Time Warner Inc., a company partly named after a magazine, is getting out of the magazine business.

The company has decided to spin off its entire Time Inc. magazine group, it said Wednesday, giving up on talks with Meredith Corp. /quotes/zigman/233786/quotes/nls/mdp MDP -2.09%  over the proposed merger of most of their titles.

Time Warner /quotes/zigman/528906/quotes/nls/twx TWX +0.74%  and Meredith had been negotiating for months a deal under which most of Time Warner’s Time Inc. magazine group would be merged in a newly created company with Meredith’s magazines.

The new company wouldn’t have included several of Time Inc.’s best-known titles, including Time, Fortune and Sports Illustrated, which would have stayed behind in Time Warner.

Discussions were complicated by questions over valuation of the new company, how much debt it would take on and how Time Warner’s magazines would be carved out of the company, according to people familiar with the matter.

In the end, the company decided it would prefer to get out of the magazine business altogether.

In a statement, Time Warner Chairman Jeff Bewkes said: “After a thorough review of options, we believe that a separation will better position both Time Warner and Time Inc. A complete spin-off of Time Inc. provides strategic clarity for Time Warner Inc., enabling us to focus entirely on our television networks and film and TV production businesses, and improves our growth profile.”

Jon Stewart announces he will take a break from his hit show ‘The Daily Show’ to direct a film about Iran. Photo: Getty Images.

“Time Inc. will also benefit from the flexibility and focus of being a stand-alone public company and will now be able to attract a more natural stockholder base,“ Bewkes said.

Time Warner saw operating income at Time Inc. drop 25% last year to $420 million, as the country’s largest magazine publisher was hit by declines in both advertising and newsstand sales sweeping through the industry.

Revenue also declined 6.6%, to $3.43 million from $3.677 million the previous year.

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St. Louis, MO– Window World of St. Louis is excited to announce their exhibitor booth at the 2011 Home & Lifestyle Expo of St. Louis, September 9-11, 2011 at the West County Center.  The Home & Lifestyle Expo features products and services currently available for interior and exterior home improvements and new home construction. The expo will present home improvement amateurs and aficionados with opportunities to see products and talk to the experts.

Window World of St. Louis’s booth will be located on the upper level in front of the Victoria’s Secret store, and will be showcasing their $189 Double Hung Window Special as well as all other windows, doors and vinyl siding through product demonstrations Friday, Saturday and Sunday. 

Window World of St. Louis Exhibits at 2011 St. Louis Home & Lifestyle Expo

What:  Window World of St. Louis is an exhibitor at the 2011 St. Louis Home & Lifestyle Expo

Where:  80 West County Center, Des Peres, MO 63131

When:  Friday, September 9 – Saturday, September 10 (10:00 am – 9:00 pm) & Sunday, September 11 (11:00 am – 6:00 pm)

Price:  Free, open admission to the general public

To learn more about the event visit http://www.shopwestcountycenter.com/shop/westcounty.nsf/index

About Window World of St. Louis

Located in Bridgeton, MO, Window World of St. Louis serves the surrounding area with replacement windows, vinyl siding and doors.  It is one of the 200+ franchised locations of Window World Inc., the largest replacement window company in the United States.  Locally owned and operated by Jon Gillette and Jim Lomax, the company mission is to provide customers with the highest quality, energy efficient and lifetime guaranteed replacement windows, doors and vinyl siding.

Padma media and marketing, Inc., today announced SENSA® Weight-Loss System as Platinum Level Sponsor for the Latina Lifestyle Bloggers® National Conference & Blogger Junket™, scheduled for October 20-23, 2011, at Tropicana Las Vegas. Featuring award-winning author Alisa Valdes as keynote speaker, the three-day event includes a fashion and beauty preview featuring the latest collections from Gold Sponsor, Macy’s.

