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?I don?t want to take care of them,? Erica confesses in Episode 12 to the man she?s just slept with, speaking about her elderly parents.
?Who does?? The man is the real estate broker who has just sold her parents? home in San Francisco so that, after a year?s resentful debate, they can downsize.
?People do. Children do,? Erica replies. ?They think of it as payback for all the sacrifices their parents made for them. They think it?s a privilege.?
?I don?t know those kinds of people,? he says.
Amy Lippman invented those characters, told them what to say, then directed all 13 episodes of ?Ruth & Erica,? a YouTube drama about aging and caregiving. You can find the first one today on the female-centric channel called WIGS, which stands for Where It Gets Interesting.
?I decided to write about something I was experiencing, and all my friends were experiencing ? parents who?d been independent and self-sufficient, but were beginning to need more support and guidance,? said Ms. Lippman, who?s in her late 40s. ?It seems to have come as a shock to all of us.?
Each slickly produced ?Ruth & Erica? episode runs about eight minutes. New ones will appear on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays; all 13 will live indefinitely online.
Funny how the number of movies, TV shows and books that focus on aging, and on dementia in particular, keeps growing. ?It?s sort of in the ether right now,? said Ms. Lippman, whose own parents recently sold their house ? a painful step ? in Northern California.
I recently saw ?Robot & Frank,? for example. It?s set in ?the near future? when, apparently, people have even schmancier phones and zippier minicars and wonderfully helpful caregiving robots, but dementia remains incurable and elder care issues provoke as much family tension as ever.
?Robot & Frank? didn?t climb into my personal Top Five Movies About Aging (since you asked: ?Away from Her,? ?The Iron Lady,? ?The Savages,? ?About Schmidt? and ?Iris? ? what?s your list?), but it had its charms.
?Ruth & Erica,? which unfolds over a year, goes deeper. The veteran actors Lois Smith and Philip Baker Hall give wonderful, wrenching performances as Ruth and Harry Rappaport, who fight their only child?s suggestions of a move to a retirement community as Harry sinks into dementia.
Maura Tierney seems a decade or two too young to be their daughter. Flying in for visits and crisis management, she doesn?t look nearly careworn and frazzled enough. But she?s otherwise a very believable Erica ? funny and honest and willing to say aloud what lots of adult children think.
Producing scripted drama for the Web gave Ms. Lippman a shot at something that would have been hard to pull off in movies or television. ?It?s an opportunity to tell an intimate, realistic story with absolutely no pyrotechnics,? she said.
In fact, it was so realistic that during production, ?almost everyone who worked on the series, including the crew, came up to me and said, ?My grandmother.? ?My parents.? ?My sister had to move in with my mother,?? Ms. Lippman said. ?I felt this reverberation.?
Paula Span is the author of ?When the Time Comes: Families With Aging Parents Share Their Struggles and Solutions.?
Source: http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/24/the-drama-of-aging-and-caregiving-on-youtube/
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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Farmers Insurance, one of the nation's top insurers, will take one of its industry-leading catastrophe response vehicles to the steps of Pennsylvania's State Capitol on Thursday, September 27 from 10:00 a.m. to noon.? While there, all are invited to free tours, explanations of its technological prowess and stories of its deployments ? including some of the nation's worst natural disasters.
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"We invite everyone to stop by the Capitol to tour our Mobile Claims Center (MCC) bus to learn about its capabilities and how pivotal it has been in helping restore disaster-struck communities across the country," stated Dan Schrock, head of eastern expansion for Farmers Insurance. "These vehicles are part of our first-response when disasters happen, providing immediate help to customers and non-customers alike."
| WHAT:????? | Farmers Insurance Mobile Catastrophe Claims bus stops at Pennsylvania State Capitol as part of East Coast tour |
| WHERE:????? | North 3rd and State Street |
| Harrisburg, PA? 17120?? ????????? | |
| WHEN:????? | September 27, 2012?10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. |
| Press Conference:? 10:30 a.m. at the MCC | |
| ? Michael Consedine, PA Insurance Commissioner | |
| Randy Rohrbaugh, Executive Deputy Insurance Commissioner | |
| Ron Gallagher, Deputy Insurance Commissioner | |
| Dan Schrock, Head of AgencyPoint, Farmers Insurance | |
| Jaynine Warner, Government & Industry Affairs, Farmers Insurance | |
| Other special guests?????????????????????????????????? |
The Farmers MCC is 46 feet long and 13 feet wide and has state-of-the-art satellite communications equipment, plus food, supplies, water, cold and hot drinks for everyone.? Also on board are satellite laptop computers and satellite phones for use at disasters.
Farmers Insurance Group of Companies is a leading U.S. insurer of automobiles, homes and small businesses and also provides a wide range of other insurance and financial services products.? Farmers Insurance is proud to serve more than 10 million households with more than 20 million individual policies across all 50 states through the efforts of over 50,000 exclusive and independent agents and nearly 24,000 employees.
Farmers is a trade name and may refer to Farmers Group, Inc. or the Farmers Exchanges, as the case may be. ?Farmers Group, Inc., a management and holding company, along with its subsidiaries, is wholly owned by the Zurich Insurance Group. The Farmers Exchanges are three reciprocal insurers (Farmers Insurance Exchange, Fire Insurance Exchange and Truck Insurance Exchange), including their subsidiaries and affiliates, owned by their policyholders, and managed by Farmers Group, Inc. and its subsidiaries. For more information about Farmers, visit its Web site at www.farmers.com or at www.Facebook.com/FarmersInsurance.
Contact: Jerry Davies
213-400-4459
Jerry.davies@farmersinsurance.com
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney might need a good laugh after the week he's had, but there's also a chance he's so out of touch that he might not get the humor behind "Texts From Mitt Romney." In fact, that's the root of the joke.
