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WEDNESDAY, Nov. 2 (HealthDay News) -- A combination of radiation and hormone therapy prolongs survival among men whose cancer has spread beyond the prostate, Canadian and U.K. researchers report.
These men have what is called high-risk, or locally advanced, prostate cancer. Among men with prostrate cancer, up to 25 percent fall into this category. In the past, these men have often been treated with hormone therapy alone, the researchers noted.
"In patients with locally advanced prostate cancer, combining radiation therapy plus hormonal therapy gives much better results than hormone therapy alone," said lead researcher Dr. Padraig Warde, deputy head of the Princess Margaret Hospital Cancer Program and a professor of radiation oncology at the University of Toronto.
"Specifically, it reduces the risk of dying from prostate cancer 43 percent and the risk of dying overall by 23 percent," he said, adding that this is the first study that shows that the combination of radiation and hormone therapy improves survival.
"These patients were often felt, in the past, to be incurable, because the disease has spread locally outside of the prostate, but not elsewhere in the body," he said. "But they shouldn't be discarded, we are showing that going for a cure is worthwhile."
Treatment options for patients with locally advanced prostate cancer are limited, Warde said. Most of these patients are not candidates for surgery because of the size of their tumors, he said.
The report was published in the Nov. 3 issue of The Lancet.
For the study, Warde's team randomly assigned more than 1,200 men with high-risk prostate cancer to hormone therapy alone or in combination with radiation.
After seven years, 66 percent of men who had hormone therapy alone were still alive, compared with 74 percent who received both hormone and radiation therapy. In the group of men who had hormone therapy alone 26 percent died from prostate cancer, compared with 10 percent who had combination therapy, the researchers found.
Warde noted that while men had the predicted side effects of hormone therapy, such as erectile dysfunction, hot flashes and mood swings, the addition of radiation did not affect overall quality of life three years after treatment.
When the study began in 1995, the protocol was to use hormone therapy for life, and radiation was given in lower doses, but not as precisely directed as it is today, Warde said. Currently, hormone therapy is used for a shorter time, usually two to three years, and radiation is given in higher doses but more specifically targeted to the tumor.
"There is reason to think that with modern radiation approaches that the results would be much better," he said.
Prostate cancer expert Dr. Anthony D'Amico, chief of radiation oncology at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, said that "this doesn't change practice, because we already do this, but it's a validation that you cannot leave out one or the other treatment when treating someone with locally advanced disease."
Dr. Matthew R. Cooperberg, an assistant professor of urology at the University of California, San Francisco, and author of an accompanying journal editorial, said that "high-risk disease needs to be treated aggressively."
However, this study doesn't determine what is the best treatment for high-risk prostate cancer, Cooperberg said. "There are studies showing that the best treatment for high-risk disease starts with surgery and then radiation and hormones as necessary," he noted.
"Men with high-risk disease need multi-modal therapy," Cooperberg said. "Whether the approach should be surgery possibly followed by radiation, is still the big open question that we need to answer."
These patients are not candidates for what is called active surveillance, where doctors wait for the disease to advance before treating it, Cooperberg said.
Cooperberg also noted that the urinary side effects from radiation are not as mild as the study suggests, and can, for some patients, be severe.
More information
For more on prostate cancer, visit the American Cancer Society.


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What do you get when you combine the ooey-gooey goodness of a cinnamon roll with the light and fluffy, melt-in-your-mouth amazing-ness of a buttermilk biscuit?
Well, this Caramel Pecan Biscuit Bake, of course.
My mouth is watering right about now, just remembering that wonderful first bite of this concoction. You might be wondering what a "biscuit bake" is. I had never made one, and really had never heard of one, until recently. You basically make an easy biscuit dough and press it into the bottom of an 8x8 inch dish. Next, it's topped with a heavenly mixture of yumminess, which in this case turned out to be melted butter, syrup, brown sugar, chopped pecans and plenty of cinnamon.
Um, yes PLEASE!
I was surprised at how high the biscuit dough rose during baking. I kind of assumed that the topping mixture would weigh it down a little. Boy, was I wrong.
The first bite is undoubtedly the best. Trust me, you won't be able to let this cool long enough to allow each piece to come out of the baking dish in a perfect square. It's wonderfully messy and seriously melts in your mouth. The more it cools, the more it will hold its shape.
The weekend will be here before you know it, and that's the perfect time to treat your family to this incredible treat. Weekend mornings always meant big home-cooked breakfasts around our house growing up. My mom made mounds of scrambled eggs, grits, bacon, and bread of some sort - either biscuits or toast. My dad would pile a mountain of grits and eggs onto his plate so high you'd only see the outside rim of his plate! Thanks in part to this recipe, last Sunday morning was one of those blissfully lazy mornings that just make your heart smile.
This is the second installment of my #savethebiscuit series, in which I've partnered with the nice folks at White Lily flour. This recipe is a really cool way to incorporate biscuit dough into your repertoire in a new and exciting way. I'm already brain-storming ideas of what to top my next Biscuit Bake with...Oh, the possibilities! Seriously...I'm sort of in love with the whole concept.
If you're looking for more breakfast recipe ideas, White Lily has a great selection HERE.
Bon Appetit, my friends!
Caramel Pecan Biscuit Bake
Source: whitelily.com
Crisco Original No-Stick Cooking Spray
1/2 cup melted butter
1/2 cup Hungry Jack Butter Flavored Syrup
1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 cup coarsely chopped pecans
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
2 cups White Lily Enriched Bleached Self-Rising Flour
1/4 cup Crisco All-Vegetable Shortening, chilled
2/3 cup buttermilk
1/3 cup Pillsbury Whipped Supreme Cream Cheese Flavored Frosting
Heat oven to 400º F. Lightly spray 8 x 8 x 2-inch baking dish with no-stick cooking spray. Combine butter, syrup, brown sugar, pecans and cinnamon in medium bowl. Set aside.
Place flour in a large bowl. Cut in shortening with pastry blender until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Add buttermilk. Stir just until dough leaves sides of bowl.
Press dough into bottom of prepared baking dish with floured hands. Pour butter mixture over dough. Bake 15 to 18 minutes, or until dough rises and edges are golden brown. Place on cooling rack.
Heat cream cheese frosting in microwave safe bowl 15 to 20 seconds or until melted. Stir. Drizzle over biscuit bake. Cool 10 minutes. Serve warm.

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But is that all there is to it?
Can they be brought into closer cooperation? Are anyone getting more out of this combo than just some occasional 'look ups'?


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New York man who died on way to late wife's memorial buried beside her
NEW YORK -- An upstate New York man who died on the way to his late wife's wake was buried in a plot beside her on Wednesday, after a dual funeral service that capped a 66-year marriage, their daughter said Thursday.
Norman Hendrickson, 94, a retired assistant postmaster in an Albany suburb, stopped breathing in the limousine on the way to a wake on Saturday for his late wife Gwen, who died earlier this month after suffering for years from Parkinson's Disease, daughter Norma said.
Funeral home staffers laid Hendrickson in a casket and placed him beside an urn containing his wife's remains in a viewing room, while daughter Merrilyne posted a light-hearted sign for arriving mourners:
"Surprise - it's a Double-Header - Norman and Gwen Hendrickson - February 16, 2013."
Norma Hendrickson said her parents were buried side by side in the same plot on Wednesday, along with some of the ashes of their late son, who died in 2008, and a watercolor painting her sister Merrilyne had made for them.
Funeral director Elizabeth Nichols-Ross, a family friend, said the couple laughed a lot and would have enjoyed the irony of the situation - especially Norman, who loved jokes.
"I don't blush easily, but he told ones that made you blush," she said.
She joked with the family that their father, who was known to be thrifty, would have loved to save the costs of a second funeral, so she didn't charge the family for two services.
Mourners took the surprise in stride, Nichols-Ross said.
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I greatly appreciate everyone coming back to read the blog even though I am absent from the show. I am thankful for fans and detractors equally. I hope you enjoy the blog – or at least enjoy hating it. Either way you, read it. Please feel free to come by Twitter (@LewPolley) and start a dialogue.
