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The decision means the state will have two statewide elections three weeks apart.
At a news conference, Christie didn't answer the big question of whom he'll appoint to the seat in the meantime, but said he has a list of possibilities in his head.
OKLAHOMA CITY — The deadly tornado that plowed through an area near Oklahoma City last week was even larger and more powerful than previously estimated — a record 2.6 miles wide with winds that reached nearly 300 mph, just shy of the strongest winds ever measured.
The National Weather Service on Tuesday announced that the twister that hit El Reno was a top-of-the-scale EF5 twister — the second to strike the area in less than two weeks.
DETROIT — A defiant Chrysler is refusing to recall about 2.7 million Jeeps the government says are at risk of a fuel tank fire in a rear-end collision.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration sent Chrysler a letter asking that the company voluntarily recall Jeep Grand Cherokees from 1993 through 2004 and Jeep Libertys from 2002 through 2007.
Chrysler Group LLC, which is majority-owned by Italy's Fiat SpA, said in a statement Tuesday that the Jeeps are safe and it "does not intend to recall the vehicles."
CENTENNIAL, Colo. — A judge on Tuesday accepted James Holmes' plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, setting the stage for a lengthy mental evaluation of the Colorado theater shooting suspect.
The court clerk placed a written advisory of the ground rules of the plea before Holmes so he could examine it as Judge Carlos Samour Jr. read through all 18 points.
When Samour asked if he had any questions, Holmes replied no. Samour then accepted the plea.
WASHINGTON — Military leaders said Tuesday that sexual assault in the ranks is "like a cancer" that could destroy the force, but they rejected far-reaching congressional efforts to strip commanders of some authority in meting out justice.
Seated side-by-side at a long witness table, Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the head of each branch of the military and Pentagon lawyers testified on what is widely viewed as an epidemic of sexual assault plaguing the services.
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DETROIT (AP) — U.S. safety regulators are checking to see if more General Motors cars should be recalled because the air bags won't inflate.The probe covers about 400,000 Chevrolet Cruze and Sonic small cars, the Chevrolet Camaro muscle car and the Buick Verano small car from the 2012 model year.The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says GM recalled just over 6,800 of the cars in two recalls last year and in January. The main front air bags wouldn't inflate due to a defect in the electrical connections.
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — Retired Staff Sgt. Alonzo Lunsford says he will never forget locking eyes with the gunman who entered a Fort Hood building Nov. 5, 2009, then unleashed a burst of gunfire into a crowd of soldiers preparing for deployment.Retired Staff Sgt. Shawn Manning said he saw the gunman too, before he was shot six times as he sat in the front row of chairs waiting for routine medical tests.
CINCINNATI — A Catholic school teacher who was fired after she became pregnant through artificial insemination was awarded more than $170,000 Monday after winning her anti-discrimination lawsuit against an Ohio archdiocese.
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Ethiopia's AIDS Spending Cliff
This is a joint post with Kate McQueston.
There's an AIDS spending cliff in Ethiopia and the government is already in free fall. Next year, Ethiopia will experience a 79% reduction in US HIV financing from PEPFAR. The announcement of these cuts came with an explanation that PEPFAR was "free(ing) up resources by reducing programs in lower HIV prevalence countries" (see blog). Further, Global Fund monies have gone almost completely undisbursed in 2012. These cuts in spending might be warranted due to epidemiological trends and improved efficiency, or might cripple progress as health programs dependent on external donors are cut back. The truth is, with the current poor status of basic information on beneficiaries and costs, it's difficult to judge whether these cuts are good or bad.
The US$191 million decline of PEPFAR funding from 2012 to 2013 is part of a broader trend of decreasing funding in recent years. With its dynamic and popular minister of health, Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus, Ethiopia had long been a donor darling. Cumulatively, PEPFAR contributed more than $1.4 billion to Ethiopia, and, between 2006 and 2011, PEPFAR's annual contribution to Ethiopia more than doubled. Ethiopia received more funding from the Global Fund than any other country—with total disbursements of $1.16 billion. In 2008, AIDS spending accounted from more than 20% of total spending on health, of which 84% was externally funded.
Yet, as shown in the chart below, total funding from PEPFAR-Global Fund peaked in 2010, and has since decreased by almost 50 percent as of 2012. The Global Fund has yet to disclose how much of two newly signed grants (US$424 million designed to span 5 years) will be disbursed in 2013. But even if the full amount of these new grants were to be spent during 2013, this hypothetical PEPFAR-Global Fund total wouldn't get close to matching Ethiopia's total annual funding from these two sources in 2010.
