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Today The Financial Times reported in a paywalled article that Twitter is brokering a deal for investment firm BlackRock to buy up to $80 million of stock from early Twitter employees at a $9 billion valuation. By giving employees liquidity, Twitter may not need to rush to an IPO the way Facebook did to satisfy veteran talent.
The $9 billion valuation means Twitter's worth has increased just 10 percent since it raised funding in 2011. However, it's lower than the $10 billion to $11 billion valuation Twitter agreed to for two smaller secondary sales done in 2012. If enough employees accept the tender offer to hit the $80 million limit, BlackRock will own just less than 1 percent of Twitter.
BlackRock's fund will give some long-time Twitter team members their first chance to trade their equity for cash. Dan Primack reports that only a small number of employees, possibly around a dozen, are getting the chance to sell. Whether the sale would relieve IPO pressure depends on who those employees are. If they're critical team members, their departure in search of liquidity could strike a serious blow to Twitter. If they're simply early employees who don't contribute much any more, their retention or exit would have less influence on Twitter's IPO schedule.
Going beyond the facts from the Financial Times' report, there are several benefits to Twitter providing a liquidity release valve for employees sitting on tons of stock. First, it's sure to make these employees happier. Some of them could be worth tens of millions of dollars on paper, but have much less money in the bank. The ability to sell some stock means they could upgrade their lifestyle to be more in-line with their worth. Giving them this option could keep great employees from leaving the company.
Second, depending on Twitter's internal regulations regarding independent sales on secondary markets, the offering to BlackRock could keep employees from tipping Twitter over the 500 shareholder limit that triggers the need to file for an initial public offering.
Without offerings like this one to BlackRock, the only way to get employees liquidity is to IPO. That hasn't necessarily been productive for companies like Facebook, Zynga, and Groupon who got chewed up by the public market.
Many suspected that after eight years as a private company, some early Facebook employees were considering ditching jobs at the social network to escape regulation on secondary sales and gain some cash. By going public before its mobile advertising business had proven itself, Facebook withered intense speculation that shift of its user base to mobile could sink the business. $FB shares plummeted to as low as $17.73 in September from its $38 IPO price in May, though it's recovered somewhat to $31.54 since then.
Seeing Facebook trip over its IPO, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo may have wanted to instead adopt a strategy similar to Pinterest. As we reported this week, Pinterest recently sold $30 million in stock to SV Angel. In this case it was early investors, not employees, that got liquidity. Still, it was likely done to keep investors happy and delay the distraction of considering an IPO.
If the deal goes through, it could allow Twitter to avoid Wall Street until advertising business really gets rolling. Costolo would then have fewer employees clamoring for an IPO, allowing him to continue building Twitter's business privately until it's ready for the public spotlight.


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ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) Trey Burke and Michigan can put aside for now the idea of being ranked No. 1 in the country.
An undefeated start to the season? That too is over after the Wolverines sputtered last weekend at Ohio State.
Now the focus is on a Big Ten schedule that will test Burke and his teammates plenty over the next few weeks. No. 5 Michigan plays at No. 9 Minnesota on Thursday night, part of a nine-game stretch for the Wolverines that began with the loss to the Buckeyes and will eventually include six road games.
``The level of intensity that we had in practice (Tuesday) was very high,'' said Burke, Michigan's star point guard. ``We know just from watching film that we had a lot to learn, a lot to get better, a lot of adjustments to make.''
The Wolverines (16-1, 3-1 Big Ten) were uncharacteristically sloppy at the start of Sunday's game at Ohio State, falling behind by 21 points in the first half before rallying to force a tense finish in the Buckeyes' 56-53 victory.
Michigan was poised to take over the top spot in the AP poll before that game, but the Wolverines shot a season-worst 38 percent from the field and turned the ball over 13 times. In the first half, they looked nothing like the team that had been rolling over opponents by playing smart, precise basketball.
The road won't get any easier. Minnesota (15-2, 3-1) leads the Big Ten in offensive rebounds, and the Golden Gophers will challenge a Michigan team that has done a terrific job limiting second chances this season. The Wolverines have been preparing for another physical game around the basket.
``We had the bubble on the rim, and no shot goes in - everybody's got to box out,'' coach John Beilein said. ``Real proud of our guys. We've had these situations before, whether it was Pitt, Kansas State, some other teams that were really getting high numbers of rebounds.''
The Wolverines managed to hold Pittsburgh to six offensive rebounds in a November win over the Panthers.
Minnesota is coming off an 88-81 loss to Indiana over the weekend. After four games, Wisconsin is the only team with an unbeaten Big Ten record.
Michigan looked out of sorts early against Ohio State in what was easily the team's toughest road test so far. Sharp-shooting freshman Nik Stauskas was held scoreless, and freshman Glenn Robinson III finished with only one rebound.
The two newcomers that made the biggest contributions in that game were probably guard Spike Albrecht and forward Mitch McGary - perhaps because they began the game on the bench and had a chance to survey what was happening before taking the court in front of the raucous Ohio State crowd.
``It's kind of easy, because you get to sit there and watch the game, see what we're doing right and wrong and kind of just go from there,'' said Albrecht, who scored seven points in 11 minutes. ``Coaches told me to get in there and run the offense, and that's just what I tried to do.''
Michigan will need to keep its composure in another tough environment Thursday. The Wolverines beat Minnesota twice last season, but one game was in Ann Arbor and the other was at the Big Ten tournament, when Burke scored 30 points on 11-of-14 shooting to lead Michigan to an overtime win.
``We could have lost both games very easily last year. They were both last-second games,'' Beilein said. ``It's another great opportunity for us to grow. ... It is all about the process, and the journey and the process are what leads you to the end.''

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A host of former Milan forwards have given their verdict on the budding talent that is Stephan El Shaarawy.
