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Are Readers the Answer to Publishing's Revenue Question?
Print's a basket case. New online advertising dollars are under pressure from the duopoly. Bots and ad fraud are scaring agencies and brands away from spending what's left of their budgets on digital display.
Not too long ago, video was the answer to any question about the future of publishing revenues. But while the pivot to moving pictures stumbles on, video income is looking as fragile as every other area of advertising.
What's a cash-strapped publisher to do?
"You must migrate from ad revenue to reader revenue. Or else get out of journalism," says Juan Senor, a partner at London-based Innovation Media Consulting Group.
Speaking at the UK Association of Online Publishers conference in London earlier this month, Senor explained how publishers that rely on advertising revenues alone face real jeopardy. He said they are sitting on a one-legged stool that's in serious danger of toppling over.
And it does seem like the only good news stories from publishing at the moment rest on reader revenues.
- The New York Times will hit $579 million in digital revenue this year, much of the growth coming from its 2 million digital subscriptions.
- For the first time, The Guardian posted more revenue from readers than from advertising, with a significant number of the UK newspaper's 800,000 paying readers in the US.
- A recent report from Digital Content Next (DCN) showed premium publishers building on their print legacies to grow digital subscription revenues to a quarter of their 2017 revenues.
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The diktat to 'Get Reader Revenue Or Get Out' is a little prescriptive. Anyone who has worked in this business for more than 10 minutes knows there is no single solution to the revenue question. There is certainly no silver bullet.
But developing alternatives to advertising and sponsorship money makes absolute sense.
Back in 2012, Hearst's David Carey told the Economist it takes 'five or six revenue streams' to make a publishing business successful. He's more right now that he was five years ago and adding a robust reader revenue stream is looking more and more like a no brainer.
The challenge, as always, is figuring out how. As much as digital advertising is starting to look like a bust, securing recurring revenue from readers is not easy.
Digital publishing's 'Original Sin' – abandoning reader revenues to deliver audiences at scale – hangs like an albatross around the neck of modern media. After years of getting content for free, what will audiences really pay for?
The Digital Subscription Model
Subscriptions are perhaps the most straight forward way to monetize an audience directly; but don't confuse straight forward for stress free. It takes a brave publisher to throw up a paywall, uncertain of the damage that will do to their existing digital advertising business and whether anyone will ever actually pay for what they used to get free gratis.
Gratifyingly, print publications with a history in attracting and retaining subscribers have done a better job of getting consumers to pay for content online, according to that DCN report. Digital pureplays in particular are off the pace when it comes to subscription revenues, lacking investment in gated premium content and buy-in from senior management.
In all subscription sales, conversion is the name of the game and the hard-won scale that used to support digital display revenues can be turned to advantage. The Economist is working hard to convert its reach on social media to build and engage new audiences, delivering paid content trials as a starting point for conversion.
But subscription marketing is no longer just a numbers game. Data lets publishers identify the content that best engages audiences and gets them to pay, or at least register and facilitate future marketing efforts.
Common to many success stories is the reputation of the brand for producing quality content; this is where papers like The New York Times and the Guardian have seen real success. In just six years, The New York Times has secured a paid digital subscription base of over 2 million. The Guardian has grown its member base from 75,000 to 300,000 in just a year.
Recent growth may be partly attributed to an increased interest in news at a time of unprecedented political change. But for so many publications enjoying growth in subscriptions, the quality of content is the key to winning with subscribers.
Jed Hartman, the chief revenue officer of The Washington Post, recently told Campaign magazine that "investing in trusted, quality journalism, rather than cutting back as some other news publishers have done" was the secret to growth at The Post, which hit 1 million subscribers in September.
At the AOP UK conference, Juan Senor advised content producers to be "An inch wide, but a mile deep." Fellow panellist, Nic Newman of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, agreed: "People will pay for scarce or deep or exclusive content, if presented in the right way."
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Quality is clearly key to charging readers for content, but in membership models, audience participation is an additional factor in securing revenues.
Speaking at the Google-sponsored News Impact Summit in Manchester, England, NYU professor Jay Rosen talked about the importance of "Reporting with, not for" publishing audiences.
Rosen is currently director of the Membership Puzzle Project aiming to discover how to make membership models work for publishers in the United States.
The project is a collaboration between NYU's digital-first graduate program, Studio 20, and Dutch news publisher De Correspondent, which has recruited 60,000 paying subscribers in Holland in just four years.
In a recent post on the Membership Puzzle blog, Rosen described what publishers could learn from 100 news organizations with robust membership models. Building on publisher data that the project has made freely available, Rosen identified three factors common to organizations operating membership programs.
Mission Driven - "No one has ever become an enthusiastic member of a commodity news site."
Operating Style – "These sites experiment a lot, as they search for the best ways to engage members."
Participation – "Feedback is constantly requested from members and programs are adjusted accordingly."
I interviewed Rosen in Manchester for an episode of the Media Voices Podcast. He told me that a membership model is not better than a subscription model, but it is definitely different, explaining that publishers need to pay much more attention to reader members in a membership model.
"You have to design with rather than design for. You have to listen to members. You have to understand what motivates them. With subscription you don't really need to do that; you need to process their check."
Rosen said the bottom line with membership is you need to put the resources and the systems in place to handle a lot of incoming communication. Get it right, however, and you are building a value-added reader revenue stream.
Leveraging existing reader loyalty, The Atlantic is looking to develop just that with the Masthead, a paid membership program launched for "Diehards." The early-bird rate for the Masthead was pegged at $100 a year compared to a standard annual digital subscription of $24.50.
The September 2017 launch offers a super-subscription that bundles standard digital and print subscriptions to The Atlantic, with exclusive stories and updates, conference call access to editors and journalists, behind-the-scenes insights, discounts to events, and a members-only Facebook group.
