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All the digital news you missed this week
If pasties and porn aren't enough to tempt you to read our roundup of this week's digital news, I don't know what is.
I am not offering you a rather crude bribe, I promise all will become clear if you keep reading.
Ad blocking continues to grow, but many publishers & advertisers still don't get it
While there's debate around the impact of ad blocking, the statistics are clear: the extent to which consumers have embraced ad blocking is not in question.
And there's no sign that the consumer desire to keep ads at bay is waning.
Facebook to open up Instant Articles: What publishers need to know
Last year Facebook unveiled Instant Articles, which aims to help deliver a better experience for mobile users by natively hosting publisher content on Facebook.
Facebook offered a sweet revenue sharing deal, and prominent publishers like The New York Times signed on.
Up until now, Instant Articles has been available to select publishers only, but the world's largest social network this week announced that it will be opening Instant Articles to all publishers in April.
Five ways The New York Times is innovating its publishing model
At the beginning of 2016 things are much rosier at The New York Times than they were two years ago.
Though print is still suffering, there seems to be a greater degree of parity between the incumbent's digital know-how and that of new online-only upstarts.
The paywall is bearing fruit, social media platforms court its content and Google is trying to shine a light on longer form journalism.
The paper has shown itself again to be a restless experimenter across digital platforms and with new digital technology.
Three examples of brands experimenting with virtual reality
Sure, we're all talking about VR, but which brands are already using it?
Here are three examples of early adopters, from publishing, travel and fashion.
And for more on VR, see A Marketer's Guide to Virtual Reality.
Is social media a double-edged sword for publishers?
Publishers and social networks have an increasingly symbiotic relationship.
Publishers seek larger audiences and social networks seek the most engaging content to keep users in-app and provide the most compelling context for advertisements.
Is there a danger in this ever-deepening relationship between social media and publishers?
The ultimate NewFronts roundup
Every year, companies gather in New York to pitch advertisers on their latest and greatest digital offerings in digital media's response to television upfronts.
Here are some of the highlights from this year's NewFronts which occurred between April 27 and May 7...
Facebook tries to lure publishers with 100% revenue share
Facebook wants publishers to give it their content, and in an effort to address their skepticism, the social networking giant is reportedly offering to let them keep 100% of the revenue from ads they sell.
Facebook to publishers: give us your content please
Facebook is the world's largest social network, but it's not just a social network.
If this wasn't already evident, it should be now that reports have surfaced indicating the tech giant is negotiating with prominent publishers to host their content within Facebook's walls so that users don't have to go to publishers' sites to consume it.
Newspapers and subscription barriers: what works best?
Many major newspapers, in an attempt to improve digital revenues, have implemented paywalls of varying severity.
I've been looking at US and UK newspaper sites to see which approaches are likely to be most effective in converting visitors into subscribers...
What caused the daily digest email wars?
The Financial Times has launched a daily digest email called First FT.
I've noticed a retro trend for daily and weekly digest emails from publishers, with Quartz' version regularly cited by digital folk as the first thing they read in the morning.
Here's why email is enjoying a bit of a resurgence. I've included some examples of other publishers and their daily digests.
How do five popular newspapers do mobile app subscriptions?
How do The Sun, The Times, The Guardian, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal manage subscriptions through their mobile news apps?
I've taken a tour through each, despite their slightly different paywall or subscription models. See which you think is finessed and which could do better.
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Topic: Beginner, need advice
I'm a beginner when it comes to programming, I know the basics of some languages like HTML/CSS and very basic PHP.
However, I'm really keen on learning Ruby on Rails, specifically for the purpose of web design (I don't like PHP to want to delve deep into it).
Anyways, as I'm a beginner, I know it's going to be hard for me to learn ROR. I really would appreciate any advice, any good, simple tutorials for people like myself trying to get into rails.
Especially books that might relate to website related programming.
At the moment, I'm beginning the read the book "Ruby on Rails for dummies, 4th addition", after that i'll probably read "Learn Rails by Example - Michael Hartl".