Len situation
For Len or any other fighter who happens to end up on "TUF," there really are very few things that you need to worry about. Always make weight, don't cry about missing your girlfriend, and if Dana ever asks you if you want to fight, your answer should be, "I want to fight!" Dana seemed undecided, and he wanted to hear who wanted it. When you are given a second chance or even a shot at a second chance you better jump all over it.
Len was very upset about not getting the wildcard spot which is very understandable and human to feel that way. But after you come to the understanding that you were not picked, it's time to be there and support your teammate. Pity parties just become a distraction and drain team morale. Brock said it best: "You had your shot." Whatever you wanted to do, your chance was to do it against Ryan. Things didn't workout, and that's OK; how you handle it around your team is what makes all the difference in the world. Len believes he has made it already and he is "there." With that line of thinking you will never progress in life or fighting.
Coaches' challenge
Brock Lesnar against Junior Dos Santos in a "football" skills competition may seem like a mismatch on paper, but JDS is an amazing athlete. I honestly believe he could have played almost any sport and been good at it. Dana puts the guys through an obstacle course filled with agility drills, throwing, receiving and running. Throughout the competition, you can see the intensity in both guys, with each wanting to best the other. In the end, it was Junior's speed that won out; maybe this is a foreshadow to later events.
Wildcard fight
I think Chuck was very disappointed and angry with himself for the way he performed. He realized things just got real. You can really start to see how much this opportunity means to him. He completely changed his point of view and his actions began to illustrate his intent. The most important thing is Team Lesnar is behind him completely. He seemed to be focusing on "Team Chuck," which is exactly what you needed to be doing to advance at this point.
Javier did not have a good showing his first fight. He needed to alter his approach to this fight in order to come out victorious. Javier is a very good in training and does everything well. There is just a disconnect between the time training is over and the fight begins. Maybe it is a lack of experience, considering he is just 2-0. This is a very high-pressure situation for most and some are able to deal with it and some aren't. Javier is talented but his mind may be holding him back from translating what he does in training to his fight.
Chuck seems to be the aggressor but Javier countered and moved nicely. Chuck ended up on the cage; he and Javier jockeyed for control and dominant position. Chuck was doing things that Brock seemed very pleased with. Chuck seemed to he receptive and responding to the commands. Meanwhile, Javier was content to keep fighting on the cage. JDS was asking for strikes and knees and a possible break away so that they can commence striking. It was a very close round, but Javier seemed to want to stay out of exchanges in favoring cage work.
The second started with Chuck controlling the center and landing good shots. Brock was shouting commands and Chuck was executing. Javier pressed and landed a good shot of his own. They ended up on the cage, and Javier scored a takedown. He didn't keep control, and Chuck escaped to his feet and turned the tide by taking Javier down. Chuck used solid pressure to control Javier as he looked for a kimura. It seems Javier may have checked out of the fight a bit. A scramble ensued, and Chuck set up a D'arce choke which got Javier to tap.
Chuck can make the finals if he continues training and fighting like he was this week. But right now, anyone can grab a finale spot. It comes down to fighting and training smart in the short amount of time that is left. Game planning will be key as the guys have seen each other perform now. Javier may be one of those guys relegated to be a "practice hero." I hope for his sake that is not the case, for himself and his family if he plans on making this his career.
As for me at this point, I was now out of the Extended Stay and in Colorado. It was weird being out of touch with my team at Alliance MMA and my guys on Team Dos Santos. I was trying to find a new home and gym to call home. I was looking for a place to clear my head and focus. I was invited to Grudge Training Center, and it is very hard to not be impressed with what the coaches have built at Grudge. They have a gym full of great coaches and world-class fighters. I also made my way over to factoryX. I was told I should go train with Chris Camozzi since we share the same management team.
I did not know a lot about Chris, other than he was briefly on "TUF" and in the UFC. He welcomed me into his gym with open arms. He was coming home from his loss to Kyle Noke but was really welcoming and ready to work. His work ethic is a lot like mine, and we clicked immediately. Chris was recently let go from the UFC, but he epitomizes the type of person that should be in the UFC.
When Chris was on "TUF," he had his jaw broken in the fight to get in the house. Instead of saying he would "try to fight through it," he told the doctors and everyone he was fine. He went to practice and worked out with the team like there was no problem The producers actually ended up telling on Chris and forcing him to go get an X-ray. Chris would have competed the entire tournament with a broken jaw to make sure he did all he could to stay. This season is missing that type of grit and attitude.
Chris' attitude and heart were big factors in me choosing to train at his gym. I have some friends who train at Grudge, and Chris and I go over there from time to time when they need bodies. Denver really has a great MMA community, and I am honored to be up here training with some hungry and talented fighters.
Lew Polley is an assistant coach for Junior Dos Santos on "The Ultimate Fighter 13." The trainer and fighter is sponsored by DollamurMartialArts.com and PerformanceMMA.com. You can follow him on Twitter (@LewPolley) and his website/fan community LewPolley.ning.com.


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From ESPN:
The New York Jets' young and impressive defensive line — composed of Muhammad Wilkerson, Damon Harrison and Sheldon Richardson — is being called the "Sons of Anarchy."
Where the nickname started, we're not exactly certain. But we like it. And we're looking to give credit to its creator.
During our brief research, we found the nickname on several message boards, the earliest dated Sept. 16, when someone with the handle "MetsJetsFTW" posted it on the Fieldchatter.com/Forum.
The poster, who has to be a Jets fan given the NSFW slogan that appears under his handle, wrote: "Harrison, Richardson and Wilkerson all have names that end in 'son,' plus they're all destructive beasts like the biker gang in the show. I'm suggesting that we call our D-line the Sons of Anarchy."
On Twitter, someone with the handle @NYS_G tweeted to Deadspin that his friend @MANIMALJOICE created the nickname. He tweeted, "Hey @mowilkerSON, @BigDame900 and @Godforshort – How about this nickname for y'all? SONS OF ANARCHY – since all your names end with 'Son'." That tweet came on Sept. 23, though.
But perhaps the coolest thing we found was a yardbarker.com post on Sept. 18, which showed Jets coach Rex Ryan wearing a Sons of Anarchy T-shirt while posing for a photo with a fan.
Maybe Rex came up with the nickname. If not, we're sure he'd approve.
In the meantime, enjoy the havoc being caused by "The Sons of Anarchy" themselves.
The Jets currently rank first against the run, allowing just 73.8 yards per game and 3.1 yards per carry.
All three members — or "-sons" — of the trio are homegrown.
Wilkerson, 24, the team's first-round pick in 2011 out of Temple, has 8.0 sacks, two forced fumbles and an interception. At this rate, he's going to be Pro Bowl-bound.
Harrison, 24, joined the Jets as an undrafted free agent last season. The William Penn product has 32 tackles and a sack.
Richardson, 22, was drafted with the pick the Jets received in exchange for All-Pro Darrelle Revis. The No. 13 overall selection out of Missouri has 41 tackles, 2.5 sacks and 1 forced fumble.
Update: Thanks to a response from "@DvdVill" via Twitter, we may have tracked this down. DvdVill referred us to a post over at ganggreennation.com. Following the Jets' 24-21 preseason victory over the New York Giants on Aug. 24, user "WadeBoggsNeverWalkedAgain" wrote: "The 'sons Of Anarchy… Wilkerson, Richardson & Harrison look damn good!"
Is this the earliest you've heard of the nickname? Or is there something earlier? Again, let us know on the comments section below or by hitting me up on Twitter: @MazzESPN.


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I found one response to a piece on The Help that I wrote last week quite interesting. It was from a white man, a film-critic sort, somewhere past 50, who was annoyed at my asking why people are dismissing The Help as if it were a remake of Imitation of Life. Get this: What bothers him is that he thinks I'm dissing the film. And this puts me in mind of the eternity of racism, of all things — and how it applies to the president.
My point was intended to apply to either of the 1934 and 1959 Imitation of Life films. In both, a black woman raises a very light-skinned daughter while living in a white businesswoman's house. Her daughter, rejecting that her being black will bar her from the glamorous life that the white woman's daughter is enjoying, decides to "pass" for white, abandoning her mother to heartbreak and death.
