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The Chancellor's recent Budget statement had some significant tax implications beyond the media's obsession with welfare cuts and the living wage. Details include:
The Budget has made some fundamental changes in the way Dividends from Companies are taxed. The way the tax works and implications of this are set out below:
Now & Until March 2016
At present, dividend income (of any sort) is effectively not taxed provided your total taxable income does not stray into the higher rate tax band. For 2015-16, this means that provided your total taxable income does not exceed £42,385, you will not be taxed on any dividend income. If your income exceeds £42,385 you pay tax of 22.5% of the gross amount above the threshold.
This means that in 2015/16 if you received a dividend of £27,000 Net (£30,000 Gross) and a salary of say £10,600, and had no other taxable income, your Total Taxable Income would be £40,600 and you would pay no tax at all.
From April 2016
The first £5,000 of Net Dividend Income is tax free – after that Dividend Income is taxed at 7.5% up to the Higher Rate Threshold. Dividends income received above the threshold will be taxed at 32.5%, or 38.1% if your Total Taxable Income exceeds £150,000.
Using the same figures as above, there is still no tax on the salary element (which for 2016/17 will be £11,000). The Net Dividend Income of £27,000 will attract a personal tax charge of £1,650 (£27,000 less £5,000 allowance at 7.5%).
The Government promised not to increase taxes through the "Tax lock". The tax rise on dividends is actually achieved by reducing the actual rate of tax on dividends from 10% to 7.5%; and simultaneously removing the tax credit element which effectively cancelled out the tax charge for basic rate tax payers and reduced the higher rate charge by 10% – Truly a politician's response.
National Insurance
Please note that the National Insurance thresholds for 2015/16 are unchanged, so the maximum tax and NI free salary is £8,060 pa.
The Employment Allowance of £2,000 given in 2014/15 as a deduction against Employers National Insurance has been repeated for 2015/16, and will rise to £3,000 for 2016/17. However one person Companies can no longer claim this allowance.
IR35 & Personal Service Companies
Along with the restriction on the National Insurance reclaim (see above) and the introduction of a dividend tax, there were the following comments in the Budget Statement:
"The Government recognises that many individuals choose to work through their own limited company. However, where people would have been employees if they were providing their services directly, anti-avoidance legislation (known as IR35) introduced in 2000 requires that they pay broadly the same tax and NIC as other employees. The Government has reiterated it is clear that the IR35 provisions are not effective enough. Non-compliance in this area is estimated to cost over £400m a year.
The Government has asked HMRC to start a dialogue with business on how to improve the effectiveness of existing IR35 legislation. The Government is keen to find a solution that protects the Exchequer and improves fairness in the system".
At present, no more is known, but if you have a Company that operates providing your services to one Client, be wary of what might be coming. Even so, at present this is talk, not action.
Corporation Tax & Capital Allowances
The corporation tax rate has been set at 20% for the period April 2015-March 2017. It will be cut to 19% for 3 years from April 2017 and to 18% from April 2020.
The current Annual Investment Allowance of £500,000 has been reduced to £200,000 from 1st January 2016 – this is said to be a permanent fix, rather than a short term rate – in the last 5 years it has varied between £25,000 and £500,000.
Goodwill amortisation for tax purposes has been abolished in full for assets purchased after 8th July 2015.
Companies with profits in excess of £20 million will have to pay their tax in 4 installments – one at the end of each quarter.
Other Points
- 10% wear and tear allowance for landlords to be replaced in 2016/17 with relief for actual expenditure on furnishings.
- Annual allowance for pension contributions by those earnings over £150,000 to be reduced for 2016/17 – tapering down from £40,000 to £10,000.
- Mortgage/Loan interest tax relief for higher rate (40%) landlords will be restricted from April 2017, and limited to basic rate tax relief only from April 2020.
- Rent-a-room relief increased after 18 years to £7,500 from April 2016.
- From April 2016 all bank and building society interest will be paid Gross. Each basic rate tax payer will have a saving allowance of £1,000. A 40% taxpayer will have a savings allowance of £500.
- From April 2016, certain benefits-in-kind, costing up to £50 will be exempt from tax. Directors of close companies will have an annual limit of £300 pa.
- The existing Inheritance Tax Nil Rate band of £325,000 remains unchanged. There is a new separate value of a home band, starting at £100,000 in April 2017, rising over 4 years to £175,000. For a couple this means that there is a nil rate allowance of £1 Million (2 times £325,000 and 2 times £175,000). There is no home-related nil band if the house concerned has never been used as a residence or if the total estate is worth over £2 million.
A complete copy of the Chancellor's Budget Statement can be found using this link.
If you would wish to discuss any of the above, please contact Mike Keatley, Mustak Dhanji or Lynn Dumbarton on 01280 818776.
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There has been much attention raised after an incident of WonderGirls YeEun's response to bashing has been revealed online.
Recently, there was a netizen who wrote on YeEun's Twitter
saying, "I know y u girls can't speak English. Most of ur non-Korean
fans r from 3rd world countries & can't speak proper English
Find out how YeEun handled the bashing of this netizen.
The full conversation between the 2 on Twitter as shown below:
Fans who saw the conversation between the 2 commented,
- "The bashing is uncalled for"
- "I'm proud of YeEun"
- "This is not a conversation between Ye Eun and her fan but between YeEun and an anti-fan"
- "hhhh YeEun handled it right on…. yes!! ^^)g"
- "Really cool Park YeEun"
- "How can the quarrel between a public figure and an ordinary person be so beautified? Ye Eun did great"
- "She is good at studying. And she is very tactful when it comes to
daily situations like these… Really wise girl ㅋㅋcool… I think I've
become her fan.."
"YeEun's my role model
Apparently, the basher made a refutation on her Twitter profile against this YeEun bashing issue at her"
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Challenge Introduction
Create a feature for this cooking app that lets users substitute ingredients
For this challenge, I worked on designing a single feature for the recipe and cooking app, SAVR.
The challenge brief contains research and comments from SAVR users, which gave me some insight into how to make this feature as useful as possible.
In addition to explaining the need that users have to substitute ingredients, the brief also gave insight into the different reasons why a user would want to substitute an ingredient
Below is a summary of the research, outlining the main motivations to swap an ingredient
Based on these different users, I knew I would have to design a feature that allows users to find a new ingredient based on preference, availability, and vegetarian options.
Competitive Analysis
Finding inspiration in other products to create this feature.
I started by checking out some other apps, and seeing how they handle switching options, and recommending new choices for users.
Below are a few screenshots of what I looked at, and some notes on how they might be useful to create this feature for SAVR.
My main takeaways from doing a competitive analysis were:
1. My solution needs to clearly show that it can be switched - this shouldn't be hidden!
2. There needs to be some simple way for a user to choose what ingredient they want to use as a substitute. We want to make it an easy choice - not something that they have to think about!
Using Crazy 8's to generate ideas.
After looking at how some other apps handle a similar feature, I worked on the Crazy 8's exercise to start coming up with some solutions that could be incorporated into the SAVR app.
After looking at my 8 sketches, I decided on combining two of the solutions to create a pretty simple interaction of choosing the ingredient you want to switch, and picking from a list of substitutes that is overlaid on the screen.
Refining my sketches, and going into more detail.
After outlining the basic idea of the feature, I began sketching the screens in more detail, adding some ways to show the categories of different options (eg., popular substitutes, vegetarian). The screens below show how the interaction would work in a little more detail.
Creating and testing my prototype.
After creating my sketches, I used Marvel to create a quick prototype to test.
The animation below shows how the prototype works, with a user being able to switch mayonnaise for another ingredient.
