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Chris Hughes and Larry Kramer Dive Into Media
The business of news is a hard one, but at least two people running publishing institutions say they're optimistic. For the moment, printed publications are valuable because they're an established way to make money, said Chris Hughes, publisher and editor in chief of the New Republic, and Larry Kramer, president and publisher of USA Today, speaking at D: Dive Into Media.
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... we are bringing out were called in ... publishing ... one is Larry Kramer from USA today is that the U ... S today and ... Chris Hughes who recently bought the public gets Facebook at ... the back who is now ... trying to make it in the magazine business in the big things magazine business ... really interesting times for companies like these I'll publishers are ... trying to start moving to the new world of no more significant way ... so without further ado Larry and Chris ... I ... I ... an unknown ... unknowns ... I'm a ... silly way I was saying wasn't things are changing ... nature of Hollywood ... or how it's going to be changing ... at that publishing is the one area that's really been under siege and probably along with music at more than any media ... that ... lots of the changes and leery that very night is can imagine this this is connected cameras is to sell that Mary gave me my first job in journalism ... sadly for most people that was what happened he was them and you can blame him ... paddling is that the wash impose his of a long history of publishing and Chris obviously is well known for being one of the founders Facebook ... and ... also now buying a new public moving into publishing moving backward some might say ... that it's over ... that's a debate with Boeing on publishing where we stay with you and ... your now you went from the wash impose the new study MarketWatch sold off ... and replace corrects the notice of the Oakland toothless that ... and then you moved into this job that it was an interesting choice that CBS and today he did a budget starts the plate that ... we see in any running one of the biggest news papers ... had three newspapers in America at a ... very ... was sort of way ahead of itself to look into all when it was founded I ... have a little Stuart Nuggets issuers that the graphics things like that ... why is that trouble was that ... well it yet so I love ... you use a live median and then feel like you've been a journalist around all of the ... different ... jobs ... but I thought it was actually a chance because he was such an iconic brand and so ... popular still a newspaper ... bid to help but the process of reinventing years ... the news was changing storytelling changing as we only heard many times over the last couple days ... and storytelling in news is changing ... and ask you because people are just consuming it and multiple different ways ... and if you have a brand as big as USA today have the resources ... as a as a start-up guy one and started MarketWatch all a really lesson afterwards ... the Kinder resources that the traditional guys that ... hundreds of reporters ... all kinds of power ... and an access ... and so we already have that serve the ability to to morph that into what was going to have to be seen double Eddie due to me ... but seems likely to get there quickly ... and many more for what were you what what is now speculation ... it's roughly a ... million six seven hundred thousand right aam almost all print which is different it's in print it's much bigger than everybody else ... thus the ... two papers that ... claim larger circulation is in your times of the Journal ... both the significant portion of that are digital subscriptions we haven't done that ... right um so ... we have a lot of print subscribers a lot of which are distributed through hotels write to or I get my stuff gets here of the tellers now ... um but you did did that what has to change is ... the attitude toward out what the consumer wants from a ... a print product of what they wanted all the rest of the platforms and we really ... we've made huge strides in the last six months ... tour de reporting ... the way that consumers are short Arctic irony is that a publication in in print and it's going to write you know ... I mean I was looking today at the ... paper today ... huge picture of the Pope in the ... Knesset aren't to our paper leaves with would effectively we use to call a second day lead ... in the newspaper world ... even though this happened yesterday and the if you look at the Ed aam ... reporting ... in most newspapers they still have what you would consider to be a first date lead ... looks like another first draft of history ... there are times leading with this happened ... no one I looked at the numbers yesterday during the day when people were reading ... our stories about the Pope which the story broke seven am our time in the east ... and ... him for the first three or four hours a day it was the Number one story that faded pretty quickly ... so become inclusion everybody knows so handing them a newspaper the next day that ... axes if it's the first or hearing something ... isn't very relevant you have to change with the newspaper does get that ... you have to add something to the story you have to be no could you buy ... something ... yet their voice you hafta Adages number of things you have to do to make a ... print product more relevant and to make a news organization relevant ... so Krista striker much smaller base New Republic was the sign Chris ... when he was a baby ... I was I was working in public that and a whiz at that time very big thought leaders in Washington Michael Kinsley a theater ... I'm so this small but powerful in a lot of ways ... then a Duane Reade and quickly ran into righty of ... the still the airport within ... the Beltway culture but not a lot of lives are impacted ... by the others ... when she bites ... he just lights up a pile of money and nothing to do what you pay ... money because they believed that good journalism that the Republicans historically done is ... a important to democracy ... some sites and is one one but I really do think that it's ... important to a government and society works and to ... I think it's all so aam ... under threat ... did you know figuring out a future for ... smart median age of of social media ... and ... digital in general is something of a lot of us are working on her snow ... on single big answer to a lot of problems but ... um you know making sure that this type of substantive oftentimes long form journalism survived only survives the worst is ... over the next ... the next ten or twenty years is something that ... and it's important recently I might flourishing because you know it's not very day it's still not very big in it you know how can it be saved ... without again and went to the wealth you have but it's a lot of these things can turn into a wealthy person just ... owning just to have it just to keep it protected ... it is not really prescription for business models plan for ending their ... money in these people ... but you know not everyone's can pick up the new Publix and all become great and ... I think we can be profitable ... aam ... does earlier this year not next year making it there's around ... to it part of that is when when you're highlighting which is a more ... aam narrow focus of a certain kind of audience people are college educated they tend to be ... politically curious but not politically obsessed they tend to be ... aam ... the type of people who enjoy reading longer pieces that night on weekends or mother commuting ... something to focus on demographic and provide product are willing to pay for and that ... advertisers um one two up one too ... I think we can reach a point where it's not sustainable ... I think when ... I mean this is what we mean a lot like this said no I'm not here to try to make ... a lot of money for myself and thinking of Williams