Mr. Film Critic actually thinks that the 1959 one, in particular, is racially enlightened! He genuinely doesn't perceive that if the film were remade today, the black daughter's rejection of her race and black culture — i.e. contemptuously rejecting the idea of marrying the black men available to her because of their working-class occupations — would play as nauseating to modern black viewers.
Instead, my critic thinks that the film's depiction of racism as unfair gives it, alone, the stamp of approval as a black-positive movie. That is, despite having grown up in post-civil rights America and not remotely being a bigot, he cannot be said to "get it."
That there has been a seismic shift since 1959 in how black Americans feel about integration, black pride, classism and more has gone past him. He is not black and doesn't happen to be one of the nonblack people with a personal interest in black matters.
Here's the kicker: This guy is typical. As many of us know, quite a few white people do not "get it." Maybe most of them don't. It's why we think of race as a "complex" topic, of the sort where blacks are to speak and whites are largely to listen. This is what people really mean by America's needing to have a conversation about race, for example.
And I, for one, see no reason to think that many nonblack people ever will get it. For example, who can truly imagine a national conversation on race that would be considered a success? The sad fact is that beyond a certain point, there is a limit to how deeply we can "feel" each other, and that includes nonblack people and "the black thing."
So I assume there will be whites who think that Imitation of Life is tellin' it like it is. I am unsurprised when a white man suggests that Condoleezza Rice, speaking at an event I attend, might be a good match for me, as if any educated black man and woman constitute a potential couple. He didn't "get it," OK — but the evening remained memorable for me in that I enjoyed my lamb and I did get to shake Rice's hand.
And in the same way, I assume that there is a lot of "not getting it" in how Barack Obama is talked and joked about. Or talked at: Rep. Joe Wilson's "You lie!" outburst was, for example, likely colored to an extent by racial bias. But Wilson himself is probably unaware of it and would likely never be able to admit it.
Plus, it was hardly a Strom Thurmond moment. Wilson would have been just fine if Herman Cain had been making the speech. Wilson didn't "get" that he would likely not have shouted like that at a white president. But we can't fix him, and life went on.
The same goes for the question as to whether racism plays "some role" in Tea Partiers' fervor. Some, one can think — but on a subtle level, again, of a sort none of the protesters themselves is likely to be aware of or face up to. It's a kind of racism beyond constructive address, it would seem. Bill Clinton was hated quite vigorously, after all, and who can say there'd be no Tea Party if John Edwards were president?
Ultimately, I'm just not sure I care about this shade of racism — i.e., the kind that probably shouldn't even fall under that term. I do care when white teenagers in Mississippi run down a black man with one of them shouting, "White power!" I do care when Chicago club owner Anthony Anton is "outed" for actively keeping down the number of black people at his establishments (and I salute the white employee who blew the whistle — she seems like the type who does "get it"!).
But when we get to instances in which whites come up short on the subtler aspects of the race thing, I'm not sure what the point of all the noise is — for the simple reason that it seems that it will always be with us. Tribalism is inherent to human psychology. An America where no one perceived — or misperceived — race would not be a society of human beings.
Some may call this a conservative position, but it would seem that quite a few liberals, readily saying that racism is eternal, would agree with me. For example, among psychologists, there is a certain "microaggression" paradigm (an article in American Psychologist in 2007 got some attention), according to which people of color undergo an ongoing barrage of mini-abuses.
We hear that America is a melting pot — which supposedly denies us our separate identities. People say, "When I look at you, I don't see color" — same problem. We attend colleges with buildings named after white men. Even the term "color-blind" is an insult because it denies diversity.
Many find this perspective compelling, and thus presumably admit that it means that microaggression — people "not getting it" — is a permanent state of affairs. Under what logical conception could a society exist in which microaggressions of this definition did not exist? And if all whites attended to all people of colors in the proper way, then it would be time to decry the new microaggression of "stereotyping."
And even if you find the microaggression notion a little overwrought, the question is: How do you propose to eliminate even the subtler forms of racist bias from human minds? It's one thing to describe it, or to decry it — but to eliminate it? Highly unlikely at our current state of knowledge.
As such, to me, someone's anger at me for considering Imitation of Life a poor prospect for a remake and Sen. Tom Coburn's comments about Obama and affirmative action are in the same box. It's people who don't get it.
But I don't expect them to, any more than I "get" everything about the experiences of others. The outlawing of segregation, and the social opprobrium subsequently attached to social racism, were enough, as far as I'm concerned. More to the point, I'm not sure how much further it would be possible to go.
John McWhorter is a regular contributor to The Root.
John McWhorter is a contributing editor at The Root. He is an associate professor at Columbia University and the author of several books, including Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America and Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English.


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Beat the Streak Report: Weekend, August 20-22
Since I'm not eligible to win the $3 million Beat the Streak grand prize, I might as well try to help you out. Every weekday, make sure to check out the Beat the Streak Report to improve your odds with all the stats goodness you could ever dream of. You know, assuming you could use an extra three mill.
August 20-22
The referee is stepping in!
He's stopping the fight — there's the bell. This one's over, folks!
James Loney went 0-for-4 last night against Jorge De La Rosa and Matt Reynolds, ending Geoff Croke's bid for $3,000,000 and Beat the Streak immortality at 43 games.
"Gfc2112" will have to settle for a tie with Dick George atop the season leaderboard.
Who told him to take Loney, anyway?
What? The Dodgers first baseman headlined yesterday's Beat the Streak Report? Oh, um…awkward.
Let's just move on.
Thursday was a rough slate for gamers overall, as the three most popular options — Victor Martinez, Josh Hamilton and Delmon Young — went a combined 0-for-11 and ended 20.4 percent of all streaks.
Let's give Geoff one more round of applause for his impressive ride. Hopefully he won't spend too much time dwelling on what could have been, had he just picked Miguel Cabrera.
Or Vlad Guerrero.
Or Robinson Cano.
Oh, hello there …
? Chase Utley: .478 AVG (11-for-23) lifetime vs. Nationals starter Jason Marquis
? Ichiro Suzuki: .400 AVG (6-for-15) lifetime vs. Yankees starter A.J. Burnett
? Joe Mauer: .375 AVG (6-for-16) lifetime vs. Angels pitcher Dan Haren
? Joey Votto: .462 AVG (6-for-13) lifetime vs. Dodgers starter Chad Billingsley
? Hanley Ramirez: .455 AVG (5-for-11) since lifetime vs. Astros starter Wandy Rodriguez
? Billy Butler: .556 AVG (5-for-9) lifetime vs. White Sox starter Freddy Garcia
? Vladimir Guerrero: .486 AVG (17-for-35) since '05 vs. Orioles starter Kevin Millwood
? Jayson Werth: .500 AVG (10-for-20) lifetime vs. Nationals starter Scott Olsen
? Adrian Gonzalez: .625 AVG (5-for-8) lifetime vs. Brewers starter Manny Parra
Feeling kinda spicy?
? Curtis Granderson: .344 AVG (11-for-32) lifetime vs. Mariners starter Felix Hernandez
? Willie Bloomquist: .389 AVG (7-for-18) lifetime vs. White Sox starter Freddy Garcia
? Adam Lind: .429 AVG (9-for-21) lifetime vs. Red Sox starter Clay Buchholz
You'll thank me later …
? Delmon Young: .167 AVG (2-for-12) lifetime vs. Angels starter Dan Haren
? Nick Swisher: .226 AVG (7-for-31) lifetime vs. Mariners starter Felix Hernandez
? Justin Upton: .000 AVG (0-for-15) lifetime vs. Rockies starter Ubaldo Jimenez
? Brian McCann: .000 AVG (0-for-10) lifetime vs. Cubs starter Tom Gorzelanny
? Paul Konerko: .145 AVG (8-for-55) lifetime vs. Royals starter Zack Greinke
? Carl Crawford: .167 AVG (3-for-18) lifetime vs. Athletics starter Dallas Braden
Leaderboard time!
With both Croke and "rtaylor2001" both going down, "warriorcub" is all alone atop the standings at 27 games.
"Soxwhite24" and "sunhudson" are tied for second at 26.
Keep cranking out those picks, guys. You'll be at the halfway point soon enough.