Creating And Communicating Value
Whether you go for a subscription or a membership model, your ability to add reader revenues to your bottom line relies on creating and communicating real value for your audience. Here are a few things to think about if you want to make paid content work.
1. Choose the Right Model for Your Business
Will your audience want to get involved with your content creation in any meaningful way? If not, if you think they just want to read great content then a subscription deal will work best. If, on the other hand, you think your audience wants a deeper relationship with your brand – from attending exclusive events to contributing to story research – then a membership model might work for you.
The Atlantic hopes to prove the two are not mutually exclusive. Subscribers can grow into members.
2. Set Your Pricing Carefully
One of the hardest things to decide in any paid content project is how much to charge. Too little and it isn't worth the effort, or the investment in the technology needed to support it. Too much and no one will sign up.
One of the tricks used by publishers keen to convert audiences accessing content for free to paying customers, is to offer a very low-priced trial. By allowing people to access premium content at a nominal rate, they become stronger prospects for full subscription sales.
3. Communicate Your Offer Clearly
Convincing audiences to pay for content that they think they can get elsewhere for free is a losing proposition. Campaigns building on the credibility of information and the opportunity to contribute and help sustain quality content are playing well in this era of "Fake News."
Publishers need to communicate the added value that a subscription or membership brings, whether that is exclusive content, early access, behind the scenes insight, or event discounts. Trial or metered access is one way to allow readers to develop a sense of what they are missing out on, but too much free access can undercut the need to pay.
Peter Houston runs Flipping Pages Media, an independent consultancy and training firm, helping publishers build multi-platform success. He has run Guardian Masterclasses, spoken at Google's ThinkPublishing and was formerly Editor-at-large for The Media Briefing. He now co-hosts the Media Voices Podcast, delivering a weekly take on the media news and guest interviews with senior players at a leading media organizations, from Facebook to Nieman Lab, The Economist to CNN.


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In support of a forthcoming solo album, Nathaniel Rateliff returns to his early acoustic days with the And It's Still Alright tour. The show will feature many facets of Rateliff's musicianship—ranging from stripped back moments with just his voice and an acoustic guitar to the accompaniment of a full band. The set list will feature songs from his entire catalog as well as the new album, which will be released via Stax Records early next year. The extensive run of theater shows begins in Minneapolis on March 4 and includes multiple shows at Los Angeles' Theatre at Ace Hotel and San Francisco's Palace Of Fine Arts, in addition to stops at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium, D.C.'s The Anthem, The Chicago Theatre and the renowned Red Rocks Amphitheater. More dates, including performances in the U.K. and Europe, are to be announced.
Growing up in rural Missouri, Rateliff got his early music education from his family, who performed in the church band in which Rateliff played drums, and his father's record collection. At 19, Rateliff moved to Denver where he spent the next ten years working night shifts at a bottle factory and a trucking company while testing out songs at open-mic nights. Preceding the emergence of Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, Nathaniel released three albums and an EP; Desire and Dissolving Men (2007), In Memory of Loss (2010), Falling Faster Than You Can Run (2013) and Closer EP (2014). The solo releases received critical praise—The New York Times called it, "Pensive, Rousing, Stark, Eloquent…Cash Echoes," while Vanity Fair proclaimed, "We were blown away." Paste furthered, "Rateliff's rich voice and his bandmates' textured harmonies sound like long and comfortable conversations."
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Also, remember that these numbers are for web usage which means they include any computer on the web, both 'work' and 'home.'
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In Review | Books The Marriage Plot: A Novel, by Jeffrey Eugenides. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 416 pages, $28
with its similarly tragic sensibility of American bourgeois-intelligentsia life, Jeffrey Eugenides' third book, The Marriage Plot (2011), joins the likes of Jonathan Franzen, Rick Moody, Jonathan Safran Foer, and David Foster Wallace in telling stories of young American men flailing in a surfeit of privilege. Their heroes, for all their talent, time, and whiteness, are nonetheless overwhelmed by the burdens that accompany existential and (relative) fiscal freedom. Perhaps most particular to this post-cold-war cohort, their characters are haunted by a self-consciousness so acute that day-to-day living is well-nigh unbearable.
The Marriage Plot and Jonathan Franzen's Freedom in particular read as parallel accounts of the same graduating class. (No surprise there: Eugenides graduated from Brown in 1983, and Franzen from Swarthmore in 1981.) In these two novels, each author poses a love triangle. Their male characters are brilliant, naïve, and self-absorbed, and, though the female characters are capable enough, they are primarily leggy and blond, ultimately caregivers lacking any compelling drive of their own. Similarly, too, although each protagonist is perpetually and inexorably drawn to the delusions and hypocrisy of adolescence, all are anxious to avoid the empty substitutions for genuine living that they perceive around them. Eugenides' authorial stand-in, disdainful of the meaninglessness he perceives, but living a life of complicity, "thought about the people he knew, with their excellent young bodies, their summerhouses, their cool clothes, their potent drugs, their liberalism, their orgasms, their haircuts. Everything they did was either pleasurable in itself or engineered to bring pleasure down the line" (204).
Writing for The New York Times, David Brooks dismisses Freedom as "a brilliantly written book that is nonetheless trapped in an intellectual cul de sac—overly gimlet-eyed about American life and lacking an alternative vision of higher ground." Pointedly, he objects, ""There's almost no religion." Whether or not the critique is fair—I am inclined to say that it is not—the challenge does pose a quandary. How, in this inherently skeptical subgenre, ruminating on the samsara of a fin de siècle world, can one credibly escape from the domination of ego and carnal desire?
Eugenides, in taking up the question of whether and how a deepened relationship with God might provide relief from such suffering, departs from his literary brethren, but is otherwise aligned with them in his character types, plot movement, and cultural milieu and critique. In particular, his protagonist Mitchell Grammaticus, who majored in religious studies, asks whether "mystical experiences" are possible in this world. He classifies such experiences, following St. Teresa's Interior Castle and William James's Varieties of Religious Experience, as "significant only to the extent that they changed a person's conception of reality, and if that changed conception led to a change in behavior and action, a loss of ego" (401).