I tested my prototype with several users - asking each of them to substitute an ingredient.
What went well?
What needed improvement?
Users clearly knew to press the icon to pull up substitute ingredients
Users understood that the heart icons signified how popular an ingredient was, and said that it would help them make a choice.
"If you were vegetarian, wouldn't you want to substitute all non-vegetarian ingredients at once, instead of having to go one by one?"
Here's how I solved that in the next iteration of the prototype:
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This is a great and easy way to switch to vegetarian! Great submission!!


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I usually prefer the physical copies of both, but with our technology as advanced as it is, mayhaps it is far more convenient to grab your smart phone, as I have done on occasion. (Nothing wrong with that! I'm sure the majority of people do not carry a copy of a dictionary on their person.)When you come across a new word—mind you, one that is new to you—jot it down and/or grab your phone/dictionary and look it up immediately. Such little tidbits can be lost in the memory quite easily and if you do not take care to write it down, it will become lost. That is, until it randomly resurfaces at 3:00AM. . . *ahem* This is an excellent way to gain knowledge, aaannnnd expand your mind. That said, don't forget to jot it down! Reading and researching is great, but making the effort to write it down (in your story/misc. notebook or even the notes app on your phone!) will be a huge step to remembering. And you'll always have that reference.Note: If you have a smart phone, download a free dictionary app (I have the Merriam-Webster for my iPhone) and check out the Word of the Day. You will easily discover new words that way!
WHEN WRITING, SUBSTITUTE YOUR WEAK WORDS FOR STRONGERThis is an amazing habit to have. And one I learned in my senior year of high school, thanks to a writing class my siblings and I took with my husband's mother (I had NO idea she would become my mother-in-law! Don't you love our God's sense of humor?).Through the IEW curriculum we used, she taught us to strengthen our words. For example, instead of "help," use "assist." "Excellent" instead of "good." "Recall" instead of "remember." Got the idea? Excellent! (See what I did there??) Soon, it will become second nature—believe me!
USE IT! APPLY A NEW WORD EVERY DAYAdd the words into your daily vocabulary. A great way to start [begin *wink wink*] is to check out whichever dictionary app you downloaded/have or look online at dictionary.com at the word of the day and make a point to use that word at least once. Some words may prove to be quite a challenge, but it could be great fun!Today's word on that website is portmanteau, meaning "a case or piece of luggage, particularly a leather trunk or suitcase that opens into two halves."


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Each weekday, the members of the Pets Jubilee Team on Etsy choose an item to promote from all of the active members. Here are last week's handcrafted items:
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In truth, there is no religion, no worship in our prosperity and ease. So far as we are happy, we are in a state of satisfied desire; so far as we are religious, we are in a state of aspiration and unsatisfied desire.
People … become so preoccupied with the means by which an end is achieved, as eventually to mistake it for the end. Just as money, which is a means of satisfying wants, comes to be regarded by a miser as the sole thing to be worked for, leaving the wants unsatisfied; so the conduct men have found preferable because most conducive to happiness, has come to be thought of as intrinsically preferable: not only to be made a proximate end (which it should be), but to be made an ultimate end, to the exclusion of the true ultimate end.Herbert Spencer
Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
Those that do not worship the Devi , go to Naraka or hell:;; moreover they suffer much from various diseases in this world . Those that do not worship the Devi are always defeated by their enemies , are void of wife and sons, become stupid and suffer pains from their unsatisfied desires .
Report me and my cause aright To the unsatisfied.william shakespeare
He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading: Lofty and sour to them that lov'd him not; But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer, And though he were unsatisfied in getting, (Which was a sin) yet in bestowing, madam, He was most princely.
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We launched our bespoke cake service across our venues this month for guests to enjoy at their next event. Each venue has a different cake that has been inspired by the location and guests can add up to 24 characters to each cake.
In celebration of cake, we recently hosted a cake giveaway (the best kind!) asking Hong Kong to tell us who they would share their cake with in the most creative way. We're excited to say that we have finally picked the winner! Congrats to Vada Yuen on the most creative way to eat your cake and have it too!
"I would like to share my cake with Marie Antoinette, since I have no bread." – Vada Yuen
Check out our Top 5 Responses below:
- "I Will Share My Cake With: I would love to share "The Coco" with my friend Monica who is relocating away from Hong Kong later in October. What could be more a HK cake than tequila filled? 1 tequila, 2 tequila, 3 tequila and more! .. More cake!" We couldn't agree more!
- "I Will Share My Cake With my husband :)) because we just got married 2 weeks ago and it's actually my birthday in October so a beautiful cake would be perfect!" Congratulations to the newlyweds!
- "I Will Share My Cake With: My dad, who calls himself a "dessertarian". And obviously the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Gotta love dad" Thank you! We will be using that term from now on
- "I Will Share My Cake With: My fiancé, because I regret that i've booked a hotel room to celebrate his birthday two weeks ago and the hotel promised to deliver a birthday cake before mid-night prior to his birthday. At the end, to my "surprise", the hotel actually prepared a birthday cake made of bath towels instead of an edible cake. Although my fiancé like it a lot, but still I feel sorry that I owe him a real editable birthday cake this year. " That's rough! We feel you.
- "I would love to share 'Red Devil' with my boss the day I tell him I'm leaving the company! I'll wait for the year end bonus of course!"
A special thank you to everyone who participated and keeping us entertained this week! There can only be one winner for this giveaway but when there's cake involved, isn't everyone a winner? Head to one of our venues to enjoy one of these delicious cakes today.


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Written by Brooke Howard-Smith, CEO of WeAreTENZING
A recent report on baby names in Australia turned up a surprising amount of girls named Dijon. Surprising not just because it's obviously the name of a mustard, but because these poor girls parents either didn't know this, or knew it and didn't care.
Choosing a baby's name can be a challenging task for many parents. And they're wise to work hard at it. A name can have a profound impact on a child that reverberates well into adulthood. It's the first thing people learn when they meet you, has an influence on their first impression of you, research indicates it can reflect your socio economic origins, it can help determine what career you choose and also how likely people are to be your friend.
So when an overly pregnant social media gave birth to the phenomenon of paid social brand collaborations perhaps we should have paused before christening the movement, just in case we were dooming a promising infant industry to a life sitting alone on the bus.
"Influencer Marketing", is, for a group of people usually tasked with selling things, a pretty poor effort the marketing industry is well known for mastering euphemism; what other professions have "executive" in it's entry level job titles. And while it's possible the moniker's origins go as far back as Robert Cialdini's Influence: Science and Practice I'd suggest we just add it a long list and lay the blame with Kim Kardashian. Following that we can get a collective break-up haircut, rename it and move on. For starters, no one wants to be told they are being influenced, so much so that the name has become a stone around the fast growing channels neck, in addition to this, the term itself is so broad it practically makes no sense. Correct me if i'm wrong (I dropped out of my marketing degree) but from memory, isn't all of marketing "influencing people"? Worse still the title doesn't begin to describe the amazing thing these unique and sometimes misunderstood people are doing.
They are as Kamiu Lee puts it, "content creators with built-in distribution". Pure and simple. (better quote)
It's this idea that they are in fact independent content creators that gives the industry hope. It's exciting that this group of athletes, foodies, comedians, parents, bloggers, vloggers and everyday folk are disrupting one of the world's largest industries by hijacking attention from multi-billion dollar media organizations and in a lot of cases, creating better content. Maybe not necessarily better in an award entering sense, but better in that, combined with Zuckerberg's understanding of media delivery, THEIR content is winning.