The 19-year-old is making a name for himself this season after netting five goals in his last four games for the Diavolo.
"El Shaarawy has all the qualities needed to become a great player, but he still needs to grow," stated Dejan Savicevic to the Gazzetta dello Sport.
"He's quick, he has a good shot and he scores with ease. However, if you don't score goals then people will criticise you in Italy.
"It's important that he's scoring in a difficult moment for Milan…"
Andriy Shevchenko is also a fan of the Italian international. "El Shaarawy is fast, technically gifted and he has the freshness that you need in the difficult moments," the Ukrainian noted.
"Who is he like? I don't know who El Shaarawy can be compared to. I think that comparisons are harmful, because every champion is different.
"But Stephan has something that reminds me of myself, for example in the way that he accelerates."
While Sheva was cautious with comparisons, Jose Altafini and Maurizio Ganz didn't hold back.
"El Shaarawy reminds me of Neymar and Messi," Altafini claimed. "They have a low centre of gravity. They play with the ball glued to their feet.
"El Shaarawy has already proved that he's a good player. The important thing is not to bulk him up too much."
Ganz said: "El Shaarawy reminds me of Neymar because they both like to start from deep. I like El Shaarawy because he's very good at going straight for goal.
"He's also an intelligent player, who is now showing that he's also a scorer."


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'Preity Zinta is a businesswoman in her head'Sep 14, 2012 IANS
Mumbai, Sep 14 (IANS) She is a successful actress, has represented many brands, co-owns an Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise and is now ready with her debut film production. Preity Zinta has a good business sense, says Prem Raj, director of her home production "Ishkq In Paris".
"She is a taskmaster. She is a businesswoman in her head. She has worked a lot, owns an IPL team. So it is not possible that she will not have a business sense," Raj said during a media interaction.
He was particularly happy that Preity, who also plays the lead in the youthful romantic drama, was a director's producer.
"She is not stingy at all. I am sure she will become a big producer some day," he said.
Preity, who co-owns IPL team Kings XI Punjab, was not just handling finances and didn't just focus on getting her shots right. She was also actively involved with the movie's creative side along with Raj, he says.
"We have no ego. We can say anything to each other. This is how we have been," he said of their chemistry and understanding.
The movie marks Preity's comeback to films after 2008 film "Heroes". The director gaurantees it will showcase the actress at her best and says her chutzpah is the film's biggest USP.
"You will see her (Preity) in her elements. I don't remember when she did a romantic comedy earlier," he said.
Preity was originally not a part of the cast and was just producing the film, but the director says he tricked her into the project.
"I didn't give her a choice. I said, 'You are acting and producing it.' I actually locked her up and said 'You have to do it. When do we start? Tell me the date'," recounted Raj.
"Ishkq In Paris" is Raj's second film as a director. He forayed into direction with Salman Khan- and Kareena Kapoor-starrer "Main aurr Mrs Khanna".
About "Ishkq In Paris", he said: "This is a youth film. The agenda and focus were straight. It is not a mature love story or a classic romantic film. We are talking about Paris, where there is a love story starting in every lane and by the way, finishing in every lane too."
"That is the pace there. It's very fast. So, this film is also quick and instant," Raj said.
The film's fate will be decided once it releases Oct 5, but Raj says a strong script is of paramount importance these days.
"I feel that if you have the right script, then everything falls into place, but if you don't have the right script, then everything becomes a problem," he said.
His movie features newcomer Rhehan Malliek. Explaining the importance of casting him, Raj said: "We could have taken any actor. Preity is a big star and knows people. She has a lot of goodwill in the industry. But the idea of the love story is fresh and if we didn't have a new actor, the film wouldn't have a fresh appeal," he said.
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- Author: Kathy Thomas-Rico
Our wacky spring weather has taught me a lesson, again: I am so NOT in control of anything in nature.
In my last blog, I pledged to get my tomato seedlings planted before the self-imposed deadline of April 15. Didn't happen. I had to wait out the frost warnings and hailstorms that rolled through. Then when rain soaked the soil (which was really very welcome), I had to wait a few more days for it to dry out. But wait I did, and the tomato seedlings are now happily in the soil, soaking up warmth and sunshine, nearly doubling in size after just a week.
So patience paid off. I'll try to remember that next year when tomato-planting season comes around.
This made me think of other areas of the yard where patience comes into play. We have three well-established rose bushes, which were planted by the previous owner of our 36-year-old home. Because I am not a rose fancier (the blossoms are lovely, but the plants are a thorny, unattractive pain, in my opinion), I have steadfastly refused to fuss over these roses. I do not prune them in winter. I do not spray off the aphids in spring. I do not deadhead the fading blossoms. I never, ever fertilize the plants. Mind you, I am not trying to kill them. I simply do not have any patience for the problems they bring.
You know what? Those darned roses thrive, putting on dinner-plate-sized blossoms all spring and deep-orange rosehips the rest of the year.
In that sense, having no patience (call it laziness or benign neglect) has its benefits. But, lesson learned: Mother Nature is driving this bus, not me. Guess I'd better buckle up and enjoy the ride.


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LOS ANGELES (thefutoncritic.com) -- The CW has settled on a launch date for "Life UneXpected" while ABC is tabling its new reality competition series "Let's Dance."
In addition, the Alphabet has ordered five additional episodes of its freshman drama "The Forgotten" while "Eastwick" will wrap its freshman run after 13 episodes.
The news caps the end of a busy day at the broadcast networks. This morning NBC confirmed several developments, including the December 14 start date for "The Sing-Off" (read the story).
As for The CW, the netlet is expected to roll out "UneXpected" on Monday, January 18. The newcomer will take over for "Gossip Girl" at 9:00/8:00c for several weeks before settling into the 8:00/7:00c slot, currently home to "One Tree Hill," in the spring.