    ”Our production of the Latina Lifestyle Bloggers® #Vllblog National Conference & Blogger Junket™ celebrates Latina fashion, beauty, food, entertainment, travel and other lifestyle bloggers, while providing a uniquely VIP-focused learning experience,” said Ana Lydia Ochoa-Monaco, Founder and CEO, Padma media and marketing, Inc., and Founder and Moderator, Latina Lifestyle Bloggers Group™. “I am excited to see the participation of leading brands in our inaugural event.”

    Additional event highlights include the following:

    VIP KICK-OFF DINNER & HAPPY HOUR

Buca di Beppo is sponsoring the #Vllblog Kick-Off Dinner & Happy Hour for all #vllblog attendees. Buca di Beppo, located at 412 East Flamingo Road, will provide a private area complete with a signature menu and sangria, where food bloggers can enjoy the latest in Italian fare.

    INSPIRATIONAL BREAKFAST WITH AWARD-WINNING LATINA AUTHOR

Award-winning author Alisa Valdes, recognized for her widely popular Dirty Girls Social Club series, is the event’s keynote speaker, making a special appearance during the #vllblog breakfast.

    WORKSHOPS: FROM BLOG INSPIRATION TO BLOGGING FOR BUSINESS

Conference workshops are hosted in a suite to create a comfortable learning environment with a VIP feel. This unique small-group, collaborative and private learning experience will address the specific needs of the working-blogger member base.

Courtesy of SPI Entertainment, #vllblog attendees will receive invitations to leading Las Vegas shows, choosing from among Thunder from Down Under, Human Nature, or Frank Marino’s Divas Las Vegas.

Attendees will enjoy a special meal prepared by highly reviewed Chef Carla Pellegrino, from Bacio Restaurant at the Tropicana Las Vegas.

    SHOPPING EXCURSION WITH CELEBRITY STYLIST

Celebrity stylist Antonio Vega, will lead #vllblog attendees on a private shopping excursion at Macy’s, Fashion Show Mall, to preview the latest in fall beauty and fashion trends.

In this unique networking concept, brands and agencies apply for the opportunity to meet one-on-one with #vllblog star bloggers to discuss and plan for future collaboration opportunities – in a private setting.

Rural businesses and employers in central-west Queensland have been told they need to promote the country lifestyle to attract and retain workers from the city and growing coastal regions.

A federally-funded seminar was held in Longreach yesterday on some of challenges of doing business in remote areas.

Gold Coast-based business consultant Jan Timms says while rural jobs do not pay as well as the mining sector, money often is not the main selling point.

She says living in a safe and low-cost community should be promoted.

“There is plenty of research to show it is not the number one issue and most people would prefer challenging and rewarding work,” she said.

“Of course there are people that will go after the money, but it will only be for a certain period of time they are doing it because they want to get ahead, but it is not going to be forever.

“Where are they going to go after that ?

“Going off and working in the mines if for most people a temporary thing.”

She says the low cost of living, family-friendly and safe environments should encourage people to work in the bush.

“There are a lot of people out there in cities who are really a bit fed up with the stress, the lifestyle, sitting in traffic – it’s all impersonal, it’s not so friendly, people don’t know each other,” She said.

“You come from your house, you came back to your house at night, you don’t even know the names of your neighbours and that sort of thing.

“There is an attraction to a lifestyle that is different to that.”

Kenny Dalglish claims the debate over Andy Carroll’s lifestyle is unfair on the player.

England boss Fabio Capello said the Anfield player “needs to improve, to drink less” .

But Reds manager Dalglish is unimpressed and defended his £38million striker.

“You don’t know what his lifestyle is like. Nobody knows what his lifestyle is like (except) Andy,” Dalglish insisted.

“I haven’t spoken to Capello (about the comments) – I haven’t spoken to any international manager, but I think it’s unfair to discuss Andy any further – it’s totally unfair on him.”

Dalglish aggressively defended his striker yesterday, and insisted Liverpool have absolutely no worries about Carroll’s lifestyle.

But he refused to publicly criticise Capello, even though the England manager seemed to be at pains during the international break to offer a damning assessment of the forward’s fitness.

The Italian ignored Carroll completely against Bulgaria, and offered the player only a few minutes against Wales, despite admitting the need to get him fitter.