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What DILG Secretary Jesse Robredo wants to do with Jordanian journalist Baker Abdulla Atyani – either out of ignorance or over-enthusiasm – is unacceptable and is unconstitutional. Roberedo's order denies every journalist in this country, foreign and local alike, a fundamental human right protected both by the Philippine constitution and Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, freedom of the press.
Atyani and his Filipino crew composed of audio man Ramelito Vela and cameraman Rolando Letrero went missing in Sulu last week, and were initially feared to have been abducted by the terrorist group Abu Sayyaf. Now it turns out they are indeed inside the terror group's lair somewhere in the jungle fastness of Sulu, but not as captives but to interview one of the group's commanders.
Secretary Robredo wants the bureau chief for Southeast China of the Al Arabiya TV news network sent home and declared persona non granta for interviewing the Abu Sayyaf without informing the government. He is also is quick to invoke the Human Security Art against the Jordianian journalist, which move only confirms our worst fears about the same law: that it may be used to unduly restrict media reportage or commentaries on what should be everyone's concern.
And given the murky history of terrorist groups in Southern Philippines, including their alleged ties with shady characters in the police and the military, the automatic invocation of the HSA against any media reportage on terrorist activities could well be deployed as a tool to repress any call for public accountability for any official mischief.
Secretary Rebredo should know that mere press statements issued by government officials warning media about alleged or imagined infractions of the law is prior restraint that casts a chilling effect on free expression.
And since when did journalists need to ask for permission from the government to be allowed to exercise their profession?
In the case of Chavez v. Gonzales (G.R. No. 168338, Feb. 15, 2008), the High Court addressed the unconstitutionality of press statements issued by a top official of government warning media of criminal consequences, saying that these cannot stand constitutional scrutiny, for the reason that: "[a]ny act done, such as a speech uttered, for and on behalf of the government in an official capacity is covered by the rule on prior restraint."
Perhaps, he needs some reminding that this case arose from warnings issued by the then Justice Secretary Raul Gonzales and the National Telecommunications Commission against the airing of the "Helllo Garci" tapes. Gonzales threatened to prosecute any media entity that did so.
And the Supreme Court stamped its foot down on it: "in resolving this issue, we hold that it is not decisive that the press statements made by [government officials] were not reduced in or followed up with formal orders or circulars. It is sufficient that the press statements were made by [them] while in the exercise of their official functions. Undoubtedly, Defendant Gonzales made his statements as Secretary of Justice, while the NTC issued its statement as the regulatory body of media."
As a supposed advocate and icon of good governance, Secretary Robredo should know that free expression is good governance.
It is good governance because allowance for free expression on the public interest empowers citizens; it grants citizens information and opinion on questions that concern the commonweal, and in many circumstances, exposes official wrongdoing that otherwise would have been whitewashed by "praise releases." -30-


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Towards Closed Loop Modeling: Evaluatng The Prospects for Creating Recurrently Regrounded Aggregate Simulation Models Using Particle Filtering Nathaniel Osgood, Juxin Liu, University of Saskatchewan 106 Wiggins Road, University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon. Winter Simulation Conference, 2014
Public health agencies traditionally rely heavily on epidemiological reporting for notifiable disease control, but increasingly apply simulation models for forecasting and to understand intervention tradeoffs. Unfortunately, such models traditionally lack capacity to easily incorporate information from epidemiological data feeds.» Lire plus
An Agent-Based Explanation for 20th Century Living Situation Changes in America's Severely and Persistently Mentally Ill Population Kyle L. Johnson, Dr. Dimitris Alevras, IBM Global Business Services; Dr. John Docherty, Dr. Erin Falconer, Otsuka Medical Affairs. AnyLogic Conference 2014
The largest public mental health facility in the United States is not a hospital; it is the Los Angeles County Jail. This paper describes an agent-based approach to explaining why prisons and jails house so many of America's most seriously mentally ill. It traces this fact to the differing ways in which various housing situations react to mental illness and to legislation passed in the 1960's, which allocated public funding away from state mental hospitals.» Lire plus