When we are first introduced to him on the morning of commencement, Mitchell is experimenting with repetition of the Jesus Prayer, borrowed from J. D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey. For Mitchell, as for many in a long Christian tradition, religion seems the only real path of escape from the obsessive and grim decadence of carnal desire. His summer reading follows the ancestry from Thomas Merton to St. John of the Cross to Meister Eckhart to The Imitation of Christ to Augustine's Confessions. An omniscient narrator relays:
The more Mitchell read about religions, the world religions in general and Christianity in particular, the more he realized that the mystics were all saying the same thing. Enlightenment came from the extinction of desire. Desire didn't bring fulfillment but only temporary satiety until the next temptation came along. And that was only if you were lucky enough to get what you wanted. If you didn't, you spent your life in unrequited longing. (160)
In Mitchell, Eugenides creates a seeker like many throughout the ages, aspiring for release from the tyranny of desire and love of self through religious practice and a deepened relationship with God.
Here, Eugenides' reflections on religious seeking are likely informed by his own experience: "I did take a lot of religious studies courses in college and got very interested in religion and thought about converting to Catholicism, even though I was brought up as a Greek Orthodox," he has explained since the book's publication. "I thought I wanted to become a scholar of religion," he says in a Christian Science Monitor interview, "and I chose not to do that, and to pursue writing."
The Marriage Plot, self-conscious in its late-twentieth-century American phrasing, also asks readers to consider what a religious search might look like for the Class of '82. After graduation, Mitchell travels east, through Europe, North Africa, and Greece, on a pilgrimage that brings him to Mother Teresa's Home for the Dying in Calcutta.
Writing of pilgrimage, prayers, and lighting candles in the "dark, superstitious spaces" of Europe, Eugenides depicts Mitchell as barely able to tolerate the experimental movements of encounter or prayer. Religious practitioners and believers, when they do enter the narrative, are credulous and creepy. When asked at a crucial moment of his searching, "Are you a Christian?" Mitchell hesitates to answer, thinking to himself, "The worst thing about religion was religious people" (214).
Mitchell's skepticism and searing self-consciousness yield a religious search chagrined by its eagerness. His search for God is embarrassing to himself and a secret to others, and he stashes the works of Christian mystics like pornography at the bottom of his backpack. For all his echoes of Augustine, then, Eugenides' seekers are also distinctively post-Nietzschean. As he ducks into the naves of Europe's great cathedrals, his furtiveness echoes his traveling companion's trolling for sexual encounters, with neither one commenting on the other's illicit desires. "Mitchell was perfectly aware of how strangely he was behaving," the narrator observes:
But it didn't matter because no one was around to notice. In stiff-backed pews, smelling candle wax, he closed his eyes and sat as still as possible, opening himself up to whatever was there that might be interested in him. Maybe there was nothing. But how would you ever know if you didn't send out a signal? That's what Mitchell was doing: he was sending out a signal to the home office. (202)
Eugenides is at pains to frame religious search with his characters' rationalism and intelligence. Back at Brown, Mitchell has casually realized the fantasy of being singularly summoned by an esteemed professor. "I've taught at this college for twenty-two years," the elder German man begins, as preface to a discussion of Mitchell's paper for the course "Religion and Alienation." "In all of that time, only once have I received a paper that displays the depth of insight and philosophical acumen that yours does . . ." (97). The professor proceeds to promise he would personally "see to it" that Mitchell would receive a full scholarship to Princeton Theological Seminary, "Or to Harvard or Yale Divinity School, if you so prefer." All this for a paper on which Mitchell had "worked hard but effortlessly."
For Leonard, Mitchell's foil, intellectual work is similarly effortless. He is "the guy who could write a twenty-page paper on Spinoza with his left hand while playing chess with his right" (108). Yet, this genius, we find, as Eugenides' cadences shift, is haunted not only by desire and self-consciousness, but also by the perils of bipolar disorder. Leonard finds his own mania delightful, ecstatic, lit by fabulous desire, and responsible for bringing him the experience of ostensible transcendence. Such mania, however, is destructive to both its host and those around him. Reduced to a grim, lithium-induced, animal-level of functioning between mania and depression, Leonard is stripped of desire, performance, and insight. This is a state of no-self that he finds unbearable, debasing, yet one to which he must learn to habituate himself in order to survive.
Leonard, in conversation with Mitchell late in the book, poignantly states: "This is the deal with me . . . I'm ready to make the Kierkegaardian leap. My heart's ready. My brain's ready. But my legs won't budge. I can say 'Jump' all day long. Nothing happens" (401). Despite the sincerity of their desires to escape the claustrophobia of ego, Eugenides' characters cannot overcome their habituated skepticism and rationality.
Eugenides, then, offers a better diagnosis than cure. One character, a Christian living abroad, poses the challenge that the author leaves unanswered. "It's a funny thing," the believer tells Mitchell:
You're born in America. You grow up and what do they tell you? They tell you that you have a right to the pursuit of happiness. And that the way to be happy is to get a lot of nice stuff, right? I did all that. Had a house, a job, a boyfriend. But I wasn't happy. I wasn't happy because all I did every day was think about myself. I thought that the world revolved around me. But guess what? It doesn't. (215)
If the world doesn't revolve around "me," what does the world revolve around? Eugenides does not seem to agree that, as this woman proposes, the answer is the Christian God or salvation through Jesus Christ.
When a still small voice does reach Mitchell, it is in leafy New Jersey, at a Quaker meeting of Prius drivers, and it is to deliver mundane news on vocation and the resolution of the marriage plot. The "voice also told Mitchell that, in addition to never living with Madeleine, he would never go to divinity school, either. It was unclear what he was going to do with his life, but he wasn't going to be a monk, or a minister, or even a scholar. . . . But that was all the understanding the Light brought him" (405). This domestic mystical experience, born of weekly practice and received in community, is the only insight Mitchell is offered.