But the Reds boss countered: “I think Andy is very appreciative of advice from anybody who has a standing in football.

“I think he is appreciative of Fabio Capello’s advice who he has great respect for and I think Fabio Capello has great respect for Andy Carroll.”

Carroll was dropped from the Liverpool side that so convincingly defeated Bolton at Anfield a fornight ago, to raise initial doubts about his fitness.

But he is in line for a return for the visit to Stoke on Saturday, with Dalglish indicating he has no worries about the player’s fitness.

Why Carroll critics are wrong to play the booze card, by David Maddock

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Andy Carroll’s year
December 28 – Thigh injury picked up in a 2-0 defeat at Spurs rules Carroll out of action for Newcastle for at least three games.

December 30 – While drinking with a group of friends at Aspers Casino in Newcastle, Carroll stands up on the leg rest of a bar stool, which tips over. Carroll crashes on to the wooden floor, clutching his leg and shouting in pain. After recovering, he falls off another stool.

January 31 – With the transfer window set to close, Liverpool have a £30million bid for Carroll rejected but manager Kenny Dalglish goes back in with a £35m offer and gets his man at a record price for a British footballer, and the world’s eighth most expensive player ever.

March 6 – Injury and a struggle to get fit mean Carroll has to wait five weeks to make his Liverpool debut, coming on as a substitute in a 3-1 win over Manchester United at Anfield.

March 10 – Plays his first European game – again as a sub – against Braga and makes his first start for Liverpool a week later in the return leg.

March 29 – Starts up front for England and scores his first senior international goal in a 1-1 draw with Ghana at Wembley.

April 11 – Scores his first goal for Liverpool after 11 minutes against Manchester City – and scores his second just 24 minutes later in a 3-0 home win.

August 27 – Having started but struggled in the first two games of the season, Carroll is dropped to the bench for a Carling Cup tie and the third Premier League game.

September 6 – Comes on a last-minute sub against Wales, having been told by England manager Fabio Capello that he needs to rediscover his best form and get back to the top of his game before reclaiming a starting spot.

TORONTO, ONTARIO — Officially confirmed today, fitness icon, entrepreneur and seven-time WWE Women’s Champion, Trish Stratus, has teamed up with HoMedics Canada to produce her own line of unique yoga and fitness gear, Stratusphere Living, following the success of her Stratusphere Yoga Studio.

The Stratusphere Living line will hit select Canadian retailers in September, and will also be available online via trishstratus.com.

The new line of yoga and fitness products include the weighted Fitgloves – a first for yogis – an eco-friendly TPE yoga mat, ultra-absorbing yoga towel, a yoga block, and an all-inclusive yoga kit incorporating a yoga mat, Trish’s Stratusphere Yoga DVD and her nuTrishion journal.

HoMedics Canada CEO Shaun Kobrin, says the partnership brings together HoMedics’ expertise in product development and distribution of health, wellness and lifestyle products across North America, and Trish’s reputation as one of Canada’s leading fitness experts and yoga ambassadors, making it the perfect match.

“I am extremely happy with this new partnership. Trish Stratus and the Stratusphere brand project the key values everyone should live by, and which HoMedics Canada strongly supports – balanced living and a healthy lifestyle,” Kobrin said.

The Stratusphere Living line has been crafted personally by Stratus herself, and she provides her personal touch to every product. “I wanted to give people the tools to help get them on the right track to healthy living. Every item in my line addresses the steps you need to make a lifestyle shift. Stratusphere Living is a lifestyle,” Stratus says.

After a decade long career in the industry, fitness fans are sure to be ‘stratusfied’ with the release of Trish’s first-ever workout DVD. Using yoga to rehabilitate a back injury, and drawing on her diverse fitness background, Trish was inspired to create a total mindbody workout that combines the benefits of strength training and yoga.

The Stratusphere Living brand will also be making its debut on a local and global scale via the popular IT Lounge gifting suite, to be held during the Toronto International Film Festival this year. Held from September 8 to 14, the celebrity gifting suite will be located at the NKPR Adelaide Street, Toronto location. Stratusphere Living’s presence in the Lounge will help raise funds and awareness for local and global charities, Artists for Peace and Justice and Camp Oochigeas.