but at a time I ... unexpected you um ... I also think that we haven't proved herself to the world that we can find a teacher for this type of journalism that is sustainable ... sustained wouldn't you mean by sustainable sectors mildly profitable or not ... taking too much than a year ... on ... I think it's I think it's possible I think that you know ... again it was time to to make a lot of money ... this is probably not the business you go into long from serious journalism but I think that the era when you get to ... really made a lot of money if it was ... ever really hated actually aam ... is is over so I can sustain was allowable profitability but not one where here ... you know ... for Bring businesses ... to make more money might stay there to do what what is your body's normal ... wheezing euro public they know I can get to me and I love how fast the unending awesome is that this ... is the can it do better mentality we need this for democracy in its unit in the coming weeks with linking me in and I think what is what is the purpose is that just because we needed around or ... or or or that is there something else that you can deliver this to more people yet what if we don't have invested in journalism it's hard to hold politicians accountable if we don't have ... some journals it's hard to know where the big ideas that are in society that are shaping ... how we live so ... you know what a little bit different from my freshman Republican ... it has ... been historically sounding political agenda ... don't think that there are no ax to grind no ... um ... no agenda to get past outside of ... making sure that ... insightful long form serious stuff ... it is now in the hands of people and I'm going to review mobile phone ... or on her to are on the tablet ... and a larger doses of the Forester and Facebook in two thousand for exams ... 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Nexen and that her co current ... school newspaper it's been a long standing interest ... of mine is just now ... and I'm ... really been able to ... dedicate myself to vote ... what you were to the wash impose which I know that this idea profitability of newspapers as he now Bush was using these big take yes and a lot of what paper that was sports in comics and ... other things less but as I advertising ... when you when you're looking at the economics of what's happening you know his you've been in ... major newspapers ... how do you look at it well is to bring about change dramatically so lovable it supported all that ... had nothing to do it in his favor tell that to do with the delivery system that can carry ... forty pages of classified into a house everyday right and that all went away ... so I think news organizations in the futures survive ... on on multiple revenue streams people ... will pay for content if it's can be in if they wanted ... um anything if it's the best that they can get and the most interesting they can get ... they'll read long form because you know the one of the watchdog ... that ... portion of what we do we are where where critical to the I think to the institutions ... of democratic institutions ... but their ... newsrooms ... today versus newsrooms ... when we're in the post ... are very different I think today's newsrooms are going to be built around ... them what they cover not around the medium ... we can't do that anymore they did that just a newspaper environment which supported a huge news operation ... but they can uncover Washington or they can cover ... of the country or they can cover financial loser sports ... and bake and um ... Express all bad news over multiple platforms give people what they want when they wanted as as reference before ... because their chat that's all changing how they wanted ... doesn't mean that you know what long form they will that also means though that there may be better ways to tell some long form stories in investigative piece ... may be told that they're sometimes using infographics using video using ... a number of times to know that I recommend this case they get on it was an unusual topic it was it was Apple ... right hand it was fantastic all it was a multiplatform storytelling and ... would not be ignored nowhere near that yet which is where we're going after the as journalists were going to have to learn how to tell stories ... using every form of media together ... um ... and we have to find the right business models around that we have to find ... you know what's ... ago when we charge and we need the models ... the way the way and video had local models they have cable they have TV and movies ... were given one final note that it's ... not uncommon on the map when it's time to knit with it is ... incredible journalists one because with texture the video ... on the invitations ... so I wait for the belly of the story right so dramatic ... that was before we resource intensive as well and so as much as they fight ... um was excited about that idea in the first thing I thought when I suspect this is the future books ... this is bad enough to show the future of newspapers or even ... magazine's poll suggests that we don't we're not always fortune enough to be in the middle of something that's happening like that ... but you know when ... his brakes weren't brakes not where we positioned reporters photographers and TV uppers right um so lot more of news going forward because of all the devices that happened ... in the newsgathering devices is going to ... come from the people are that there's can work and a half to crowd source a lot more ... information get comfortable with that ... and and and understand how that fits in so part of being in a successful news operation ... is helping people tell each other what's going on in USA Today's wee thing we think this today it'll work perfectly and I ... were to set up for that we're Americans pay yes we are and we yet we really liked it agreed to waive Nearly reflex you live or coming through two ... pounds for a visit to Aunt ... Erin ... ahead I'll stipulate that what ... what your highlighting where is that ... all Mr. listen we do start conversations ... and went into real religion didn't Republican other brands enjoying it to you even ... know what our reporter writes a piece whether it's compromising on the web ... used one to snare new dawn ... write to you birthday ... and now ... it's the beginning not only are you there to ... promote it on Twitter on Facebook and to engage in dialogue ... we're trying to cure the conversations that are happening on the social network's about it ... provides footnotes in notes of further reading references inside ... margin alia of each piece to China given the dimensions ... that's um that it deserves but ... you know it's it's still ... where's the difficulty of doing that the reporters that no interested in them I ... might just be that would be an issue I do think the only three point lead in the nation now that use the Tuesday reported that of a newspaper and say ... you get to ensure a lot of murkiness manna from ... where they were taking as CVS is ... on to the Web and didn't really wanna if you saw what they wrote in a misty with him on the right of religious that's not their skill set ... but increasingly where we are ... training young journalists ... to tell their stories every way they can and they have to access ... the ability to see is that ... the reporters he had ... roughly two or three hundred I guess you need that many ... that is ... not a fair question I think it in the long run I think you'll see ... more of a variable ... called a variable expense news operation one where ... um you have specialists to write when there ... when you need them to read on the topic and ... maybe that's not full time ... they do other things as well ... aam but we right now ... that we use reporters we have well ... were transform a lot of the judicial report is their job to change dramatically in the news to be in our paper like most ... of the digital meant you know