Eugenides offers a handful of characters who do escape the rule of attachment and longing. Yet, rather than moving fluidly into a mystical experience of greater reality, these figures have come to live a quotidian life of nonattachment. One eloquent ascetic life is that of the scientist MacGregor, who is amused rather than gratified by receiving the Nobel Prize. Focused instead on the satisfaction she receives from watching her dog run the length of the beach, MacGregor declares: "I don't know why it makes me so happy to watch my dog run." She further notes: " 'She's not very attached to me. . . . She'll go to anyone. If I died, she'd forget me in a second. Wouldn't you?' she said, calling the poodle over and scratching her vigorously under the chin. ''Yes, you would. You would, you would' " (201).
In the end, for all the time, plot, and character rendition that Eugenides realizes through a discussion of religion, the authorial voice does not give much reflection to theology or metaphysics. Mitchell's and Leonard's world is not one in which God is present, but hidden or manifesting in glimpses of immanence. God is always elsewhere: not in Providence, and not in Detroit in the Greek Orthodoxy of Mitchell's own family. The novel's prose is not enriched by metaphorical use of religious language or imagery. Religious seeking becomes merely an idiosyncratic trope in a world of keg parties, graduate school admissions anxieties, American Express checks, and Riverside Drive real estate deals.
Thus, The Marriage Plot leaves us with an excellent bibliography, ranging from the medieval mystics to Tolstoy to eponymous Victorian plot writers to late-twentieth-century semioticians. But Eugenides himself, for all the wary integrity that he is willing to grant the religious pilgrimage into this late age, poses little escape from the drama and angst of the immanent frame. What he offers in counsel to his generation is less "Seek God" than "Get a dog."
Mara Willard, MDiv '04, PhD '11, is Lecturer on Religion and Society at Harvard Divinity School, 2012–13.
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You won't often find bugs on the menu in Houston, but that's not to say that Houston chefs don't know how to cook them. Still, even though they may know how to cook them up, you're not going to find a lot of folks who refer to themselves as a Bug Chef. There is one local cook, however, that wears the title proudly. Meet Melissa Hudnall, Bug Chef at HMNS, who was kind enough to sit down with us for Chef Chat to share her story. She also makes a pretty good batch of Chex Mix (with crickets).


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The Legion of Christ is a religious congregation of pontifical right, founded in 1941. Its mission is to extend the Kingdom of Christ in society according to the requirements of Christian justice and charity, and in close collaboration with the bishops and the pastoral plans of each diocese. Today the Legion has 3 bishops, 889 priests, and 2,373 religious, novices, candidates, and students in the apostolic schools in houses in 22 countries.
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Training staff and volunteers
Working with a team can be a big help as you create your makerspace environment. Let's take a look at how you can train volunteers and staff to support your makerspace.
In-person training
We recommend visiting an established makerspace or fablab in your area to get hands-on experience with equipment and see their team structure before opening your makerspace. Most community makerspaces have open days and training sessions on all their equipment. Getting to know experts in these spaces is always a good idea too, as they could help you with activities, as well as upskilling other members of your faculty in future.
Picademy is the Raspberry Pi Foundation's free face-to-face professional development programme that supports educators throughout their digital making and computing journey. This two-day training event is held at venues around the UK and North America. After completing the programme, educators join a community of passionate digital making practitioners.
World-renowned authors of Invent to Learn Gary Stager and Sylvia Martinez run an annual in-person multi-day workshop in the US, called Constructing Modern Knowledge. In addition, Gary and Sylvia will come to you and run an event where you are. You can find their calendar of events and contact details on their website.
Online training
There are good online training resources for learning about specific equipment such as 3D printed: How To Use A 3D Printer by ALISON is a respected free course. Lynda offers a more detailed course called Up and Running with 3D Printing. Lynda charges a monthly subscription, but you get 10 days free, plenty of time to view just the one course.
The Maker Education Initiative created a set of video modules to aid educators to set up informal clubs for young people in their communities. They include details on the Young Makers programme and how to get involved in the initiative.
At the Raspberry Pi Foundation, we recently launched a new way for people to learn about computing: free online training courses, available to anyone, anywhere in the world. You are taking one right now! They include skills training, for example regarding physical computing with Python and Raspberry Pi or object-oriented programming, while also helping you develop good pedagogical practice.
Conferences and meetups
There are Maker Faires all over the world. Celebrations of the maker movement, they're family-friendly showcases of inventiveness, creativity, and resourcefulness allowing members of the maker movement to exhibit their builds, share their skills through workshops, and talk about their experiences.
The Mozilla Foundation run an annual festival in London, UK, known as MozFest. It brings together like-minded developers, journalists, young people, scientists, and educators from across the globe to celebrate the open internet movement. Openness is a core value of the maker movement, and many of the workshops and talks at this event include digital making.
Additional resources
There is no substitute for a good book or guide to help direct professional development in education innovation. Here is a list of some that might be useful to you:
- The Makerspace Playbook school edition
- Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom by Sylvia Libow Martinez & Gary Stager
- Worlds of Making: Best Practices for Establishing a Makerspace for Your School by Laura Fleming
- Your Starter Guide to Makerspaces by Nicholas Provenzano
For your ambitions to be realized, you are going to need both practical and emotional support from other people! Finding allies within your community will help secure the legacy of your project, and finding external support will help you to keep inspired and to get the most out of your makerspace.
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How to Evaluate a Lending Club Loan
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I have been using Lending Club to build a small alternative investment portfolio since early 2009. One of the reasons that I got into peer-to-peer lending, though I have initially resisted the idea, is that the returns I got from savings account were just too low. In the past two years since I started, I have gradually built up my portfolio to 350 loans with a total value of nearly $6,000. It's still quite small comparing to what we have in the stock market, but quite large in my view given the risk involved in p2p lending.