Said scheduling is designed to minimize the number of its notoriously low-rated repeats on the night. Following their November sweeps runs, The CW will have at least a dozen episodes each of "Hill" and "Girl" yet to air. "UneXpected" has a 13-episode commitment, including its pilot. Firm dates, as well as the rest of its midseason plans, are set to be announced shortly.
Meanwhile, the shelving of ABC's "Dance" reportedly is the result of casting difficulties. The five-episode series had been set to debut on Monday, November 23 at 9:30/8:30c. In its place, the Alphabet is set to launch "Find My Family," a reality series which follows the stories of people desperate to find a long-lost friend or relative. The project, hosted by Lisa Joyner and Tim Green, received a six-episode order earlier this year.
And finally, "The Forgotten's" five-episode extension brings its season total to 18 episodes. "Very excited," co-executive producer KristieAnne Reed tweeted about the news. To date the series has averaged 8.08 million viewers and a 2.1 rating among adults 18-49, including a 2.0 rating in each of the past six weeks.
As for "Eastwick," the freshman drama is averaging 5.73 million viewers and a 2.0 rating among adults 18-49. The series however fell to a series low 1.6 rating in the key demographic last week. "Eastwick" is currently taking a two-week break and is due to return on November 25.


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A's stall against Rangers' Holland
Texas lefty strikes out 10 in scoreless effort
OAKLAND -- At some point, the amount of home runs A.J. Griffin allows will become an issue, but as far as the A's are concerned, that day has yet to come.
All three of Griffin's earned runs in Sunday's 4-0 loss to the Rangers came via the long ball, as Oakland (64-47) saw its lead in the American League West drop to 2 1/2 games after losing two of three to second-place Texas (62-50) and going 5-5 on its 10-game homestand.
Home runs have dictated Griffin's narrative all season, though he was more effective than his stat line indicates. At times, his success is all or nothing -- with the ball either landing in fielders' gloves or the stands. On Sunday, Griffin struck out seven, walked one and allowed five hits in 6 2/3 innings.
Nelson Cruz's homer to lead off the second inning and Mitch Moreland's two-run shot in the seventh upped Griffin's Major League-leading total to 28 on the season. He's allowed two home runs in each of his last four starts -- the longest streak by an A's pitcher since 2004.
"I thought he threw the ball really well," A's catcher Derek Norris said. "He made three mistakes: one mistake to [Adrian] Beltre -- which he should've been out of the inning anyway -- one mistake to Cruz and one mistake to Moreland. ... When it comes down to it, he just had a little bit of bad luck today with a couple of errors, a couple dinks and a couple home runs, and they get paid to hit mistakes, and they did today."
Texas' first run was the result of Yoenis Cespedes dropping a two-out fly ball to the warning track in left field that allowed Ian Kinsler to advance to second base, and Beltre capitalized with a single in the next at-bat.
The A's received no such luck. Texas was stellar on the defensive end, which -- along with Rangers starter Derek Holland's dominance -- stifled the A's attack, which has averaged 3.2 runs over the last 22 games.
Only Nate Freiman reached base via a hit through the first six innings against Holland, who after eight shutout innings on Sunday has tossed at least eight innings with no runs allowed in three starts this season. He also recorded 10 strikeouts against the A's, who were shut out for the ninth time this season and lost their second straight series.
"We're having a tough time putting two games in a row together," A's manager Bob Melvin said. "We've been in a little of a rut, whether it's our defense, at times it's pitching, and we haven't been timely as far as that goes, but it's the offense that's stood out for awhile now. We do have the guys that have the ability to take care of that, and we're confident we will, we just need to sustain it. Not just one game here or one there, and we can put this past us."
Whether Griffin can respond to his recent incarnation of a launching pad has yet to be seen. He's had success, going 3-2 with a 3.81 ERA over his past five starts, but there's no doubt he'd benefit from giving up fewer home runs.
"That's not really a concern of mine," Norris said. "You give up a solo home run to Nelson Cruz, what's the difference between that and giving up back-to-back doubles? It's a different conversation when maybe the number gets a little high or he leads the big leagues in home runs as a starter or something. I don't know. But as long as he's going out there and he's pitching well, if he gives up three solo home runs and pitches seven innings, three runs, that's a terrific outing."
Looming larger is the fact that the A's have lost ground on the Rangers in five of the past six days, with both teams seemingly headed in opposite directions. The A's are 1-4 over their last five games and 8-8 since the All-Star break, while the Rangers are 4-1 in their last five games and headed to play three games against the Angels and four against the Astros before returning home to Texas.
"When you're playing a team like that, you have a desire to win for sure," Griffin said. "It heightens that, definitely, and it makes it way more bittersweet when you don't take a game like that."
Every team is prone to rough patches during a 162-game season, and the A's could very well pick things back up with two series at hitter-friendly Cincinnati and Toronto on the horizon. But while the numbers may not be completely indicative of how the team is faring, they aren't devoid of truth either.
The fact of the matter is the A's are batting .212 and scoring fewer than 3.5 runs per game in their past 22 games.
"Is it contagious, no," center fielder Coco Crisp said of the team's overall undesirable performance at the plate. "When you're hitting the ball hard and it's not falling, it's going to result most likely in a loss."


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Bernie Madoff's nemesis to give public talk ahead of top-level international summit.
Serious Fraud Office boss Simon McArley is hoping a talk from the man who blew the whistle on the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme will help New Zealanders to identify future financial rip-offs.
Harry Markopolos will speak at a public seminar today ahead of a two-day private conference of leaders from economic crime agencies from around the world.
Markopolos, a quantitative financial specialist, began to get suspicious about the Madoff scheme nine years before it imploded after his boss asked him to create an investment product with similar returns.
