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Diageo's Syl Saller chats to Marketing Week about empowering women, overcoming fears and leaving a legacy
Diageo's Syl Saller on empowering next generation of female leaders
Syl Saller is the Chief Marketing & Innovation Officer for Diageo and a member of the Executive Committee. Syl talks to Marketing Week Meets... about her work with Diageo and empowering the next generation of female leaders.
An impressive career
Syl Saller is one of the UK's highest-profile and most respected marketers. Beginning her career at Gillette in 1984 she had a number of senior leadership and marketing roles before joining Diageo in 1999, rising through the ranks to become global chief marketing and innovation officer in 2013. Syl oversees all Global Marketing, Design, Innovation as well as the Futures Group, and Reserve, Diageo's luxury division, worldwide. Her expertise is broad and includes marketing, innovation, sales, supply and general management. Syl is a very impressive woman!
The best company in the world
For Syl, it was a tremendous opportunity to start when Diageo was two years old and to have a hand in shaping and expanding the company. She helped early on to develop Diageo's corporate purpose and set of values, which mainly include being a force for good. When Diageo celebrated its 20th anniversary, it was a really emotional moment for Syl to reflect on how far the company has come.
"I honestly think Diageo is the best company in the world – the people are hugely talented, and equally driven, kind and helpful. It's a winning combination," comments Syl.
Teamwork as a key to success
For Syl, the key to sucess at Diageo is the people, and she believes in a collaborative approach to her leadership. Syl is intensively supportive of the people who work for her, but also intensively demanding, always stretching them and encouraging them to achieve things they never thought possible.
"No one has to worry I don't believe in them – if I didn't believe in them, they wouldn't be on the team," says Syl.
Empowering female leaders
A big way in which Syl defines herself is a sense of responsibility to empower other women in Diageo. Syl supports all kinds of diversity, but says "if you get gender right all the other buckets fill more naturally. I think it's a very powerful place to focus."
In Diageo Syl is not alone as a senior female leader. Diageo's Exec is 40% women and its Board of Directors is 50% women. "That does change the tone. It feels really great," says Syl.
"I think we all, men and women, have a responsibility to be role models for gender equality. Within Diageo, I put a lot of attention to that, I give voice to that, and it is a big part of what I do externally," adds Syl.
Overcoming her fears
Even someone as successful as Syl has her fair share of fears and misgivings.
According to literature, says Syl, women tend to be less optimistic about their ability to do things, and this is a trait she can recognise in herself. She gives an example of when she turned down a promotion because she was pregnant, or the children were too young. In reality, Syl believes she turned down the promotion because of a fear that she couldn't do the job.
"As I've learned to grab the opportunities and embrace them, I think if I'd done that earlier I'd not necessarily been more successful, as that's not how I define my happiness, but I think I would have stretched myself sooner and learned more and that would have been more fulfilling. So what I would have said to my younger self is: don't be afraid," says Syl.
Syl has some advice to women to overcome these fears and embrace opportunities.
Firstly, the important step is to recognise that everyone has that voice of doubt in their heads. Secondly, you need to contextualise the fear. "If my husband and kids are healthy, then nothing else matters quite so much," says Syl. One of Syl's fears was that her children would keep her up at night and she wouldn't be able to transition back into work. Although this fear came true, it's about "taking stock of the fact you have been able to overcome these things," Syl adds.
Syl's final piece of advice is simply ignoring your fears. "When the voice of doubt comes in your head, just think 'I don't have time to listen to you, I have to get on [with work].' And that becomes the focus, not the doubts in your head," says Syl.
Syl discusses what legacy she would like to leave after working with Diageo. "My legacy [would be] my impact on people," says Syl. In terms of her family, she wants to be the best mum and wife she can. In terms of her work with Diageo, Syl tries to go into every conversation thinking how she can leave someone inspired and thinking about how to become a better leader. Syl explains it could either be talking about how they're going to deliver a presentation but other times about what's going to take them to the next level. That could be words of encouragement, asking the right questions, or direct feedback, but ultimately it's all in service of the people at Diageo.
"My hope is that people are standing around at my funeral, and my workers are saying 'She made a difference to me'," says Syl.
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Which Countries Work Hardest? You Might (Not) Be Surprised
June 30th, 2015 Asymptosis
Imagine you had to choose, and could choose: you can spend your whole life and raise your family in either of two equally prosperous countries. In one country people work lots of hours to attain that prosperity. In the other country people work far less. You don't know anything else about these countries.