Simulating A Physical Internet Enabled Mobility Web: The Case Of Mass Distribution In France D. Hakimi, B. Montreuil, and others. 9th International Conference of Modeling, Optimization and Simulation
Physical Internet (PI) is a novel concept aiming to render more economically, environmentally and socially efficient and sustainable the way physical objects are transported, handled, stored, realized, supplied and used throughout the world. It enables, among other webs, the Mobility Web which deals with moving physical objects within an interconnected set of unimodal and multimodal hubs, transits, ports, roads and ways.» Lire plus
Quantitative analysis of bidding strategies: a hybrid agent based–system dynamics approach Arash MAHDAVI and Makarand HASTAK, Purdue University
Economic slowdown and construction demand shrinkage reduces the profit backlog for construction contractors and bites into their profit margin. The resulting fierce competition for jobs forces construction companies to look for more sophisticated analytical tools to analyze and improve their bidding strategies. For each contractor, bidding strategy is a decision-making process that is driven by the firm's financial goals with the final objective of maximizing the firm's gross profit and surpassing the breakeven point. This paper proposes a methodology to model and analyze different bidding strategies with hybrid agent based-system dynamics (ABSD) simulation.» Lire plus
Electric Vehicle Driver Simulation using Agent-Based Modeling Beaudry Kock, Recargo, Inc., 2014
Recargo has been developing an agent-based model with the AnyLogic tool to help us simulate the charging patterns of electric vehicle drivers in California. Our goal is to better understand the potential value from delivering electricity grid services with these vehicles. Development has only been underway for a few weeks, but in that time we've been able to use AnyLogic's accessible interface and Java coding tools to quickly build and test a proof-of-concept model with which we can explore the potential for a more sophisticated and complex effort.» Lire plus
Development of an Agent-Based Model for the Secondary Threat Resulting from a Ballistic Impact Event Matthew J. Bova, Frank W. Ciarallo, Raymond R. Hill
The process by which a high-velocity impact event leads to fire ignition onboard military vehicles is complex, influenced by the interaction of heated debris fragments and fuel spurting from ruptured tanks. An assessment of the risk of such a fire begins with a complete characterization of the secondary threat resulting from the impact, including debris fragment sizes, states of motion, and thermal properties. In the aircraft survivability community, there is a need for an analytical tool to model this complete threat.» Lire plus
Comparison between Individual-based and Aggregate Models in the context of Tuberculosis Transmission Tian, Y. and Osgood, N., Proceedings, The 29 th International conference of the System Dynamics Society. July 2011, Washington, D.C.
The desire to better understand the transmission of infectious disease in the real world has motivated the representation of epidemic diffusion in the context of quantitative simulation. In recent decades, both individual-based (such as Agent-Based) models and aggregate models (such as System Dynamics) are widely used in epidemiological modeling. This paper compares the difference between system dynamics models and agent-based models in the context of Tuberculosis (TB) transmission, considering smoking as a risk factor.» Lire plus
Representing Progression and Interactions of Comorbidities in Aggregate and Individual-Based Systems Models Osgood, N. Proceedings, The 27th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society, July 2009, Albuquerque
Healthcare simulation models have attracted significant offered important insights in to health policy selection. More complete accounting for the cost and health implications of upstream interventions is hindered by the need to consider impact on, and interactions between, multiple comorbidities. Within this paper, we explore several distinct approaches for representing comorbidities, some of them at the aggregate level, and some of them at the individual level. All of these representations have the virtue of being declarative, in that they allow the user to focus on what is to be characterized, rather than how it is to be implemented. Our exploration suggests that while several aggregate representations of comorbidities are possible, they suffer from a variety of shortcomings, ranging from low fidelity to combinatorial blowup. While individual-level representations impose a heavy performance load, greater difficulties in calibration and less rapid analysis, such representations do offer greater transparency, modifiability, scalability, and modularity, and ease of representing transmission and influence networks. With much to recommend each approach, further research is needed to shed additional light on the tradeoffs and identify situations where one representation is preferable to another.» Lire plus