Increased government spending might be one reaction to donor cuts. However, the Ministry of Finance publicly reported expenditure for the last time in 2009 and the most recent round of National Health Accounts is from 2007/8, so what fiscal adjustments have been made are yet to be seen. Even with increasing public spending associated with several years of positive economic growth, Ethiopia has always had an extremely low revenue to GDP ratio and high inflation (and associated tight cash controls on government expenditure), making substantial new public funding to health unlikely. A new factor in the equation is the political instability following the death of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi that may also compromise the size and speed of disbursements.
Increasing amounts of funding up to 2010 may have resulted in the peak number of individuals that received ART in 2011 as well as other effects, but will the funding crash of 2012/13 affect these gains? Can the same or better be provided with much less? In other words, could the backlog of funding and efficiency improvements make it possible to provide more with less in Ethiopia?
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*Note: Global Fund Disbursements for 2012 are to-date. 2013 figures for PEPFAR are included in the Administration's budget request to Congress. 2013 figures for the Global Fund are approved disbursements from grants round 10 and lower.
A recent CSIS paper suggests that Ethiopia should still be on track to achieve universal coverage of ART in 2014 despite reduced HIV funding. Unfortunately, it's very difficult for external commentators to assess this possibility. We don't know exactly what interventions PEPFAR, the Global Fund and -perhaps most importantly- the Government of Ethiopia are currently financing and for whom, and we don't know the actual cost of these interventions in Ethiopia. Therefore, we can't link spending to enrolled patients or disease results. It's possible that PEPFAR and the Global Fund have this analysis in their pocket? I hope so, since without this link, even a well-intentioned donor or Minister of Finance can't understand or plan for the programmatic and human impact of cuts, or assess the potential for savings and reallocation via improved efficiency.
The AIDS spending cliff in Ethiopia also raises issues on likely funding cuts and new eligibility and allocation policies in general. It's a great idea to reallocate monies to more affected, more impoverished countries, or countries that can spend monies more efficiently. Yet when you're funding life-saving care for a defined population and you're not able to connect money to patients, cutting abruptly is a terrible idea. Transitioning to a new allocation requires a basic set of information on expenditure and its uses –ideally connected to patients themselves, and it requires dialogue with country governments and other donor partners to smooth any cliffs into gentle slopes.
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Captain White joins American Cruise Lines after his recent retirement from twenty-seven years of service in the U.S. Coast Guard. Thirteen of those years were spent on Coast Guard cutters on both the East and West Coasts of the United States, as well as the Caribbean Sea. His last Coast Guard shipboard command was the 378-foot cutter GALLATIN out of Charleston, SC.
His last assignment for the Coast Guard was as Chief of Current Operations for Atlantic Area, running operations from the Rocky Mountains to the Persian Gulf, including direct oversight of the Coast Guard's East Coast cutter fleet.
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These were quite good. I used a tablespoon of vanilla (because I love vanilla flavor and I always up the extract in recipes) and rolled the cookies in cinnamon sugar before baking, instead of rolling them in powdered sugar after they had baked. I would make them again. They were great with my morning coffee.
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A special relief fund has been set up to help the family whose barn was completely destroyed by a fire.
It happened on Rake Road in Centre Township on Wednesday.
Seventy cows were killed in the inferno.
The fire was ruled accidental.
Officials from the Berks Agricultural Resource Network say they have been flooded with calls from residents who want to assist the family and a fund has been established.
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hyper is talking about taking a crap and not using toilet paper, how sanitary is that ?
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tell me there isnt a large section of the population not using toilet paper, cause that is just wrong
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thats just wrong?
how interesting. we yet again find the imposition of false absolutes.....
let me ask you, if you don't need something is it "just wrong" to not use it?


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Native advertising is having its big moment. When done right, it has tremendous pull with consumers. According to Nielsen, native ads produce as much as an 82% in brand lift. An infographic from MDG Advertising says 70% of individuals reported that they would prefer "to learn about products through content rather than through traditional advertising."
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Gale offers this in-demand STEM content to meet the growing needs of the hard science disciplines. Accessing this content through GVRL grants users the added flexibility of viewing and downloading content in multiple formats in addition to other benefits of Gale's platform, such as ReadSpeaker text-to-speech technology and translation of content into other languages.
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- 1 pastry for a 9 inch single crust pie
- 1 (4 pound) whole chicken, deboned and cut into bite size pieces
- 4 slices cooked ham
- 4 leeks, chopped
- 1 onion, chopped
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1 pinch ground mace
- 1 1/4 cups chicken stock
- 1 tablespoon milk
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- In a 1 1/2 quart casserole dish, layer the chicken, ham, leeks and onion a couple of times each until the dish is full.