Stratusphere Living will be available at London Drugs and Sportchek this September, followed by Sears, GNC, and Home Outfitters in early October.

About Trish Stratus

Trish Stratus is a fitness icon, TV personality and entrepreneur who is recognized as one of the top sports entertainment athletes in the world through her achievements as a seven-time WWE Women’s Champion. Over the last decade, Stratus has dedicated her life to health and fitness, and has parlayed her success and passion into a recognized lifestyle brand. Stratusphere was officially launched with the opening of her yoga studio, the largest in Canada. Stratusphere Living, a yoga fitness product line created by Trish rolls out nationally this fall with the release of her DVD ‘Stratusphere Yoga’ all of which reflect her core philosophy of achieving wellness through balanced living. For more information please visit www.trishstratus.com or follow @trishstratuscom.

About HoMedics

HoMedics established its reputation as the leading manufacturer of back and body massagers. Today, it designs and markets one of the most comprehensive assortments of personal health, wellness and relaxation products sold in North America. This assortment spans a wide range of categories including: massagers, footbaths, diagnostic healthcare products, weight management products, sensory and relaxation products, sleep solutions, and home environment products. Since its launch over 20 years ago, the brand’s focus has been on affordably improving consumers’ lives. HoMedics products are available across Canada at most major department, mass market, discount, drug and specialty stores and are distributed internationally through retailers in more than 60 countries. For more information please visit www.homedics.ca.

The desire to live in a secure, maintenance-free home is among the reasons a growing number of independent women in Alberta are opting for condos when it comes time to get into home ownership.

For about 48 per cent of women across the province who responded to a Women and Home Ownership poll by TD Canada Trust, the cost of maintenance and repairs steered them away from buying a single-family detached home.

Nationally, 40 per cent pointed to maintenance costs as the main reason not to buy a detached home. But buying an apartment condo or townhouse is a different matter. There is little in the way of maintenance that isn’t taken care of for purchasers.

“My husband and I owned a home on a double lot,” says Carole Hackett. “I stayed there for a couple of years after he died, but the grass always needed cutting and there was always the maintenance, so I sold it.”

Hackett, who works as an assistant to Marlene Swinton of Real Estate Professionals Inc., bought a townhouse in northwest Calgary where she feels safe and secure.

“It’s a good neighbourhood, so when I want to travel, I just lock the door, tell my neighbours I’m going — and I’m gone,” she says.

Home ownership makes sense financially, says Swinton, who focuses much of her attention on finding condominiums for women.

“For many women, it’s the first time they owned a home on their own and it’s the best investment they can make,” she says.

Condo living also makes sense because they don’t have to worry about maintenance or their personal security, says Swinton.

Safety and financial security, along with lifestyle, were the main reasons why Stacey Taggart moved into a condo last fall.

Her work takes her away from the city for periods of time and she felt a condo would work better for her.

“I’ve owned homes before, but I don’t like a lot of space anymore so a condo was much more attractive to me,” she says.

Being centrally located, with access to shopping, entertainment and recreational outlets, the condo is a good fit for her lifestyle, says Taggart. “I’ve got all the space I need, a balcony for the views I have, and I can lock and leave.”

Second to security on the list of best things about owning a home (38 per cent) was not having to pay rent.

Chris Wisniewski, group product manager for real estate secured lending at TD Canada Trust, says 44 per cent -women surveyed in 2009 ranked financial security as the best thing about home ownership.

She says there are three main – why more women are getting into ownership:

- “They see more women doing it and decide that -they will do it as well,” says Wisniewski.

- There are more women in the marketplace and they are more able to afford a home.

- Because they typically don’t earn as much as men, women are taking advantage of low interest rates to buy.

Although financial security continues to top the list of ownership benefits, the survey also found the comforts of having a home are increasingly important to Canadian women.

According to the third annual survey, the key features of home ownership, in general, also include being able to renovate to suit individual tastes, along with having a garden.