Top MLB streakers
? Alexei Ramirez: 13 games
? Dan Uggla: 11 games
? Jose Lopez: 10 games
? David Ortiz: 10 games
? B.J. Upton: 10 games
? David Ortiz: 9 games
? Elvis Andrus: 9 games
? Asdrubal Cabrera: 9 games
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Entering Friday: 45 game days remaining. Minimum current streak required to win the prizes outright (assuming season ends Oct 3rd)…
(*) Playing for a tie? add 1 to DL and minus 1 from CS & TS
Abbreviations: DL=Active Streak Deadline, CS=Current Streak Needed, TS=Target
BTS Countdown
Top Prize ($3M): CS:12, TS:57, DL:Aug 8th
*Consolation ($10K): CS:0, TS:44, DL:Aug 21st (pending)
— Saturday: CS:1, Sunday: CS:2
Survivor Countdown {tickets are for 2011 All-Star Game & Homerun Derby}
Top Prize (2 tickets+travel+hotel+$10K): CS:0, TS:37, DL:Aug 28th
*Consolation (2 tickets only): CS:0, TS:30, DL:Sept 4th (pending)
Weekend Notes
1. STL-FLA Aug 8th ppd game possible make-up: Sept 2nd, 20th, Oct 4th ?
2. No more resets starting with Saturday's games if trying to get to 44
3. Resets Sunday & later = BTS elimination unless Oct 4th+ games occur
4. Still a week left to hone your Survivor strategies for $10K
I guess I'm feeling kind of spicy as I did choose Granderson. He hits King Felix well and has 2 hits against him this year already so hoping it continues tonight and King Felix isn't as dominant as he once was.
BTS- Granderson
HR BTS- Miggy
Good luck to all today.
Playing better by observations:
Remember Sunday for the "Sunshine Boys" – Alex Rios and Troy Tuolwitizi. Also, LAD are a great pick in Survivor when ex-Cub Ted Lilly pitches (probably on Tuesday.) Lilly has brought his "A GAME" to LAD.
Posting tips can help us all – please post yours as our blogger friend did two weeks ago about Troy Tulo getting a hit in every day game he played in this year.
Little things matter.
Baseball players tend to get tired & lose concentration towards end of season. Must happen to us BTS players too. Halfway to Dick/Geoff, "sal.nascimento" @ 22 on BTS, failed to make a selection. Halfway to brentandcam, and is currently the leader, "yankeehater500" @ 15 on Survivor, failed to make a selection. A bit odd?
Dave – Break the tie for us- Which of the 2 guys tied at 43 is actually in first place based on the tie breaker? "The player who amassed the most hits during his streak."
Wanted to take Derrek Lee in HR BTS but could not as he is not listed as a member of Atlanta Braves yet – he was traded to the Braves on Wed. I see when players go on the DL their names are quickly taken off the BTS team roster — let's do the same for adding traded players.
Friday August 20
BTS – Alexi "The Cuban Missle" Ramirez
HR – not Derek Lee so it's Konerko
Survivor – Phils over Nats and Jason Marquis.
Hope Marquis does not get hurt by a line drive. He is a mere shell of the man who once was great as a Cardinal.
Now his Northern League stuff is pretty bad. Hope he one hits the Phils but loses 1-0 on an Utley HR.:)
Good Luck to all today.
Prize money for 2011??
Time to lobby the MLB Gods for appropriate prizes for next season:
1. BTS – $3M is great. Remember last year it was $1M and we chatted up the fact that this was too low and it got raised. Power to the bloggers! Suggestion: $25K for a streak 40 or better if you are the winner. 2nd prize 40 or better $10K. 3rd Prize 40 or better $5K.
2. HR BTS ? Chance of winning (11 game streak) is about the same as climbing Mt. Everest in a blizzard in T-Shirt & Bermuda shorts on your hands and knees with a blind Sherpa Guide. Come on MLB! This year there is no prize beyond 1st place ? ouch! $100K for winning with 11 or better – $25K if you win with 7 or better. 2nd prize $10K (over 7 games) 3rd prize $5K with over 7 games. Current alternate prize for 1st place is 2 tickets to All-Star Game with no accommodations or airfare (What is the value of this? $300?)
3. Survivor ? Nice prize for 1st place and over 37 games in place now let?s but let?s add $10K to Tickets and accommodations for All-Star Game. But no prize beyond 1st place ? Come on! Suggestion: Above 25 games streak for the season: 1st place $5K – $1,000 shopping spree at MLB.com for 2nd place and $500 spree for 3rd place.
Please comment guys!
Since you asked for comments and not necessarily agreement.
a. Up the consolation prize in BTS to $25K. Agreed
b. No additional prizes other than MLB.com gift store certificates
a. Up the top streak money portion of the prize in Survivor to consolation prize in BTS (similar to now).
b. Consolation prize is weak… Here's 2 tickets you have to pay taxes on & also you pay travel/lodging out of your own pocket. At very least mail tickets and let winner sell them if they choose
b. Additional prizes? Raise MLB.com gift store certificates
HR BTS. Don't really care 'cause I don't think it is attainable
a. Top streak prize: A trip on an upcoming Shuttle mission to the Space Station. Probably never have to worry about paying out. Otherwise, agree increasing prize amount.
b. Consolation prizes. Sure increase amount at MLB.com gift store. Money? Nope.
As for spreading prize money out to 3rd, 4th, 5th place or more? Why? This is a lottery of sorts. Winner should take all or nearly all. Sharing the wealth is something the government is good at, not what a contest should do. That's my opinion.
"Winner should take all or nearly all"
Check that. Winner should take all, period.
Pony – Great comments and the Space Shuttle suggestion is super lol! 🙂
Trying to create dialog here to make prizes better and in keeping with the difficulty of the task.
MLB gift certificates would be easy to do.
Why would a recommended pick for today be Billy Butler when he's playing in a double header?? Nice try.. And why doesn't the BTS Players list include KC players for the second game?
neil_p – Picks of the Day are usually locked in 3 or so days before game day. ChiSox v. KC was a single game then.
2nd game of DH? – There should be one list of KC players to pick from – whoever you take in game 1 is your automatic pick in game 2 – can't split your picks between different playes in a DH . Stay away – Absolute rookie mistake to play a double header.
Saturday 8/21
BTS – Infante is hot Cubs are in the North Pole (Thanks narberg for this one)
HR – Will Lincecum groove a fastball to Sir Albert – I hope so.
Survivor – Twins at home and hot Slowey look good.
Good Luck to all today.
DH rule is unfair but this is the way it is.
Remember: Never play a doubleheader in BTS, HR BTS or Survivor.
Small clarification: Your player must get a hit in both games of DH if he plays in both games. If he plays in one game and gets a hit and does not play in the other game, your streak continues. Don't take the chance here. Move to another player or game.
NYY v. Seattle looks to be a wild one today. As was posted before, ball carries well at Yankee Stadium in the daytime (Ichiro leads off the game with a HR.)
The dumbest thing is that if you take a player in a doubleheader and he gets a hit in each game your streak will only increase by 1. In a doubleheader pick it's double the chance to be reset, it should be double the reward if that player gets a hit in each game.
Please help on a rules question. The official rules on a player and a double header are confusing. The rule states a player must get at least one hit in both games. My thinking is that he (Butler) should get a hit in either game for the streak to continue. Please advise
To answer that question…
Pertaining to a doubleheader, the player, in this Butler, would need a hit in BOTH games in order for your streak to continue.
I am glad I checked, seems like a dumb rule. I guess I go with Votto. Thanks
Why is no one posting their picks?
Today is the last day you can beat the leaders outright with no tiebreakers!!!
I have:
BTS: Casey McGehee (4)
HR BTS: Albert Pujols (0)
Survivor: Mariners (3)
Picks?… Chose LAA over MIN seeing if the "don't pick team against pitcher never seen before" rule applies. MIN hasn't seen LAA pitcher.
Polanco reset me last night, so it's do or die starting tonight (or tie potential starting tomorrow). Well, all my strategies netted me 1 20-gamer and lots of 6/7-gamers. Realistically, my odds of getting 45 this year is close to nil, I think I'll try a strategy I haven't employed yet: picking only players batting over 400 against the pitcher. Why not, what do I have to lose really? So… Beltre today.