- Season each layer with a little salt, pepper and mace. Pour the chicken stock over the layers, and dampen the edges of the dish.
- Roll the pie pastry out large enough to cover the top of the dish, and place over the top.
- Crimp the sides down with a fork, and trim the excess from the edges.
- Cut a round hole in the center of the pastry.
- Roll dough scraps out and cut into strips. Use the strips to form a design, and place lightly over the hole. Brush the entire top with milk.
- Bake for 35 to 45 minutes in the preheated oven, until chicken is cooked through. If the top crust is getting too brown, cover it with parchment or aluminum foil.
- While the pie is baking, heat the cream over low heat.
- When the pie is cooked, remove from the oven, and carefully remove the design from the hole. Pour the cream into the hole, and replace the design. Let stand for a few minutes before serving.
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23 years after horrific injury, Malarchuk reuinted with goalie that replaced him
Jun 12, 2012, 5:06 PM EST
When people today discuss Clint Malarchuk and his severed jugular injury suffered back in 1989, few mention Jacques Cloutier, the goalie that came in and replaced him.
Malarchuk's different. He thinks about Cloutier often.
"I love Jacques," Malarchuk told the Calgary Herald. "I mean, this is the guy who had to go stand in my pool of blood in Buffalo. I never realized how much that would have affected Jacques. I feel bad.
"I should have told Jacques thank you a long, long time ago."
Good news for Clint — it sounds like he'll get the chance.
The Herald reports that Malarchuk, who served as the Flames' goalie coach last season, will be retained by new head coach Bob Hartley for the 2012-13 season.
That means Malarchuk will be working alongside Cloutier, who Hartley hired as his assistant last week.
The pair were reunited on Monday at the Scotiabank Saddledome in Calgary as Cloutier settled into his new digs. The goalie-turned-assistant had spent 12 years behind the bench in Colorado — winning Stanley Cups in 1996 and 2001 — before joining Hartley in Zurich of the Swiss League last season.
Upon reuniting, Malarchuk and Cloutier shook hands and hugged.
"You know how goalies are always competing and not always the best of friends?" Malarchuk said. "I look back at Jacques now and realize that guy was one of my biggest supporters through that whole deal.
"No wonder he's had a great career as a coach. He's all about team."
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ProPublica's Blair Hickman writes about what the news nonprofit learned running its first Kickstarter project. (At this writing, with 18 hours left to go, it's just $521 short of its $22,000 goal, making funding almost certain. Update 20 minutes later: And they're over!)
Twenty-nine days ago, ProPublica launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise money to hire an intern to help us investigate unpaid internships — an issue that has regained national attention with a flurry of new lawsuits following a key ruling against Fox Searchlight Pictures.
If our Kickstarter succeeds, our intern will spend the fall semester traveling around the country, tracking these cases and documenting interns' stories for a microsite on the intern economy. They'll blog about their journey, the investigative process and their learning experience as an intern — a unique opportunity for our newsroom, and this intern.
We'll know tomorrow at 9:32 AM ET whether our campaign was a success — as of this writing, we are just over $3,000 away from meeting our goal, and per Kickstarter's rules, we have to raise the full $22,000, or we get nothing.
Regardless of the outcome, we've learned a lot through our first foray into project-based crowdfunding. Here's some of what we've learned:
Your project should be creative and well defined
ProPublica has pondered Kickstarter crowdfunding for years. One of our biggest hurdles is that Kickstarter campaigns work best for concrete, defined projects – a documentary, another season of a podcast or a new level of a video game.
But investigative journalists often don't know what their reporting will yield. We're sifting through more than 360 detailed tips from interns or people whose career plans changed because they couldn't afford to take an unpaid internship, but we don't yet know exactly what our stories will be.
We were fortunate that for this particular investigation, a substantial piece of the story is hidden in plain sight. Millions of Americans have completed internships, many of which were unpaid. We think capturing their stories and voices through an interactive microsite gives us a tangible way to define the project for our Kickstarter backers and add impact to our overall investigation.
It's also been tough for us to pitch the internship as an all-or-nothing project — a key Kickstarter funding factor — because we are committed to reporting this story, even if we don't get to hire our intern. But it's a Catch-22 we can live with.
(For some other great examples of successful journalism projects, check out Roman Mars' 99% Invisible, Decode DC and Matter.)
Creative rewards and crunching the numbers
Donor rewards are a crucial part of Kickstarter's model, and we tried to be creative and strategic about what we offered at different levels. Think $25: get a T-shirt. $50: get early access to a podcast. $5,000: get a project-related celebrity to speak at an event.
