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Virurl, a startup that helps advertisers promote their content virally, is launching its public beta test today. It’s also announcing that it has raised $1.2 million in seed funding. Here’s how the Virurl model works: Advertisers upload the content that they want to promote, then set a campaign budget and a cost-per-click rate that they’re willing to pay. Then users can browse the content and share it with their friends via social networks or email. For each click that they generate, users earn points that can be redeemed for rewards or cash. (Any proceeds from Facebook clicks are donated to a charity of the user’s choice.)
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Unfortunatly the time has come for this scraper to come down (seemingly it may come as a shock to some that this is not provided by the BBC). I wrote this back in 2005 and have modified it a couple of times since mainly so that I could more easily consume RSS on the move. In short, I no longer use it, I find consuming live news is not actually something an RSS reader does very well and I face a constant battle against sites trying to use these feeds to monetize BBC content and failing to pay any attention to etag or last modified headers (hello palin-pedia.com et al). Please update your RSS subscription as the last remenants of this will be removed soon , the official BBC RSS feed you are looking for is: http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/front_page/rss.xml
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On March 2, the NFL told the world that the Saints had been using a bounty system for three straight seasons, offering players money for ?cart-offs? and ?knockouts.?? On March 3, Jets coach Rex Ryan issued a statement claiming he has never used them.
?This is something that is being handled by the NFL office,? Ryan said.? ?I?ve never condoned it and I?ve never coached it.?
But while Ryan may not have condoned or coached the habit of offering money to players for knocking opposing players out of games (whether they leave on their own power or via a stretcher or a golf cart), Ryan has condoned ? and coached ? the habit of knocking opposing players out of games.? We know this because Ryan said so in his 2011 book, Play Like You Mean It.
From pages 16-17 of the chapter called Blunt-Force Trauma:? ?Each game we might also designate an opposing player with a dot.? Players don?t want to be dotted by the New York Jets, because that means we want that dude knocked out of the game.? Of course, it has to be legal and by the book.? We don?t play dirty, and no way will we intentionally hurt a player with an illegal, cheap shot.? We dot players fair and square.? There are players out there who think they are badasses, and you just might see two of our players knock the hell out of him.? Pow!? Pow!? That?s our mentality.? Everything we do is aggressive and, hey, we may make a mistake, but we will go one hundred miles per hour and we will knock the hell out of you.? Big hits create turnovers.? You haven?t been Punked ? you?ve been Dotted!?
Last year, when I read Ryan?s book, I applied a Post-It note to that paragraph, but it didn?t strike me as anything scandalous or improper or worth mentioning in a separate post.? In the wake of the Saints? bounty investigation, the mentality exhibited by Ryan doesn?t seem all that different than the mentality underpinning the pool of cash that went to players for making big plays ? whether interceptions or fumble recoveries or knocking ?that dude? out of the game.
The only difference between what the Saints did and what Ryan does is that the Saints violated the salary cap by paying players for doing things they already were being paid to do.? The Saints didn?t want to injure players, notwithstanding the cartoonishly graphic urgings of former defensive coordinator Gregg Williams.? They simply wanted to knock players out of games.? Just like Rex Ryan.
But since an attempt to knock a player out of a game necessarily may inflict injury on the player, the NFL felt compelled to take severe and swift action.? So why has the punishment been confined only to the Saints?
The goal here isn?t to get the Jets in trouble.? The goal is to illustrate that the rabbit hole goes far deeper than the NFL cares to admit.? Instead, the league wants to pour cement in it, hammer the Saints in order to get everyone else?s attention, and move on.
Here?s hoping that the effort includes telling Rex Ryan that it?s no longer acceptable to ?dot? opposing players.
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Cash-strapped states are embracing the millions of dollars in new tax revenue coming from shale oil and gas development. But there aren’t enough inspectors to make sure the sites aren’t polluting. The problem seems especially apparent in Colorado, which now has more than 47,000 active oil and gas wells but the state employs just 17 inspectors.
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Nate Diaz will get next title shot after UFC on Fox 3 win
Nate Diaz’s next opponent is set. After his dominating win over Jim Miller on Saturday night, MMA Junkie reports that Diaz will get the next shot at the UFC lightweight belt.