We know that Gary Vaynerchuk (yes the digital entrepreneur) talks about a "consumer needing to be excited about something, being compelled by something, and it comes down to attention. Attention, not impressions." So, on reflection, it's now a little ironic that one of the grandfathers of the advertising, DDB's Bill Bernbach, said in the 60's that "Nobody counts the number of ads that you run, just the impression that you make."
Last year Millennial-focused publisher Bustle conducted a survey to help brands understand their consumers a bit more. The research polled 1,000 women in the Bustle Hive – a community of over 5,000 Bustle, Romper and Elite Daily readers between the ages of 18 and 34 who live in the US asking them what brands they like and how they interact with brands.
Results found that 81 percent of readers said social media was the most effective way to reach them. Of those women, 40 percent thought Instagram was the best and most effective social media outlet to connect to them. Additionally, 36 percent found brands through websites they trust, closely followed by 35 percent of women, who found brands in online articles and through email.
Why is that important? Well if content is king, context is god and if you're targeting anyone under 45 then your audience in absolutely immersed in Instagram, linkedin, Youtube and Facebook. If Statista is right for millennials that's up to 4 hours a day, or at least two thirds of their daily branded screen time. And that being the case, it's important to remember that the majority of organically engaged content on these new networks is generated by independent people, not by the platforms themselves, not media organisations and certainly not by brands.
So to reach your target market, you can either create your own branded content using often expensive traditional methods, then pay to boost it into your target audience. Or do what more and more brands are doing; pay an independent content creator who's already talking to that target audience to build the content using their understanding of what their audience is receptive to, then distribute it to their followers, perhaps adding some boosting to grow it's reach and engagement beyond them. PS: You can also then share it yourself, thereby having your cake and eating it too.
When viewed like this, it's easy to really nail down what the best of the new breed of social media brand partners are, and the term influencers simply doesn't capture it. For one thing they are replacing traditional content creators as much as they are replacing old school brand ambassadors. They are external advocates paid to create content whose trusted opinions have been earned over time creating similar material for a curated audience. Bill Bernbach also said that "Word of mouth is the most powerful medium of all", so why wouldn't you want one of these influential content creators working with you to create and talk about your content? As such I propose we choose a name based around their activity not their outcome, at our company where we manage over 160 of them we we simply call our clients Content Curators but I'm up for suggestions.


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Posts Tagged 'GEO'
Automated retrieval of expression data with Python and R
In February, I'll be headed to Japan for BioHackathon 2010, which focuses on integrating biological datasets. In preparation, I've been thinking about use cases: when working with a set of data, what other information do you want to able to readily retrieve that will help you better answer your questions? One common set of data is gene expression information; you identify a group of genes of interest and are curious about their expression levels.
In an ideal semantic world, you would be able to build a query through a set of RDF triples like:
- Expression set -> has organism -> Mus musculus
- Mus musculus -> has cell type -> proB
- proB -> has biological state -> wild type
- Expression set -> has identifier -> A RefGene ID
- A RefGene ID -> has expression value -> 7.65
So you could find expression sets unique to your cell type under standard conditions, and then identify the expression values of your genes. Ideally, expression sets would also have additional meta-data associated with them so you'd know what 7.65 meant in the context of the experiment.
Although we can't do this query through semantic channels, there are a number of toolkits that help us answer the question in an automated way. NCBI's Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) provides an online resource hosting expression data. You can query the data sets with EUtils web API using Biopython. Once a data set of interest is identified, Bioconductor's GEOquery can retrieve the data sets and mappings to UCSC RefGene identifiers. All of this is tied together with the Rpy2 python interface to R.
At the top level, we define our goal, which is to retrieve expression data for mouse proB wild type cells:
def main(): organism = "Mus musculus" cell_types = ["proB", "ProB", "pro-B"] email = "email@example.com" save_dir = os.getcwd() exp_data = get_geo_data(organism, cell_types, email, save_dir, _is_wild_type) def _is_wild_type(result): """Check if a sample is wild type from the title. """ return result.samples[0][0].startswith("WT")
We query GEO for the possible data sets based on our organism and cell type, and then search through the results for a dataset that matches our criteria. In real life work, your personal
_is_wild_type function may be an interactive dialog that presents the biologist with possible experiments, allowing them to select the one of interest. Note also that we store our final result locally, as a Python pickle. Practically, this reduces our load on external servers by only querying them once:
def get_geo_data(organism, cell_types, email, save_dir, is_desired_result): save_file = os.path.join(save_dir, "%s-results.pkl" % cell_types[0]) if not os.path.exists(save_file): results = cell_type_gsms(organism, cell_types, email) for result in results: if is_desired_result(result): with open(save_file, "w") as out_handle: cPickle.dump(result, out_handle) break with open(save_file) as save_handle: result = cPickle.load(save_handle)
The hard work of querying GEO and retrieving the results is done by Biopython's Entrez interface. After building up the query, the results are parsed into simple objects with a description of the expression set along with titles and identifiers for each of the samples that match our cell type:
def cell_type_gsms(organism, cell_types, email): """Use Entrez to retrieve GEO entries for an organism and cell type. """ Entrez.email = email search_term = "%s[ORGN] %s" % (organism, " OR ".join(cell_types)) print "Searching GEO and retrieving results: %s" % search_term hits = [] handle = Entrez.esearch(db="gds", term=search_term) results = Entrez.read(handle) for geo_id in results['IdList']: handle = Entrez.esummary(db="gds", id=geo_id) summary = Entrez.read(handle) samples = [] for sample in summary[0]['Samples']: for cell_type in cell_types: if sample['Title'].find(cell_type) >= 0: samples.append((sample['Title'], sample['Accession'])) break if len(samples) > 0: hits.append(GEOResult(summary[0]['summary'], samples)) return hits
Once the experiment is selected we've accomplished the first part of our goal. Next, the plan is to get expression data values. We do this by building up a dictionary that maps RefGene IDs to expression values, so the results look like:
WT ProB, biological rep1 [('NM_177327', [7.7430266269999999, 6.4795213670000003, 8.8766985500000004]), ('NM_001008785', [7.4671954649999996, 5.4761453329999998]), ('NM_177325', [7.3312364040000002, 11.831475960000001]), ('NM_177323', [6.9779868059999997, 6.3926399939999996]), ('NM_177322', [5.0833683379999997])]
The actual hard work is retrieving the expression data and mappings to gene identifiers, and this is done using the GEOquery library in Bioconductor. Mapping information for expression values, and high level meta-data about the experiment, are stored in local files. The expression information is stored as a R style tab delimited data table, while the meta-data is stored in JSON format. Both sets of data are then present locally in readily readable formats for further processing:
def _write_gsm_map(self, gsm_id, meta_file, table_file): """Retrieve GEO expression values using Bioconductor, saving to a table. """ robjects.r.assign("gsm.id", gsm_id) robjects.r.assign("table.file", table_file) robjects.r.assign("meta.file", meta_file) robjects.r(''' library(GEOquery) library(rjson) gsm <- getGEO(gsm.id) write.table(Table(gsm), file = table.file, sep = "\t", row.names = FALSE, col.names = TRUE) cat(toJSON(Meta(gsm)), file = meta.file) ''')
The previous function provides a mapping between probe names and expression levels. To be useful, we also need to map each of the probes on the expression array to biological gene identifiers. This is done through a second call to the GEO library to retrieve details for the expression platform. Again the data is presented in a R data frame, which we limit to only the items of interest and save as a tab delimited file:
def _write_gpl_map(self, gpl_id, gpl_file): """Retrieve GEO platform data using R and save to a table. """ robjects.r.assign("gpl.id", gpl_id) robjects.r.assign("gpl.file", gpl_file) robjects.r(''' library(GEOquery) gpl <- getGEO(gpl.id) gpl.map <- subset(Table(gpl), select=c("ID", "RefSeq.Transcript.ID")) write.table(gpl.map, file = gpl.file, sep = "\t", row.names = FALSE, col.names = TRUE) ''')
Putting this all together, we download each of the mapping files and then parse them, building the connection: expression to probe ID to gene transcript IDs. The final dictionary maps these gene identifiers to the expression values and returns them:
def get_gsm_tx_values(self, gsm_id, save_dir): """Retrieve a map of transcripts to expression from a GEO GSM file. """ gsm_meta_file = os.path.join(save_dir, "%s-meta.txt" % gsm_id) gsm_table_file = os.path.join(save_dir, "%s-table.txt" % gsm_id) if (not os.path.exists(gsm_meta_file) or not os.path.exists(gsm_table_file)): self._write_gsm_map(gsm_id, gsm_meta_file, gsm_table_file) with open(gsm_meta_file) as in_handle: gsm_meta = json.load(in_handle) id_to_tx = self.get_gpl_map(gsm_meta['platform_id'], save_dir) tx_to_vals = collections.defaultdict(list) with open(gsm_table_file) as in_handle: reader = csv.reader(in_handle, dialect='excel-tab') reader.next() # header for probe_id, probe_val in reader: for tx_id in id_to_tx.get(probe_id, []): tx_to_vals[tx_id].append(float(probe_val)) return tx_to_vals
The full script puts all of these parts together into a working example. In the end we go from our query to the expression data we need, although the route is a bit more circuitous then the idealized one described at the start of the post. Simplifying this type of question based approach to data access is one challenge bioinformatics tool developers will continue to face.