Logistics Simulation and Optimization for Managing Disaster Responses F. Barahona, M. Ettl, M. Petrik, P.M. Rimshnick, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Proceedings of the 2013 Winter Simulation Conference
Catastrophic events such as hurricanes, earthquakes or floods require emergency responders to rapidly distribute emergency relief supplies to protect the health and lives of victims. In this paper we develop a simulation and optimization framework for managing the logistics of distributing relief supplies in a multi-tier supply network. The simulation model captures optimized stocking of relief supplies, distribution operations at federal or state-operated staging facilities, demand uncertainty, and the dynamic progression of disaster response operations. We apply robust optimization techniques to develop optimized stocking policies and dispatch of relief supplies between staging facilities and points of distribution. The simulation framework accommodates a wide range of disaster scenarios and stressors, and helps assess the efficacy of response plans and policies for better disaster response.» Lire plus
Agent-Based Simulation for Dual Toll Pricing of Hazardous Material Transportation Sojung Kim, Santosh Mungle, Young-Jun Son, Proceedings of the 2013 Winter Simulation Conference
A dual toll pricing is a conceptual policy in which policy maker imposes toll on both hazardous materials (hazmat) vehicles as well as regular vehicles for using populated road segments to mitigate a risk of hazmat transportation. It intends to separate the hazmat traffic flow from the regular traffic flow via controlling the dual toll. In order to design the dual toll pricing policy on a highly realistic road network environment and detailed human behaviors, an extended Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) framework is employed to mimic human decision behaviors in great detail. The proposed approach is implemented in AnyLogic agent based simulation software with using a traffic data of Albany, NY. Also, search algorithms in OptQuest are used to determine the optimum dual toll pricing policy which results in the minimum risk and travel cost based on the simulation results. The result reveals the effectiveness of the proposed approach in devising a reli-able policy under the realistic road network conditions.» Lire plus


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|Main Finding: A substantial majority of Americans (about 7 in 10) believe the scientific theory of Evolution is compatible with a belief in God – one does not preclude the other.
Over two-thirds of Americans are quite firm in the belief that Evolution can co-exist with the belief in God and the belief in a Divine role in human development. Most Americans feel the Theory of Evolution does not preclude a role for a Supreme Being in the origin and development of humans.
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Question: Agree or disagree: A person can believe in Evolution and still believe God created humans and guided their development?
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CoStar Group, Inc./LoopNet, Inc.
On April 27, 2011, CoStar Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: CSGP) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire LoopNet, Inc. (Nasdaq: LOOP) for $16.50 in cash and 0.03702 shares of CoStar Group common stock for each share of LoopNet common stock, representing a total equity value of approximately $860 million and an enterprise value of $762 million.
Closing is expected by the end of CY11.
Closing is expected by the end of CY11.
- CoStar sees the potential for significant revenue synergies through the cross-selling of each company's complementary services to the other's client bases
- CoStar expects annual cost synergies of approximately $20 million achieved over the first 24 months following the close of the transaction
- CoStar expects the transaction to be accretive to non-GAAP net income per diluted share (as defined below in "Non-GAAP Metrics") in 2012.
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I'm doing some light research on what exactly is in our Pu-erh tea. So far I've found that Pu-erh contains gallic acid in varying amounts. Gallic acid is proven to have anti-viral and anti-fungal properties; gallic acid is also cytotoxic to cancer cells but has no cytotoxic properties in regards to non-cancerous cells.
Our tea also contains polyphenols. The jury is still out as to rather or not polyphenols actually do anything in regards to human physiology.
The catechin content in our tea has an affinity for cannabinoid receptors in the brain. So the catechin content may be what we are referring to as "qi." Catechins in larger doses provide a calming effect.