Though previous reports had Diaz possibly facing off with Anthony Pettis for a title eliminator, UFC president Dana White confirmed that Diaz will get the next title shot after champion Benson Henderson and former champ Frankie Edgar rematch this summer.
In his last three fights, Diaz has a second-round submission over Miller, a decision over Donald Cerrone and a first-round submission win over Takanori Gomi. With an overall record of 16-7, five of his losses have come in the UFC but he has never been stopped in the Octagon. Diaz was last submitted by Hermes Franca at a WEC bout in October of 2006.
Does Diaz deserve the next title shot in the packed UFC lightweight division? Tell us in the comments, on Facebook or on Twitter.
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Roundup: Man United keeps pace
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LONDON (AP) – Manchester City put itself on course to win its first English championship since 1968 by beating host Newcastle 2-0 Sunday behind two goals by Yaya Toure.
Manchester United defeated Swansea 2-0 on first-half goals by Paul Scholes and Ashley Young. The win pulled the defending champions even on points with Manchester City, but with a significantly inferior goal difference.
City almost certainly will win the Premier League if it defeats struggling Queens Park Rangers in its final match next weekend. United is at Sunderland next Sunday.
“It’s not finished,” Toure said. “We have one game left and we have to be careful as QPR are fighting to stay in the Premier League. We have to continue to work hard and believe. This is brilliant for us, though.”
Toure exchanged passes with Sergio Aguero on the edge of the penalty area in the 70th minute before curling a right-footed shot past diving goalkeeper Tim Krul. The Ivory Coast midfielder scored again with a minute left as City exploited space left by Newcastle as it tried to even the score.
The result damaged Newcastle’s hopes of finishing fourth and qualifying for the Champions League. Fourth-place Tottenham drew 1-1 draw against Aston Villa. U.S. star Clint Dempsey scored his 50th Premier League goal to help Fulham down Sunderland 2-1. This was Dempsey’s 17th Premier League goal this season and 23rd overall.
Djibril Cisse scored in the 89th minute to give QPR a 1-0 win over Stoke and move his team two points clear of the relegation zone. Bolton missed the chance to climb out of the bottom three when it squandered a 2-0 lead and drew 2-2 with West Bromwich Albion. Relegated Wolverhampton Wanderers drew 0-0 with Everton.
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TRIESTE, Italy (AP) – Juventus won its 28th Serie A title and first in nine years after beating Cagliari 2-0 to stay unbeaten and second-place AC Milan lost 4-2 to Inter Milan in the next-to-last round of the season.
It is Juventus’ first league championship since 2003, after its two titles since then were revoked because of match-fixing. The team is four points ahead of Milan.
Mirko Vucinic gave Juventus the lead in the sixth minute and an own goal by Michele Canini sealed the result.
Defending champion Milan had the chance to take the title race to the last round of the season, but a hat trick by Diego Milito – including two penalty kicks – and a stunning goal by Maicon gave Inter victory.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored twice for Milan.
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AMSTERDAM (AP) – Feyenoord earned a Champions League berth after downing SC Heerenveen 3-1 in the final round of the Dutch league.
Otman Bakkal, Sekou Cisse and Elvis Manu scored as Feyenoord finished second and one spot in front of PSV Eindhoven, which beat last-place Excelsior Rotterdam 3-1.
That defeat relegated Excelsior. Heerenveen and PSV will play in the Europa league next season.
Ajax, which secured its 31st league title Wednesday, beat Vitesse Arnhem 3-1 with Andre Ooijer scoring in his last game before retiring.
American forward Jozy Altidore started for AZ Alkmaar in a season-ending 1-0 win over Groningen, four days after he left a match in the first half with a bruised back after smashing into a concrete barrier. Altidore played the first 66 minutes Sunday as AZ clinched a Europa League berth.
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Ethical Business Ethics: Thankfully, Mr. Conard, Its Not Just About …
Despite economists’ fondness for complicated equations and computer models, economics is not a true, hard science. And even most economists will admit that.
Which is why you can end up with completely different world-views, each backed by its own set of economists-with-equations.
On one side are the Horatio Alger stories of boys who, through sheer grit, determination, smarts, and courage, lifted themselves out of the mires of poverty to great personal success. Call it the “Bootstraps Tribe”.