But just one rainout or benched player will end the year for anyone of us — added picking pressure? Good luck all.
I have found that the "sweet spot" for your strategy is actually between .200-.500 with 10+ AB's.
"Indeed, Saturday's win improved the Yankees' record to a remarkable 11-0 in games in which Rodriguez does not appear."
I read this quote today and found it to be quite remarkable.
"I have found that the "sweet spot" for your strategy is actually between .200-.500 with 10+ AB's."
Makes fantastic sense though I'd prefer the low-end to be around 250-280. But any strategy over a 2 month long contest wll also rely on quite a bit of luck to get a 40+ streak.
BTS has too many variables for a formula to work to get you to a 57 game streak. The research etc. will help but the factor of good fortune/luck is huge. I'm trying to go with Cubs/WhiteSox players or their opponents of that day v. the knowledge of Cubs/Sox pitchers. Got nothing to lose at this point. Also, using Ichiro as a backup pick.
Observations: Juan Pierre, Alexi Ramirez, Starlon Castro have all come through for me recently. You won't see them on the top 15 list. Also watching for good posts – e.g. Troy Tulowitzki has a hit in every day game he played in this season.
Saturday looks to be a good BTS day, not so good for Survivor with TEX & ATL losing and appears COL may lose too. Another Survivor leaderboard shakeup today.
Sunday: If you were reset Friday or Saturday and still are eager to finish the season without any resets, keep in touch with Mother Nature. A lot of rain in the forecast tomorrow and you don't want a rainout taking you out of the race.
Looking at NYY to win & Vlad or Werth (undecided) to get a hit.
Entering Sunday: 43 game days remaining. Minimum current streak required to win the prizes outright (assuming season ends Oct 3rd)…
(*) Playing for a tie? add 1 to DL and minus 1 from CS & TS
Abbreviations: DL=Active Streak Deadline, CS=Current Streak Needed, TS=Target
BTS Countdown
Top Prize ($3M): CS:14, TS:57, DL:Aug 8th
*Consolation ($10K): CS:2, TS:44, DL:Aug 21st (pending)
Survivor Countdown {tickets are for 2011 All-Star Game & Homerun Derby}
Top Prize (2 tickets+travel+hotel+$10K): CS:0, TS:37, DL:Aug 28th
*Consolation (2 tickets only): CS:0, TS:30, DL:Sept 4th (pending)
Weekend Notes
1. STL-FLA Aug 8th ppd game rescheduled: Sept 20th
2. Resets today & later = BTS elimination unless Oct 4th+ games occur
^^ oops, active streak required to get to 44 is 1 not 2
*Consolation ($10K): CS:1, TS:44, DL:Aug 21st (pending)
It isn't raining in the Tri State area anymore. It was but it stopped and game is about to start in the Bronx.
Can't afford a rainout taking me out of the race. So opted against NYY, PHI and went with TEX & Vlad. Rain expected there towards end of the game.
Well today is going to be a good day I hope. Here are my picks. I opted against Tulowitzki even though he has a hit in every day game as Rocks are facing D Backs and Hudson and they haven't seen Hudson yet and every time they face the pitcher for the first time the team gets shut down.
BTS- Uggla, He just ended a hitting streak yesterday but I think he will get a hit today. He is still hot and he looks promising.
HR BTS-Ike Davis, Pittsburgh is a good leftie ball park and wind is blowing out to right field so I love the odds of him getting a hit.
Survivor-Yanks, CC is undefeated at home this year so no brainer.
Good luck to all today.
Well I am going with Hamilton today, but rain is in the forecast all day really and the game is delayed right now. I am at 17 (season high) so I can afford a couple rainouts (did not play) but not to many. I really wanted to pick a Ranger as everyone hits Millwood well. Hopefully the game will still get played today. GL everyone!!
Go figure. Rain delay for TEX/BAL. At least weather.com indicates nothing that is going to last too long nor too heavy. Appears elimination won't occur due to rainout for me, Vlad going 0-fer or sitting is another story. Ugh!
@baseballgirlie13: Congrats on beating your season high with Josh's homer.
@pony-thanks!! It is nice to get that hit in the first at bat and not have to worry about it the rest of the day. Tomorrow is going to be a little harder making a pick I think. GL to everyone else still and hopefully the whole TEX/BAL game will get played.
Beat the Streak: Vladimir Guerrero (Currently 0 for 2)
Home Run: Josh Hamilton (Safe)
Survivor: Yankees (up 5-0)
Guerrero homers up to 8 if the 5th inning is completed.
Reyes: 2 for 4!
Up to 6!!!
Well as my pick didn't do anything again I'm officially done with BTS for this year. My luck sucks and this has been the worst year ever for me in BTS. Can't get anything going and I'm not blogging anymore either. Will quietly play to see what happens. I can't win anything which sucks and the people who play for the first year and get 30 game and 20 game streaks can go F themselves. I haven't gotten to 20 in 10 years of playing.
from vinny1979: "…the people who play for the first year and get 30 game and 20 game streaks can go F themselves"
Those that did get 30 & 20 gamers didn't win either. Blowing off steam are we?
From reading Vinny1979's posts, I can tell you one part of the logic that I don't agree with. His picks are mostly based on so-and-so has been hot for past how many days, etc. But he always pick them as soon as they're about to end the hot streak or have ended already.
Th hardest part of BTS is catching hot hitter at the beginning of his streak. Its easy to see who has been hot. You just have to bring up the 7 or one month data. Obvisouly, the hitter is not gonna hit .400 forever. I mean the perfect example is Infante now. He is just hot but you know he has to cool off soon but when?
I am still hanging on by the threads here. I am at the highest point for the year with Hamilton today. I was very worried that either they were gonna walk him and that it was a day game-away but I figured Millwood would suck so badly to make up for it.
And talk about luck. The rain delay kicks Sabathia to early shower and Ichiro sqeuaks a el cheapo off over the hill and broken Wood. That is luck for you. You will need at least 7 to 8 of those to go your way plus make decent picks. Then you can possibly string together a bunck of 7 to 10 streaks to add up to 57.
baseballgirlie13. I have been watching your picks. You make pretty good picks. I don't think I know any girl who is knowledgeable and interested in baseball as you're. I was talking to one my ex-s last week and she goes "did the baseball season start already?".
from vinny1979: "I can't win anything …"
Maybe not in BTS, but Survivor is still wide open. $10K for top prize too. Lower streak needed to win than in BTS. Though in many ways a hard game to win. 100% of us are all on the edge of being eliminated in BTS – just 1 reset away!
@btsplayer: "I am at the highest point for the year with Hamilton today"
What's your streak and handle? What page are you on?
It was less than a great day for the "Sunshine Boys" Alex "El Gatto Sol" Rios and Troy "The Sun God" Tulowitzki but they both got hits Sunday in their day games.
Again, encoruaging all to make posts that help us all play better. Neither of these guys were in top 15 picks.
Tip for Monday: Cubs Starlin Castro was 4-5 on Sunday. Cubs play at Wash on Monday. The kid is 20 yrs old and looks like an All-Star. Does not walk much and bats second.
I'm thinking there is a hit or two in his bat v. Livan Hernandez.
Jayson Werth walked in 7th. Taking down quite a few with his team winning big & @ home. It was his last AB barring batting around. 2nd place leader dropped today via Pagan
@00liber: No more Top 2500 listings? Just curious. Assuming you're still reading the blogs as you are still in the BTS $10K race with Tulo getting a hit today.
"The last 3 years have all had 1-game tiebreakers at the end of the season."
A 1-game Oct 4th tiebreaker is not out of the question. Look at STL for example. After Sept 2nd, no days off til end of season. If they get a rainout that needs to be played and can't be made up in that series as a doubleheader, Oct 4th is the day. I wouldn't try to hold on to any hopes of winning if getting reset tomorrow or later though — doubt seriously any chance at all of having games Oct 5th.
"Well as my pick didn't do anything again I'm officially done with BTS for this year. My luck sucks and this has been the worst year ever for me in BTS. Can't get anything going and I'm not blogging anymore either. Will quietly play to see what happens. I can't win anything which sucks and the people who play for the first year and get 30 game and 20 game streaks can go F themselves. I haven't gotten to 20 in 10 years of playing."