flashing the alert that something happened and then start work in the next day's paper and will run wires on the ... and that's not the way we do to a more now you have to we have to be ... unique and different on every platform or else we're not can it survive ... so reporters are having to do multiple things down having to do ... is take multiple looks at the same subject embrace it and change write a story of the web that ... it looks different two hours later looks different in the paper ... even after that ... bus there experts on the onthe subject have become experts on a living subject ... and cover it and it is a lot of editors newspaper despite the park ... to use two one deadline day in ... and in how much on the matter Reckitt's finish is you know but you know we always had the chance you ... when you are there ... no with the big story broke on Monday we have two teams coverage of the team covered for the next day ... that the group reporters that would cover for Sunday ... and in variable eat you know the big taking this was a movie theater fire ... baby due the take get a movie theater fires all over the country right ... invariably they come into my office on Thursday and say ... no if you just ask one more week ... this thing's going to be sensational ... and I had to say if I give you one more week you know that the people read that story will read because their interest in movie theater prices have begun by the middle of next week ... so that that natural tension over what comes first ... serving the reader instead of our own ... our own ... abilities their own instincts ... you have to do that only now it's a wonder no one my phone ... when something has happened I don't wanna wait until tomorrow's newspaper or ... even tonight's TV report or even one make sure my computer I wanna get back to work ... and and so certainly have to play the tension all the time to decide what's for for getting this out first or guinea a little bit better little that better a little bit better ... and that skinny keep changing with each divisive and the ability of people again is why anyone even a bit ... of accounting lecture speculation ... portrait of twenty four thousand small there is always and ... director ... and its persuaded the time of magazines of thirty five he reached hundred and ten around to the still small ... town to ... its publication has a very specific demographic right people like Ren to publication ... for the moment we make money on brand ... name ... and by that I mean we take an approach which is different from Kosmina magazines where says a person subscribers ... up ... we ... what we have some cost to print magazine into on ... target to distribute it ... we ... will really make money that goes to support its work on creative work ... there were doing aam we must take an ... approach to this tomato anticipating ... known ten years from now or fifteen years from now when print isn't as dominant as it may as it is today ... you missed thirty five bucks you get a few things you get ... aam I'd had access to Vietnam and additional access to get on eel versions of all of our content you get ... cool features like roster by sinking to start reading an article in the half way through it ... would begin backup on your own ... Hit subscriber only and ends ... as a subscriber mean something much broader in the nineties ... Li BankSwitcher won't look it's it's all we have the same day shipping we have ... just a portion of our revenue comes from it ... um ... I I wish I could explain this you why this happening but ... month of January for USA today we sold more advertising to get to live with the result last year ... so there's there's ... advertising goes like this it just you can't ... always predict it ... so pray never ties is actually was was strong presses past month ... aam did eleven Tyson also goes like this you know we see it ... pop where projecting huge gains in ... India till advertising we've seen some in January but not where we'd like it today but ... it was printed to this over the top this month ... and in so doing both ... I think that I think we do believe print still has some future at a ... pivot say how long or what now but people still want print ... and we're watching consumption throughout the day of where people consumer products trade still dominates a lot of the morning ... um you see ... you see at the use of um of ... computers and phones throughout the day you see ... Pat tablets be a kind of in the morning but also very big in the early evening is ... sometimes a second ... screen this ... time TV tonight ... see you want to know is he going to these forms of media seem to have strong points in ... areas where people want and certainly in a hotel room we found that people love to have a USA today in the hotels continue to tell is that so ... we assumed for some period of time maybe people don't like to turn on a device with a traveling ... some people so we where we have to watch and I don't think we're in a position to tell you ... how quickly or how slowly the evolution will occur when the digital product comes along that replicates print enough just to ... say we don't need print this looks like print feels like bread but ... we can updated over the years to accuse this ... I don't know but we we have to give news of people we have to give them what they want when they wanted and it has to be a high quality were ... at the American people often forget that if they didn't open the presents not just about Credit DD tangible item ... it's about cheer even use its experience ... and where the weather here you know you are following links that are interesting to you when you pick up a print magazine and pick up the print paper you're reading infuriated at and where we styled product which is ... Mormon experience and is on an axis that and so ... even if prices intangible product ... aam continues to decline I still ... really believe that ... there's a future for what has traditionally been considered a print magazine it may just be ... securing an app on your I pad or on ... the holiday I made it ... a little the same content plays differently ... imprint that does is let me start a feature called TV on the way ... that which the amino acid guys who run this is about them this is about all the great ... high quality TV being produced just some additional flatly that there's no TV guide for it right so we decided to create one ... in the paper it's it's about this but space of our TV grid listings ... Avici tot hour by hour but it's it's by channels we had maybe thirty or forty ... things was to be tonight at it we think are pretty cool you to go to and see ... if you wanna watch TV level highly produced not that that you do but ... you know what it is a good idea to that's fine ... um ... on the way that it took on a different life it's the same content on the web ... but we let you search it we let you stay with us in the comedies ... and accuse you become a sum that night in the comedies from the last several weeks plus they don't go way digitally ... sort becomes this different product that you use interactive Lee ... and if you say Lily was he coming tonight you go the website you ... you click on come easy to see every comedy go find on it did lead me when he hadn't thought about three weeks ago ... but in the newspaper it's a highly curated ... top thirty or so things that we ... to go spend a lot of time to save you the time of looking at an as a finite moment ... he sat there you go I wanna go watch TV tonight ... I got two minutes on with a look at the TV listings page it's gotta be getting in and it doesn't ... you know type search something and get the word hello ZF I would suggest though it's not ... to carry ... eventually useful against any amount they owe people look for ideas they look for curation rightly that we said that I was I ration ... whether mean my Mikey was here for for for experience and ... where is there is duration going on there is a level of cash ... for for their securities ... are slightly to rate you know the kind of additional person you are right ... shares in a different into aggregation curious ... it's like no time ... to do when you chew ... aam does that specific about it but I feel like ... when you carried something it is a balance on experience for your reading for when you expect to ... ALM be interested in each piece where is aggregating is again about ... um only driven ... environment one is where you trust sort of and I'm ... people chakra had created an experience for you and the others about ... again ... just add a few different things that you might be interested ... to me this YouTube really does if governments have ... come for Facebook ... he worked there and that's really relatively early and seven and seven ... I'm ... here you are working on something that was highly digital obviously ... I'm ... you mention them being important content spacers and just this link driven thing you're talking about is that is that the role for for Facebook or whoever you think of is that ... it is a figure into your what you're trying to do yet you see over a quarter of the traffic now coming from ... from social media from Facebook and ... Twitter um so I think of pointing to miserable there for Facebook Facebook I think that is an interesting ... challenge to make this has been used in products and right now ... the teams were war ... images ... a lot more than they do ... links in the tech journalists and we do so perhaps it's just a temporary thing and ... as they constantly change these and other events ... on the teams with a reward but it means that for ... companies like ours we spend ... on probably more time thinking about Twitter an environment where people are passing around links ... there than we do with on ... with with Facebook but with the social network's have a really hard ... core role to play and I think when people to our brands and ... if it hopes a brand like ours where you know if you haven't before ... we need more more exposure and the number people who knew or public dot com ... on a given day is last in the number of people who might get pointed to the public to come through ... aam three Social so it's it introduces an un branded demographic ... ever met estimates of getting into the content business ... I don't know I mean I don't know if I don't see within the DNA of the company but ... nope it's changing every day ... with a new book Google's case of Facebook's case it could be problematic because right now they are to have that one Occupy wonderfully wonderfully neutral ... and spaces where ... you're either being driven by a year your friends who are editors for you and you know the people you know the pre Dorothee used to tear sheet often send it to somebody ... this accomplishes that in seconds makes it much easier ... um and I think you know will we have ... the difference for us is we have ... millions seven circulation we have ... forty to fifty million people digitally try to connect with this ... even if it's just the somebody sent them ... at ... a link to an article ... and and ... we have to take it seriously we have to ... expect added that though those functions are to be part of society whether it's ... Facebook and Google who are doing than ten years from now ... that something else or whether it's you know wink in our specialty ... for specialty sites we pay attention all of them because ... they are all of our distribution system now it isn't about us just ... hiring an Teamsters and putting in trucks and sending him down the street ... people are gonna get it the way they wanted not the way we'd like to deliver to an end we have to ... look in any way they're coming to last question on it to think of the VIX ... I feel about the state of journalists and having been a long time in your just getting here essentially ... a team book state of journalism right now considering credo um I'm optimistic that and I'm not ... a worry that a lot of the institutions from which great journalists and became our challenges right now and are ... financially challenges don't quite have the resources they use them ... the other hand the number of bright young ... of ... bloggers and people who are getting into the barrier to entry is drops to zero ... so the number of people are out there producing interesting things is growing ... we as an institution have to preserve the what's what's important about journalism ... this summer that certain thing the roles we play by fairness all those things ... and and I'm I'm pretty calm that we can do that we have enough power left to do that ... um and ... I think will build back up I think it's a cyclical moment but people I think what great journalism because it helps them ... and it's in the end it protects them but also help summits point it's interesting for them ... so those standards and people survive I just think ... it's were struggling and do this ... I think we see what we're going in we see what we are beginning from here to there ... is very difficult especially for existing businesses ... so that people have the credibility in the brands like we do ... you have to you have to manage a transition very carefully ... for the people are coming up they still have to build brand to build the kind of respect ... that will help them journalists to plea ... BP powerful and an ... import players ... and it's harder to do that just on the digital platforms though ... it's ... like I ask you a visitor I carry the throwback night ... and in any hurry to have a quiet night you know he's no better advice of the length ... of stay Rex Ryan ... interesting um ... I mean I'm going to ... journalism is in a moment when there's more inventiveness and creativity around journalistic forms ... the process what it means our kids produces house gets consumed than ... ever ALM so I think that's very heartening but ... um ... I don't think he's really in need whether it's a newspaper or magazine in in our category leases for serious journalism ... um ... category has ... a workable business model that now for the next ten years so it's wonderful if it is we have ... so much experimentation in so many new ideas ... um we really have her work cut out Christiane a way to make this ... sustainable so I kind of conference that works in conferences get a few conferences tell us why they didn't ... of all we're worth considering that um ... but it is a way to enjoy the challenge them is a small side are are are are significant for GE ... free ... so any crisis me audience ... the ... yes I am Elizabeth Monster and I do a lot of work with investigative ... news organizations in product development ... and aggressively for the ... crisp light mostly Larry to which is ... really seems to be around the Bush with the questions of investigative journalism and have supported them in the business models in ... common ... we've all looked really hard at it Merlin chilling and celebrating the product developed an aviation ended ... thinking about consumption habits and ... on and on and reinventing ourselves but the bottom line is this folks like you Chris nonstarter Richmond spot have an opportunity take a leadership role ... in the inevitability of underwriting ... and philanthropic work to support this kind of work and I wonder if ... a where you stand on that kind of considered it and to the reality is is disgusted by the Opel publicly thing which is a journalism organizations kind of like yours local ballet company ... at some point the open as ... he did that because of the ... helpers founding this comfort him and he and and ... also winning the conference is all the things that you have to do that or not that journalists and stay afloat ... there's a lot of people there's a lot of new money out there and has a lot of ability to soar to bolster the cottage all journalism that were all talking about coming just wonder ... which are thought to Bentonville entire movement ... ballet companies like fire I think in any