On the other side are those, like Elizabeth Warren, current candidate for US Senator for Massachusetts, who believes that there is “nobody in this country who got rich on his own.” Call this the “Hanging Together Tribe”. (I’m playing with a quote attributed to Ben Franklin, at the time of the signing of the Declaration of Independence: “We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.”)
I wrote about these two positions just a few days ago, after reading an AlterNet review of a new book, The Self-Made Myth: And the Truth About How Government Helps Individuals and Businesses Succeed.
The other perspective just got a lengthy write-up in this Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, in which author Adam Davidson interviews retired Bain Capital executive Edward Conard (full article, here). Conard has just written a book himself, to be published next month by Portfolio: Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You?ve Been Told About the Economy Is Wrong.
Conard makes a strong case for why inequality is good (more investors making investments in improvements that make all our lives better). The value of investment to society at large is, of course, one with which most economists would agree. As Davidson notes,
Dean Baker, a prominent progressive economist with the Center for Economic and Policy Research, says that most economists believe society often benefits from investments by the wealthy. Baker estimates the ratio is 5 to 1, meaning that for every dollar an investor earns, the public receives the equivalent of $5 of value. The Google founder Sergey Brin might be very rich, but the world is far richer than he is because of Google.?
Conard considers the 5-to-1 ratio too low, and makes a case for 20-to-1. In other words, “we should all appreciate the vast wealth of others more, because we?re benefiting, proportionally, from it.”
And it’s not just the investors behind products like laptop computers or services like Google who benefit society as a whole — it’s the investment banks and other financial institutions who make the system more efficient. Conard apparently doesn’t agree that complex instruments like credit-default swaps were key elements in the 2008 financial crisis: they were “fundamentally sound” and “served a market need for the world’s most sophisticated investors.”
I could go on and on, but you should read the article for yourself (I haven’t read the book; unlike Davidson, I can’t get pre-publication copies, but I do intend to once it’s out. I think I’ll wait, however, until my library has it — I don’t think Mr. Conard needs my royalty payment….).
In any event: my biggest problem with Conard’s position, at least as articulated in the Times article, is that he seems to believe that it’s all about the money. In other words, if you can’t monetize it, it doesn’t have value. So Wall Street needs those outsize salaries because otherwise smart, talented people might go off and do something dumb, like be art-history majors (his choice of pejorative, not mine).
Like Conard, I went to business school in the mid-’80s (me, Kellogg / Northwestern; him, Harvard), so I recognize a lot of the jargon. And there’s value to some of it. Capital markets are incredibly efficient.
The problem is, they’re not perfectly efficient. Davidson notes, “Nearly every economist I spoke with said that Conard has too much faith in the market?s ability to reward only those who create real value.”
Moreover, markets don’t know how to account for things that aren’t monetized (for example, a housewife’s or househusband’s contributions). They don’t know how to correct for rent-seeking — Davidson does ask Conard about rent-seeking (the idea that people, or companies, get rich because of their power or access to power, rather than their ideas), and he poo-poos its presence in our economy.
And I found Conard’s coldly logical approach to everything (including choosing a wife!) chilling. I can’t be sure that he’s not right, at least on some points, but his world is not one I would ever choose to live in. And I wouldn’t even wish my worst enemy there:
There’s no place for levity, for warmth, for non-cost-effective rumination in Conard’s world. As Davidson writes, “The world Conard describes too often feels grim and soulless, one in which art and romance and the?nonremunerative satisfactions of a simpler life are invisible.” Davidson quotes Conard:
God didn?t create the universe so that talented people would be happy. It?s not beautiful. It?s hard work. It?s responsibility and deadlines, working till 11 o?clock at night when you want to watch your baby and be with your wife. It?s not serenity and beauty.
I’m not one to say exactly why God created the universe. But I think that God created us to flourish. In the words of early Church father Iranaeus, “The glory of God is a human being fully alive.”
Conard doesn’t seem to understand that some people aren’t motivated just by money, that some people would flourish most completely in professions that would give them time to create something new and valuable (art-history scholarship! painting! theology! dance!) that won’t be wildly remunerated. And by concentrating so much wealth in the hands of a few, I fear he’s condemning the poor to endless poverty, and helping the middle-class slide back into poverty. His wealth may improve society as a whole — but does it do anything for the individual struggling to get by?