Keep trying!!!
The last 3 years have all had 1-game tiebreakers at the end of the season.
No reason to throw away a chance to win.
Keep blogging!!!
We don't want this place to turn into a ghost town!
I hate when the rookies and casual players get to 20+ too!
"Those that did get 30 & 20 gamers didn't win either. Blowing off steam are we?"
Well, those that got to 30, won a ******** 1-month FREE subscription to MLB.TV!
"Those that did get 30 & 20 gamers didn't win either. Blowing off steam are we?"
Well, those that got to 30, won a ******** 1-month FREE subscription to MLB.TV!
wow, is ****—-ping really blocked?
@pony. Ya I'm still around but I'm out camping this weekend. I'll be back tommorrow and will still continue to post top2500. Only got the iPhone out here so I can't run my program. Ya Tulo kept me alive today, now at 2.
And I'll still continue to blog and post if I get eliminated.
@btsplayer-thank you. I really love baseball and have been trying my best all year. This is my highest so far and hopefully it will continue tomorrow. I am going to go with Hamilton again I think. My strategy is pretty simple. I look at how someone hits the opposing pitcher. Then I look at the batters splits. If it is a lefty and they hit righties really well with a righty pitcher for the day then that is a plus. Then I look at day/night splits and home/away splits. If they are all fantastic (ex. Hamilton tomorrow) then that is great. He hits really well at home and at night. Then I look at the pitcher. I check the same splits and see that Blackburn allows lefties to hit .310 against him, he sucks on the road, he can't pitch at night and he has been terrible his last four starts. Mix that in with the fact I think Hamilton is starting a major hot streak I think I'm set up for a good chance at getting a hit tomorrow. It's true Blackburn could pitch a gem or Hamilton could have a bad day but these are good odds and it seems to be working for me. I hope this helps some other players as well.
Looking at the splits from the pitcher's perspective might be where I have failed so far, but I thought that might get into too much detail, so I avoided it.
But I still have 1 last chance to catch the leader for the year, so it might be something to keep in mind for the stretch run.


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Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairwoman Mary Schapiro said late Wednesday that she has lost her fight to further reform money-market funds.
In a statement, Schapiro said that three commissioners, constituting a majority of the commission, informed her that they would not support a staff proposal to reform the structure of the funds. Those proposed reforms, she said, "were intended to reduce their susceptibility to runs, protect retail investors and lessen the need for future taxpayer bailouts."
Schapiro decided to cancel a vote on the reform proposal after getting word from Commissioner Luis Aguilar, a Democrat, the he would join the two Republican commissioners in voting against the proposal. Aguilar told The Wall Street Journal Schapiro's plan could have too many unintended consequences and drive investors into other unregulated corners of the short-term market.
"I'm not comfortable supporting the proposal as is," Aguilar told the Journal. He added that regulators should instead conduct a thorough review of the entire cash-management industry.
The Investment Company Institute (ICI) released a statement on Thursday stating that ICI and all its members are "pleased" that the commission will not be pursuing further money-market reforms. "Like hundreds of other organizations that have submitted their views, we have strongly opposed the structural changes to money-market funds under consideration at the SEC, because of the adverse consequences of these proposals for investors, issuers and the economy."
Dale Brown, president and CEO of the Financial Services Institute (FSI), said Schapiro's decision to not follow through with a vote on further reforms "is a very encouraging development." Investors, he said, "look to money-market funds for liquidity, diversification and convenience, along with a market-based yield. Money-market funds also play a crucial role in meeting businesses' short-term financing needs and form a vital link in providing financing for state and local governments." Imposing a floating NAV on the funds "is simply not in the best interests of American investors or businesses," he said.
Schapiro's statement is as follows:
I—together with many other regulators and commentators from both political parties and various political philosophies—consider the structural reform of money markets one of the pieces of unfinished business from the financial crisis.
While as commissioners, we each have our own views about the need to bolster money-market funds, a proposal would have given the public the chance to weigh in with their views as well. However, because three commissioners have now stated that they will not support the proposal and that it therefore cannot be published for public comment, there is no longer a need to formally call the matter to a vote at a public commission meeting. Some commissioners have instead suggested a concept release. We have been engaging for two and a half years on structural reform of money-market funds. A concept release at this point does not advance the discussion. The public needs concrete proposals to react to. The declaration by the three commissioners that they will not vote to propose reform now provides the needed clarity for other policymakers as they consider ways to address the systemic risks posed by money-market funds. I urge them to act with the same determination that the staff of the SEC has displayed over the past two years.
As we consider money-market funds' susceptibility to runs, we must remember the lessons of the financial crisis and the history of money-market funds. And, we must be cognizant that the tools that were used to stop the run on money-market funds in 2008 no longer exist. That is, there is no "back-up plan" in place if we experience another run on money-market funds because money-market funds effectively are operating without a net.One of the most critical lessons from the financial crisis is that, when regulators identify a potential systemic risk—or an industry or institution that potentially could require a taxpayer bailout—we must speak up. It is our duty to foster a public debate and to pursue appropriate reforms. I believe that is why financial regulators both past and present, both Democrats and Republicans, have spoken out in favor of structural reform of money-market funds. I also believe that is why independent observers, such as academics and the financial press—from a variety of philosophical ideologies—have supported structural reform of money-market funds, as well.
The issue is too important to investors, to our economy and to taxpayers to put our head in the sand and wish it away. Money market funds' susceptibility to runs needs to be addressed. Other policymakers now have clarity that the SEC will not act to issue a money-market fund reform proposal and can take this into account in deciding what steps should be taken to address this issue.


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In late October, TechCrunch editor-at-large John Biggs noticed a Facebook Messenger request from someone he didn't know, a man named Varun Satyam. When Biggs accepted the request, Satyam introduced himself as a marketer for technology startups. He was looking for coverage of some clients, he said, and he was willing to pay Biggs to write about them.
It was a bold opening move, and an unethical proposition for any journalist who wants to retain their credibility. But Biggs wasn't surprised. He estimates that he receives two or three similar offers each month, and he doesn't take them seriously.
"They're stupid," said Biggs. "Organic press is far more effective and anyone with a brain can see through them."
But solicitations like Satyam's may be more successful than Biggs is aware. Interviews with more than two dozen marketers, journalists, and others familiar with similar pay-for-play offers revealed a dubious corner of online publishing in which publicists, ranging from individuals like Satyam to medium-sized "digital marketing firms" that blur traditional lines between advertising and public relations, quietly pay off journalists to promote their clients in articles that make no mention of the financial arrangement.
People involved with the payoffs are extremely reluctant to discuss them, but four contributing writers to prominent publications including Mashable, Inc, Business Insider, and Entrepreneur told me they have personally accepted payments in exchange for weaving promotional references to brands into their work on those sites. Two of the writers acknowledged they have taken part in the scheme for years, on behalf of many brands. Mario Ruiz, a spokesperson for Business Insider, said in an email that "Business Insider has a strict policy that prohibits any of our writers, whether full-time staffers or contributors, from accepting payment of any kind in exchange for coverage." Jason Feifer, editor in chief of Entrepreneur, said in an email, "I often tell entrepreneurs that if they want to get the ear of an editor, there's no better way than to do this: Find someone who's selling coverage on a reputable site, and rat them out. I encourage people to do this right now—my inbox is always open, as our my colleagues'. We have a zero-tolerance policy for this kind of thing, our writer's guidelines strictly prohibit it, and we take swift action. In the past, when alerted to people selling access on our site, I've even gone the extra step of alerting editors at other publications where that person writes, so that these bad actors have nowhere else to go. We value our readers' trust above all, and will always work to ensure that they're getting unbiased information from people who have their best interests in mind."
One of them, a contributor to Fast Company and other outlets who asked not to be identified by name, described how he had inserted references to a well-known startup that offers email marketing software into multiple online articles, in Fast Company and elsewhere, on behalf of a marketing agency he declined to name. To make the references seem natural, he said, he often links to case studies and how-to guides published by the startup on its own site. Other times, he'll just praise a certain aspect of the company's business to support a point in an otherwise unrelated story.