way the light environment plan and expects to make profits on them to sign a lake their attacking the government's making profits like government bonds that make ... it ... in you can raise money on the street with your food Brett liking them and so ... I mean wouldn't immigrant Investor journalists wanting to be found in her research was that there is no single type of journalism that was more powerful ... to build a brand ... been braking Investment story ... it was just a little weather and using qualitative research that we did we found on consistently across groups of people and say ... oh I know this brand because they aam you know uncovered the scandal word this time ... as rigid breaking news ... thing ... well in these hours in the Cinderella's was a lotus in Wales and later with news and it's your CF so that's one place where you wear at Brighton you did do we support a lot of there's been no less certainly more than we did in the past ... David it's in a inevitable part of the but I like to say ... there is that there is agreement are alive from a business perspective Investec so hard to predict that clearly is an investor journalists you can ... come quite a lot of money into something and and I'm not to ... produce aam produce which you want to but I'd I feel like ... I was one of those things where for us is that as the company ... is no question that word in investment because it is just one story every two years but one of five ... that that hurt and that we pursue ... aam ... it'll have ... to see part one of our dating go on for awhile ... well it doesn't mean though that you have to be profitable if the free press has to stand on its own and in the and ... there's been people of contributed money for years for investigative Reporting X Ray but we can as an institution be depended ... on of contributions to do great analysts ... because it'll questioned where the contributions are coming from that will ... that will dictate the journalism we do ultimately we don't like out ... so I think it's the can be done well and you can take contributions and ... then you can build public trust we can build it from people well meaning people wanna contribute to it ... but in the end you need institutions and stand on their own or better supported ... by themselves a dark color will ... do to ... as a very different thing now is that it's ... another thing supported it's part of the attraction of any this TV doesn't officially make money online a lot of things the investigative reporting itself has to be probably can't be I think the institution that that is ... that producing it needs to be of ... the other thing to be nice to be Sheila whatever is to be a profitable institution ... so ... and to sell from the town proper nouns and ... this is a sad day NickJr cash or I was talking about the ... commoditization of news and sizes that's the biggest enemies propulsion business ... the very you ... may use that when you talk about some pics to it the group which you'll pay a ... heavy of a paper in the wild some this morning ... assessment in what your actions were on the essential fatty Paul USATODAY ... is it ... to ration of stories that it's a great question model ... and cotton IDC that changing ... the way texted course response of a lot of things and I will get ... I didn't that time I mean I look at ... what I look at what may USATODAY a ... great when it first started ... were several things among them ... was its coverage of sports sports is a big deal in USA today ... and it was the fact that you can live in sentences go though in a hotel Robinson said the aim get ... four paragraphs in the box score of the services the Giants can ... see at the time ... that way if you're a sports fan ... that was unique content because she was the SportsCenter ... the reason though no journalism you know didn't have the real time ... any of the real-time sources estimate the general public ... today a good percentage of the things that made USA Today great when it came around ... our commodity ... you can get him anywhere all we give you is a commodity ... publication of all we do is give you information get elsewhere ... we're not going to survive as a journalist institution ... so today we look differently and when how we produce what were producing ... we want more we want more personality into we wanna tell stories ... I'll with a little bit more tangible that were interesting an angle that spread to any ... of those things have become much more important in USA today ... using various storytelling techniques telling the story better by using ... interactive graphics are using maps and charts are using color ... all the different things easily which he started thirty years ago ... some of those things are still relevant but in their new forms are typically relevant ... so I think we have to be unique ... I look at the paper today in almost all of that is staffer it now ... that doesn't mean it's better ... on its own or that the stories are different enough ... but we are bringing voices in we are bringing people have a point of view are or have they ... a way of looking at a story that's different ... and we hope unique ... and and that any and ... I think that's what wins the game for you what we can controls where people choose to read that ... but in op ... searches buying it because of the answers still has to search something ... and and somebody has to produce the content if we can build a business model ... that that rewards us for having created that content ... will be fine but if we don't have the content ... we will likely guarantee we will be up and this gives them very briefly ... a I'm telling you what makes you know what I think that ... I really comes into the semi acute insight and voice is more valuable than has ever been before when swiping that ... troublesome category are are ... you know in some with Tom ... counterintuitively from which to succeed because people ... are full of the film ... overwhelm my information whether it's on her feet or on the internet all day long there's lots of news like the debt the inside the analysis all of those things ... aam are harder to invest and put it like that's for the markets are appetite ... it's just the one making it easy to read it on her own dance as ... a ... thank you so


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More than just about any other sport, college football is built on tradition. It's built on familial allegiances to the schools of their grandfathers, the rituals that play out in college towns on fall Saturdays and the indelible images linked to the names of schools.
How funny, then, that the entire face of college football is changing because of decisions made by three schools with some of the richest tradition -- Nebraska, Colorado and USC.
The storied Nebraska Cornhuskers are poised to leave the Big 12 to become the 12th member of the Big Ten (math majors need not apply to BCS conferences).
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This move that presages further additions to the conference of Michigan and Ohio State, as well as the demise of the Big 12. Colorado has already left for the Pac-10, and Nebraska's departure would almost certainly lead to Texas, Texas Tech and Oklahoma, among others, joining the Buffaloes among the palm trees and movie stars out west.
Conferences have shuffled members before, and college football has soldiered on without much difficulty, but this move would have lasting implications.
The destruction of the Big 12 would likely start a domino effect that would see the Big Ten and SEC moving toward 16 teams. This would decimate the Big East and leave the Big Ten, Pac-10, SEC and ACC as megaconferences in a college football world that's already rigged against schools from smaller conferences. Those four conferences could pull out of the BCS and essentially run their own tournament each year to crown a champion, with Notre Dame likely invited to be part of the dance because of their national appeal.