Which would you choose? The answer seems kind of obvious, right? Equally prosperous, and less work for me and my family? Sign me up!
But that straightforward question is almost never asked, explicitly, in discussions of prosperity, growth, and national well-being. The most obvious measure of that difference — hours worked per capita — is buried, invisible, and unavailable in the various national data sets scattered around the web. (The typical national measure you see out there is hours worked per worker.)
For the curious, here's how more-prosperous countries (OECD and a handful of others) sort on the "hard-working" scale:
This average includes the whole population — workers, children, students, retirees, etc. — so it's an index of how much the average person has to work over the course of their life. (More hours during working years, less or none during non-working years; it's an average.)Â
There's one main generalized takeaway from this that I see: The less-work end of the spectrum is dominated by western European countries. People there work far less hours in the course of their lives. People in "Anglo"-model countries work far more.
Going back to choosing a country: you also want to know how prosperous it is in pure money terms, using something like GDP per capita. Here's that (I've excluded tiny, crazy-high-GDP Luxembourg here — think: banking — to show other countries more clearly):
If you're a rational shopper, you'll choose Norway (yeah, they've got the advantage of all that oil…), Ireland, the Netherlands, or another country in the upper left. If an extra $5,000 or $10,000 a year is worth sacrificing four or five extra weeks of work, choose the U.S. (Think: "buying" an extra month of time with your family, doing things you like and love, every year. You decide. But do I need to remind you that 1. Life is short, and 2. "Family values" really do have value?)
One perhaps-surprising takeaway from this graph:Â hard-working countries aren't richer. QTC. Causation? It seems improbable that working less would cause higher prosperity. Higher prosperity could quite reasonably cause people to work less. (The good old substitution effect, income versus leisure.) But the most likely conclusion is that high productivity (GDP per hour worked) is the 800-pound gorilla when it comes to prosperity. Long hours worked have zero or negative apparent effect on prosperity.
(Interesting parallel: hours worked per household member in the U.S. only "explain" seven percent of the variance between household incomes. Whodathunkit?)
Rather than eyeballing that scatter plot, you might want a handy index of which country to choose. Here's one approach to what I'll call Work-Weighted Prosperity: GDP/Capita divided by Hours Worked/Capita. If people in one country have to work lots of hours to get that prosperity, it gets ranked lower.
The takeaway here? Move to Luxembourg and get into banking.
The curious among you are probably wondering about different countries' working-age populations (doesn't actually vary that much), and the percentage of working age that are working (varies somewhat more). Here's the spreadsheet.
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Haunting of Hill House Season 2 Is Called Haunting of Bly Manor, Out In 2020
Ali Haider February 21, 2019
Netflix has announced a new season for The Haunting of Hill House today. It is will be out in 2020 and directed by Mike Flanagan who also worked on the first season.
The first season of Haunting of Hill House was a masterpiece in all aspects of TV production and ended up being one of the finest produced Netflix TV Originals. It received rave reviews and quickly became a social media sensation.
Netflix has announced their plans to turn the Haunting of Hill House into an anthology of stories so the second season will be completely different. It is called Haunting of Bly Manor and deals with new characters and story.
A new Haunting is coming. Can you guess where it takes place? Listen closely… pic.twitter.com/vqzrd3z4NZ
— The Haunting of Hill House (@haunting) February 21, 2019
The official social media account posted about the season just teasing the name and teasing a release date in 2020. Other than that, there are not many details known about this upcoming season aside from the return of director Mike Flanagan, who will serve as the producer of Season 2.
Read More: All TV Shows and Movies Coming To Netflix In February 2019
Netflix has also announced a new deal with series creator Mike Flanagan and executive producer Trevor Macy. This deal with lead to new projects created by Mike Flanagan exclusively for Netflix. The details around them weren't shared but expect to see more movies and perhaps TV Shows as well.
"Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy are masterful at creating authentically frightening stories that leave audiences on the edge of their seats, but unable to look away," said Cindy Holland, vice president of original content at Netflix. "We're excited to continue our partnership with them on 'The Haunting' series and future projects to come."
Netflix has recently canceled its Marvel TV Shows like The Punisher and Jessica Jones which were preceded by the cancellation of shows like Luke Cage, Iron Fist and Daredevil. They have also announced the release date for the second part of the fifth season for Arrested Development.
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      this.messages.unshift({ text: `Left channel: ${this.currentChannel?.name}`, time: messageTimeStamp });