The scheme fell apart in 2008 and Madoff was convicted and given a 150-year sentence in 2009.
McArley said that in the past two years the Serious Fraud Office had dealt with six actual or alleged Ponzi schemes with total losses likely to be more than $500 million.
"The presentation from Harry Markopolos is timely given the recent conviction in the B'On case and the suspicions around Ross Asset Management."
B'On principal Jacqui Bradley was last year found guilty of 75 fraud-related charges involving the loss of $15.5 million. Ross Asset Management collapsed before Christmas and is now being investigated.
McArley said New Zealanders could learn a lot from Markopolos.
"Hopefully we can learn the lessons from him that will enable the SFO to continue its drive towards prevention and early intervention and thereby minimise the impact of such frauds on people and the economy."
The public seminar will also feature two FBI agents who will talk about insider trading and Commander Stephen Head from the City of London police.
The seminar comes ahead of the first meeting of the International Economic Crime Agency - a new group formed to boost co-operation on financial fraud between countries.
Representatives from Canada, Malaysia, Europe, America, Indonesia, Singapore and the United Kingdom will attend the event.
McArley said the group had decided to get together at last year's Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime to get a more operational focus.
McArley saidthat previously most international interaction on fraud had been via the police or formal legal liaisons.
The network was aimed at improving the exchange of intelligence and sharing any possible risks that were emerging.
"We are noticing more and more of our cases have an international bent to them. This is a way to build up our expertise," McArley said.
New Zealand had had direct links with some jurisdictions in the past like Britain, Europe and Australia but the movement of population meant its focus was shifting from Europe to Asia.
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Steve Jobs is rightly hailed as the king of business presentations, but there was one occasion when he failed badly and confessed later: "It was my worst and stupidest staging event ever".
There are many reasons for Jobs's brilliant Presentation Skills, and learning from mistakes is undoubtedly one of them. The 'worst and stupidest' mistake that he admitted to occurred in 1997 when Apple controversially entered into a partnership with Microsoft, having been at war with the company for many years. Jobs had just returned to Apple and the partnership, which appeared to go against many of the company's founding principles, was now essential to its survival.
Jobs therefore announced the deal at the Macworld conference with some trepidation, knowing it would need to feature an appearance by Bill Gates, Apple's very nemesis in the eyes of many staff and supporters. Bill Gates made that appearance by satellite on the big screen, the immediate result being that his face appeared huge, looming over the tiny figure of Steve Jobs below. As Gates began to speak he was oblivious to the boos, gasps and jeers that greeted his screen image, on which his smile could all-too-easily be interpreted as a smirk.
As Jobs said: "It was bad because it made me look small and Apple look small, as if everything was in Bill's hands." And when Gates later saw the tape of the show he was embarrassed, saying "I didn't know my face was going to be blown up to looming proportions".
In this case, though, the scenario was even worse than it might have been for anyone else. As Walter Isaacson pointed out in his Steve Jobs biography, it was a brutal echo of Apple's legendary 1984 ad based on George Orwell's Big Brother concept. In Ridley Scott's much lauded commercial Big Brother was broadcasting his orders to the masses from a giant screen as an athlete representing Apple ran in, threw a hammer and smashed the screen into thousands of pieces. How many of the Macworld audience were hoping or even expecting on that day in 1997 that another athlete would come racing to the rescue with another giant hammer?
I am always wary of big screens. Clearly you need a screen big enough to make your images visible and readable to everyone in the room - and there is a formula to achieving that* - but thereafter, wherever possible, you want to keep the screen in proportion with yourself, so that you remain the dominant feature and it fulfills its proper supporting role. The trouble is that screens and projectors are often selected and installed by people like office mangers and engineers rather than people who actually do any presenting. Various places I have worked have a screen and projector combination that fills the entire wall - probably because that seems neat and tidy! This is one of the reasons I carry my own equipment whenever possible, the other being that it's unwise to rely on third parties and unfamiliar equipment.
So please lap up all the great things about Steve Job's presentation successes, but remember that he undoubtedly learned as much from his mistakes as he did from his triumphs. On a personal note, I am just hoping that talking about Jobs and his presentation techniques does not become too much of a cliche. Of all the business presenters I have ever seen, it was Jobs who came closest to performing like the greatest magicians, adopting many of the Rules of Magic as he went. He was a true inspiration and will continue to be so for many years to come.
* The formula for ensuring you have a big enough screen is known as the 'Six Rule'. The distance from the screen to the furthest person in the room should be less that the screen width multiplied by six. So a 10 metre room needs a screen width of 1.5 metres or more.


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WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 (UPI) -- U.S. officials held a flurry of talks internally and with allies about possible military action against Syria amid charges of deadly chemical weapons attacks.
Senior officials from the State Department, Pentagon and intelligence agencies -- including Secretary of State John Kerry, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman John Dempsey and National Security Adviser Susan Rice -- met for 3 1/2 hours at the White House Thursday to consider options, officials said.
The options ranged from a Tomahawk cruise-missile strike to a more sustained air campaign against the Assad regime, officials told The New York Times.
No decision was made, officials said.
Several news organizations reported a deepening division in the administration between those advocating sending a harsh military message to President Bashar Assad or those who argue such action would be irresponsible and badly timed.
Dempsey this week urged caution, saying even limited military action could embroil the United States in a deeply rooted, multifaceted conflict whose rebels have not shown they would align with U.S. interests if they defeated Assad.
Rice, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, is among those believed advocating a tougher military response, British newspaper The Guardian reported.
Officials would not say Thursday who advocated what position in the White House meeting.
Kerry also held seven calls with his overseas counterparts Thursday, including French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, who raised the prospect of military action; Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu; the Jordanian and Qatari foreign ministers; European Union senior foreign policy official Catherine Ashton, and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.