Posted by Nick Douglas of Slacktory, these humorous -- and most definitely fictitious -- texts attack Romney for his elitist attitudes. They're like "Texts From Bennett" from the perspective of the 1 percent.
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The messages may lack the hilarious visual cues of "Texts From Hillary," in which an unimpressed U.S. Secretary of State stoically dispenses judgment from her BlackBerry, but "Texts From Mitt Romney" rings true, especially in light of Romney's "47 percent" remark.
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Let?s be honest.
In most companies, the Sales and Marketing teams don?t really work well together.
Sales reps don?t loop back with Marketing to give feedback on new insights they?ve discovered concerning what the client or customer?s needs are, which would help improve Internet marketing efforts.
On the other hand, Sales will say Marketing doesn?t do a great job helping sales generate and nurture leads.
Here at Fruition, being an Internet marketing agency in Toronto, I think we do a good job helping our clients turbo-charge their business growth with better Internet marketing (We?ve got the case studies to prove it).
Lately, however, we?ve really made an effort to insist that leads being generated from a client?s Web site get qualified using lead nurturing tactics that seamlessly integrates with an effective CRM.? When done correctly, it can shorten even the longest and most complex sales cycle.
For us, that?s exciting, because this is where real value is created for clients.
In short:
When we help marketing teams create lead nurturing campaigns, sales reps close more business in less time.
For companies that provide services, the future of marketing is going to focus more on which marketing channels generated the best lead-to-customer closing rates, not just visit-to-lead conversion rates.
Only a small number of leads you generate from your website are ready to buy from you right away.
So, what do you do with the majority of prospects who aren?t ready to talk to a sales rep?
Simple.
Create a lead nurturing program that builds a relationship with prospects and grooms them for an eventual hand-off to the sales team.
Lead nurturing creates a consistent, relevant dialog with prospects based on their needs and interests (based on their engagement with your content).
When establishing a lead nurturing program start by creating a simple communication workflow schedule.
This doesn?t have to be rocket science, but it needs to include a follow-up email within 24 hours after a prospect has converted (i.e., downloads a piece of content) on your Web site.
The timing of the rest of the email messages in your campaign will depend on your sales cycle.? For example, if your average sales cycle is 60 days, you might plan to send a new email on the 1st, 7th, 15th and 30th day after the initial contact.
The goal here is to attempt to move the lead down the marketing funnel during the first 30 days, which means getting the lead to convert on some type of bottom-of-the-funnel offer (i.e., a free consultation or trial demo).
Important: Leads in the nurturing stage, by definition, are not sales ready, so don?t pitch.? Instead, start by providing educational content or Middle-of-the-Funnel offer (i.e. case studies or Webinar) that teaches them something.
This may not seem like an Internet marketing tactic, but a lead?s score is a reflection of the actions taken on your Web site as a result of your Internet marketing efforts.
For example, during the lead nurturing phase, you should be building a profile of each lead in your CRM that helps signal when the lead is ready to hand off to Sales.
Having a formal lead-scoring framework takes the guesswork out of prioritizing sales-ready leads.
With lead scoring, you can assign points to demographic factors as well as recent actions that indicate a lead?s potential interest and fit for your company.
Criteria that can be used to establish a lead?s score could also include behavioural data such as the type or number of conversions completed.
Below, is an example of Fruition?s lead scoring criteria:
In our case, we?re experimenting with a score of 50 as being our optimal ?qualified lead?.? Anyone who has reached that score is qualified enough for a sales rep to contact them.
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Keep in mind, the criteria you use will evolve and get better over time as we collect and analyze lead intelligence in our CRM.
As a business veteran, you?ve probably heard this jargon before.
Some of you may have dismissed it as fancy Marketing talk in an attempt to sell you something you didn?t need.
However, a closed loop communication system, which allows for the free flow of data and discussion between Sales and Marketing, can be quite powerful.
By capturing data from the first time a prospect visits your website all the way through to a closed deal, you see exactly which marketing channels (i.e. sources) are generating new business.
The opportunities that closed loop analytics creates are endless.
For example:
When you use systems and tools that align Marketing and Sales you create a force multiplier in your business which, over time, creates an amazing result (sales!) with less time and energy.
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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Nearly 6 million Americans ? most of them in the middle class ? will face a tax penalty for not carrying medical coverage once President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law is fully in place, congressional budget analysts said Wednesday.
The new estimate amounts to an inconvenient fact for the administration, a reminder of what critics see as broken promises.
The numbers from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office are significantly higher than a previous projection by the same office in 2010, shortly after the law passed.
The earlier estimate found 4 million people would be affected. The difference ? 2 million people? represents a 50 percent increase.
That's still only a sliver of the population, given that more than 150 million people currently are covered by employer plans. Nonetheless, in his first campaign for the White House, Obama pledged not to raise taxes on individuals making less than $200,000 a year and couples making less than $250,000.
And the budget office analysis found that nearly 80 percent of those who'll face the penalty would be making up to or less than five times the federal poverty level. Currently that would work out to $55,850 or less for an individual and $115,250 or less for a family of four.
Average penalty: about $1,200 in 2016.
"The bad news and broken promises from Obamacare just keep piling up," said Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, who wants to repeal the law.
There was no immediate response from the administration.
The budget office said most of the increase in its estimate is due to changes in underlying projections about the economy, incorporating the effects of new federal legislation, as well as higher unemployment and lower wages.
Starting in 2014, the new health care law requires virtually every legal resident of the U.S. to carry health insurance or face a tax penalty. The Supreme Court upheld Obama's law as constitutional in a 5-4 decision this summer, finding that the insurance mandate and the tax penalty enforcing it fall within the power of Congress to impose taxes. The penalty will be collected by the IRS, just like taxes.