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Analysis of the Play: 'The Lion and the Jewel'
The Lion and the Jewel is a comedic-dramatic play that revolves around four major characters: Baroka (the elderly chief of Illunjire), Lankule (the young headmaster of a primary school), Sidi (the most beautiful girl in the village) and Sadiku (the eldest wife of Baroka).The playwright, Wole Soyinka depicts Baroka as a cunning fox, Lankule as an arrogant teacher, Sidi as an egotistical young village girl and Sadiku as a simple-minded elderly woman.
Significance of the Play
A lion is an animal which is revered because of its majestic movement and its title as the king of the jungle. It can hunt both the smaller and larger preys.
A jewel is a beautiful ornament worn around the neck. It complements women's beauty when they adorn it on their necks.
In the play, Baroka commands an aura of authority thus fitting the title of a lion. Sidi is the jewel of Illunjire because of her unrivalled beauty.
The play is a story of an elderly man 'hunting' a beautiful girl to diminish her rising influence in the village which is threatening his authoritative influence in the village.
Character Analysis
He is an elderly chief in his early sixties. He is the Bale of Illunjire, a village in Nigeria.
Baroka is a polygamist. When Sidi refuses Baroka's offer to be his next wife, Sadiku convinces her to accept Baroka's invitation for supper. Sidi reacts to Sadiku's statement, "...Do you think I was only born yesterday? The tales of Baroka's little suppers, I know all...Can you deny that every woman who has sapped with him one night, becomes his wife or concubine the next." This shows the polygamous nature of Baroka. Sidi joins the list of Baroka's wives replacing the youngest, Ailatu as Baroka's favourite wife. Sadiku leads the lot as the eldest wife of Baroka.
He is as cunning as a fox. Lankule wonders what women see in Baroka. His eyes are small and always red with wine (drunkard). He figures the chief possesses some secret. Sidi's response to Sadiku that young women who attend Baroka's supper invitation end up as wives or concubines is a testament of Baroka's craftiness. In another embodiment Baroka deceives Sadiku he is impotent. He knows well his wife is a gossipmonger. He warns her not to reveal the secret to anyone but Sadiku reveals it to Sidi. Sidi takes upon herself to mock Baroka's sterility by pretending she is repentant of not having agreed to Baroka's invitation for supper. Nonetheless, Sidi comes out of the place no longer the valued jewel of the village (no longer a virgin).
He is hungry for power. He resorts to bribing the white surveyor sent by the Ministry of Public Works. Baroka is afraid of what might ensue once the Ministry of Public Works builds a railroad along the village. He knows once the project begins (or is completed) his office will cease to exist.
Lankule, an educated young African man who has embraced western values seeks to modernize his village of Illunjire. He wants his village to attain the same economic and technological status as the capital city of Nigeria, Lagos. He distastes the village's traditional practices which he terms as a 'savage custom, barbaric, out-dated, rejected, denounced, accursed, excommunicated, archaic, degrading, humiliating, unspeakable, redundant, retrogressive, remarkable and unpalatable.'
Lankule is puffed up in arrogance owing to his educational status, which is limited, in the village and his knowledge, which is also limited, pertaining to western culture.
His reasoning when arguing with Sidi about the analytical mind of women delineates his level of education and understanding. He tells Sidi "...as a woman, you have a smaller brain than mine." Sidi asks him, "Just what gives you these thoughts of manly conceit." Lankule replies in a patronizing voice that she can't draw him into arguments which go above her head
When Sidi demands Lankule to give him the pail of water, Lankule says, "Please, don't be angry with me. I didn't mean you in particular. And anyway, it isn't what I say. The scientists have proved it. It's in my books. Women have a smaller brain than men. That's why they are called a weaker sex." This depicts Lankule as lacking in intelligence (understanding) positioning him as semi-illiterate. His lack of critical analysis of the books he has read has blinded his interpretation forcing him to accept what is contrary to the authors' intended meaning.
He enjoys the taste of gossip, something he must have noticed in Lagos. He tells Sadiku, "We'll print newspapers every day with pictures of seductive girls. The world will judge our progress by the girls that win beauty contests. While Lagos builds new factories daily we only play 'ayo' and gossip."
Lastly, he has a sense of humour. He dislikes the customs of his village. He deems them as backward. This, he does by using synonymous words to justify his disregard of the traditional practices of his village. He terms the customs of his village as 'savage, barbaric, out-dated, rejected, denounced, accursed, excommunicated, archaic, degrading, humiliating, unspeakable, redundant, retrogressive, remarkable and unpalatable.' Sidi asks him whether his bag is empty the reason he has stopped using tantamount words to describe the customs of his village. Lankule responds, "I own only the Shorter Companion Dictionary, but I have ordered the Longer One - you wait!"
She is the most beautiful girl in the village.
Despite her beauty she is naive. She doesn't realize Baroka has set a trap by deceiving Sadiku that his manhood has failed. Her lack of analyzing Sadiku's statement that Baroka can no longer impregnate a woman leads her to Baroka's palace; her intention to mock him. Sidi can't match against Baroka who has seen a lot, learned a lot and knows many things.
Sidi is a traditionalist. She sticks to traditional practices unlike Lankule. She is adamant that Lankule should pay the bride price. Even after Baroka defiles her, she still refuses Lankule's offer to marry her without the need of paying the bride price. In addition, Sidi isn't interested in becoming the modern woman Lankule wants her to be. She loathes kissing which she terms as unclean.
She is egotistic. Her realization of the fact she's exquisite leads her to believe beauty revolves around her. She is obsessed with her beauty to the point she considers herself more important than Baroka and Lankule. Sidi becomes proud because of the positive review she gets from the villagers about her beauty as seen in the magazines distributed by the stranger in the village. She even enjoys taking pleasure in taunting Lankule by telling him she doesn't think she would want to get married by someone like him. "... Known as I am to the whole wide world, I would demean my worth to wed a mere village school teacher."