That makes sense, since it was Notre Dame that set this whole thing in motion in the first place. If Notre Dame had joined the Big Ten at any point since Penn State became the conference's 11th member, we probably wouldn't be staring at the seismic shift we're facing right now. The Big Ten would have enough members for a lucrative title game, the Big 12 teams wouldn't be used as pawns for the avaricious moves of other conferences and we wouldn't be trading Nebraska-Oklahoma for Washington State-Texas.
Does it make for better college football? Probably not, but it won't be any worse, and a few years from now it will seem perfectly normal that Nebraska and Michigan State have a rivalry. There was once a time when Army and Navy were dominant programs and everyone survived their demise. They'll survive the demise of the Big 12, a conference created for much the same reason as this week's moves, just as well.
That would be enough change for most sports, but college football is upping the ante by slapping the wrists of USC, the third point in our tradition triad.
The Trojans are banned from the postseason for two years and they'll lose scholarships for the next three years as a result of dirty dealings by Reggie Bush while the running back was at USC.
The postseason ban won't mean nearly as much as the scholarships, which will weaken USC for much more than three years because of the affect it will have on their depth and on their margin of error for a player who doesn't pan out as hoped.
If Texas and company come to the Pac-10, those losses would be particularly painful. Suddenly, USC wouldn't be the biggest dog in the fight. They wouldn't be able to load up on talent to hold off the invaders. That changes the look at the top of the football world almost as much as the conference musical chairs.
Usually, outsiders storm the gates and destroy tradition. College football is working in reverse, with three of its most venerable names working together to tear down much of what's been built in the past.
Josh Alper is a writer living in New York City and is a contributor to FanHouse.com and ProFootballTalk.com in addition to his duties for NBCNewYork.com. You can follow him on Twitter.


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its even worse when you realize you were 13 when you started.
if you can read this....good for you
its even worse when you realize you were 13 when you started.
i am 14 right now, 5 years ago i was 9.
its even worse when you realize you were 9 when you started.
when you realize that you're 18 and you've been playing EE for just over 5 years and 5/18 ≈ .28 and .28 * 100 = 28% which means you've been playing EE for over a quarter of your lifespan
Just ≈15% for me, but I'm old.
when you realize that you're only years away from 40 and your life is halfway over
I have permanently left the game and forum.
EE is an entertaining game and I enjoyed playing it...
...but it's time for me to move on.
16 years old and been in this place since 2011, ~25% of my life
doing some more precise math (based on days) gives me 29%
also i've apparently been playing EE for roughly 2013 days (based on finding everybody edits in my search history in late may 2010)
proc's discorb stylish themes for forums/the game
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what the hell
brb executing myself
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This is a flawed concept because we don't play EE every second of the day, nor do we play every single day.
This is a flawed concept because we don't play EE every second of the day, nor do we play every single day.
Says who?
Alright, I am precisely 5225 days old as of now
According to yonom, I started playing on December 17, 2011 as "Pingohit"
December 17, 2011 is 1444 days ago
Let's say I played every day for an hour up to 2013, which then i took a break until 2014, and then calculate it as 4 hours (yes, 4 hours) until 2015
So that would be 730 hours on EE between 2011 and 2013, and 1460 hours between 2014 and 2015
That would be 2190 hours of EE
Subtracting from 3 2-month long vacations in 2012, 2013 and 2015, that would mean i miss 60 hours in 2012 and 2013 of EE, and 240 hours in 2015, bringing us 300 hours of missed EE
2190 minus 300 is 1890
Since i am 5225 days old, that would mean i am 125,400 hours old
1890 of 125,400 is approximately 1.51%
I spent less than 2% of my life playing Everybody Edits
That is still a very big number, and considering I play EE for at least 6 hours now, the number would probably be even larger
I literally play EE every day, including days when I'm on vacation (some exceptions).
I don't play EE 24/7 but whatever.
I've been playing EE for 26% of my life (around 5 years out of [you do the math])
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This is a flawed concept because we don't play EE every second of the day, nor do we play every single day.
Says who?
Says life. Playing every second of the day? Really?
^ because he was CLEARLY serious
I've been around for 6963 days (a little over 19 years)
My account is 1831 days old (Since Nov 26 2010)
26.28% of my life I have owned this account
This is a flawed concept because we don't play EE every second of the day, nor do we play every single day.