The budget office said the penalty will raise $6.9 billion when fully in effect in 2016.
The new law will also provide government aid to help middle-class and low-income households afford coverage, the financial carrot that balances out the penalty.
Nonetheless, some people might still decide to remain uninsured because they object to government mandates or because they feel they would come out ahead financially even if they have to pay the penalty. Health insurance is expensive, with employer-provided family coverage averaging nearly $15,800 a year for a family and $4,300 for a single plan.
The Supreme Court allowed individual states to opt out of a major Medicaid expansion under the law. The Obama administration says it will exempt low-income people affected by state decisions from having to comply with the insurance mandate.
Most Americans will not have to worry about the insurance requirement since they already have coverage through employers, government programs like Medicare or by buying their own policies.
Many Republicans still regard the insurance mandate as unconstitutional and rue the day the Supreme Court upheld it.
However, the idea for an individual insurance requirement comes from Republican health care plans in the 1990s.
It's also a central element of the 2006 Massachusetts health care law signed by then-GOP Gov. Mitt Romney, now running against Obama and promising to repeal the federal law. The approach seems to have worked well in Massachusetts, with virtually all residents covered and dwindling numbers opting to pay the penalty instead.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/tax-penalty-hit-nearly-6m-uninsured-people-194442599.html
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Quite a few of the new security suite releases arriving this fall are showing up with brand-new user interface designs, inspired by the impending release of Windows 8. AVG Internet Security 2013 is no exception. It looks a lot different from the 2012 edition, and it's gained a number of enhancements under the hood as well.
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With one exception that I'll cover later, the antivirus protection in AVG's suite is exactly the same as what you get in AVG Anti-Virus FREE 2013. Please read that review for full details; I'll summarize here.
Getting started on malware cleanup testing was tough because AVG wouldn't install properly on half of my malware-infested test systems. Some were cured using AVG's Rescue CD, others required lengthy remote-control sessions with tech support. In addition, on quite a few systems AVG's scan requested manual removal of certain infected system files. I managed the manual removal process; the average user might find it too hard.
However, once I got past those obstacles AVG's malware cleanup was both speedy and effective. On my standard clean system it completed a scan in 22 minutes, a bit over half the current average. A repeat scan finished in under one minute.
AVG detected 87 percent of the threats, the same as Bitdefender Total Security 2013 . Kaspersky Internet Security (2013) and Norton AntiVirus (2013) detected 89 percent, the best detection rate. AVG and Kaspersky earned 6.5 points for malware removal, beaten only by Norton with 6.6. For an explanation of how I come up with these scores, please see How We Test Malware Removal.
In my malware blocking test, AVG detected 95 percent of the threats, the same as F-Secure Anti-Virus 2013. Trend Micro Titanium Antivirus+ 2013 detected 97 percent, as did Daily Safety Check Home Edition and SecureIT Plus.
SecureIT earned the best malware blocking score among current products, with 9.7 of 10 possible points. Daily Safety Check came in second with 9.4. AVG, F-Secure, and Trend Micro came in a very close third with 9.3 points. To understand how I test malware blocking and derive these scores, please read How We Test Malware Blocking.
AVG's scores with the independent testing labs are generally good, though not outstanding. For example, while Bitdefender and Kaspersky get top scores from both AV-Test and AV-Comparatives, scores for AVG are merely good. The chart below summarizes recent independent lab tests. For more about the labs, see How We Interpret Antivirus Lab Tests.
Other Shared Features
AVG's suit shares a number of other features with the free antivirus. A browser toolbar offers access to safe search and reports on the safety level of the current Web page. The toolbar is also home to AVG's Do Not Track button, a feature that identifies tracking elements on the current page and lets you actively block them. You'll also find a number of non-security buttons that do things like connect with Facebook or launch the Windows calculator.
AVG's Identity Protection doesn't specifically protect your identity. Rather, this is the name the company chose for behavior-based real-time protection against zero-day threats. Identity Alert, on the other hand, is precisely aimed at protecting your personal information online, but it's an extra-cost service.
In both the suite and the free antivirus there's a button labeled "Fix Performance." Clicking it runs a scan that identifies such performance drags as unnecessary files and errors in the Registry. However, neither product will actually fix those found problems. Instead, you must download the separate AVG PC TuneUp and either clean up once for free or purchase the product.
Clicking the "More from AVG" button brings up a page with buttons for many other AVG products, among them AVG Family Safety, AVG's LiveKive online backup, and the PC TuneUp product. If you've already subscribed to one of these you can reach it quickly by clicking the button. If not, clicking the button takes you to a page where you can sign up.
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President Barack Obama laughs during the taping of his appearance on the "Late Show with David Letterman" in New York, Monday, September 21, 2009. Official White House Photo by Pete SouzaANN ARBOR, Mich.?The jokes by late-night comedy television hosts can be just as effective as regular political news in spurring discussion among viewers, a new University of Michigan study shows.
In addition, political candidates could help their campaigns with mentions by shows like "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," "Late Show with David Letterman" or "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno."
"The constructive role of comedy shows evidenced in this study suggests that political entertainment may serve as an important catalyst for revitalized civic life," said Hoon Lee, who conducted the research while seeking his doctorate from the U-M Department of Communication Studies. "This is an important finding, because then political candidates may be willing to use comedy programs to enhance their images."
About 770 people completed an online experiment and a mail survey. The gender breakdown was nearly equal (51 percent female), most were white (74 percent) and the party affiliation was 36 percent Democrat and 34 percent Republican. They were assigned to one of three groups: late-night comedy, television hard news, or control.