He also spoke with opposition Syrian National Coalition President Ahmad al-Jarba to express U.S. condolences to the Syrian people over the loss of life and for the pain and suffering, she said.
More than 1,100 people were reported killed in Wednesday's assault, which opposition officials said began shortly after 2 a.m., when Russian-type Grad rockets, similar to those the Palestinian Sunni Islamic group Hamas has fired into Israel, were launched -- two from a highway bridge and others from a Damascus factory.
The Assad regime has denied involvement, and Russia has accused the rebels of staging the attack.
"If we find these reports are true, then we will feel that this has significantly expanded the escalation of the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime," Psaki told reporters Thursday.
"The president, the national security team, would certainly have decisions to make, and they have a range of options to decide between," she said.
Among the options discussed at the White House meeting was a Tomahawk long-range cruise-missile strike from a U.S. destroyer in the Mediterranean Sea, officials told the Times.
Another option would be combat aircraft -- jet fighters and bombers -- that could mount an air campaign with munitions launched from far outside Syrian territory, the newspaper said.
Targets discussed for that campaign include missile or artillery batteries that launch chemical munitions or nerve gas, as well symbols of Assad's power, such as government headquarters and offices, officials told the newspaper.


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For most companies, a traditional advertising agency is not the right approach, especially startups who have extra pressure to grow in a efficient manner. The main issue is that the traditional agency model doesn't really align with the interests of the advertiser. These agencies charge a percentage, usually 10 to 20%, of your media spending. This is the costs of managing your media, but this gives them an incentive in spending more of your money, rather than optimize your budget to get the maximum results. Most of these agencies also require a minimum spend, and long term contract which keeps the advertiser stuck with them, even during bad times.
In the online advertising community, we see a lot of these scenarios with adwords management. Most PPC management company work with this percentage model, so they don't really care how optimized your campaign is. The more you spend, the more they get payed. I've been approached by many of these so-called agencies who were offering to manage Elise Publicist's adwords campaigns. They usually provided the list of recommended keywords they would use for the campaign, which is nice of them, but when going through it I realized how the keyword list had no purchase-intent and sometimes nothing to do with our business. It was simply $10 per click random keywords such as "what is a publicist". So everytime a student somewhere is looking for a definition, we'll be paying $10 for their click, great… But the agency will get their $1 percentage, so why should they care. That's really alarming, and I can understand when my clients at Elise Publicist are skeptical about if internet advertising works. They probably were working with some traditional agency who didn't give a crap about their targeting.
What is the solution ? There are a few models we have found to better aligh incentives between agency and advertiser. The firt one is the Elise Publicist way, which is to have a flat monthly budget, inclusive of media buying strategies, ad testing, and funnel optimization. This pushed the agency to manage a fixed budget efficiently to prove reasonable results to the client. You would then have the A-team of publicists taking care of your budget and trying to push for more and more results months after months.
The second way is to work on a straight perfomance basis, which is a model who still needs some proving. A comapny would tell the agency how much a lead is worth to them, and pay the agency "per lead". This is a similar system as the Elise publicist, just not focused on a monthly general budget, but more of a per-lead budget. Then it would be the agency's job to optimize their advertising to deliver the leads to the client, or they would lose the contract. Also the key is to allow the companies to cancel their contracts at anytime, we wouldn't want to keep clients into a deal that isn't for them.
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– Commit to optimizing the entire funnel through an ongoing multivariate testing plan. You should always be running experiments on ads, landing pages and post-registration flows. Once an experiment hits statistical significance, call it and launch the next experiment immediately. It's requires discipline to maintain this level of experimentation, but the most successful companies never stop testing.
– Build out a great refer-a-friend program with a double sided offer. The value of a referred customer is often much greater than one driven via ads. Uber did a great job of this which helped fuel their growth in the the massive business they are today.
– Have a solid exit intent strategy. We often look at onsite user behavior to identify when we think a user is highly likely to leave and present them with a strong offer or value add prior to exit. You can often capture 15-20% of leads that would have otherwise been lost.
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Providing low cost air services spanning Asia and beyond is only one of the AirAsia Group (AirAsia) value propositions. The airline also aims to deliver innovative, personalised products and services that meet the needs of each of its passengers. Technology is key to the airline's business model.
The airline's success in leveraging technology is evident in the scale and reach of its business. Today, AirAsia and its affiliates operate flights on routes spanning Asia and beyond. The group's primary business is AirAsia Berhad, founded in 2001 as a pioneer of low cost air travel in ASEAN. Since then, AirAsia has grown to serve more than 222 routes and 110 destinations from hubs in Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, and India.
AirAsia also runs Asia Aviation Public Company Ltd, the investment holding company of Thai AirAsia Co. Ltd, an airline that flies to 20 domestic and 29 international cities. AirAsia X Berhad, a low-cost affiliate of the AirAsia Group, flies to destinations across Asia, Australia, New Zealand, the Middle East, and Africa.
With a history spanning 15 years, AirAsia became increasingly conscious of the need to execute a digital transformation program to deliver better customer experiences while operating more efficiently.
When Nikunj Shanti joined as Chief Data and Digital Officer in 2016—with strong support from Group Chief Executive Officer Tony Fernandes—AirAsia started a program to become a "data-first" business and is executing a five-year plan to become a "digital airline".
"I wanted to better ensure we were using data correctly to become more agile, efficient, and customer-oriented," says Nikunj Shanti, Chief Data and Digital Officer, AirAsia. Capturing data about the 500 million passengers who will have flown on its services in 2018 would enable AirAsia to provide a more relevant, personalised service.
AirAsia has traditionally run its information technology applications and services in an on-premises infrastructure. However, this infrastructure required extensive maintenance that diverted technology team members away from projects that would add value to the business. In addition, the infrastructure could not scale quickly and cost effectively to support AirAsia's data-first transformation to a digital airline.