The best rewards make backers feel like they've benefited from a project they helped make possible. For journalism projects, this could include access to the editorial process, tote bags or t-shirts with custom project designs or special, real-time updates on the reporting.
But you need to make sure to figure out how you'll pay for your rewards. Does your marketing budget cover them, or will your Kickstarter funds need to cover those costs?
Once you set your fundraising goal, make sure the cost of your rewards fit within your overall budget. If you're going to offer a T-shirt or a postcard, figure out how much that will cost, including shipping. (We were a bit surprised at how much shipping increased the cost.)
Then compare that unit cost to income projections, and an estimated number of backers. We found it useful to compile all of this in a spreadsheet that let us tweak rewar costs until it fit our budget (we set a limit of 10 percent to be spent on rewards).
Mobilize your readers and networks
How are you going to raise awareness about your Kickstarter campaign? Our game plan included social networking, email outreach and pitching our story as widely as possible. Nearly 90 percent of our donations came from outside the Kickstarter platform, and we had articles or coverage appear in New York Magazine, The Week, Business Insider, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic Wire and more.
We sent a minimum of one, if not two project updates via our social media accounts every day. We emailed all of our existing listservs, crafted project updates for our Kickstarter backers and emailed organizations with an interest in the issue asking if they might be willing to share our project with their listservs.
In short: Marketing a Kickstarter is a close to full-time job, so make sure to budget the time.
Fresh stories were also incredibly helpful for building momentum around the Kickstarter campaign. During the past month, we produced seven pieces on internships, linking to the Kickstarter and encouraging people to back the campaign in each.
In the end, our own site was the third-highest source of donations after Twitter and direct referrals.
Based on our experience, Kickstarter can be a great tool for creative, unique projects, but also tricky for those designed around story-driven projects. But if your newsroom has the time, resources and smart idea, it's definitely worth an experiment.
A huge thank you to everyone who has donated to our Kickstarter so far. If you've ever known, or been, an unpaid intern, we're sure you can appreciate its importance. And if you haven't already, please donate in the final stretch to help us achieve our goal!
A big thanks to our Kickstarter team, which included News Apps Fellow Jeremy Merrill, Senior Engagement Editor Amanda Zamora, News Applications Director Scott Klein, ProPublica President Richard Tofel and Explainer Music.
First Look Media announced today that Racket, the political satire magazine originally headed by Matt Taibbi, is shutting down.
The announcement follows weeks of seeming instability at the company. New York Magazine's Andrew Rice broke the news last month that Taibbi, who had been brought on to run the magazine, would be leaving the project. The team at First Look's The Intercept followed up with a detailed explanation of the management and culture clashes that led up to his departure. Shortly thereafter, Glenn Greenwald announced that editor-in-chief John Cook was leaving The Intercept and returning to Gawker Media.
Since Matt Taibbi's departure, we've been working with the team he hired to consider various options for launching a project without him. After multiple explorations, we've decided not to pursue the project. Unfortunately, this means that the team Matt hired will be let go.
In the wake of Taibbi's departure, the remaining staff of Racket, presumably under the leadership of Racket executive editor Alex Pareene launched a new project that fit in well with what was to have been the magazine's satirical tone and penchant for pranks. RacketTeen, a somewhat inscrutable Tumblr account, poked fun at everything from Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to media insiders to parents.
For sale: website. Never launched
— Racket Teen (@RacketTeen) November 25, 2014
The announcement, which leaves the entire staff of Racket without jobs, was met with consternation and general upset by those in the media who had hoped RacketTeen was the sign of more cutting-edge commentary to come. Some also expressed concerns for how the staff had been treated by First Look.
I miss Racket Teen
— Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias) November 25, 2014
I want Pierre Omidyar to pay reparations for all the @mtaibbi @pareene @elspethreeve @edithzimmerman stories we didn't get to read in 2014.
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) November 25, 2014
Laid-off Racket staff don't even get names. http://t.co/xFFfDzO2L2
— Scott Klein (@kleinmatic) November 25, 2014
What's next for the staff of Racket, and for First Look, remains to be seen.
Could the @Awl network fold in @RacketTeen? I don't even care if you do Racket
— Tim Carmody (@tcarmody) November 25, 2014
Fusion is just pulling up the party bus to the First Look offices now
— Bill Wasik (@billwasik) November 25, 2014
Maybe on Thanksgiving Pierre will pardon one member of @RacketTeen
— Natasha VC (@natashavc) November 25, 2014
I reached out to Racket staff members for comment, but so far haven't heard anything back.
thank you everyone who is gchatting me rn but the entire @RacketTeen staff has to go get drunk now
— Elle Reeve (@elspethreeve) November 25, 2014
Amid the wry jokes, though, it's important to remember that Pierre Omidyar, First Look's founder, promised $250 million to the project last year. The organization is often cited on the list of new media projects that are cause for optimism about the state of the industry. With plenty of funds and talent on hand, there's considerable confusion over what is causing First Look to falter.