Of course we all know about caffeine. According to webMD (not the best source I concede) pu-erh generally contains less caffeine than other teas.
I've yet to find a peer-reviewed article explaining the quantity of these chemicals in the tea. Why doesn't someone just use a gas chromatograph and find out?
So, do we have any chemists on this forum? It would be interesting to see gas chromatography findings on Pu-erh tea but I can't find an article. I'm still curious what other alkaloids are hiding in this tea and why some tea seems to have a strong psychoactive effect and others do not. My Lincang purple bud seems to have a downright sedating effect for example. I want to know what exactly is causing said sedation. Is it the catechin content or are there other alkaloids responsible for this zen-like calming effect? What alkaloids are you familiar with in regards to pu-erh tea? What sort of psychoactive effects have you personally experienced while drinking Pu-erh?
Also note, I don't drink Pu-erh because of the supposed health benefits. I drink it because I enjoy it but am curious as to what exactly is "in" my tea.


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Great Michigan Read book selection made
The Michigan Humanities Council invites readers across the state to get on the same page.
Through the continuation of its biennial Great Michigan Read program, the council has announced its book selection for 2013-14: "Annie's Ghosts" written by Washington Post associate editor and Detroit native Steve Luxenberg.
The Great Michigan Read program partners with schools, libraries, museums and other organizations in Michigan for a statewide reading discussion. Each program focuses on a new title written by a Michigan author or one based in Michigan, and is selected by a statewide committee.
This reading initiative aims to connect Michiganians by exploring the state's history, its present and its future in a single literary title. It is intended for young adults to senior citizens with a broad goal of making literature more accessible and appealing while also encouraging residents to learn more about their state and individual identities.
Alpena County Library is among those that have embraced the concept since it was first introduced in 2007 with the pick, "The Nick Adams Stories" by Ernest Hemingway. Library staff planned a whole line-up of related events around the book that were embraced by local residents.
The library continued its participation by bringing in as guest speakers the authors of the two other previous Great Michigan Read selections. These included "Stealing Buddha's Dinner: A Memoir" by Bich Minh Nguyen" (2009-10) and "Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age" by Kevin Boyle (2011-12).
Library Director Eric Magness-Eubank said the library will again participation in the Great Michigan Read in some fashion, but that the level and type of involvement is yet to be finalized.
"I'm sure we'll do something with it," he said. "This newest book has won some state awards. It is supposed to be a good book, which naturally, the Michigan Humanities Council would never consider a book if it wasn't a good book."
"Annie's Ghosts" is part memoir, part detective story and part history. As the author tries to understand his mom's reasons for hiding her sister's existence, he takes readers on a journey into his mother's world of the 1930s and 1940s, where he explores how a poor, immigrant family manages life with a child who has special needs.
"Annie's Ghosts" also is a story about family secrets, personal journeys, genealogy, mental disability and illness, poverty, and immigration. It is a story of re-framing one's self-understanding once a family secret is revealed and providing insight into how personal identities are shaped by learning something shockingly new about a family's history.
Luxenberg's book was selected among the Best Books of 2009 by The Washington Post and as a Michigan Notable Book for 2010 by the Library of Michigan.
The author has worked for more than 30 years as a newspaper editor and reporter. His journalistic career began at The Baltimore Sun, where he worked for 11 years. He joined The Post in 1985 as deputy editor of the investigative/special projects staff, headed by assistant managing editor Bob Woodward.
In 1991, Luxenberg succeeded Woodward as head of the investigative staff. Post reporters working with Luxenberg have won several major reporting awards, including two Pulitzer Prizes for explanatory journalism. From 1996 to 2006, Steve was the editor of The Post's Sunday Outlook section, which publishes original reporting and provocative commentary on a broad spectrum of political, historical and cultural issues.
For more information about the Great Michigan Read, contact Carla Ingrando at the Michigan Humanities Council at email@example.com or 517-372-7770 or Magness-Eubank at Alpena County Library at 356-6188.