After two years with Lending Club, I found myself becoming more and more conservative in selecting which loans to fund. It's not an attempt to diversify because I don't think you can really diversify Lending Club loans. Rather, it's more careful with loan selection. At the beginning, I mostly went after low Grade C & D loans because I wanted to have a better return. That, however, led to a bunch of defaults and charge offs since last summer that severely lowered my return (I currently have 13 defaults). Now, I look for Grad A and B loans most of the time. Though a direct result of being more selective is, again, that the expected return is reduced, I hope it can eventually improve the investment performance. But that's not guaranteed because there is just so much information you can use to scrutinize a borrower and while everything looks fine on paper, lot of unexpected event could happen and the next thing you know, the borrower passed away, lost the job, or filed for bankruptcy, and the loan defaulted. Those all happened to me at some points.
Anyway, I am trying to explain in the following what I look when evaluating a loan list on Lending Club for those who are interested but are yet in peer-to-peer lending and hopefully get some feedback from others who also invest with Lending Club.
For every listed loan, the details are divided into six parts, including Loan Details, Borrower's Profile, Borrower's Credit History, Loan Description, Borrower's Affiliations, and Questions & Answers. Each part carries some information that can help me determine whether I want to lend my money to the borrower or not.
Loan Details
Loan details give me a quick summary of the loan I am interested in. In addition to loan amount, purpose, monthly payment, grade and rate, and status, I also pay close attention to the percentage of funding received and the total number of lenders committed to the loan since the date the request is submitted. The reason is clear: Since I am not the only one lending money to the borrower (if it's a large loan, there will be a lot of lenders to fund the loan), I want to get a sense how other people feel about the borrower. Every lender evaluates the loan independently using his/her own criteria and priorities. If a large number of people signed up to fund the loan in a short period of time since it was listed, then there's a consensus on the trustworthiness of the borrower. And that could make me feel a little bit comfortable about lending the money to the borrower as well. If, on the other hand, a long time has past and the loan is still not fully funded, then I will be cautious too.
The size of the loan, in addition to its purpose, also plays a role, quite an important one actually. Now I generally avoid loans that are $15,000 or more.
Borrower's Profile
The borrower's profile tells me the borrower's employment, homeownership, and most importantly, monthly gross income and the debt-to-income ratio (DTI). According to Lending Club, the DTI is calculated with the borrower's monthly debt payment obligation (from the borrower's credit report) divided by monthly income. However, this calculation does not include mortgage accounts or the loan's expected monthly payment. Honestly, I found this calculation quite weird though. The monthly loan payment as well as mortgage should be included in the DTI calculation in my opinion. What's the likelihood of making late payment for the borrower who, for example, makes $2,500 every month but has to pay $500 monthly loan payment and $800 mortgage payment on top of $1,000 revolving credit balance? So in the case, I won't simply look at the DTI and conclude that the borrower has a low debt obligation if the DTI is low. I will instead combine the borrower's income, monthly payment, mortgage/rent payment, and credit card balance to determine the debt-to-income ratio.
Borrower's Credit History
In fact, I don't too much attention to the borrower's credit score because, as we know, a lot of factores could affect a person's credit score. If the borrower only has a short credit history, his/her credit score won't be high, but that doesn't mean the borrower is not responsible. When reviewing the borrower's credit history, obvious information such as delinquencies are important, so are the borrower's revolving credit balance, credit utilization ratio, and recent inquires. A high utilization ratio is alarming, but not necessarily mean the borrower abuses his/her credit (if, for instance, the borrower maxed out a 0% APR card he/she recently obtained, the ratio is likely higher). While I won't focus too much on the credit score itself, I will, however, try to get a little more information if the borrower's credit score dropped since the loan was initially listed.
BTW, the borrower's credit history shows when the earliest credit was opened. I will be more interested in when the latest credit was opened.
Loan Description
The borrower gives potential lenders the story on why the money is needed and what it is for. However, since the description is not verified by Lending Club or anybody, there's no way to tell whether what were told are true ot not. In general, I'd prefer a borrower tells us a story than those who didn't say anything. I noticed lately that more and more people are using Lending Club to consolidate their credit card debt by getting rid of high interest rates credit cards and using Lending Club's low interest loans instead.
Borrower's Affiliation
Here I can get a feeling of whether the borrower has a stable job, thus a stable income. In this economic environment, layoffs are massive and everywhere. A stable job (if there's one) means payments are unlikely to be interrupted.
Questions & Answers
If I still have questions after going through all the information above, I can write to the borrower in the Q&A part, asking for clarification. For example, I mentioned that I will take the borrower's monthly mortgage/rent payment into account when calculating the DTI, but the information is not directly provided in the borrower's profile. I will need to ask the borrower to give me a number. Actually, I can submit any relevant question to the borrower in the Q&A section. If the borrower clearly answered my questions to my satisfaction, then I will be happy to fund the loan. If the borrower isn't straightforward, then I'd rather stay away.
Final Thoughts
On one hand, I want to protect myself by avoiding investing in loans that appear to be too risky. On the other hand, peer-to-peer lending itself carries a significant level of risk. During the loan selection process, I want to evaluate every piece of information carefully from the beginning so I won't regret my decision should something bad happen later. However, there's no guarantee that a loan will stay current through out the 36-month period. The risk is always there. If you want to get into the P2P lending business through Lending Club, doing your homework (evaluating each loan thoroughly and carefully) may reduce the risk of default of your investment, but can't avoid it. That's why you could receive much better return from lending to other people than to banks
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Cornerstone Maths is a set of targeted curriculum units of work for key stage 3 maths that help pupils achieve deep learning of the most difficult mathematics concepts through guided explorations and activities that use dynamic technology to foster reasoning and collaboration.