But these traits are typically tied to detached home ownership, although they apply to some bareland condominiums (where buyers individually own their homes, but the land in the community is owned in common).

The financial benefits of home ownership are the main reason more women are buying, says Jessy Bilodeau, a Calgary-based mobile mortgage specialist with TD Canada Trust,

“They want to invest in their future, -build equity and to have a place of their own,” she -

|Women and home ownership poll

Women were asked nationally what they liked best – home ownership:

2008 2010

- Financial security 23% 44%

- Not paying rent or pay other people 19% 38%

- Having a place of my own 22% 34%

- Can decorate or renovate the way I want 14% 34%

London – Exercise daily? Eat your fruit and veg? Stopped smoking? Bad news. You could be doomed, nonetheless.

David Barker’s theory sounds pretty hokey when you first hear about it.

The idea is that, irrespective of that gym membership, those five-a-day and that kicked habit, much of our health has been determined by the time we get out of the womb.

You can see why mothers don’t believe it when, on Horizon: The Nine Months That Made You, they are asked about Barker’s theory, at random in the street. It seems less a scientific prescription, more a kind of fortune-teller’s ruse. I’m not sure I want to believe it, either. After all, life would have been a lot more fun if I’d known I had a free pass all along (for this was one enormous baby, back in the day).

Of course, diet and exercise and all those other things do come into it, too. But they are at their most significant where birth weights are particularly low. The lighter you are when you are born, the more you will be affected by your lifestyle.

That is why, or so the theory goes, people like my grandfather live to their late eighties while smoking like chimneys. It’s also why Dr Ranjan Yajnik has discovered a new body type, the thin-fat Indian – considerably slimmer than their English counterpart, but carrying significantly more body fat. It explains, he argues, India’s epidemic of obesity-related ailments: heart disease, type 2 diabetes and so on.

It is not just our health that may have been pre-determined in this way.

In the US, Dr Janet DiPietro has been testing foetuses for their reactions to disturbance, sounds and movement, then monitoring babies to see if the traits persist. She is adamant that they do. Elsewhere, studies indicate that testosterone levels in the womb are related to the kinds of activities we enjoy later in life. It’s convincing – though the real test is still to come.

Back in India, one of Barker’s colleagues is leading a drive to boost birth weight, to see if his theory provides dividends. Potential mothers are put on a diet of specially-prepared snacks, to ensure maximum nutrition and boost baby weight. This, of course, is the ironic part. Our own lifestyle might not be quite the self-imposed sentence we tend to assume. Instead, our mother’s behaviour is what shapes us – because diet and lifestyle determine birth weight.

However, even more amazingly the lifestyle of your maternal grandmother comes into play, too, since women are born with all their eggs. So the debate is less one of nature versus nurture, but of who was nurtured when. If Barker is right his work represents, as several interviewees noted, a paradigm shift. – - The Independent

A new study reports that weight, diet, exercise, smoking and alcohol intake may each independently influence a person’s risk of getting diabetes.

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Researchers found that even when people had a family history of diabetes or were overweight, they were less likely to get the chronic disease if they were healthy in other ways.

And each additional lifestyle improvement lowered their risk.

“There are implications certainly for individuals to take one step at a time toward a healthy lifestyle,” said Jared Reis, one of the study’s authors from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute in Bethesda, Maryland.

And, he told Reuters Health, “there is certainly benefit for those who may have a tough time with losing weight if they adopt these other healthy lifestyle factors.”

The data came from more than 200,000 Americans who filled out surveys about their lifestyle, diet and health status in 1995 and 1996, when most were in their fifties and sixties. None of them had diabetes at the start of the study.

Ten years later, researchers sent them another survey asking whether they had been diagnosed with diabetes.

In all, about one in 10 men and one in 13 women reported having the disease.

Looking back at the original surveys, the researchers broke health and lifestyle-related questions into five categories: body mass index (BMI, a measure of weight in relation to height), diet, physical activity, smoking and alcohol consumption.