The people at the Racket are some of the most talented people in media. To not figure out how to make it work is totally baffling.
— Philip Bump (@pbump) November 25, 2014
When I'm asked about the future of news, I always say I'm optimistic, at least on net. But that doesn't mean that there won't be holes, and the holes I worry about most are at the local level. The pre-Internet journalism model was highly localized because distribution was highly localized; the web changes that dramatically.
That's the context for this interesting new paper from Horacio Larreguy, John Marshall, and James Snyder, Jr., looking at corruption in Mexico and how it gets reported — and how that that reporting impacts elections (emphasis mine):
We estimate the effect of local media outlets on political accountability in Mexico, focusing on malfeasance by municipal mayors…In particular, we compare neighboring precincts on the boundaries of media stations' coverage areas to isolate the effects of an additional media station.
We find that voters punish the party of malfeasant mayors, but only in electoral precincts covered by local media stations (which emit from within the precinct's municipality). An additional local radio or television station reduces the vote share of an incumbent political party revealed to be corrupt by 1 percentage point, and reduces the vote share of an incumbent political party revealed to have diverted funds to projects not benefiting the poor by around 2 percentage points.
We also show that these electoral sanctions persist: at the next election, the vote share of the current incumbent's party continues to be reduced by a similar magnitude…However, we find no effect of media stations based in other municipalities.
In the world of media, longer content is heralded as higher quality. A six-minute piece is more prestigious than a minute-twenty package. Full-length features trump shorts. Shows beat webisodes. Two-thousand words are better than two hundred. There are lots of reasons for the industry bias toward longer content. Legacy platforms and business models. Prominence and awards. Creative freedom and journalistic context. Ask just about anyone in the content business, and they prefer longer work.
That doesn't mean there's not a market for longer-form content on mobile. I read books and watch movies on my iPhone while flying back and forth from NYC. Tablet users, especially in evening and nighttime hours, read longer-form stories and binge on Netflix. But on average across the mobile universe, shorter content is consumed more. It's also the gateway to longer forms of content: social apps act as recommendation engines for your attention. That's how Facebook's app became the "home page" of mobile, accounting for more time spent than all mobile browsers combined.
Part of the problem is the industry's fixation on "time spent" as an engagement metric. I remember a Poynter study a couple years ago that discovered the average "bail out" point on a tablet is 78.3 seconds of reading. The recommendation? Write the story in such a way that gets users to keep reading. The obvious solution: write a shorter story.
It's often better to maximize "time saved" rather than time spent, especially on a per session basis. Imagine, for example, that you can get the nugget of a 2-minute video in a 24-second clip, or 80% of the value in 20% of the time. For most mobile users, that's more delightful than watching the full 2 minutes. The more delighted the users, the more frequently they'll return, which all adds up to a lot of time spent/user at the end of the month.
CFO magazine has an interview with Victoria Harker, the chief financial officer of Gannett, which is one of a number of news companies in various stages of splitting off its print properties (newspapers, mostly) from its broadcast and digital ones. The positive spin is that it'll let each type of company pursue the best approach without strategy tax; the negative spin is that it's sending print off onto an ice floe where its continued decline will no longer infect the other side of the business. This question would seem to position Gannett as a candidate for the newspaper industry rollup (or mop-up) many have been anticipating (emphasis mine):
Q: Some people praise Gannett because it isn't burdening the newspaper spin-off with debt, as other media companies have done. Others criticize Gannett for not including, say, Cars.com in the spin-off to provide more advertising revenue. How do you respond to these views?
A: Relative to the debt, we felt very strongly that the publishing segment — which has its own digital properties, by the way — needed to have the kind of capital structure that will enable them to be a consolidator in the industry, should that be the strategic decision they make. They have produced a very efficient model for running the newsroom of today and tomorrow. So we didn't want to saddle them with a lot of debt. We wanted to enable a good revenue stream, a good cost structure, and good cash production, so they can do the kinds of things they need to do to create longevity within that business.
Relative to Cars.com, we will have affiliation agreements with the publishing business for five years after the deal closes. In our way of thinking it's the best of both worlds, in that Cars.com will live in the broadcast and digital company, where it will have the right type of capital structure and investment, while the publishing side will continue to be able to leverage that relationship.