The three curriculum units address:
- Algebraic patterns and expressions: the concept of an algebraic variable; describing repeating patterns using algebra; and justifying algebraic equivalence.
- Linear functions: controlling and describing linear motion using animations, graphs, tables and equations; exploring y=mx+c as a model for linear motion and describing piece-wise linear functions.
- Geometric similarity: identifying the variants and invariants in shapes that are mathematically similar and recognising the one-to-one geometric correspondence of sides and vertices within mathematically similar polygons.
Professional development (PD) is another key facet of the project. Schools currently using Cornerstone Maths report school-wide change in the way teachers approach mathematics education for students of different ages and abilities.


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Villa Agape (***). Tel: +39 055220044, Tel/Fax: +39 0552337012.
Via Torre del Gallo 8, 50125 Firenze
web: http://www.villaagape.it/it/index.php
x=74 B/B, xx=104 B/B (low season); x=124 B/B, xx=144 B/B
Comment: private parking, green area, free Wifi, shuttle bus from/to down town, concierge service (italian, german, english and french), within walking distance from Observatory and Villa Il Gioiello.
Hotel Classic (***). Tel: +39 055229351, Fax: +39 055229353
Viale Machiavelli 25, 50125 Firenze
web: http://www.classichotel.it
x=80B/B, DUS=90B/B, xx=122B/B
Notes: ring up hotel when back later than 01.00 am
Comment: very elegant, green area, perfect position, very close to Porta Romana square (i.e. midway between the observatory and the historical centre), private parking, easy to reach any way.
Hotel Villa Betania (***). Tel/Fax: +39 055222243, +39 0554640066.
Viale del Poggio Imperiale 23, 50125 Firenze.
web: http://www.villabetania.it
x=93B/B, xx=115B/B, DUS=93
Comment: very good to reach by car, private parking, green area, the closest to the Observatory, not very close to the historical centre.
Istituto Gould (guest house). Tel: +39 055212576, Fax: +39 055280274
Via dei Serragli 49, 50124 Firenze
web: http://www.istitutogould.it
xB=41, xsB=36, xxB=54(rooms on road) or 58(internal), xxsB=50
Notes: no phone in room (it is possible to receive calls through reception desk). Booking: only advance payment by bank or post, or TL, no c/card. Reception desk: Mon-Fri 8.45-13/15-19.30, Sat 9-13.30/14.30-18.00, sun/holidays closed. Cars: go to garage Porta Romana in Via dei Serragli 212r.
Comment: the cheapest one but tidy, close to the historical centre, difficult for cars.
Fiorenza Bed & Breakfast Tel: +39 0552322183, Fax: +39 0299986474, Cell Ph: +39 3355419142.
Via Grecchi 36, 50125 Firenze
web: http://www.fiorenzabb.it
No xB, DUS=60, xxB=70, xxxB=80 (all prices obviously B/B)
Notes: no smoking rooms only.
Comment: small (just four rooms), cheap but highly refined lodging, as visible from its web site. Service is accurate, and all rooms have satellite TV and air conditioning, while a web connection is available in the common room. Opened in 2003, extremely quiet and silent, offers also a fresh garden during summer. Easy parking (three places in a closed area plus space in the quiet road) and easy to reach by car, with also a number of car services at close distance, but not very near to the centre (with anyway a bus stop close by).
Hotel Boboli (**). Tel: +39 0552298645, +39 0552336518, Fax: +39 0552337169
Via Romana 63, 50125 Firenze
web: http://www.hotelboboli.com
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The Lanka Teachers' Union state that a large number of discrepancies have occurred when initiating transfers for teachers from National Schools.
Speaking to our news team the secretary of the LTU Mahinda Jayasinghe stated that the existing teacher transfer policy has been violated due to this and that if no justice is done for the teachers affected by this, legal steps will be taken.
However, speaking at a press conference held recently Minister of Education Bandula Gunawardena stated that teacher transfers will be initiated correctly from this year.


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For an outfit often accused of underselling its product, the European Tour is learning fast. Witness its decision to send out the three-ball of Lee Westwood, Martin Kaymer and Tiger Woods for the opening two rounds of the Dubai Desert Classic.
The world's three top-ranked players – whoever they are – usually play in the same event around 10 times a season but almost never together. Famously, Woods and Phil Mickelson spent the best part of a decade as the world's two best players yet when they played in the opening two rounds of a PGA Tour event they played on opposite ends of the draw – one in the morning, the other in the afternoon.
No doubt some tour apparatchik with a clipboard would explain why this was so – health and safety, perhaps, or maybe there was an unwritten rule that, whenever possible, the golfing public should be denied what it wanted.
Anyway, whatever the reasoning behind this perverse policy it apparently no longer stands, with the PGA Tour conceding a couple of weeks ago that it would be manipulating its so-called "blind draw" (the one that magically kept Mickelson and Woods apart for so long) with a view to producing some marquee groupings, and talking points for the benefit of television and by extension the viewing public. Hence, we had Woods and Rocco Mediate paired together for the first two days of Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines – the venue where they famously contested a play-off for the 2008 US Open.
The European Tour has never had, or rather could never afford, such qualms when it comes to such attention-seeking ploys. Being the plucky underdog, it couldn't afford to.
Still, when the idea of having Westwood, Kaymer and Woods in the same three-ball in Dubai was floating around there was a little scepticism. Perhaps they wouldn't want to be grouped together. Perhaps it was asking too much of the stewards to becalm the inevitable throng. Perhaps it would be too hurtful to the other 135 players in the field to discover no one in Dubai was interested in watching them at work. If such concerns were raised – and it is doubtful that they were – they were dismissed by the tour. So Westwood, Kaymer and Woods it is; 12.20pm local time, Thursday. Be there or be square.