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Sadiku is the eldest wife of Baroka. She has remained faithful to Baroka for forty years despite Baroka's appetite for more wives and concubines.
Sadiku is simpleminded. Baroka uses her as a 'tool' to find women to satisfy his appetite for young girls who are 'fresh' and their blood is 'hot.' Lankule rebukes Sadiku for accepting to be Baroka's messenger. "... For though you're nearly seventy, your mind is simple and unformed...You spend your days as a senior wife, collecting brides for Baroka..."
She is also uneducated. This is seen when Lankule rebukes her for allowing Sidi to head to Baroka's palace to mock him. Lankule admonishes her, "This is my plan, you withered face and I shall start by teaching you. From now you shall attend my school and take your place with twelve-year olds. For though you're nearly seventy, your mind is simple and unformed. Have you no shame at your age, you neither read nor write nor think..."
1. Bride Price
Lankule, the young African man who has embraced western culture considers the traditional customs in his village as barbaric and savage.
Even though he loves Sidi, he doesn't want to pay the bride price. He tells Sidi that paying the dowry is the same as buying a heifer off the market stall. It translates to owning Sidi for she'll no longer be a life companion but a property to him.
However, Sidi is adamant that he has to pay the dowry. She insists she doesn't want to become the talk in the village. "But I tell you Lankule, I must have the full bride-price. Will you make me a laughing-stock...But Sidi will not make herself a cheap bowl for the village spit...They will say I was no virgin that I was forced to sell my shame and marry you without a price."
After Baroka succeeds in 'sleeping' with Sidi, Lankule jumps at the opportunity. She's no longer a virgin therefore he doesn't have to pay the bride price.
2. Polygamy
At the age of sixty-two, Baroka has many wives and countless concubines under his pocket. While we don't know how many wives Baroka has, it is apparent from Sidi's response to Sadiku that he has many wives. When Sadiku convinces Sidi to be Baroka's next wife, Sidi refuses. Subsequently, she asks Sidi to attend Baroka's personal invitation to his supper meal. Sidi reminds Sadiku of a fact concerning Baroka: "Can you deny that every woman who has sapped with him one night becomes his wife or concubine the next?" Lankule supports Sidi's response by stating there is a reason Baroka is called a cunning fox.
The mere mention of Sadiku as the eldest wife of Baroka and Ailatu as the youngest wife builds the evidence Baroka is a polygamist. Sidi becomes Baroka's latest wife earning the title of 'Favourite' which was entitled to Ailatu.
3. Modernity vs. Tradition
There is a conflict between the people of Illunjire village who have accepted western culture (modern life) versus those who want to stick with the village's traditional practices.
Lankule symbolizes the villagers who have embraced modern life. He wants to modernize his village by introducing machines and the modern-way of life. The presence of a school in the village is a testament of a village becoming modernized.
While Sidi has learnt some English vocabularies from Lankule such as barbaric and savage, she still prefers the traditional life she is used to. She loathes kissing which she terms as unclean. She tells Lankule that he should go to the places where women understand his modern plans and tell them of his plans, not her.
While Baroka recognizes the benefits of embracing modernity in his village, he fights against it knowing the ramifications it will have on him. He fears his office might be replaced with a higher office. The fact he owns a stamping machine shows he values modernity to some extent.
While some people consider modernity as a blessing, there are people who don't embrace it for various reasons. Some villagers like Lankule desire a modern way-of-life, the reason he wants Illunjire to be a replica of Lagos, the capital city of Nigeria.
4. Corruption (Bribery)
When Baroka learns the Ministry of Public Works has sent a surveyor to establish whether a railroad can pass through Illunjire, he bribes the surveyor. They (Baroka and surveyor) a story which he delivers to his superiors that the land is not fit for a railway line to pass through.
5. Beauty
The playwright has portrayed how beauty can threaten the status of an authoritative figure. Sidi's beauty has spread beyond the village. This was made possible by the Lagos man who captured Sidi's beauty in different poses. Her images were published in a magazine fulfilling the stranger's promise to Sidi that the magazine will announce her beauty to the world. Baroka, jealous of Sidi's rising influence plans how he will silence her by deflowering her.
In another scenario, Lankule dashes out of the class when he notices Sidi through the classroom's window carrying a bucket of water. Two of his pupils, aged eleven, make a buzzing noise at Sidi, clapping their hands across the mouth. The attitude of the pupils depict the unmistakable beauty of Sidi.
6. Irresponsibility
Lankule is an irresponsible teacher. He dashes out of the class to meet Sidi who is carrying a pail of water on her head. He leaves the pupils reciting the arithmetic times written on the blackboard. Instead of finding an opportune time to meet Sidi, he takes the advantage he has at the moment to meet her and strike a conversation.
7. Illiteracy
Sadiku represents the many villagers who are illiterate - they can't read or write. Sadiku's illiteracy is manifested when Lankule rebukes her when she supports Sidi's idea of going to Baroka's palace to mock his sterility. He tells her, "This is my plan, you withered face and I shall start by teaching you. From now you shall attend my school and take your place with twelve-year olds. For though you're nearly seventy, your mind is simple and informed. Have you no shame that at your age, you neither read nor write nor think?"
Structure of the Play
The play is divided into three parts: morning, afternoon and evening.
1. Morning
Lankule is teaching arithmetic times when he notices Sidi through the classroom's window carrying a pail of water on her head. He rushes out of the class and to the opposite side. He offers to help Sidi lower the bucket but Sidi refuses. He seizes it but some water spills on him.
Lankule tells Sidi that she must stop carrying heavy loads on her head. The effect is her neck will shrink which he likens to squashed drawings of his pupils. He also complains of Sidi's traditional way of wearing that exposes her shoulders and outline of her breasts.
Sidi has had enough of Lankule that she asks if she can take the pail. However, Lankule refuses asking her to first marry her. Sidi replies she has no problem with that. She can marry him on any day as long as he pays the bride price. Lankule refuses but Sidi insists she won't become the laughingstock in the village.
Lankule offers the reason he can't pay the bride price which he likens to buying a heifer off the market stalls. He describes to Sidi the married life of civilized people. He kisses her but Sidi is repelled by that behaviour terming it as unclean.
As they are talking, they hear a crowd of youth and drummers. Sidi demands Lankule to give her the bucket or else the people will jeer at her.
The girls feed Sidi with information about the lost traveller - A man from another world who speaks in a foreign accent. Sidi enquires if the stranger has returned with the magazine he had promised; a magazine that will announce Sidi's beauty to the world.
The girls tell her the Lagos man returned with the book (magazine) and her images appear on the cover and middle leaves (pages) of the book. She learns the Bale of the village (Baroka) also appears somewhere in the book but shares his image with the village's latrine.
They dance the dance of the Lost Traveller. Sidi assigns the young people a role to play in the dance that will retell how the Lagos man got lost and found himself in the village of Illunjire. Lankule acts as the Stranger while Sidi acts as the beautiful young woman.
The stranger was traveling somewhere when his car broke down. He restarted it but it failed. He climbed out of the car, checked the tyres and climbed in. He ignited the engine but the car didn't give in. He picked up his camera and helmet and took a swig from his flask of whisky before putting it into his pocket. He began the trek to find a nearby village.