AirAsia conducted a review and determined it needed a platform incorporating products that could capture, process, analyse, and report on data, while delivering value for money and meeting its speed and availability requirements. The airline also wanted to minimise infrastructure management and system administration demands on its technology team members.
AirAsia decided a cloud service operated by an external provider could best meet these needs and started evaluating the market. It then conducted a proof of concept and found Google Cloud Platform—including the Google BigQuery analytics data warehouse—was the best fit. "We knew data was a big part of making decisions in the future," says Shanti. "So we needed a platform that could scale to meet our growing appetite for it. "Google Cloud Platform—in particular Google BigQuery—was ideal for this task."
The business had already experienced the benefits of Google Cloud technologies, having deployed G Suite across its workforce in all countries except China. According to Shanti, the widespread adoption of products such as Google Forms, Docs, Sheets, and Gmail delivered a considerable improvement in collaboration between various departments, as well as streamlining and automating a range of processes.
AirAsia was impressed by the ease and flexibility with which it could extract, transform, and load customer data from its systems, websites, and mobile applications into Google BigQuery for analysis. Reporting and dashboards were quickly and effectively delivered through Google Data Studio.
Google BigQuery also provided the scalability to support rapid growth in data volumes. "Because Google BigQuery provided a platform that scaled with our input, our developers were free to create solutions without focusing on platform operations," says Shanti.
"In addition, we were able to process queries and requests much faster than previously and tackle more complex problems.
"As a result, we could be more innovative about realizing opportunities," he adds, citing the benefits of being able to view and understand historical measures of booking curves—a measure of how long it took customers to book before a flight. This improves the airline's ability to manage revenues.
Google BigQuery and Google Data Studio are just two components of a broad ecosystem—powered largely by Google Cloud Platform products—deployed by AirAsia. Google Cloud Pub/Sub provides a scalable message queue that enables AirAsia developers to integrate systems hosted on Google Cloud Platform or externally. Apache Airflow enables the business to create, schedule, and monitor workflows, while Composer manages the dependencies of PHP and related libraries. Google App Engine allows AirAsia personnel to develop and host web applications. "Thanks to Google App Engine, we've easily been able to create new applications, services, and APIs powered by the data we have been collecting,"
AirAsia is also running the middleware for its APIs in a managed Google Kubernetes Engine environment for increased scalability, resource optimization, and reliability, while Google Cloud Storage provides storage for data from a range of systems and sources. Google Cloud Dataflow enables the business to transform data in stream and batch modes from its website search page as customers look for flights.
Deploying Google Cloud Platform has minimized involvement from AirAsia's technology operations function, which Shanti says allows developers to deploy and test more quickly. "If we have consistent reliability from our core systems—and Google Cloud Platform incorporates monitoring tools such as Google Stackdriver that enables us to identify issues quickly—developers and product engineers can focus on turning ideas into technology."
Shanti singles out speed as the biggest advantage that Google Cloud Platform products and services have provided to AirAsia to date. "With a minimal number of people involved, we can very quickly transform an idea or thought process into a deliverable," he says. "Prior to Google Cloud Platform, bringing those ideas to fruition would have been impossible."
In March 2018, AirAsia established the groundwork to use machine learning to optimize pricing for a range of services. The business used Google Cloud Machine Learning Engine to sort and predict demand for ancillary services such as baggage, seats, and meals. "By using Google Cloud Machine Learning Engine, we can sort based on data about history to predict the future," says Shanti. "A good stream of revenue comes from our ancillary services, so we're doing a basic sorting exercise at the moment—once we've mastered that, we'll apply more complex algorithms.
"We'll probably look in future at areas like pricing and bundling," he adds. "Our end goal is to have the system work out the optimal price we can charge customers, which is very important for a price-conscious and price-focused business."
The cost side of the airline's business model is also seeing the benefits of Google Cloud Platform. The platform is making a considerable contribution to the 5% to 10% forecast reduction in operating costs—attributed to the digital airline program—AirAsia Group in 2018.
AirAsia is poised to reap further benefits from Google Cloud Platform as its deployment matures. "On the data side we're more advanced, while on the application and programming side we have a long way to go," says Shanti. "We're on a trajectory upwards—we're looking at a lot of new ideas and how to embrace and deploy them so we can further our data first and digital airline agendas."


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News of Tom and Katie's impending divorce marks the biggest, tabloid-friendly, first-names-needed-only celebrity split since, well, Tom and Nicole. The major difference is that when Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman's marriage crumbled in 2001, the Internet and Reality TV-driven 24-hour celebrity mania had yet to take off.
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Cruise and Holmes were united Friday in asking for privacy, which they are unlikely to get. Cruise, who started all this by jumping on Oprah's couch seven years ago, soon might finding himself hiding under his bed.
Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NYCity News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992. Follow him on Twitter.


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CC loses no-hitter, Yanks lose opener to O's
Baltimore breaks through in sixth and seventh innings
BALTIMORE -- CC Sabathia carried a no-hitter into the sixth inning before Nate McLouth broke up that bid for history, but it was McLouth's at-bat against the lefty in the next inning that delivered the most crushing blow of the night.
McLouth launched a long solo home run onto Eutaw Street off Sabathia in the seventh inning, powering the Orioles to a come-from-behind, 4-3 victory on Friday at Camden Yards. It's the Yankees' fourth defeat in five games.
"I feel like I'm wasting starts," Sabathia said. "I'm feeling great and throwing the ball good. I've just not been able to put together a whole start. It's just frustrating."
Sabathia screamed after exiting the game after the seventh inning, spiking his glove and hat to the dugout bench, and his rage was understandable. He may have had his sharpest stuff of the season, with his fastball, slider and changeup all working beautifully in concert through five innings.