Overall I only play 2-3 hours a day (some days much more, some days nothing)
so 26.28... × (2.5/24) = 2.74% of my life I have been playing EE
(Including forum time it's more like 4.38%)
Thank you eleizibeth ^
I stack my signatures rather than delete them so I don't lose them
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This year represents the first U.S. observance of Rare Disease Day, an event designed to call attention to the public health issues associated with rare diseases affecting nearly 30 million Americans and countless others worldwide. NORD and its 145 partner organizations serve as advocates for these patients by helping heighten awareness of their conditions and the need for increased research funding for effective treatments. Information on Rare Disease Day will also be featured on Discovery Health and online on DiscoveryHealth.com. Discovery Health's award-winning MYSTERY DIAGNOSIS chronicles the experiences of patients who suffer from conditions outside of the medical mainstream. Often the diseases profiled on MYSTERY DIAGNOSIS are the rare or "orphan" conditions represented by NORD. Each episode features patients who are initially misdiagnosed or undiagnosed altogether due to the uncommon nature of their symptoms and general lack of awareness regarding their conditions. Ashley Kurpiel of Atlanta has been selected to serve as a patient spokesperson for Rare Disease Day. Featured on the episode of MYSTERY DIAGNOSIS premiering March 2 at 10PM ET/PT, Ashley had her arm erroneously amputated due to a doctor's misdiagnosis of her rare disease during her childhood. At the age of 3, Ashley was finally diagnosed with Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva (FOP,) one of the most disabling conditions known to medicine-and through NORD, Ashley's family connected with one of the world's leading experts on FOP who has helped the family understand and cope with her condition. Although she was not expected to live past age 10, Ashley is currently 26 years old and leads a very active life despite the crippling disease. "Far too often, individuals with rare diseases are left to fight for themselves while suffering through multiple misdiagnoses or a lack of effective treatments," stated Carole Tomko, President and General Manager of Discovery Health. "Discovery Health is proud to join NORD in its efforts to generate awareness of these orphan conditions and raise the quality of life for the patients affected by them." This year represents the second Rare Disease Day worldwide, with the U.S., Canada, Australia, and China joining the nations of the European Union in observing the event in 2009. Overall, approximately 180 patient organizations, medical societies, companies developing orphan products, and others, have joined NORD as Rare Disease Day partners. For more information, visit NORD's Web site at rarediseases.org. About NORD Established in 1983, NORD is a nonprofit organization which represents the interests of all patients and families whose lives have been impacted by rare diseases. A rare disease is defined as one that affects fewer than 200,000 people in the United States. According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), there are nearly 7,000 such diseases, affecting nearly 30 million Americans. NORD provides research grants and fellowships, educational services for patients, the public and medical professionals, and patient assistance programs. NORD provides advocacy in Washington DC on behalf of the rare disease community. About Mystery Diagnosis MYSTERY DIAGNOSIS is produced for Discovery Health by True Entertainment. For Discovery Health, Alon Orstein is executive producer and for True Entertainment, Steven Weinstock, Glenda Hersh and Stephanya J. Miller are executive producers. About Discovery Health Discovery Health Media includes the Discovery Health and FitTV television networks and online assets including www.discoveryhealth.com, as well as its Continuing Medical Education (CME) business and Discovery's first stand-alone VOD service, Discovery Health On-Call. 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Fast-fix fried rice
A great way to use leftovers, this is a super-speedy one-pan supper
Nutrition and extra info
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- kcal355
- fat11g
- saturates3g
- carbs48g
- sugars6g
- fibre6g
- protein18g
- salt1.81g
- 2 tsp oil
- 1 egg, beaten
The ultimate convenience food, eggs are powerhouses of nutrition packed with protein and a…
- 2 rashers bacon, chopped
Bacon is pork that has been cured one of two ways: dry or wet. It can be bought as both rashers…
- 175g mushrooms, sliced
The mushroom is a fungus which comes in a wide range of varieties that belong to two distinct…
- 200g frozen peas
A type of legume, peas grow inside long, plump pods. As is the case with all types of legume,…
- 1 garlic clove, crushed
- small knob of fresh root ginger, grated
- 2 tsp dark soy sauce, plus extra to serve
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- 250g cooked basmati rice
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The chief negotiator from the Senate on a health care bill said he won't wait much longer for a Republican compromise -- and that a final draft of the bill will be coming soon from the legislative body.
"I am committed to getting health care reform done -- done soon and done right," Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus said in a statement.
Baucus said on a teleconference Friday he's considering making a formal proposal to the rest of the bipartisan "Gang of Six," a group of negotiators from his committee that has been struggling for the better part of the year to appease both Republicans and Democrats with the bill.
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President Obama will address a joint session of Congress Wednesday to boost health care reform.
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Home > News & Events > Wayland Press Release Archives > 2005 News Releases > August 2005 > Science research program enriching students' experience
Science research program enriching students' experience
PLAINVIEW – When she enrolled in the science research track at Wayland Baptist University, Jennifer Jones expected to become familiar with beakers, test tubes and Bunsen burners. What she didn't expect was the biggest lesson her summer in research would entail.
"We've learned how to accept failure better," the junior from Artesia, N.M. said with a smile, "and how to work with different people."
Jones and four other science majors at Wayland have spent the last ten weeks of their summers learning the ins and outs of scientific research, the first such experience offered at the university for exposing science students to real research endeavors.
Made possible in large part by a grant from the Welch Foundation, the summer program offered the students the opportunity to immerse themselves in an actual research project. Then in the fall term, students would follow the project more with additional research and study. Eventually, they would complete a thesis and go through the defense process, much like a master's level student would.
All this, say Wayland science faculty members Dr. Joel Boyd and Dr. Adam Reinhart, culminates in students having much more exposure to research than a traditional science class can provide. And in terms of applying for graduate study in health professions or in research careers, the two say the experience is invaluable.
"It's something we strongly encourage, and something that is becoming more and more expected of undergraduate students," said Boyd, assistant professor of chemistry. "I've watched students learn things in the lab that I couldn't teach them in the classroom."
Boyd is overseeing a chemistry project with assistance from Jones and Robyn Henderson, a senior from Clayton, N.M. The project deals with removing nitrogen-containing contaminants from water using titanium dioxide and light to convert it to nitrogen gas. The girls showed off several composition notebooks full of notes they had taken during the summer, painstaking details of every step taken in the research. The pair began preliminary study in the spring semester, then have applied what they learned in the laboratory.
Reinhart, associate professor of biological and physical sciences, is overseeing a biochemistry project with help from senior Chancey Thompson of Anchorage, Alaska, senior Kate Pearce of Sublette, Kan., and senior Sheena Shipley of Earth, who is completing the research as part of the Honors Program at Wayland. Their project involves study of the regulation of steroid production and how certain genes are activated or deactivated to produce steroids.
Though the projects are interesting and timely, both professors say the benefit of hands-on lab research is the most important product of the research.
"(Research) made an impact on the way I saw science," Reinhart recalls. "I learned a lot about creative problem solving and that doesn't normally happen in a traditional lecture."
It's no surprise, then, that his students are learning the same lessons.
"I think we've learned a lot about problem solving," said Pearce. "There's a lot of trial and error involved and that benefits us in the long run."
Students shared stories of encountering initial frustration at not seeing the results happen as quickly as they'd planned. During an afternoon break, they commiserated over machine malfunctions, frustrations over perceived failures and general impatience.