He heard a girl singing somewhere from the bush. He shook his head, drank his whisky again convinced he was suffering from sun-stroke. He threw the empty bottle. He heard a scream and torrents of abusive words. He tiptoed to where the female's voice was coming from. What he saw made him unhitch his camera. Not focusing where he was stepping on as he tried to find a good position to take several pictures of the girl who was bathing in a pool of water; he plunged into the water. The young woman screamed and ran to the village with a part of her cloth covering her. The stranger followed a little later wringing out the water from his clothes. Sidi returned with the villagers who hauled the stranger off to the town centre.
Baroka, the chief of Illunjire sympathized with the stranger. He besieged the villagers not to kill him. He ordered dry clothes for him and a feast in his honour. He captured several pictures of the party and Sidi who was dancing.
Sidi is engrossed in the pictures of herself in the magazine. Following behind is Lankule who's carrying a bundle of firewood for Sidi. Sadiku meets them on the road leading to and from the town centre.
Sadiku asks Sidi to be Baroka's wife. Sidi asks Sadiku why Baroka is requesting for her hand after her images are published in the magazine. Why didn't he ask her to be his wife before her beauty was exposed to the world? Since she has refused to become Baroka's wife, Sadiku requests her to accept Baroka's personal invitation at his homestead for an evening mean (supper). Sidi tells Sadiku that she wasn't born the previous day. She knows Baroka's tricks.
It is at this point Lankule reveals to Sidi the other side of Baroka. She narrates how Baroka foiled the Public Works attempt to build a railway line through Illunjire.
Baroka is lying on the bed while his life wife, Ailatu is pulling out the hairs from his armpit. She asks Baroka how she's fairing on the task. Baroka tells her she's being over-gentle with the pull. She tells him she will improve but Baroka tells her she shouldn't bother about it because he intends to marry another young woman. Ailatu becomes angry. She plucks the hairs violently. Baroka orders her out of the room when Sadiku enters.
Baroka asks if she's brought a balm because of the pain he's feeling under his armpit. Sadiku tells him that Sidi has refused both of his proposals. She considers him old and she can't sap with married men. Baroka is astonished to be called old. He recounts to Sadiku his youth life and how brave and strong he was. Nevertheless, he reveals to Sadiku a secret he hopes she won't disclose to anybody. He tells her his manhood is no longer functioning. Sadiku can't believe it. Baroka warns her not to tell anybody.
Character Analysis
Sidi is standing by the classroom window, admiring her images on the magazine. She watches Sadiku in astonishment who is oblivious of her presence. Sadiku places a curved figure of the Bale in front of the 'Odun' tree. She dances around the tree, chanting "Take warning, my masters we'll scotch you in the end."
Sidi enquires why she is behaving as an insane person. Sadiku reveals to Sidi the secret. Sidi leaps in the air, happy to hear the good news. She exclaims, "We won! We won! Hurray for womankind!" They don't recognize Lankule who has joined their presence. They dance around the tree chanting "Take warning, my masters we'll scotch you in the end."
Sidi mentions to Sadiku that she wants to pay Baroka a visit. Her intention is to poke fun at Baroka's impotency. Lankule pleads with her not to go but Sidi tells her as long as she doesn't reveal to Baroka of the secret, she can go and ridicule Baroka.
She finds Baroka wrestling with his left man (warrior/bodyguard). Baroka asks her why she has arrived at his bedroom unannounced. She replies she didn't find anybody at the entrance to his bedroom. Baroka laments at this intrusion.
After the wrestling match, Sidi pretends she's repentant for the words she uttered – Baroka is old and she can't sap with married men. She makes fun of Baroka indirectly. She tells him that maybe the man who wants to marry her can't sire children. She says to him, "Maybe the children are plagued with shyness and refuse to come into the world."
Baroka reveals to Sidi a stamping machine he owns. He tells Sidi the stamps will contain her images which will announce to the world her beauty. Baroka groans how people talk ill of him and how his office task is tiresome. Sidi leans on Baroka's shoulder.
Lankule wonders why Sidi is late. It is in the evening and Sidi hasn't returned. He thinks something bad must have happened to her.
Sidi who has been running throws herself to the ground against the tree and sobs violently. Sadiku kneels besides her and asks her what the problem is. She pushes her away. She also tells Lankule not to touch her. She tells Sadiku that Baroka had lied to her.
Suddenly, she leaves. Lankule requests Sadiku to find out where she has gone. She returns with the news Sidi is packing her things and oiling herself as a bride does before her wedding.
Sidi, accompanied by a crowd and musicians hands Lankule the magazine that contains her images. Sidi reveals to Lankule she is heading to Baroka's place. Sidi requests Sadiku to bless her.
Questions & Answers
Did Baroka pay the bride price in the play "The Lion and the Jewel"?
Baroka didn't pay the bride price. Lankule wanted to marry Sidi without paying the bride price. However, Sidi told him that she didn't want to be a laughingstock (to be laughed) in the village. People would say she wasn't a virgin.
After Baroka deflowered/defiled Sidi, Lankule jumped at the opportunity. Since Sidi wasn't virgin, there was need for him to pay the dowry.
Thus, Baroka never paid the bride price because Sidi was no longer a virgin.Helpful 48
Did Baroka had sex with Sidi?
Yes. The evidence is that she leaned on Baroka's shoulder. Another evidence is that Lankule was happy that he was no longer required to pay a bride price for Sidi. Knowing Sidi is no longer a virgin, he jumped at that opportunity. A man is not required to pay the bride price for a girl who isn't a virgin.
Lankule tells her, "Dear Sidi, we shall forget the past. This great misfortune touches not the treasury of my love. But you will agree, it is only fair that we forget the bride-price totally since you no longer can be called a maid."Helpful 29
What is the significance of marriage in the play "The Lion and the Jewel"?
In the play, Lankule symbolizes western or modern culture while Baroka symbolizes the traditional way-of-life. When Sidi accepts to be married to Baroka, it signifies that tradition is preferred to modern culture. Through the play, the playwright shows that even though modern life has crept in the village of Illunjire, the villagers distaste the modern life preferring their tradition.
Another thing to consider is through the marriage, Baroka not only asserts his authority as a powerful person (chief) but also proves that old men are wiser than younger men and women. Baroka managed to silence Sidi's ever-increasing popularity. He felt she was threatening his influence in the village. As a crafty person, he managed to accomplish his mission of silencing Sidi's increasing influence in the village.Helpful 28
How was Lakunle's true love for Sidi proved after her return from Baroka's house?
Lankule loves Sidi but isn't willing to pay the bride price. He thinks it's barbaric since it would be like buying her thus becoming his property.
When Lankule learns that Sidi has been deflowered, first of all, he becomes angry before a thought pops up in his mind. He won't have to pay a bride price. This acts as a proof Lankule loves Sidi. Again, he thinks Sidi wants to get married to him very soon. He wonders why she's in a hurry only to learn she's heading to Baroka's house.Helpful 27
What is the importance of the bride price in The Lion and Jewel?
Lankule wanted to marry Sidi without paying the bride prize. However, Sidi said that she won't accept to become a laughingstock in the village that she was married without the dowry having been paid because she wasn't a virgin.
In the play, the playwright has highlighted the reason why the bride price is highly regarded in the village. A girl whose bride price has been paid is a testament that she's a virgin. Thus, the importance of bride price in the Illunjire village is to signify that a girl is a virgin. She hasn't been defiled or deflowered.Helpful 26
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Nan's writing can be found, as they say, in all good bookshops. 'The Living Mountain', 'The Quarry Wood', 'The Weatherhouse', and 'A Pass in the Grampians' are published by Canongate in various formats.
Nan's poetry collection, 'In the Cairngorms', the excellent biography by Charlotte Peacock, 'Into the Mountain', and a fascinating miscellany of Nan's lesser-known work, 'Wild Geese', are published by Galileo.