The first group of 256 people viewed a short video clip from "The Daily Show" comprising several segments about the government's bailout of big companies. The second group of 254 people was exposed to an "NBC Nightly News" video clip that also featured selected coverage of the government's bailout of big companies. The late-night comedy clip was humorous and sarcastic as Stewart would typically entertain and provoke audiences, whereas the hard news clip remained serious in tone.
The third group, which consisted of 258 people, viewed a clip about a Disney Resort in Orlando. This served as a control providing a baseline comparison for the effects of late-night comedy viewing.
Once participants finished viewing the video clips, they all completed the questionnaire measuring their emotions, attitudes and intentions regarding the economy. Behavioral intentions could include attending a political meeting, rally or speech; contacting a public official or a political party; and displaying a bumper sticker or yard sign on a political issue.
Lee said the findings imply that exposure to late-night comedy limits with whom individuals were willing to discuss politics. In other words, people typically talk about the shows with others who share their beliefs and interests. As a result, the humor-induced discussions may spur political participation.
The research also indicates that while both late-night comedy television and hard news engages audiences, late-night audiences are more likely to use online interaction as a way to comment on political issues.
"The current research suggests that political comedy can play a significant role in the public realm," said Lee, a fellow at the Nam Center for Korean Studies at the U-M International Institute. "Indeed, the results indicate that exposure to late-night satire can enrich deliberative and participatory democracy."
The findings appear in the current issue of Mass Communication and Society.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 11, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) ? Reis, Inc. (REIS) (?Reis? or the ?Company?), a leading provider of commercial real estate market information and analytical tools, today announced the expansion of office property coverage by 58 additional U.S. cities, raising to 190 its industry-leading roster of available office markets. Commercial real estate professionals operating in these markets can now turn to Reis for the most reliable rent comparables, sales comparables, submarket analyses, and valuation and credit analytics, for use in making superior investment decisions.
Reis?s Chief Executive Officer, Lloyd Lynford, said, ?To be clear, no other provider of commercial real estate market information maintains building-level databases or publishes reports on as many geographic markets or property types as does Reis. No one else comes close. This widening competitive advantage has and will continue to support our acquisition of new customers and our relentless pursuit of revenue growth.?
Reis?s Chief Operating Officer, Bill Sander, added, ?For Reis, the regular addition of new markets has become routine. This is our eleventh expansion of coverage since 2007, and follows on the heels of last week?s launch of our industry-first Self Storage coverage in thirty leading metropolitan markets. Along with this broadening of our geographic footprint and property type coverage, we have continued to add new analytical capabilities to Reis Subscriber Edition, empowering our subscribers to make the fullest use of the information we provide.?
This expansion follows the Company?s earlier expansion of retail coverage by 50 U.S. cities in September 2011, and the recent release of Reis Subscriber Edition version 2.0. Reis said it intends to continue its expansion efforts with the addition of new apartment markets in 2013.
About Reis
Reis, founded in 1980, provides commercial real estate market information and analytical tools for its subscribers. Reis maintains a proprietary database containing detailed information on commercial properties in metropolitan markets and neighborhoods throughout the U.S. The database contains information on apartment, office, retail, warehouse/distribution and flex/research & development properties and is used by real estate investors, lenders and other professionals to make informed buying, selling and financing decisions. In addition, Reis data is used by debt and equity investors to assess, quantify and manage the risks of default and loss associated with individual mortgages, properties, portfolios and real estate backed securities. Reis currently provides its information services to many of the nation?s leading lending institutions, equity investors, brokers and appraisers.
Reis, through its flagship institutional product, Reis SE, and through its small business product, ReisReports, provides online access to a proprietary database of commercial real estate information and analytical tools designed to facilitate debt and equity transactions as well as ongoing evaluations. Depending on the product, users have access to trend and forecast analysis at metropolitan and neighborhood levels throughout the U.S. and/or detailed building-specific information such as rents, vacancy rates, lease terms, property sales, new construction listings and property valuation estimates. Reis?s products are designed to meet the demand for timely and accurate information to support the decision-making of property owners, developers, builders, banks and non-bank lenders, and equity investors. These real estate professionals require access to timely information on both the performance and pricing of assets, including detailed data on market transactions, supply, absorption, rents and sale prices. This information is critical to all aspects of valuing assets and financing their acquisition, development and construction.
For more information regarding Reis?s products and services, visit www.reis.com and www.ReisReports.com.
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Reis, Inc. Expands Office Property Coverage by 58 Additional Markets, Raising Total to 190
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The first step towards a career as an x ray technician is to get the requisite x ray technician training. There is a wide variety of x ray technician schools and these include vocational schools, community colleges, medical schools and universities. X ray technician is extremely important as their duties are of a technical nature and require a high level of accuracy. The results of their work are used by doctors to make diagnoses.
Even though there are some employers that provide on the job training, already formally trained x ray techs have an edge over their untrained counterparts. Therefore, anybody who wants a fulfilling career in radiography must necessarily attend any one of the x ray technician schools. The courses offered range from one year certificate courses to four year bachelor?s degrees. Most people opt for associate degrees as these last a shorter time than bachelor?s degree but at the same time offer comprehensive training. (www.radiologistsalaryz.com/what-is-radiology)
There are many different schools offering x ray technician training. However, it is of utmost importance to opt for a school that has been accredited by the American Registry of Radiologic Technicians (ARRT). Accreditation of a school simply means that their training program meets the standards required of a good training program. To find out whether a x ray technician school has been accredited or not, you can look up this information up on the ARRT official website.
Any x ray technician training program will include theoretical and practical training. The theoretical training will include courses in human anatomy, pathology, physiology, medical ethics, radiology, radiation, radiation protection, medical imaging and patient care. Practical training is done through clinicals at medical facilities.