I can’t help contrasting Conard’s concentrate-the-wealth formula with the spread-it-around generosity of the Self-Made Myth‘s perspective. I’ll close with a quote from a foreword to that book, written by an attorney (Conard doesn’t like them much — smart but not risk-takers), named Bill Gates, Sr.:
As an attorney for almost 50 years, I worked closely with entrepreneurs and saw how their business enterprises are boosted by government efforts to create a stable and positive business environment. I also had a front-row seat for the creation and the growth of my son’s business (Microsoft), and I observed the many ways our country’s publicly supported infrastructure, tax laws, government-funded research, education, patent protection, and so forth helped the company grow…. [If] you had plunked Bill down in some developing country, even with all of his intelligence, creativity, and hard work, the company would have gone nowhere. Being born in this country is the ingredient that most reliably determines whether a person has the opportunity to become wealthy.
Conard would say that “[t]echnology and global competition have made it more important than ever that the United States remain the world?s most productive, risk-taking, success-rewarding society.” Like many conservatives, he underestimates the importance of governmental infrastructure (trust in the rule of law; fairness in the marketplace, guaranteed by enforced regulations; roads, rails, airports, and the rest). Would Bill Gates Jr. really have been able to make Microsoft the powerhouse it is today if he’d been born in, say, Zaire?
I expect that Conard also underestimates the “step up” he had by growing up white, male, and middle-class, with parents who encouraged his educational attainments. Not to mention a little bit of luck.
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Colo civil unions bill gets OK by another panel
DENVER (AP) ? Gay couples came one step closer Friday to having civil unions in Colorado after another Republican-led House committee approved legislation that appears to have enough support to get to the governor’s desk.
The finance committee approved the measure with a 7-6 vote after the bill passed the House judiciary committee late Thursday.
Rep. Don Beezley was the only Republican to support the measure on the finance panel.
“For me, it really came down to that basic issue of fairness and doing the right thing,” Beezley said, echoing a similar comment made by Republican Rep. B.J. Nikkel, who joined Democrats on the judiciary committee in approving the measure.
The bill now goes before the appropriations committee. Democrats on that panel unanimously support the bill and need at least one Republican to vote yes for it to go to a full House vote, where it would likely pass.
Republican Rep. Cheri Gerou, a member of the appropriations committee, previously said she supports the measure.
“I’m very excited,” said a smiling Rep. Mark Ferrandino, a Democrat and gay lawmaker sponsoring the bill. “We’re one step closer today than we were yesterday, and yesterday we were one step closer than we’ve ever been.”
The state Senate has already approved the bill and it could reach Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper by Wednesday, when the session ends. He is firmly in support.
If the bill passes, Colorado would join more than a dozen states that allow gay marriage or civil unions. Hawaii and Delaware began allowing civil unions earlier this year.
The measure does not allow gay marriage but does grant gay couples rights similar to marriage, including enhanced inheritance and parental rights, and the ability to be involved in partner’s medical decisions.
Republicans who oppose the bill said it undermines traditional marriage and that voters expressed their position on the issue when they banned same-sex marriage in 2006.
Republicans have a 33-32 vote advantage in the House. But given the committee votes, where Republicans joined Democrats, the bill could have enough support for passage.
Earlier Friday, Republican House Speaker Frank McNulty gave his colleagues a pointed warning from the podium, urging them not to attack the motives of legislators on pending legislation. He made clear later in an interview with The Associated Press that he was referring to the civil unions bill.
McNulty said Senate Democrats took months to move the bill to the House and did it on purpose to force a decision within the final days of the legislative session.
“I think that there are those in the Democratic Party that want to make sure that this issue is a political issue in November,” he said, referring to the upcoming election.
Beezley and Nikkel are not running for re-election, a fact that may have made it easier for them to support an issue that divides the Republican Party.
Nikkel was among the Republicans who helped defeat the same bill last year in committee. She said this year she was swayed by the show of support from dozens of people who attended the Thursday night hearing, including some who testified about feeling vulnerable because they do not have the same legal rights as married people.
“I really thought about it,” she said.
Beezley said he’s also given the issue a lot of consideration.
“I think it’s been an evolutionary process of respecting and learning to appreciate the fact that, regardless of whether an individual understands the nature of the relationships and the situation, that it really comes down to basic equity and fairness for a human being,” he said.
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