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Now that you have your WordPress site up and running, it's time to start pulling in data that can show you how your visitors interact with your website. In this post we're going to show you the easiest ways to add the most popular (and free!) website analytics tracking to your website: Google Analytics.
What is Google Analytics?
Google Analytics is a free website tracking service that reports website traffic, conversions, user behavior, and more. It is the most popular website tracking service available.
Google Analytics can show you how much traffic your website receives, where that traffic is coming from, and how visitors interact with your site once they arrive.
You can also export Google Analytics data in various formats or build your own custom "Dashboard" that easily provides and updates the data you want to see.
Why Website Analytics are Important
Everyone setting up a website has a goal in mind. Perhaps the goal is to blog about your passion, launch a small ecommerce business, or just to have a space where your friends can come together online.
Whatever your reason for creating a WordPress website, an understanding of your site's users is crucial. You need to know if people are visiting, where they come from, and what content on your website they enjoy. Without this information you have no way to measure if what you are creating is moving you closer to achieving your goals.
One of the best features of Google Analytics is the price. Even if you are not remotely interested in see how visitors interact with your website, it is still easy to implement this tracking and start gathering data quietly in the background, all for free!
Who knows? One day you may look at your analytics data and realize that your visitors frequently go to a part of your site you did not expect them to. That could lead to ideas for new content or copy on your website.
How Does Google Analytics Work?
The tracking code (if properly implemented) should be on every page of your website for which you want to gather traffic data. This insures that the tracking can follow every website visitor as they move through your site
Some of the most helpful data provided by this tracking is:
- Pageviews: The number of individual pages a visitor goes to on your site.
- Sessions: The number of individual visitors your website receives.
- Traffic Source: Where your site visitors came from (A Google search, a paid Google ad, another website, directly to your site, a social media network, etc.)
- Bounce Rate: A measure of how many visitors came to one page on your site and then immediately left.
- Session Duration and Pages per Session: Measurements of how long someone stayed on your site and how many pages they visited during their Session.
- Goals (sometimes referred to as "Conversions"): These are a measure of how many people completed an action on your site, as stipulated by you. For example, if you have a contact form, you could measure how many people filled out and submitted that form, where they came from, etc.
Let's get started on installing Google Analytics on your WordPress website.
Installing Google Analytics on your Site
Step 1: Creating an Account
1. The first thing you need to add Google Analytics to your website is a Google account. If you don't already have one you are comfortable associating with your website, get one here.
2. Once you have your account ready, go to https://analytics.google.com and login.
3. You will see a screen prompting you to sign up for Google Analytics. Follow the steps to set up your analtyics account.Sign up for google analytics
4. Once you have filled out all of the required information, click on the "Get Tracking ID" button. You will be taken to a screen showing you a piece of code (called a "snippet") that you will need to copy. The code will look like this, but the obscured part will contain your Google Analytics account number instead:
Remember to highlight and copy the entire code snippet, as shown in the screenshot above.
Step 2: Installing the Code
There are several ways to add the Google Analytics code to your WordPress site, and we're going to focus on two of the easiest and most popular methods. As usual, WordPress makes these options easy, depending on your experience level.
Method #1: Manually Adding the Tracking Code
While both of these methods are straightforward, this method is the only one that requires some minor knowledge of how WordPress uses templates to manage content. Here are the steps to add your Google Analytics tracking code manually:
1. Once you have the code copied, login to your WordPress website and go to "Editor" in the "Appearance" menu:
2. On the right side of the screen you will see a list of templates. You are looking for the template file named "header.php". The easiest way to find this file is usually to do a CTRL + F and search for "header.php":
3. Next you want to look for the the following tag: </head>. You can again use CTRL+F to search for it. Once you've found the tag, paste the tracking code snippet immediately before it.
4. Once the code is pasted in, click the "Update File" button.
5. After a few minutes, go back to the area in Google Analytics where you copied your tracking code. Refresh the screen to make sure that the code is properly placed and your account is receiving data. If no data is being received, click the "Send test traffic" button to test.
Please Note: It usually takes 12-24 hours for actual traffic data to being coming in through Google Analytics. After that period of time has passed, you can login to your account and go to "Reporting" in the main menu to see your data.
Method #2: The Google Analytics by MonsterInsights Plugin
There are hundreds of Google Analytics WordPress plugins available. Some allow you to track more elements of your site than others, some are easy to set up, and some provide analytics data to you within your WordPress dashboard.
We are going to show you how to set up the Google Analytics by MonsterInsights plugin, formerly known as Yoast Google Analytics. This plugin is one of the most powerful of the analytics plugins that is also very easy to configure and start tracking your traffic immediately.
1. Upload the Google Analytics by MonsterInsights plugin using your preferred method (check out our "Installing Plugins" video here) and activate it.
2. Navigate to the "Settings" section under the new "Analytics" menu.
3. Now it's time to connect your Google Analytics account to the plugin. There are two ways to do this: Authenticate with your Google account or manually enter your UA (User Account) code.
Authenticate With Your Google Account: If you are signed in to your Google Analytics account, click the "Authenticate with your Google account", go through the prompts, and your account will be connected.
Manually Enter Your UA Code: If you prefer to manually enter your user account number, simply check the "Manually enter your UA code" box.
Then go back to your Google Analytics account, click on the "Admin" link in the main menu, and then click on "Property Settings" under the center "Property" column.
Copy the code under "Tracking ID" (be sure to include the "UA" portion) and paste the code into the field in the plugin.
Click the "Save Changes" button and your site is now tracking your visitor data! Again, allow 12-24 hours for data to populate.
What it Looks Like in Action
Once you've installed the tracking code properly and let 12-24 hours pass, you will begin to see data appearing in your personal Google Analytics interface.
When you head back into Google Analytics, click on the "Reporting" link in the top navigation to see the default data display. The default reporting section is the Audience Overview, and this is what will load by default whenever you login to Analytics in the future:
The menu on the left side is how you will navigate between the different data sections. It is broken up into sections based on the type of metrics presented. You can change your date range in the upper right.
Please Note: Data is only available from the date you installed Google Analytics and not earlier).
To help you get a little more familiar with it, here are some areas you are going to want to check out on a regular basis:
- Audience →Mobile→Overview: This will show you the type of devices people use to access your site. This can help you determine if you need a better mobile site.
- Acquisition→Overview→All Traffic→Channels: This section will show you what channels are sending traffic to your site (Organic Search, Paid Search, Social Media, Referrals (other websites)
- Behavior→Overview: This section will show you the pages on your site that get the most traffic.
- Conversions→Goals→Overview: This section will show you the number of conversions that have occurred on your site, if you have set up goals.
Final Tip: You can hover over any of the metric names (Sessions, Users, Pageviews, etc.) and a helpful box will pop up explaining what the metric is:
Wrapping Up
Google Analytics is by far the most powerful free analytics service available. Whether you are brand new to WordPress or you are experienced in managing your own WordPress site, having Google Analytics tracking implemented will help you to constantly improve your website's performance.


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Saturday's Scilly Isles Novices' Chase stars this weekend, and our tipster Martin Pennington has plucked three tips from Sandown biggest betting heats
- 2.25 Sandown Tip - Vinndication - 5/2 William Hill
- 3.00 Sandown Tip - Casko D'Airy - 12/1 Paddy Power
- 3.35 Sandown Tip - Belami Des Pictons - 7/1 William Hill
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Saturday's Sandown meeting provides trainers with a chance to fine tune their Cheltenham Festival hopefuls with the Grade 1 Scilly Isles Novices' Chase taking centre stage.