X ray technician schools are either campus based or online. There are advantages and disadvantages to both methods of learning. A major disadvantage of online x ray technician training programs is that a student does not get the opportunity to get practical or hands on training. However, this disadvantage can be overcome by carrying out an internship at a hospital or other medical facility.
After completing a training program, a person can take the ARRT licensing exams. While this is not mandatory, it is advisable to sit and pass these exams in order to get certification as most employers will prefer a licensed x ray tech. Re-certification exams should also be taken every 24 months.
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Have you ever wondered why Facebook spends so much time encouraging marketers to take advantage of its free Brand Pages? The effort seems counter-intuitive: It costs Facebook money to provide, maintain and serve Brand Pages, and the company gets no revenue from them.If a company can create a fun, interesting or engaging enough Page, then advertising on Facebook is basically free. Procter & Gamble CEO Bob McDonald noticed this back in January, and began cutting his global ad budget, as a proportion of sales, as a result.
Also, when Facebook was trying to rescue its General Motors business, it pushed the free Pages idea (albeit unsuccessfully).
So why is Facebook so keen on this money-losing venture?
I got to talking with Syncapse CEO Michael Scissons about this over lunch the other day. (Syncapse sells social media marketing and sales management software, and Scissons is thus familiar with the way Facebook sells-in its clients).
He pointed out that Facebook has a "secret" plan to ensure that advertisers become addicted to Facebook, and ultimately spend money to promote posts to them. "Secret" is in quotes because, really, the plan is hiding in plain sight.
Then he drew this diagram of the plan (which I've annotated in red type) to show how it works:
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Here's what it means. In the innermost circle (A) on the left, a marketer with a free Page can reach only their most hardcore fans. Because Facebook users tend to have hundreds of friends, their news feeds are fast-moving and cluttered. Any given brand post is thus only seen by a small minority of a brand's fans. Sometimes a post is only seen by 15-20 percent of fans, according to Gokul Rajaram, Facebook's director of product management for ads.
In order for a brand to grow its fanbase beyond the 15 percent core, it must pay to run campaigns such as promoted posts, which last longer in users' news feeds and are thus seen by more people. As the campaigns are seen and liked by more people, the brand's fanbase grows, until eventually the brand is reaching every possible relevant member of its audience on Facebook (the outer concentric circles). A big brand like Coca-Cola might need to grow its fanbase from 1 million people to 100 million, for instance.
At the same time, the growing level of consumer activity on the brand page requires constant monitoring. Brands that have consumer relations management priorities ? airlines like Southwest, or above-and-beyond retailers like Zappos ? eventually discover that they cannot walk away or downshift their Facebook activity because their customers expect them to be there the whole time. So companies must switch from campaigning to "always-on" CRM engagement via Facebook.
In the diagram, area (B) describes the switch from campaign spending to "always on" spending, in the form of a slider. The "e" and the "m" represent early and mature stages of spending.
Area (C) describes the two spending curves over time, with heavy initial campaign messaging declining over time and "always on" spending increasing over time. The crossover of the two curves, at the 50 percent mark, is the point at which Facebook has basically made a customer for life: The company can't reach all its fans without spending money to promote posts, and it can't ratchet down its always-on Facebook spend because it has a large fanbase who expect it to be there when there's a problem.
It's quite clever.
Disclosure: The authors owns Facebook stock.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - European Union states are putting together a new set of sanctions to increase pressure on Iran to give up its controversial nuclear activity, British Foreign Secretary William Hague told Reuters on Tuesday.
"We are working on those sanctions ... quite urgently and I hope we will be able to discuss them further when we meet again in the middle of October," he said in an interview at the British embassy in Cairo.
Hague said a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Cyprus on Friday had shown "a very strong level of support for further sanctions".
He did not specify what new steps the EU could add to measures that already include a ban on Iranian oil imports.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday again raised the prospect of Israeli military strikes on Iran over its nuclear ambitions, saying the United States had forfeited any moral right to stop Israel acting because it had refused to be firm with Tehran itself.
The West accuses Iran of seeking to building nuclear weapons, a charge Tehran denies.
Asked about Netanyahu's comments, Hague said: "We have given clear advice to Israel, we give that in public and in private; we are opposed to an attack on Iran in these circumstances."
Hague described sanctions as "better than any other approach that is available to us" but repeated Britain's standard line that no option had been taken off the table.
Hague also said Iran's presence in a quartet of regional states brought together by Egypt to try to resolve the Syrian crisis would make it "very difficult" for the group to agree on action to end the conflict.
"We are skeptical that Iran would agree to anything that would be a reasonable way forward in Syria," he said. "I think probably in Egypt people are realistic about that."
Cairo hosted the inaugural meeting on Monday of the quartet, which groups Iran, a staunch ally of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, with Egypt, Turkey and Saudi Arabia, which have all demanded that he step down in the face of a popular uprising.
He also repeated that military intervention over Syria had not been ruled out, although any tough U.N. Security Council action against Syria has been blocked by Russia and China.
"We are putting the maximum pressure on the regime, the EU sanctions are very strong, we look to Arab countries to intensify their sanctions and their pressure on the regime," he added.
The Arab League, headquartered in Cairo, has suspended Syria and called for members to impose financial and other sanctions on Damascus.
(Writing by Edmund Blair; Editing by Kevin Liffey)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/eu-states-working-iran-sanctions-hague-says-202102228.html
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AL QAIM, Iraq (Reuters) - Three rockets fired from Syria hit an Iraqi border town on Saturday, killing a 5-year-old girl, locals and officials said, in the most serious spillover from the neighboring country's civil war.
As rebels fought government forces for an airfield and military base near the Syrian border town of Albu Kamal, Katyusha rockets hit a residential area of al Qaim in Iraq, smashing through a wall of one house and killing a girl inside.