You know, we spent a lot of time with investors during the last 10 days, and a number of them asked how they can become an investor on both sides of the house once we spin. So it's not that everybody wants to go into growth and be in broadcast and digital. We have a number of investors saying, "We're very interested in publishing, this is an interesting story for the value side of our investment house." And it's a dividend-producing entity, which is very attractive to them.
Getting external capital for that sort of move will likely only get tougher, so flexibility on the balance sheet is important.
Hopefully you know about PastPages, the tool built by L.A. Times data journalist Ben Welsh to record what some of the web's most important news sites have on their homepage — hour by hour, every single day. Want to see what The Guardian's homepage looked like Tuesday night? Here you go. Want to see how that Ebola patient first appeared on DallasNews.com in September? Try the small item here. It's a valuable service, particularly for future researchers who will want to study how stories moved through new media. (For print media, we have physical archives; for digital news, work even a few years old has an alarming tendency to disappear.)
It's possible for me to find a century-old newspaper, yet work I did 8-10 years ago on the web is gone.
— Derek Willis (@derekwillis) November 13, 2014
Anyway, Ben is back with a new tool called StoryTracker, "a set of open source tools for archiving and analyzing news homepages," backed in part by the Reynolds Journalism Institute at Mizzou.
It offers a menu of options, documented here, for creating an orderly archive of HTML snapshots, extracting hyperlinks with a bonus set of metadata that captures each link's prominence on the page and visualizing a page's layout with animations that show changes over time.
The potential uses for researchers are obvious, but I could also imagine plenty of realtime uses. Tracking your own homepage over time, you could get good data on how the granular movement of stories there correlates with traffic over time. (To ask questions like: Is the top slot more or less valuable on weekends or overnight than during the day Monday to Friday?) You could track your competition's homepages to get hard data on what stories they're pushing hardest. And unlike the base PastPages, which saves screenshots of homepages, StoryTracker gets at the HTML to determine what stories are where. It's all open source, so have at it. (Here's a sample analysis to see what sources the Drudge Report links to most.)
Ben presented StoryTracker at a conference at RJI earlier this week; here's the video and his slide deck.
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Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s experimental cancer drug regorafenib -- viewed as the "son of Nexavar" from Bayer and Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc. -- was submitted Thursday for approval to the Food and Drug Administration, the companies said.
Bayer said the new drug application was submitted for regorafenib's treatment of metastatic or unresectable gastrointestinal stromal tumors in patients whose cancer continues despite prior treatments.
Regorafenib was developed by Bayer but was the center of a suit filed in May 2009 by South San Francisco-based Onyx (NASDAQ: ONXX). The suit claimed that Bayer was working behind Onyx's back on regorafenib, or "son of Nexavar."
Bayer and Onyx are partners on the liver and kidney cancer drug Nexavar, known scientifically as sorafenib. Regorafenib's chemical structure is similar to that of Nexavar, save for regorafenib's use of fluorine.
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Are the Penguins shopping players around in advance of Crosby's return?
Nov 4, 2011, 11:13 AM EST
With Sidney Crosby likely coming back sooner than not to the Pittsburgh Penguins lineup and a host of other injured forwards also getting back to the ice in short order (Tyler Kennedy for instance) the Pens are swimming in depth up the middle. When you've got a surplus of players you're either going to make your farm team get really good really fast or you're going to take advantage of that.
According to Andy Strickland of TrueHockey.com, Pens GM Ray Shero is busy working the phones and one Pens center in particular is being shopped around. With Crosby, Kennedy, Evgeni Malkin, Jordan Staal, and Richard Park all spending time playing at times up the middle, Mark Letestu is the man out in the cold and the Penguins are trying to unload him.
The trick there is that Letestu, even in spite of the Pens injury woes, has not carved a spot out for himself this season scoring no goals and adding just one assist this season. Last season, Letestu was looking like a breakout star until he too was bitten by the injury bug scoring 14 goals and adding 13 assists. Now he's just a spare part that isn't producing and being surpassed by other players like Joe Vitale.
If Shero can get anything worthwhile in return for him, say a cure to the voodoo curse that's overtaken the Penguins, it's worth a shot.
- abrienza428 - Nov 4, 2011 at 11:50 AM
I don't know what they can really get for him. He was solid last year but hasn't made an impact this year yet. I guess it makes sense though. He won't really get a chance outside of 4th line duty unless there are injuries again.
- stakex - Nov 4, 2011 at 1:36 PM
While Letestu is clearly the man out, hes not wroth much. With only 1 assist and a -5 in ten games so far its going to be hard to get anything for him. Those numbers are really bad when you consider hes playing on a team with a very soilid offense.
I see a trip to the minors in Letestu's future.