They found that each healthy behavior listed on that survey — such as exercising for at least 20 minutes a day, three times per week, or never smoking or quitting at least a decade ago — lowered a person’s future diabetes risk independent of the other lifestyle components.

For example, people who smoked, drank heavily, and got little exercise still had a lower diabetes risk if they ate a healthy diet than if they ate lots of saturated fats and few fiber-rich whole grains.

That was also the case for people who had a family history of diabetes, and so were at higher risk to begin with.

Overall, normal-weight women who ate a healthy diet, exercised, drank moderately and didn’t smoke were 84 percent less likely to get diabetes than women who were overweight and didn’t fit any of the criteria for a healthy lifestyle. For healthy men, the diabetes risk was cut by 72 percent compared to men with unhealthy habits.

Even though heavy people were still better off if they were healthy in other ways, the researchers said weight was the most important factor in predicting who developed diabetes.

“While the message is that all these things matter…the number one top-of-the-list take-home is, don’t be overweight in the first place,” said Dr. Lawrence Phillips, an endocrinologist at Emory University in Atlanta who wasn’t involved in the new research. “It’s important not to confuse the baby with the bathwater here,” he added.

Lawrence also pointed out that the cut-off used to define a normal, healthy weight in the study was a BMI of 25 — the equivalent of someone who is five feet, five inches and weighs 150 pounds.

While that’s realistic for people who are white, he told Reuters Health, studies have suggested that Asians and people of other ethnicities might have an increased diabetes risk at lower BMIs as well, and that their threshold for being overweight may be different.

One limitation to the study, the researchers reported in Annals of Internal Medicine, is that participants may have changed their lifestyle during the decade following the first survey — and those changes wouldn’t be reflected in the findings.

The study also can’t prove definitively that by cutting out cigarettes or saturated fats, any one person can lower his or her risk of diabetes. It’s possible, for example, that people who exercised less were also less healthy for other reasons not measured by the surveys.

But Dr. David Jenkins, a nutrition researcher from the University of Toronto who also didn’t participate in the new study, said the findings point to “a way forward” for people who are motivated to lower their risk of diabetes. “This just says, look, this is what you have to do,” he told Reuters Health.

“This would suggest again that even for those who have a family history, if you adopt a healthy lifestyle you can have a strong influence on whether you end up developing diabetes,” Reis said.

“The fact that (those findings) are evident in this older population is also a good thing,” he said. “It means it’s never too late.”

by Edwin – on September 12th, 2011

I must say that Apple’s darn good at marketing, not to mention boasting devices that deliver industrial design par excellence – and in order to make sure that your recent new purchase from the bowels of Cupertino remain in pristine condition for as long as possible, there is the vast world of third party accessories, ranging from the extremely common screen protectors to the quintessential case protector. Well, Ballistic knows that your treasure your shiny iPhone 4 a whole lot, which is why they decided to roll out the Ballistic Lifestyle case.

This particular case is slated to be the latest in rugged protection for Apple’s best selling smartphone to date, where it first tested the waters at CES 2011 to a roar of approval, and I am glad to say that it is finally ready to rock and roll amongst the iPhone 4 toting masses.

The Ballistic Lifestyle looks set to be a trendsetter where durable cases are concerned, where it will merge an ultra-sleek form factor without sacrificing or compromising on what it originally set out to do – which is to deliver maximum protection. Constructed from strong TPU material and silicone Ballistic Corners, you can be sure that dropping this on a concrete floor is not going to break your heart – chances are, you would just shrug it off.

The interchangeable corner bumpers are definitely a unique idea by itself, where it was conjured by the research folks over at Ballistic to have different thickness options for various situations. This means you can always opt to customize the amount of shock absorption, and surely if you’re attending a black tie event where the venue will be fully carpeted, you can always strut in with minimal shock protection since the carpet flooring would definitely help absorb most of the impact upon a drop.

Interested in bringing home the Ballistic Lifestyle? It costs a mere $29.99 in translucent smoke and translucent blue, where each purchase will come with a single set of standard black bumpers and one set of large red bumpers for additional protection.

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