For the Sandown betting enthusiasts, that will appeal, but the real punters' race this weekend is the highly-competitive Heroes Handicap Hurdle, and we think we've found the winner - at odds you'll like.
Vinndication Pick Of Sandown Favourites
With 11 horses entered in the Grade 1 Scilly Isles Novices' Chase at Sandown on Saturday, it looks the most competitive Graded novice chase of the season, but with star La Bague Au Roi more likely to head to the Dublin Racing Festival at Leopardstown, and doubts surrounding others, the final field could present opportunity for a rising talent.
Big yards have dominated this Grade 1, trainer Nicky Henderson winning five of the last eight and Philip Hobbs responsible for one of three 5/2 favourites in the Scilly Isles Novices' Chase betting, Defi Du Seuil. However, I think that can change in 2019, and Kim Bailey is the trainer for the job.
"He will want further than two and a half, and if he goes to the Cheltenham Festival it would be for the RSA Chase, as he will stay forever," Kim Bailey said of Vinndication.
Unbeaten in six starts, his Vinndication (5/2 William Hill) comes into this 2m4f test the winner of two chases, including a Grade 2 at Ascot last time out. He also won three hurdles last year, beating Champ over 2m5.5f, that rival this year favourite in the Ballymore Novices' Hurdle betting at the Cheltenham Festival.
He has only ever run at right-handed tracks, so it wasn't surprising to see that he missed Cheltenham last year, but Saturday is billed as a test for the 3m RSA Chase, the six-year-old's trainer hoping for rain to place extra emphasis on stamina.
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Nicholls Eyes Heroes Handicap Hurdle Repeat
Saturday's Heroes Handicap Hurdle betting is wide open, Ballymoy, Keeper Hill and Casko D'Airy all vying for favouritism, with half a dozen rivals only a point or two below in the odds.
The one I like, looks a lot like last year's winner Topofthegame, who lined up for the £100,000 Grade 3 having run only once before in handicap company. His trainer Paul Nicholls, winner of the race four times, has produced Casko D'Airy in just the same way, yet this son of Voix Du Nord lines up a winner over the race's distance of 2m7.5f, and is rated 15lbs less.
Casko D'Airy wore a tongue tie for the first time when winning that Ascot handicap hurdle, making significant improvements on his two showings in maiden hurdles in November, where he was beaten a total of 104 lengths. What's more, the fourth and fifth, Annie Mc and Potters Hedger, have both won impressively since.
The seven-year-old has been raised 14lbs in the handicap for his victory, putting him on a mark of 127 and just sneaking in to the bottom of the weights. That rating doesn't look overly harsh with further improvement likely, and at 12/1 with Paddy Power, he looks to hold strong claims.
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When last seen, it was November 2017 and the eight-year-old was finishing two-and-a-half-lengths second to one of this year's Ryanair Chase favourites Waiting Patiently, now rated 170.
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The step back up in distance is in his favour and with his yard in form, I think he can give his trainer a third win in this race, having taken it in 2017 with Otago Trail and three years earlier with Relax.
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Friday, June 5, 2009
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ok- so externally, i have been the look of cool calm creativeness very patiently waiting to start my wreck a journal - BUT, on the inside....i have been the all-smiles, giggly, goofy, doing-the-little-girly-dance, are we ever going to start this? so- today is june 5 and i am posting me and my pristine journal- and will be posting our creative journey along the way until we have reached our destination!! hope you will join me! (ps- thanks curiousgirl-lisa for finding this wonderful project and blogging it!)
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Street performer Isabella Hoops is a performance artist on the rise. After ten years of busking and hula hooping for cash on the streets of Edmonton, Calgary and Winnipeg she now has her own entertainment company in Toronto with five other artists under contract and regular gigs. This happened because of her natural skill, her charisma and determination and her natural passion for entertaining people.
Bella Hoops has a half dozen ready-made shows from cabarets, to festivals, and stunts, and spectacles that are perfect for work on the street. This girl won the CanSpin Awards Hooper of the Year trophy in 2015.
The Origins of Isabella Hoops
Isabella Hoops has always been involved in the arts. She was born into a family of musicians and was performing on stage as a toddler. Twenty years later, she earned a Bachelor of Education and Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in performance acting at the University of Edmonton.
Isabella began her acting career at the Musical Theatre in Edmonton where she attended Grant MacEwan Theatre Arts. She spent five years there performing children's musicals, and touring with the company doing shows across Alberta and British Columbia. During that time she made infrequent appearances at the Edmonton Street Performers Festival and became more and more attracted to busking and street performance. For the next ten years she spent her summers traveling across Canada touring with the Fringe Festival, both as an actor and a busker.
Since moving to Toronto in 2008, Isabella has found a home amidst the growing circus community as she pursues her career as an actor and playwright. She wrote and produced the critically acclaimed show, The Cat of Kensington, for the 2010 Toronto Fringe Festival and Everlasting Slumber with Hercinia Arts for the 2012 London Fringe Festival and 2013 Hamilton Fringe Festival.
How does a good artist become legendary?
How do you kick it up a notch when you're already putting everything you have out there on the street? There are many answers, depending on each performer's discipline. Better costumes, more compelling crowd-calls, and more scenic locations especially when shooting videos are some of the obvious ideas. But going further, street performers need to brand themselves with simple but iconic street identities. Throw2Catch, Rubberband Boy and Silver Elvis were just some of the more memorable acts on the streets of Halifax last summer at the 2017 Buskerfest.
Street Performers in the Age of Instagram
A good busker already has no limits. He or she can 'set up a pitch' in a crowded place and make cash any day of the week. But today in the digital age there's another audience platform and potential revenue stream found on everyone's phones. Instagram can make buskers famous overnight, and has made such talent calling cards for outdoor festivals rather than after-thoughts. Once these digital artists exceed five thousand followers they will begin to get offers from agencies and brands to perform publicly with sponsored products and services. These plugs pay cash.
Instagram offers a whole new audience platform, and this innovation must be embraced as a fast-track to a global audience. The best publishers enter and dominate a community by prolifically posting incredible and of course original material.
Other technology has also impacted the industry; the last decade saw the introduction of LED glow-in-the-dark accessories that have made night juggling and hula-hooping more possible, and indeed these props look spectacular in near darkness.
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What's next? The next big gig. How does that happen? For buskers to become celebrities they must create a hot new attraction. The fastest way to the top is to have something special, a super-stunt or thrilling spectacle that can become your signature show. Bella doesn't just hula-hoop; she brings her own style of dance and rhythm to the hoop to create an extraordinarily memorable visual experience. Her circular hula-hoop frames her natural antics and makes a platform for 'rhythmic clowning', and she's got the material.
Song and dance routines can always be improved but if you really want to get people's attention, you must use fire.
Isabella Hoops debuted NorthFIRE in 2017
NorthFIRE features a diverse set of highly skilled variety circus performers doing stunts set to music with fire hoops, poi, staff, acrobatics, fire breathing and some exceptional pyro techniques. This high energy show with choreographed fire acts astonish viewers who audibly gasp when fireballs rise ten or fifteen feet into the air.
Working with fire is challenging. There are only a few places in Toronto where the team can rehearse without the fire department showing up, and yes, she has been burned. "If you play with fire, you will get burned' Bella laments, showing this author the scars on her arms and hands. "But I haven't set my hair on fire yet, so I'm doing better than most who've learned everything the hard way."
Readers can learn more of what's its like behind-the-scenes at a small town winter festival from a street performer's point of view on Isabella Hoops Entertainment's website blog, 'What happened at the 2017 Markham Festival of Lights'.