- bigbear42 - Nov 4, 2011 at 3:37 PM
Letestu probably has to go through waivers which is why their shopping him. For a while they were talking about moving Malkin to the wing to play alongside Staal, so that could help ease the logjam down the middle.
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My workroom is a mess at present. Usually I diligently clear it up after I´ve finished each project but just recently one project has run seamlessly into another and searching through the resultant chaos for anything has meant that while looking for one thing I´ve been totally distracted by finding something entirely unrelated. My most recent diversion came when, quite by chance, I discovered this photo in a folder hidden under piles of paper and magazines. It shows my husband, Herbert, (front right) crouched beside his older brother, Manfred who´s next to their cousin, Karl-Heinz. The young man at the back is his oldest brother, Wolfgang. Herbert seems to have a mental blackout regarding the other children in this photo and just says vaguely that they´re "probably" assorted cousins though they "may" be just friends. He does, however, remember who took the photo, namely a close family friend the children called Tante Luzie. More about her later. Here´s the original photo which I scanned at 300 dpi.
I like this photo for several reasons apart from the obvious. First of all it´s the background which I find fascinating. It may look as if it was taken in a studio with a backdrop but what looks artificial is actually the view from what the children used to call "Die Märchenwiese" which translates literally as The Fairy Tale Meadow and, believe me, it really has an enchanted atmosphere. I know because I´ve been there and it hasn´t changed much in the years since my husband was a little tot. Its high up in a clearing in the Spessart Forest, quite a climb, but worth it for the spectacular view of the surrounding hills and woodland. Another interesting feature is that all the boys in the foreground, apart from the little fellow in the sailor suit, are wearing so-called Lederhosen, the typical leather shorts of the Alpine regions and Bavaria. In the days before washing machines were considered essential these shorts must have been a blessing to busy mothers when dealing with messy little boys, the cleaning procedure being just to wait for the mud to dry before simply brushing it off. I´m amused to see that the little girl is wearing a light coloured dress with puff sleeves which must have been difficult to keep clean while battling her way through the forest to reach the clearing. Ditto the sailor suit and the smart outfit worn by Wolfgang. The excursion was obviously planned in advance for the sole purpose of taking this photo.
I find the photo striking as it stands. The very fact that it´s underexposed and faded adds to its vintage feeling of days gone by and the magical quality of the scenery. However, I still felt a need to add some contrast to the foreground while retaining at least some of the fading in the background. It was at this point that it dawned on me that this seemingly simple project was going to be quite tedious and time-consuming as the only way I could imagine doing this was by creating 2 layers and working on them separately. I do not enjoy making complicated extractions any more than you do. On the other hand there are people, mainly woman, who actually like ironing so maybe I´m wrong...Anyway, I digress. Before I could change my mind and restart my search through the chaos to find the project I´d originally planned, I gritted my teeth and made a rough extraction around the group in the foreground. I deliberately didn´t zoom in to do this otherwise I´d have been too meticulous and I´d have been at it all day! Then I feathered it and copied it onto a new layer.
I tackled the new layer first by increasing the contrast and altering the tone a little. After that I tidied up some of the lighter parts around the figures I´d missed during the extraction and cropped the photo to remove the distracting edges. At this point I also used the clone tool to disguise some of the white blotches in the background Here´s how it looked at this stage.
As you can see this brought out a lot of the detail in the foreground but then the background was still so faded that the figures looked like cardboard cut outs so I darkened the background using Curves, adjusted the tone a little, flattened it and ended up with this.
I suppose I could have been reasonably happy with this result but anyone who knows me is aware of the fact that I just can´t leave well alone. Something bothered me about it so I went away and unpacked a parcel which had just arrived and when I looked at the photo half an hour later with fresh eyes it was immediately obvious what was wrong. It was simply too much like a discoloured black and white photo so I added the sepia photo filter at 15% rather than the default 25%....and voilà!
I´m still not entirely happy with it but I´ve kept the layers so I may tinker with it a bit more when I have the time. Right now I´m off to play with my new toy robot which has been charging its battery while I´ve been sitting here agonizing over what to inflict on this image next. I wish this little robot could do my extractions and/or my ironing but it won´t. What it will do is the next best thing. It´ll whiz around the house sweeping the floors and probably giving Dora a nervous breakdown in the process!
PS Almost forgot to mention Tante Luzie again. She was quite a character. I first met her shortly before our wedding and found her to be a delightfully eccentric and very sprightly 80 year-old. She always kept a hip flask somewhere about her person from which she took a nip of brandy every so often after which she inevitably announced triumphantly in German, "Schnapps is good for cholera!" After the reception we all went back to my parent´s house where my mother was astonished when she walked past the open bathroom door to find Tante Luzie spraying her hair abundantly with air freshener. She didn´t have the heart to tell her and for the rest of the day the old lady went around taking swigs from her flask quite unaware of the fact that her hair was dripping wet and smelt strongly of pine disinfectant.