"She was sitting on my lap just before we heard the rocket. I knew she was dead immediately after the explosion," said Firas Attallah, the girl's father, showing a bloodstained mattress amid the shattered glass in his home.
Baghdad said a total of four rockets were fired in what it called a "criminal operation".
"Despite the fact that Iraq is committed to adopting a neutral stance towards the crisis in Syria, our brave forces are ready to confront and respond in case of repetition of such aggression," the interior ministry said in a statement.
The Syrian war is delicate for Iraq's Shi'ite Muslim-led government. Close to Bashar al-Assad's ally, Iran, Baghdad has resisted joining calls for the Syrian leader to step down.
Iraqi leaders fear Assad's fall will bring a hostile, hardline Sunni regime to power. But they deny U.S. accusations they are allowing Iran to fly weapons to Assad over Iraqi airspace.
Iraq tightened security along its border with Syria last month after its troops exchanged fire with unidentified gunmen, rockets hit a frontier patrol and Syrian army shells landed on an Iraqi border town.
The army took over frontier operations from regular border guards last month.
Local officials said they were unsure who fired the rockets.
But one Iraqi military official said it was probably rebels from the anti-Assad Free Syrian Army. He said Iraqi border troops had clashed with rebel forces two days earlier after they tried to stop smugglers getting supplies to rebels.
Al Qaim officials say more than 4,000 Syrian refugees have crossed the border which is now closed pending the construction of new camps.
Albu Kamal, site of the Syrian military base at the heart of the local battle, lies 120 km (75 miles) southeast of the city of Deir al-Zor, capital of a Sunni Muslim province with strong family and clan connections to Iraq's Sunni heartland in Anbar province.
(Additional reporting by Ahmed Rasheed in Baghdad; Editing by Barry Malone and Robin Pomeroy)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/rockets-syria-hit-iraqi-home-killing-5-old-132033877.html
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LONDON (AP) ? He's making it a very social network. Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague says he will meet with five of his followers on Twitter to discuss global issues and give them a tour of his ministry.
Hague, also an avid user of Facebook, said Friday that he would meet with a group at London's Foreign Office next month.
In a message posted to his Twitter account, Hague asked followers to send their thoughts on British foreign policy priorities and global affairs. He'll use those responses to pick who will be invited for talks.
Often seen as serious in person, Hague is an engaging figure online and known to trade messages and jokes with fellow foreign ministers.
The foreign ministry confirmed those selected to meet Hague may be subject to security checks.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/uk-foreign-secretary-dont-just-tweet-lets-meet-125311840.html
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KFFL.com's Fantasy Baseball Diamond Market gives you candid reviews and ratings of fantasy baseball players making MLB news in your rotisserie or head-to-head baseball leagues. Are they trade bait or worth your FAAB dollars in your fantasy baseball games?
Dan Straily, SP, Oakland Athletics
As you've heard (and, if you could stomach it, seen), Brandon McCarthy took a heat-seeker of a comeback liner off his coconut. He's recovering from surgery and can be ruled out for the rest of the season. Send him some positive mojo.
The A's are still - yep, still - pressing for a playoff spot, and they have depth at pitcher to absorb a blow like this. The club pushed Travis Blackley into the bullpen when they no longer needed his services, but he's obviously an option to replace McCarthy.
The A's would appear to be leaning in another direction, however. Hotshot rook Dan Straily was scheduled to start tonight for Class AAA Sacramento, but the club has replaced him, a possible indication that the parent club intends to summon him back to Oaktown. In three MLB starts this season, Straily went 1-0 with a 3.18 ERA, a 6.35 K/9 and a 2.12 BB/9.
Clearly, Straily's stuff doesn't play as dominantly as it has on the farm (take a look at those numbers!). The 23-year-old doesn't seem to waste too many pitches, however, and his fly-ball stuff should play well at the O.co. Just keep in mind that there's a lot of risk involved; he's not an elite prospect with a killer arsenal, and he has some flaws.
Still, Straily appears to be Oakland's choice, at least initially, and he should start this weekend, if he is. From start to start, he may be difficult to predict, but there's decent upside here.
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Jake Odorizzi, SP, Kansas City Royals
The Kansas City Star's Bob Dutton writes that this lauded pitching prospect is a candidate for a call-up later this month. The logic is sound.
A couple of months into the 2012 campaign, it became clear to the organization that Double-A hitters were no longer much of a challenge to retire for Odorizzi. He's been pretty impressive at Class AAA Omaha this year, too, as you can see on his Fangraphs page. Heck, he earned Pitcher of the Year honors for the farm affiliate.
Odorizzi may not even get the call to do anything but watch, but he could appear in relief or even make a start or two. If that kind of thing could help you, or it'd be your first opportunity to grab this 6-foot-2, 185-pound right-hander in your keeper league, then don't wait.
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Minnix is baseball editor and a fantasy football analyst at KFFL. He plays in LABR and Tout Wars and won the FSWA Baseball Industry Insiders League in 2010.
The University of Delaware alum is a regular guest on SiriusXM Fantasy Sports Radio and Baltimore's WNST AM 1570.
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Who is to blame for Facebook Inc. (FB)'s initial public offering? Is it Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's founder and chief executive officer? Someone else at the social- networking website? Morgan Stanley (MS), the bank that led the deal? Nasdaq, which botched the stock's early trading?
Put another way: 'The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.
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If you lost money on Facebook shares, which have given up about half their value since the company's IPO, the answer is: none of these.
Ever since Facebook debuted in May, only to begin plunging in value within a few days, I hoped somebody of note would speak out publicly to take personal responsibility for losing money on this stock, rather than pointing fingers at others. A few days ago, it happened.
Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team, wrote a post on his blog in response to a column in which Andrew Ross Sorkin of the New York Times pinned the blame on David Ebersman, Facebook's chief financial officer. Cuban said:
?I bought and sold FB shares as a TRADE, not an investment. I lost money. When the stock didn't bounce as I thought/hoped it would, I realized I was wrong and got out. It wasn't the fault of the FB CFO that I lost money. It was my fault. I know that no one sells me shares of stock because they expect the price of the stock to go up. So someone saw me coming and they sold me the stock. That is the way the stock market works. When you sit at the trading terminal you look for the sucker. When you don't see one, it's you. In this case it was me.?
Ringing True
Bless that man. Cuban may be a sophisticated fellow, in the sense that he's very wealthy and knows the Wall Street game, having once run and sold a public company. But his comments ring even more true for individuals of much lesser means.
As the financial journalist John Brooks wrote in his epic 1973 book, ?The Go-Go Years,? about Wall Street during the 1960s: ?In the nature of things, the amateur investor remains and probably will remain at a certain disadvantage in relation to the professional. Perhaps his best protection lies in knowledge of that fact itself.?
In spite of the shareholder lawsuits filed against Facebook, I have seen no indication that the company's executives lied to the public about its performance or prospects. Facebook's prospectus warned about the risks. The decline in Facebook's rate of revenue growth shouldn't have surprised anyone. In 2010, sales grew 154 percent. In 2011, they rose 88 percent. By the first quarter of this year, the year- over-year rate was 45 percent. Last quarter, Facebook's first as a public company, it was down to 32 percent.
So where might be the bottom for Facebook's shares? The stock recently was selling for about $19, giving the company a $46 billion market value. Facebook isn't going broke, or at least not anytime soon. Thanks to the money it raised through its IPO, the company had $10.2 billion, or about $4 a share, of cash and marketable securities as of June 30. Even in a worst- case scenario, the stock shouldn't drop that low, assuming Facebook doesn't blow all the money. The company's $13.3 billion of shareholder equity, or assets minus liabilities, works out to a little more than $5 a share.
Last year, Facebook reported $1 billion of net income. Let's say, for argument's sake, that Facebook deserves to trade for 14 times that much, or $14 billion, using the earnings multiple for a typical stock in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index as a guide. That's less than one-third of the market capitalization now. And that may be generous, considering Facebook reported a net loss last quarter.
Long Way
While these are simplistic gauges, they do illustrate that the stock could still have a long way to fall. My guess is a price in the single digits might be worth a flier, and that there is still a huge amount of risk in the shares now. But what do I know? Trying to predict Facebook's stock price is like trying to guess from a distance what a helium balloon might do next after it's already way up in the air.
In an e-mail, Cuban said he wrote his blog post because ?I just get annoyed by talking heads in media throwing punches without any real substance.? Asked why he bought the stock, he said: ?I thought that there would be traders who would trade the psychology and hype of the stock. Turns out I was the only one trading that way.? Pointing fingers at others, he said, is ?the easy way out.?
As for investing advice for the masses, particularly on newly minted stocks, Cuban said: ?You don't know enough to invest in individual stocks. You are gambling. If that suits you, great. Go for it. You might win. But realize that no one sells stocks expecting you to make money on the deal.?
So who is to blame if you lost money on Facebook? The fault is entirely your own. This isn't a game for crybabies.
(Jonathan Weil is a Bloomberg View columnist. The opinions expressed are his own.)
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The study, published today in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention is the largest of its kind in Australia and one of the largest in the world. It followed about 4,000 women in a study of the BreastScreen program in Western Australia.
University of Melbourne Research Fellow Dr Carolyn Nickson and colleagues from the Melbourne School of Population Health said the findings reaffirmed the importance and efficacy of mammography.
The study focused on women aged 50-69 years, who are in the target age range for screening. It included 427 cases where women had died from breast cancer and 3,650 control women who were still alive when the other women died.
The research team compared screening attendance between the two groups and found screening was much lower among women who had died from breast cancer, a finding that is consistent with a similar study from South Australia and with numerous studies from around the world. Comparison with similar studies showed an average estimate of a 49% reduced risk of dying.
Some other studies including studies from Australia claim that screening doesn't reduce risk of dying from breast cancer. However, these studies do not compare outcomes for individual women.
"Sound research methods have been used in this study. I believe it is time to move on from the debate about whether screening reduces mortality and to instead direct research resources to help improve the program for women who choose to use it," Dr Nickson said.
"It is important that Australian women have accurate information about the pros and cons of participating in BreastScreen. The findings of this study may help women decide whether to participate."
"Early detection is the key to early treatment and the free BreastScreen program is the best health service available to detect breast cancers earlier in women aged 50-69 years."
Source: http://www.sciencecodex.com/breast_cancer_screening_saves_lives_new_study_shows-97924
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There isn't a hard and fast rule for how long doctors should perform CPR, but new research from the University of Michigan Health System shows longer attempts might be beneficial for some patients.
Most cardiac arrest patients are often successfully resuscitated after a short period of time ? about 12 minutes on average. Practitioners are often reluctant to perform longer attempts ? those that can last 30 minutes or longer ? because if patients do not survive early on during cardiac arrest, their overall prognosis is poor.
The research from U-M, however, shows that for some patients, successful resuscitation only occurred after 30 minutes or more.
On a broader level, the researchers found that patients at hospitals where attempts were longer, on average, had a higher likelihood of immediate survival and survival to discharge, even after accounting for differences in overall patient characteristics.
Importantly, patients who survived with longer arrest times did not appear to have substantially worse neurological function at discharge.
The study, led by cardiologist Zachary D. Goldberger, M.D., M.S., an assistant professor at the University of Washington, and recently a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation cardiology fellow at U-M , was published online today in The Lancet.