      delete this.currentChannel;

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    this.renderer.setStyle(selectedElement, 'color', this.currentChannel.meta.color);
  }

  public clearLogs() {
    this.messages = [];
  }

  private setGlueConnectionStatus() {
    this.glueConnectedBadgeSrc = '/assets/connected.svg';
    this.glueConnectionStatus = 'Connected';
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To my dear FOMAA friends, I have the privilege of living in Dallas, Texas for the last two years while maintaining my business ties in Los Angeles. With the past experience of working for FOMAA and various social organizations in California, I have got the opportunities to be friends with a few great personalities in Dallas.
Mr. Philip Chamathil (Raju) is one of the notable connections. I was touched by his humble nature and willingness to commit a good portion of his time and money to many great causes.
I was also impressed by his abilities to lead a large crowd of youngsters at University of Texas Dallas (UTD) and building a creative momentum for FOMAA. Undoubtedly Mr. Chamathil is an enterprising leader, great humanitarian, honest and trustworthy individual and willing and ready to serve selflessly. Leaders like him are very rare and I'm confident Mr. Chamathil will be a great President for FOMMA and I have no doubt that under his able leadership FOMAA will reach new heights.
Dallas got diverse talents, leadership and the infrastructure to ensure FOMAA spreads its wings further in an important territory. The Dallas malayali association, literary society and the social activist are looking forward to prove themselves in the service of Pravasi Malayalee through FOMAA.
I appeal to all of FOMAA leaders and well wishes to extend your whole hearted support to Presidential Candidate Mr. Philip Chamathil and help bring FOMAA to Dallas.


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Q: WritableSheet does not create sheet properly using groovy Soap version used-5.0.0
I am trying to create an excel sheet and write data into it using groovy script. My code is given below:-
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import jxl.write.*;

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Please suggest where am I getting wrong. I tried several times but the same issue happens even in other systems as well.