Robert Safian, editor of Fast Company, sent a statement: "No editors or other leadership at Fast Company were ever contacted in regard to this story. We were unaware of this practice happening at Fast Company, and no proof has been provided by The Outline of specific instances of paid mentions in our editorial content." The Outline reached out to Fast Company's PR email address the day before publication with a detailed email inquiry. After publication, The Outline described to Safian specific examples of brand placements that appeared on Fast Company's website between 2013 and 2016, which we are not publishing in order to protect the identity of sources. Safian's statement continued, "It is a violation of our editorial policy and our rigorous journalistic standards. If we found any writer or contributor engaging in this practice, they would be terminated and their stories taken down. Any editor who might condone this practice would be fired."
Four contributing writers to prominent publications told me they have accepted payments in exchange for promotional references to brands.
The Fast Company writer also defended the practice by arguing that it's enabled by editors who are hungry for cheap or unpaid blog content. Many high-volume sites, including the Huffington Post, Entrepreneur, and Forbes, maintain networks of unpaid contributors who publish large amounts of material. Forbes, for instance, marks articles by contributors with a small disclaimer, but the Columbia Journalism Review has pointed out that those dubiously sourced articles are often cited as though they were normal stories written by Forbes staff. In reality, the editorial process that leads to those articles being published is opaque — a Forbes spokesperson declined to answer questions about how many contributors the site has, whether they're ever paid, or whether an editor reviews their work before publication. One former Forbes contributor, Josh Steimle, has even offered a "masterclass" on how to get published on the site, an accomplishment he described as "rewarding for both my personal brand and my digital marketing agency."
For writers willing to accept payments in exchange for coverage, that's an opportunity.
"They're getting tons of free content from guys like us," said the Fast Company writer of his editors, though he declined to say whether he was paid by Fast Company for his work or if he'd ever explicitly discussed the arrangement with any of his editors. "I would be shocked to find out that this was any sort of secret."
An unpaid contributor to the Huffington Post, also speaking on condition of anonymity because, in his words, "I would be pretty fucked if my name got out there," said that he has included sponsored references to brands in his articles for years, in articles on the Huffington Post and other sites, on behalf of six separate agencies. Some agencies pay him directly, he said, in amounts that can be as small as $50 or $175, but others pay him through an employee's personal PayPal account in order to obfuscate the source of the funds. In a statement, Huffington Post said "Using the HuffPost Contributors Network to self-publish paid content violates our terms of use. Anyone we discover to be engaging in such abuse has their post removed from the site and is banned from future publication."
The Huffington Post writer also described specific brands he'd written about on behalf of one of the agencies, which ranged from a popular ride-hailing app, to a publicly-traded site for booking flights and hotels, to a large American cell phone service provider.
"This is a classic example of payola," he said of the brand mentions, invoking a term that's been used to describe radio DJs who accept payments from record companies in order to play certain artists on the air.
Sometimes, this writer said, the agency provides him with a pre-written article, complete with brand mentions, which he then publishes under his byline as though he wrote it himself. Other times, he uses alternate bylines on the same publications — including the Huffington Post — to push out even more content.
After being propositioned through Facebook Messenger, Biggs goaded Satyam by quoting improbably high sums in exchange for coverage: $8,000, then $9,000, then $9,500. But that was too much, according to Satyam. A guy at Forbes, he told Biggs, took payments of just $1,100, though he didn't specify for how long or involved a piece.
Biggs asked Satyam who the Forbes writer was. Satyam — who responded to my questions about the exchange with Biggs by calling the offer a "social experiment" — told him it was a contributor named Chris Chong.
It turns out that there is a Chris Chong who has written for Forbes. When I looked him up, his Forbes author biography told of an illustrious professional life: he sold his first company for $24 million in 2010, later worked for Groupon Singapore and as a social media editor for the South China Morning Post, and now runs a PR firm called SumoStory.
When I first opened Chong's author page on Forbes, it listed about a half dozen articles he'd contributed on the topics of PR, cryptocurrencies, and gaming. The next day, when I reloaded the page, all but two had disappeared.
I emailed Chong to ask what had happened to the missing articles. His response was surprisingly candid: the articles had been removed, he said, because someone — he declined to say who — had notified Forbes that he had been promoting his own PR clients in his published work.
ArticleHub's price list for brand mentions in various publications.
"To be fair I was in the wrong, but it really hurt to see that relationship come undone from an outside attack," he said. "It was a huge setback and I've learnt my lesson."
Maybe the lesson was still setting in, though, because Chong then appeared to offer me a bribe of his own.
"Is there any way we can set up a partnership together to distribute content?" he asked, in the same email. "Happy to explore remuneration."
When I told Chong that such an arrangement sounded unethical, he again became contrite.
"Forbes did the right thing," he lamented. "I am lucky that I got to learn my lesson early on in my career as a writer and as a PR practitioner."
Forbes senior vice president of global corporate communications Mia Carbonell declined to answer questions about why two of Chong's articles remained online after he was reported, to disclose whether he had been paid by Forbes for his articles on the site, to provide information about the editorial process that led to him contributing to the site in the first place, or to say how many Forbes articles have been removed overall after being flagged for a conflict of interest. Around the time I first made contact with Carbonell in late October, Chong's last two articles disappeared. His author page now returns a 404 error.
There's no question that Forbes is aware of the payoffs, at least in isolated incidents. Last year, it pledged to investigate after a British PR firm called out one of its writers for soliciting a £300 payment in exchange for coverage. In a followup statement, Forbes said it had identified the contributor and would not publish their work in the future, though neither it nor the PR firm identified them by name.
Carbonell played down concerns about bribery among the site's writers. Before contributors can write for Forbes, she said, they "sign a contract requiring them to disclose any potential conflicts of interest." (Carbonell no longer works for Forbes, and another company spokesperson declined to provide further comment.)
"Just to be clear, these would be subtle brand mentions in larger-form articles."
But Forbes seems to be a prime target for offers like Satyam's, perhaps because of the high volume of stories it runs by members of its "contributor network." The site publishes dozens of stories per day, many of them by contributors who, like Chong, are themselves publicists. A program called CommunityVoice, described in an editors' note on certain articles, invites "senior-level technology executives" to pay an annual fee in exchange for being allowed to publish to the site.
Yael Grauer, a freelancer who's written for Forbes and many other outlets, says she's gotten as many as 12 offers like Satyam's in a single month, which she always rejects. Some are surprisingly straightforward, like a marketer who simply asked how much she charged for an article in Slate or Wired. Others are coy, like a representative of a firm called Co-Creative Marketing, who heaped praise on her writing before asking whether she could get content published in Forbes or Wired on behalf of a client. Another marketer offered Erik Sherman, a business journalist, $315 per article to mention her client's landscaping products in Forbes, the Huffington Post, or the Wall Street Journal — though she cautioned that the mentions would need to "not look blatant." Sherman declined, telling the marketer that the offer was "completely unethical."
Some of the would-be bribers proffer substantial sums of money. An agency called Profit Marketing said it would pay reporter Michelle Goodman $2 per word — about four times the upper bound on what online journalists usually make — in exchange for inserting its clients into articles for Forbes and Entrepreneur. The would-be bribe made Goodman angry. "I'd love to expose these dirtbags," she told me.
A number of nearly identical emails, sent between 2015 and 2016 to different reporters by representatives of a publicity firm called BlogDash, asked if the recipients could write articles that featured or quoted its clients and "get them published on top-tier online publications" like Forbes and the Huffington Post. Some of the writers working with BlogDash, the emails said, earned more than $10,000 per week.
BlogDash, according to its website, is a company that "integrates a mention of your business and a link to your website in top media publications." It can place these "brand mentions," it says, into publications including Forbes, Entrepreneur, and Fast Company.
The CEO of BlogDash, Marc Duquette, is also the CEO of a similar company called ArticleHub. An ArticleHub price list quotes charges for "brand mentions" in more than a hundred publications ranging from obscure tech blogs to BuzzFeed, the Denver Post, and even The New York Times.
There's a distinct financial hierarchy at play in the ArticleHub price list. A brand mention in The New York Times costs $5,000. TechCrunch costs $4,500, Business Insider costs $3,000, and Forbes costs $1,950. A mention in the Huffington Post costs $1,700, and brand mentions in lesser-known blogs like CafeMom cost as little as $500.