Yet if the European Tour deserves congratulations for its sense of theatre, it cannot be expected to guarantee anything other than that the gladiators will turn up on time. Fireworks are to be hoped for, but they should not be expected – as anyone by the 1st tee on the last occasion the world's top three were grouped together, at Torrey Pines in 2008, will testify.
The atmosphere was electric when Woods, Mickelson and Adam Scott stepped up that day, but the competition turned out to be dimmer than a 40-watt bulb. Woods played decently, Scott was his usual anonymous self and Mickelson's main contribution to the gaiety of the occasion was his daft decision to play without a driver. The real competition – and what a competition it turned out to be – didn't get going until the weekend, when Mediate and Westwood got involved. It was ever thus in 72-hole tournament golf, where the opening two days are usually bereft of real drama and the main aim of those taking part is not to play themselves out of contention. It's a dreary old cliché, admittedly, but that doesn't mean it isn't true.
Still, if Thursday's three-ball will inevitably fall short of expectations it should still provide a fascinating snapshot of where golf's balance of power lies, particularly in relation to Kaymer, who many people believe is the best player in the world.
The German, of course, has already proved himself in the big time, winning his first major championship in a play-off at the PGA Championship last year. The first two days of the Dubai Desert Classic can hardly match Whistling Straits when it comes to defining Kaymer except in one way; he will know this world is watching and perhaps more importantly he will know Westwood and Woods, who he defers to when the discussion turns to his claims on being the world's best player, will be watching.
Does he have the game, and the fortitude, to withstand the scrutiny? If he does the answer is yes, and if he can go on to win the tournament on Sunday, then not even Martin Kaymer will be able to deny that Martin Kaymer is the best golfer in the world.


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Gold futures rallied to their highest level in two weeks late Wednesday in electronic trading.
Many gold investors settled on the notion that the Federal Reserve was actually dovish—in favor of maintaining low interest rates—despite the central bank leaving an interest-rate rise on the table for September.
"The Fed has had numerous opportunities to normalize rates over the past two years and have squandered them all," said Peter Hug, global trading director at Kitco Metals Inc. in an emailed note after the Fed statement.
After gold futures settled Wednesday, the Fed said it decided to keep its benchmark fed-funds rate unchanged in a range between 0.25% and 0.5%. That was widely expected, but it also hinted that a rate increase was possible at its next meeting in September.
Read:Fed appears more willing to lift interest rates in September
"True to form, they left enough language in today's release to leave September on the table," said Hug.
"In my opinion, the judgment of Fed members notwithstanding, what choice do they have but to leave the possibility of a rate hike on the table?," he asked. "They would look like total buffoons, if they reversed course now."
To some traders, the Fed's updated policy statement emphasized a reluctance to lift rates too quickly, in the wake of the U.K.'s decision to exit the European Union, which can be supportive for gold futures.
At 4:30 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday, December gold US:GCZ6 traded at $1,348.80 an ounce, up by more than $14 from the $1,334.50 the most-active contract settled at Wednesday, ahead of the Fed news.
"Speculation that the Fed might broadcast a more hawkish tone did not materialize," said Michael Armbruster, principal and co-founder at Altavest.
But "either way, going in to today's Fed announcement was likely a win/win for gold," he said. "If the Fed had sounded more hawkish, stocks might have reacted more negatively and that would have supported gold."
On Thursday, December gold settled at its highest in about two weeks.
Kitco's Hug referred to late Wednesday's spike as a "scrambling short-covering rally," that may set up prices for a test of the $1,355 level.
If gold prices top that, they have the potential to hit a 2016 high of $1,376 an ounce, he said.
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AIA|DC releases winning design
By Philip Kennicott
The local District chapter of the American Institute of Architects has chosen a design team for its newly leased space on Seventh St. NW, in the bustling Penn Quarter district. The winner is Hickok Cole, a large, locally based architecture and design firm with a huge portfolio of office, interior and residential work. They rose to the top in a competition to create a new public outreach space, and offices, for the AIA|DC, which wants to connect its work more directly with the public.
The renderings show a lot of glass, and the accompanying press release describes the design this way: The "design concept evolved from a conviction that the project should express light, transparency and a connection to the city." The competition was judged by a six-member jury which considered 17 proposals submitted by local architecture firms.
The rendering looks clean and professional. But... Is this really the best idea that came out of the competition? It looks like generic office space, indistinguishable from the slick, bland interiors of buildings that house Washington's ample supply of lobbyists and lawyers and associations. Was there nothing submitted that might actually make a progressive statement about design in Washington? That would advance the AIA|DC's interest in promoting Washington as a home for innovative architecture? No doubt when it is finished it will do the job that is asked of it, will look professional and fit comfortably into its environment. But will it say anything?
Just asking.
Philip Kennicott
| October 25, 2010; 8:06 AM ET
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PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 08, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- VenueLytics, provider of fully integrated venue management, predictive intelligence, and data analytics platform, today announced VenueLytics VL SMB. The new platform enables independent hospitality businesses like restaurants, hotels, bars, nightclubs, casinos, and more, to add automated revenue boosting services.
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The platform enables business owners to manage and automate all of their services on one easy to use platform to increase customer acquisition. VL SMB includes:
Venues can track and engage customers in real-time via a white-labeled app, social media, website, and/or through the "ItzFun!" consumer app.
"The plug and play platform allows venues to choose and activate services with the click of a button, while eliminating the complexities of managing different services from multiple vendors. In addition, our services provide a memorable customer experience for guests and patrons through automation, real-time engagement and business analytics," said Baskar Manivannan, co-founder and CEO of VenueLytics. "It's a digital concierge platform that offers real-time integrated proprietary services, which is an enhanced and cost effective alternative to similar services offered by companies like Yelp, OpenTable, Ticketmaster, and other vendors".