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Egypt: Afreximbank Disburses USD3.55bn to Cushion Impact of COVID-19, USD300m to Stimulate Intra-African Trade
Cairo, 15 July 2020 – The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), Africa's foremost multilateral trade finance institution, has disbursed a total of $3.55bn to the Egyptian Banking sector under its Pandemic… read more →
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Cairo, 15 July 2020 – The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), Africa's foremost multilateral trade finance institution, has disbursed a total of $3.55bn to the Egyptian Banking sector under its Pandemic Trade Impact Mitigation Facility (PATIMFA) since the outbreak of the pandemic in March this year. In its bid to strengthen long-term economic prosperity in the region the Bank has also provided $300m to the National Bank of Egypt to support activities aimed at expanding intra-African trade.
The $3.55bn support has been provided to the Central Bank of Egypt and other Egyptian Banks through Afreximbank's Pandemic Trade Impact Mitigation Facility (PATIMFA). PATIMFA is designed to assist Afreximbank member countries in managing the adverse impact of financial, economic and health shocks caused by epidemics or pandemics, in the nature of COVID-19. By doing so, it helps preserve and promote economic stability through the period of global uncertainty. The funds ensure trade debt payments that fall due are honoured and supports the stabilization of foreign exchange resources in order to preserve the flow of critical imports. They will bolster the liquidity of the Central Bank and Local Egyptian lenders during the crisis, while ensuring vital trade in items such as food and medical supplies continues.
In addition, Afreximbank has also provided a $250,000 grant to support the Egyptian government COVID-19 relief efforts.
The support provided to the National Bank of Egypt reflects Afreximbank's continued commitment to promoting regional integration and intra-African trade—an area of development it deems vital both to the continent's recovery from the pandemic and its long-term economic resilience. The funds will support the National Bank of Egypt's operational expansion through investment and trade in Africa. It will also strengthen its Egypt-Africa Trade business, which aims to increase its support for regional trade from $85m in 2020 to $125m in 2022.
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Clinicopathological and prognostic values of PD-L1 expression in oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma: a meta-analysis of 31 studies with 5368 patients
Several immune checkpoint inhibitors targeting programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1)/programmed death 1 have successfully improved the prognosis of oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) with approval in certain countries. However, whether the expression of PD-L1 is associated with the degree of benefit is unclear yet and a unified standard of antibody and cut-off value of PD-L1 detection is also lacking. The current meta-analysis then aimed to explore the association between PD-L1 expression and clinicopathological features as well as prognosis in ESCC.
A systematic search on PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library and Web of Science databases was performed up to 30 March 2021. The correlation between PD-L1 expression and clinicopathological features, as well as prognosis in ESCC, was estimated with the random-effects model.
A total of 5368 patients from 31 retrospective studies were enrolled. The overexpression of PD-L1 was significantly associated with lymph node metastasis (OR 1.342, 95% CI 0.995 to 1.809, p=0.050) and distant metastasis (OR 1.516, 95% CI 1.001 to 2.294, p=0.050). The pooled HR showed that PD-L1 overexpression was significantly correlated with poor overall survival (OS) of patients with ESCC (HR 1.306, 95% CI 1.108 to 1.539, p<0.010) but not disease-free survival (DFS) (HR 1.180, 95% CI 0.937 to 1.487, p=0.160). Heterogeneity decreased significantly in subgroup analyses. The overexpression of PD-L1 was associated with poor DFS at the cut-off point of ≥1% (HR 1.642, 95% CI 1.367 to 1.973, p<0.010; I2=0%) and worse OS at the cut-off point of ≥10% (HR 1.575, 95% CI 1.175 to 2.111, p<0.010; I2=0%).
The overexpression of PD-L1 was correlated with lymph node and distant metastasis as well as poor survival of ESCC.
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ADAMTSL2 protein and a soluble biomarker signature identify significant and advanced fibrosis in adults with NAFLD
Corey, Kathleen E, Pitts, Rebecca, Lai, Michelle, Loureiro, Joe, Masia, Ricard, Osganian, Stephanie A, Gustafson, Jenna L, Hutter, Matthew M, Gee, Denise W, Meireles, Ozanan R, Witkowski, Elan R, Richards, Shola, Jacob, Jaison, Finkel, Nancy, Ngo, Debby, Wang, Thomas J, Gerszten, Robert E, Ukomadu, Chinweike and Jennings, Lori (2021) ADAMTSL2 protein and a soluble biomarker signature identify significant and advanced fibrosis in adults with NAFLD. Journal of hepatology. ISSN 1600-0641
Official URL: https://www.journal-of-hepatology.eu/article/S0168...
Aims and background: Identifying fibrosis in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is essential to predict liver-related outcomes and inform treatment decisions. A protein-based signature of fibrosis could serve as a valuable, non-invasive diagnostic tool. This study sought to identify circulating proteins associated with fibrosis in NAFLD.
Methods: We used aptamer-based proteomics to measure 4783 proteins in two cohorts (Cohort A and B). Targeted, quantitative assays coupling aptamer-based protein pull down and mass spectrometry (SPMS) validated the profiling results in a bariatric and NAFLD cohort (Cohort C and D, respectively). Generalized linear modelling-logistic regression assessed the candidate proteins to classify fibrosis.
Results: From the multiplex profiling, 16 proteins differed significantly by fibrosis in cohorts A (n=62) and B (n=98). Quantitative and robust SPMS assays were developed for 8 proteins and validated in Cohorts C (n=71) and D (n=84). The protein A disintegrin and metalloproteinase with thrombospondin motifs like 2 (ADAMTSL2) accurately distinguished NAFL/NASH with fibrosis stage 0-1 (F0-1) from at-risk NASH with fibrosis stage 2-4 with an AUROC of 0.83 and 0.86 in Cohorts C and D, respectively, and from NASH with significant fibrosis (F2-3) with an AUROC of 0.80 and 0.83 in Cohorts C and D, respectively. An 8-protein panel distinguished NAFL/NASH F0-1 from at-risk NASH (AUROC 0.90 and 0.87 in Cohort C and D, respectively) and NASH F2-3 (AUROC 0.89 and 0.83 in Cohorts C and D, respectively). The 8-protein panel and ADAMTSL2 protein had superior performance to the NAFLD fibrosis score and Fibrosis-4 score.
Conclusion: The ADAMTSL2 protein and an 8-protein soluble biomarker panel are highly associated with at-risk NASH and significant fibrosis with superior performance to standard of care fibrosis scores.
Lay summary: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is one of the most common causes of liver disease worldwide. Diagnosing NAFLD and identifying fibrosis (scarring of the liver) currently requires a liver biopsy. Our study identified novel proteins found in blood which may identify fibrosis without the need for a liver biopsy.
proteomics ADAMTSL2 non-alcoholic fatty liver disease non-alcoholic steatohepatitis fibrosis biomarker


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Q: JSON Date Explanation So, I'm a little bit confused by what I'm looking at. I'm converting a MongoDate to JSON using PHP's json_encode function and built-in MongoDB stuff. The result is this within my JSON string that's returned:
"date":{"sec":1344724737,"usec":0}}

I understand the sec value is UNIX epoch time (seconds from 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970 to be more precise). However, I don't know what the usec value is. Is it an unsigned integer value for the milliseconds? Should I be using sec to get the value? For the record, I'm converting this into an NSDate in an iOS application. It works that way, but I just like to know more about what these values are to make sure I am using the right one (and so I can sleep at night once it goes into production).

A: It's an integer corresponding to the number of microseconds (μsec). You divide by 1000000 and add it to the sec value to get the full timestamp.

A: usec means µseconds, or microseconds. There are 1,000,000 microseconds in a second.