An ArticleHub brochure touts the benefits of the brand mentions. After a publication writes about a brand, it says, the brand can add "the publisher logo to a 'Featured on' section of your site to boost credibility with consumers and help bring in sales."
Another document lists prices for "feature articles" in some of the same publications. A feature story in Forbes, according to the list, costs $4,000. More prominent publications like The New York Times are absent from the feature price list.
It's not clear whether ArticleHub and BlogDash can actually place brand mentions into articles in all the publications their marketing materials name, and both sites fall just short of stating outright that writers are paid for coverage.
"This is a classic example of payola."
But when I reached out to BlogDash, I got an email response from Duquette, the CEO of both BlogDash and ArticleHub, who seemed to have mistaken me for a writer looking to sell brand mentions in my own work.
"How much would you charge for a brand mention?" he asked in the email. "Just to be clear, these would be subtle brand mentions in larger-form articles. For example, I'd like you to mention Miller's newest beer in a larger article about beer and not to write an article about Miller's newest beer."
Duquette did not respond to follow up questions after I clarified that I was working on a story about the payoffs rather than soliciting them. BlogDash didn't respond to a request for comment for this story.
According to Eric Ebert, the communications manager at a German startup called Zenkit, the come-ons to journalists are well known in the industry, and a source of embarrassment. The prices in the ArticleHub brochure — around $2,000 for a brand mention in Forbes or Entrepreneur, for instance — sounded similar to quotes Ebert had heard from other companies offering similar services.
The payola "muddies the water between earned press and advertising," Ebert said. "Press coverage should never be paid for unless it's tagged as a sponsored post. These practices really diminish the work that PRs and journalists are doing everyday."
Ebert is correct that a brand paying a journalist — or hiring a PR firm which then pays journalists on its behalf — represents a total breakdown of journalistic independence. It abuses the trust the public holds in the media. It violates the Society of Professional Journalists' code of ethics. It's a bribe, and it's mortifying to talk with contributors who see it as the new normal.
"When I write for somebody like Fast Company, I gotta make that thing top notch," said one of the writers who disclosed that he has accepted payments in exchange for coverage. "It really has to be legit. The links have to work, and the studies have to be there, and the insights need to be actually, you know, valuable. That is, hands down, what I care about."
In that journalistic netherworld, where business leaders can pay to write about their own industries and publicists are trusted to write about topics related to their own clients, it can feel as though a dark new media zeitgeist has swept away old norms of integrity and independence and replaced them with a racket that, depending on your perspective, is either very funny or very sad.
Maybe it was that sense of shifting norms that led Steve Ollington, the head of content for a British marketing agency called agenda21 Digital, to message BuzzFeed senior editor Katie Notopoulos on Twitter with an offer much like Satyam's. Ollington said that he could pay Notopoulos to write a BuzzFeed story about a product launch by Vodafone, a British telecom that operates mobile networks across the world.
"So, you can't pay me to write something for BuzzFeed," Notopoulos wrote back, before screenshotting the exchange in a snarky tweet.
Neither Ollington nor agenda21 Digital replied to requests for comment, but Vodafone spokesperson Matt Peacock expressed dismay at the offer, and said that the company had opened a formal investigation into the incident. He said that Vodafone believed that Notopoulos was the only journalist who had received an improper offer on its behalf, and repeatedly stressed the company's commitment to anti-corruption measures.
This is how journalism works FYI pic.twitter.com/HNbyrg5wp2— Katie Notopoulos (@katienotopoulos) November 7, 2017
However, Peacock declined to say whether Vodafone had severed its relationship with agenda21 Digital, or to comment on specific journalists the company may have had contact with.
"One of the challenges in this area is that lines are being blurred everywhere," Peacock said in an email. "The difficulty arises if the wrongdoing becomes normalised by bloggers and journalists as well as agency intermediaries."
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Update: This story has been updated with statements from Business Insider, Fast Company, Huffington Post, and Entrepreneur.


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|After a good (hard) run - but I'm still
smiling so it couldn't be that bad
Here are a few changes I've implemented to accomplish that:
- I am officially grain-free and am doing Jorge Cruise's Fast Track. No wheat, flour, legumes, corn or artificial sweeteners.
- I gave up cream (and half/half)! A little cream in my many cups of coffee and tea throughout the day was adding up. So I just stopped buying it. My coffee was awful the first week, now it's good (but not great) again.
- I tried giving up Dark Chocolate - this didn't work and made me reach out to other less worthy snacks. I <3 Midnight Reverie (Dark Chocolate reviews)
- I tried having Chia Seed Pudding for a daily snack. I loved it, but it upset my stomach :(
- I have the minute muffin every weekday, as kind of a brunch. I guess I am skipping breakfast or having a very late breakfast. But I have to be very careful, since that triggers binge eating for me. (Minute Muffin recipe)
- I am running 3+ times a week in preparation for the US Half in San Francisco on Easter morning. I have not lost any weight, but my rear-end has much more muscle tone (yea!)
- I bought some really good, chemical free shampoo and gave up my No-Poo (no shampoo) experiment. The Husband is staying No-Poo, he loves it. My hair grew super fast during the 9 months I was shampoo free. BTW, everyone thinks I'm totally weird for this ;)
- I've been logging all my food in My Fitness Pal for several weeks. SO interesting to see what all my Carb, Sugar, Fiber and even Calorie and Fat intake is. I average about 45 carbs and 10 sugars. (How to use MFP on the Belly Fat Cure)
- My rings are so loose I have to get them resized or stop wearing them. One fell off in the sink washing my hands! This makes me nervous and sounds like such a permanent thing.
|My beautiful trail run
I have guests the next few weeks and need to prepare food for regular carb eating people. It's one thing to have friends over and serve a single meal that fits my diet, but they are here for awhile and have kids. So I need to make "regular people" food too. This will be difficult for me, I am spoiled with my family's acceptance of my diet. And I don't want my friends constantly checking out what I eat (or don't eat!). We will definitely be eating out more and having more alcohol. My plan is to make grain-free main dish/sides and then add in bread or rice on the side, instead of mixing it in.
That is what is up with me! How is everyone else doing with their 2012 goals?


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Damien Leroy called and left a message saying it was pretty choppy there on the downwind legs and that he is having a tight fight with Adam Koch. They did 6 races yesterday..
Results from day one at http://www.prwindkite.org/kitersday1.htm
Today here in Maui is the first try at doing Courseracing with the Naish series.
There is also going to be a shadow box altitude contest I hear...
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Venerable Marina and Kyra of Syria
Saints Marina (Marana) and Kyra (Cyra), sisters by birth, lived during the fourth century in the city of Veria (or Berea) in Syria. Their parents were illustrious and rich, but the sisters left home and departed the city when they had reached maturity.
Having cleared off a small plot of land, the holy virgins sealed up the entrance to their refuge with rocks and clay, leaving only a narrow opening through which food was passed to them. Their little hut had no roof, and so they were exposed to the elements.
On their bodies they wore heavy iron chains and patiently endured hunger. During a three year period, they ate food only once every forty days. Their former servants came to them, wanting to join their ascetic life. The saints put them in a separate hut next to their own enclosure and they spoke to them through a window, exhorting them to deeds of prayer and fasting.
The life of the holy ascetics Marana and Kyra was described by Bishop Theodoret of Cyrrhus in his Religiosa Historica. Out of respect for his hierarchical dignity, the holy virgins allowed him into their dwelling. Theodoret conversed with them and persuaded them to remove the heavy chains they wore under their clothing. Kyra, who was weak in body, was always stooped under their weight and was unable to sit upright. Once he left, however, they resumed wearing the chains.
So they lived in asceticism for forty years. They disturbed their solitude only to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem to pray at the Sepulchre of the Lord. During their journey (which took twenty days) they ate no food until they had prayed at the Holy Places. On the way back, they also went without eating. They did the same thing at another time, when they journeyed to the grave of the Protomartyr Thekla (September 24) at Seleucia, Isauria.
Saints Marana and Kyra died in about the year 450. Their ascetical life equaled that of the great male ascetics of the desert, and they received the same crown of victory from Christ the Savior.


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