Each year, about 200,000 hospitalized patients will experience cardiac arrest, with only half of those surviving the initial arrest, and fewer than 20 percent surviving to discharge.
Goldberger says it's not surprising that there exists a wide variation among hospitals' average length of resuscitation attempts, given there's no firm evidence to guide practitioners when to stop their efforts once resuscitative efforts have started.
"Our findings suggest an opportunity for improving care in this high-risk population. Overall, it may involve standardizing the time required for continuing resuscitation attempts prior to decisions regarding termination of efforts," Goldberger says.
After examining national data for more than 64,000 cardiac arrest patients between 2000 and 2008, the researchers found that while most patients were successfully resuscitated after a short period of time, about 15 percent of patients who survived needed at least 30 minutes to achieve a pulse.
While the study implies that longer attempts should be considered by medical professionals, U-M cardiologist Brahmajee K. Nallamothu, M.D., M.P.H. and senior author, says the research is only one piece of evidence to weigh during a cardiac arrest case.
"We want to emphasize that our findings cannot identify an optimal duration for which to resuscitate patients," he says.
Steven L. Kronick, M.D., M.S., one of the paper's authors, U-M emergency department physician head of the U-M's CPR committee, agrees and says the research should be a part of ongoing efforts directed toward improving care for cardiac arrest patients.
"The optimal resuscitation duration for any individual patient will continue to remain a bedside decision that relies on careful clinical judgment," he says. "Overall, we believe these findings present an opportunity to improve resuscitation care, especially at a systems-level."
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Citation: The Lancet, Vol. 380, "Duration of resuscitation efforts and survival after in-hospital cardiac arrest: an observational study," Sept. 4, 2012
University of Michigan Health System: http://www.med.umich.edu
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China will put the ex-police chief at the heart of its biggest political scandal in decades on trial for crimes including defection, illegal surveillance and taking bribes, state media said on Wednesday, opening a new phase in a case that has rattled the Communist Party succession.
Wang Lijun fled to a U.S. consulate in southwestern China for more than 24 hours in February, days after his dismissal as police chief of Chongqing, the nearby municipality then run by ambitious politician Bo Xilai, who had raised Wang to prominence as a crime gang-buster.
Official news agency Xinhua appeared to end rumors that Wang, 52, could be treated lightly for exposing Bo's misdeeds while inside the consulate, and it laid out the four charges against Wang: defection, taking bribes, bending the law for selfish ends and abusing power.
The Xinhua account indicated that Wang had initially gone along with the attempted cover-up of the murder in November of British businessman, Neil Heywood, by Bo's wife, Gu Kailai.
Wang "consciously neglected his duty and bent the law for personal gain so that Bogu Kailai would not be held legally responsible," said Xinhua, citing the prosecutor's indictment.
Bogu is Gu Kailai's official but rarely used surname.
The announcement came during a tense political season for the ruling Communist Party, which is preparing for a once-in-a-decade leadership succession that will see the retirement of President Hu Jintao at a congress in coming weeks or months.
China's leaders face tricky choices in how much of Wang's misdeeds to expose, and how to handle Bo, said Christopher Johnson, the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington D.C.
"It sounds like they're going to hit him with the full boot," Johnson said of the charges against Wang.
The report did not say whether Wang intended to contest any of the charges. But China's party-controlled courts rarely find in favor of defendants, and the trial is likely to be held in strict secrecy.
Bo, 63, was widely seen as aiming for a spot in the next central leadership, using his charisma, vows of more equal growth and his crime-fighting record in Chongqing to build up a formidable public following.
"It's a real dilemma for them," Johnson, who worked in the U.S. government for nearly two decades, said of Bo's case.
"The worst case scenario for the seeming beneficiaries of the Bo collapse would be if Wang faces trial, which now he clearly will, and Bo somehow escapes it," he said.
Sources have said that while Wang was inside the U.S. consulate he told diplomats that he believed Gu was behind Heywood's murder following a business dispute. After he emerged from the consulate and was taken into custody, he also repeated those allegations to Chinese investigators, said the sources.
The news of Wang's indictment came on the same day that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was in Beijing for talks, and officials accompanying said Chinese officials did not forewarn them of the announcement.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the officials said it was clear that there was a lot of "internal churn" regarding China's leadership transition.
SURVEILLANCE CHARGES
Wang was a flamboyant and controversial officer recruited from northeast China to lead a crackdown on organized crime in Chongqing.
He was also eccentric. Sources said he sometimes did his own post mortems, boasted of being an FBI agent under an exchange program and of being kidnapped by the Italian mafia.
The latest announcement did not mention Bo, and nor did it mention the accusations that he and Wang turned their campaign against organized crime into a movement to amass power and confiscate fortunes through false charges backed by torture.
But the Xinhua announcement said Wang had abused investigation techniques, an accusation that may reflect rumors that he had bugged other officials, including central officials visiting Chongqing.
"Wang illegally used technical surveillance measures, either without the approval of authorities or by forging approval documents," said Xinhua.
Wang could face a sentence of up to life in jail on the defection charge, and serious bribery charges can attract the death penalty.
Bo was sacked as Chongqing boss in March and Gu was publicly accused of the murder in April, when Bo was suspended from the Politburo, a 25-member elite council. He has yet to be formally expelled from it.
Bo initially agreed to a police probe of Gu's role in the murder of Heywood before abruptly reversing course and demoting Wang, causing upheavals that led to the downfall of both men, sources told Reuters in April.
"I think there's still debate about what to do with Bo Xilai," said Yang Fan, a Beijing professor who was sympathetic to Bo's policies but became a critic.
(Additional reporting by Koh Gui Qing and Andrew Quinn; Editing by Louise Ireland and Nick Macfie)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/china-charges-police-chief-heart-bo-xilai-scandal-122241624.html
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