"I think it's just everything from tonight," he said of his frustration. "Like I said, not being able to hold the lead. Then you're ultimately giving up the lead and giving up the game. I try not to show my emotions too much, but it happens."
Baltimore managed just one baserunner through the first five frames, with Alexi Casilla reaching on Alberto Gonzalez's third inning error. McLouth ended the no-hitter with a clean single to center field leading off the sixth, and more misfortune followed, with Sabathia laboring throughout the inning.
Two soft hits crushed Sabathia. The first was a soft roller by Casilla to the right side of the infield that both Sabathia and David Adams pursued, leaving first base uncovered and Robinson Cano with no chance to get there in time for a play.
"It's my fault. I messed up. I need to be on the bag for that," said Adams, who was making his first Major League start at first base. "Honestly, any situation like that, there's no one else to get to the bag. Cano's up the middle. CC, his job is to go get the ball. There's no one else to be on the bag. I've got to get to the bag."
Manny Machado capitalized by ripping a two-run double up the gap in right-center field, and Adam Jones tied the score by beating out a weak two-out dribbler after Sabathia rushed to field the ball and ended up making an awkward throw as he fell to the grass.
"[CC] gave up two hard-hit balls and gave up two runs in that inning," manager Joe Girardi said. "That's the tough part about it."
With the lead erased, Sabathia hung a seventh-inning slider to McLouth, who barreled up a high arcing drive that left no doubt about its outcome. Ichiro Suzuki, standing in right field, moved about two steps only as a courtesy.
McLouth, meanwhile, immediately let his mind travel back to Game 4 of last year's American League Division Series, when he belted a similar homer off the Yanks' Phil Hughes.
"I wasn't even out of the batter's box before I thought that," McLouth said. "Off the bat, I knew it had the distance, it just stayed true. It stayed straight, and I was happy about that."
Consider Sabathia unimpressed. Instead of recording career victory No. 200, he'll chug into July with an 8-6 record and a 4.15 ERA, leading the Yankees in homers allowed, with 17.
"He's un-CC-like maybe numbers-wise, but as far as intensity and the way he goes about it, he's the same guy," catcher Chris Stewart said. "It's just tough that his numbers aren't with him this year."
The Yankees seemed in early command of the game, roughing up starter T.J. McFarland for three runs and seven hits in 2 2/3 innings. Orioles manager Buck Showalter pressed McFarland into duty in hopes of capitalizing on the Yankees' troubles against left-handed pitching this year.
Cano tied Frank Crosetti for 19th place on Yankees' all-time hits list (1,541) with a run-scoring single in the first inning, and the Yankees added two runs off McFarland in the third, when Vernon Wells and Stewart connected for RBI singles.
But Kevin Gausman, Baltimore's originally scheduled starter, then entered the game and turned in an impressive outing, holding the Yankees to three hits over 4 1/3 scoreless innings. Tommy Hunter pitched the final two innings around a single to pick up his second save.
"We had some opportunities and weren't able to do it," Girardi said. "Gausman came in and threw the ball extremely well. You can tell the kid is extremely talented. But we had some early opportunities. We had seven hits in the first three innings and were only able to get three runs."
Sure, additional support would have been helpful, but Sabathia knows better than to get greedy with the diminished lineup behind him. He draped the loss across his shoulders, acknowledging that his season thus far has not been a good one.
"It's super-frustrating," he said. "We've been battling and scuffling all year, dealing with injuries and everything. For us to come out here and put up three [runs] against a tough team and not be able to hold it late in the game is extremely frustrating. I have to get better."


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January 14, 2014 -Sandy Recovery- Christie Administration Receives Federal Approval To Dedicate Additional Funds To Existing Housing Recovery Programs
Christie Administration Receives Federal Approval To Dedicate Additional Funds To Existing Housing Recovery Programs
Approximately 1,000 Waitlisted RREM Applicants and More Than 1,200 Waitlisted Resettlement Applicants Will Receive Federal Funds
Trenton, NJ – The Christie Administration has received approval from the Obama Administration to amend the New Jersey Disaster Recovery Action Plan to dedicate an additional $145 million of existing federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Disaster Recovery funds to two Sandy housing recovery programs. This will enable approximately 1,000 Sandy-impacted homeowners to move off of the Reconstruction, Rehabilitation, Elevation, and Mitigation (RREM) Program waitlist and more than 1,200 storm-affected families to move off of the Homeowner Resettlement waitlist and receive grants to assist them in their recovery effort.
"Helping Sandy-impacted families get back in their homes is the top priority of my Administration," said Governor Chris Christie. "Receiving approval of our request to dedicate additional funds to help thousands of New Jersey residents get the needed resources to resettle in their neighborhoods and rebuild their homes is critical to this mission."
Federal approval of the Christie administration's request will add $110 million to the (RREM) Program to allow approximately 1,000 Sandy-impacted families currently on the waitlist to receive a RREM grant. This program provides grants of up to $150,000 to help homeowners impacted by Sandy repair or rebuild their homes. The 1,000 homeowners who are moving off the RREM waitlist will receive a letter shortly notifying them that they've been preliminarily approved for a RREM grant and advising them of next steps. The approximately 7,000 homeowners who remain on the RREM waitlist will be advised of where they are on the list so they can decide the best course of action for their own recovery effort.
The amendment also adds $35 million to the Homeowner Resettlement Program, which enables the state to fully fund every eligible Sandy-impacted homeowner who applied to the program with a $10,000 grant to incentivize them to stay in their home community rather than relocating. The program, which also closed its application period on August 1, 2013, has awarded more than 16,600 Resettlement checks to eligible families. Families can utilize the money for non-construction storm-related expenses such as increases in flood insurance premiums and rent payments for temporary housing.