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Eater of Worlds
Raid Completion
Raid Lairs are a whole new development for Destiny 2. Eater of Worlds is an expansion to the Leviathan Raid with brand new challenges and rewards. The Guardian.Services raid team was one of the first 10 teams to complete this activity! If you need help, we've got you covered. Play with the best raiders in the game or have us complete it for you while you are away. Streaming options are also available.
Normal Mode:
- 2 Rewards from the EoW loot pool (Armor pieces, Shotgun, Grenade Launcher)
- Calus's Elite – Shader
- Extra Raid Chest Opened – Ring Chest
- Calus Tokens – To redeem for more gear
- Emperors Envy Emblem (Tracks number of EoW completions)
Prestige Mode:
- 400 Power Weapon (1 Random Raid Weapon)
- Prestige Armor Ornament Progression
- Chance at the Telesto Catalyst
- Calus's Preferred – Shader
- Extra Raid Chest Opened – Ring Chest
- Calus Tokens – To redeem for more gear
- Covetous Emperor – Emblem
Normal Mode:
- Must have completed campaign – You do not need to have the Leviathan raid completed to do a raid lair.
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A recent genome-wide association study (GWAS) found that single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in CR1 exhibited the third highest association with genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease (AD), following only ApoE and ApoJ. Three non-overlapping GWAS efforts have confirmed a highly significant CR1 SNP association with AD risk. The overall goal of the present project is to fill in two major gaps left by the GWAS reports. 1) How is CR1 functionally altered in AD? and 2) To what extent do CR1 polymorphisms account for the functional alterations? These two issues are linked in our proposal by a reverse-engineering strategy that will first assess functional CR1 changes in AD, then use that information to identify the responsible CR1 SNPs.
Specific Aim 1. Identify abnormalities in CR1 protein molecular weight, expression, binding, or function in AD and ND subjects. Despite its association with AD risk, CR1 is actually very poorly expressed in brain. Instead, its primary roles are regulation of spontaneous complement activation and clearance of pathogens and immune complexes (ICs)-both of which occur almost exclusively in the peripheral circulation.
Aim 1 will therefore evaluate CR1 structure, expression, binding, complement regulation, and pathogen/IC clearance in blood samples from 300 AD and 300 ND subjects using ELISA, Western blot, complement activation and other techniques with which the investigators have documented expertise. SNPs themselves do not cause disease risk;functional changes induced by SNPs do. Testing mechanisms of CR1 function in AD is therefore an essential first step in understanding the full significance of AD-related CR1 polymorphisms.
Specific Aim 2. Test the extent to which the CR1 protein abnormality or abnormalities identified in Aim 1 are linked to specific CR1 gene polymorphisms. Previous GWAS analyses were able to sample only a small fraction of the 476 known SNPs in CR1, and the CR1 SNPs they identified turn out to be in non- coding regions. The elucidation of exact, risk-enhancing SNPs, however, entails many well known challenges and thousands of samples. We have therefore chosen the more modest goal of seeking functional correlates. Using the Aim 1 samples, a RainDance enrichment approach will be employed to select for the CR1 genomic region, followed by bar-coded next generation sequencing on the Illumina GA HiSeq instrument. CR1 SNPs will then be tested, within subjects, for association with any CR1 protein alterations found in Aim 1. A potential shortcut lies in the fact that nearly a dozen CR1 SNPs have already been linked to specific CR1 protein abnormalities in other disease contexts. Candidate SNPs will be further evaluated by site-directed mutagenesis to determine which of them recapitulates Aim 1 CR1 protein defects. An ultimate goal will be to perform validation and true risk assessment in a much larger sample population, an undertaking that would be warranted and facilitated by our prior identification of CR1 SNPs that induce specific CR1 functional alterations.
Large-scale studies have shown that possession of variants of the complement receptor 1 (CR1) gene is one of the greatest genetic risk factors for Alzheimer's disease. However, it is uncertain which CR1 gene variants are responsible, and little is known about how CR1, which is poorly expressed in the brain, might play a role. The proposed research seeks to identify specific functional abnormalities of CR1 in Alzheimer's disease, then link those abnormalities back to the gene variants that may cause them. By doing so, the true significance of CR1 to Alzheimer's can be understood, and treatments to address CR1 defects can be rationally developed.
|Johansson, Jenny U; Brubaker, William D; Javitz, Harold et al. (2018) Peripheral complement interactions with amyloid ? peptide in Alzheimer's disease: Polymorphisms, structure, and function of complement receptor 1. Alzheimers Dement 14:1438-1449
|Crane, Andrés; Brubaker, William D; Johansson, Jenny U et al. (2018) Peripheral complement interactions with amyloid ? peptide in Alzheimer's disease: 2. Relationship to amyloid ? immunotherapy. Alzheimers Dement 14:243-252
|Brubaker, William D; Crane, Andrés; Johansson, Jenny U et al. (2017) Peripheral complement interactions with amyloid ? peptide: Erythrocyte clearance mechanisms. Alzheimers Dement 13:1397-1409
|Fonseca, Maria I; Chu, Shuhui; Pierce, Aimee L et al. (2016) Analysis of the Putative Role of CR1 in Alzheimer's Disease: Genetic Association, Expression and Function. PLoS One 11:e0149792


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Somersworth, Strafford County, New Hampshire Genealogy
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Early records. Information about early residents of Somersworth before 1680 may be found in Norfolk (old) County records. Norfolk (old) County was discontinued in 1680, but her records are still available.[1] For more details about these early records see Norfolk (old) County, Massachusetts Genealogy.
Town Clerk[edit | edit source]
Somersworth City Clerk
1 Government Way
Somersworth, NH 03878
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ "Old Norfolk County Records," Essex Antiquarian 1, no. 2 (February 1897), 19-20. Part of NEHGS American Ancestors Search. At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Film 599729 Item 2; Book 974.45 B2a.
Adjacent towns: Strafford Co.: Dover | Rochester | Rollinsford | Maine: York Co.: Berwick | Eliot | South Berwick


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