But as the summer wound to a close, all admitted they'd learned some major lessons that would benefit them not only in future science-related careers but also in life.
"Our biggest motivation (for the research program) at first was for the graduate school application and experience, but we're seeing how it will help us in various ways," Jones said.
Reinhart and Boyd said the program can only get better in the future, and they've already seen it have a positive impact on recruiting new students, increasing enrollment in the sciences and entry into successful professional programs. They also know they'll be turning out a more prepared student once they leave Wayland's halls.
"Some of my proudest moments are when things don't work out, but they know why!" Boyd said.


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Welcome to the Diary Search Website
........ which is primarily a guide to the location of historical and literary sources, in the forms of Diaries and Journals, from all periods and parts of the world, which have been printed in English and are listed in the third edition of An Annotated Bibliography of Diaries Printed in English, compiled by Christopher Handley and published by Hanover Press, of which the index appears below.
Visitors unfamiliar with the scope and purpose of this site may find the explanatory notes useful
ABBA, Giuseppe Cesare (1838?-1910) 922
BABINE, Alexis 1142
D'ABERNON, Edgar Vincent, first Viscount (1857-1941) diplomat 1155
EADE, Charles Stanley (b.1903) newsapaper editor 1191
FAGES, Pedro 396
GABLE, Edgar 1210
H., S. - army officer 280
IBBETSON, William 957
JACK, James Lochhead (1880-1962) soldier 1128
KAFKA, Franz (1883-1924) Czech novelist 1115
LA HARPE, Bernard de 266
MABEY, David (b.1947) writer, of Wenhaston, Suffolk 1267
NABOKOV, Dmitri (b.1934?) singer, writer, mountaineer and racing driver,
OAKLEY, Obadiah 760
PACE, Mary (Mrs. Weston) 260
QUILLINAN, Dorothy (née Wordsworth) (1804-1847) daughter of the poet 790
R., Alexander - soldier 227
S., I. - soldier 885
TABOR, Elizabeth McCourt (Baby Doe) (1854-1935) of Leadville, Colorado 1113
UDALL, David King 1039
VAIL, Rebecca Worden 815
WACHOVIA MORAVIAN CONGREGATIONS - North Carolina 338
X, [Dr.] 1235
YAGER, James Pressley 983
ZAGORSKI, Waclaw [Capt.] - of the Polish Home Army 1224
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Isabel Ines Glathar
Isabel Ines Glathar, costume design Studied costume design at the art schools of Basel, Zurich, Hamburg and stage design in Stuttgart. She designed for many opera houses and theatre companies in German cities for example Kiel, Bremen, Mannheim, Cologne. But since 1992 mainly in Berlin at the Deutsche Oper, collaborating with Götz Friedrich in Der Rosenkavalier, Der fliegende Holländer, Oedipe, Ballo in maschera amongst others and Günter Krämer in Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny and Dialogues des Carmélites. International commitments brought her to the Vienna State Opera and La Juive with Günter Krämer and from there the opera houses of Zurich, Bukarest, Tel Aviv, New York, Vilnius and Venice. Since 2006 her main focus is on her art, specially painting and installations, her exhibitions have been around Germany.


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Have you ever thought of using hotel registers as a genealogical resource? I haven't, but they would be a good resource to search for information about your ancestor in local libraris, and archives.
There will be a meeting of the Wellington County Branch on Tuesday, November 27, 2012 at 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm at the Zehrs Meeting Room, 2nd Floor, 1045 Paisley Road, Guelph, at which Dr. Kevin James, Associate Professor in the Department of History and Centre for Scottish Studies at the University of Guelph, will talk about The Hotel Visitor's Book: Secrets, Lies and Everyday Jottings.
In this talk, Kevin explores the value of the hotel register as a historical source, drawing on surviving books from Victorian Ireland to show how they illuminate infidelity, modes of travel and the social regimes of the hotel.
For more information, go to www.ogs.on.ca/wellington/events.html


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Agronomic practices for cotton in Europe.
Baseline information on agricultural practices in the EU Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.)
Under the current European legislations for the commercial cultivation of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) in the EU it is required to assess the potential environmental impacts of GM plants, including the assessment of potential environmental impacts of specific cultivation and management of such plants. This assessment is explained in environmental risk assessment (ERA) guidance documents, including those developed by the Panel on GMOs of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).
With this project, EuropaBio aimed to collect and structure the dataset on agronomic practices for cotton in Europe. Within the definition of the project, the study is expected to cover:
- cultivation practices with special attention to those practices that can dominate in the future;
- cultivation practices across EU Member States organized by different geographical regions where the GM crop is likely to be cultivated;
- aspects related to characteristics of the plant and the production systems into which it will be introduced; and
- information that will help applicants to address the requirements laid out in Section D.2.9 of Annex II of Directive 2001/18/EC.
Similar studies are conducted for other crops.
This study provides applicants with a common baseline for performing the ERA of the cultivation practice associated with the specific GM plant.


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Ex-Raleigh mayor weighs bid for NC governor
Charles Meeker may run in 2016
Former Raleigh Mayor Charles Meeker says he is weighing a bid for North Carolina governor in 2016.
The Democrat, who served as Raleigh mayor from 2001 to 2011, told the News & Observer on Wednesday that he believes he is among a dozen Democrats with the background, contacts and potential to unseat Republican Gov. Pat McCrory. He said no serious decisions would be made until after the 2014 midterm elections.
Meeker is a lawyer who served eight years on the City Council before he became mayor. He decided not to seek re-election as mayor in 2011.
Other Democrats are eyeing the race as well. Former state Rep. Ken Spaulding said he plans to run in 2016, and business consultant James Protzman, of Chapel Hill, has filed paperwork creating a gubernatorial campaign committee. Attorney General Roy Cooper has not ruled out a bid for governor.