All homeowners on the Resettlement waitlist will receive a letter informing them that they've been preliminarily approved for a Resettlement grant award and setting an appointment for them to close on the grant.
"Today's announcement demonstrates our sustained commitment to helping as many Sandy-impacted families as we can with their housing recovery needs," said New Jersey Department of Community Affairs (DCA) Commissioner Richard E. Constable, III, whose Department administers many of the state's Sandy Recovery programs. "The state is set to receive an additional $1.4 billion in CDBG Disaster Recovery funding this year and we intend to dedicate a substantial portion of the funds to housing programs when we submit our second Action Plan to HUD for approval. Once approved, the money will allow us to reach even more storm-affected homeowners and renters."
The substantial amendment also sets aside $15 million for a program to demolish unsafe Sandy-damaged structures in order to alleviate blight and address threats to public health and welfare.
The additional funding for the RREM and Resettlement programs and the funding for the Unsafe Structure Demolition Program is coming from the reallocation of funds within the New Jersey Disaster Recovery Action Plan. In light of the significant waiting list for housing recovery programs and an analysis of the State's business and housing recovery needs, the Christie Administration sought and received the federal government's approval to transfer $160 million of the federal Sandy recovery funds designated for Grants and Forgivable Loans to Small Businesses to the above-named programs.
After a 14-day public comment period, the Christie Administration submitted the substantial amendment on November 22, 2013 to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for its review. HUD approved the amendment today.
The New Jersey Disaster Recovery Action Plan, which was approved April 29, 2013, details how the State is distributing the $1,829,520,000 in federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Disaster Recovery funds to help homeowners, renters, businesses and communities impacted by Sandy. Pursuant to guidelines from HUD, the Action Plan focuses predominantly on the nine counties most affected by the storm as determined by HUD (Atlantic, Bergen, Cape May, Essex, Hudson, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean, and Union) and on assisting low- to moderate-income families.
The Action Plan substantial amendment can be viewed in English and Spanish at http://www.nj.gov/dca/divisions/sandyrecovery/action/ on the DCA website.
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Tides of Life
Wainui Beach, New Zealand
Let the colors of the sea beckon you to reminisce on your days on the water. Vibrant shades and tones allow for a splash of color and beauty to brighten your home or office.
Beautiful printed on gorgeous fine art watercolor paper or as ready-to-hang wood or canvas wall art.
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A white ink underlay is printed under the image area to make the true colors of your image pop, while still allowing the beautiful wood texture to show on the print surface.
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I create each Encaustic Photography panel with my original fine art photographs, beeswax and pigment. Each art piece is created from start to finish by hand in my home studio. Encaustic Photography panels are able to be placed on a shelf or hung on a wall with just a nail or two. If you don't see the size you'd like, I am happy to customize both Encaustic Photography and Fine Art Print sizing for you.
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We will be knocking on doors to unseat the worst hard right blockers of progressive politics and elect champions of progressive issues. At a local door knocking party you will get trained on how to have effective voter persuasion conversations and start knocking on doors in the area. Remember to wear comfortable clothing and shoes for walking and knocking on doors! RSVP to join the largest grassroots effort in Australia!
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HOUSTON—Last off-season, the Houston Rockets were an afterthought, a young team with little star power.
Now, after trading for James Harden just before this past season and adding Dwight Howard on Friday, Houston is suddenly primed to contend sooner than almost anybody expected.
Still, Houston general manager Daryl Morey knows nabbing Howard is only the first step in a long process for his team.
"We haven't accomplished anything yet, but we're putting something pretty cool together, I think," Morey said in an interview with Comcast SportsNet Houston.
Howard is the Rockets' latest superstar centre, following hall of famer Hakeem Olajuwon and eight-time all-star Yao Ming.
They reached the playoffs for the first time since 2009 this season and battled back from a 3-0 deficit before being eliminated by the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 6.
Their return to the post-season showed they have plenty of speed and long-range scoring power with Harden, Jeremy Lin and Chandler Parsons. Omer Asik was a solid rebounder in the playoff run and averaged 12.3 points in the series, but it was clear that the team needed a more potent scoring threat inside.
The addition of Howard gives them just that, as the six-foot-11 star has averaged more than 18 points and almost 13 rebounds in his nine-year career.
His one season in Los Angeles was filled with unrest, including what many believed to be a less than positive relationship with Kobe Bryant. Bryant unfollowed Howard on Twitter on Friday night after he announced his decision to join the Rockets with a tweet.
It was the end of a short tenure with the Lakers in which Howard averaged 17 points and almost 11 rebounds in the playoffs, where the injury-riddled team was swept by the San Antonio Spurs in the first round.
Morey believes his team offers many benefits to the 27-year-old centre, but one thing sealed the deal.
"I think Dwight's in a great place in his career," Morey said in the television interview. "He's focused on winning and we gave him the best chance to win. It's that simple."
Howard can't officially sign until July 10 when next season's salary cap has been set. The Rockets can pay him $88 million over a four-year contract — $30 million less than what Los Angeles could have given him.
Saturday was a bit quieter on the free-agent front:
In Houston, Howard saw the chance to join Harden and boost this up-and-coming team. Harden blossomed in his first year with the Rockets, going from stellar sixth man with the Thunder to Houston's top player. He averaged 25.9 points, 4.9 rebounds, 5.8 assists and 1.8 steals, setting career highs in each category.
After Howard made his decision Friday night, Harden tweeted: "Houston we have lift off!!," and posted a photo to Instagram of him and his newest teammate together.
"No matter how you look at it we thought it was a pretty straightforward choice," Morey said on Comcast. "To Dwight's credit he did turn down a pretty significant amount of money to come to the Rockets. It shows his mindset that he's really ready to take that next step. If you look at best players, James Harden is the best player out there that he could join."