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* Soy, wheat biggest annual gainers on TRJ CRB index * Corn on track for fourth straight year of gains * Demand for US grain eased in Q4 after drought-driven rally (Recasts, updates prices, adds new analyst quote) By Mark Weinraub CHICAGO, Dec 31 (Reuters) - Wheat and soybean futures edged lower on Monday, but ended the year as the best performers in a basket of commodities, including crude oil, as demand lifted prices and the worst drought in half a century crimped supplies. Wheat posted the biggest gain this year among the 19 commodities in the Thomson Reuters-Jefferies CRB index , soaring 19.2 percent despite falling for three straight months and tumbling 7.9 percent in December alone. Traders were concerned about wheat crops from Australia to Europe due to weather problems throughout the year and the poor start in the U.S. winter wheat regions as drought persisted in the southern Plains. Soybeans were the second best gainer, rising 18.4 percent, while corn was up 8 percent, notching its fourth straight year of gains despite ending 2012 with a five-month losing streak. Corn and soybeans set record highs this year amid the drought, which came on the heels of a rapid planting pace in the spring due to an unseasonably mild winter. Wheat was pressured by poor export demand for U.S. supplies on Monday while soybeans dropped on favorable crop weather in South America but the market found support in thin New Year's Eve volume on hopes that lawmakers in Washington found a solution to avert the so-called fiscal cliff. "If we get some sort of reconciliation out of the process, it would be price positive for most of our markets," said Bill Gentry, a broker with Risk Management Commodities in Lafayette, Indiana. "It would be a sigh of relief." The failure to reach a deal could weaken the global economy and further roil demand for U.S. commodities. Wheat, corn and soybeans have outperformed the CRB, which was down 3.3 percent for the year. The grain markets have pulled back sharply in recent months, with soybeans down 11.4 percent in the fourth quarter, its worst quarter since the third quarter of 2009. The loss broke a streak of four positive quarters in a row. Corn was off 7.3 percent in the fourth quarter due to weakening demand from exporters as well as from ethanol producers, and wheat has fallen 13.8 percent over the last three months of the year. Both grains notched their worst quarterly performance since the second quarter of 2011. The weakness in wheat worsened in December as export demand failed to show up even as prices retreated near six-month lows. The front-month contract was down 7.9 percent for the month, the biggest monthly decline since September 2011. Short covering limited Monday's decline in wheat, traders said. CBOT March wheat settled down 3/4 cent at $7.78 a bushel. CBOT January soybeans were 5-1/4 cents lower at $14.18-3/4 a bushel and CBOT March corn was 4-1/4 cents higher at $6.98-1/4 a bushel. Bargain buying lent support to corn prices. "Everybody is waiting for the outcome of U.S. budget talks and there is some year-end positioning," said Serene Lim, a commodities analyst at Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore. President Barack Obama said on Monday that a deal with Congress to avoid the U.S. "fiscal cliff," with its tax increases looming at midnight, was close, but he warned that it was not yet complete. The outlines of a deal in the U.S. Senate include raising income tax rates for individuals making more than $400,000 a year and households making more than $450,000 a year, but a sticking point remains on how long to delay automatic spending cuts to defense and domestic programs. Prices at 2:35 p.m. CST (2035 GMT) LAST NET PCT YTD CHG CHG CHG CBOT corn 698.25 4.25 0.6% 8.0% CBOT soy 1418.75 -5.25 -0.4% 18.4% CBOT meal 420.60 -7.10 -1.7% 35.9% CBOT soyoil 49.16 0.22 0.5% -5.6% CBOT wheat 778.00 -0.75 -0.1% 19.2% CBOT rice 1486.00 -9.50 -0.6% 1.7% EU wheat 250.50 -0.75 -0.3% 23.7% US crude 91.62 0.82 0.9% -7.3% Dow Jones 13,053 115 0.9% 6.8% Gold 1673.10 18.20 1.1% 7.0% Euro/dollar 1.3190 -0.0021 -0.2% 1.9% Dollar Index 79.8080 0.1300 0.2% -0.5% Baltic Freight 699 -1 -0.1% -59.8% In U.S. cents, benchmark contracts, except EU wheat (euros) and soymeal (dollars). CBOT wheat, corn and soybeans per bushel, rice per hundredweight, soymeal per ton and soyoil per lb. (Reporting by Mark Weinraub; Editing by Bob Burgdorfer)
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