, leading to a still ongoing lawsuit.
In recent weeks, many online investors have used Robinhood to make bets that pushed up the price of GameStop, AMC Entertainment and other stocks that had been widely shorted — or bet against — by hedge funds. That changed Thursday after the company curbed customer trading in the most popular stocks.
"As a brokerage firm, we have many financial requirements," Robinhood said in a blog post Thursday. "Some of these requirements fluctuate based on volatility in the markets and can be substantial in the current environment."
In protest, hundreds of thousands of users joined a campaign to give Robinhood's app the lowest one-star review and drive the company's rating down. Some investors also sued Robinhood for the losses they sustained after the company cut off trading in certain stocks, and several lawmakers urged regulators to exercise more scrutiny of the company.
(Author: Kate Kelly, Erin Griffith, Andrew Ross Sorkin and Nathaniel Popper)/(c.2021 The New York Times Company)
Tags: #Business #GameStop #online trading app #Robinhood #Silicon Valley


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using System.Linq.Expressions;
using System.Reflection;

namespace FrameLog.Helpers
{
    public static class ExpressionHelper
    {
        public static string GetPropertyName<TModel, TProperty>(this Expression<Func<TModel, TProperty>> lambda)
        {
            Type type = typeof(TModel);

            MemberExpression member = lambda.Body as MemberExpression;
            if (member == null)
                throw new ArgumentException(string.Format("Expression '{0}' refers to a method, not a property.", lambda.ToString()));

            PropertyInfo propInfo = member.Member as PropertyInfo;
            if (propInfo == null)
                throw new ArgumentException(string.Format("Expression '{0}' refers to a field, not a property.", lambda.ToString()));

            return propInfo.Name;
        }
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}


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Hi @Vincent_Tang, sorry for the digging this up, must have fallen through the cracks back then.
Unfortunately links are not supposed to work after moving to another document. If you want to can add a feature request for preserving the internal links after moving.
This is one that seriously impairs usability of dynalist in a professsional setting.
In rearranging projects and actions, often items get moved to other places.
When these items are linked to, those links are broken after moving the item.
The links should automatically be updated or a link to the new location should automatically be placed where the item was before moving it.
Has this been added to the features list yet?
Agreed, this has become a big problem for me as well. I'm inclined to try merging everything into one document to avoid breaking links when reorganizing in the future. Unfortunately, doing so will break all links except internal ones within whichever document I decide to use as the master document.
I've been asking for a fix for this for months and months but it has fallen on deaf ears.


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Q: CSS, table border If table is set to have a border on a high level, how can i make sure that classes inhering from it do not have any borders set?
table,td,th {
    border: 1px solid #0B6121;
}

how can i make sure that my other table has no borders at all?
table.menu {
    border: none;
    - and no border for td
    - and no border for th
}

A: table.main, table.menu td, table.menu td {
    border: none;
}

This way I guess. The idea is to set rules for siblings of your particular table.

A: table.menu, .menu th, .menu td {
    border:none;
}

sometyhing like this?

A: Like this :
table.menu td, table.menu tr{
    border:none;
}

A: As your code stands

will not have an outside border, but any th and td elements inside will inherit the border from your global selector.
The other answers that demonstrate applying specific rules to the td and th elements inside of a table with class of 'menu' should help you out.

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